A Call to Action, German Bishops and the BBC Agenda

I've just been listening to 'A Call to Action' being interviewed on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme podcast, re the Church's recent questionnaire on family life etc. results of which have been leaked by the German Bishops.

She (the ACTA spokesman) claimed she was not opposed to Church teaching (hint: they are), but wanted more consultation. Hmmm. 

Since Vatican II we've had endless collegiality. If there's one thing that makes faithful Catholics sink in their pew or run away to SSPX Masses, it's talk of 'collegiality' let alone consultation. 

As if to prove what a bad idea it is, the German Bishops leaking the result of their portion of the questionnaire is the cherry on the foul-smelling cake. I mean... Quelle surprise! It's pro contraception, pro-gay and pro-sex before marriage. If it weren't the German bishops would have sat on the results, if not buried them (no comparisons to the Third Secret of Fatima please...). 

What we are likely to see as a result of this questionnaire is a rift between the slowly dying, liberal Church in Europe & North America, and the growing, faithful Church in the "Third World"

Of course the Guardianistas in the BBC are cock-a-hoop, which is why they got in the ACTA heretics to bleat about the consultation. What ACTA and the BBC want (it's a unified aim) is the Catholic Church to be heretical and Protestant, with women priests, gay marriage, and acceptance of contraception and abortion. Despite the plethora of Heinz 57 Prod churchlettes out there who follow those lines, they want to bring down, destroy, emasculate and decapitate the Catholic Church because it is the Catholic Church.

The Church is NOT a democracy. We have an absolute and beneficent monarch at our head - God Almighty. We have a chief vicar on earth, the Pope, a post established by Jesus Christ Himself. We have dogmatic belief. All these give us firm foundations, surety, safety, security - all of which we need in a chaotic world of war, drugs, hedonism, selfishness, debauchery, greed etc. 

All of which makes me wonder why the Church launched this questionnaire. Why not ask us all where we stand on capital punishment? Or the European Union? Or  Vatican 2? Where does one draw the line? Why not elections for bishoprics. Or the X Factor for prelates? 

I know... I'm being facetious.  But there's a serious edge here. We are Catholics. We have Catholic Truth. We have a beautiful Faith with out-dates all regimes and secular isms (modern democracy has no real similarity to ancient democracy) rooted in the Mosaic Law given to mankind by God.

Post Vatican 2 'collegiality' has emptied Churches in Europe. Millions have lost their Faith. Souls have been lost. The false dawn of "the spirit of Vatican 2" has destroyed much of value, given us roller-disco church buildings, liberal schools, clerics with little or no Faith, and churned out generations of Catholic children with a weak grasp of their Faith. And we wonder why a questionnaire delivers answers that please the Tablet/ACTA/BBC crowd?

Recent news stories - not to mention Church scandals - should warn us that the 70's (the fruits of the 60's and it's sexual, political, cultural & liturgical revolutions) were an unmitigated disaster in historic terms. 

Yet here we are, going back to the empty slogans, feel-good mush and collegiality of the 70s. 

God help us all.



P.S. It seems, having delivered us the oxymoronic "gay marriage," the BBC's latest cause celebré is gender-neutral toilets and changing rooms for trans-sexuals. In a piece broadcast on Good Friday (I kid you not) they promoted this with an interview with a bloke in a dress, with no counter/sane view allowed. The enemy will never stop. They will always demand more... Catholics take note. The error and enmity of 'the world' cannot be sated.

Choice Lobby Publicly Back Infanticide

Anyone with half an ounce of dignity should listen to last week's Moral Maze programme which went out on BBC radio 4. 

You can still get it on the BBC iplayer & you can download the podcast. 

The programme dealt with abortion, with two speakers in favour of mass murder and two against. All are professionals and experts. 

What will poleaxe anyone with a grain of humanity is that one of the pro-"choice" lobby not only supported death up until birth in all cases (as did her compadre) but she openly supported infanticide. 

Yep. You read that right. 

This callous, uncaring, pro mass murder lowlife supported the killing of babies AFTER they are born, if that's what the "mother" wants (or no doubt if she's coerced to do so as with so many abortions, by a bullying control freak "father" of the child).

Listen to it. Tell your pro-life friends. 

This exposes the "choice" lobby for the murderous cowards that they are. They would rather see a baby die than support, care & help (& even adoption) be offered to mums in distress. 

That's the simple truth. 

Who is the ABORTION BOSS in the UK? A Concentration Camp Denier and Political Extremist!

