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 Yesterday we remembered the fate of the Holy Innocents.   These were the babies that Herod, in a state of terror himself, sent out his soldiers to murder, hoping that the Messiha would be among those killed.   I have watched films depicting this horror and I have always been moved by the plight of the helpless babies.    The mothers suffered too as they trued to protect their children.   For is that not what a true woman does, protect and even die to protect her young.   These babies were created as we are to know God, love God and serve God in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next. Yet even in the time of Jesus there were women trying to abort their children, or leaving them to die after birth.    Of course the woman were not all cold hearted, and I am sure there were many in very distressing circumstances, but there would be others who just wanted rid of the baby.   Their hearts for some reason had grown cold.   But the taking of a human life is against the Command

 Today at Mass we celebrated the Holy Family.   In this family we have the model of what God wants for every family, for Joseph was not just there to avoid prejudice against a single mother.    No, Joseph  played a leading role in the life of Jesus.    We know very little about how the dynamic of being man and being God interplayed in the person of Jesus, but we know to be truly human and live as others in those days of his birth, he would need a father who loved him, and lived and worked for his mother and himself.   But since Mary was also human, she would have loved St Joseph.    For had St Josep not given his life to her and her baby.  It is not something we give much thought to, since in our present society the word 'love' in a relationship always has vibes of sexual relationships.    But in the case of Joseph and Mary, this was a pure love.    They lived only to do the will of God.   So Jesus did not grow up missing the love of a father for his mother, or a mother for a f

 There is a beautiful prayer during the Mass which I quote from time to time on my blog.   It is when the priest pours water into the wine and says "Through the mingling of this water and wine may we partake in the divinity of  Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity"   Now this is what happened at that first Christmas the Father through the Spirit made the Second Person of the Trinity- Man But to make him truly human he had to be born of a woman.   And not just any woman.   For Jesus as a human would need the love of a mother like every other child.   But Jesus would also need someone who could, here on earth, accompany him on his mission, who understood why he was here, and was indeed the perfect mother for him.    Such a woman the Father had prepared for him in Mary of Nazareth.    When Gabriel came at the appointed hour to tell her of God's plan, he greeted her "Hail, FULL OF GRACE".    Now to be filled with grace other mortals need Baptism, whic

"Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the Devil and his angels. These are the words of Jesus which today some people find shocking.   Indeed they get embarrassed and would rather not discuss the matter.   How could Jesus say such things?   No, a loving Jesus would not put anyone into Hell, and Bishops  and priests say "Ah, yes, there is a Hell but we can entertain the hope  that nobody actually goes there"   "But the Devil and his Angels are there, so why not humans"    "Now, now, there is no such thing as devils and angels"   "Well OK, I suppose Jesus was just pulling our legs to make us good"   Well that explanation makes sense to our new 'mature adults'.  Of course, if there are no commandments to obey this would become more reasonable and a very popular teaching.    Now we have learned the single people cannot commit adultery unless they choose to have a relationship with a married person, as w

I am old now and getting tired, I soon will be meeting Jesus Christ at my judgment and He will ask me to make an account of myself.   I will have very little to say on my behalf for I was a sinner for most of my life, but I hope that Mother Mary will speak up for me and tell Jesus how I defended His Church.    How I looked at what the Secular Society was doing to families, to children, and destroying hope in so many young people, and how I defended the victims of abortion both the child and the mother.    I fought against the secularists and when they entered the Church to destroy the teachings of Christ on such subjects as the family, the right of the child to a father and mother, his stand on divorce, and His Church where people were set aside to serve him, yet sought only their own version of him. They sought to destroy Him also through the removal of the Blessed Sacrament from out altars, so that they could be the centre of their own self worship.   Where Jesus had taught against a

 The Catechism of Christian Doctrine continues to confuse me.   Now here is something else I have discovered.   I have poor eyesight and small print I try to avoid,  but I decided to read one of the opening pages that introduced a Summary of the Catechism.    It contained the summary of the Catechism, yes, then a quote from St Paul, then I came across an Imprimatur from John Cardinal Heenan.   I looked at the date 1971.   Now why was there an Imprimatur dated 1971 on a Catechism published in 1985 when the Cardinal was no longer resident in Westminster?  But I had heard a a tape reel recording of the Cardinal in in 1966 when he had returned from the Vatican Council and of course like many other bishops he had not discussed the changes that were implemented by Vatican Committees after the Council.   He set up Corpus Christi College and was led on a merry dance by dishonest clergy who invited teachers and delegates from all over the country to listen to their lies.     He was of course co

Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.   As I said my rosary this morning, I began to weep at the fourth Mystery the Carrying of the Cross.   I could see the scene before me as Jesus came out of the residence of Pontius Pilate.   He was beaten, scourged, with those thorns on his head, and a garment of mockery around him which soldiers had used to call him King.   His suffering was on his face, and he was a pitiful sight.    But what could his Mother do but show her own pain and anguish, and suffer with him as they both made their way to Calvary.   Never in history has there been so much love between a mother and son.   Mary too had begun her own passion, her own sacrifice of redemption.   Two hearts united in love of each other and for every man, woman, and child his cross would save.     When he fell, like an anxious mother of his childhood, she reached out to help him.  Then the journey over, she stood beneath the Cross, willing her son to die, and not face any more sufferi

 Sorry, I have to move forward to the 6the and 9th Commandments in the Revised 'A Catechism of Christian Doctrine' put out by the English Bishops in 1985.   I am asking for your help in this for I cannot work out whether the Bishops then were just plain 'stupid' or were they indeed heretics?   Now this Catechism is not one the people normally buy, and maybe I am the first one to have read it, but maybe others did read it and just binned it away in disgust, or just laughed at the stupidity. What is the sixth Commandment?     The sixth commandment is 'Thou shalt not commit adultery' then it goes on to the question What does the sixth commandment forbid?   The answer is "All sins of impurity WITH ANOTHER'S WIFE OR HUSBAND.   Now I am pretty sure that this is not what the answer was in the 1889 version.   However the bishops waste no time explaining and make the whole thing unintelligible by going back in th next question to the 1889 version.   Does the six

T................................ This post has been added to my blog since my right to free speech on my Facebook has been denied.  That is what thousands of people have been experiencing if they dare defy Facebook and support Trump and pursue their right to speak out.   Remember this is not about racism, gays, r trans people, this is just about my right to know what is in on in the world.    It did start with a post on Facebook about my early days of growing up in the Glasgow Slums which I linked with the notion that I was not privileged white.   This drew a warning and a suggestion to those who read m pst that I was only sharing this with a few friends.    I did not heed the warning but went on to post from You Tube, some videos criticising the what had happened In the American election.   I found myself barred from Facebook.   I managed to get back in through an alternative e-mail address, and deciding that I had every right to pursue truth I started posting more videos of the Amer

  What is Faith?   Faith is a supernatural gift of God which enables us to believe without doubting whatever God has revealed. Well this seems simple and straightforward or is it?   As I said before, this catechism is based on the teachings of the Council of Trent, and I am sure that on Faith a great deal more would have been said there.  Now the Council of Trent met to counter the rise of Protestantism which using the Bible brought up many disagreements with the Catholic Church.   Indeed the Calvinists claimed that Faith alone will save us, so how can so many people 'of Faith' disagree with one another.   The answer lies in our doubts, in our struggles to justify what we believe against the evidence of scripture and tradition.    When I was a young boy at school, everyone around me was catholic and the evidence was that every Catholic followed Jesus and the Church.  I had no doubts about my Faith.  When I was older, I saw that society was changing, and weighing the changes aga

Of which must I take most care of, my body or my soul?     I must take most care of my soul for Christ has said "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and SUFFER THE LOSS OF HIS SOUL". What must you do to save your soul?     To save my soul I must worship God by Faith, Hope, and Charity, that is, I must believe in Him, I must Hope in Him, and I must love Him with my whole heart.  St Paul spoke of being in a race, a race towards salvation, he has not yet reached the finishing line but he is striving forward.   He also admits that the things he should do, he does not do, and the things that the things he does not want to do, he does.    What St Paul was saying is that there was a battle inside him between Good and Evil and he must strive to allow the good inside himself to win.   For a large part of my eighty odd years, I never thought much about this.   I just went to Church on Sunday with everyone else.   I did not murder, I was not a criminal, and I worked and

