# 22 OF 25 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO!

# 22 OF 25 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW/CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - JAN. 30, 2019

PADRE PIO - THE TRUE STORY BY C. BERNARD RUFFIN

CHAPTER 7 -- P. 97-102

    "One day the sacristan, Michele Pilla, got drunk and forgot to change the chalice... This was too much for Pio. That evening, as they took their walk, he expressed his displeasure to Panti: "I must tell you I am smarting under two offenses. First, your niece Antonietta doesn't want me in the house, lest I give my disease to her children. And secondly, the other niece, this very morning, while I was celebrating, told the sacristan to change the chalices. Well today the Lord gave me the grace of knowing that my disease is not contagious."...

  
"The people of Pietrelcina sensed that there was something about Padre Pio. He continued to observe "the discipline" on the customary days, striking himself with a metal chain until the blood ran. When he was praying at his hut in the Piana Romana, the curious would peer in to see "the mad monk."...

   
 "Pious practices such as these at first led many to dismiss Padre Pio as crank and a fanatic. Especially misunderstood was his mystical life. During the Mass, Pio  tended to take interminably long pauses as, seemingly obvious to his external surroundings, he prayed to God and conversed with celestial beings. He paused for an unconscionably long time during the Commemoration of the Living and Dead, at which point he interceded for various souls and often was able to perceive the spiritual state of certain individuals."...

    
"Nor did his fellow priests understand his ecstasies. After Mass, while he was making his prayer o thanksgiving, Pio frequently went into ecstasy, just as he did at Venafro. Pati knew what was happening, but other priest did not and were horrified when they left him in a state resembling death....

The townspeople came to realize that their native son was not a crackpot - not so much because of any miraculous events as because of his conduct and his love and concern for others...

   
 "The Pietrelcinese found Padre Pio different from other priests. Whatever he said always seemed to be of the greatest help and encouragement. No glad-handing backslapper, Pio was friendly, cheerful, polite, and witty - but basically serious. He would mince no words if he had reason to believe a parishioner was violating any of God's commandments. But so effective was he at reaching people's hearts and that townsfolk accepted rebukes they would refuse to tolerate from the other clergy. For instance, Padre Pio was totally opposed to any labor whatsoever on the Sabbath...

"Pio organized Sunday games for the townspeople so that they could have recreation and not think about breaking the Sabbath. The people grew to love him and came to call him "our saint."... In April of 1912 or 1913, all the trees in the area were infested with lice, and the fruit crop was threatened with ruin.  One day "a simple peasant" approached Padre Pio and asked him to come with him to his field to bless the trees and curse the lice.... farmers from miles around begged Pio to go through their fields...It was claimed that all the lice on the trees died... Whatever natural explanation a scientist might proffer, the Pietrelcinese were certain that a calamity had been avoided solely through the actions of their saint.".... How can you read and explain that letter, my dear Pio, when you don't even know the Greek alphabet? "You know, Pati," came Pio's reply, "my guardian angel has explained everything to me!"And that was as much of an explanation as he was to receive." ...

"There are numerous stories concerning encounters by Padre Pio with demons in physical form both in the Piana Romana and in the Tower. Several former neighbors swore that devils used to interfere with Pio's prayer and meditation at the Piana Romana by appearing in the form of a snake with an enormous head....

    

"A few days later, on Feb. 13, 1913, he wrote Padre Agostino: "My body is all bruised because of the many blows that our enemies have rained upon me." More than once in the past month, he adds, the demons snatched away my nightshirt and beat me while he shivered, stark naked, in the cold. "Even after they left me, I remained nude for a long time, for I was powerless to move because of the cold. Those evil creatures would have thrown themselves all over me if sweet Jesus hadn't helped me."...

There is much about Padre Pio, especially the supersensible aspect of his life, that will probably never be completely understood."  +++ George H. Kubeck

P.S. Letters # 5 and 6 for His Holiness Pope Francis and Bishop Kevin Vann will be mailed, Jan. 31/19.

