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These Last Days News - August 20, 2011

Why Didn’t The Looters’ Parents Know Where They Were? Why Didn’t They Teach Them About Right and Wrong? Answer: Society Has Undermined the Family...

"Your country and your world must embark upon a constant vigil of prayer. The family that will pray will stay together.
     "Mothers must teach their children the true Faith. Fathers must fulfill their mission as fathers to their children. The ex­ample in many homes is poor and will not be tolerated by the Eternal Father. Measure for measure, you shall reap what you have sown.
     "Parents must give to their children the knowledge of the Commandments of the Father. No excuse is accepted for casting aside these Commandments.
     "Discipline your souls, My children, your spirit! Dis­cipline your human body. Do not allow yourselves to be swallowed up in the mire of destruction.” – Our Lady of the Roses, March 18, 1975 

Catholic Herald reported on August 11, 2011:

One definition of relativism I have come across (there are many) is that it is the belief “that, because there is no universal moral standard by which to judge others, we ought to tolerate the behaviour of others – even when it runs counter to our personal or cultural moral standards”.

Well, if you thought that before the London (and Manchester, and Birmingham and Salford and Bristol and Liverpool) riots, what do you think now? Is there really no universal moral standard by which the looters may be judged? And ought we really to tolerate the “behaviour of others – even when it runs counter to our personal or cultural moral standards” in the case of the looters? Answer: no.

One thing the riots show, however, is that those who looted and burned really don’t believe that there is any objective standard of behaviour by which they are constrained: and they do believe that when external coercion is removed then they are entitled to do anything at all.

Why is that? One reason is that nobody has ever told them any different. Not their parents: and probably not their teachers. And at school, even if their teachers are anti-relativists, they almost certainly have very little authority over their pupils (someone should now do a study to see if there is any correlation between the areas in which the rioting originated, and the state of school discipline in those same areas: I bet the correlation is 100 per cent).

But will anything be done as a matter of urgency to confront the problem? It is, to be fair, a priority for Michael Gove: the question is, does he have the resources to deal with the difficulty? But getting it taken seriously is itself part of that difficulty. When Boris Johnson was asked by John Humphrys what could be done about the underlying problem posed by feral youths roaming the streets, and he attempted to take the long view – by saying that there were many things that needed to be done but that we could begin by giving teachers the authority they needed to discipline their children – he was silenced (though nothing silences Boris for long) by a classic Humphrys bullying interruption, with the contemptuous words “it’s a bit woolly isn’t it?” His interesting answer was not taken seriously by Humphrys (does that man ever actually listen to the answers to any of his aggressive questions? He really is an ignorant boor: why doesn’t the BBC just sack him?)

One repeated theme, both of the many vox pop interviews we have all sat through and of the declarations of the politicians, was that the parents of the looting hoodies were most to blame: “why don’t they know where their children are at that hour of the night? Why aren’t they at home?” The fact is, however, that as a society, just as we have undermined the authority of the police and just as we have undermined the authority of the teaching profession by not backing them (often deliberately, in the name of “children’s rights”) when they attempt to establish firm discipline in the classroom, so even more calamitously has our society undermined the traditional family.

As Fr Finigan commented:

Few people have noted the irony of the appeals by the police to parents to “contact their children”. For several decades our country has undermined marriage, the family, and the rights of parents. Agents of the state can teach your children how to have sex, give them condoms, put them on the pill, give them the morning-after pill if it doesn’t work, and take them off for an abortion if that fails – and all without you having any say in the matter or necessarily even knowing about it. Now all of a sudden, we want parents to step in and tell their teenage children how to behave.

