Sees "Souls"

Dear Readers,

Some of you might be wondering why I should even bother to write anything at all about the news article which appears below which one of the Readers of the E-Newsletter of the Shrine of Saint Jude came upon and, in true Christian Charity, kindness, and thoughtfulness, forwarded to me for informational purposes?

After all, usually I read such articles and file them away for future reference without making any comments on them, other than thanking the person for forwarding such articles to me.  However, the following news article, which is apparently floating around on the internet?, contains some things which "sound good", but are not really "good and sound"!

Part of the "Divine Commission" which every pre-Synod Vatican 2 Catholic Traditional Priest has received is to teach and to preach the unchangeable  Truths of the Catholic Faith.

Even the Laity, who have themselves been correctly educated  in the pre-Synod Vatican 2 Catholic Traditional Faith, share in this, although to a much more limited extent - i.e. ONLY as part of the Spiritual Works of Mercy, specifically - the admonition to instruct the ignorant:

"* 221 Q. Which are the chief means by which we satisfy God for the temporal punishment due to sin?"

"A. The chief means by which we satisfy God for the temporal punishment due to sin are : prayer, fasting, almsgiving, all spiritual and corporal works of mercy, and the patient suffering of the ills of life."

"* 222 Q. Which are the chief spiritual works of mercy?"

"A. The chief spiritual works of mercy are seven: to admonish the sinner, to instruct the ignorant, to counsel the doubtful, to comfort the sorrowful, to bear wrongs patiently, to forgive all injuries, and to pray for the living and the dead"  (Rev. Thomas L Kinkead, An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism for the Use of Sunday-School Teachers and Advanced Classes, Lesson Nineteenth On Confession, p. 208; emphasis added).

Or, does such a person “instruct the ignorant” with the CHANGED "Catholic Teachings" that were made up DURING/AFTER the CHANGES made to such teachings by Synod Vatican 2, and/or by others, beginning in 1962?

IF the answer is DURING/AFTER the changes made by Synod Vatican 2, and/or by others, beginning in 1962, such a person is “playing with fire”!  Why?

Because of all of the anti-Catholic errors, lies, and heresies which the Communist, Freemasonic, and Modernist Heretic Infiltrators into the Roman Catholic Church have inserted into so-called “Catholic Catechisms” or other misnomered “Catholic” teaching media because these anti-Catholic errors, lies, and heresies are “Spiritual landmines”, which, just like physical landmines, can “Spiritually maim”, or even “Spiritually kill”, souls - sending them either to Purgatory for a long time, or worse, possibly to Hell for all eternity because of the incorrect instruction of the ignorant by those who are not really qualified to instruct the ignorant and who, probably without realizing it due to their own ignorance, end up teaching various anti-Catholic errors, lies, and heresies - found in the said anti-Catholic "Catholic Catechisms", et alii, which erroneous teaching can too easily result in many people committing many sins, venial, and especially mortal!

Because of this grave danger to souls, and because the "Divine Commission" which every pre-Vatican 2 Catholic Traditional Priest has received is to teach and to preach the Truths of the Catholic Faith, morally and Sacerdotally speaking, I am required to speak out - to cry out NON LICET!, lest I be called to give an account for this omission on my own day of Judgement, mindful of this teaching of a Holy Catholic Saint:

"Not on account of their own sins, but on account of the sins of others that they did not prevent, Priests are often condemned to Hell" (Saint John Chrysostom [b. Antioch, c. 347 A.D. - d. at Commana in Pontus on Friday, September 14, 407 A.D.], Patriarch of Constantinople [Thursday, February 26, 398 A.D. - Thursday, June 24, 404 A.D.], exiled from his See the 2nd time on Thursday, June 24, 404 A.D., Father and Doctor of the Catholic Church).

“Cease labouring in vain and sowing upon rock many have been saying to me. But I hearkened to none of them.  For there is hope I said to myself that, God willing, my letter will accomplish something; but if that which We deprecate should take place, We shall at least have the advantage of escaping self reproach for keeping silence, and We shall not be worse than sailors on the sea, who, when they behold men of some other craft drifting on a plank, because their ship has been broken to pieces by the winds and waves, take down their sails, and cast anchor, and get into a boat and try to rescue the men, although strangers, known to them only in consequence of their calamity. But if the others were unwilling to be rescued, no one would accuse those of their destruction who attempted to save them. This is what We offer; but We trust that, by the Grace of God, YOU also will do your part” (Patriarch Saint John Chrysostom, Treatise on the Priesthood, Book I, An Exhortation to Theodoret after His Fall, Letter II, # 5; emphasis added).

"These latter days have witnessed a notable increase in the number of the enemies of the Cross of Christ, who, by arts entirely new and full of deceit, are striving to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, as far as in them lies, utterly to subvert the very Kingdom of Christ. Wherefore, We may no longer keep silence, lest We should seem to fail in Our most sacred duty, and lest the kindness that, in the hope of wiser counsels, We have hitherto shown them, should be set down to lack of diligence in the discharge of Our Office" (Pope Saint Pius X, Giuseppe Sarto [Tuesday, August 4, 1903 - Thursday, August 20, 1914], Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, On the Doctrine of the Modernists -  Sunday, September 8, 1907; emphasis added).

"Do not be one of those timourous physicians who like their tranquility more than the saving of the sick... Even though Salome should dance before Herod, should ask for John's head and should obtain it from the detestable King, John's duty is to cry out: NON LICET! [It is not permitted!]” (Bishop Saint Ivo of Chartres, a.k.a. Yves, Ive, Yvo  [b. Beauvais, France or Auteuil, France, c. 1040 A.D. - d. Chartres, France, Tuesday, May 30, 1116 A.D.], Bishop of Chartres [1090 A.D. - Tuesday, May 30, 1116 A.D.], Letter # 24, To Bishop Hugh of Lyons, October, 1094 A.D.)!

Hence, before anyone else comes upon the said apparent news article, and also for those of you who may have already read this same news article, I have the duty and obligation - as I have just explained above - to briefly analyze certain parts of it.

I thank you in advance for your customary Christian Charity, patience, and understanding in what I write.  As always, IF anyone has any question(s) on anything I write, please send me an E-Mail with your specific question(s) and please directly quote whatever it is upon which you have based your question(s) along with the page URL.

God Bless You!

Father Michael

Why all the reports of spiritual phenomena? How come: the sudden, overwhelming public interest in spirits, ghosts, and apparitions? Why, in the Christian and non-Christian worlds, are there so many claims of the supernatural? Angels, the deceased and yes demons.

The reason, according to a gifted priest from St. Louis named (name removed), is that the "veil" is "thinning." As we approach special times, the supernatural, he says, is being made more manifest.

"In my own prayer I have been shown that the preternatural gifts lost in the Garden are being partly restored and part of the grace is having the veil lifted," explains (name removed).... "It predicated, however, on obedience to God's Will, so as not interrupted by the evil one. The two ways we support that is to remain obedient to the Church community and Magisterium. The perfection of the Holy Spirit is revealed through the Church."

That admonishment comes at a time when many have strayed into questionable aspects of spirituality, and yet it also comes at a time when seers can face hyper-skepticism (and even persecution). The Church says (name removed) (who has visited the apparition site of Medjugorje fifteen times), acts as "mothers do at a ball field": making sure the kids stay within the boundaries (and recovering the ball when it's kicked astray). "The devil perverts gifts," says (name removed)...  "That's what he does best."

The thinning veil, says this priest, "is because we're moving into the era of peace and the Lord is preparing us to live in a different way. Many saints in the past have foreseen this rebirth of the Church and mankind." Much is about to change. We see the purification all around us.

(name removed) is well-qualified to speak on the mystical because he is "supersensory" and has had the experience of sensing and even seeing spirits since he was five or six.

 The gift developed as he encountered the demonic -- including the smell of sulfur as a boy -- and learned to pray harder. That's the negative side. He also experiences -- and sees -- angels and poor souls doing their purgatory on earth -- something that was also associated with St. Padre Pio.

"My mother told me never to be afraid because the Blessed Mother was there to protect me," says this special priest, who was ordained in 1981. "The first time I encountered an angel was when I was six or seven. I was at our community swimming pool and started drowning -- in water over my head. I heard a voice say, 'I will help you.' The voice said to push off the bottom of the pool and then again and kept coaching me until I got to the side of the pool.

"I always had a sense of the presence because we were always told to pray for poor souls. My mother always said never to be afraid of souls but pray for them (if you catch them out of the corner of your eye). But it wasn't until Medjugorje in 1989 that I could distinguish dark purgatorial souls from demons."

While sometimes the priest sees them through his physical eyes, most often, allegedly, (name removed) sees spirits in interior visions (as if through "the mirrors on a reflector telescope"). The darker a soul, he says, the lower is its purgatory -- and the more difficult to identify. He says souls can seem like mere outlines in gray and shadows.

Souls higher up in purgatory become recognizable and exhibit features. "I can see the faces of the ones closer to the upper levels of purgatory," he asserts, for our considered judgment.

"Sometimes souls do get 'stuck,'" he adds. "I did a house blessing in Kansas City. The home had a presence of children and it turned out that it was part of the 'trail of tears' -- Indian children where tribes went to reservations and passed through Missouri long ago." This all sounds like "fringe" stuff until one meets this otherwise "down-to-earth," no-nonsense, orthodox priest.

"A lot of it has to do with intimacy," he counsels. "The gifts are contingent on how intimate we are with God. The farthest back I remember when I was about four and I saw the Face of Jesus and felt this intense love."

He sees earthbound spirits virtually every day -- especially in busy places like hotels, malls, or airports, he claims. For this reason, (name removed) usually travels with the Blessed Sacrament. He says that souls not only attach to places but also specific people -- looking for help or remaining near relatives.  And for that reason he believes that freeing such souls often cause healings -- emotional and physical -- in families, that spirits attach to our lineages. He sees more of these souls that demonic ones.

"If there's a place infested, I would know the difference," he says. "The poor souls come like beggars. The demons come raging. A demon that is present makes you feel like you're falling into a dark hole -- cold and menacing and intense fear."

The most intense demonic activity, says (name removed), is often linked to places where there has been occult activity, prostitution, or the use of drugs. Although he doesn't like to specify locales -- and notes that every city has its positives and negatives -- he has felt special evil in two places many would expect: Las Vegas and parts of Manhattan. As for the poor souls: they should be held up, in a special manner, during the Consecration. Small Masses for them, he says, are especially intense.

Dear Readers,

Before I begin my brief analysis of various parts of the above news article, please keep in mind that - based upon my own Pastoral experiences in various Catholic Parishes over the years - I am very well aware of the fact that most probably less than .0001% of the Catholic Laity and - surprisingly - even most of the Catholic Clergy - have never had an opportunity to learn - in a formal classroom setting - the basic Truths about the Spiritual Life - specifically the "twin" sciences of Ascetical Theology and Mystical Theology which sciences are based upon the solid theological principles of Thomistic Theology and which formal classes were taught by Thomists before Synod Vatican 2.

The reason why it is so very important for Seminarians to study Ascetical Theology and Mystical Theology is because, after their Priestly Ordination, when they are hearing Confessions and functioning as Spiritual Directors, etc., a good, solid knowledge of the basic principles of the Spiritual Life, which are taught by Ascetical Theology and Mystical Theology, is imperative in order to do it correctly!  It is the sine qua non - without which not - a Priest can help each Penitent, and each Soul which comes to him for Spiritual Guidance!  Wrong Spiritual Guidance can put even the best of Priests on the fast track to Hell, otherwise - I have seen this happen to some of my brother Priests, sad to say!

I remember reading a Doctoral Thesis which was written by a Roman Catholic Priest at CUA (Catholic University of America -Washington, D.C.) and published by the CUA press in about 1935.  In it I found some pages on statistics - not theology, per se.  It was the results of the author's survey of all of the Roman Catholic Seminaries of Seculars and Religious in the entire United States.  Part of the data consisted of the total percentages of how many of these said Seminaries offered formal classes in Ascetical and Mystical Theology.  The results were, as best I can now remember (that was many years ago I read that Doctoral Thesis), that about 45% of said Seminaries offered formal classes in Ascetical Theology.  About only 20% of said Seminaries offered formal classes in Mystical Theology!  And this was back in the early part of the 1930's when these classes should have been mandatory at every Roman Catholic Seminary!!!

The above news article provides proof for at least two different, unrelated things.

One should become self-evident to you as you read the brief analysis below.

The other is the proof of what happens when a Seminarian does not formally study the "twin" sciences of Ascetical Theology and Mystical Theology, which sciences are based upon the solid theological principles of Thomistic Theology, and which said formal classes are taught by Traditional Thomists!!

Dear Readers,

Please keep in mind that:

It is a shorter thing and sooner done to write heresies than to answer them  (Sir Saint Thomas More, [b. at London, England in 1477 A.D. - d. martyred, at Tower Hill, London, England, on Saturday, July 6, 1535 A.D.], The Apology of Sir Thomas More, April 1533 A.D.).

Priest who sees "souls" believes phenomena have increased because "veil" is now thinning

Why all the reports of spiritual phenomena? How come: the sudden, overwhelming public interest in spirits, ghosts, and apparitions? Why, in the Christian and non-Christian worlds, are there so many claims of the supernatural? Angels, the deceased and yes demons.

Because the Catholic Church is supernatural in its nature, whatever involves the supernatural is within the proper domain for the Catholic Church to investigate.

The reason, according to a gifted priest from St. Louis named (name removed), is that the "veil" is "thinning." As we approach special times, the supernatural, he says, is being made more manifest.

As we approach special times, the supernatural, he says, is being made more manifest.

EXACTLY what is meant by As we approach special times?  Must one assume that said special times means the end of the world?  WHY so vague?  Why not define the term special times?  The term special times  is much too vague and superficial to have any meaning!  The term special times is made irrelevant by its lack of a clear, precise, identification as to EXACTLY what it is and/or is not.  In other words, the term special times could possibly mean anything the reader wants it to mean - just like filling in a blank?!

Why are the Readers forced to GUESS what this honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, specifically means by the very vague, ambiguous, and undefined:  As we approach special times???!!!

Do YOU happen to know what he means?  I do not?

Here are a few things taken from the GUESS category.  Please feel free to mentally add your own GUESS!!!

