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JMJ
I'm still overloaded, but there are a few events, incidents and thoughts that bear some consideration.
Euthanasia in Canada
In Canada euthanasia is called "Medical Assistance In Dying".
While the 'slippery slope' argument is regarded as a fallacy (Wiki Article link), the deletion of a principle was foreseen to enable a much wider application of the 'service'. Plus there was the example of other countries.
An SSPX priest told me that in the Netherlands they were called to give the last rites to an elderly grandmother. The priest arrived and there was a party going on and the Grandmother was in no distress. A family member explained that she was going to die the next day and this was her farewell party. The contradiction was obvious to the priest.
In Canada, there are no abortion laws as they were struck down decades ago. The result is medical abortion (the technical term to exclude spontaneous abortion which is commonly called a miscarriage) is available any time up to birth.
This set the stage for euthanasia and I have remarked that the negation of the principle taking an innocent baby life would eventually result in taking an elderly person's life - voluntarily or otherwise.
It is sad, but an indication of how weak the Catholic Church really is when a country in which Catholics represent 29.4% of the population (it used to be higher - around 40%) has both abortion and euthanasia.
That is the reason why this article is labelled as Crisis of the Church.
I have also noted that while there are noble efforts of the various pro-life organizations, they don't seem as well organized as the pro-death / choice organizations.
This lack of strategic cooperation will, in my opinion, make it a very, very long road to recovery.
Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson was prophetic when he wrote these words in the Lord of the World:
For instance, when a volor [aircraft] crashes in front of her, Mabel's "heart leap[s] in relief" when she witnesses the Government's Ministers of Euthanasia rush in to dispatch the wounded and dying. Her husband later comforts her by saying that she knows that "the euthanisers [sic] are the real priests." Source
The Ongoing Assault on the Tridentine Mass
The Mantra (link) is firmly in place as Cardinal Roche has made clear and just like a new religion of man emerged in 'The Lord of the World' we have a New Mass, New Theology and ergo, as some have said, a New Religion.
Before you trot off to the wrong conclusion. The modernism is, simply a movement with the Church. Like a cancer festering the flesh and bones of the Body of Christ. But Our Lord waits giving all the chance to repent.
Cdl Roche's words are simply and echoing of another mantra that has been uttered for decades and we should thank him for making the situation so crystal clear.
The theology of the Church has changed,” argued Roche. “Whereas before the priest represented, at a distance, all the people – they were channeled through this person who alone was celebrating the Mass. ... it is not only the priest who celebrates the liturgy but also those who are baptized with him, and that is an enormous statement to make.
This is a distortion of the actual Teaching of the Church on this point of theology.
Suffice to say, it seems that many of the sisters, nuns, brothers, monks, priests, bishops, cardinals, and perhaps even popes have become Ministers of Euthanasia of the immortal souls of the faithful, condemning them to an eternity of suffering in Hell.
That is not to say that there aren't those who are stand with Our Lord Jesus Christ, but the former occupy the positions of power and the good are too weak, too unorganized (like at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council) to mount a defence of the Catholic Truth.
Conclusion
The reality is that there is nothing new in these events, Traditional Catholics have seen them in the past, hopefully it will help some awaken from their stupor.
The news can be depressing, but the reality is that nothing has changed for us. We need to work for our salvation and those under our care. Once that is in underway, then we can offer a hand to others.
There is consolation to be found in this, God is Just and we are not to judge the state of the soul of others, we have to answer for ourselves. That will be quite enough for anyone to do.
P^3
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