BPAS Boss, Marxist and convicted criminal Ann Furedi

I would ask all Catholics and pro-lifers to buy the latest Private Eye magazine (just out). In its letters page there's a rebuttal of a previous letter by a Marxist who used to edit the REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY's magazine Living Marxism (later LM Magazine). The Marxist in question was not alone in editing the mag. There were two others, a married couple.

This mag (LM) was eventually shut down after denying the photographic evidence of skeletal figures and suffering in Yugoslav (Communist) concentration camps. They said the pics were doctored and one prisoner did not really exist. The ex-prisoner turned up at court, the Marxian triumvirate were found guilty and LM was no more.

Yes. Sad isn't it?

But why, aside from the fact that these Marxists lied and were found out for denying facts and whitewashing  death and misery (inc of Catholics) is this of interest to Catholics and pro-lifers?

Because one of the married couple, one of these "concentration camp deniers" exposed in open court, one of these mad Marxist Extremists out to disguise the terror of the gulags was none other than ANN FUREDI, the Chief Executive (that's BOSS to you and me) of BPAS - the British Pregnancy Advisory Service: the pro abortionists' apologists, the profiteers from misery and death, the media wafflers who excuse away the abortion death mills.

Perhaps lying about deaths in Marxist gulags was good practice for lying about deaths in abortion mills?

I wonder why it is a Communist like ANN FUREDI sees abortion - the murder of a baby - as an answer to poverty? Surely helping the poor and elevating their condition is preferable to killing their children? And when so many women are bullied into killing their babies, is this feminism? Remember too that most aborted children are baby girls. Feminism?

So please remember who is the leading advocate of abortion in the UK: a discredited Marxist extremist who denied the existence of Communist concentration camps, who was exposed as a liar in a UK court and whose LIVING MARXISM mag was shut down as a consequence.

Nice.

Abortion Debate: Women's Bodies and Who Should Comment

No womb - no view. Sorry bucko!

Recently I saw a debate on the internet between Martin "Money Saving Expert" Lewis and an extreme feminist.

Lewis wondered why people were going for the throat of the health secretary when this was a matter of law, and so it should be debated in parliament by MPs like him.

The feminist said that no man should speak on these issues, let alone formulate public policy, because it did not concern men, it was about women's bodies, she foamed.

Of course she is right and wrong.

• It is about women's bodies and the damage done to them. And their psychological health. Their ability to have further children. Their ability to fight various cancers. And their immortal soul.
• It is also about bullying. Many women are bullied into abortions (not least by overpowering "fathers") so it is strange that wymmins-rights folk don't find this offensive.
• It is also about women dying. Female babies constitute at least 50% of those murdered. Some suggest more, as some communities seek to murder unborn girls. Who speaks for the "wymmins-rights" of those girls?
• It is also about a public debate. men take a role in procreation, so they should also be able to defend the rights of the unborn.
• To limit the debate to women is akin to saying that only MPs aged 16 and 17 can discuss lowering the voting age. It is a nonsense.

But then, when defending the mass murder of innocents - including those murdered for the crime of being female, poor or disabled - when have the abortionists ever made sense?

Defend Marriage! Help C4M Reach Half a Million Signatures

I received the following text in an email from C4M. For more info, to sign-up or to help more - go to www.c4m.org.uk. Here it is in its entirety so all of us can push to get the signatures up to 500,000 asap.

As Catholics we have a special duty to defend a Sacrament of Holy Mother Church.

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Dear marriage supporter,

Next Monday (30 April) will mark ten weeks of the Coalition for Marriage campaign and the national petition for marriage. In that time, you and over 450,000 fellow marriage supporters have already signed the petition. That’s great, thank you for your support.

Let’s celebrate the ten-week milestone by pushing the petition past the half-a-million mark. Help us reach 500,000 by next week. We’re nearly there. Just an extra push from you would put us over.

That would send a clear message to the Government that the campaign is going from strength to strength. We are already one of the fastest growing national petitions in living memory. Let’s show the politicians that there’s more where that came from. Let’s show them that the nation’s affection for marriage is strong, deep and widespread.

Practical tips

Some of you may be sitting on paper petition sheets that you have yet to send in to our office. Perhaps you are waiting for the sheet to be entirely filled before posting it to us. We like your dedication! But send it in now – no matter how many signatures you’ve got. You can always collect more signatures on extra sheets later. You can get extra petition sheets by phoning 0207 403 7879 or by downloading a copy from our website.

Some of you may not have yet downloaded our paper petition sheets. These are for your friends who can’t sign the petition online. Some of our supporters have taken the petition door-to-door to their neighbours, some have asked friends at work to sign it, some have asked their families. Download the sheet, or get copies by telephoning 0207 403 7879. Get people signed up and post the sheet back to us to the address on the sheet by Monday 30 April – or very soon afterwards.