GUESS # 1:  Is perhaps the term special times possibly associated, in some direct or indirect way with - These Are Special Times - a Christmas album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, the lyrics of which are by Céline Dion and Diane Warren, released on October 30, 1998?  One can even get These Are The Special Times added a ringtone to one's cellphone ringtones!!!  By the way, These Are The Special Times is also on YouTube!!!

GUESS # 2:  Does the term special times possibly have anything to do with Special Times by Victor Andrada which is found in the album Illuminaste???

GUESS # 3:  Does the term special times possibly have anything to do with the Random House, Inc. E-Book called:  Celebrating Special Times with Special People, written by Gloria Gaither and Shirley Dobson???

GUESS # 4:  Does the term special times possibly have anything to do with the Newsletter of the down Syndrome Association of Minnesota which is called Special Times??

GUESS # 5:  Does the term special times possibly have anything to do with the music album called Special Songs for Special Times by Rose Augustine and Various Artists??

GUESS # 6:  Does the term special times possibly have anything to do with LifeWay's Special Times Bible???

GUESS # 7:  Does the term special times possibly have anything to do with the St. Petersburg, Florida newspaper's section called: Special Times???

GUESS # 8:  Does the term special times possibly have anything to do with dogs, especially the Special Times art print of an Irish Setter by Dawn Secord???

GUESS # 9:  Please mentally insert your very own GUESS here for what the term special times could possibly mean to you: ________________???  After all, your GUESS is just as good as my GUESS, probably even a lot better???!!!

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, you have given the Readers only one possible logical conclusion - what the author claims you have said, even though the author failed to use quotation marks - despite the fact that the context itself clearly requires quotation marks (Is this distracting lack of quotation marks because the author of this article: 1) did not use them; 2) used them, but they were not included in the text that was put on the internet - possibly by a different person; 3) some other reason?) -  is evidence of your use of amphiboly.

As a noun, "amphiboly" is defined as:

a fallacy due to ambiguously selected language (Bernard Wuellner, S.J., Dictionary of Scholastic Philosophy, page 6.)

That which signifies many things is an ambiguous sign and consequently occasions deception; this is clearly seen in equivocal words.  BUT ALL DECEPTION SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION according to Col. II:8:  “Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy [i.e. false philosophy-e.g. Sophism-since Saint Paul and later Saint Thomas, et. alii use a true philosophy.] and vain deceit (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., [b. 1225 A.D. in Rocca Secca, Naples, Italy - d. Wednesday, March 7, 1274 A.D. in Fossa Nuova, Italy], Doctor of the Church, Summa Theologica, Part III, Question 60, Article 3, Reply to Objection 1; emphasis added.)

But WORDS DO mean something!  There is an entire book devoted to the precise meaning or definition of each word!  It is called a "dictionary"!

What happens when WORDS DO NOT MEAN ANYTHING?  Confusion and chaos!!!  A game of GUESS in which everyone loses because there is no meaning for anything!

In other words, against those who would take the position that words do not mean anything, I take the position that this is contrary to the basic concept of absolute, immutable Truth and, ultimately, to God Himself!  Why?

Because:

"7. God is the Foundation of all Truth. Let us for the moment suppose as already demonstrated both the capability of the human mind to know things as they are in themselves, and the validity of the principles which it employs; we shall then be in a position of advantage to view the whole system of truth as it is developed by St. Thomas."

"God, the Necessary Being, who exists from all eternity and possesses an infinite mind, knows Himself in an infinite degree, that is to say, as far as He is knowable. His know ledge extends not only to what He is in Himself, but also in so far as He is imitable though imperfectly by the finite beings which He has power to create. Everything that He freely creates must be fashioned on the model of these divine ideas, as a work of art is fashioned after the ideal the artist forms of his work before he makes it. It follows that all created things correspond with the eternal idea God formed of their nature; this adequate correspondence is their truth; it is essential to them and is immutable. The truth resulting from human knowledge is only a reflection of the truth manifested by God in His works."

"Taking this higher view of the order of the universe, we may say that truth resides, in the first place, in the Divine Intelligence which eternally conceives the idea of His works. It belongs, in the second place, to things in so far as they are realized in conformity with their eternal archetypal ideas. And finally, it passes from things into human knowledge as soon as the mind represents to itself things as they are."

"This synthetic view, of course, finds its legitimate place at the end of the study of criteriology, as it would be unscientific to postulate it at the outset, during the analytical process, seeing that the existence of an infinitely perfect God needs to be proved by premisses which must themselves first be established" (Désiré Félicien François Joseph Cardinal Mercier [b. at Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium on Friday, November 21, 1851 - d. at  Brussels, Belgium on Saturday, January 23, 1926], Archbishop of Malines [Mechelen], Belgium,  A Manual of Modern Scholastic Philosophy, Authorized Translation, and Eighth Edition, by T. L. Parker, M.A., and S. A. Parker, O.S.B., M.A., Imprimatur:  Edm: Can: Surmont, Vicar General, Westmonasterii, die 21 Augusti, 1916, Volume I, Criteriology, Part I - General Criteriology, Chapter I, Problems to Be Solved, pp. 348 - 349).

The object of the intellect is something universal, namely, [an objective, universal quiddity] “being” and [an objective, universal Truth] “the true,” in which the act also of understanding is comprised. Wherefore the intellect can understand its own act. But not primarily, since the first object of our intellect, in this state of life, is not every being and everything true, but [an objective, universal quiddity] “being” and [an objective, universal Truth] “true,”  as considered in material things, as we have said above (Q[84], A[7]), from which it acquires knowledge of all other things (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., [b. 1225 A.D. in Rocca Secca, Naples, Italy - d. Wednesday, March 7, 1274 A.D. in Fossa Nuova, Italy], Doctor of the Church, Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 87, Article 3, Reply to Objection 1).

the supernatural, he says, is being made more manifest.

Why?

Because there is an epidemic of Diabolical Possessions!!!

Why?

Many years ago, I remember a Dominican Archbishop told me about one of his Seminary classmates who eventually was Ordained a Priest before Synod Vatican 2 who gave parish missions.  Back in those days, the Dominicans had a special group of their Priests who did what were called "Parish Missions" in many parishes around the United States.

I personally remember how two Dominican Priests came to my Roman Catholic Parish Church back in the late 1940's!  They conducted the missions for the adult Catholic men for one entire week at night, beginning at 7:00 p.m.  The second week was for the adult Catholic women of the parish, also for one entire week at night, also starting at 7:00 p.m.

This leads one to the logical question:  "What is Truth?"  The same question Pilate asked Christ.

A knowledge of what Truth is will free a person from confusion, from ignorance, from deception, from lies, from fallacies, from being victimized by those who try to take advantage of one's ignorance, etc.

Almighty God, in His Infinite Wisdom and Mercy created your Soul with two powers - intellect and will.

The intellect, by its created nature, seeks only the Truth.  In theology the axiom is:  The object of the intellect is Truth.

The will, by its created nature, seeks only the Good.  In theology the axiom is:  The object of the will is that which is Good.

I respectfully and humbly invite you to review a few basic Truths about Truth:

“What Truth can come from that which is false?”  (Ecclesiasticus  34:4).

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw His glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of Grace and Truth” (John 1:14).

“For the law was given by Moses; Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17).

“I am the Way, and the Truth and the Life.  No man cometh to the Father but by Me” (John 14:6).

“But when the Paraclete [God the Holy Ghost] cometh, Whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth, Who proceedeth from the Father, He shall give testimony of Me” (John 15:26).

“But when He [God the Holy Ghost], the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will teach you all Truth” (John 16:13).

“Pilate therefore said to Him:  Art Thou a king then?  Jesus answered:  Thou sayest that I am a king.  For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the Truth.  Every one that is of the Truth, heareth My voice” (John 18:37).

“Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the Truth?” (Galatians 4:16).

“...because they receive not the love of the Truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying” (2 Thessalonians 2:10).

“Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the Truth” (2 Timothy 3:7).

“For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: And will indeed turn away their hearing from the Truth, but will be turned unto fables” (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

“No lie is of the Truth”  (1 John 2:21).

“And it is the Spirit which testifieth, that Christ is the Truth” (1 John 5:6).

A Father of the Church

Bishop Saint Augustine, O.S.A., D.D.

“Anyone who conceals the Truth for fear of some authority calls down the wrath of God upon himself, because he fears men more than God...Both are guilty:  he who conceals the Truth and he who speaks falsehood, because the former does not wish to make the Truth known and the latter desires not to refute it” (Bishop Saint Augustine, a.k.a. Aurelius Augustinus [b. Tagaste, Africa, Saturday, November 13, 354 A.D. - d. Hippo Regia, Africa, Wednesday, August 28, 430 A.D.], Bishop of Hippo Regia, Father and Doctor of the Catholic Church, the Doctor of Grace, a protégé of Patriarch Saint Ambrose [b. in Gaul, possibly at Trier, Arles, or Lyons in 340 A.D. - d. at Milan, Italy on Friday, April 4, 397 A.D.] Patriarch of Milan [374 A.D. - Friday, April 4, 397 A.D.]. Saint Augustine -  Ad Casulanus, Cause 11, Question 3, Quisquis.)

A Doctor of the Church

Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P.

"God is Truth" (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., [b. 1225 A.D. in Rocca Secca, Naples, Italy - d. Wednesday, March 7, 1274 A.D., in Fossa Nuova, Italy], Doctor of the Church, Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 16, Article 5; Summa Theologica, Part II-II, Question 93, Article 2, Reply to Objection 2. Summa Contra Gentiles, Book I, Chapter 60.)

“Truth cannot be Truth’s contrary”  (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., Summa Contra Gentiles, Book IV, 8).

“Every Truth without exception, and whoever may utter it, is from the Holy Ghost”  (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., Summa Theologica, Part I-II, Question 109, Article 1, Reply to Objection 1).

“Truth knows no distinction of persons.  Therefore, he who speaks the Truth is invincible, dispute with whom he may” (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., Commentary on Job, Chapter 13, Lesson 2).

Popes

"God is not only true, but Truth Itself"  (Leo XIII, Gioacchino Pecci [Wednesday, February 20, 1878 - Monday, July 20, 1903], Encyclical, Æterni Patris, On the Restoration of Christian Philosophy, Monday, August 4, 1879 A.D.).

"Truth and its philosophic expression cannot change from day to day" (Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli [Thursday, March 2, 1939 - Thursday, October 9, 1958], Humani Generis, Wednesday, April 12, 1950).

I respectfully and humbly invite you to review a few basic Truths about Opinion:

When Sir Saint Thomas More, [b. at London, England in 1477 A.D. - d. martyred, at Tower Hill, London, England, on Saturday, July 6, 1535 A.D.] refused to follow the Bishops of England into apostasy, hypocrite Tom Audley

(Sir Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, KG (Order of the Garter), PC (Privy Council of England), KS (King’s Serjeant) [b.  at Earls Colne, Essex, England in c. 1488 A.D. - d. at London, England on Sunday, April 30, 1544 A.D.]),

“What, More, you wish to be considered wiser and of better conscience than all the bishops and nobles of the realm?”

To this More replied,

“My lord, for one bishop of your opinion I have a hundred saints of mine; and for one parliament of yours, and God knows of what kind, I have all the General Councils for 1,000 years, and for one kingdom I have France and all the kingdoms of Christendom” (The Paris Newsletter Account of More’s Trial and Execution, Sunday, August 4, 1535, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, Volume 8, # 996, Edited by J.S. Brewer and James Gairdner, London; Longmans and Co., 1882; emphasis added).

“For I nothing doubt but that,” he [More] told Audley, “though not in this realm, yet in Christendom about, of these well learned bishops and virtuous men that are yet alive, they be not the fewer part that are of my mind therein. But if I should speak of those that are already dead, of whom many be now holy saints in heaven, I am very sure it is the far greater part of them that, all the while they lived, thought in this case that way I think now; and therefore I am not bounder, my Lord, to conform my conscience to the Council of one realm against the general Council of Christendom. For of the aforesaid holy bishops I have, for every bishop of yours, above one hundred; and for one Council or Parliament of yours (God knoweth what manner of one) I have all the Councils made these thousand years. And for this one Kingdom, I have all other Christian realms”  (John Villiers Farrow [b. at Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday, February 10, 1904 - d. from a heart attack at Beverly Hills, California on Monday, January 28, 1963], Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, married to actress Maureen Paula O’Sullivan [b. at Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland on Wednesday, May 17, 1911 - d. at Scottsdale, Arizona on Tuesday, June 23, 1998], The Story of Thomas More, Chapter 17; emphasis added).

Giuseppe Cardinal Siri

Giuseppe Cardinal Siri
(Center - Wearing an Episcopal Mitre)

1. Opinions replace Truth.

In this world the first and fundamental doctrine of power consists of an affirmation that there is no truth.  Saint Augustine said that the difference between the city of this world and the City of God consists of the former having a thousand opinions, while the latter has only one Truth.  The basic difference between both cities, therefore, is not based on the content, but on the very existence of Truth.  It suffices to remember the dramatic dialogue between Jesus and Pilate.

What is most grave is that there is a technique to replace Truth by opinions.  This technique exists and is very useful.  It suffices to look at present religious, literary, and philosophical productions.  Opinions can be so cautiously expressed that it is impossible to get to know what the author’s thesis is, or even more paradoxical, doctrines that are mutually contradictory are juxtaposed as if they were consistent.

Let us look at the words:  "God is dead".  If the slogan were denial everybody would be able to understand.  However, here we have a subtly sophisticated idea through which "theologians" want to convey the deceitful impression that they are preserving the most assayed and chemically pure idea of God...through its "identification" with the most profound reality of man.

Even the ambiguous terms "conservative" and "progressive" [i.e. liberal; Modernist] conceal the relativistic technique, which leads every doctrinal issue in the direction of right wing and left wing.  Thus everything becomes relative; everything becomes a matter of opinions and an instrument of power.  Relativity of Truth and doctrine is the actual goal of these arbitrary developments of the Church’s present problems.  Is not this measure, proclaimed even by bishops and cardinals among Us, absurd and most unjust, as if it were an ideal to place us halfway between Truth and error?