# 21 OF 25 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO!

# 21 OF 25 THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO!

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM -  THURS. JAN. 24, 2019

"PADRE PIO - THE TRUE STORY" BY C. BERNARD RUFFIN

CHAPTER 7 OF 34 - THE DOUBLE EXILE. 95-96

"There were clearly some family problems. In later years Padre Pio confided to a niece, "I had to go to Pietrelcina to straighten out things out at home." Just what needed to be straightened out is not clear...

During his "exile" in Pietrelcina, Padre Pio celebrated Mass nearly everyday, often in rural churches that were part of the parish. He also taught school. One of his students,Celestino Orlando, recalled in his seventies ho diligently Padre Pio worked to help him - a slow student - learn mathematics. Once, as a reward for mastering a particularly hard problem, Pio invited the boy to his home to enjoy a dinner of fried fish. He remembered Pio as a strict disciplinarian who always prayed before he taught. If two boys got to fighting and swore, he would not hesitate to take off one of his sandals and swath them to do it..

Pio also organized adult education classes and held school in the fields, successfully teaching farmers and laborers to read and write. More over, he got together a choir of fifteen boys and taught them how to sing various hymns. He led them without accompaniment, singing along with them in his robust, fervent, but unmusical baritone voice." ...

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Charles Medicina*

    "When Charles Medina looked back on his life, he said that it was the Rosary that was initially instrumental in leading him to Padre Pio.... He became Padre Pio's Italian-English translator, interpreting for many English-speaking pilgrims who came to see Padre Pio. Living inside the monastery, Charles worked at Padre Pio' side each day. He also assisted as one of his correspondence secretaries....

   
 One time Mary Pyle mentioned to Charles that Padre Pio walked at an angle, as if under the weight of a heavy cross. Charles had noticed it as well. He walked as if supporting a great weight. It was the walk of Cyrenean, carrying the cross of Christ. I was after the Mass that Charles noticed his angular walk more than any other time...

   
 Once after hearing Charles' confession, Padre Pio told him to make a pilgrimage to Monte Saint' Angelo and visit the shrine of St. Michael the Archangel. Padre Pio had experienced St. Michael's protection on many occasions in his life and prayed to him daily. Each year, Padre Pio made a preparation of forty days for St. Michael's feast day, "Consecrate yourself to St. Michael and to the angels," Padre Pio told Charles, "You will need the help of St. Michael, living in this world.

   
 Charles noticed ... that he (Padre Pio)  always kept his left hand hidden inside of his habit, Charles often wondered the reason and one day discovered it. Padre Pio had a hook  sewn inside his habit to which his rosary was attached....

   
 Padre Pio often told jokes to Charles and the others who assisted him.... Charles described Padre Pio as a simple man, a humble man, whose life revolved around the Blessed Sacrament and the Rosary... At times, Padre Pio's face was observed to be glowing during the Mass. On occasion, Charles saw a halo of light surrounding Padre Pio's head. He also saw the wounds in Padre Pio's hands bleeding during the Holy Sacrifice. "Padre Pio lived the Mass . He lived the crucifixion," Charles said. At the conclusion of the Mass, Charles would take Padre Pio's arm and take him down from the altar. Holding his arm, Charles can sense the suffering that was present in his body...

  
  "I will guide you," Padre Pio said simply. Padre Pio asked Charles to establish the prayer groups in the Los Angeles area where (Charles) resided, and in 1966, the first Padre Pio prayer group formed there...

* "Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry," True Stories of Padre Pio, Book I - By Diane Allen, p. 96-100.

George H. Kubeck

LESSONS FOR KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS AND COVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, KENTUCKY

LESSONS FOR KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS AND COVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, KENTUCKY!

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBEGONE.COM - MON., JAN. 21, 2019

1.) Today, Martin Luther Day Holiday,  Kamala Harris announced she is running for President in 2020. She grew up in Oakland, California and is the daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica. She was elected to the California Senate in 2016. Most Catholics in California voted for her.

Why is Kamala Harris opposed to members of the Knights of Columbus?

   
 Kamala Harris along with Feinstein are seriously bothered by our members belief in marriage only between a man and a woman and pro-life beliefs. She believes in same-sex marriage, homosexual and the pro-abortion agenda. Our religious beliefs are in serious danger.