Post the petition to Facebook. Just copy this link http://www.c4m.org.uk into your status update – and add some words to encourage people to push the petition over the 500,000 mark. Share the petition on Twitter also. If you’ve already done this, think about doing it again. We all need gentle reminders from time to time.

Perhaps you want some talking points before you speak to others about the subject. Download our briefing, that will help you to think about the issues and talk to people about why marriage is part of the common good and should not be redefined.

Together, we can get the petition over 500,000 by Monday 30 April. After that, the petition will still be there, growing bigger every day. But let’s make our ten-week milestone extra special by hitting half-a-million supporters!

Good V Bad: Films and Parenting

"Torture Porn" - For Kids (or Anyone)?

There was a piece on the Victoria derbyshire Show on Radio 5 Live this morning about "reception class" children in infants school (ages circa 4 or 5 years old) playing violent video games (Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty). These games tend to be rated 15 or 18 and do contain some extreme violence.

Without going into details of the where and when (or even the gender), I know of a child in a reception class who is so young/immature that he/she still wears a nappy. Yet this child regularly "effs and blinds" in class.

One cannot blame all the ills in society on bad parenting, but there is no doubt that bad, sloppy, lazy or similar parenting is to blame for a good proportion of what is wrong in society.

In recent days there has been a lot of discussion of violence in the media because of the 14 year old boy who killed his mother and set fire to her afterwards. He was 'hooked' on violence in films and on TV.

Now let me put my cards on the line. I enjoy films, and these include psychological thrillers, murder mysteries and similar. I also played with Action Man toys, toy soldiers and played 'British and Germans' in the playground when we (teeny lads) would pretend to have pistols or machine guns and run around shooting each other, dying in agony (imagine the theatricals!) only to be brought back to life if a comrade-in-arms got to you.

So what am I trying to say? Well, I think boys will always be boys (and some girls will always be tomboys), and playing 'war games' is as old as the hills; but I also think parents have a duty to teach their children right from wrong. A percentage may always choose the wrong things as they grow older; but if parents take an active role in promoting good values (anchored in the Ten Commandments, for example) then at least children have a fighting chance of not being quite so bad as they grow up.

We all of us know that working through school and in jobs (whether offices or factories) you bump along with some rum characters, and so very few us live in a bubble. Nor should we, unless we wish to be a hermit.

But we should at least give children the protection they deserve, and the values that can help them in life; even if they decide (of their own free will) to jettison those values when they are older.

It's akin to a wooden ship sinking. We could let it sink and hope for the best, knowing that some will cling to the flotsam and jetsam, or we can fling a load of life-saving 'rubber rings' in, knowing that it could help even more people survive. Giving children a decent upbringing, teaching them right from wrong, shielding them from horror films, porn and foul language, can't ensure they are perfect as adults, but it is a good start, and will lessen the odds of losing more further down the road.

I think that is why some Catholic writers I've read articles by, blame lax catechetics by the Church on the number of cradle Catholics who drift away from their Faith. Good foundations protect against subsidence later on.

As I supped my lunchtime cup of tea today I heard Jeremy Vine on the radio saying the murder by the 14-year-old was somehow linked to the Saw movies. Now I have never seen one of these movies, they just don't appeal to me at all. In some quarters (e.g. film critics) they are known as "torture porn" and Mr. Vine said that the theme of these movies was turned on its head because in them the bloke doing the torturing held all the power. At least in more traditional "horror" films the bad guys got their comeuppance and the good guys won. In many of them the good guys also happened to be Catholic priests or in some way sanctioned by the Catholic Church. So there was some sense of 'good v evil' and good winning.

As I said I have never (and hope never to) see a Saw movie, but the lines delineating good and evil seem blurred, to say the least. Besides which, surely even with the best will in the world and even with 'scarey' films that play the good v evil, Church v Satan, Priest v possession (etc.) themes, these are meant for grown-ups only!

I think the films The Rite and The Exorcism of Emily Rose are very good, and contain valid Catholic themes, and portray a battle of good versus evil that can take the complacent person and make them realise that just as there is a God, so there is an evil being called Satan ("who roams the world for the ruin of souls" to quote the Leo XIII prayer to St Michael).

But the idea of showing such films to children is a no-no, because they have some disturbing images, frightening sequences and suchlike.