Fr Lucie-Smith rightly quotes Melanie Phillips pointing out that she has been writing for more than two decades “on the various elements that have contributed to this collapse of order: family breakdown and mass fatherlessness; educational collapse which damages most those at the bottom of the social heap” and so on. I was writing in the Daily Mail about these things (incidentally, don’t just write the Mail off as an ignorant tabloid; there’s also a good deal of quite serious writing in it) even before she was. This is very far from being a new analysis: Family and Youth Concern, still battling away, was doing pioneering work over 30 years ago (for which its founder, Valerie Riches, was deservedly made a papal dame), pointing out how disastrous for society the undermining of the traditional family based on marriage –not least by successive governments – really was.

Another way in which our society has created a culture in which the original protests over the shooting of an armed drug dealer (possibly justified, possibly not) could so quickly turn into an orgy of looting is its replacement of objective moral values with the worship of celebrity as a quick way in to a life of material plenty: a life full of the expensive “stuff” these miserable youths could only dream of or steal. According to the BBC:

Dr Paul Bagguley, a sociologist at the University of Leeds, says [that] while looting occurs in most riots, it has dominated this week and they could be called the “consumer society riots”.

“If you compare it to the riots in the 1980s, there’s a lot more stuff you can loot easily, such as portable electronic gadgets, mobile phones and flatscreen TVs.

“For a lot of looters, it’s just opportunity but it also expresses a sense of how else am I going to get a hold of these things?”

What’s known as “materialism” is an important part of what’s wrong; though let’s understand what that means. Matter is a good thing in itself: God created matter. Christianity is in a sense a materialistic religion, since in the sacraments spiritual realities are conveyed by and contained in matter: bread, wine, water. The Incarnation is in the same sense a materialistic doctrine: God becomes flesh.

The “stuff”, the material objects these young people were looting, isn’t in itself necessarily bad. We’re all fond of the “stuff” we own: I was given a Kindle for my birthday, and it has changed the way I live my life. It contains the complete works of Shakespeare and Dickens and Jane Austen, a lot of Trollope (and on and on), as well as some contemporary books available at half the price or less on Kindle. It also contains the Douai-Challoner Bible as well as Morning Prayer and Compline (which I say last thing, comfortably in bed, before nodding off). Material things are very often good in themselves.

What is truly terrible is the notion that without them you are nothing; that their possession is itself most of the meaning of life. That’s what the looters think or thought. And that’s what we have to address now. The more one thinks about the meaning of these riots, the deeper we have to dig. But as a society will we? There is no ultimate answer without God: but try saying that to John Humphrys and his ilk; you will be dismissed as a religious nutter.

It’s a long haul. But we could make a start by giving more thought to the plight of those in the (literally) demoralised underclass from which the looters were mostly drawn. One of Tony Blair’s few good ideas was to set up a “social exclusion unit” to see what could be done about the problem. But it soon became just another quango, and was quickly dropped in favour of the next big idea. Some of what needs doing is to be fair already being addressed by some in authority: Michael Gove I have already mentioned, and Iain Duncan Smith is confronting the blight of benefits dependency.

But it’s the married family which is the institution that needs rebuilding most urgently: and in that, David Cameron is being undermined by Clegg and the Lib Dems who don’t believe in it. This is a stalemate that needs to be broken. Clegg (who is currently very weak) should be overruled, and Cameron’s modest plans should be beefed up. This is a problem of long standing, and can’t be solved overnight. But at least we could seriously make a start.

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"They will do as they have done in the past in honor of the Father; and in the path of the Father, they will listen to their husbands and honor their husbands within the home. If they do thus, they will receive honor from their children. The example in the homes is very, very poor.
     "So husbands, now, you will act with love to your wives, but you will keep them in discipline. Many of them have lost their way. Discipline. And wives, honor your husbands and do your role as mothers in honor to your God. We see the example of the homes is very poor....
     "Womanhood must be returned to the state in which the Father created it. Right at this moment a great chastisement is coming upon you, for you have cast aside your role as women. This you will not do without receiving great chastisement.
     "There will be division in homes unless the fathers stand forth as examples to their sons and daughters, and the mothers return to their roles as mothers in the light of God, the Father." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 13, 1974