  is this likeness to God in  your body or in your soul?   This likeness to God is chiefly in my soul. How is your soul like to God?   My soul is like to God because it is a spirit and can never die. I have a 4 year old grandson.  He plays a game on the computer where he guides a running figure to a destination, he has a button to press on a handset to make it run, and another to make the figure jump onto ledges.    Now unless these buttons are pressed then nothing will happen, for the computer although it has within it all the parts necessary to do the job, it needs some intervention from the outside to make it act - my grandson.    The human body is like that.   When I raise my arm it is because some part of the brain has sent a message through the body instructing the arm to rise.    But that will never happen unless there is something like my grandson pressing that part of the brain to make it act.   My Grandson just takes it for granted he can do it.   So there is something else i

 In  Whose Image and Likeness Did God Make You?     God made me in His own Image and Likeness As a child of 5 years this question and answer made no impression on me.   Nor indeed as I grew up, it was still just as vague.    Am I the image of God?   Does God have a body like I have?   I suppose many others must have struggled like myself, for in all my 83 years I have never heard any comment on the matter from layman, priest, bishop or Pope, although having now asked I am sure there are plenty of people who will refer me to some work by some scholar or saint.   But as I struggled with the matter only days ago the Book of Genesis came into my mind. God said "Let there be light, and there was light.   And God saw that the light was GOOD" Then in all the passages up to the seventh day, whatever He was Creating, God saw that it was GOOD.   What God was doing was appreciating what He had created.    He saw beauty in the stars and in the sky at night, he saw beauty in the flowers a

Why Did God Make You?     God made me to know Him, Love Him, and Serve Him in this world and to be happy with Him forever in the next. What a beautiful answer.   We are not just like other creatures in creation, we were made for a particular friendship with God.   Through our intelligence we can get to know Him.   This of course is not immediately understood by a 5 year old.   But in Catholic Schools in those days we paid many visits to the local Church where we knelt before the Blessed Sacrament.   A teacher would tell us that Jesus was present there in the form of Bread, so we knelt before this Holy Bread, and worshiped Jesus, who we were told was God.   Now did we understand this as children?   No we did not, but we accepted it, as indeed the Apostles accepted many things Jesus said without understanding, one example being "unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man you cannot have life in you".    It is very sad that in the Church today many so not understand who Jesus

 1. Who Made You     God Made Me, The above was my introduction to the Catholic Faith.  Although I had said a few prayers at home, here I was in a Catholic School beginning my instructions on Theology.   My Parents believed, my teachers believed, so I as a five year old accepted that it was true.   I was later to find that some parents who did not believe in God, did not speak of God, and said no prayers to God were to call this 'indoctrination', though at 82 I am still trying to work out why.   Surely not speaking of God nor praying to God, is a positive denial of his existence, and therefore just as deserving  to be called indoctrination.    "Yes, but you are taught to talk to someone who is not there".   Who says so?    Well scientists say so"   "And how do they know"    "They study science and have not discovered God"     I must say I am always puzzled by this.    My wife sows flower seeds in a garden.   All she knows about why flowers gro

 The Catechism of Christian Doctrine is the Penny Catechism I learned to recite aloud in my primary school.    It was, I was later, told a small summary of the teachings of the Council of Trent made for children.   When the revolution came into the Church in the sixties and seventies, this rote learning was frowned upon by the reformers, who claimed they were introducing a more sensible approach to religious education, but their more sensible approach put the majority of children in many parts of the world off religion completely, including here in England. Sometimes in life there are situations in which my generation is  often helped when we recall what the Catechism said.   I have a handicapped son who once had very challenging behaviour and drove my wife to tears at times.   Once she cried out in despair "Why God did you make him?"   Perhaps it was the use of the word 'make' that brought her back to the Catechism.   Why did God make you?    And the answer came to h