2.   Is Gnosis Reappearing?

(Note:  The Cardinal prefers the term Gnosis instead of Modernism perhaps because these things are the modern-day version of Gnosticism.)  Let it be remembered that Gnosis, with its appeal to science and higher speculation, with its eagerness to understand mystery and to naturalize the Faith, was, during the second century, perhaps the worst danger in all the history of the Church.  I believe that the complex of errors circulating today can be called Gnosis, systematically speaking.  But....do many people know what they are talking about?  This is terrible, but they do not!

One does not act on rational grounds, but on one’s excessive desire to adapt oneself to the world.  Worldly power, however, has its own philosophy, and fashionable theologians translate fashionable opinions into theological language, not because they accept a doctrine as such, but because they accept these doctrines that flatter the powers of this world.

The present times are grave, not because it is not longer a question of opposition or contrast between Truth and error, but between Truth and non-truth, between the order of Truth and the dictatorship of public opinion.  PEOPLE BELIEVE THEY ARE FREE BECAUSE THIS APPEARS IN JURIDICAL TESTS; AS A MATTER OF FACT, THIS DECEIVING BELIEF IS EVIDENCE OF THEIR SERVITUDE.

Is the Church also under the despotism of public opinion?  Perhaps not the Church, but certainly many people within the Church are.  The Church could not be deprived of its freedom with the Holy Spirit’s provoking powerful reactions....

3.  What is Most Urgent?

The most urgent work is to restore the distinction between Truth and error in the Church.  We have reached a point where any exercise of ecclesiastical authority is considered an abuse of freedom, as if authority were a denial of freedom!  A thousand illegitimate powers severely and systematically curtain the conscience and liberty of people at a superficial level, while at the deepest level they detach them from the truth contained in the sources of revelation and the Magisterium.  I hope that just and authorized distinctions will be forthcoming.  PASTORAL AUTHORITY IS NO ART OF COMPROMISE AND CONCESSION, BUT THE ART OF SAVING SOULS THROUGH THE TRUTH.

This Truth is many times obscured by abusive liturgical deformations.  Today dangerous losses are discovered in the essential.  Not only is the Rite sacred, but also the presence in the Rite of the meaningful reality.  Once the Rite is mythologized the meaning of its contents is lost. No wonder that the Eucharist becomes for some a mere feast of human unity where God is just a spectator.  THIS IS NO LONGER HERESY, BUT APOSTASY.

The present situation in the Church is one of the most grave in its history, for this time the challenge does not come from outer persecution, but from inner perversion.  This is very grave.  But the gates of Hell will not prevail.   (Giuseppe Cardinal Siri [b. Sunday, May 20, 1906 in Genoa, Italy - d. Tuesday, May 2, 1989], Archbishop of Genoa, Italy.)

What is The Satanic Vatican 2 church?

Synod Vatican 2 and The Vatican 2 church

But first, what is the "Vatican 2 church"?

The Roman Catholic Pope, Celestine I [Saturday, September 10, 422  - Tuesday, July 27, 432 ] taught the principle:  Legem Credendi Lex Statuit Supplicandi. [The Liturgical form of prayer becomes the standard of Faith.]

This is sometimes shortened to simply Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi:  The Law of Praying is the Law of Believing.  This simply means that you express, by a public, exterior liturgical act of worship, your own personal interior beliefs of your faith.

Thus, you pray what you believe and you believe what you pray.

But, whether knowingly or unknowingly, the members of the "Vatican 2 church", pray what Synod Vatican 2 established as the "official prayer" - the adulterated "mass", a.k.a. the NOR - Novus Ordo Rite, a.k.a. the NEW "mass", a.k.a. the Novus Ordo Missae.  Therefore, the "Vatican 2 church" members pray what Synod Vatican 2 taught them to believe in their various anti-Catholic teachings which are, in part, reflected in their anti-Catholic NEW "mass", the NOR.

In this way, the victimized members of the "Vatican 2 church" slowly began to believe what they "prayed", especially in its 16th Century Protestant updated, modernized, synthesized memorial supper meal which is not the Catholic Sacrifice of the Mass as Jesus Christ perfectly instituted it!

I have been working on a new entry for the Question Box on the subject of "Traditional Catholics" which I hope to have completed for the June, 2010 issue, or, at the very latest, the July, 2010 issue.  The research has been very time-consuming, but it already has resulted in some interesting historical data.

The "Traditional Catholics" issue treats a number of related subjects, including the anti-Catholic NEW Mass with some details.  For example, it includes some of the many details about how Pope Paul 6 and Synod Vatican 2 made up the NEW anti-Catholic "mass".

So, rather than re-invent the wheel, as the expression goes, for more detailed specifics on the subject of the NEW Mass, please refer to the "Traditional Catholics" article, the link to which will be found on the Question Box Contents web page, hopefully in the June, 2010 or possibly the July, 2010 edition of the Shrine of Saint Jude E-Newsletter.  The link for it - which is currently not available on the internet - is:  http://www.shrineofsaintjude.net/home-QBox-001.html
 

Why is "The Vatican 2 church" Satanic?

(Pope Paul 6, Giovanni Battista Montini
[Friday, June 21, 1963 - Sunday, August 6, 1978]
Thursday, June 29, 1972.
Homily during the Mass for Saints Peter & Paul,
On the occasion of the ninth anniversary of his coronation).

the supernatural, he says, is being made more manifest.

Nevertheless, the statement by Pope Paul 6 that .... the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God  is certainly one of a number of examples concerning the subject matter - namely that the supernatural... is being made more manifest - because what could be MORE supernatural, what could be more manifest, than - in an evil sense - the smoke of Satan  which has entered the temple of God and concerning which, the following photographs are offered as evidence:

WHO are the worthless good-for-nothings in this photo who sat on their hands and did nothing to stop this  PORNO Pope, John Paul the Great, and his Satanic mockery of the Holy SACRIFICE of the Ancient Roman Rite of the Catholic Traditional Mass with this "Abomination of Desolation"???

"And in the half of the week the Victim and the Sacrifice [of the Catholic Traditional Ancient Rite of the Holy SACRIFICE of the Ancient Mass] shall fail:  and there shall be in the Temple the Abomination of Desolation [the NEW NUDE Mass]:  and the Desolation shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end" (Daniel 9:27).

"And they shall defile the Sanctuary of Strength, and shall take away the Continual Sacrifice [the Catholic Traditional Ancient Rite of the Holy SACRIFICE of the Ancient Mass], and they shall place there the Abomination unto desolation [the NEW NUDE Mass, a.k.a. the NEW NUDE Novus Ordo Missae, a.k.a. the NEW NUDE Novus Ordo Rite]" (Daniel  11:31).

Pope Paul 6 Officially Discontinuing the Papal Use of the Papal Tiara, the visible symbol of the Papacy! This Papal Tiara was his official Coronation Tiara which he had sent to a New York Jeweler with instructions to give the proceeds from selling it to the poor. Since that day, no Pope has ever worn the Papal Tiara! Does this symbolic gesture means that the Popes of the Satanic Vatican 2 church no longer consider themselves to be Popes of the Roman Catholic Church??!!

Nineteen months after he had refused to speak with Sister Lucy at Fatima, Pope Paul 6 declared:  "The Church is in a disturbed period of self-criticism, or what could be better called self - destruction. It is an acute and complicated upheaval which nobody would have expected after the Council [Synod Vatican 2]. It is almost as if the Church were attacking herself." (Pope Paul 6, Giovanni Battista Montini [Friday, June 21, 1963 - Sunday, August 6, 1978], Speech to the Lombard College, December 7, 1968; emphasis added).

"The Smoke of Satan"

Pope Paul 6 Giovanni Battista Montini [Friday, June 21, 1963 - Sunday, August 6, 1978] The last Pope Crowned with the Papal Tiara During the last Papal Coronation. WHY was this the last Papal Coronation with the Tiara, the visible symbol of the Papacy???!!!

On Thursday, June 29, 1972, the Feastday of Saints Peter and Paul, the ninth anniversary of his Papal Coronation as Pope, Pope Paul 6 said:  "From somewhere or other the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God ... In the Church, too, this state of uncertainty reigns. We thought that after the Council [Synod Vatican 2] a day of sunshine would have dawned for the history of the Church.  What dawned, instead, was a day of clouds and storms, of darkness, of searching and uncertainties." (Pope Paul 6, Giovanni Battista Montini [Friday, June 21, 1963 - Sunday, August 6, 1978], Speech on Thursday, June 29, 1972).

More Smoke of Satan

Pope JP-2 Karol Wyotya [Monday, October 16, 1978 - Friday, April 1, 2005] Mexican indigenous women from Oaxaca, Mexico, performed the PAGAN Aztec ritual in the basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City on Wednesday, July 31, 2002 in which they functioned as PAGAN Aztec Priestesses in the PAGAN Ritual Exorcism of the Pope of the Satanic Vatican 2 church.

The PAGAN "Smoke of Satan" filled the Satanically grotesque building in which has been hung the holy picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.  The PAGAN Aztec “mass” JP-2 PERSONALLY instituted in the Satanic monstrosity called the basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City on Wednesday, July 31, 2002. During it, several Mexican Indian women, functioning as Pagan Aztec Priestesses, brushed the Pope of the Satanic Vatican 2 church, Pope John Paul 2, with herbs as many pots of burning incense spewed their toxic waste of billowing fumes into that supper-hall. As the photo at the left attests, that place was filled with so much  visible Smoke of Satan that the Pope is not even clearly visible in this photo taken during this Pagan Aztec ritual. According to LIVE, TV reports from the scene, broadcast by various Los Angeles TV stations, the announcers explained, as they read from their pre-printed booklets explaining what was happening, that this ceremony was an EXORCISM (the EXACT word used by the LA TV stations) during which said Pagan Aztec Priestesses attempted to PUBLICLY Exorcize the Pope of the Satanic Vatican 2 church, John Paul 2, of his devils! But is Satan really divided?  If Satan, through these Pagan Aztec Priestesses, tries to drive out Satan, how shall his kingdom stand?!  It is a contradiction, nay a conundrumized oxy-moron, to hold that Satan can drive out Satan!

Satanism in the Vatican

"The Devil in the Catholic Church is so protected now that he is like an animal protected by the government; put on a game preserve that outlaws anyone, especially hunters, from trying to capture or kill it. The Devil within the Church today is actually protected by certain Church authorities from the official Devil-hunter in the Church - the Exorcist..." (Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, SPEECH:  Satanists at work in the Vatican  at the Fatima 2000 International Congress on World Peace held in Rome between November 18, 1996 through November 23, 1996.)

Question: "Are there men of the Curia who are followers of Satan?" Answer:  "Certainly there are priests and bishops.  I stop at this level of ecclesiastical hierarchy because I am an archbishop, higher than this I cannot go. Paul VI said that 'the smoke of Satan had entered into the Vatican.'"  (Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, Question and Answers following his Speech:  Satanists at work in the Vatican  at the Fatima 2000 International Congress on World Peace held in Rome between November 18, 1996 through November 23, 1996.)

Father Malachi Martin, S.J.

"Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are Satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness [Satan] has had, and still has, his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome." (Father Malachi Brendan Martin, S.J. [b. in County Kerry, Ireland on Saturday, July 23, 1921 A.D. - d. at New York, New York on Tuesday, July 27, 1999 A.D.], the famous ex-Jesuit Priest, a Vatican insider and best-selling author.)

A SATANIC "Enthronement" RITE was held in the Vatican!! SATANIC  PEDOPHILIA  Rites also have been held in other places, e.g. Turin, Italy and in the U.S.A. in South Carolina!!!

Father Malachi Martin, S.J.

"Most frighteningly for [Pope] John Paul [2], he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops' chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the 'superforce.'" "Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI's reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to 'the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary'. . . an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican." "Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia — rites and practices — was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of Satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen Archangel's rites."  (Father Malachi Brendan Martin, S.J. [b. in County Kerry, Ireland on Saturday, July 23, 1921 A.D. - d. at New York, New York on Tuesday, July 27, 1999 A.D.], the famous ex-Jesuit Priest, a Vatican insider and best-selling author, The Keys of This Blood, p. 632; emphasis added.)

Father Malachi Martin, S.J.

Since Father Malachi Martin, S.J. wrote The Keys of This Blood, Father Malachi has revealed, in his later book, WINDSWEPT HOUSE, much more about this Satanic "Enthronement" Rite, which was supposedly held in the Vatican on Saturday, June 29, 1963!!! This would have happened only 8 days after the election of Cardinal Montini as Pope Paul 6, Giovanni Battista Montini [Friday, June 21, 1963 - Sunday, August 6, 1978]. Father Malachi Martin, S.J. vividly describes a ceremony called "The Enthronement of the Fallen Archangel Lucifer" held in Saint Paul's Chapel in the Vatican in his book, Windswept House. Father Malachi Martin, S.J. also explains how this "enthronement" ceremony in the Vatican was happening at the very same time that these same Satanic Rites were being done here in the United States of America down in South Carolina!!

Doubleday, 1996. Hardcover Father Malachi Martin, S.J.

"Suddenly it became unarguable that now during this papacy, the Roman Catholic organization carried a permanent presence of clerics who worshipped Satan and liked it;  of bishops and priests who sodomized boys and each other;  of nuns who performed the 'Black Rites' of Wicca, and who lived in lesbian relationships...  every day, including Sundays and Holy Days, acts of heresy and blasphemy and outrage and indifference were committed and permitted at holy Altars by men who had been called to be priests.  Sacrilegious actions and rites were not only performed on Christ's Altars, but had the connivance or at least the tacit permission of certain Cardinals, archbishops, and bishops. . . In total number they were a minority—anything from one to ten percent of Church personnel. But of that minority, many occupied astoundingly high positions or rank...." "The facts that brought the Pope to a new level of suffering were mainly two: The systematic organizational links—the network, in other words that had been established between certain clerical homosexual groups and Satanist covens. And the inordinate power and influence of that network."  (Windswept House, pages 492 - 493; emphasis added.)

"Oh yes, it is true; very much so. But the only way I could put that down into print is in novelistic form."

This book was published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1996!  This was YEARS BEFORE the secular press broke the pedophile scandals in the Satanic Vatican 2 church!

WHY does it seem that most people did not realize that this is not a book of fiction (except for the names of the characters and some sundry data), but was instead very factual!

Just this one phrase (not to mention almost everything else in it) proves it is not a book of fiction  where he writes above about bishops and priests who sodomized boys and each other!