The riots in London were blamed on bad parenting, which came as no real surprise to anyone with more than an ounce of intelligence. Liberals, atheists, 60s hippies and professional social workers may wish otherwise, but we need good parenting in this country (mums and dads!), and without that children miss out on the fundamentals, whether it is teaching your children that smashing shops up is wrong, that swearing is wrong, that watching or playing games that are for an older age group is wrong, just as much as eating nothing but crisps and sweets and drinking fizzy pop all day is wrong.

Those parents who allow their children to eat and drink rubbish all day cannot be surprised when their teeth rot or they get obese. Those who don't may still get 'cavities' or grow chubby and those who do may by sheer chance get through unscathed, but the battle to protect their teeth and health is nonetheless important and it is a parent's duty to step in, say "no" when necessary and put up with any strops and tantrums that happen along the way.

Similarly those parents who do not shield their children from foul language, porn, horror films etc. cannot be surprised when their children grow up to be obnoxious, nasty or foul.

It's going to be a battle against the odds anyway given the modern world, given the people in our schools, colleges, workplaces and in the streets. It's going to be a hard slog against the tide given the media, adverts in the streets, films, magazines etc.

But to surrender at the start and give children full access to bad materials and bad influences is not just sloppy and lazy parenting: it's evil parenting. And I would think that kind of parenting is now reaping the whirlwind it has sown.

St Patrick and the New Atheist Snakes Besetting Britain

Victim of extreme atheists

A very Happy St Patrick's Day to all men of goodwill. I pray we may one day get a glorious saint like Patrick to evict all the "snakes" out of Wales and Britain...

We all know St Patrick was Welsh. In today's Daily Mail it is shamefully written that he came from England. This is the standard of education and journalism today! When Patrick was alive England hadn't yet been created. In a similar piece earlier this week another Mail writer asked if an Anglo Saxon burial from circa 600AD could be "Britain's first Christian."

I despair! I really do. Just as the whole Medieval glory of Welsh and English Catholicism (from the monastic glories of Strata Florida and Rievaulx to the 'lowliest' parish churches) are airbrushed from a history that focuses on the oath-breaker, regicide and murderess "Good Queen Bess" (sic), so the entire history of Welsh Catholicism and the Age of Saints in these Celtic lands are forgotten by a media that thinks Anglicanism --born in heresy and divorce and "flowering" today in homosexual bishops, untreadable goo and outright apostasy-- is the beginning and end of Christianity in these Isles.

Catholicism in Wales can trace its roots directly back to the time of the Diocletian Persecution and the Roman catacombs, the age of St Philomena, and earlier. Certainly by the 6th century Wales was a Christian land, the Mass and Sacraments received by all, and a hotbed of Monasticism.

If you are a journalist, a teacher, a pupil, a writer or just a bod like me: please remember that our Catholic heritage goes right back in these isles in  an unbreakable line to at least the third century and possibly even right back to Apostolic times.

The airbrushing of history seems to fit in with the Weltanschauung of the modern world in which a government says "we are going to have gay marriage whether you like it or not, but we will have a public consultation on how best to do it!" all lead by PM David Cameron who says he favours gay marriage: "because I am a Conservative." Furthermore the 'Equalities Minister' Lynne Featherstone calls anyone who opposes the oxymoron that is 'gay marriage' "homophobic" and wears a gay pride rainbow lapel badge.

Nice to know that this isn't already decided by Whitehall mandarins and MPs and we're all being steamrollered by a minority of a minority -- the influential "gay lobby."

St Patrick, St David, St George and St Andrew pray for us all! I fear these islands are being dragged downwards into a new dark ages that will make the savagery of the heathen Saxons look mild by comparison, especially as the new atheists have more sophistication, the media to ply their wares and the ability to gain influence in our very families. The very sophistication, eloquence and weasel words of the new atheists (apart from when the mask slips) makes them a worse enemy than the Saxon horde who desecrated Churches and whose misplaced loyalty to false gods was eventually overcome by the Catholic Faith.


If "gay marriage" is enacted (as seems humanly most likely), then it sets the gay lobby and the human rights lobby (backed by the courts especially in Europe) on a collision course with the Catholic Church. An immovable object and an irresistible force... If the court finds against the Church (in human rights lingo this is likely) then the Church, unable to back-down or give in becomes a law-breaker.

Fines, arrests, priests locked up, those who cave-in excommunicated, mobs demonstrating against "hateful" clerics... it all has the smack of the Reformation, or to use a more recent example the (atheistic) Communist repression of the Church. Might the new atheists follow in the footsteps of the old ones? Hardy times call for hardy souls.

