Yesterday, Philip Augustine alerted me to the following quote from one of the National Catholic Reporter’s favorite writers; Michael Sean Winters.
Michael Sean Winters of National Catholic Reporter
“Normally, when I get into a debate with a conservative friend and we are at an impasse, with no hope for resolution, I try to ease the tension with levity, and say, “Well, when the revolution comes, I will put in a good word for you and your family.” To my friends in the Republican political and legal establishment who have not stood up to Trump: When the revolution comes, you are on your own, and I will be clamoring not for mercy but for a seat next to the guillotine, where I can do my knitting.”
Michael Sean Winters, National catholic Reporter, 3 July, ARSH 2018
You have a very perverse sense of humor, if one can call it humor at all, Mr. Winters. Only a blood-thirsty enemy of God and a believer in the atrocities perpetrated by the French during their French Revolution could find anything to laugh about in such a statement. It is straight out of a handbook of Freemasonry and their desire to extinguish all Catholics from the face of the world.
But, of course, you would still consider yourself a Catholic, I’m sure, having changed the Church into the Church of Satan and would perhaps find yourself in good company whilst you do your ‘knitting’ along with all the enemies of Truth, justice, love of neighbor and love of God. What will you be knitting I wonder; perhaps an asbestos suit might be appropriate?
And has the National Catholic Reporter no shame at all? We all know that they are filled to the brim with heresiarchs, but this goes far beyond their normal heresies, like those which Fr. James Martin likes to profess on a daily basis. This has turned the corner from heresy into outright evil and apostasy from the faith. It is a disgrace that your publication continues to blaspheme the word Catholic by using it as part of its name.
And to the readers of this filth, disguised as religion, are you merely peeping Toms or do you read it because you believe it? I find it rather sad that your publication is still in existence in this day and age . . . though it is the perverse nature of this age that makes you relevant. For it is publications such as this that has distanced the Church from God, divided the faith into orthodox and heterodox camps and continues to fan the flames of outright revolution within the Catholic Church.
Have you no shame? But that is a rhetorical question. For if you did both Fr. Martin and Michael Sean Winters would have never been read within your pages. I’m sure dismissing Mr. WInters would be out of the question so I will not even entertain the possibility that you have any sense of decency left in your yellow tabloid.
All Along the Watchtower 
Hardly fit for wrapping fish, anymore.
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I wouldn’t want to insult the fish.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many Catholics want to call themselves Catholic but behave as if they were Protestant (not that Protestants delight in death as this author seems to), but you know what I mean – the crowd wanting women priests, etc. Frankly, I call that having your cake and eating it. Meanwhile, outside the gates are Protestants who would like to be Catholic but have scruples about swimming the Tiber. What a world.
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It is an absolutely unique phenomenon right now. The world is pushing people to the Catholic Church and the Church is chasing them away by ignoring faith and delving into politics instead. What a time we live in!!!
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Indeed. Truly sad. They are blind guides: they cannot even see the judgment that is coming on the European Union. They think that they are fulfilling the Gospel, when in reality they cannot even see the writing on the wall: MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN. The Anglican Church is faring no better. There is a reckoning to come.
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Indeed the Kingdom is being divided; MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN indeed.
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What we need is a come to Jesus moment where the Pope and all the Bishops and priests rent their garments and strike their breasts saying mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
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I doubt that will be forthcoming from the velvet mafia. I’m afraid the more likely result is that faithful remnant will have to make a declaration the BXVI is the Pope and when he dies call for a new conclave with whatever orthodox bishops are left.
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Yes I am understandably filled with anxiety when that moment arrives. It will be a watershed moment that portends great evils which will be unleashed against the remaining Catholics. Another vendee perhaps? https://www.barnhardt.biz/2018/07/06/a-sad-toldya-as-political-violence-escalates-might-i-recommend-reviewing/
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I’ll have a read of that now. Whatever her ferocity, Ms Barnhardt is a stickler for proper logic.
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If you didn’t listen to her videos on Vendee, they are in the article and are worth listening to.