HOW MANY MORE YEARS WILL IT TAKE BEFORE THE SATANISTS IN THE SATANIC VATICAN 2 CHURCH WILL ALSO BE EXPOSED AND THE VICTIMS THEY KILLED IN THEIR SATANIC RITUALS BECOME FRONT PAGE NEWS AS DID THE PEDOPHILE SCANDALS???!!!

Is it any wonder that today the Satanic Vatican 2 church, the home of various pedophile and Satanist Priests, Bishops, Archbishops, and Cardinals is gasping for air because of the dense smoke of Satan and which "Satanic church" is apparently  now primarily "operated" by anti-Catholic infiltrators, including, but not limited to, Communist, Freemasonic, and Modernist heretic infiltrators???!!!

the supernatural, he says, is being made more manifest.

But, what really concerns me a great deal is the tenor of the entire article concerning this honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis!

Why?

Because this article does NOT mention the dense smoke of Satan that is in the Satanic Vatican 2 church today because of all of the many, many pedophiles and Satanists who are Priests, Bishops, Archbishops, and Cardinals!

Although this series of web pages with their various articles relating to the Question Box is primarily used for answering questions, I do have some questions of my own, and perhaps you Readers might have some of these same questions yourselves, that you would also like to ask the author of the above article and/or this honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis???

Question # 1:  Readers, including myself, do not find any mention in the article of a number of contemporary burning issues, most especially concerning the dense smoke of Satan that is in the Satanic Vatican 2 church today because of all of the many, many pedophiles and Satanists who are Priests, Bishops, etc.!

WHY is this?

a)  Is it because the author of the Sees "Souls" article has already written about your position on these things?

b)  Is it because the author of the Sees "Souls" article did not want to write about your position on these things?

c)  Is it because you requested that the author of the Sees "Souls" article not write about your position on these things?

d)  Is it because you want to ignore these contemporary burning issues, for whatever reason(s)?

For example:

The thinning veil, says this priest, "is because we're moving into the era of peace and the Lord is preparing us to live in a different way. Many saints in the past have foreseen this rebirth of the Church and mankind." Much is about to change. We see the purification all around us.

Examples:

Example # 1:  The Third Secret of Our Lady of Fatima supposedly mentions World War III.  Whether or not this is true, the various secular media (TV, radio, newsprint) spend a good part of their reporting on wars in various parts of the world.

Example # 2:  The economy of the United States and much of the world was virtually destroyed by the Great Depression of 2008 when President Bush decided to do the phony bail-out of the demonic financial institutions and for which Depression some claim the U.S. Federal Reserve is primarily responsible.

Example # 3:  Around the world, millions of hard working people have lost their jobs.  I get many E-Mails from people who are about to lose everything they spent their lives working to attain - a good paying, stable, job; or their own small business; their own home; etc.  Then there are the people who are already homeless and out of work with no shred of hope in the short term!

Example # 4:  Walk down the streets of any town or city and look at all of the stores that have closed!

Example # 5:  The State of California is bankrupt because it can no longer afford to continue to support illegals who are on public welfare.

Example # 6:  In Southern California there is a hospital crisis with many hospitals closing their doors because a Federal Judge mandated that they not charge illegals for their services, especially maternity services!

Example # 7:  In Los Angeles, the corrupt city government is in deep financial trouble and will be laying off large numbers of city workers, including police and firemen.

Example # 8:  The State of California, due to a lack of money, had to release large numbers of prisoners from its prisons and jails - supposedly those incarcerated for minor offenses?!  But murders, rapists, etc. were let out because of a "computer problem"!  Needless to say, the police have not been able to find them!

Example # 9:  The continued news - now from Ireland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, etc., etc. of even more pedophile Priests and Prelates being exposed for the diabolical monsters they are and the Pope refusing to resign!

I could continue on and on with a variety of other problems including how many millions of Americans now have either no shelter or very little, very little food to eat, etc., etc.  Schools are closing their doors because there is no money to pay for teachers! Many nurses have been laid off or are out of a job due to hospital closings.  Yet corporate greed runs unchecked!

Apparently, most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, you have forgotten that Our Blessed Mother told the Children at Fatima that:

HOW can there ever be peace when sins of all kinds are glamorized on perfidious Zionist controlled TV programs which have been connected to the seven "sewers" of the Seven Capital Sins, which parade steady streams of very subtle anti-God hatred which is coupled and completed with blatant paganism, nudity, scripted foul-mouthed dialogue, moral filth, fornication, murder, thievery, etc., etc. which garbage is put forth as something for children to imitate!

HOW can there ever be peace when sins of all kinds are glamorized on perfidious Zionist controlled TV programs which have been connected to the seven "sewers" of the Seven Capital Sins, which parade steady streams of very subtle anti-God hatred which is coupled and completed with blatant paganism, nudity, scripted foul-mouthed dialogue, moral filth, fornication, murder, thievery, etc., etc. which garbage is put forth as something for adults of all ages to imitate!

HOW can there ever be peace when sins of all kinds are glamorized on perfidious Zionist controlled movies which have been connected to the seven "sewers" of the Seven Capital Sins, which parade steady streams of very subtle anti-God hatred which is coupled and completed with blatant paganism, nudity, scripted foul-mouthed dialogue, moral filth, fornication, murder, thievery, etc., etc. which garbage is put forth as something for children to imitate!

HOW can there ever be peace when sins of all kinds are glamorized on perfidious Zionist controlled movies which have been connected to the seven "sewers" of the Seven Capital Sins, which parade steady streams of very subtle anti-God hatred which is coupled and completed with blatant paganism, nudity, scripted foul-mouthed dialogue, moral filth, fornication, murder, thievery, etc., etc. which garbage is put forth as something for adults of all ages to imitate!

What about adults who are paganistic, worldly, materialistic, greedy, the slaves of the Seven Capital Sins, and whose horrible sins cry to Heaven for vengeance??!!

UNTIL and UNLESS God's Peace Plan is LIVED in the daily lives of all Catholics, and UNTIL and UNLESS most Catholics abandon their lives of sinful vices and live daily lives of Virtue, there will never be peace - but there will be more wars, perhaps many, many more wars???

Based in part upon the above, I can only conclude that the world is NOT moving into the era of peace, but rather into the era of more wars, more persecutions, and perhaps - I hope I am wrong on this - the bloody persecutions and reign of terror of anti-Christ????!!!!

Therefore, most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, for you to so euphorically claim  that we're moving into the era of peace, seems to be not only wishful thinking, but an opprobrious disconnect from the world of reality - escapism into the la-la land of a false peace, a phantasm of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain (William Shakespeare [b. at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England in April 1564 A.D. - d. at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England on Saturday, April 23, 1616], The Tragedy of Macbeth, 1606 A.D., Act II, Scene I, Macbeth's Dagger Scene Soliloquy), which is not solidly based upon God's very specific Peace Plan  which Our Lady of Fatima brought from Heaven in 1917 for all Catholics to learn and to practice in their daily lives??!!

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, would you please explain to the Readers how it is that your obvious abandonment of God's Peace Plan is not a re-enactment, morally speaking, of how, on Monday, July 25, 1960 A.D., the 2nd Pope, John 23rd, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli [Tuesday, October 28, 1958 - Monday, June 3, 1963], so unceremoniously and  un-æwfæstlice (Anglo-Saxon: irreligiously) treated all of the messages of Fatima, including the Third Secret of Fatima, by condemning the Third Secret of Fatima to the proverbial “black hole” of the labyrinth of the Vatican archives in the hope that, in the process, everything about Fatima would be totally cleansed by the River Lethe (Greek mythology - the  river of forgetfulness) so that none of it would ever again see the light of day, so ensconced (set; fixed) would it be in its pejoratived (belittled) anonymity (obscurity) while the march of time would steadily and imperceptibly cover it with a millennia of dust.

For the most part, this surreptitious act by the 2nd Pope, John 23rd, seems to be working very well!  How so?  Because, from my personal observations and experiences with the Laity over many years, but even more so today than at any time in the past, the sad fact is this:  almost all Catholics have never even heard of "God's Peace Plan", let alone live it in their daily lives???!!!

UNTIL and UNLESS God's Peace Plan is LIVED in the daily lives of all Catholics, and UNTIL and UNLESS most Catholics abandon their lives of sinful vices and live daily lives of Virtue, there will never be peace - but there will be more wars, perhaps many, many more wars???

THIS is the REALITY of today, Spiritually speaking!  So, most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, for you to so euphorically claim that we're moving into the era of peace, is contradicted by these above FACTS - because:

1) SIN - the cause of war - is on the increase;

2) Very, very few Catholics today are LIVING God's Peace Plan the Blessed Virgin Mary gave Catholics at Fatima in 1917!!!

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, you have not given the Readers even one proof to substantiate your statement.  Why not?  Where are your hard facts?!  Contemporary events prove you are in error and, as a result, you really do not have any proof for your giddy, and otherwise frivolous and false, assertion, do you???!!!

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, have you never known, or perhaps forgotten, that Saint Peter, the Apostle, Prophecized: "For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God" (1 Peter 4:17)?  Would you agree with me that such a judgment is past due, but if not, why not??

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, have you never known, or perhaps forgotten, that Our Lady of LaSalette revealed to Frances Melanie Mathieu that:

"Corruption is in holy places....

"Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of anti-Christ.”
(Our Lady of LaSalette to Frances Melanie Mathieu, Saturday, September 19, 1846).

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, have you never known, or perhaps forgotten, that Divine Revelation has warned all of us about anti-Christ???  About 25% of the Apocalypse is about anti-Christ!!!

Therefore, I most respectfully suggest, dear honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, that you read the Apocalypse and understand that the reign of anti-Christ will be terrible, most especially for Catholics in Europe, Africa, and Asia!!!  Of course anti-Christ will be the instrument by which God totally destroys the city of Rome, and with it the Vatican and all of its corrupt, evil, pedophiles and Satanist clergy!!!  The proofs are in the Apocalypse, waiting for you to not only read these things, but also to understand them!!

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, are you not aware of these facts?:

“A sinister farce acted out by three thousand good-for-nothings, some of whom, despite the gold [pectoral] crosses on their chests, don’t even believe in the Trinity or the Virgin” (Bishop Antonio Romeo of the Sacred Congregation of Rites in Bob Considine’s column ON THE LINE in the NEW YORK JOURNAL AMERICAN of Friday, November 27, 1964).

“[Synod Vatican 2 was] the greatest disaster in recent ecclesiastical history” (Giuseppe Cardinal Siri [b. Sunday, May 20, 1906 in Genoa, Italy - d. Tuesday, May 2, 1989], Archbishop of Genoa, Italy, from “Pontiff”, p. 369 - Gordon Thomas/Max Morgan Witts).

“I pray to God that I may die before the end of the council -- in that way I can die a Catholic” (Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani [b. on Wednesday, October 29, 1890 - d. on Friday, August 3, 1979], June 1962, Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Holy Office, following a speech by Cardinal Montini  - the future Paul 6 - on the need for changes in the Church).

"For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears:  And will indeed turn away their hearing from the Truth, but will be turned unto fables"  (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

The text of Sees "Souls" would have one believe everything is, or shortly will be, hunky-dory (Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.)???!!!  Please explain with specifics.  Some, but not all, of what is in Sees "Souls" is so vague and general in nature, greatly lacking anything specific.

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, have you forgotten how so many people in the past have been accused of this very thing - and with good reason, because anyone can say anything!  PROVING what one says in another matter and, excluding your alleged personal ascetical experiences, I have found almost no proof for what you say in the text of Sees "Souls"!!!  WHY NOT???

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, in order to more quickly finish my analysis of the Sees "Souls" above article, I am going to briefly analyze just a small part of your own personal experiences and then, after doing this, finish my general analysis.

"In my own prayer I have been shown that the preternatural gifts lost in the Garden are being partly restored and part of the grace is having the veil lifted," explains (name removed)... "It predicated, however, on obedience to God's Will, so as not interrupted by the evil one. The two ways we support that is to remain obedient to the Church community and Magisterium. The perfection of the Holy Spirit is revealed through the Church."

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, you are quoted as saying:

"In my own prayer I have been shown that the preternatural gifts lost in the Garden are being partly restored and part of the grace is having the veil lifted," explains (name removed)... "It predicated, however, on obedience to God's Will, so as not interrupted by the evil one. The two ways we support that is to remain obedient to the Church community and Magisterium. The perfection of the Holy Spirit is revealed through the Church."

Regarding the subject of preternatural gifts, one reads where various people have bi-located or their bodies have levitated during intense praying (e.g. one eye-witness claims to have seen Padre Pio levitate in the Sacristy of his Monastery after Offering a Mass), etc.  Because the Catholic Church is a Supernatural Religion, it should be expected that certain Supernatural acts of various kinds will be found in some of her members, including apparitions and visions as well as locutions, levitations of the body, etc.

I know, for example, one Priest who asked the good God to please remove all of his preternatural gifts and all of his mystical experiences during his Masses, and also outside of Mass, because he was concerned that his parishioners would be distracted from the Mass itself, and from his other ministerial duties outside of the Mass, not to mention that some of them might be wont to think of him as a saint.

Dare I ask IF YOU, most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, have ever done this same thing, i.e. have YOU ever asked the good God to please remove all of YOUR preternatural gifts, and/or all of YOUR other "experiences", so that the people who know you would not think of YOU as being a saint, or otherwise as the gifted priest from St. Louis????!!!

IF "NO", WHY NOT?!

The way you worded your statement makes it sound as if:

1)  everyone who is obedient to God's Will;
2)  everyone who is obedient to the Church community;
3)  everyone who is obedient to the ... Magisterium

This is what the above author claims in regard to exactly what you said because he put it into quotation marks.  Therefore, the Readers have no recourse except to accept these statements as being part of your direct quotations.

However, you are quoted as beginning with:

"In my own prayer I have been shown that the preternatural gifts lost in the Garden are being partly restored and part of the grace is having the veil lifted,"

As I mentioned above, you seem to indicate that this is all automatic provided that the three conditions are met, to wit:

1)  everyone who is obedient to God's Will;
2)  everyone who is obedient to the Church community;
3)  everyone who is obedient to the ... Magisterium

1)  that this is "automatic", provided the three conditions are met;
2)  that this applies to "everyone", irregardless who the person is, but so long as they meet the three conditions.

