False Shepherds

Surveys of American Catholics and our views on Church teachings often reveal disturbing results. For instance, in an April 2008 survey conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) entitled, “Sacraments Today: Belief and Practice Among U.S. Catholics”, only 37% of American Catholics responded “Very Strongly” when asked to respond to the statement that “Living my life consistent with Church teachings” is an important factor in “my sense of what it means to be a Catholic.” (http://cara.georgetown.edu/beliefattitude.pdf) Similarly, only 18% “Agreed Strongly” with the statement, “In deciding what is morally acceptable, I look to Catholic Church teachings and statements made by the Pope and Bishops to form my conscience.” A Dec 2008 survey completed by the PEW Forum on Religion and Public Life declared that 84% of White American Catholics believe “that many religions can lead to eternal life.” (http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=380)

Why this growing rejection of Church teachings among U.S. Catholics? Much of the blame lies with the episcopate and with the heretics in their midst. For example, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, the chairman of the Catholic bishops' conference of Germany, recently stated during an interview with a German television network that Christ “did not die for the sins of the people as if God had provided a sacrificial offering, like a scapegoat.” (http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/apr/09042107.html).

Oh, really.

According to Zollitsch Christ’s crucifixion was merely a sign of solidarity with the human race. Christ had “taken up what I have been blamed for, including the evil that I have caused, and also to take it back into the world of God and hence to show me the way out of sin, guilt and from death to life.” Zollitsch’s defective view is contrary to Church teaching:

Christ's death is both the Paschal sacrifice that accomplishes the definitive redemption of men, through "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world", and the sacrifice of the New Covenant, which restores man to communion with God by reconciling him to God through the "blood of the covenant, which was poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins".

(Article 613 - Catechism of the Catholic Church- http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p122a4p2.htm)

When false shepherds like Zollitsch are allowed to lead the flock astray, why are we surprised when we discover the sheep are lost?

Religious leaders who ignore Church doctrine and teach others to do similarly must be purged from the Church. Those in the Church hierarchy who allow religious heretics like Zollitsch to continue their assault on the tenets of Christendom should remember our Lord’s warning:

But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matthew 18:6)

Donald Tremblay

The Greater Sin

American Catholics are in an uproar. According to CNSNews.com, prior to President Obama’s Tuesday speech at Georgetown University (a Jesuit institution), White House officials asked university officials to cover the IHS monogram inscribed on a pediment at the back of the stage. (IHS is an acronym for Iesus Hominum Salvator, which is Latin for “Jesus, Savior of Men”). Georgetown Associate Vice President Julie Green Bataille stated, “Georgetown honored the White House staff’s request to cover all of the Georgetown University signage and symbols behind the Gaston Hall stage.” (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=46784) On Thursday CBNNews.com reportedly received a statement from the White House stating that “decisions made about the backdrop for the speech were made to have a consistent background of American flags, which is standard for many presidential events. Any suggestions to the contrary are simply false.” (http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/581525.aspx) Interestingly, when former First Lady Laura Bush spoke at Georgetown’s Gaston Hall on Dec 4, 2006 there was no need for the IHS monogram to be covered. (Photo of Laura Bush and the IHS monogram can be viewed at (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=46769)

I do not believe for a moment that the IHS monogram was covered merely for aesthetic reasons. Our president simply did not want to be photographed in front of any symbol of Christ worship. I am not as angry as others about the IHS monogram request because I do not expect anything better from our president. Barack Obama has proven through his words and his actions that he is not a Christian. Then again, in truth, neither is he a Muslim or a Jew, or even a Scientologist for that matter. Obama is a humanist. He believes that Man is God and that we all hold the “Christ principle” within ourselves. “Yes, we can” really means, “Yes, Man can save itself.” This is why as insulting as Obama’s request was, it is the Society of Jesus that is guilty of the greater sin by agreeing to cover the IHS monogram.

A Roman Catholic order whose members define themselves as soldiers of Christ agreeing to cover the name of the Lord? Simply apostasy.

Although considering the jaded track record of the Jesuits–liberation theology, rejection of Papal authority–their burying of the Christ monogram is hardly surprising.

If Georgetown’s Jesuit officials were true soldiers of Christ they would have responded to the White House request by respectfully suggesting that the president “Go scratch.” And when Pres Obama objected they could have politely held the front door open to prevent it from hitting him in the ass as he was leaving.

Donald Tremblay

If You Deny Me . . .

Things could be worse. We could live in England.

Although our nation’s zeitgeist is growing more anti-Christian, we have yet to embrace the apostasy of our British brethren. So blasphemous are recent trends in England that Britons better pray that God saves more than just the Queen.