2.)The Covington Catholic High School of Kentucky children were smeared by filthy left wing advocates during the March for Life Rally in Washington. D.C. on Friday, Jan. 18.They were attacked VERBALlY by an a already notorious group well-known in New York, "Black Hebrew Israelites" a filthy mouthed false religious organization.They called the boys racist, white supremacist, and foul names. There also a frail older Indian advocate with a drum involved. Check Google and other sites!

3.) The advocates of the culture of death hates us because we believe in the historic definition of marriage and we oppose  making abortion a constitutional legal right for any woman; and having our taxes pay for the abortion. Also, the pro-homosexual agenda is destructive to traditional America.

   

     And within our Catholic Church, we have at least two most serious matters to deal with and resolve; to what is best for integrity of St. John Paul's  "The Catechism of the Catholic Church." and in the spirit of St. Dominic and St. Thomas Aquinas. We can learn a lot from St. Pio of Petrelcina. We need absolute Catholic laymen's participation.

a) I read that there about 22 million ex-Catholics in the U.S.A. We make one convert and we loose six of our own. About 50% of Catholics below the age of 30 will become ex-Catholics. What's happening?

b) From the Wall Street Journal, Jan. 19-20, 2019 by Francis X. Rocca, "The Tense Debate Over Gay Priests." There are about 25% to 50% of our priests in each of  our Catholic dioceses are homosexuals.

Without doubt, there exists a homosexual sub-culture. There are many questions. The time has come to discuss these questions not only within the Knights of Columbus but within any Catholic group.

This Homework Message from Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI's book, "Co-Workers of the Truth", Jan. 21

   "... But where truth would no longer exists, every standard can be altered; one can, in fact, do exactly the opposite; renunciation of the truth is the real source of our present crisis.

And where truth has no value, then our vaunted communal solidarity has no more value either, because it has ultimately no foundation. How often we fall back on the apparently so humble, but in reality so arrogant, word of Pilate: "What then is truth?" But places us in direct opposition to Christ. Granted, there arises a great danger when we hold with too much presumption and too much certitude to the notion that truth belongs to us alone. But even greater danger arises when it is regarded as no longer possible to formulate a communal, definitive, and bindingly valid statement of the truth.

George H. Kubeck

#20 of 25 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

#20 OF 25 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM - SAT. JAN. 19, 2019

PADRE PIO- THE TRUE STORY BY C. BERNARD RUFFIAN

CHAPTER 7 OF 34 - THE DOUBLE EXILE. 94 -

Preface:

Excerpts  from a book by Dianne Allen, "Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry,"  True Stories of Padre Pio, Book 1, Padre Pio Press, P.O. Box 191545, San Diego, CA 92159, 2012 Chapter 4, Padre Pio Prayer Groups, 53-55.

    "On May 5, 1966, Padre Pio met with his prayer groups at his hospital, the Home for the Relief of Suffering. It was the second international meeting of the prayer groups as as the tenth anniversary of the hospital. Padre Pio very seldom spoke in public but did on May 5 and said:

    
"The prayer groups, now scattered throughout the world and affiliated with the Home for the Relief of Suffering, are the advance guard of this city of charity .... Christ himself is present every time the groups gather together for prayer... under the guidance of their pastors and spiritual directors.

    
 "It is prayer that unites all good souls, that renews the conscience, sustains the Home for Relief of Suffering, comforts the suffering, heals the sick, sanctifies the work, inspires the medical assistants, gives moral strength and Christian resignation in human suffering ... Pray a lot, my children, pray always, without ever tiring, because it is exactly to prayer that I entrust this work, which God has willed and will remain and prosper, thanks to the help of divine Providence, and the spiritual and charitable contributions of all souls who pray."

   
 Pope Paul VI gave his official papal approval to the prayer groups in 1968, shortly before Padre Pio's death. It was a great consolation to Padre Pio to know that the prayer groups  had been formally recognized and approved by the Holy Father....

   
 Pope John Paul II addressed a large gathering of pilgrims at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on May 3, 1999, the day after the beatification of Padre Pio. He praised the prayer groups founded by Padre Pio"

    
"As for the prayer groups, he (Padre Pio) wanted them to be like beacons of light and love in the world... It was his intention to create an army of praying people who would be a "leaven" in the world by the strength of prayer. And today the whole Church is grateful to him for the precious legacy, admires the holiness of her son, and invites everyone to follow his example."

