These Last Days News - August 2, 2017

Catholic Bishops Choose Government Funding Over Truth...

"My children, you will all recognize the faces of evil.  Satan has entered into the highest ranks of My Church.  Pray now for your priests: your bishops, your cardinals, your clergy.  Many prayers are needed, for many are on, now, the road to perdition and taking many others with them." - Jesus, July 15, 1977

"There will be many mitres in hell.  Many priests are on the road to damnation; with them they take others.  For this, the lowest pit of the abyss will be eternity!  Those entrusted in My Son's House will be held accountable for the fall of young souls.  Your rank will be no guarantee of your entrance into the Kingdom. You have betrayed My Son.  How dare you sell His House!  You have sold My Son's House for the profit of your temporary lifetime!" - Our Lady, July 25, 1972

TheWandererPress.com reported on July 29, 2017:

by Christopher Manion

Is “government charity” really charitable? Is “social justice” justice at all?

Consider the Good Samaritan. He wasn’t a government bureaucrat. He helped people voluntarily — with his own money.

The man in the ditch undoubtedly thanked the Good Samaritan. But here’s the secret of Christian charity: A Christian Samaritan answers the injured man, “No, thank you, for giving me the opportunity to serve a brother in Christ.”

Thank you — thank you.

Has a government bureaucrat ever thanked you?

Christian charity is a theological virtue — as St. Paul says, “the greatest of these is caritas” — charity.

Justice is also a virtue, a cardinal virtue.

And like all virtues, charity and justice are voluntary.

On the other hand, today’s ideological brand called “social justice” is mandatory. It isn’t justice at all, because it is not voluntary.

“Social justice” always requires government force. Even if they call it “charity.”

If you’re good at math, look at it this way: “Social Justice minus government force equals zero.”

So “government charity” is an oxymoron. The government can’t love — it can only command.

The very notion of something called “mandatory charity” is Doublethink, right out of Orwell and Big Brother.

But it is also a dagger aimed at the heart of true, voluntary charity.

After all, we can hardly call it virtuous to take money from a man by force, give it to a third party, and pat ourselves on the back for our generosity.

But that’s what “social justice” does. All the time.

And this temptation has become so much a part of American political life that even many Catholic bishops and intellectuals have fallen for it.

Voluntary charity. Mandatory “social justice.” These two opposing visions of virtue are in conflict today in the Catholic Church — and that conflict has a history, a rationale, and a troubled future.

In the nineteenth century, our bishops’ pastoral letters warned of sin and Hell. With voluntary contributions large and small, those bishops and their flocks built thousands of churches, schools, convents, and orphanages.

One hundred years ago, The Catholic Encyclopedia defined charity the old-fashioned way: “public charity is more mechanical; less sympathetic; more wasteful; it encourages people to claim public relief as a right”; and, most important, it “inflicts a mortal injury upon the spontaneity of charity and the sense of personal responsibility towards the unfortunate.”

That view of charity slowly changed in the first half of the twentieth century; after Vatican II, it was quickly turned upside down.

Enter the “seamless garment.” Exit preaching on the unpopular truths of Humanae Vitae.

And today, now that we’ve graduated from charity to “social justice,” we’re closing churches, schools, and convents by the thousands and selling them to mosques, corporations, and casino operators.

And all these once-revered institutions have gone into the tank, big time, for government funding — to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars over the past fifty years, all told.

Why? Because it’s easier to get money from politicians than from voluntary donors.

And why is that?

It’s not their money.

In his Through the Eye of the Needle, a brilliant history of charity in the late Roman Empire, Princeton historian Peter Brown explains.

Briefly put, Rome’s wealthy nobility vied with Caesar to give more “corn” (wheat) to the masses. These secular leaders did so because, in return, they would be rewarded with “glory, honor, and gratitude.”

Consider our current day. When Catholic welfare agencies annually receive hundreds of millions from their government paymasters, who gets the credit?

Not the bishop — he’s just running an NGO funded by federal contracts.

Not the Church. It’s not her money.

Not the faithful. They pay their taxes with a gun to their head. They gain no merit in Heaven for that.

The answer is, none of the above.

The politician gets the “glory, honor, and gratitude.”

And no politician gives away our money for nothing.

When the politician gives the bishops taxpayer dollars, what does he get in return?

It’s simple. (And politicians love simple).

The bishops warmly bestow upon the “generous” (with our money) politician the Catholic “seal of approval.”

