New from RTV...
With gratitude to the Bishops of Minnesota, Father John Echert--The Parking Lot Priest--celebrated the first major public Mass inside of his church since the pandemic lockdown was initiated.
We're presenting this short video by way of encouragement to Catholics nationwide not to give up but to continue to pressure the bishops all across the country to do the right thing and comply with President Trump's adamant call for the churches to open up right now.
New From Remnant TV...
As the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis descend into a state of emergency, Michael Matt discusses the root cause of this Godless madness--the total rejection of His moral law. The vile tragedy of George Floyd's murder is herein set in the context of the international lockdown which left millions (including Mr. Floyd) unemployed, desperate and addicted.
Plus, as professional leftist agitators descend upon our city and make a mockery of the tragedy that happened here, the liberal Democrat mayor of the city is decrying the violence and loss of respect for life and property. This is the same guy, by the way, who designated March 10 as "Abortion Providers Appreciation Day" here in Minneapolis.
PART II
(Read Part I here)
Behind their feigned concern for containing the virus, stopping the spread, saving lives, lies another paradigm, a lethal distortion of all that is true and good.
IT IS MAY, Mary’s month, the month of flowers. Violets poke through the grass, and the tulips are in bloom. A ribbon of bright daffodils—planted in preparation for a golf tournament that will not happen this year--line Woodward Avenue at the border of Palmer Woods. I think of Wordsworth’s poem as I pass by them.
There is a virus stalking us now, but that virus does not stalk alone.
The Second Battle of the Aisne, 1917... In one week, thirty thousand French soldiers were killed.
The Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945... over twenty thousand American casualties.
These men sacrificed themselves with courage. Knowing what was in store, the soldiers still formed lines and advanced.
Fast forward to 2020. People are losing their hold on reality over a novel coronavirus. Where has our courage gone?
Photo illustration by Lincoln Agnew
Cloth masks, narrow plastic shields, and six feet of separation to stop an airborne virus. Limiting exposure to the largely nonlethal virus when immunity is necessary to function and no vaccine exists. An apparent belief that avoiding the virus will remove it from the environment. All this is obviously insane.
"In America we need more prayer, not less!"
Donald Trump, May 22, 2020
At today's press conference moments ago, Donald Trump lowered the boom:
Today I identify houses of worship and synagogues and mosques as essential places that provide essential services.
Some governors have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics as essential, but have left out churches and other houses of worship. It’s not right.
So I’m correcting this injustice and calling houses of worship essential!
Prolife Democrats?
UP UNTIL RECENTLY, those who opposed the slaughter of the unborn in their mothers’ wombs held a monopoly on the pro-life philosophy. For years, pro-abortion Democrats have been grappling with the ghoulish reality that in order to win elections, they must defend the inalienable “right” to terminate the lives the most vulnerable people in the world: unborn babies. The more squeamish among them didn’t exactly cotton to this, for the obvious reason that it rather handily transformed them into bedfellows of monsters. And so they waged war over vocabulary, insisting that they are not “pro-abortion” but rather “pro-choice,” not “pro-death” but “pro reproductive rights”.
Anything, but that which best conveyed the bloody truth of the matter.
Judie Shape, 81. Covid-19 survivor. (IMAGE: Reuters)
It was Friday. My husband and I were sitting at the table, eating clam chowder and tuna melts when the alarms on our smartphones blasted through the house. The little flip phone I use for actual conversations beeped, then sent an ominous text: Emergency Alert. Imminent threat. Emergency. Over and over the terrifying words crawled across the tiny screen.
Had we been bombed? Was there a tornado? No, it was nothing like that. It was Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan. The noise stopped. Her disembodied voice filled the kitchen: The stay-at-home lockdown had been extended for two more weeks.
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Bishop Schneider
ROME — It is astonishing to witness how the Church, political and media establishment have sought to “squelch discussion” and discredit the recent “Appeal for the Church and the World” as mere “conspiracy theory,” Bishop Schneider has said.
Writing in the prominent German daily, Die Tagespost, on May 14, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, said the reactions and language of critics of the Appeal are reminiscent of life under Soviet Communism, when “dissenters of the prevailing ideology and politics were accused of being complicit in the ‘conspiracy theory’ disseminated by the capitalist West.”
"If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated."
- Our Lady of Fatima
Remnant TV Flashback!
Remember the Amazon Synod? Seems like a lifetime ago, and yet it was the last thing anyone saw before the lights went out.
Francis says the Covid pandemic is Pachamama's response to climate change. I would argue that it's actually God's response to Pachamama. But who am I to judge?
