The last acceptable prejudice.
A headline I thought I would never read. It highlights the extreme nature of the current restrictions. (From this week’s @IrishCathNews) pic.twitter.com/MlCxz6vWHo
— David Quinn (@DavQuinn) April 23, 2021
I, for one, welcome our Great Reset Overlords.
I won’t ever again have to tell you to…
GO TO CONFESSION!
(While you still can.)
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on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Hmmm. Those kind of tassels have always reminded me of fancy curtain tiebacks so I have avoided making them but…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Fr.Z sez: …The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way and then become characters in Star Trek…. V’ger!! https://youtu.be/gxAaVqdz_Vk?t=96”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Being from Florida, I remember when both Voyagers launched – you could see them from our house. At that time,…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Too bad the Curia has drifted too far from its power source…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I guess Voyager I gives new meaning to the poem High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!” on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
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I don’t think any of us would have predicted this back in January 2020. When are people going to fight back?
People are now desensitized to these thing now. In Eastern Canada, we have case counts in the low teens every week and we see people commenting that they want tougher restrictions!
This what you get when you have an openly Communist supporting Taoiseach (Michael Martin was the first Irish MP to travel to Cuba some 10yrs ago) mixed in with the Green Party, all playing tag team with a scion of the vehemently anti-Christian LGBT movement (previous Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, now deputy, is due to switch back to Taoiseach in 2022) to mould Ireland in their graven image.
Sounds a bit Russian really.
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Interesting. I’m not generally surprised when governments ignore what the research says about topics like the risk of outdoor transmission in order to justify new restrictions. Disappointed, but not surprised.
To be sure, the Republic of Ireland had a big spike in infections and deaths recently, which even slightly exceeded the severity of the first wave they faced last year when we all had far less knowledge about how serious the pandemic would be and what the most appropriate countermeasures were. It is understandable that they re-enacted many restrictions.
However, that peaked 2-1/2 months ago. The rate has fallen nearly 85% since then. And again, we know that the risk of spread is significantly reduced outdoors.
Considering St Patrick ram the snakes out…old scratch and the snakes are striking back with vengeance!!!
Meanwhile, a much more positive development in Scotland: https://iusetiustitium.com/scots-law-dyarchy-and-judicial-restraint/
The problem with these outdoor confessions is that can significantly contribute to the spread (of the faith), which could potentially go viral. That is the last thing (liberal) government wants, so they will do everything beyond their (legal) powers to #StopTheSpread.
This reminds of the book, With God in Russia when the priest heard confessions while the workers walked repeatedly past him in a circle while carrying bricks without stopping, except with social distancing that’s a thing of the past. Will have to start writing down confessions and covertly passing them to the priest while walking by and be discreetly absolved from a distance.
Bishop Schneider (see “Christus Vincit”) expresses support for Catholics in Ireland. Elsewhere in today’s Catholic Arena article:
“Groups of 15 can now meet in public from Monday to dance and play the bongos, but if one of them is a priest, he can only sing and dance with people but not say Mass. These restrictions, their inconsistencies and the selective application of them are not merely absurd, they are evil.
“Nonetheless, lay Catholics have been trying to muster opposition.
“Last week, many groups gathered across the South (Mass has resumed in the North) to pray the Rosary in front of their closed churches. The campaign has gained much support and good will from across the world, with even more rosaries now set to take place this coming Sunday.”
https://www.catholicarena.com/latest/rosaryschneider
Here is one creative tactic employed by a Protestant pastor in California last November, where strip clubs are “essential” but not churches (which obviously do a better job of forming solid citizens than strip clubs):
‘Pastor McCoy removed his tie to music before beginning his church sermon this past Sunday “so his church can become a ‘strip club’ which is deemed “essential” by California Governor Gavin Newsom.” McCoy said that he would ask Gov. Huckabee to “bail me out” if he got in trouble.”
(Sure, that’s not for everyone, still, make your parish or church or synagogue essential.)
https://www.citizensjournal.us/godspeak-calvary-pastor-rob-mccoy-makes-himself-essential/
I haven’t had time to listen, but here are several videos of Irish priests who have something to say:
https://www.catholicarena.com/latest/priestsirelandvideoslockdownapril
The Rosary rallies, held each Sunday outside many of Ireland’s locked churches, seem to be growing slowly but steadily.
From The Quiet Man: “Well it’s a nice, soft night, so I think I’ll go and join me comrades and talk a little treason.”
[Great movie.]
Where are their Bishops in all of this?
This is a flagrant violation of the right to exercise one’s religion. This is a regulation crying out to be challenged in Court.
Where are their Bishops in all of this?
This is a flagrant violation of the right to exercise one’s religion. This is a regulation crying out to be challenged in Court.
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Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, “We ought to obey God rather than men.”
Where is Peter?
Ages, you ask, “Where is Peter?” Maybe he is Calgary modelling how it’s done for popes, bishops and priests. If only seminaries from here on out would screen this clip in Pastoral Theology classes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZDdDFO0wRM
This is one of the most heartening, amazing things I’ve seen the whole past year, this clip at 6:18 for about 2:30. This is the obedience that sanctifies, the vir in virtue. I’ve been so struck by the puerility of not only the Church, but the entire body politic.
As if he took Nero Caesar as his model, the Governor says, in effect, “Commit social/economic/ecclesial suicide” and we say, “Okay. Whatever you think best.”
A Church Father says, I think, that the Church grows by enduring, not by resisting, but Charles Martel resisted, thanks be to God. The English bishops under Henry VII “endured,” that is, complied. Unless we find some moral outrage somewhere in our collective psyche we are going to be enduring a communist takeover, incredibly. It is already well underway.
Perhaps now would be a good time for priests to start using the votive Mass for the Defence of the Church whenever liturgically possible.