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MAN ALWAYS HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD
"My child, you understand well why this direction is no longer accepted upon earth. You have now a new rebellious group called ERA, 'equal rights for women.' O My children, what a delusion this is among you! Do you not recognize that you will lose more than you shall ever gain because you defy the direction of the Eternal Father.
     "Paul the Apostle wrote down the words given to him by My Son, Jesus. Adam was created in the image of God as man, and woman was given unto him as his helper. As such, My children, man must always be the head of the household. There shall not be strength in a home divided." - Our Lady, July 15, 1978 

HUSBAND AND WIFE GOING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS
"A foul situation has come about in the schools, both public and private.  They are now teaching sex education, My children.  And this is a debauchery of your young souls.  Parents, are you so blind that you do not investigate, or ask your children what has happened in their classes today at school?  Show you no interest as you go about the world gathering materialism, and seeking to break your home apart by husband and wife going in both directions; neither do they work together to hold the home together, but they work apart, many leaving the children astray by not having counsel over them.” – Our Lady, September 27, 1986

TO BE WITH HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD
"The Eternal Father set up women not to be priests and not to be murderers, but to be with the head of the household a guiding light for their children. Each child to the Eternal Father is a pure blessing upon mankind, but all this has been lost in the name of modernism. Immodesty reigns in your country. There are many reasons why the Eternal Father feels that it is now time to do something about all of these abnormalities.” – Jesus, October 1, 1988

LOVE AND GOOD LEADERSHIP
"Please, I ask you mothers, monitor your children's lives. Do not be an escapist, running from home and finding pleasures of the world. Bring a prayer life back to your children before it is too late. You will be held accountable for the fall of the souls of the children. Therefore, I ask parents throughout the world--with love and good leadership in the household, your children will not fall as prey to satan." – St. Theresa, June 18, 1991

WOMAN MUST BE SUBSERVIENT TO MAN
"A woman must be subservient to man. She is not a chattel; she is a helper of man and husband. But a woman must speak to man. She must not assert herself unrightly in the houses of God.” – St. Theresa, October 2, 1975

PSYCHOLOGISTS/PSYCHIATRISTS RATIONALIZING SIN
"Much, My children, you must accept in faith.  Scientists of your world and your psychologists and psychiatrists rationalize everything, until sin is accepted as a way of life--scientists who are ever searching but never coming to the truth!  The supernatural cannot be rejected, because if you reject the supernatural, you do not have the armor to fight it.  It is a crafty plan of satan to make himself unknown, so that he may go among you, and destroying like a ravenous wolf.” – Our Lady, December 7, 1977

KEEPERS OF THEIR SOULS
"My children, you will keep a firm foundation of faith in the hearts of your children. You cannot expect others to do this fatherly and motherly obligation. You as mothers and fathers are the keepers for the souls of your children, and as such you are held accountable in the eyes of all Heaven for the fall of your children's souls. You will also as parents battle satan as he seeks to destroy your families. It will be father against son and mother against daughter, division in the homes, as satan becomes stronger in his conquest.” – Our Lady, April 1, 1978

MAJOR MARTYRS
“My children, do not allow the enemies to take from you the knowledge of the existence of Heaven, hell, and purgatory. Your children are the major, now, the major martyrs--and I say martyrs. Be it not for the laxity of the parents, the schools, and many in My Son's Church, many of you parents would not be shedding this evening tears of remorse and grief at the loss of your children, knowing not whether they have been saved or lost forever. I say unto you, from the merciful heart of your Mother: Cry not, mother. The Eternal Father is most pitiful upon you. He has opened His heart to many of your children, not judging them by false leaders." – Our Lady, November 25, 1978

READ BIBLE TO CHILDREN
“You will all keep a constant vigilance of prayer going throughout your country and the world. I admonish all parents now to spend at least fifteen minutes of your day reading the Bible to your children and your family. It is now a command from the Eternal Father! For the little children no longer know or recognize the angel guardians. The little children have no conception of the truth of the Divinity or the existence of My Son. The little children are now being taught the ways of satan.” – Our Lady, November 21, 1977 

