Abraham Foxman, Anti-Catholic Bigot
Took on Mel Gibson for the Passion of the Christ
Now He's Demanded of Benedict-Ratzinger to Halt Canonization of Pope Pius XII
Who, according to Jewish Leaders, Did More for Them against Hitler
Than Any Other European Leader at the Time

Abraham Foxman, anti-Catholic bigot par excellence, has now turned his prejudice against Pope Pius XII. You remember Foxman from his attack upon traditional Catholic Mel Gibson for producing the Biblically-based Passion of the Christ. Foxman, the anti-Catholic bigot who heads the B'nai B'rith's so-called Anti-Defamation League, has defamed Pope Piux XII by calling upon Benedict-Ratzinger to suspend canonization of Pope Pius XII, whom because he "turned a blind eye to the death of Jews during World War Two." [Sources: Reuters, Haaretz of Israel]

Really?! Foxman has schismatized himself from Jewish leaders like Golda Meir and Albert Einstein. What are the facts about Pope Pius XII?

• Pope Pius XII saved 860,000 Jews directly or indirectly; in Rome alone during the Nazi occupation 4,447 Jews were hidden in over 155 Catholic houses, ecclesiastical institutions, parishes and schools -- more than all other rescue operations, including those run by Jews
• Pope Pius XII was instrumental in protecting the Jews of Rome, even to the point of gathering 50 kilograms of gold to provide "indemnity" money to save them from imprisonment
• Pope Pius XII ordered that all monasteries and convents be opened to hide Jewish refugees, and the Vatican coordinated a wide effort to obtain passports and other documents to help thousands of Jews to escape
• Pope Pius XII personally gave refuge to at least 3,000 at his own summer residence at Castel Gandolfo
• At the end of World War II, the chief rabbi of Rome, Israel Zolli, converted to Catholicism and chose for his baptismal name, Eugenio, after the pontiff
• the notorious Nazi official, Adolph Eichmann, in his Diary released on March 1, 2000, complains that the Vatican "vigorously protested the arrest of Jews, requesting the interruption of such action; to the contrary, the Pope would denounce it publicly"
• Through the agency of Pope Pius XII 80% of the Jews in Italy were saved; to the contrary, 80% of the Jews in the northern countries were executed by the Nazis
• When Pope Pius XII was elected Pope, the Berliner Morgenpost, a pro-Nazi newspaper, stated: "The election of Cardinal Pacelli is not of Germany's liking, as he has always been opposed to Nazism."
• Following Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas radio message, the Gestapo wrote in a report: "the Pope has rejected the new National Socialist European Order. He has not attacked National Socialism directly, but he has severely criticized everything we believe.... He has spoken clearly in favor of the Jews"
• In his lifetime, Pius XII received more praise and expressions of gratitude from the Jewish people than any other pope in history; in several churches in Rome there are Jewish plaques thanking the Church for saving Jewish lives
• In 2001 New York Rabbi David Dalin has proposed that Pope Pius XII be proclaimed "Righteous Among the Nations," the highest award given by the state of Israel to persons outstanding in assisting persecuted Jews during World War II: "More than any other 20th century leader, Pius XII fulfilled this Talmudic tradition, when the fate of European Jewry was at stake. No other Pope had been so widely praised by Jews, and they were not mistaken. Their gratitutde, as well as that of the entire generation of holocaust survivors, testifies that Pius XII was, genuinely and profoundly, a righteous gentile.... Pius XII was not Hitler's pope, but the closest Jews had come to having a papal supporter, and at the moment when it mattered most."
• Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Time magazine in December 1940 stating: "Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised, I now praise unreservedly."
• Jeno Levai, who testified at the Eichmann Nazi War Crimes Trial, insisted: "The one person [Pope Pius XII] who did more than anyone else to halt the dreadful crime and alleviate its consequences, is today made the scapegoat for the failures of others"
• Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister, stated when Pius XII died in 1958: "During the Nazi terror, when fearful martyrdom came to our people, the voice of the Pope was raised for its victims. The life of our times was enriched by a voice speaking out about great moral truths above the tumult of daily conflict. We mourn a great servant of peace."
• Moshe Sharrett, former Foreign Affairs Minister and Prime Minister of Israel, after the Second World War went to see Pius XII "to thank the Catholic Church for what it did to save the Jews in all parts of the world."
• A New York Times editorial of December 25, 1942, stated: "The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas.... He is about the only ruler left on the continent of Europe who dares to raise his voice at all."
• Rabbi Herzog of Jerusalem, as well as the Rabbis of the Italian, United States, Romanian, and Hungarian Jewish communities came to Rome or sent messages thanking Pope Pius XII for the way in which he mobilized the Church in their behalf.