Now this all sounds very good, but is it good and sound?

Perhaps you were speaking "off the cuff", but most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, you tend to be very imprecise.

What is the problem?

"It predicated, however, on obedience to God's Will, so as not interrupted by the evil one. The two ways we support that is to remain obedient to the Church community and Magisterium. The perfection of the Holy Spirit is revealed through the Church."

So, most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, EXACTLY what is the Church community?

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis,  you have indicated that the Church community is nothing more or less than a bunch of unidentified people about whom nothing at all is known - not even whether they are alive or even dead? (the Poor Souls are also part of the Mystical Body which is the Church) - which is so vague and ambiguous as to mean a number of different things - an example of amphiboly!

Most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis,  are you aware of the fact that this is classical heretical Modernist double-talk, the kind of stuff for which Pope Paul 6 was infamous and by which he confused many people!

Then you added the term and Magisterium - again very vague because the context makes it sound as if - logically speaking - the Church community IS the Magisterium itself because of your self-evident deliberate vagueness and what can only be interpreted as your being loath to make the necessary and proper distinctions which pre-Vatican 2 Seminarians learned very well in their classes of Scholastic Philosophy and Thomistic Theology!

We were trained to use proper distinctions, not only in our written communications, but also in our verbal communications, and to also reference our sources when possible, or, at the very least, the name of the person, and if possible the name of what he wrote.

Thus when referring to an Epistle of Saint Paul, we would at least mention Saint Paul, and preferably which one of his Epistles.  The same is true with others so that in the case of the Angelic Doctor we would mention Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., and preferably which work - whether his Summa Theologica, or his Summa Contra Gentiles, or whichever of his many other works - but in most cases it would usually be either of his two famous Summæ.

On the subject of distinctions, both Scholastic Philosophy and Thomistic Theology are full of distinctions.  Any Roman Catholic Seminarian, who has been correctly trained, and who has properly studied both Scholastic Philosophy and Thomistic Theology, will have developed the HABIT of making correct distinctions, because they become, so to speak, "second nature" because they are used so very, very frequently!   The mind, being trained, to make correct distinctions, automatically - without having to think about - from the sheer force of correct habit - makes distinctions, irregardless the medium of communication being used.

Why?  Because they are extremely basic, just as breathing is not only basic to the human body, but necessary to sustain the life of the body - it is, so to speak, as already mentioned above, "second nature":

All scholastic philosophy is based upon the distinction between matter and form. Modern thought makes light of the distinction. But we must absolutely attend to it, if we are to have any notion of Scholasticism at all. Likewise we must bear in mind the distinction of substance and accident (Joseph Rickaby, Scholasticism, page 4).

To have distinction we must have difference (Walter Farrell, O.P., A Companion to the Summa, Volume 1, Chapter VII, The Inner Life of God - Q 27-43).

For most of you Laity, the necessity of making correct distinctions, which is a habit that becomes "second nature" for Seminarians in Roman Catholic Seminaries, has probably whizzed over your heads - simply because you have never been required to study Scholastic Philosophy and Thomistic Theology which is filled with distinctions?

This is why it is necessary for me to make an issue of it here, to make those of you Readers who are part of the Laity aware of how Seminarians in Roman Catholic Seminaries were trained before all of the anti-Catholic Infiltrator CHANGES were made in what used to be the Roman Catholic Church!

But what perhaps has been thus far lost in all of this is the fact that, although it is very apparent to anyone who has been trained in Roman Catholic Seminaries before Synod Vatican 2 and who, from daily necessity, has developed the habit of making correct distinctions, which is a habit that becomes "second nature" for Seminarians in Roman Catholic Seminaries, because of the daily study Scholastic Philosophy and Thomistic Theology which is filled with distinctions, the said most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis,  obviously did NOT really study Scholastic Philosophy and Thomistic Theology, and therefore, the assertion in this article is that he is a "priest" must be called into question!

The article Sees "Souls" claims that

this special priest.... was ordained in 1981

Yet the most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis,  was not "ordained" according to the NEW Rite until 1981!!!  Therefore, the most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis,  WAS NOT VALIDLY "ordained" to the Holy Catholic Priesthood!!!

I invite all of the members of the Laity, just like the most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis,  to PRAYERFULLY and OBJECTIVELY COMPARE, side by side, the NEW Rite with the OLD Rite for Priestly Ordination to realize how the NEW Rite for Priestly Ordination has been INVALIDATED!

Of course, anyone can say anything.  Therefore, first I will make mention of the nefarious document which required that both the rubrics, and the actual texts, be changed!  Then I will recount the history of the 16th Century Protestants in England who invalidated this same OLD Rite for Priestly Ordination.  Finally, I will quote from the Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII which clearly declares the said CHANGED Rite to be INVALID, - thus, the bottom line that the said "Priests" were nothing more than LAYMEN wearing Roman Collars, going around thinking and/or pretending to be validly Ordained "Priests"!

So, first, what happened?!

Synod Vatican 2's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of Wednesday, December 4, 1963, made drastic, illegal and totally per se invalid changes to the legal and valid Catholic Rites for the Sacrament of Holy Orders, commanding that both the rubrics, and the actual texts, be changed!

History simply repeated itself!  The Protestants did the same thing in the 16th Century!  As a result, they automatically MADE INVALID the Liturgical Rites for the Administration of the Sacrament of Holy Orders, which obviously includes the Sacrament of the Holy Priesthood!

Proof for this is found in the Encyclical by the Roman Catholic Pope, Leo XIII, Gioacchino Pecci [Wednesday, February 20, 1878 - Monday, July 20, 1903], Encyclical Apostolicæ Curæ - Declaration of the Invalidity of Anglican Orders, Promulgated Friday, September 18, 1896, in which the Pope cites as his reasons that the CHANGES the Protestants made the Rite INVALIDATED both the FORM and the INTENTION - both of which are necessary to make a valid Priest and without which a person can not be made a Priest, but remains a Layman in a Roman Collar going about thinking he is a valid Priest and acting as if he is a valid Priest, yet all the while he is only a Layman wearing a Roman Collar!!!

I quote in part from this Encyclical Apostolicæ Curæ which declared Anglican Orders are invalid:

"9. To all rightly considering these matters it will not be difficult to understand why, in the Letters of Julius III issued to the Apostolic Legate on March 8, 1554, there is a distinct mention, first of those who, 'rightly and lawfully promoted', were to be retained in their Orders; and then of others who, 'not promoted to Sacred Orders', might 'be promoted if they were found to be worthy and fitting subjects'. For it is clearly and definitely noted, as indeed was the case, that there were two classes of men: the first those who had really received Sacred Orders, either before the secession of Henry VIII, or, if after it and by ministers infected by error and schism, still according to the accustomed Catholic rite; the second, those who were initiated according to the Edwardine Ordinal, who on that account could not be 'promoted', since they had received an ordination which was null and void. And that the mind of the Pope was this, and nothing else, is clearly confirmed by the Letter of the said Legate (January 29, 1555), sub-delegating his faculties to the Bishop of Norwich. Moreover, what the Letters of Julius III themselves say about freely using the Pontifical faculties, even on behalf of those who had received their consecration 'minus rite and not according to the accustomed form of the Church', is to be especially noted. By this expression those only could be meant who had been consecrated according to the Edwardine rite, since besides it and the Catholic form there was then no other rite in England."

"10. This becomes even more clear when we consider the Legation which, on the advice of Cardinal Pole, the Sovereign Princes, Philip and Mary, sent to the Pope in Rome in the month of February, 1555 the royal ambassadors: three men “most illustrious and endowed with every virtue”, of whom one was Thomas Thirlby, Bishop of Ely. They were charged to inform the Pope more fully regarding the religious condition of the country and especially to beg that he would ratify and confirm what the Legate had been at pains to effect, and had succeeded in effecting, towards the reconciliation of the Kingdom with the Church. For this purpose all of the necessary written evidence and the pertinent parts of the new Ordinal were submitted to the Pope. The Legation having been splendidly received, and their evidence having been 'diligently discussed' by several of the Cardinals, 'after mature deliberation' Paul IV issued his Bull Præclara Carissimi on June 20 of that same year. In this, while giving full force and approbation to that which Cardinal Pole had done, it is ordered in the matter of the Ordination (rite) as follows:

Those who have been promoted to ecclesiastical Orders . . . by any one but a Bishop validly and lawfully ordained are bound to receive those Orders again."

"11. But who those Bishops not 'validly and lawfully ordained' were had been made sufficiently clear by the foregoing documents and the faculties used in the said matter by the Legate; those, namely, who have been promoted to the Episcopate, as others to other Orders, 'not according to the accustomed (traditional) form of the Church', or, as the Legate himself wrote to the Bishop of Norwich, 'the form and intention of the Church' not having been observed. These were certainly those promoted according to the new form of rite, to the examination of which the Cardinals specially deputed had given their careful attention. Neither should the passage much to the point in the same Pontifical Letter be overlooked where, together with others needing dispensation, are enumerated those 'who had obtained as well Orders as benefices nulliter et de facto.' For to obtain orders nulliter means the same as by an act both null and void, that is, invalid, as the very meaning of the word and as common usage require. This is especially clear when the word is used in the same way about Orders as about 'ecclesiastical benefices', which, by the undoubted teaching of the sacred canons, were clearly null if given with any vitiating defect."

"12. Moreover, when some doubted as to who, according to the mind of the Pontiff, could be called and considered bishops 'validly and lawfully ordained', the said Pope shortly after that, on October 30 (1555), issued a further Letter in the form of a Brief and said:

'We, wishing to remove the doubt and to provide opportunely for the peace of conscience of those who during the schism were promoted to Orders, by expressing more clearly the mind and the intention which We had in the aforesaid Letter, declare that only those Bishops and Archbishops who were not ordained and consecrated in the form of the Church cannot be said to have been validly and lawfully ordained."

"13. Unless this declaration had applied to the actual case in England, that is to say, to the Edwardine Ordinal, the Pope would certainly have done nothing by this last Letter for the removal of doubt and the restoration of peace of conscience. Further, it was in this sense that the Legate understood the documents and commands of the Apostolic See, and duly and conscientiously obeyed them; and the same was done by Queen Mary and by the others who helped her to restore religion and Catholic institutions to their former state."

"14. The authority of Julius III and of Paul IV, which we have quoted, clearly shows the origin of that practice which has been observed without interruption for more than three centuries, that Ordinations conferred according to the Edwardine Rite should be considered null and void. This practice is fully proved by the numerous cases of absolute re-ordination according to the Catholic rite even in Rome. In the observance of this practice we have a proof directly affecting the matter in hand. For, if by any chance, doubt should remain as to the true sense in which these Pontifical documents are to be understood, the principle holds good that '[the ancient historical] Custom is the best interpreter of law.' Since in the Church it has ever been a constant and established rule that it is sacrilegious to repeat the Sacrament of Order, it never could have come to pass that the Apostolic See should have silently acquiesced, and tolerated such a custom. But not only did the Apostolic See tolerate this practice, but approved and sanctioned it as often as any particular case arose which called for its judgement in the matter."

"16. Here it is important to observe that, although Gordon himself, whose case it was, and some of the Consultors, had adduced, among the reasons which went to prove the invalidity, the Ordination of Parker, according to the account then current, in the delivery of the decision this reason was altogether set aside, as documents of incontestable authenticity prove. Nor, in pronouncing the decision, was weight given to any other reason than the 'defect of form and intention'. In order that the judgment concerning this form might be more certain and complete, precaution was taken that a copy of the Anglican Ordinal should be submitted to examination, and that with it should be collated the Ordination forms gathered together from the various Eastern and Western rites."

"17. Then Clement XI himself, with the unanimous vote of the Cardinals concerned, on the Feria V, [Thursday] April 17, 1704, decreed:

'John Clement Gordon shall be ordained from the beginning and unconditionally to all the Orders, even Sacred Orders, and chiefly of Priesthood, and in case he has not been confirmed, he shall first receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.'"

"18. It is important to bear in mind that this judgement was not based merely on the omission of the tradition of instruments, for in such a case, according to the established custom, the direction would have been to repeat the Ordination conditionally. Still more important is it to note that the judgement of the Pontiff applies universally to all Anglican ordinations, because, although it refers to a particular case, it is not based upon any reason special to that case, but upon the defect of form, which defect equally affects all these ordinations-so much so, that when similar cases subsequently came up for decision, the same decree of Clement XI was quoted as the norma [norm]."

"20. In the examination of any rite for the effecting and administering of a Sacrament, distinction is rightly made between the part which is ceremonial and that which is essential, usually called the 'matter and form'. All know that the Sacraments of the New Law, as sensible and efficient signs of invisible grace, ought both to signify the grace which they effect, and effect the grace which they signify. Although the signification ought to be found in the whole essential rite-that is to say, in the 'matter and form'-it still pertains chiefly to the 'form'; since the “matter” is the part which is not determined by itself, but which is determined by the 'form'. And this appears still more clearly in the Sacrament of Orders, the 'matter' of which, in so far as We have to consider it in this case, is the imposition of hands, which, indeed, by itself signifies nothing definite, and is equally used for several Orders and for Confirmation. But the words which until recently were commonly held by Anglicans to constitute the proper form of priestly Ordination namely: 'Receive the Holy Ghost,' certainly do not in the least definitely express the Sacred Order of Priesthood (sacerdotium), or its grace and power, which is chiefly the power 'of consecrating and of offering the true Body and Blood of the Lord'” (Synod of Trent, Session 23, On the Sacrament of Orders, Canon 1) in that sacrifice which is no 'bare commemoration of the Sacrifice offered on the Cross' (Trent, Session 22, On the Sacrifice of the Mass, Canon 3)."

"21. This form had, indeed, afterwards added to it the words 'for the office and work of a priest'. But, this rather shows that the Anglicans themselves perceived that the first form was defective and inadequate. But even if this addition could give to the form its due signification, it was introduced too late, as a century had already elapsed since the adoption of the Edwardine Ordinal; for, as the Hierarchy had become extinct, there remained no power of ordaining. In vain has help been recently sought for the plea of the validity of [Anglican] Orders from the other prayers of the same Ordinal. For, to put aside other reasons which show them to be insufficient for the purpose in the Anglican rite, let this argument suffice for all: From them has been deliberately removed whatever sets forth the dignity and office of the Priesthood in the Catholic Rite. That 'form' consequently cannot be considered apt or sufficient for the Sacrament which omits what it ought essentially to signify."