FIRM FOUNDATION OF FAITH
“My children, you will keep a firm foundation of faith in the hearts of your children.  You cannot expect others to do this fatherly and motherly obligation.  You as mothers and fathers are the keepers for the souls of your children, and as such you are held accountable in the eyes of all Heaven for the fall of your children’s souls.  You will also as parents battle satan as he seeks to destroy your families.” – Our Lady, April 1, 1978 

PROGRAMMED TO KILL
“Your children are being programmed to kill! Your children will be unrecognizable if you as parents do not act to stop this evil!
     “Satan has an advantage, My children. He has convinced many that he is not there or around or even exists. He has convinced many that he is a myth. How clever he has been in his operation, My children!” – Our Lady, December 31, 1977 

ENCOURAGED BY SCHOOLS, TEACHERS
"Children will continue to rise up against their parents, being encouraged by their schools, their teachers, their news medis, and all the medias that have been well planned to seduce the souls of your children." – Jesus, July 25, 1979 

LEFT TO WANDER
“There must be a constant vigilance within the homes. Parents must not be caught up in the cares of their worldly living, in their pursuit of pleasure and entertainment, and leave their children to wander, undisciplined, unguided, and falling into sin and the loss of their souls." – Our Lady, September 7, 1976 

SUPERVISE TEACHING
"Parents must have firm discipline in the home. Parents must supervise the teaching of their children." – Our Lady, August 5, 1977

VICTIMS OF YOUR LAXITY
“My children, your children, parents, are the victims now of your laxity. They are the victims of their elders. All foul manner of acts are being taught them in their schools, in their secret societies. And why? Because you as parents are too lax in your duty. You flitter to and fro looking for pleasures and gathering the materials of your world. And for what? For I shall soon make them as naught, nothing." – Our Lady, November 1, 1977 

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

D218 - Children, Part 1    PDF
D219 - Children, Part 2    PDF
D235 - Disciplining children   PDF
D248 - Man's authority  
D249 - Fathers  

Articles...

Fathers:

The Holy Bible on man's authority in the household
https://www.tldm.org/News7/BibleOnMan'sAuthority.htm

Top 10 father facts
https://www.tldm.org/News7/fatherhood2.htm

Feminism:

Vatican warns that feminism is "lethal" to families
https://www.tldm.org/news7/feminism.htm

Marxist roots of radical feminism
https://www.tldm.org/news5/radical.htm

Robert Bork on radical feminism
https://www.tldm.org/news5/bork%5Ffeminism.htm

Reflections on "women's liberation"
https://www.tldm.org/news5/reflections.htm

Discipline:

Helping your children grow in maturity through discipline
https://www.tldm.org/news7/ChildDiscipline2.htm

Spare the rod, spoil the child
https://www.tldm.org/news6/child.discipline.htm

Dr. Laura advises parents to use "swift and terrible" correction for defiant children
https://www.tldm.org/news7/DrLaura2.htm

The dangers of Ritalin
https://www.tldm.org/news6/ritalin.htm

Are you an "escapist" parent?
https://www.tldm.org/news6/parents1.htm

A major source of today's parenting problems is the psychologizing of our culture
https://www.tldm.org/news6/children2.htm

Links...

Fatherless boys at risk, Fathering magazine
http://www.fathermag.com/809/sanfrancisco.shtml

Research shows that fatherhood really matters, Tallahassee.com, April 20, 2002
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/opinion/3100697.htm

Air-brushing dads out of the picture, Carey Roberts, June 8, 2004
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/040608

Yes, fathers are essential, Carey Roberts, July 15, 2004
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/040615

Turning men into milquetoasts, Chuck Baldwin, April 5, 2005
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/baldwin/050405

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