And what if the generous politician is pro-abortion? After all, canon 915 requires that such perpetrators of manifest scandal be denied the Eucharist. For that question, Timothy Cardinal Dolan has a ready answer. “Most [bishops] don’t think it’s [canon 915] something for which we have to go to the mat,” he told Cruxmag.com three years ago.

In 2006, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick of Washington effectively said: The bishops certainly weren’t going to bite the hands that feed them!

“After all,” he told a gathering of Canada’s bishops, “[taxpayer] money is needed for Catholic hospitals, charities and education.”

Let me put it another way. If the price is right, we won’t follow canon law.

Yes, the priceless imprimatur of Holy Mother Church is sold for a measly few hundred million dollars a year.

One is reminded of Peter Kreeft, who once observed that Judas was the first bishop who ever received a government grant.

There are two questions here: First, why does the federal government want to take over Christian charity? And second, why would our bishops ever let it happen?

Well, the government part is easy. The Catholic Church is government’s major competitor. To tyrants, we’re the enemy. Holy Mother Church is the last bulwark of freedom against tyranny. And her role includes defending us against what Pope Benedict calls the dictatorship of relativism.

Right now, in the West, the Church is the only institution left that will defend the family, marriage, and sexual morality — and, as Pope Benedict wrote the past week, the barque of Peter is taking on water, almost capsizing. That’s why the Vatican bureaucrats got mad at Donald Trump’s historic speech in Poland — because he defended Christendom, the Church, the family, and Western civilization more than the Vatican does!

Take a look around you. Who else is?

But wait — what’s wrong with government charity? Are you against social workers?

Well, Mother Teresa once pointed out that her sisters were not social workers. “We worship Christ in the Blessed Sacrament for four hours every morning, and then we go out and find Him all day in the gutters of Calcutta,” she said. “Social workers can’t do that.”

They can’t do that here, either. These days, if a government social worker, school employee, Army chaplain, or physician even mentions Jesus at work, she’s likely to lose her job. Even go to jail.

The government that punishes these simple acts of Christian charity is the same government sanctioned and applauded by bishops who are desperate to keep the federal money flowing to their welfare bureaucracies.

The bishops are in a bind. Their hands are tied by “golden handcuffs” — and alas, their lips are sealed as well.

It’s up to the laity to free them.

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MANY HAVE BECOME JUDASES
“My children and My child, in past counsel to you I hastened with great urgency to warn you that My Son shall be recrucified by His own.  In the Holy City of Rome many Red Hats have now become the Judases in the hierarchy.  As men of the cross they have now won for themselves the title of ‘evil men of the cross.’  Many have entered My Son’s House, His Church, upon earth to do harm.  I warned you, O pastors, bishops, cardinals, that you have been infiltrated.  Your actions now have brought a reverberation from about the world, and it has been in wake of a coming cataclysm and tribulation to mankind.”  - Our Lady, September 13, 1978

CARDINALS OVERSTEPPED THEIR BOUNDARIES
“You will inform Our bishops that intellectual pride has been their downfall. You will inform the Red Hats that they have overstepped the boundaries. They are like rodents burrowing into the structure of My Son's House. Many mitres shall fall into hell.”  - Our Lady, July 15, 1972

MANY HAVE BECOME JUDASES
“My children and My child, in past counsel to you I hastened with great urgency to warn you that My Son shall be recrucified by His own.  In the Holy City of Rome many Red Hats have now become the Judases in the hierarchy.  As men of the cross they have now won for themselves the title of ‘evil men of the cross.’  Many have entered My Son’s House, His Church, upon earth to do harm.  I warned you, O pastors, bishops, cardinals, that you have been infiltrated.  Your actions now have brought a reverberation from about the world, and it has been in wake of a coming cataclysm and tribulation to mankind.”  - Our Lady, September 13, 1978

MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN
"My children, I cannot impress you more with the urgency of going faster forward in the time that is left, forward to save your brothers and sisters. I ask you to approach My priesthood. Bishops and cardinals must now accept all of the Message from Heaven, even though it will bring about controversy among them. For it will be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal. For all that is rotten will fall and must not be retained.”  - Jesus, November 20, 1978

SECRET SOCIETIES
"It is through My voice-boxes throughout the world that We must send this warning of caution to all of Our cardinals and bishops. The Father will not tolerate their entering into secret societies! The discipline and rules set down by My Son and those He chose to write the Book of life and love must be adhered to. We direct, in the name of the Trinity, that you bishops and cardinals of the world must use your full powers as hierarchy to excommunicate and defrock all who seek to dethrone My Son and destroy the Faith!”  - Our Lady, August 21, 1974

