A Move For Christ the King

This Blog has moved permanently to:

http://www.franciscan-archive.org/ThatChristMayReign.html

Google's Censoring More and More Sites

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=147140#147140

I won't say more about it: lest this blog get censored itself.

For this reason I will be moving all my blogs to The Franciscan Archive within the next month. Big Brother has come to Google (the parent company of Blogger). From now own, if you find it on a blog, you'll have to presume that Google has allowed you to find it: an ominous trend.

Your about to be Googled!

In my previous posts, here and at The Scholasticum, I have pointed to the ominous trend on the Internet of Wikipedia and Googles' attack on objectivity.

It seems that the ominous has only grown worse.

Try going to Google.com and doing a search under the form "What is a N."? (where N. is any noun)

You will not receive a standard list of searches.

What you receive is a new format in which the returns are listed under the search criteria definition:N.

The omninousness of this lies in this: that the resulting links are NOT TO STANDARD DICTIONARIES or academic resources, they are not even to dictionaries at all, but under the guise of giving you such a link the first links listed refer you to a page at GOOGLE, in which about 3 or four sites are listed as contextual definitions of the term you searched for.

And among these 3 or four sites, of course, is Wikipedia's article on the item.

Wikipedia, as I pointed out at The Scholasticum, is not an encyclopedia, it is online game in which a group of anonymous individuals control the definition and identification of every word contained in the "resource", such that they can say anything they want about anything or person, and engage in the most subjective blather, while claiming falsely and quite stubbornly that what they are doing is objective, academic and impartial. (Impartial for Wikipedia means e.g. that their editors can tell you what St. Anselm meant by a letter he wrote 900 years ago, and conclude from this that he was a sodomite, despite the fact that every major Anselm scholar has refuted such a scurilous charge of the sodomitic movement; nay, you cannot even cite such scholars in a Wikipedia article!)

A search at Google under the form "What is a franciscan" gave me this definition, ostensible from a website at Princeton University:

"a friar who wears a grey habit"

The absurdity and inaccuracy of this is only equaled by the fact that Google's interface cites no one as the author of their "definition" page, and no way to submit criticisms or corrections.

But even if they did, it would be nothing but another Wikipedia game; because when the definitinos of words are set in stone, on the Web, then there is no longer any objective academic way of verifying their accuracy.


Thus, without doubt, Google is advancing the surreal world of 1984 and the reign of the Antichrist.

I had called for a boycott of Google before, but now I believe that it is a moral imperative of all men of goodwill to spread the word: Boycot Google!

Vices opposed to the Kingdom: Bitter Zeal

As we are at the end of the Year of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, 2006, it is only fitting to review in our hearts how we have lived and acted, according to the measure of the teachings of Our Lord and King.

In this respect, if we have not been to confession recently, let us do so, and make a good and full confession.

And if we do go to confession regularly, let us take some time to reflect on our dominant vice, and the means to uproot it.

Now one vice which is very much opposed to the Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ, both in the world to come and in this world, is bitter zeal.

Like the fallen angels which inspire them, vices offer what it evil under the appearances of good. Bitter zeal is no different. Actually, it is more accurate to say that a vice is a distorted virtue, or a spiritual ailment which afflicts a virtue, feeds off it, and destroys it.

Thus no man who has a vice is free of the consideration that this vice is not a vice, for unless a man to some extent be deceived about what is truly good, he would not be vicious.

Zeal is a virtue common among those who seek the Kingdom of Our Most High Lord, especially if they are eager to work for the His Reign over all hearts and nations and societies.

But bitter zeal is not so often understood and recognized. For this reason it is very dangerous.

Since I have come to understand the crisis in the Church, I have had the opportunity to come to know of many laymen and women who are zealous for Sacred Tradition and the Immemorial Rites of the Church.

However, sadly, I can recount that so, so many of them have fallen away from the practice of their Roman Catholic Faith on account of bitter zeal.

This one vice can undo all the good intentions and merit of ones actions, with seemingly no apparent ill symptoms.

Nay, those afflicted almost never advert to their affliction, and thus are completely robbed of Christ's grace.

Bitter zeal is very common. It is a common aflliction of those who are zealous to see and observe God's Will done in themselves and in others. Its characteristic symptom is the predominance of anger at others faults over anger at one's owns faults. It manifests itself most often in uncharitable speech: detraction. And as it grows more strong it leads to worse vices, such as calumny, backbiting, spiritual sloath, neglect of the sacrament of penance, impenitance, and ultimately to such a hatred for one's fellow man, society, people, nation, etc. that the individual is completely isolated.

Bitter zeal as a vice has not only an opposed virtue, but a contrary, opposed vice.