As an independent writer, I have some freedom to say what I want, whether agreeable or non agreeable to others.    Nevertheless I write as one faithful to the Catholic Faith and the hierarchy.   But I have a great involvement in politics and feel that I must encourage the Independent Enquiry into Child Sex Abuse to continue its enquiries with the same thorough relentlessness as it it did  into the Catholic Church.  As readers know, this enquiry was a response to the abuse of children in the care of Social Services in Rotherham and other Northern cities.    So far it has examined the Moslem Faith, the Church of England, and the Catholic Church.    I found it very interesting that it went back to 1970 to begin its enquires, raising a figure of over 100 abuse cases a month.     Now I am not complaining about this, but I believe that I and very many others, who looked at those events in Rotherham, expect the same level of efficiency when examining Social Services, that is, it should begin

 What an ignorant state we live in.   They send 'experts' into our schools to teach children how to be part of the sexual revolution.   They give them contraception so that the sexes can be available to each other.   That this encourages young girls and boys to be sexually active and indeed addicted to sex, never enters their thick little minds.   Then as rape and abuse rises they look around for someone else to blame and not themselves.  Older men rape young people because the culture of the state is such that it fuels their sex addiction.  O but they should control themselves, why not teach the young to do that. Of course when we have a situation where young people have learned sex safety at school, they will experiment.   Girls will become targets for male dominance and they will respond believing that this is what love is about.   Then they will be abandoned, perhaps with a child - well nobody taught the boys to be responsible.     But sex is more than just a part of our hu

 When I was talking about the Circle of Love or the Family, I am sure there were many fathers and mothers and even children, who just saw my post as idealism, and something they could never attain.   But let me explain a little further, I was not talking about a family of saints, for sainthood is something we all are required to strive for and not easily attained.   No, there will be arguments and disagreements, some may even be heated, but when we are quarrelling do we really stop loving?   Now that is the key.   If such disputes lead to people in the family not talking to one another, then the circle is in danger.    The trouble is, as I said, that we are a family of humans and not necessarily a family of saints.   When we work at our quarrels in a spirit of love there is always forgiveness and healing, and indeed it is the many acts of forgiveness that builds up love.   My wife and I have had since we married, a certain practice.   If we go to bed with a quarrel, when we wake the ne

I have written recently on how children need a stable home with a mother and father who love each other, who have given themselves to each other  so willingly that the 'two have become one flesh'.    It is not easy but this self giving is what love is about.    When they have children they then have a circle of love one for another .   The Children love the father and mother and one another, and complete a circle of love called 'family'.    When I grew up during the war there were friends who did not have a father, they were at war, or sadly had died in the war.   But these children had the consolation that they had a father who loved them, and although the circle was broken, they did not have feelings of rejection since they knew their father had loved them. Now this is where I am in conflict with the Global Reset where a few rich people are trying to build a world with their values.   Their values in matters of the family for example say there is no need for a father;

 My Facebook page has not yet appeared again so I remain some kind of public enemy.   But let me defend myself.   There are many allegations of fraud being made but I cannot confirm their truth or falsity, and I will not jump on an allegation simply because it comes from a Catholic source.   To be wrong would defeat my purpose in writing.  No, I did put forward a report which was backed with substance, the sudden jump via a straight line to thousands of more Democrat votes.   It needed explanation.   I have avoided the other allegations which may be true or false which I have not come across and could verify.      But let me say that I do not think Donald Trump is handling himself very well.   He is repeatedly making claims of fraud and although I do not think he should have to name them until he gets to court, he is not behaving very well, and is crying wolf.   His repetition is giving his enemies a field day.   The BBC News which I listen to, returns to his allegations at least once

In my last post I tried to put up a video from Archbishop Vigano on the American election.    Since it made some criticisms of the Democrats it was not allowed to be shown.    But Gee, I hae had quite a day.   I started off trying to post a video on Facebook which showed how although there was a close  down in the count at Pennsylvania and anther place, at 4 am there was a sudden straight line in  a graph which was moving from left to right and showing how the vote was progressing for each party.   The line went straight up suddenly for the Republicans although there was no count going on, but there was no rise for the Democrats.   The votes had been added and not counted. However I did not manage to post it to Facebook for I was informed that the video was still in a state of being processed - in other words censored.     I did call my son who put in the direct address of the video onto Facebook and it worked but suddenly I was not able to get Facebook any more.   I was blocked out an

Our Lady of Fatima pray for us.   As you will see the playing of the video is not allowed.   It is called an attack on free speech.   We are already led by Satan.