   
 ...Victoria Ventral Victoria had a vision in which she saw Heaven in all of its splendor. In the midst of the beatific scene was a priest. He was dressed in the richest vestments which were adorned with pearls and precious gems. Victoria recognized the priest as Padre Pio... The next morning, Victoria to tell Padre Pio what she had seen in the vision....

Address of the Official Headquarters of Padre Pio Prayer Groups:

    "Padre Po Prayer Groups c/o Home for the Relief of Suffering, 

      71013 San Giovanni Rondo (Loggia), Italy

"Pray, pray to the Lord with me, because the whole world needs prayer. And every day, when your heart especially feels the loneliness of life, pray. Pray to the Lord, because even God needs our prayers."

St. Pio of Pietrelcina

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CHAPTER 7 - THE DOUBLE EXILE , 94

    "Padre Pio called the five depressing years between 1911 and 1916 "my double exile" because he was separated from his religious community as well as from heaven, for which he fervently longed. But it was during those years that Padre Pio gained the reputation for sanctity in Pietrelcino... Padre Pio slept during the summer in the cabin his father had built in the Diana Ramona and during the winter in the "Tower," a one-room structure owned by his parents near the family's home town....

  
 "In addition to his usual disorders, Pio immediately began to suffer from eye problems... To strain his week vision every day , his superior granted him permission to use one of two masses every day: The Mass of Our Lady and the Mass of the Dead. He memorized these two rituals and did not have to worry about reading different proper each day. He was excused from reading the Divine Office and was permitted to pray the rosary each day..."

George H. Kubeck

    

F.Y.I. THE CINOPS' RULE IN AMERICA!

F.Y.I. THE CINOPS' RULE IN AMERICA!

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH- HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - MON. JAN. 14/19

    What's the difference between Catholic-In-Name-Only-Politician House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? There isn't any? It is power and hatred of President Trump that is in their system. In some ways, Pelosi is a Mafia type. Alexandra Pelosi praises her mother's leadership, "She'll cut your head off and you won't even know you're bleeding."

    As stated in the Wall Street Editorial of Thurs. Jan. 3, 2019. "The main Democratic goal will be investigating not legislating... The animating purpose of Congress will be investigations to damage and perhaps to impeach, the President to tee up total control Democratic control after 2020....On policy, Mrs. Pelosi owes her speakership to the left and she will tilt that way...

    The real House tension will be between the new socialist vanguard and the thirty or so Democrats who won in GOP-leaning districts. It will be instructive to see how many defect from the Green deal or Medicare for All if Mrs. Pelosi dares to bring those to the floor.

    One certainty is the end of pro-growth legislation. The trend will towards higher taxes, more regulation and more harassment of business....

   

     Who are some of the Catholic-in-name-only political leaders in America? There is former V.P. Joe Biden. Today, we have Governors Andrew Cuomo of New York, Van Newsom of California and ex-Governor Jerry Brown. We have Senators Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Kristen Gillibrand of New York, Patty Murphy and Maria Cantwell. There are many others.

    They should never use Catholic in their bio when running for office. According the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" they are a fraud. They promote directly and indirectly six absolute evils. These are abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia, assisted-suicide, embryonic stem Cell research. They owe their election to the mainstream media who love Catholic frauds, and to the Democratic  bias of the U.S. Catholic bishops. Political and religious correctness is substituted for the truth.  Were these politicians conservatives or Republicans they would have been denounced decades ago by the U.S. Catholic bishops. The CINOPS' patron saint is former Governor Mario Cuomo.

    For decades, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been an embarrassment to the U.S.Catholic Church. Refer to Bishop Robert Vasa, Portland, Oregon, March 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com). "It is categorically impossible for the same person to state that he or she believes simultaneously both what the Catholic Church teaches and that abortion is just a choice." ... Alexandra, the daughter of Pelosi was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle on January 17, as saying that according to her Catholic school education neither abortion nor homosexuality were wrong, "They were just choices."  ... Today, the U.S. Catholic Church needs a Fulton Sheen to straighten out some of its most serious problems. Also, the Catholic bishops are prisoners of lawyers.