It is another interesting fact that Foxman claims that he was a "holocaust survivor," but he does not mention that he survived the Nazis only because a Catholic family took him in and protected him. He has never made a public statement of gratitude to the Catholic family who saved his life.

What an ingrate!

While the Newchurch of Hypocrisy Continues to Protect Abortionists as It Does Criminal Presbyters.U.S. House Speaker

Nancy Pelosi Publicly Flagellates Her Pope
Pelosi, a Pro-abortionist, Takes Her Whip to Benedict-Ratzinger
Because He Dared to Suggest that Pro-abortion Politicians Might Want Voluntarily
To Deprive Themselves of the Invalid Novus Ordo Cookie

You've got to love those New Catholic Church politicians, don't you? They call themselves "Catholic" when it gets them votes, but when it comes to actually being Catholic, they'll fight their pope to the death!

A case in point. Benedict-Ratzinger made some critical remarks at the beginning of his recent junket to Brazil about pro-abortion politicians. In answer to a press question, he avoided declaring them excommunicated ("all talk and no action") and even "fudged" the transcript of the press conference to play down the consequences. But he said that they might want voluntarily to deprive themselves of the invalid Novus Ordo cookie.

But Nancy Pelosi, the liberalist new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was hopping mad. What right did her pope have to tell her that her pro-abortion stand was not Catholic? No "obedient" Catholic she, but one after the example of pro-abortionist Senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, she joined together with pro-abortionist Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat Representative, and sixteen others to attack her pope.

We are concerned with the pope's recent statement warning Catholic elected officials that they risk excommunication and would not receive communion for their pro-choice views. [The penalty of excommunication] offend[s] the very nature of the American experiment and do[es] a great disservice to the centuries of good work the Church has done.

Good Catholics, New Catholic Church  is a Church of hypocrisy. We have a gutless wonder of a New pope who can't speak out clearly for Catholic positions on traditional morals, even when it involves the murder of infants and the rape of children. We have gutless wonders of New Catholic Church bishops, who are so consumed with power and money that they have no problem shoveling out the invalid Novus Ordo cookie to the likes of Kerry and Kennedy. We have gutless wonders of New Catholic Church  politicians who pose as "Catholics" for a photo op, but when it comes to acting like Catholics, they are nowhere to be found.

In a little-known passage from Sacred Scripture, it appears that King Solomon predicted the demise of the Church, as he did that of the Jewish Temple, which he himself had built. His description of the day when the Faith and its sacred ceremonies would be abandoned sounds exactly like the current situation of the Roman Catholic Church of JP2, the not so great [who ruined the Rosary] and Benedict Ratziger [who ruined the Stations of the Cross], when so many of those who call themselves "Catholic" have abandoned God's Faith and traditional sacred ceremonies, and when a battered Church is paying the penalty for that abandonment:

But if you and your children revolting shall turn away from following me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies, which I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and adore them. I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them. And the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people. And this house shall be made an example of. Every one that shall pass by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house? And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them. Therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil? (3 Kings 9:6-9/DRV)

 This passage provides a clear answer to the question that all too many ask: Why has the Lord brought upon the Church all this evil? The answer is that the the Church and its Presbyters have forsaken their God and worshipped strange gods.

"Today Unborn Children Are Being Killed in the Millions"

During a sermon in the Cologne cathedral on Epiphany, Joachim Cardinal Meisner declared:

"First there was Herod, who ordered the children of Bethlehem to be killed,

then there was Hitler and Stalin among others, and today unborn children are being killed in their millions."

So? No problem there, right? Wrong! The cardinal was set upon by Liberalists, who objected to abortions being compared to the Nazi concentration camps and demanded an "apology."

But let's look at the numbers.

Every year around the world, 46,000,000 abortions are conducted. The total number lost in the concentration camps has been estimated from 6,000,000-12,000,000.

So, the concentration camps are a comparative blip compared to the firestorm of abortions. That's a fact.

What, then, did this cardinal do in response to the attacks? Stand by his statement -- which was true?