"23. For the full and accurate understanding of the Anglican Ordinal, besides what We have noted as to some of its parts, there is nothing more pertinent than to consider carefully the circumstances under which it was composed and publicly authorized. It would be tedious to enter into details, nor is it necessary to do so, as the history of that time is sufficiently known as to the spirit of the authors of the Ordinal against the Catholic Church, as to the abettors whom they associated with themselves from the heterodox sects, and as to the end they had in view. Being fully aware of the necessary connection between faith and worship, between lex orandi, lex credendi [the law of praying is the law of believing], they corrupted the Liturgical Order in many ways to suit the errors of the reformers, under the pretext of restoring it to its primitive form. Thus, in the whole Ordinal, not only is there no clear mention of the sacrifice, of consecration, of the priesthood, and of the power of consecrating and offering sacrifice, but, as We have just stated, every trace of these things, which had been in such prayers of the Catholic Rite, as they had not entirely rejected, was deliberately removed and struck out."

"26. With this inherent 'defect of form' is joined the 'defect of intention' which is equally essential to the Sacrament. The Church does not judge about the mind and intention in so far as it is something by its nature internal; but in so far as it is manifested externally she is bound to judge concerning it.  When anyone has rightly and seriously made use of the due form and the matter requisite for effecting or conferring the sacrament, he is considered by the very fact to do [intendisse] what the Church does. On this principle rests the doctrine that a Sacrament is truly conferred by the ministry of one who is a heretic or unbaptized, provided the Catholic Rite be employed.  On the other hand, if the rite be changed, with the manifest intention of introducing another rite not approved by the Church and of rejecting what the Church does, and what, by the institution of Christ, belongs to the nature of the Sacrament, then it is clear that not only is the necessary intention wanting to the Sacrament, but that the intention is adverse to and destructive of the Sacrament."

"28.  Wherefore, strictly adhering, in this matter, to the decrees of the pontiffs, our predecessors, and confirming them most fully, and, as it were, renewing them by our authority, of our own initiative and certain knowledge, We pronounce and declare that ordinations carried out according to the Anglican Rite have been, and are, absolutely null and utterly void."

Therefore, ALL "priests" who have been "ordained" with the NEW Rite for Ordination to the Priesthood, in virtue of the Synod Vatican 2's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of Wednesday, December 4, 1963, which made drastic, illegal and totally per se invalid changes to the legal and valid Catholic Rites for the Sacrament of Holy Orders, commanding that both the rubrics, and the actual texts, be changed, are ONLY LAYMEN WEARING ROMAN COLLARS who either erroneously think, or who actually know, that they are "Roman Catholic Priests", but who are ONLY LAYMEN in Roman Collars who have no power to offer any "mass" or solemnly administer any "sacrament"!!!

Returning to the statement by the Roman Collared LAYMAN:

"It predicated, however, on obedience to God's Will, so as not interrupted by the evil one. The two ways we support that is to remain obedient to the Church community and Magisterium. The perfection of the Holy Spirit is revealed through the Church."

I feel sorry for the Laity, because the point I have made above about the correct and proper distinctions will most probably whiz over their heads!

At face value, this expression by the above non-priest is blatant heresy due directly to his failure to make the necessary and proper distinctions - which vague ambiguity and amphiboly is a classical hallmark of Communists and Modernist heretics!!!

For example:

People have witnessed the use of the terms "freedom of conscience" and, what means the same thing, "liberty of conscience".  But these terms, these expressions, are vague, equivocal and examples of amphiboly because:

...liberty of conscience... is an equivocal expression [which is] too often distorted to mean the absolute independence of conscience and therefore an absurdity in reference to a soul created and redeemed by God (Pope Pius XI, Achille Ratti [Monday, February 6, 1922 - Friday, February 10, 1939], Encyclical -Non Abbiamo Bisogno, Monday, June 29, 1931, # 41; emphasis added).

As a noun, "amphiboly" is defined as:

a fallacy due to ambiguously selected language (Bernard Wuellner, S.J., Dictionary of Scholastic Philosophy, page 6.)

That which signifies many things is an ambiguous sign and consequently occasions deception; this is clearly seen in equivocal words.  BUT ALL DECEPTION SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION according to Col. II:8:  “Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy [i.e. false philosophy-e.g. Sophism-since Saint Paul and later Saint Thomas, et. alii use a true philosophy.] and vain deceit (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., [b. 1225 A.D. in Rocca Secca, Naples, Italy - d. Wednesday, March 7, 1274 A.D. in Fossa Nuova, Italy], Doctor of the Church, Summa Theologica, Part III, Question 60, Article 3, Reply to Objection 1; emphasis added.)

The NEW Church must be simple. The concept of God must be vague, general and impersonal, not entailing any definite obligations, not demanding sacrifices, and, of course, not providing any inspiration to the people. The universal brotherhood of men must be emphasized above all things. It should not be difficult to persuade Catholics that the Commandment "Love they neighbour as thyself" requires no less than that. In order to make them forget God we must get them to worship the human race.  (AA-1025 - THE ANTI-PRIESTS - THE CONFESSION OF MIKOLAJ, THE ANTI-PRIEST, # 12.  This is a book about a Communist Infiltrator into the Roman Catholic Church).

The two ways we support that is to remain obedient to the Church community

The universal brotherhood of men must be emphasized above all things.... In order to make them forget God we must get them to worship the human race.

The two ways we support that is to remain obedient to the Church community

In other words, to try to make this crystal clear and to remove all confusion - which confusion he brings about by his continued use of his deliberate vagueambiguity, which is still more continued evidence of his use of amphiboly  - which in plain, simple, Anglo-Saxon English says, in effect:

Catholics have a duty to remain obedient to the Church community, which is really a very large part of the universal brotherhood of men  by which the Church community  performs the glorious act of the worship the human race  by which paganistic worship Catholics obey the Commandment "Love they neighbour as thyself"!!!

By this deliberate vagueambiguity, via amphiboly, and deliberate twisting the correct and true meaning of the Sacred Scriptures, "Catholics" thereby achieve some of the diabolical goals of the Communist Infiltrators into the Roman Catholic Church, by which the NEW Church - that "Catholics" mistakenly think is still the "same" Roman Catholic Church - robs and victimizing unsuspecting Catholics:

The NEW Church must be simple. The concept of God must be vague, general, and impersonal, not entailing any definite obligations, not demanding sacrifices, and, of course, not providing any inspiration to the people. The universal brotherhood of men must be emphasized above all things. It should not be difficult to persuade Catholics that the Commandment "Love they neighbour as thyself" requires no less than that.  In order to make them forget God we must get them to worship the human race.

"Does this mean that the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, is in fact but one of the alleged Communist Infiltrators into the Roman Catholic Church and who, by his deliberate vagueambiguity, which is evidence of his use of amphiboly, proof of his use of one of the tactics of Communist Infiltrators into the Roman Catholic Church?"

IF it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then - logically - it must be a duck???!!!

Also, in the above context, Communist Infiltrators could also twist obedience to God's Will to mean that "Catholics" must obey the Commandment "Love they neighbour as thyself" which is twisted - as evidenced above, - to mean that "Catholics" must be obedient to the Church community, which, in effect means that "Catholics", who are part of the universal brotherhood of men  must obey the universal brotherhood of men by their being obedient to the Church community, and then, by being obedient to the Church community, "Catholics" automatically worship the human race  because the paganistic worship the human race  is really nothing more than obeying the Commandment "Love they neighbour as thyself"!!!

By such extremely subtle Sophisms, using the tools of vague ambiguity and deliberate amphiboly, do Communist Infiltrators and Modernist Heretics try to confuse - and thereby victimize - ordinary Catholics in order to subvert authentic Catholic Traditional doctrine to their own Satanic purposes - primarily to destroy the Roman Catholic Church, the Catholic Traditional Deposit of Faith, the Catholic Traditional Mass, and the Catholic Traditional Sacraments - a fact which history tells us they in fact did at their CONVENTION in the 1960's, otherwise known as Synod Vatican 2!!!!

But their "victories" at their CONVENTION - Synod Vatican 2 - will be turned into defeat!

11   And I saw Heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called faithful and true, and with justice doth He judge and fight.
12   And His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many diadems, and He had a name written, which no man knoweth but Himself.
13   And He was clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood; and His name is called, THE WORD OF GOD.
14   And the armies that are in Heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15   And out of His mouth proceedeth a sharp two edged sword; that with it He may strike the nations.  And He shall rule them with a rod of iron; and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God the Almighty.
16   And He hath on His garment, and on His thigh written:  KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.  (Apocalypse 19:15-16)

The perfection of the Holy Spirit is revealed through the Church.

1)  “All scripture [is] inspired of [i.e. by] God” (2 Timothy 3:16).

2) The Spirit breatheth where He will; and thou hearest His voice, but thou knowest not whence He cometh, and whither He goeth (John 3:8)

The perfection of the Holy Spirit is revealed through the Church.

Therefore, because it is self-evident that it is a heresy to contradict Divine Revelation, and because Divine Revelation, as found in the Sacred Scriptures, testify to the fact that God the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit breatheth where He will - God the Holy Ghost is NOT LIMITED to reveal Himself ONLY through the Church but, instead goeth and breatheth where He will.

This means that God the Holy Ghost can inspire any person He chooses to do something, e.g. to pray, to perform an act of Virtue, to exercise one of the Gifts of God the Holy Ghost, to comfort a person who is at the point of death, to comfort a woman who is about to give birth to her child, to comfort a person who is sick, to comfort a person who is depressed or fearful or filled with anxiety, etc., etc.

Furthermore, yet once again - at least he is consistent! - Readers are confronted with more Modernist double-talk, a.k.a. psycho-babble!!!

WHAT EXACTLY does the most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, mean where he is quoted as saying:

The perfection of the Holy Spirit is revealed through the Church.

Taking into consideration his previous acts of deliberate vague ambiguity - amphiboly  - Readers must logically inquire as to WHAT EXACTLY does the most honorable padre, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, specifically mean by his deliberate vagueambiguity - amphibolic  - expression: The perfection of the Holy Spirit???

I GUESS it is time to begin to GUESS again what he means because he apparently does not want the Readers to know EXACTLY what The perfection of the Holy Spirit is???

The Catholic Church teaches that God is perfect.  Because the Holy Spirit is God, one of the Three Divine Persons of God, this means that the Holy Spirit is ALREADY PERFECT!

Therefore, because God the Holy Ghost - the Holy Spirit  -  is ALREADY PERFECT, God the Holy Ghost - the Holy Spirit  -  does NOT NEED to try to make Himself the epitome of perfection  by being revealed through the Church as if  the Holy Spirit  is so impotent that He can not attain to perfection  until and unless He is revealed through the Church!!!

This is simply more undiluted heresy!!!

EXACTLY WHAT does the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, mean where he says The perfection of the Holy Spirit???

What is this perfection business all about??!!

The bottom line is simply this:  God the Holy Ghost, because He IS GOD, DOES NOT NEED perfection  because HE - GOD - IS perfection because GOD IS INFINITELY PERFECT!!!

A Catechical Example:

A "perfection" means a good quality. We say a thing is perfect when it has all the good qualities it should have.

13 Q. What is God ?

A. God is a spirit infinitely perfect.

" A spirit" is a living, intelligent, invisible being. It really exists, though we cannot see it with the eyes of our body. It has intelligence and can therefore think, understand, etc. It is not because we cannot see it that we call it a spirit. To be invisible is only one of the qualities of a spirit. It is also indivisible, that is, it cannot be divided into parts. God is such a being. He is "infinitely perfect," that is, He has every perfection in the highest degree.

" Infinite" means to have without limit. If there were any perfection God did not have, He would not be infinite. He is unlimited in wisdom, in power, in goodness, in beauty, etc. But you will tell me persons on earth and the angels and saints in heaven have some wisdom and power and beauty, and therefore God cannot have all, since He has not the portion with which they are endowed. I still say He is infinite, because what the angels and others have belongs to God, and He only lends it to them. "Perfect" means to be without any defect or fault.  (Rev. Thomas L Kinkead, An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism, For the Use of Sunday-School Teachers and Advanced Classes, Imprimatur, Michael Augustine, Archbishop of New York, New York, September 5, 1891, Lesson Second, On God and His Perfections, page 45.)

Because the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, most probably would prefer to have a much more full and more complete theological explanation, I respectfully provide the following direct quotations.  I have deliberately omitted the normal quotation marks to indicate that what follows is a direct quotation because the data quoted contains many direct quotations within it which could possibly cause some confusion for some Readers?  However, I have indented the entire direct quotation for each of the two examples:

Part I, Question 4, Article 1:  Thesis:  Whether God is perfect?

Part I, Question 4, Article 1, Objection 1: It seems that perfection does not belong to God. For we say a thing is perfect if it is completely made. But it does not befit God to be made. Therefore He is not perfect.

Part I, Question 4, Article 1, Objection 2:  Further, God is the first beginning of things. But the beginnings of things seem to be imperfect, as seed is the beginning of animal and vegetable life. Therefore God is imperfect.

Part I, Question 4, Article 1, Objection 3: Further, as shown above (Part I, Question 3, Article 4), God's essence is existence. But existence seems most imperfect, since it is most universal and receptive of all modification. Therefore God is imperfect.

Part I, Question 4, Article 1, On The Contrary:   On the contrary, It is written: "Be you perfect as also your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48).

Part I, Question 4, Article 1, Body:  I answer that, As the Philosopher [Aristotle] relates (Metaph. xii), some ancient philosophers, namely, the Pythagoreans and Leucippus, did not predicate "best" and "most perfect" of the first principle. The reason was that the ancient philosophers considered only a material principle; and a material principle is most imperfect. For since matter as such is merely potential, the first material principle must be simply potential, and thus most imperfect. Now God is the first principle, not material, but in the order of efficient cause, which must be most perfect. For just as matter, as such, is merely potential, an agent, as such, is in the state of actuality. Hence, the first active principle must needs be most actual, and therefore most perfect; for a thing is perfect in proportion to its state of actuality, because we call that perfect which lacks nothing of the mode of its perfection.