In the last post I was talking about the natural order in the world of male and female knowing their responsibility to look after the young and preserve life on the planet, and how many humans had become dysfunctional in that respect.   But let us look at the life of Jesus and what he taught.    Jesus, remember was the Son of God, who had come into the world to bring salvation by destroying sin.   If indeed He was the Son of God should his teaching not mean something in the world of today?   Yet though many, as he foretold, would honour Him with their lips, as far as his teachings were concerned their hearts are far from him.   Jesus taught that adultery was wrong, He taught that sodomy was wrong, He taught that divorce was wrong, and does anyone really think that among his disciples he did not also condemn the killing of an unborn child, created by God His Father.   Certainly the Jewish Faith forbade portion.   Read Exodus 21:22-24.     The Didache or teaching of the Apostles {About 5

In the animal kingdom I have yet to hear about an outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases.   Animals follow their natural instincts and when they have a mate and she becomes pregnant they remain around and help her with the offspring, guarding her and the cub, and protecting them from other predators.  I am glad to say that the majority of humans also respond in this way.   The Males  use reason to work out that they have a responsibility towards the woman and the child.    They do not just have sex with her, they know they are called to be responsible for the woman and any offspring.   But there is one thing more needed from humans.    In their development over hundreds of years the male and female have bonded in a way that is beyond the animal instinct, they have a special bond where as partners they do not just raise the children, but they always seek the best for each other and this is called love.    This bond gives the human child security in what is called a family.   The chil

 I have read what the Pope said on Civil Unions for homosexuals. I have read the defences put forward by those who support him, and I must say I am very perplexed.   What the Pope is actually saying is "Ok, if you are going to carry on a sinful life, then at least do it in a family setting, commit yourselves to each other in a life of sin, and you have my approval"   Of course what the Pope said, from a human point of view, is very understanding. the good within us reaches out to the gay people, we do wish them well and the best from our hearts, but it is not the teaching of Christ and it seldom leads to happiness.   We could from this way of thinking justify brothels.   But sin is sin, and never in the history of the Church have the Fathers recommended a more comfortable way of sinning. Of course I am talking about Church teaching in this and the Church has a very bad name in the secular world and on the above I will be called a bigot and nasty right winger.   But let us tur

 I am now nearing the end of my life and I am looking back to my childhood.   One of the earliest memories I have is my parents shouting at one another as I tried to sleep.  Later I was taken to Dublin for a very long holiday and I moved on from one lodgings to another.   I was too young to understand, but later my older sister filled me in, the reason was that my mother had run off with another man and attempts were being made to settle down, but it never did.  She told me of a proposal whereby she was to stay with Mum and the lodger and I was to be raised by my father.   It did not work out and I was eventually back in Scotland, but I did notice that my mother always slept with my sister, and when their were fights my sister and I were always being told what the other had done.   Now it had a terrible effect on me all this quarrelling and arguing, I became withdrawn, had few friends, and from being a bright lad in primary school I became lazy and lethargic and an academic failure.  

  Do you not know that people who do evil will never enter the Kingdom of God?   Make no mistake the sexually immoral, idolators, adulterers, the self indulgent, SODOMITES, thieves............none of these will enter the Kingdom of God.  Some of  you used to be of that kind but you have been washed clean........ 1Corinthians 6-9 That is why God abandoned them to degrading passions.    Why their womenhae exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural practices.   And the men in a similar fashion too, giving up normal relations with women, are consumed with passion for each other, men doing shameful things with men, and receiving in themselves due reward for their perversion.   ROMANS 1.26 There are other quotes from the Bible I could  use.   But I would draw to your attention that phrase from Romans "and receiving in themselves due reward for their perversion'    It is not hard to work out.    They were attacked by HIV and Aids, dying miserable deaths.   St Paul, some would say, s

I had 1,639 views in one single day from the Ukraine.   They were no doubt trying to track this story since Joe Biden had, among other charges, went to defend the company his son Hunter was involved in, went to the Ukraine and offered one million dollars state aid if they fired the judge who was involved in a law suit against his son's company.  Te judge was fired.     Joe had denied he had had any dealings with this company or his sos's affairs.    Wh did they come to me?  Well Facebook had crushed the story along with Twitter, since they are pro Democrats, as well as the rest of the American Media except Fox News.   B:B:C and ITV are asa great anti-Trump campaigners.   So I am posting this for y friends in the Ukraine.