No.

In "oecumenical" fashion, he capitulated and "apologized," saying that "he would never have made such a comparison if he had thought it could have been open to misinterpretation." What misinterpretation?

The Liberalists, who stand four-square for free speech (not!), included Claudia Roth, the co-president of the Greens party, which is in coalition with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats, and by the president of the Central Council for Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel, who told the press that he "cannot in any way understand how anyone could compare abortion and euthanasia to the crimes of the Nazis." This beknighted individual just doesn't have any imagination!

Then, too, the Oecumenical Movement "Initiative Kirche" got all out of joint. "Meisner has completely lost his authority as a bishop and has publicly done a great wrong to the Catholic Church and to dialogue between Jews and Christians," it said. Oh, yes, oecumenical "dialogue" must trump the truth, must trump Catholic teaching. You see how eating the phony Novus Ordo cookie has affected these peoples' minds? It seems that there was a little too much vanilla in the Cologne batch!

What Happened to the aLL THE composers Who Were Inspired by the Roman Catholic Church
Before Vatican II Destroyed Serious Church Music?

The Church's own proper music is, of course, the Gregorian chant. However, the Roman Catholic Faith has been an inspiration to polyphonic composers as well. In fact, up until Vatican II there was hardly any major composer who had not written a Mass, a Requiem, a Te Deum, or some other significant Roman liturgical work, usually more than one. And usually the most significant work of a composer was his religious work. One has only to think of Giovanni Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli, Johann Sebastian Bach's High Mass in B Minor, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Josef Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Hector Berlioz' Requiem, or Ralph Vaughan Williams' Mass in G Minor.

On January 27, 2007, we celebrate the 251th anniversary of another great Catholic composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His output of Church music, mainly for the Archbishop of Vienna, was copious. He wrote 17 Masses, one Requiem Mass, two Litanies, two Vespers, two sublime Motets: Ave verum corpus and Exsultate, iubilate, five separate Kyries, and 18 short sacred works.

One can well imagine how the cathedral of Vienna resounded with this glorious music, elevating the souls of those present at Mass or Vespers to spiritual sublimity.

It is all the more pathetic that all the Church after Vatican II seems to be able to offer is the insipid campfire ditty Kumbaya. Anyone calling this church the `Catholic' Church, let alone the Roman Catholic Church, truly has to be deaf, dumb, and blind!

Is it a crime in this church to pray to Christ to take now?  Sometimes when a business is no longer in touch with the needs of its clients, it must declare bankruptcy, in order to reorganize its business plan and then re-emerge from under the tremendous load it was carrying which was its debt.

In a similar way, I pray to God the Father to declare bankruptcy on this corrupt church here on earth, and let it get itself back to its core purpose.  Leading the faithful and evangelizing the world is the business of the Church, not telling other nations what they should do. 

Apparently, half a million dollars isn't nearly enough!

Presbyter Michael Moynihan, pastor of St. Michael's Parish in Greenwich, Connecticut, got off with merely resigning from his position, after a preliminary financial audit uncovered more than $500,000 unaccounted for. William Lori, Bishop of Bridgeport since January 2001, declared that in spite of the embezzlement, Moynihan remains "a priest [sic] in good standing." Moynihan shares that distinction with the thousands of other presbyter-embezzlers and presbyter-rapists, whom the Church refuses to expel and punish according to the gravity of their crimes.

Lori himself has been involved in several embezzlement scandals of his pastors. For example, in 2006 a scandal broke involving Michael Fay, former pastor of St. John Parish in Darien. Fay was accused by police of spending $1,400,000 in parish funds over six years, some of it to buy gifts for a man who was his paramour. The record shows that Lori is an incompetent, who should be offering his own resignation. Naturally, our Pope wants to keep him on, nevertheless.

Moynihan used Parish funds as his own personal finances and kept at least two "off-the-books" bank accounts, which only he knew about and had control of. About $1,400,000 in transactions passed through one account -- half a million of which auditors cannot account for because checks were used to pay for some of Moynihan's personal credit cards and, in some cases, were made out simply to "Cash."