Part I, Question 4, Article 1, Reply to Objection 1:  As Gregory says (Moral. v, 26,29): "Though our lips can only stammer, we yet chant the high things of God." For that which is not made is improperly called perfect. Nevertheless because created things are then called perfect, when from potentiality they are brought into actuality, this word "perfect" signifies whatever is not wanting in actuality, whether this be by way of perfection or not.

Part I, Question 4, Article 1, Reply to Objection 2: The material principle which with us is found to be imperfect, cannot be absolutely primal; but must be preceded by something perfect. For seed, though it be the principle of animal life reproduced through seed, has previous to it, the animal or plant from which is came. Because, previous to that which is potential, must be that which is actual; since a potential being can only be reduced into act by some being already actual.

Part I, Question 4, Article 1, Reply to Objection 3: Existence is the most perfect of all things, for it is compared to all things as that by which they are made actual; for nothing has actuality except so far as it exists. Hence existence is that which actuates all things, even their forms. Therefore it is not compared to other things as the receiver is to the received; but rather as the received to the receiver. When therefore I speak of the existence of man, or horse, or anything else, existence is considered a formal principle, and as something received; and not as that which exists.  (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., [b. 1225 A.D. in Rocca Secca, Naples, Italy - d. Wednesday, March 7, 1274 A.D. in Fossa Nuova, Italy], Doctor of the Church, Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 4, Article 1, complete with Objections and Replies to all Objections.)

Part I, Question 4, Article 2:  Thesis:  Whether the perfections of all things are in God?

Part I, Question 4, Article 2, Objection 1:  It seems that the perfections of all things are not in God. For God is simple, as shown above (Part I, Question 3, Article 7); whereas the perfections of things are many and diverse. Therefore the perfections of all things are not in God.

Part I, Question 4, Article 2, Objection 2: Further, opposites cannot coexist. Now the perfections of things are opposed to each other, for each thing is perfected by its specific difference. But the differences by which "genera" are divided, and "species" constituted, are opposed to each other. Therefore because opposites cannot coexist in the same subject, it seems that the perfections of all things are not in God.

Part I, Question 4, Article 2, Objection 3: Further, a living thing is more perfect than what merely exists; and an intelligent thing than what merely lives. Therefore life is more perfect than existence; and knowledge than life. But the essence of God is existence itself. Therefore He has not the perfections of life, and knowledge, and other similar perfections.

Part I, Question 4, Article 2, On The Contrary:  On the contrary, Dionysius says (Div. Nom. v) that "God in His one existence prepossesses all things."

Part I, Question 4, Article 2, Body:  I answer that, All created perfections are in God. Hence He is spoken of as universally perfect, because He lacks not (says the Commentator, Metaph. v) any excellence which may be found in any genus. This may be seen from two considerations. First, because whatever perfection exists in an effect must be found in the effective cause: either in the same formality, if it is a univocal agent---as when man reproduces man; or in a more eminent degree, if it is an equivocal agent---thus in the sun is the likeness of whatever is generated by the sun's power. Now it is plain that the effect pre-exists virtually in the efficient cause: and although to pre-exist in the potentiality of a material cause is to pre-exist in a more imperfect way, since matter as such is imperfect, and an agent as such is perfect; still to pre-exist virtually in the efficient cause is to pre-exist not in a more imperfect, but in a more perfect way. Since therefore God is the first effective cause of things, the perfections of all things must pre-exist in God in a more eminent way. Dionysius implies the same line of argument by saying of God (Div. Nom. v): "It is not that He is this and not that, but that He is all, as the cause of all." Secondly, from what has been already proved, God is existence itself, of itself subsistent (Part I, Question 3, Article 4).  Consequently, He must contain within Himself the whole perfection of being. For it is clear that if some hot thing has not the whole perfection of heat, this is because heat is not participated in its full perfection; but if this heat were self-subsisting, nothing of the virtue of heat would be wanting to it. Since therefore God is subsisting being itself, nothing of the perfection of being can be wanting to Him. Now all created perfections are included in the perfection of being; for things are perfect, precisely so far as they have being after some fashion. It follows therefore that the perfection of no one thing is wanting to God. This line of argument, too, is implied by Dionysius (Div. Nom. v), when he says that, "God exists not in any single mode, but embraces all being within Himself, absolutely, without limitation, uniformly;" and afterwards he adds that, "He is the very existence to subsisting things."

Part I, Question 4, Article 2, Reply to Objection 1: Even as the sun (as Dionysius remarks, (Div. Nom. v)), while remaining one and shining uniformly, contains within itself first and uniformly the substances of sensible things, and many and diverse qualities; "a fortiori" should all things in a kind of natural unity pre-exist in the cause of all things; and thus things diverse and in themselves opposed to each other, pre-exist in God as one, without injury to His simplicity. This suffices for the Reply to the Second Objection.

Part I, Question 4, Article 2, Reply to Objection  3:  The same Dionysius says (Div. Nom. v) that, although existence is more perfect than life, and life than wisdom, if they are considered as distinguished in idea; nevertheless, a living thing is more perfect than what merely exists, because living things also exist and intelligent things both exist and live. Although therefore existence does not include life and wisdom, because that which participates in existence need not participate in every mode of existence; nevertheless God's existence includes in itself life and wisdom, because nothing of the perfection of being can be wanting to Him who is subsisting being itself. (Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P., [b. 1225 A.D. in Rocca Secca, Naples, Italy - d. Wednesday, March 7, 1274 A.D. in Fossa Nuova, Italy], Doctor of the Church, Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 4, Article 2, complete with Objections and Replies to all Objections.)

Therefore, this explains WHY God the Holy Ghost testifies of Himself, through His Witness, God the Son, Jesus Christ:

The Spirit breatheth where He will; and thou hearest His voice, but thou knowest not whence He cometh, and whither He goeth (John 3:8)

The perfection of the Holy Spirit is revealed through the Church.

This is yet part of his long litany of deliberately vague ambiguity - amphibolic  - expressions!!!

So, EXACTLY HOW is The perfection of the Holy Spirit... revealed through the Church???

GUESS # 1:  Is this revelation some kind of a NEW revelation of dogmas and doctrines?

GUESS # 2:  Is this revelation some kind of a NEW revelation of Divine Gifts, e.g. an addition to the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost?

GUESS # 3:  Is this revelation through the Church something in terms of MAJOR CHANGES that are so very drastic that the NEW church will no longer have the Catholic Traditional Deposit of Faith, Mass, and Sacraments - which would also mean no more clergy - no more church buildings - all being deemed "obsolete" with the NEW church in which "Catholics" will no longer be "Catholics", but merely part of the universal brotherhood of men by which these former "Catholics" are required to obey the Commandment "Love they neighbour as thyself" so that all ex-Catholics will forget God because all ex-Catholics will now, instead, worship the human race???

After all, this seems to be one possibility because, in his usual deliberately vagueambiguity - amphibolic  - expressions, he is also quoted as saying that:

The thinning veil, says this priest, "is because we're moving into the era of peace and the Lord is preparing us to live in a different way. Many saints in the past have foreseen this rebirth of the Church and mankind." Much is about to change. We see the purification all around us.

Readers are, again, forced to logically conclude, in the absence of SPECIFICS, in the absence of DEFINITE explanations as to EXACTLY WHAT he is talking about, that these is merely more irrelevant heretical Modernist psycho-babble - it has no real meaning because the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, does not give it any meaning - here again the Readers are left to GUESS for themselves what this nonsense means!!  Where are the quotations from the Bible to prove what he says?  Nowhere!!!

In summary, it has been a gross waste of time to try to determine what the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, is talking about!  What I have analyzed above of what he is claimed to have said is certainly NOT Catholic in any REAL CATHOLIC TRADITIONAL way!!!

I now continue with another citation from the above Sees "Souls" article:

That admonishment comes at a time when many have strayed into questionable aspects of spirituality, and yet it also comes at a time when seers can face hyper-skepticism (and even persecution). The Church says (name removed) (who has visited the apparition site of Medjugorje fifteen times), acts as "mothers do at a ball field": making sure the kids stay within the boundaries (and recovering the ball when it's kicked astray). "The devil perverts gifts," says (name removed)... "That's what he does best."

has visited the apparition site of Medjugorje fifteen times

Does not the context of the article indicate that the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, takes the position that the apparitions at Medjugorje are in fact genuine?

Yet, once again, the author of this article has "condemned" his Readers to GUESS:  "YES" or "NO" - Does the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, about whom this author is writing, consider that the apparitions at Medjugorje are in fact genuine?  More vague nonsense which equivocity and amphiboly has no doubt become frustrating and/or even maddening to even the casual Reader?!

For the record, IF this unknown author had been one of my students many years ago when I was a Professor at a Major Seminary [a Major Seminary is at college/university level, not a Minor Seminary which is at High School level] teaching, among other subjects, English Grammar, I would have given this author an F minus grade IF he would have submitted this specific article to me entitled Sees "Souls" because this article is long on hype and superb on gratuitous adulation, but much too short on facts, aside from some of the personal experiences recounted by the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, about whom this author is writing.

IF this author is lacking journalist experience, which seems to be the case?, the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, should have helped him.  How?  By having the common courtesy to state or to explain to this inexperienced journalist what the reasons are, or what the specific facts are, for what has ended in print as being nothing more than various irrelevant and gratuitous, groundless statements with no specific facts, and/or with no direct quotations from whatever sources (which also should have been identified IF they had been used).

Why did not the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, at least try make an honest effort to substantiate what he so glibly related to this inexpert journalist in regard to his "philosophy", or his position on certain non-personal subjects?

Because anyone can say anything, especially in this day and age, it was incumbent upon this most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, to provide the necessary proofs to this unpracticed journalist for his own various vacuous statements which sound more akin to something one might read in an article on a NEW AGE subject than in an article which purports to possess some modicum (a tiny or token amount) of erudition of a Roman Catholic Religious, and/or Spiritual nature, but which I am forced, by such egregious (conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible) omissions, to have to resort to this present tedious and distasteful expostulation (an act of expressing earnest opposition or protest).

Suffice it to say that these egregious (conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible) omissions by this most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, have most likely left some Readers confused - at best - and disgusted - at worst, regarding this pseudo interview which is conspicuous for its satiated omissions?

Does this not force at least some Readers to seek some “comic relief” by retreating to a quiet meditation on a “philosophy of life”, leaving far behind them, as they return to yesteryear, the above article which is a sad exercise in futility?

Specifically, to reflect upon the wit and wisdom of the Bard of Avon who, with his customary late 16th Century “street smarts”,  has written this about “life”:

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.” (William Shakespeare [b. at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England in April 1564 A.D. - d. at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England on Saturday, April 23, 1616], The Tragedy of Macbeth, 1606 A.D., Act V, Scene V, Macbeth to Seyton.)

Some of the "messages" of Medjugorje which I read years ago are certainly not Catholic.

The gift developed as he encountered the demonic -- including the smell of sulfur as a boy -- and learned to pray harder. That's the negative side. He also experiences -- and sees -- angels and poor souls doing their purgatory on earth -- something that was also associated with St. Padre Pio.

On the contrary, it is the Poor, Suffering Souls in Purgatory who have the "smell of sulfur" on them - based upon my own personal experiences over many years - they come to me begging for Masses and sometimes the stench of sulphur is very, very strong!

By adding

and learned to pray harder

the demonic!

Seeing

angels and poor souls doing their purgatory on earth

Why?

The Holy Angels of Heaven - which the vague, equivocal and amphibolical term angels implies, - do NOT NEED Purgatory because they are already in Heaven!  Purgatory is to purify SOULS - not SPIRITS (ALL Angels are pure Spirits which means,  by nature, they do NOT have a human Soul!!!) - so that one day they can get to Heaven.

Some Readers might think that the author simply means that it is ONLY the poor souls doing their purgatory on earth and not both the

angels and poor souls doing their purgatory on earthy?

Why?

Because the word and, in terms of English grammar, is a part of speech which is called a "conjunction".

A "conjunction", by definition, aside from being used as a part of speech which, technically, is the grammatical relationship between linguistic units - words or phrases or clauses - that are connected by a conjunction which performs the function of conjoining - joining together; a union, means - in this specific dictionary: Conjunction (Latin pp. of conjungere - conjoin) means:  "1. a joining together or being joined together; union. association; combination..."  (College Edition, Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, copyright 1960, Conjunction, page 310-c).

Therefore, in plain English, a conjunction means something that joins or connects or the state of being joined together.

Examples:

1)   One and one are two.
2)  A businessman wears a shirt and a tie as part of his dress code.
3)  A woman sometimes wears a blouse and a skirt, whether it is around the house or to go somewhere.
4)  A man and a woman who are in love with each other sometimes become engaged to each other.
5)  A pen and a paper are needed to be able to write a letter to send by the U.S. Mail.
6)  A keyboard and a mouse have been needed to use older computers.
7)  A Husband and a Wife constitute a Married Couple.
8)  A Father and a Mother are the Parents of a Family.
9)  He also experiences -- and sees
10)  angels and poor souls doing their purgatory on earth is the grammatical expression herewith being analyzed.

In other words, IF YOU delete the conjunctive word and - you would end up with two separate sentences.  To make this more clear, first let us examine how this works with one of the above examples.  For purposes of further clarity, let us consider example number 5:

5)  A pen and a paper are needed to be able to write a letter to send by the U.S. Mail.

a)  A pen is needed to be able to write a letter to send by the U.S. Mail.
b)  A paper is needed to be able to write a letter to send by the U.S. Mail.

Now, regarding the sentence being analyzed, IF you make two separate sentences of this one sentence by deleting the conjunction and, these two separate sentences would be written as follows:

a) He also experiences -- and sees -- angels doing their purgatory on earth
b)  He also experiences -- and sees -- poor souls doing their purgatory on earth

Thus, the ONE sentence which means the EXACT SAME THING as the two INCOMPLETE sentences a and b above:

He also experiences -- and sees -- angels and poor souls doing their purgatory on earth

He also experiences -- and sees

experiences and sees

Therefore, it is in this same LOGICAL sense of JOINING and UNITING two things at the SAME TIME that, in the very next clause, this same author goes on to use the word  and  where he writes

angels and poor souls

What is the SAME THING that the angels are DOING at the SAME TIME?
What is the SAME THING that the poor souls are DOING at the SAME TIME?

BOTH of them, i.e.