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I’m watching the first segment now. Just reminded me of when I read Graham Green’s “The Power and the Glory” back in school.
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Glad you are watching. I am again as it bears repeated viewings for we are living in a similar age.
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Yeah, hard to predict of course, but I’m not ruling civil war out because we have free will.
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Trumps reelection is almost necessary if we are to stand any chance at all. Even then, the Elitist Marists won’t leave but will have to be driven out in the end, They’re in this to the death.
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She is right that the leftists are not going to walk away: just look at all the efforts in the US to try and get President Trump impeached and in the UK to subvert Brexit.
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It’s all the same . . . they have made a globalist move and they are nearly there . . . only Trump threw a monkey wrench into their plans.
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Out of curiosity: is it the case that Ann Barnhardt is not paying taxes of any kind? And if so, how is she not in prison?
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She does not pay taxes and she has moved and is in semi-hiding at the moment.
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Wow, now that is a martyr’s witness.
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Indeed so. She is a woman who’s word is always kept. I wish we had men who had half of her integrity.
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Just finished watching. What a speech. A strong woman. We need people like her.
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We need a pope like her. If we had a pope who tell us that we could not, under penalty of sin, pay our taxes since the govt. was going to use it to abort babies or to contracept them, then the measure would have failed or else the war would be on: and they would have to arrest every Catholic in the country. And I am sure there are many Evangelicals that would have followed suit. We need some worldwide Christian moral leadership and right now, that means the pope . . . and the one they call pope is not the man for the job.
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While BXVI seems to be largely in seclusion. Do you think he is being held against his will?
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Good question Nicholas. It is hard to reckon with at the moment but I personally think that they have quietly bullied him into silence and seclusion. And his comments seem to be overlooked by Ganswein, his ‘handler’ who seems to keep watch and give direction to anything that BXVI says. He is, in my opinion, surrounded by wolves and did not have the courage or the stamina to make a fight of it. So now, for lack of a better word he is in effect being held in seclusion. I cannot believe that a theologian of his caliber would really say what Ganswein indicated: that he is a pope emeritus and that he did not give up the papacy but merely stepped to the side to be the contemplative side of the papacy and let the new pope be the active side: which would be a diarchy. That is a completely novel idea that 2 people are sharing the seat of Peter both licitly and validly. I cannot fathom this idea being created in the mind of BXVI nor can I imagine that this is even possible. Something is amiss and I think it is a usurpation of the Papacy by the Daneels and his St. Gallen Mafia.
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What do you think the average Catholic should do in the current crisis? If there invalidly consecrated priests and their priestly sacraments are therefore invalid, how do you know if you’re getting a valid sacrament?
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I put the scenario to my priest and deacon over dinner on Friday night. They have no answer.
I think that we must go by Christ’s words: “by their fruits we shall know them”. We need to start excommunicating in unprecedented numbers those who do are producing good fruit. The Church will be smaller and those imposters will not leave and will claim their legitimacy so there will also be a schism. Choosing rightly will be the challenge of every Catholic and once we make that commitment we will need to be willing to go the full distance and even give our life for the cause like they did in Vendee.
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What would that look like in terms of practical steps? Would that mean as say, Step 1, that Catholics write a letter to their bishop demanding the excommunication of Priest X, and if the bishop refuses appealing further up the hierarchy?
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It will have to be an ecclesial movement started by Cardinals such as Burke and Schneider etc. A grassroots level change would only be “magisterial” with leadership from the hierarchy. It will be ugly and messy. I only pray that we find the leadership that has the stones to stand up to the lavender mafia that now controls most of the Vatican and probably half of the dioceses in our countries.
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That would be similar to the Continuing Anglican movement in structure, by the sounds of it. Hopefully, you will get good leadership that knows how to make the right choices when the time comes.
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Sadly God usually gives us what we deserve rather than what we want. So all good Catholics need to renew their faith and draw together and support one another; something that Michael Matt at the Remnant and other have been attempting to do for a while now. I hope it works.