Lori is certainly not the only evil one in Bridgeport. In spite of the fact that Moynihan had apparently bilked them of half a million dollars, several beknighted parishioners defended the embezzler and were critical of Lori's decision to ask for Moynihan's resignation. Several other parishioners left the church crying and upset, saying that the Church Diocese had mistreated Moynihan. [Source: Hartford Courant]

The support by pew congregants of their pastors who rape their children and embezzle parish money is nothing less than diabolical [read of Satan]. These are the same people that routinely call presbyter-rapists and embezzlers "the best presbyters we ever had." Don't feel sorry for these bedeviled churchgoers. They deserve everything they get. They are not innocent bystanders. They are aiding and abetting criminals and should be "cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 8:12/DRV).

Saddam Hussein has been executed after a fair trial. He was guilty of killing the innocent by unjustifiable homicide, that is, murder. Newvatican, via Cardinal Renato Martino, claimed that "capital punishment is contrary to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church" and that the just judicial execution of this mass murderer and torturer is compounding a "crime with another crime." So now the Church teaches that those who punish justly-convicted criminals with the death penalty are themselves committing a crime?

Holy Scripture, both the Old Testament and the New Testament repeatedly justify the death penalty.

When any organization teaches that which is clearly contrary to traditional Catholic dogma and Tradition, then one thing becomes certain: that organization is not teaching in the name of the Roman Catholic Church. Those who teach that which is contrary to the explicit law of God have de facto placed themselves above God Almighty in violation of the First Commandment, and Our Lord Himself had grave words about the most special place of the First Commandment.

Renato Martino is in grave error to say that "capital punishment is contrary to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church." Am I a fool not to realize that Martino is not a "Roman Catholic"; rather, he is a member of the 'A Church' of the some New Order, who obviously doesn't know (or care) what the clear Roman Catholic teaching on the subject has been for 2000 years. Since Martino also displays an abysmal ignorance of the Bible, one has to wonder whether he is even a Christian!

As the Church has chosen its next leader and commemorates the passing of its last, Catholics should consider the manner in which the Divine Founder of their Church, Who was so conspicuously ignored throughout the proceedings of April 2005, evaluates those who hold the office that He created.

It is not surprising that a Catholic view of the action of popes and that of the world differ markedly, especially since the world and those now in control of the Church have deviated so far from Apostolic teaching. The outpouring of affection, the praise and tears for the passing of JPII by the masses, media-savvy politicians, and the heads of the many false religions that he deliberately embraced were to be expected, since it has been JPII more than any single figure of the last half century that has brought Christ's Church in line with the thinking of the debauched modern world.
While it is true that the papal office was "built" on the foundation of a mere mortal, it does not follow that each occupant that has resided in that august Chair becomes immune from scandal, espousing falsehood, or -- worse --becoming a personal heretic or apostate. Anyone with even a scant knowledge of Church history should know that plenty of popes have often strayed, and badly.

Take, for instance, the Prince of the Apostles, whom papolaters (those who attributed to the pope virtually divine attributes) often cite as an impeccable model. After receiving his commission as chief among the Twelve, St. Peter was sternly rebuked by the Divine Savior for his disagreement with the Will of Almighty God:
And Peter taking him, began to rebuke him, saying: Lord, be it far from thee; this shall not be unto thee. But he turning, said to Peter: go after me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou dost not relish the things that are of God, but the things that are of men (Matthew 16:22-23/DRV).

So much for St. Peter's "personal infallibility!" Fortunately, Sacred Scripture provides explicit detail on how Christ wanted His popes to act. Before His glorious Ascension, the Divine Savior asks St. Peter whether he loved Him. The repeated queries were an obvious reference to the first pope's triple denial at the time of his Master's trial.
As St. Peter heart-wrenchingly answers each time in the affirmative, Christ mercifully accepts, but not unconditionally. Instead, He instructs His disciple that if he was to love Him, he would have to "feed His sheep." Thus, for St. Peter and his successors, the prime requisite of the Head of the Church is to evangelize and dispense as widely as possible the Holy Sacraments for the salvation of souls. Whether or not the world is in accord with such thinking is immaterial; vicars of Christ are to do His Will. Those who succeed at such a daunting challenge have the opportunity for eternal life; those who fail or willingly disobey....

With this Divine paradigm in mind, how did the recently-deceased pontiff rate? Did he feed the sheep with, as St. Paul instructed, "the traditions that you have learned?" Or have the lambs been fed false doctrines, denied the real Sacraments, and instead been left vulnerable and defenseless against the Prince of this world? To speak of the Master of Lies, it would take some doing to find when the last time either JPII or his newly elected successor have mentioned in their vast Modernistic writings either Satan or Hell.