But first we need to campaign against the idea of gay marriage (start by spreading the petition against gay marriage) and pray like never before! Might I suggest a special devotion to the Blessed Sacrament? Some time spent in prayer before and after Communion in thanksgiving. Some preparation for Mass? It really is the very least we can do.

A Superb Argument Against 'Gay Marriage'

A superb defence of marriage.

We also, of course, have the situation of Abraham himself, whose marriage appeared barren -- but whose descendants would be like the stars in the sky.

First They Came for the B&B Owners...

In an age when a Christian (albeit Anglican/Presbyterian) Monarch passes "laws" on abortion, homosexuality and marriage which run contrary to the law (and undermine her coronation oath), something the Pope has condemned as moral relativism,we should remember this (from St Augustine) and wear it as our badge for the new Pilgrimage of Grace.

As Catholics I believe we need a huge debate on what we can do to rectify the situation wherein the law-of-the-land, in crucial areas is contrary to objective Truth, especially when councils are being banned from having official prayers and B&B owners are being fined for stopping sodomites from having a double bedroom.

The words of the German Lutheran pastor Niemoller spring to mind.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Interestingly, according to his page on Wikipedia, he was initially a supporter of Hitler and on meeting him, as a protestant representative, in 1932 as he said after WW2: "Hitler promised me on his word of honor, to protect the Church, and not to issue any anti-Church laws." 


It makes me wonder how much longer the laws meant to "protect" abortionists, homosexuals etc. are turned against the Church. In my humble view this has already started, with active/practising Catholics now stopped from adopting children out (via Catholic adoption agencies) and from running any business which may make them complicit in promoting/allowing homosexual activity.


One thing is sure, we need strong, powerful and unapologetic Catholic leaders such as the wonderful Scottish Cardinal, Thomas Winning who led from the front, was a strong voice for the rights of the family, the poor and the unborn, and would not be silenced by the pc lobby.






Image from: St Peter's List

Were the 1950s the Good Old Days?

Jade Knight

I was reading a piece yesterday in the Daily Mail about a black lady called Jade Knight who bumped into Dianne Abbott (the famous black MP). The latter proceeded to embroil herself in another "race row."

I'm not really interested in that, but moreover one thing the young professional black lady had to say about her own experiences in America:

‘Many [children] were badly behaved and came from broken homes with no male figure and surrounded by crack addicts,’ she said. ‘I had lived for a while with an aunt and uncle in Georgia in America where most black parents were married and the kids were much better behaved.

This of course flies in the face of what many people tell us, and further underlines the importance of stable families (including fathers!) in creating stable communities.

Those like Abbott like to lay the blame of troubled communities at the feet of many people. They also like to say that types of 'families' can be justified, and paint the normal family as if it were a throw-back to the 1950s.

Speaking of which it was reported today that the comedienne Miranda Hart (due to star in the new BBC series on Midwives in Poplar, east London) has said that the 1950s was better than today. Really? Before single parent families and absentee fathers?

This reminds me of a debate on Radio Two a few weeks ago between Norman Tebbit and a Catholic Labour Baroness (I think it was Baroness Kennedy, but I may be wrong), after Nick Clegg's obtuse comments on the nuclear family being a 1950s image and not a reality in 'modern Britain.' The Baroness had to admit that socially the 50s were better. All she could point to about the modern age were better rights for homosexuals (and she a Catholic!), advances such as washing machines and suchlike.

Tebbit kept reminding her she was a pro-life Catholic, and how the 50s had less street crime, was more focused on the family and traditional values.

Miranda Hart

What I couldn't understand was why we had to "give up" stable families, promote homosexuality alongside more 'normal' advances such as washing machines - and why those who promote the argument for the Heinz 57 varieties of "families" with all the damage that has done to society seem to think that washing machines are somehow "theirs"; as if a more (small c) conservative and family orientated society could not have washing machines, or key-hole surgery, or electric cars.

So hurrah for Jade Knight, Miranda Hart and everyone else who glimpses the truth: that families and cohesive communities are better for our well being, and give us the security we crave which means so much more than whatever the modern world has given so many people - insecurity, no feeling of belonging, rootlessness, alienation, moral relativism, school route muggings and so on.

The people of Poplar were very poor in the 1950s, as were the people of Wales, and I'm in no way saying everything was rosy (or the Catholic Church would not needed to have spoken out on the condition of the working classes just a few decades before, nor would it have been conned into some of the Vatican 2 changes a decade after), but in the 'progress' since then it seems we have (as a society) gone out of our way to rip apart the family and do our utmost to create more and more "families" that just aren't, to quote John Reid, "fit for purpose."