Not long ago posters appeared on London buses claiming, “There’s probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life”. Now the National Secular Society (NSS) is issuing online certificates for Christians who want to de-baptize themselves.

(http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ae71a038e9b3b47af4f0e9eac9598fd8.2b1&show_article=1) More than 100,000 people have reportedly downloaded the certificate, and according to NSS President Terry Sanderson the organization has already sold 1,500 of the documents at $4.35 apiece.

Some disavow their Christian baptism to protest a perceived increase in Roman Catholic political activism. Others argue that baptism was forced on them as young children and, thus, was not of their own choice. One individual even went so far as to label baptism a form of child abuse. NSS President Sanderson believes this push to de-baptize is a reaction to the “hostility” emanating from the 72% of Brits who define themselves as Christians–an odd accusation considering the rabid political correctness dominating British culture.

Similar de-baptizing efforts have emerged in Spain and Italy. According to a report in the International Herald Tribune, the Spanish high court ruled “in favor of a man from Valencia, Manuel Blat, saying that under data protection laws he could have the record of his baptism erased.” In Italy, “the Italian Union of Rationalists and Agnostics (UAAR) won a legal battle over the right to file for de-baptism in 2002". UAAR secretary Raffaele Carcano asserts that “more than 60,000 of these forms have been downloaded in the past four years and continue to be downloaded at a rate of about 2,000 per month.”

There is little doubt this de-baptizing crusade will find its way to our shores. Let’s just hope that when it arrives Americans remember Christ’s warning:

“But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 10:33)


Donald Tremblay

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Marionettes?

I am not a conspiracy theorist.

I believe two commercial airliners, and not detonated explosives, destroyed the World Trade Center. UFOs, in my view, are not alien ships. Most are military aircraft; others are natural phenomena, such as solar light reflecting off the ice crystals in the earth’s upper atmosphere. I can accept that Oswald was the lone gunman just as easily as I can accept that there were others behind JFK’s assassination. Yet, despite my distrust of conspiracy theories, I confess that there are aspects of our current economic mess that leave me wondering whether we are marionettes at the mercy of global puppeteers.

$ On Thursday, March 5 Citigroup’s stock value dropped below the cost of a Lotto ticket. Just eight days later on Friday, March 13, Citigroup Chairman Richard Parsons announced that “the bank does not need any more capital injections from the government” because “it was profitable in the first two months of 2009.” (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-finance/20090121/BUSINESS-US-CITIGROUP-PARSONS/) How exactly does a corporation earn profits while simultaneously watching its stock value drop below a dollar? How does a company go from owning a virtually worthless stock to no longer needing federal financial support in just eight days?

$ General Motors made a similar miraculous about-face in the span of a week. On March 6 GM’s auditor, Deloitte and Touche, announced that the car maker might not survive as a going concern because of “recurring losses from operations, stockholders' deficit and inability to generate sufficient cash flow to meet its obligations and sustain its operations." (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25146445-5017997,00.html) Yet, only six days later GM announced “that it will not need $2 billion in government funding that it previously requested for March.” (http://wot.motortrend.com/6484623/industry-news/gm-tells-presidential-task-force-to-keep-its-2-billion-cost-cutting-working/index.html) Imagine that. Going from near bankruptcy to no longer needing two billion dollars in less than a week. Remarkable.

Similar unusual recoveries have been reported for the retail sales and new home sales industries, recoveries that are so neat and convenient that they almost appear planned . . . And there are those who believe that they were.

The term New World Order (NWO) has surfaced often during the past few weeks, even among politicians. Conspiracy theorists assert that the New World Order is merely a euphemism for One World Government–a political system in which Americans would relinquish self-government, and many civil rights and liberties, to merge with the world community. One World Government opponents believe the U.S. government creates disasters and stokes public fears as a way to dupe Americans into voluntarily relinquishing their liberties. The Patriot Act is cited as an example. Fears of another 9-11 manipulated Americans into surrendering privacy rights. In other words freedoms are sacrificed for security. These same conspiracy theorists believe that this current global economic collapse is just the latest government orchestrated scheme to bring America closer to that One World Government.

Are these doomsayers crackpots? Do they have overactive imaginations?

Before you answer remember that just two days ago The Moscow Times announced the Kremlin’s plan to pitch world leaders on the creation of a global currency. Could a unified currency be the next stage in the formation of that One World Government?

For now I am willing to accept that this global collapse is solely the result of greed run amok; yet I cannot help but feel that there is a string tugging at my back.


Donald Tremblay