By any objective rendering, JPII was a revolutionary. While he occasionally spoke in a traditional manner (condemning abortion and trumpeting concepts such as the "Culture of Death"), he was a disciple of the Vatican II religion. The scandals, the ecumenical gestures to Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and other false religions are too numerous to review. His worst offense, however, was that during his entire reign he never offered the Apostolic Sacrifice of the Mass to Almighty God, but, instead, celebrated the Novus Ordo worship service -- a direct violation of Apostolic teaching.
For a proponent of the New Religion, Modernism could not have had a better front-man. However, judged by the paradigm that Christ laid down for his foremost representative, he was a scandal, whose actions, along with the entire Novus Ordo apparatus, will be eventually condemned by a future traditional pope.

His successor is cut from the same Modernistic cloth. He is one of the prime movers and shakers during the ill-starred Vatican II Council who, because of his relativistic mindset, can sound "conservative" one day and a twin of Cardinal Kaspar, "the oecumenically-friendly ghost," the next. If anyone thinks that this chameleon will turn back to Tradition, he is quite naïve, while those who have already praised the erstwhile Cardinal Ratzinger for his supposed orthodoxy, despite his numerous statements tinged with heresy, have demonstrated such incredulity that they would most likely have doubted Our Lord's miracles, even if they witnessed them firsthand!

Although the world may hail JPII and celebrate the "installation" of his successor, Catholics, before they give their allegiance, must be certain that their earthly shepherds are feeding them Apostolic truth. If not, they are obligated for the good of their souls to reject, condemn and ignore the errors of such false prophets.

I came to he Church through apologetics 11 or 15 years ago, depending on how I count, and I have not lost an ounce of faith in the Church but being one who knew no other pope than jp2,this is a jolting time.

While many "conservatives" have praised the Pope for his supposed support of traditional Catholic morality, the network of friends that I talk to has warned that this is just more Vatican smoke and mirrors. For whereas the moral conclusions of the Church may, for the time being, remain apparently the same, the traditional Catholic theological premises to reach the conclusions are being changed to accord to the secularized new order.

This has already happened in the case of Catholic marriage, in which the personal satisfaction of the parties has been so elevated over the primary purpose of the raising of children that the Church has engineered a system of rampant divorce (which it calls "annulment," so as not to appear to violate Our Lord's own words and so as not to disturb Catholic sensitivities). In 1968 there were 338 annulments in the U.S.; in 1991, there were 63,933. Obviously, the Church has changed its theology, whatever the pope appears to say.

Then, just as the network of friends that I talk to predicted years ago, as soon as the Church equated the life of a criminal justly subjected to capital punishment with the life of a fetus in abortion, the anti-abortion movement would collapse. In fact, for all intents and purposes, this issue has fallen off the political agenda. Yes, it gets lip-service, but little else, whereas in past years outraged citizens marched and cajoled their governmental representatives.

Then there was the scandal about the Church "gay" seminaries, about which the Pope did essentially nothing and so disappointed the "conservative" Churchgoers that they actually, for the first time we can remember, attacked the pope as not Catholic.

Now three Canadian Members of Parliament who identify themselves as "Catholic" have cited Vatican II as the justification for their supporting the change in law identifying homosexual unions as "marriage" in Canada. the Church M.P. Tony Martin stated that his support for "gay" marriage came out of the Second Vatican Council, saying that it was "all about tolerance, openness to the world, and social justice." the Church M.P. Charlie Angus stated that it was specifically Catholic [the Church] teaching that inspired him to defend "minority rights" in supporting the "gay" marriage law. the Church M.P. Joe Comartin concurred: "What my faith taught me was his Christ's love for humanity was an absolute fundamental, in many respects overriding all other considerations." All three of these "Catholic" M.P.'s have been long-time supporters of unlimited abortion on demand as part of their "absolute fundamental" commitment to minority rights. [Source: Life Site News]

What is the point of trying to deny the Blessed Sacrament to such "Catholic" politicians? The Church has lost any such authority as it admonishes the Church politicians to allow their religious beliefs to guide their public decisions. Well, the Pope has gotten what he asked for, since these "Catholic" M.P.'s are quoting his Vatican II against him. And remember that it was the Pope himself who was a major force in imposing Modernism on Vatican II!