EXCOMMUNICATE
"The Eternal City of Rome must now take action by those in rule, the cardinals and the bishops, to restore this city to the light. Those who seek to build a church of man must be removed by the power of excommunication given to those who rule as representatives in My houses, churches upon your earth.”  - Jesus, December 31, 1975

ENTERING THE HIGHEST PLACES OF THE CHURCH
"As I warned you in the past and you did not listen, unless you prayed more, did more penance, sacrifice, communism would go throughout your world, ravishing nations, destroying your Faith, entering into the highest places of My Son's House. Can you deny what is happening now in your world? Remove the blindness from your eyes and look!" - Our Lady of the Roses, March 18, 1977

SATAN HAS DONE HIS WORK OF FOLLY WELL
"Satan has done his work of folly well. Yes, satan has gone into the highest positions in My House, but he will not triumph. In the final count the victory will be with Us, for he will only proceed as My Father deems."  - Jesus, August 15, 1971  

MANY HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES TO SATAN
"Do not be misled by the outer clothing of man, for there are many wolves in sheep's clothing, wearing the apparel of rank. Know that many have given themselves to satan.
     "Pray, pray much for those who wear the highest mitres, for they, too, have set themselves onto the road to hell. Your prayers and your acts of sacrifice and those who hear My voice, pray much for the Red Hats that have gone onto the wide road." - Our Lady, October 2, 1974 

“WHY DID YOU NOT GIVE MY MESSAGE TO THE WORLD AS I GAVE IT TO YOU?”
"I cry to you, My children, that immorality is the gauge, the measuring point for the fall of a nation. Your country, My children, the United States, has fallen to satan. The great eagle has been plucked by sin. Corruption has entered into the highest places of your government and in My Son's Church. I say unto you, and I say this with counsel from high, the Lord high God in Heaven, the Father of all creation, that as you sow so shall you reap!
     "My children, why did you avoid giving My counsel to the world? O you of little faith in the high places of My Son's House, His Church, why did you not give My message to the world as I gave it to you? Pride and arrogance! That is why, My children." - Our Lady, December 31, 1977 

“DO NOT DESERT MY CHURCH”
"My children, you will all recognize the faces of evil. Satan has entered into the highest ranks of My Church. Pray now for your priests: your bishops, your cardinals, your clergy. Many prayers are needed, for many are on now the road to perdition and taking many others with them.
     "My children, do not cast aside your sacramentals. They are your armor in the days ahead. Do not desert My Church. Do not judge it by the man who has stood there in ignorance or in pride and changed it until it will almost be unrecognizable. I am still with you, My children. Do not leave. You must stay and fight. In this manner, My children, shall the sheep be separated from the goats. It is a form of cleansing." - Jesus, July 15, 1977

SATAN AND HIS AGENTS HAVE ENTERED IN FULL BATTLE
"We ask you from Heaven not to leave, not to create a schism from your main body in Rome. You must remain within My Son's Church and pray a constant vigilance of prayer. Satan and his agents have entered in full battle upon My Son's Church. Satan has entered into the highest ranks within My Son's Church and the world. He will manipulate powers, provincials, until he brings about a great chastisement, because man will not listen and mend his ways.” - Our Lady, February 10, 1977

1972
"Satan, Lucifer in human form, entered into Rome in the year 1972. He cut off the rule, the role of the Holy Father, Pope Paul VI." - Our Lady of the Roses, September 7, 1978

INDECISION, FEAR OF EXPOSURE
"I gave Lucy the Revelation as a temporary secret—as I revealed [the Third Secret] to you on two occasions. Make a concerted effort to bring its entirety to Our children on earth. The hierarchy have not listened to My counsel—thirty-two years lost in indecision and fear of exposure. The Faith is shattered for many." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 29, 1992

Directives from Heaven... http://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm

D36 - Bishops (Part 1)  PDF
D37 - Bishops (Part 2)  PDF
D38 - Priests (Part 1)  PDF
D39 - Priests (Part 2)  PDF
D40 - Infiltrators  PDF
D190 - Cardinals, Part 1    PDF
D191 - Cardinals, Part 2    PDF
D192 - Cardinals, Part 3    PDF
D337 - Hierarchy Infiltrated   PDF

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