In the Twilight: Papacy, Fatima and La Salette

From Catholic Tradition

EVER since the ascendancy of Pope Francis to the Chair of Peter, this piece, which will be as frank as possible within the boundary of the virtue of prudence, has been percolating just below the surface, always coming with me into my prayer time, like an intrusive pest, yet a spur to invigorate my faith, for which I am deeply grateful to Almighty God and to Our Lady of Fatima and la Salette, two Church approved apparitions, the latter in the 19th century and the first in the 20th, both to innocent shepherd children with dire warnings about the times we are now experiencing. I would like to begin with a quote about the Third Secret of Fatima, the part that as yet which remains officially unacknowledged by the Holy See, followed by a series of direct citations form Our Lady of la Salette…

It seems to me that I have been too prudent over the past months, biding my tongue while the Pontiff unofficially, fallibly “teaches” that the Church has been wrong all these centuries, in so many precipitous suggestions by way of nuanced comments about marriage, divorce, celibacy, homosexuality, and now abortion and contraception, as if the “clergy were obsessing”. If this were not so serious, it would be comic, ironic, for in the vast Novus Ordo structure there is hardly to be found a priest who can be characterized as “obsessing” about these vital moral matters – quite the contrary, the silence has been deafening for two generations now, and we know that Our Lady of Fatima told the children that more souls go to Hell for sins against purity than any other, even though there are worse sins, such as blasphemy and heresy. Nothing but the “social gospel” as defined by the Democratic elite has been effectively preached in all this time. The other sins are barely a blip on the sonar screen and then only pro forma once or twice a year, if at that. If priests are “obsessing over abortion, contraception and the rise of Sodom, then what would be the correct term to apply to the constant preaching on the redistribution of wealth? – employers are always evil, greedy, employees are always perfect victims – and unless we submit to the dictates of socialism we are heartless brutes, cold and without charity – in words so bold that this is the conclusion one draws. Nary a word about the unjust tax system that robs the working man with a family of much needed sustenance which he earned by his own industriousness for daily duty, including that which he would like to offer up in alms. And so forth, such as the duty of employees to work an honest day’s pay, not to loaf on the job and find excuses not to work because the system affords the luxury of not working supported by the working poor who are disadvantaged. I have literally lost count of the number of times that store clerks have told me that I can keep the incorrect change due to an error on the part of the clerk, because it is the “store’s money.” This is theft, but when I interject that I was given too much change, some of the looks have been downright strange as if I were weird. Having been both a store owner and a store employee, I have seen both sides and believe me the employee side can be as unpretty as the employer side. Original Sin does not discriminate, but the socialists in the priesthood would like to think otherwise. So it is laughable on its face, except it is anything but a laughing matter as they say.

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