The opposed virtue is righteous zeal. The contrary opposed vice is irenicism.

Righteous zeal is the eagerness of a soul in seeing the Will of God done in himself and in others. But righteous zeal cannot be practiced without justice and charity.

Charity as we know is the form of all the virtues, and it should motivate them all. When charity is not the principle motivation of the practice of any virtue, that virtue becomes distorted.

When zeal is not properly movtivated by charity, it exceeds the bounds of justice, and thus is distorted by self-love to notice the faults in others, more than in one's self.

When this happens the considerations of others faults leads to destructive criticism, and this kills fraternal charity. When spoken or communicated to others it leads to detraction, and worse to calumny, if what is said is not true. When spoken or communicated to the guilty parties it leads to a very demeritorious act: giving a correction when a correction is not wanted, when the giver has no obligation to give it, and the receiver no grace to receive it.

In this regard we can temper our righteous zeal by the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

He said, "Do not throw pearls to swine, lest they trample upon them and then turn on you."

Which in this regard means to consider well wether the offender against the Divine Will is even capable of receiving the correction; when he may be able to accept it, how it should be given so that he may accept it, with what explanation and spirit and temper it can be given, and when given, and in what circumstances; and to what extent the Lord obliges us to act, and to what extent the offender must be given correction and in what respect he does not deserve it, etc..

Often in such circumstances we will see that personally we do not have any obligation to correct the sinner, but those in authority do. And most often only those in authority have the grace and position such that when giving the correction the offender will accept it. But we should take counsel in things so proximate to fraternal charity, lest we err by our own uninformed and inexperienced judgment. It is good in all such cases to ask the advice of your confessor as to what to do. Or if you have a spiritual director, to seek and follow his counsel.

Destructive criticism is a most common result of bitter zeal.

Just as there are many scandals in the world and in the Church today, so there are many ways, good and bad, to respond to them.

First of all we should never give bad example, and thus become the occasion of the scandal to our brothers. For as Our Might King says, "Woe to him through whom a scandal comes! Better to have a mill stone tied around one's neck and to be thrown into the sea, than to scandalize even the least of these little ones!"

Second we should never take scandal. Taking scandal means responding to a scandal of another in such a way as to justify our commiting some sin, similar or differnt, ourselves.

Thus those who uncessarily speak of the ill deed of another to destroy his reputation or to discourage others in their virtue or attatchement to the Church, are taking scandal and doing the Devil's work.

The great frequency of this sort of vicious behavior has lead to the loss of so many souls in the Traditional Movement. So many who used to go only to the Traditional Latin Mass, no longer practice their faith, or no longer remain in communion with the Apostolic See, apart from which there is no salvation, or no longer care about virtue, having despaired, which is contrary to Hope.

It is thus a very precarious thing to speak of the faults of one's superior. Even when it is justified and necessary, to avert vice and scandal, we must do so in a constructive manner, and only to those who know of the scandal, so as to avert their taking scandal, and to encourage them in fidelity to the Faith, to Sacred Scripture, to Sacred Tradition, to a proper sense of obedience, and to a proper sense of forebearance.

Let us pray that Our Most High King and His Immaculate and Glorious Queen Mother may with St. Joseph, the Guardian of His Kingdom, enlighten us as to the grave danger of bitter zeal, and to the goodness of the virtues which are opposed to it: charity, justice, righteous zeal, prudence, and discretion.

Polish Archbishops oppose Christ being named King of Poland

In a sign of complete perfidy and stupidity, the Episcopal Conference of Poland, an nearly entirely catholic nation, has oppenly opposed a proposed bill to be voted on in Polish Parliment on the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, to name Our Most High Lord Jesus Christ the Honorary King of Poland (Poland in the early Renaissance already consecrated itself to Our Blessed Lady, as Queen of Poland).

In response to the proposed bill, Archbishop Tadeusz Gocłowski, of Gdansk, (formerly Danzig, Prussia) said: "Let parliament deal with passing better laws that we need" (you can find the Archbishops phone number and address here)

For his part, Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, the retired bishop of Sosnowiec said: "This kind of action, although it may stem from good will, sounds a bit like propaganda." (you can contact Bishop Pieronek through the Diocese of Sosnowiec)

What Christmas Means

Soon the most lovely feast of the year will be upon us: Christmas!

"For God so loved the world as to send His only Son, that all who believe in Him might have eternal life".

Merry Christmas! is the cheer of the season, and the whole tenor and force of our holy religion urges us to mean it by a sincere preparation.

Our Lord says in the Gospel, "If you approach the altar and remember that your brother has something against you, leave you gift at the altar and go and be reconciled with your brother, and then return and offer your gift."