1) the angels
2) the poor souls

To say otherwise is to abjure (To reject or to disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.) the above precise grammatical expression and to despise the laws of grammar which would devolve and condemn language into meaningless chaos and confusion!

On the contrary, those who are already in Heaven do not need - for any reason - to go to Purgatory or to need be DOING their Purgatory, whether DOING their Purgatory PHYSICALLY IN Purgatory per se, or DOING their Purgatory PHYSICALLY on earth - such a position is blatant heresy!

Truly, this most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, IS IN FACT A LAYMAN WEARING A ROMAN COLLAR!!! Even most Lay Catholics know this fact!  But apparently this is NOT the case with this most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis??

The only other "angels" are the "fallen angels" - called devils - and they are in Hell - and unable to purify themselves - "purification" being the true meaning of the purgation of "Purgatory".

As for the Poor, Suffering Souls in Purgatory

doing their purgatory on earth,

Officially, the Church has never examined this area.

The reference to Padre Pio (he was never canonized a Saint except by the Satanic Vatican 2 church's Communist pope - JP-2, another Modernist heretic along with this self-evident Modernist heretic - this most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis) appears to be an attempt to gain credibility for what precedes this reference to Padre Pio who was obviously a very holy person and perhaps one day will be canonized a Saint in the Catholic Church?!  Since I am not familiar with what Padre Pio has said, or in this case - what Padre Pio is alleged to have said - I am not able to comment on this.

However, I find it very interesting how the body of Padre Pio, according to some data I just found on the internet, is rapidly decaying!!!  So much so, "the powers that be" (those in charge of his corpse) supposedly had to hire a special business firm to put a wax face over his badly decomposed face, which wax face and partial head are complete with eyebrows, hair, beard, etc., etc. which make it appear as though it is the actual face and head of Padre Pio!!!

Actually, IF his entire body has so badly decomposed, I suspect that they probably actually removed his real decomposed body from public view and then replaced his entire real - but badly decomposed - body with a full wax double, just as they have wax duplicates of various famous people in wax museums??!!

As for the poor souls: they should be held up, in a special manner, during the Consecration. Small Masses for them, he says, are especially intense.

Words mean something.  But these words are gibberish and have no meaning!!!

For example, what EXACTLY does the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis mean, referring to the poor souls, saying:  they should be held up?

WHAT EXACTLY does held up mean?

That they should be robbed?!

More vague, ambiguous, amphibolic nonsense!!!

Or, does the most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis mean that some unidentified person should put all of the Poor Souls on his/her shoulder so they can see better whatever it is they are supposedly looking at - in this case

during the Consecration???!!!!

Readers are forced to wonder about this most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis as to whether or not
he is non compos mentis (not of sound mind - non ["not"]; compos ["having (command of)"]; mentis [genitive singular of mens - which means "mind"])??!!

After all, Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis (Quintilian, a.k.a. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus [b. c. 35 A.D. - d. c.  100 A.D.], who was a Roman  rhetorician  from Hispania and whose writings were widely referred to in Medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writings, De Institutione Oratoria X, 7, 15) - "It is understanding and mental capacity which make men learned."  Therefore, it is self-evident that one who is non compos mentis is not learned, but rather engages in illogically irrational statements which, by nature, can be very vague, equivocal, and the subject of amphiboly - all of which are the antithesis of very precise, unequivocal distinctions.

Other Readers may be wont to be even more concerned, taking the very rational and possible position that the said most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, might possibly be on some kind of hallucinogenic drug(s) and/or suffer from diabolical possession???!!!

The Mass Celebrant of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass "holds up" the Sacred Host he has just Transubstantiated during the unchangeable Canon ("Canon" means unchangeable) of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, just like he "holds up" the Chalice in which he has just Transubstantiated the Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ.

In the above Modernist vague, equivocal, amphibolic mumbo-jumbo, this Layman (because he is not validly ordained a Priest according to the principles taught by Pope Leo XIII regarding the Sacrament of Holy Orders) who wears a Roman Collar, all of the Readers are left to rationally wonder IF just perhaps the said most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, might possibly be one of the alleged (by Dr. Bella Dodd and Douglas Hyde, both ex-Communists and converts to the Roman Catholic Church who exposed the Communist plan of infiltration into the Roman Catholic Church) thousands of Communist infiltrators into the Roman Catholic Church???, who incorrectly identifies himself as a "priest", and who, in the above citation, makes it sound like the poor souls... should be held up... during the Consecration as IF it is the poor souls who have just been transubstantiated due to his illogical and heretical juxtaposition of the poor souls with the Transubstantiated Sacred Species of Jesus Christ, under the appearance of bread and wine, during the Double Consecration during the Canon of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as it is effected during the Ancient Roman Rite of the Catholic Traditional Mass???!!!

This is still another heresy of this said most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, who is rationally and reasonably suspected of being both a Communist Infiltrator into the Roman Catholic Church as well as a Modernist Heretic!

EXACTLY HOW can the poor souls: they should be held up, in a special manner, during the Consecration.????

What kind of a Satanic Pagan ceremony is this which this non-priest does that is alluded to be, by the context, some kind of a "mass"???!!!

Or, is this a Satanic Black Mass somehow modified by the heresy of Modernism?!

Small Masses for them, he says, are especially intense.

WHAT EXACTLY are small Masses???  There is no such thing in the Catholic Church!!!

Apparently it is but one of the many Satanic Vatican 2 church's abominations of desolation??

And in what sense does he use the term are especially intense in an apparent reference to the poor souls??

Now, as if all of the above was not bad enough, this "priest" claims the following absurdity, which is totally contradicted by the evening TV news, et alii:

The thinning veil, says this priest, "is because we're moving into the era of peace and the Lord is preparing us to live in a different way. Many saints in the past have foreseen this rebirth of the Church and mankind."Much is about to change. We see the purification all around us.

Why?

One primary reason is found in the Third Secret of Fatima which some claim mentions World War III.

The following extract is from the diplomatic excerpt of the THIRD FATIMA SECRET published in the October 15, 1960 edition of the German newspaper NEUES EUROPA of Stuttgart, Germany.  The source for the extract is allegedly the Vatican Secretariat of State.

The extract says in part:

"PROCLAIM IN MY NAME THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO THE ENTIRE WORLD... In doing this, you will meet with great hostility.  But be steadfast in the faith and you will overcome this hostility... [People] must become better..."

"A great punishment shall come to all mankind...  What I have already made known at LaSalette... I repeat today... there is no order in anything. Even in the highest positions, it is Satan who governs... [Satan will]... find his way into the highest positions in the church... [Satan] will succeed in sowing confusion in the minds of the great scholars who invent arms with which half of mankind can be destroyed in a few minutes... I shall be forced to let fall my Son's arm.  If those at the top in the world and in the Church do not oppose these acts, it is I who shall do so, and I shall pray God my Father to visit His justice on... [mankind]... there will also come a time of the hardest trials... Cardinals will be against Cardinals... Bishops... against Bishops... Satan will put himself in their midst.  In Rome.. there will be big changes... what is rotten will fall... the church will be darkened and the world will be plunged into confusion..."

"Fire and smoke will fall from the sky... the waters of the oceans will be turned to steam... all that is standing will be overthrown.  Millions and more millions of... [people] will lose their lives from one hour to the next; and those who remain living at that moment will envy those who are dead.  There will be tribulation wherever the eye can see and misery over all the earth and desolation in all countries... the good will die with the wicked..."

"Later... when those who survive... are still alive, God and His glory will once more be invoked and will once more be served... I call on all true imitators of my Son Jesus Christ; all true Christians and latter day Apostles.  The time of times is coming and the end of all ends if mankind is not converted and if this conversion does not come from above-from the directors of the world and the directors of the church..."

This is not my definition of moving into the era of peace.

Of course it is also true that Our Lady of Fatima promised that in the end her Immaculate Heart would triumph and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world.

But the Bible has a huge prophecy in the Apocalypse concerning anti-Christ and the false prophet during which Satanic reign of terror - citing the Apocalypse -  about 75% of the entire human race will be totally destroyed!!!  It will be followed by a literal thousand years of peace with the new headquarters of the Catholic Church in Jerusalem, the handful of Jews then remaining, having been converted to the Catholic Church by the preaching of Henoch and Elias.  Rome, and with it the Vatican, will have been totally destroyed by huge bombs, all ordered by anti-Christ.

Therefore this thinning veil has nothing to do with today, as one witnesses the world becoming more and more evil every day - if anything, this thinning veil  is becoming more and more "thick" being obscured by blatant Satanism, materialism, paganism, etc., etc.

In my many years of Pastoral ministry, I have noticed that even Catholics of today - with the usual handful of "exceptions"! - are becoming more and more worldly, materialistic, paganistic, and ignorant of what the Catholic Church has always consistently taught since the days of the Apostles!  The authentic Apostolic Tradition is condemned by Modernist heretics as "old fashioned".

The real living of the Spiritual Life is something foreign to almost all Catholics today - most have never even heard of the term "Spiritual Life", let along practice a life of Virtue, Spiritual Reading, and the practice of genuine Religious Devotions which is so foreign to the younger generations of today!!!

I also find it interesting how this said most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, seems to be totally oblivious to the fact that Satanists have invaded and otherwise infiltrated the Church - making it the Satanic Vatican 2 church - even Father Malachi Martin, S.J. (R.I.P.) wrote about this in "Windswept House" - especially the enthronement of Lucifer in Saint Paul's Chapel in the Vatican and - simultaneously - in another "church" in South Carolina as mentioned above!!!

He mentions nothing about the evil pedophile clergy of the Satanic Vatican 2 church and nothing about all of the very evil SATANIST clergy who have killed innocent victims here in the U.S. - something the Satanic Vatican 2 church is still covering up, along with myriad police departments, other law enforcement agencies, not to mention all of the media, both secular and "church"!!!

Therefore, this so-called thinning veil seems to me to be nothing more than Communist-Satanic propaganda and, in virtue of his apparent deliberate omissions of any references to the very evil pedophile and Satanic clergy, make me wonder IF perhaps the said most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, as mentioned above, might possibly be one of the many thousands of Satanist clergy currently in the Satanic Vatican 2 church who are putting out all kinds of propaganda to deliberately mislead, confuse, and otherwise victimize ordinary people who simply do not have the true facts at their fingertips and who are otherwise ignorant of the true teachings of the Catholic Church??

In sum, the said most honorable non-priest, a.k.a. the gifted priest from St. Louis, has no credibility, having mixed a few truths with many errors - called heresies!

The conclusion consists of the congeries (i.e. the sum total of many heterogeneous things taken together) of the above statements found in the above article on the one scale, while the other scale contains the various objective, immutable proofs  and teachings of the Catholic Church.  It should be self-evident that the scales, which would balance with each other IF both were to be found containing objective, immutable Truths, do not balance.

Some of the statements found in the above quoted article Sees "Souls", are drenched with the "heavy water" of that toxic waste called the heresy of Modernism which has permeated the church to such an extent that the Vatican - which is the world-wide headquarters of the Satanic Vatican 2 church - is no longer "Catholic", except in name only, not in Truth, and not in reality!

The only reality is that the Satanic Vatican 2 church was already on fire, burning with the flames of the heresies and almost total apostasy of Synod Vatican 2, because, where there is smoke, there is fire, and there IS smoke:

It shows Pope Paul 6, Giovanni Battista Montini [Friday, June 21, 1963 - Sunday, August 6, 1978] standing with the Six Protestant members of the CONSILIUM of Synod Vatican 2 who ACTIVELY helped to fabricate the NOVUS ORDO RITE OF MASS -  the NEW Mass - which is nothing more than an anti-Catholic NEW 20th Century PROTESTANT "mass",
a.k.a. the updated, modernized, synthesized 16th Century Protestant memorial supper meal!!!

The 6 Protestants  are, from left to right:

Dr. George.
Canon Jasper.
Dr. Shephard.
Dr. Konneth.
Dr. Smith.
Brother Max Thurian.

The World Council of Churches.
The Church of England.
The Lutheran Church.
The Protestant Community of Taize.

No wonder that the Eternal High Priest, Jesus Christ, will judge the Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, and other Clergy of the Satanic Vatican 2 church very harshly, as Saint Peter first Prophecized, followed by Saint John in his Prophetic Apocalypse, and in a number of private revelation prophecies:

"3 For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears:
4 And will indeed turn away their hearing from the Truth, but will be turned unto fables."

Synod Vatican 2 was characterized as:

“a sinister farce acted out by three thousand good-for-nothings, some of whom, despite the gold [pectoral] crosses on their chests, don’t even believe in the Trinity or the Virgin” (Bishop Antonio Romeo of the Sacred Congregation of Rites in Bob Considine’s column ON THE LINE in the NEW YORK JOURNAL AMERICAN of Friday, November 27, 1964).

“[Synod Vatican 2 was] the greatest disaster in recent ecclesiastical history” (Giuseppe Cardinal Siri [b. Sunday, May 20, 1906 in Genoa, Italy - d. Tuesday, May 2, 1989], Archbishop of Genoa, Italy, from “Pontiff”, p. 369 - Gordon Thomas/Max Morgan Witts).

“I pray to God that I may die before the end of the council -- in that way I can die a Catholic” (Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani [b. on Wednesday, October 29, 1890 - d. on Friday, August 3, 1979], June 1962, Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Holy Office, following a speech by Cardinal Montini  - the future Paul 6 - on the need for changes in the Church).

"4   And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying:  Go out from her, My people; that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
5   For her sins have reached unto Heaven, and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities.
6    Render to her as she also hath rendered to you; and double unto her double according to her works:  in the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her.
7    As much as she hath glorified herself, and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her; because she saith in her heart:  I sit a queen, and am no widow; and sorrow I shall not see.
8   Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine, and she shall be burnt with the fire; because God is strong, Who shall judge her  (Apocalypse 18:4-8).

11   And I saw Heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called faithful and true, and with justice doth He judge and fight.
12   And His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many diadems, and He had a name written, which no man knoweth but Himself.
13   And He was clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood; and His name is called, THE WORD OF GOD.
14   And the armies that are in Heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.  (Apocalypse 19:11-14)

15   And out of His mouth proceedeth a sharp two edged sword; that with it He may strike the nations.  And He shall rule them with a rod of iron; and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God the Almighty.
16   And He hath on His garment, and on His thigh written:  KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. (Apocalypse 19:15-16)