TEOTWAWKI

Mainly linked for later reading on my tablet

Mark Mallet's essay is about the Apocalypse and the "Fake news" epidemic.

in the past it was communism, but now we are back to the masonic conpiracy.

Actually this is true, what it means is the enlightenment (and since I am an enlightenment christian, which is sort of Pelagian/ works are important approach to religion that doesn't bother me).

But in the US, most Masons are good old boys who are Christians and like me see the brother hood of man stuff as merely a facet of modern Christianity. This was because in US Masonic ideas came from England, where the enlightenment did not hate the church but were nominal Anglicans. (In Europe, where it was impossible to break into the power structure if you were not nobility, they became anti clerical and then decided they hated God, who after all didn't like them schtupping the ladies or young boys).

So in Europe, where Catholicism was enmeshed in the aristocracy, the fight is more rabid and atheistic.

Given that background, you can see the problem he describes.

The mainstream media is controlling this agenda by either ignoring the “culture of life” or reporting—as if it is a given—that immoral behavior is acceptable, inevitable and obligatory for every nation. Recalling the “perverse roots” of those who broke the Covenant in the Old Testament, Pope Francis called it “a spirit of adolescent progressivism.”

It is not the beautiful globalization of unity of all Nations, each one with their own customs, instead it is the globalization of hegemonic uniformity, it is the single thought. And this sole thought is the fruit of worldliness. —POPE FRANCIS, Homily, November 18th, 2013, Zenit.org

And this is one reason that the American voters outside of the big cities voted for Trump: They don't like these self proclaimed messiahs telling them what to say or do, especially when the gay agenda is being imposed on them and will be used to destroy Christians.

so we read:

…many forces have tried, and still do, to destroy the Church, from without as well as within, but they themselves are destroyed and the Church remains alive and fruitful… she remains inexplicably solid… kingdoms, peoples, cultures, nations, ideologies, powers have passed, but the Church, founded on Christ, notwithstanding the many storms and our many sins, remains ever faithful to the deposit of faith shown in service; for the Church does not belong to popes, bishops, priests, nor the lay faithful; the Church in every moment belongs solely to Christ.—POPE FRANCIS, Homily, June 29th, 2015; www.americamagazine.org

uh, then why are you destroying marriage with your footnotes?

It is subtle, in te name of "mercy": But instead of protecting sheep, it is enabling sociopaths and anyone else who doesn't have a conscience to follow their own ideas.

Ironically traditional Catholicism is both strict and lax: The rules are strict, but they are lax when applying them to individuals.

So my aunt, in a marriage outside the church attended mass every day but never received communion until her first husband died. No problem. Ditto for gays and adulterers.

But now he is not saying God's mercy will help you out if you break the rules, but that the rules don't matter.

Sigh.
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related item from writer Michael O'Brien: Alternative LINK

 We men, and especially we pragmatist North Americans, have a hard-wired sense that we can “fix” anything with enough knowledge, skill, tools, influence, rhetoric, etc. But in the case of the Church, we cannot. We can only “fix” our own selves through cooperation with the grace of Christ — through prayer, sacraments, sacrifice, endurance and perseverance, patience, mercy, truth, and the faith that is refined in the darkest of fires. Keep the eyes of your heart on the true horizon. Keep your eyes on the Bride.
Take heart. Trust in the Lord, especially when there seems to be little or no grounds for trust.