Fleetwood Max was the name of the band and Stevie Nicks the female singer of the band claimed that without her having an Abortion the band would never have been successful   She loved the band more than her child.    .   I actually believe that this woman and many others who come out with the same phrases actually feel very guilty about their abortion: what she seems to be  saying is that her baby was worthless, but the success of the band means everything. It is a very crude comparison.   I remember at the Oscars I heard one other woman claim that without an abortion, she would ever have won her trophy.  What these women were actually saying to themselves was "I killed a son or a daughter to achieve this"  I cannot judge whether they say this in order to win some sympathy, and be looked upon with admiration, but they would to be admired 'for the killing of the child just for adding to the abortion statistics that is all the praise they would receive.  So why say it in th

 I have just written about a WHO Sex Education Programme, I have named the source, I have named  the year, I have named the Author of the Book, it all checks out, and intelligent people can enquire to the truth of the Programme or prove I am making it up.    When I was young that is how differences were discussed.    Respect on both sides.   How sad that this is not the case today, as people who contradict the Marxist ideology are subject to hate speeches, ridicule, and told how stupid they are, by bigoted and intolerant people.     To attempt to question leads to further attempts to belittle the person, for when there are no answers there is only ridicule.   Perhaps my experiences are not so bad for I am retired and my Freedom of Speech cannot be threatened.  I remember a social worker in Wandsworth, London, who said God Bless when leaving a client.   The client complained but even she was horrified when she found the man had lost his job.   That, she had never meant that to happen.  

 In 2010, the World Health Organisation working with the German Federal Organisation for Health and Sex Education issued the following programme for the sex education of children. Age 0-4 the child has the right to explore nakedness and the body and gender identity.  The child should learn to differentiate between  'good' and 'bad' secrets and learn 'My Body belongs to me' Age 4-6 the child learns to name each body part, and caregivers are to 'wash every part of the body and talk about sexual matters in sexual language.  The child should be given information about enjoyment and pleasure when touching ones own body in early childhood masturbation, friendship and love towards people of same sex, secret love and first love, and an awareness of rights. When I was studying for my Social Work Certificate there used to be discussions on sex which could go on for hours.   I firmly believe that this was because in their minds there were people addicted to sex and the

WHEN DID THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION START? It is commonly thought in the 1960's but it actually was started by the Bolsheviks in Russia. Let us turn first to Karl Marx. He had a terrible family life His two daughters and a son-in law committed suicide. He lived on financial assistance from Friedrich Engels, and he turned against the family as an institution. As Enges quote him in Gesasmtaurgabe vol. 3.6 "The secret of the Holy family is the earthly family, To make the l atter disappear the former must be destroyed in theory and in practice". Engles also pushed this line. In a paper The Origin of the Family, Private's Property and the State' he wrote the following "The First 'Class Antagonism' appearing in history coincided with the development of man and wife in monogamy and the First 'Class Oppression' with that of the female by the male sex. He saw integration of women into the production process as a necessary condition for their liberation Bour

 I was listening to a Sunday Morning Programme on BBC where they were talking about Racism at Cambridge University.   Apparently some students say nasty things to blacks and we did have examples given.   This meant, of course, that Cambridge is a racist University full of racist hate.   On comes one of what I now call 'Nutty Professors' who goes on to tell us that such racism must be expelled and yes, there is racism in the University.   But things will be OK for the University will be running a course which will stop all this.      This brought to mind my terrible encounter with racism.    I was at an Australian Party in the 1960's when this Aussie with malice in his face approached me and sneered, "You are a Limie" meaning English.   I told him I was Scottish and my friends moved in to assure him of it, and my Aussie friends gave him a dressing down.   That was it.   The incident was settled.     I did not leave the Party with the impression that all Aussies are