This lesson of Our Lord is about moral integrity; and how our acts of religion have no value if we have offended our brother and refuse to set things right before approaching God.

On Christmas Day this should be our goal: to approach the altar and the Creche with a clean heart, having undone the evil we have done others and to right the injustices which we have wrought.

In vain do we say, "Merry Christmas!" to our neighbor if we neglect these things.

Indeed, I would say that is a sort of blasphemy to twist these words into an excuse for living the Gospel, as if to say, "Merry Christmas!", in the sense of "Good-bye and don't bother me", or even worse: in the sense of "Fat chance of that! I took what I wanted to take, and I am not going to give it back before Hell freezes over!"

In vain do we spend the day talking about religion, talking about the problems in the Church, etc., the problems in the government, if we do such things.

If we profess to seek the Social Reign of Christ, we are more obliged to live the faith daily in our personal interelations.

And the more we talk about the Reign of Christ, the more He shall hold us to His high standards in the day of our judgment. Which is not to say we ought not speak about Him, but rather, that we should be mindful of living His teachings, and speaking accordingly consequently.

Practicing Fraternal Correction

On of the most central aspects of our Religion is the practice of charity, and one oft misunderstood or non-observed aspect is the precept Our Lord gave about how to resolve problems of interpersonal relations when one side has been wronged by another, or vice versa, or both.

Our Lord said that we should 1) go the one who has wronged us, in private and ask him for what is our due, 2) if he does not see reason, then go again with a fellow catholic, and ask again, 3) if he does not see reason, appeal to the Church.

This "going to our neighbor" can be done by any sort of communication that is privat, it does not require a personal visit, because this can or cannot be helpful, depending on the circumstances.

It should be noted that, if the offense is objective, that it is in no way a sin for the one offended to seek justice; since Our Lord commands that we resolve disputes in this manner, it is obvious that doing so is not a sin, or a lack of perfection.

Too often it is the offender who will reply that we should be better Christians if we endured or put up with this injustice: but that is nothing but the same mentality that justifies abusive behavior: something like the theif who attempt to excuse himself by claiming the one robbed was too attached to his belongings.

Turnign to a friend, on a second appeal, means seeking the intervention of another catholic, in private who will in private speak to the offender: he does not need to do this in person, as said before: and it does not seem that he has to do this in the presence of the offended, either, as this may or may not be helpful.

Turning to the Church is the final recourse: by this Our Lord means to see that we guard scrupulously the personal reputations of even offenders, such that we do not publically speak or identify them until recourse is had to proper authorities.

In civil matters, we should have recourse to civil authorities, in religious ones to religious authorities. It seems that Our Lord by speaking only of religious authorities is implicity upholding the notion of a theocracy; or at least that of the superiority of the ecclesiastical order. St. Paul sheds some light upon this, by saying that we catholics should not hall one another into court, because this gives the Faith a bad name. But in this he gives a counsel not a precept, because in certain cases, obviously, on in civil courts can one take legal action, or only a recourse to the police could provide a remedy.

Appealing to an authority puts the matter in the hands of those who should deal with it in an impartial or objective manner; in such cases we should examine our consciences carefuly to only state the impartial truth, and not to wrong the one who has offended us by claiming he did other than what he did.

Let us try to live these truths this Christmas season.

I for myself, ask pardon from all whom I have offended over the years and especially this year, and in particular through anything I have written or said, on my websites, or via email.

May the Good Lord and His Blessed Mother, give you peace and all the blessings of Christ's Mass!

To Found a Monastery

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

The season of Christmas is nearly upon us, and I beg you to consider helping some poor franciscans who have no place to live.

I am speaking about the franciscans and the vocations who want to live the traditional observance of the Rule of St. Francis, but who cannot do so in the Order of Friars minor because this is a very hateful thing to the superiors of the Order.

Since the time of Vatican II there have been a constant program of disassembling the observances of the order, of denying the traditional virtues, of omitting and then forbidding the traditional rules and regulations.

Since that time too, nearly all the centers of formation and religious orders in the Church have been overcome by modernism and vile immorality. The Order has not been exempted from this either.

For this reason the Order of Friars Minor today is not a welcoming place nor a safe place for vocations.

For franciscan brothers like myself, and for franciscan priests and vocations, we have no place to go.

You can read more about this through the link on the Right, entitled, "Help Save St. Francis' Order".

I ask you to read that link and make a donation of whatever you can to the non-profit which is helping me establish a new monastery where the Traditional observances of the Rule of St. Francis can be faihtfully kept, along with the Traditional Latin Mass.