   In closing,the mainstream media is to the U.S. Socialist Democratic party today what Pravda was to Stalin's communist party. Under our Constitution the Communist party is illegal. But we are dealing with masters of deceit and deception. Today, it is the responsibility of the FBI to give the American people a report on Antifa, and other radical organizations. True freedom of the press is not only for their ideology that the Mainstream Press wants to promote but also for all Americans that are interested in the truth, not political correctness and hatred and smears for those who disagree with group think and propaganda. Pray for those who hate you.  

George H. Kubeck

P.S. 

The new CINOP Calif. Attorney General Xavier Becerra has the following history. In Congress, he voted against 1.) Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act- passage (110). 2.) Marriage Amendment Act (109). 3.) Child interstate Abortion Notification Act (109) 3.) Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (109) 4. Abortion in military medical facilities (109) 5. Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act: passage (109) 6.) Human cloning Ban: (109) 7.) Partial-Birth Abortion Ban: passage (108) Becerra is a fanatical pro-abortion Planned Parenthood follower. He is suing David Daleiden, a just man whose 30 month under cover investigation exposed a shocking scandal of illegal trafficking in the organs of aborted babies.

COMMUNIST/HOMOSEXUAL INFILTRATION OF THE U.S. CATHOLIC CHURCH # 1 OF 2

COMMUNIST/HOMOSEXUAL INFILTRATION OF THE U.S. CATHOLIC CHURCH # 1 OF 2

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - WED. JAN. 16, 2019

THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM AN AUGUST 19, 2018 HOMILY GIVEN AT THE CHURCH OF ST. RAPHAEL IN CRYSTAL, MINNESOTA BY FR. ROBERT ALTIER. THANKS TO THE "CATALYST" OCTOBER 2018  JOURNAL OF THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS. THIS WILL ALSO BE LETTER # 5 TO POPE FRANCIS AND BISHOP KEVIN VANN.

    "In the last couple of weeks, we have heard some pretty unfortunate things. A cardinal of the Church who abused children and young men, and now in Pennsylvania the grand jury report 301 priests violated more than a thousand children. And on top of that we have the episcopal cover-up by the bishops. And, it's not just simply a cover-up, it's an agenda. ...

    "You want to read about the communist one? There is a woman by the name of Bella Dodd who was a deep-seated communist who got out of communism and converted to the faith. She testified before Congress in 1953 and in that testimony she said that "we got instruction from Kremlin in 1929 as to what we were to do," and she said "we were to take the best and the brightest, the guys who were smart enough to live a double life, good looking guys who were sociable so that they would be noticed by their bishops, and they would be promoted, they would become vocation directors.

    "They would become rectors of seminaries, they would have influential positions" and she said "we were successful beyond our wildest imagination."  Dodd admitted, " I am personally responsible for than 1200 seminarians, priests and bishops."  And in 1953 mind you, again, she said "we already have four cardinals in the Vatican." That was 1953 mind you, it's way worse today.

     " You can also read a book that was written in 1932, "Toward Soviet America" by William Foster. He ran for the president of the United States in 1924, 1928 and 1932 for the Communist Party, USA. In his book, he said, "we aren't being able to get to Americans because of three things, their morality, their family and their patriotism. And he said: "so the way we are going to attack these three things is through homosexuality and radical feminism."  "They have been extraordinarily successful.

    "So what are we dealing with? We are dealing with a group of predatory homosexuals who became priests not to serve the Church but to destroy her from within. In this, they are at every level. There is an article that just came out from the National Catholic Register  in which six priests from the Newark diocese were interviewed and they spoke about the homosexual network in their diocese. It's in all of them, not just in Newark. They cover up for one another, they share their victims with one another, they do all kinds of horrible things.

    "And people ask, why don't the good priests speak up? I was taking to a friend of mine the other day, he looked at me and he said: "I've known about this for 50 years and you've known about it for 40 years." Yep, it's about time it's coming out. "So why didn't somebody speak up? Number one if I would have stood here even a couple of years ago would you have believed what I am telling you? Number two, who were we supposed to go to? It was at every single all the way to the top. You wanted to be ordained a priest, you couldn't say a word. And even as a priest you can't.