The final rout and ouster of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein and the installment in his place of a regime "friendlier" to Israeli/U.S. interests brought about a considerable outpouring of "patriotism" throughout the land, with the display of flags, the singing of catchy militaristic jingles, and the appearance on billboards of slogans such as We Support Our Troops, Proud to be an American, and These Colors Don't Run. The most ubiquitous phrase plastered about, however, was a plea for God to "bless America."

While such demonstrations are natural reactions by people expressing their hope for the safety and well-being of their kinsmen, it is ironic that it emanates from a society which, by and large, flagrantly violates one of the most basic of the Almighty's Commandments: "Remember that thou keep Holy the Sabbath Day."

For the vast majority of Americans, Sunday has become little different from any other day, being taken up with housework, recreation, shopping, and especially the viewing of television sports programming. The most notable exception that still makes Sunday "unique," although this has become less the case especially in retail industries, is that most people do not have to work. Despite the fact that many are free from work obligations, there has been a catastrophic drop-off in recent years at Sunday church services among all denominations, especially within the Novus Ordo, whose "New Pentecost," highly touted by the evil architects of the Second Vatican Council, is all the more confirmed to be an abject failure.

The argument that economic loss in revenues, wages, and employment make commercial activity on Sundays a must is tenuous. Historically, the greatest period of growth in the Western world took place, by and large, when the observance of the Sabbath was the norm. Real wages and per-capita income among all socio-economic groups dramatically rose. The fact that businesses and workers now have to operate on Sundays "to make ends meet" shows that despite the propaganda from the media and vested interests, most people are not as financially well off as either their parents or grandparents.

Worse, however, is the fact that many labor on Sundays not to sustain themselves, but to acquire a higher standard of living. Qualifying for a bigger, more luxurious home, purchasing the latest sports utility vehicle, or hankering after any other materialistic allurements available has made many Americans the servants of mammon instead of worthy children of God.

There are certainly ways to compensate for the loss of labor hours and revenues, such as the extension of store hours, especially on Saturdays. While there are certainly creative ways to make up for the time lost, the continued violation of basic Biblical admonitions will not solve the problem of stagnating patterns of growth. Instead, policies that will ensure prosperity: drastic tax reduction, deregulation, the end of the immoral welfare state, "hard" money -- these will make commercial activities on Sundays unnecessary.

In the end, however, even if balance sheets suffer, and people are poorer, what, ultimately, is more important: the accumulation of worldly gold or the attainment of heavenly treasures, which last for eternity? Sundays devoid of manual labor, gratuitous shopping, or endless television should not necessarily mean that the day be devoted to the family. While "family values" were, at one time, a popular mantra sung among certain Inside-the-Beltway think-tank denizens, the fact that over 50% of marriages end in divorce and the subsequent dysfunctional "family living arrangements" have become more and more the "norm" demonstrates again why most "cultural conservatives" haven't a clue as how to fix a broken Western world.

While the revitalization of marriage and the family are essential for the restoration of a vibrant Christian society, such a task is, nevertheless, secondary to the placement of Almighty God first and foremost, especially on the very day that He authorized to be for His honor. It should be remembered what the Divine Savior once responded, when it was made known to Him that His earthly family had arrived at the scene of one of His magnificent discourses:

And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother (Mark 3:32-35/DRV).

Although it appeared to be a rebuke, the Church has always interpreted the passage as expressing that those who chose to follow Christ may have to forgo and suffer the loss of family, friends, and homeland. Moreover, the Divine Savior's first recorded words and action, as an adolescent, were focused on doing the will of His Father despite keeping the Holy Family in the dark about His whereabouts. His response to His worried mother's inquiry when He was found in the Temple was:

How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be about my Father's business? (Luke, 2:49/DRV).

Secular Sundays are understandable within the Novus Ordo religion, with its abominable "Mess," which offers nothing inspirational and has, in fact, driven away countless souls. Traditional Catholics can, however, by not working or refusing to purchase merchandise on that day, show the corporate world and their fellow employees the seriousness with which they take their Faith and can further distinguish themselves from members of the Counterfeit Church.

Only a "holy people," like those of the maligned mediaeval era, who clearly understood the purpose of life -- to worship, honor and love Almighty God -- can realistically plead for heavenly intercession. Only when the ethos of present-day societies reflect that glorious past by observing the barest minimum, that the Sabbath be kept sacred, can supernatural assistance be expected.