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FOR\u00a0<\/strong>twelve years the Lord has asked me to sit upon the “rampart” as one of John Paul II’s “watchmen”<\/a> and speak about what I see coming\u2014not according to my own ideas, pre-conceptions, or thoughts, but according to the authentic Public and private revelation through which God continually speaks to his People. But taking my eyes off the horizon the past few days and looking instead to our own House, the Catholic Church, I find myself bowing my head in shame.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE IRISH HARBINGER<\/p>\n What happened in Ireland over the weekend was perhaps one of the most significant “signs of the times” I have seen in a long while. As you probably know, an overwhelming majority just voted in favour of legalizing abortion.<\/p>\n Ireland is a country that is (was) overwhelmingly “Catholic.” She was steeped in paganism until St. Patrick led her into the arms of a new Mother, the Church. She would mend the country’s wounds, reinvigorate her peoples, reorder her laws, transform her landscapes, and make her stand as a lighthouse guiding lost souls into the safe harbours of salvation. While Catholicism wained in much of the rest of Europe after the French Revolution, Ireland’s faith remained strong.\u00a0<\/p>\n Which is why this vote is a dreadful harbinger. Despite the scientific facts<\/a> that underscore the humanity of an unborn child; despite the philosophical arguments that affirm its personhood<\/a>; despite the evidence of the pain caused<\/a> to the baby during an abortion; I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue. The state in my view has no authority whatever to intervene in the biological processes of any woman\u2019s body, which nature has implanted there before birth and hence before that woman\u2019s entrance into society and citizenship.<\/strong> \u2014Camille Paglia, Salon<\/em><\/a>, Sept. 10th, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Welcome to the rest of the “progressive” West where we have not only adopted Hitler’s eugenics rationale but have gone a step further\u2014we actually celebrate our collective suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n The suicide of the human race will be understood by those who will see the earth populated by the elderly and depopulated of children: burnt as a desert.<\/strong> \u2014St. Pio of Pietrelcina<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Mind you, we saw a microcosm of this suicidal tendency when, in 2007, Mexico City\u00a0voted to legalize abortion<\/a> there. The significance of that cannot be overstated either, because that is where the miraculous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe<\/a> hangs\u2014a miracle that literally brought an end to the Aztec “culture of death” where hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children were sacrificed to the serpent-god Quetzalcoatl. For that “Catholic” city to once again embrace human sacrifice thus making blood offerings to that ancient serpent Satan once again (now in sterilized rooms instead of on temple mounts) is a staggering reversal.\u00a0<\/p>\n Of course, Ireland’s recent vote follows on the heels of their Marriage Referendum in 2015 where a radical redefinition of marriage was embraced. That was warning enough that the serpent-god has returned to Ireland…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE SCANDALS<\/p>\n “In one way,” noted an Irish professor of moral theology…<\/p>\n …the awful result [two thirds voting for abortion] is just what one might expect, given the modern secularised and relativistic world we live in, the dire record of the Catholic Church in Ireland and elsewhere regarding the child sex abuse scandals, the weakness of the Church’s practice of teaching on moral issues and morality over the past few decades… <\/span><\/strong>\u2014private letter<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n One cannot underestimate what the sexual scandals in the priesthood have done around the globe to undermine the mission of Jesus Christ.\u00a0<\/p>\n As a result, the faith as such becomes unbelievable, and the Church can no longer present herself credibly as the herald of the Lord. <\/strong>\u2014POPE BENEDICT XVI, Light of the World, The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times: A Conversation With Peter Seewald<\/em>, p. 23-25<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Both Benedict XVI and Pope Francis have insisted that the Church does not engage in proselytism but grows by “attraction.”[1]<\/sup><\/a>“The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows by \u201cattraction\u201d<\/i>: just as Christ \u201cdraws all to himself\u201d by the power of his love, culminating in the sacrifice of the Cross, so the Church fulfils her mission to the extent that, in union with Christ, she accomplishes every one of her works in spiritual and practical imitation of the love of her Lord.”<\/strong> \u2014BENEDICT XVI, Homily for the Opening of the Fifth General Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Bishops, May 13th, 2007; vatican.va<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unbornbaby-1024x986.jpg\")
despite the photographs<\/a>, medical miracles<\/a>, and basic common sense<\/a> of what and who exactly is growing in the womb of a mother… Ireland voted to bring genocide<\/a> to their shores. This is 2018; the Irish don’t live in a vacuum. A “Catholic” nation averted their\u00a0eyes from the brutal procedure that abortion is, and absolved their conscience by dismissing the truth<\/a> with paper-thin arguments of a woman’s “right.” \u00a0The idea that they believe the unborn is just “fetal tissue” or a “blob of cells” is too generous. No, Catholic Ireland has declared, like American feminist Camille Paglia, that a woman has the right to kill<\/a> another person when her own interests are at stake:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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