The Catholic Church and System Christianity

Dear Francis Berger,

Today you took exception to Bishop Robert Brown's appeal for Catholic's to return to Mass. I can see that you are very angry and some of that is indeed righteous anger.  Our shepherds have let us down.  They closed down the churches to all but a few for several months and thus relinquished the "last" of their authority to the System.

They were already in the process of abdicating to the System before the Covids hit through allowing the System to dictate what is taught in Catholic schools, allowing non-Catholic procedures in what were once Catholic hospitals and giving only token resistance to System sanctioned sins such as abortion and same sex "marriage".  

Added to this we have the sexual abuse scandals within the Church.  This helped to whittle away the Church's moral authority in the world.  It stopped the Church from insisting upon that moral authority.  She had to remove the plank from her own eye.

We have also been suffering under 2 Popes.  One is virtually silent and the other makes ambiguous statements hoping to mollify the System.

Most of these things were already happening prior to the Covid and it made me think that because the prophecies of the End Times predicted the cessation of the Mass then the End Times were a long way off since who would persecute such an innocuous  institution.  It rolls over for every command of the System.  Little did I realise that it was the rolling over that would cause the Mass to stop.

So there you are, many reasons for righteous anger.  If only we were Jesus and could stay on anger's righteous side.  For mixed up in the righteousness is also spite.  You say, to leave the Church and follow to a new unprecedented form of Christianity for this is where salvation lies.  I say that salvation still lies within the Catholic Church.  The Catholic Church unlike the American constitution does not need virtuous citizens to be effective, she was designed by God for sinners, which is lucky for us.  Jesus said that she would last until the end of time and the gates of Hell would not prevail against her. (Matt 16:18.) and it is Jesus who gives her her authority.  It is also within the Church that we find the sacraments, including the Eucharist and these are for our benefit; a gift from God.  We do not need to follow the Bishops who push the vaccine or agree with the Pope's view on climate change.  We do need to follow the Magisterium, the truths that the Church has held since the beginning.  This includes that the Mass and the Eucharist are essential.  The Church was wrong when she prevented us from going and receiving.  She is right when she asks us to come back.  As Fr Clovis said back in 2017,  "It is self-evident that the Catholic Church and the anti-Church currently co-exist in the same sacramental, liturgical and juridical space."   It is our job to discern the way the truth and the life and to stay in the Catholic Church and stay out of the anti-Church.

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Chinese three child policy

 Recently (31 May) the Chinese government announced that they would be lifting the maximum number of children a couple could have from 2 to 3.  Vox Day hailed this as proof that the Chinese have chosen life with carrots and sticks to follow.  Other commentators have been more circumspect, allowing that the policy has softened but that the Chinese are unlikely to a) change behaviour and b) that it would make a difference anyway.  The largest cohort of Chinese is about to enter retirement.  They are too old to have babies themselves.  The cohorts under them are the product of the one child policy.  They have been brought up as princes.  Bringing up a child is expensive in terms of both money and time.  To bring up more than one would fill the average modern Chinese with dread.  I met some Chinese touring Australia back in the 1980s.  My family is very large by anyone's standards.  The Chinese looked at us in horrified wonder.  A family with 8-9 children was not something to emulate.  I'm guessing that attitude has only hardened in the years since then.

Lies and hairdyes

 My 16 year old daughter was running the idea of dyeing her hair blonde past me.  To her surprise I was not in favour.  "Why?" she wanted to know. My answer was that it would not be as pretty as her natural colour; it would look fake and that it would damage her hair.  

From there we somehow got to how perhaps deep down she really was a blonde trapped in a brunette's body or however they phrase these things these days.  To which I replied that of course that was not true as she could never be a blonde, she could only be a brunette with dyed blonde hair and the dye would be a lie.

This of course opened me up for attack as in the past I had dyed my greying locks back to roughly their original colour. (It is impossible to replicate the original colour.)  Yes this had been a lie and also a mistake.  Learn from my mistakes.