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“It is straight out of a handbook of Freemasonry and their desire to extinguish all Catholics from the face of the world.”
You did not disappoint me good brother scoop. I knew 100% for sure you werent going to bring up the CC trying to exterminate protestants, and anyone who had good land that the local bishop wanted. This pogrom against anyone and everyone by the CC lasted from around 500 AD to, I believe, the last person burned at the stake by the CC was in 1849, in spain.
Hey good brother scoop, how come nearly all catholic clergy are freemasons? Where do you live scoop, in confinement or something? Everyone knows this.
Good brother scoop, you wouldmake a good inquisitor, with your inbred distain for protestants(anyone not catholic). I remind good brothers Neo and Nicholas all the time that you consider them hell fodder. Oh, and me too. You view me as lower than hell fodder. Stick around…im not finished exposing your beloved false religion. Or, all religions for that matter. Except the Anglicans. I have a warm spot in my heart for the Anglican church.
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The difference between us Bosco is that I pray for the salvation of all men’s souls . . . Catholic or not. I let God decide who is going to hell and listen to the Church to know what sins are worthy of death and do penance when and if I have committed such a sin.
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O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy Mercy. Amen.
I say this prayer daily Bosco while you keep saying you’re a Christian and yet you want to damn nearly everybody except yourself. I have news for you. With such an attitude, you damn yourself. Be careful my brother.
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In my commitment to being fair, I have to admit I confused what good brother Nicholas said with you saying it…you know, about being protestant while being catholic. Sorry ol bean. I can honestly say that I don’t know how you personally feel about protestants. I know the official feelings by the CC on protestants, but i know that each and every catholic faithful has their own opinion. I wish to clear up something, something I think most in here know. When I cur se the catholic church to hell, im not damning the rank and file faithful , and not even the clergy. Its the system and set of beliefs I damn to hell. Of course the clergy responsible for keeping the faithful in bondage will have their reward, I do wish they would get saved befor they die. If you search my comment history, ive never told anyone they will be in hell. Why? Because as long as one is alive, one can get saved, no matter what one has done, or thinks. on the other hand, im told regularly that im going to hell. I was on my way to hell until, for some reason, Jesus reached down into the toilet and pulled me up, and gave me a new spirit. Good brother scoop, I see you aren’t satisfied with how things are going with you beloved religion. In the words of the immortal Addam Ant….try another flavor.
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Permit me to give my testimony again. After this happened to me, I grabbed the family bible and there was this person i knew,and knew very well. I didn’t question it. I could ask himfor things andhe woulddo them. He likes to show newly born again people that he is who he says he is and he is there with you. Months later, I don’t recall how, but I think I was somewhere and someone said to me, a person of my own age,around 16, that they knew some people that talked like me and if i was interested in meeting them. Of course this was the holy ghost leading me to others who had this happen. I didn’t know anything had happened to me. Never heard of born again or saved. Any way,i met these people. Small group. Ordinary people.Young and old. People who would never had let me into their house or car befor this. A hippie or two, myself included. Business men. Straight middle age couples. A run away from a bad home. Young girls, twenty yr old girls,middle age girls and guys. We would meet in a home for what they called bible study. The person we were talking about, we all knew and had met. We all had gotten this new spirit. We all knew that if we had died in our old state that we would have wound up in hell. We all knew what we used to think. We figured that we weren’t bad people. God would let us in…those of us who believed in a Christian god. From the hot shot businessman down to the hipp ie, we were all the same. Our pressing issue…what are we going to do about our unsaved friends and family? But the peace that passeth understanding was upon all of us. Jesus promised to save our house. Its my belief that my house is my wife and kids,not my parents. But imconvinced my mother got saved befor she died.
All we have is our testimony. We all have the scriptures. But my testimony Is my story on how I met theLord. We all know how good brother Paul met the Lord. One minute he was a Christian hating dragon, and the next minute he couldn’t wait to serve the Lord. That my friends is how it happens.
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