    "So, again just to tell you a quick story about how bad things were. When I was in the seminary, they would put up their communist propaganda, I would rip it down and every time I would do that there would be an announcement "Whoever is taking the notices off the bulletin board ..." When I would put up a notice that says we were going to pray the Rosary, that would get torn down immediately and there was never anything said. ...  You now understand why all that we get is fluff and stuff instead of good homilies? You understand why there are problems in the world that aren't being addressed? That's what it is all about. Where is the doctrinal integrity? Where is the moral teaching? Someone who is not living it is not going to teach it.

     "And sad a this is we have to recognize that it is actually something good. It is the purification of the Church and it is going to lead ultimately to her crucifixion. not many are going to remain faithful, unfortunately. But when we look at it and say: "well if this is what is going on in the Church what are we supposed to do?" We are supposed to look at Jesus and say exactly what St. Peter said. "Lord, to whom shall we to? You have the words of eternal life...."  +++ George H. Kubeck

COMMUNIST/HOMOSEXUAL INFILTRATION OT THE U.S. CATHOLIC CHURCH # 2 OF 2

COMMUNIST/HOMOSEXUAL INFILTRATION OF THE U.S. CATHOLIC CHURCH # 2 OF 2

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH- HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM -THURS. JAN. 17/19

THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM AN AUG. 19, 2018 HOMILY GIVEN AT THE CHURCH OF ST. RAPHAEL IN CRYSTAL, MINNESOTA BY FR. ROBERT ALTIER. THANKS TO THE CATALYST OCTOBER, 2018, JOURNAL OF THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS. THIS WILL ALSO BE LETTER # 6 TO HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS AND BISHOP KEVIN VANN.

    "If you listened carefully, since 2002 when all this broke, the bishops keep on coming back to the same point, pedophilia, it's pedophilia, it's pedophilia. No, it's not. In fact, the John Jay Institute, the group that the bishops themselves hired to look at what was going on, came back and said this is a homosexual problem.86.6% (if I recall correctly) of all the abuse cases were on post-pubescent males, and the bishops told them "no you go back, and you rewrite it and you say that it isn't a homosexual problem." So they came back and said well 86.6% of this is all about post-pubescent males, but  it's not a homosexual problem; like really. ... And the Church recognizes that the orientation is not evil, it is the activity which is evil....

    "And so, the Church is very clear that even for men with a deep-seated homosexual tendency, that they are not to go to the seminary. That's not because the Church is being discriminatory or hates these people, but because the same principle if you look at and say: would you take somebody who is struggling with an alcohol addiction to a bar? It's a point of temptation. We don't allow men into women's convents because it's not going to be long before somebody's going to be having problems...

    "Go back to when  I was in college seminary. I was having a conversation with another seminarian, in the midst of the conversation he looked at me and said would you ever consider in taking a shower in a woman's locker room? I said certainly not.He said well why not? I said well the temptation and the problems ... and he said you're write, now you know what I have to go through when I go into a men's locker room.  I thought oh my goodness ... yuck. This is why the Church says even for these good men who are struggling and trying to overcome this, we don't want to put them in a point of temptation.

    "So those are not the people that we are having a problem with. The people that we are having a problem with come from two different groups and understand there is an intentional and malicious infiltration of the Church for the purpose of destroying her from within. This is what you need to know.

    "When I was in the seminary, it was one of the worst seminaries in the nation. 1983 is when our seminary was at its absolute worst; I started in '85. It was getting slightly better but these people were so arrogant. I should point out when I was in the seminary if you were not homosexual or a radical feminist you were in big trouble. One of the professors actually was arrogant enough to stand up in front of the class and say "Martin Luther had the right idea, but he did the wrong way - he left the Church. You can't change the Church from the outside you can only change it from the inside, so we're not leaving.

    "So these are people with an agenda? And what are the two groups? The two groups are: number one, a group of predatory homosexuals. They started their infiltration of the Church in 1924. You want to look it up?  "There is a book called "The Homosexual Network" written in 1982, so this is twenty years before all of this stuff hit. A man named Enrique Rueda looked at all of this, studied all of their publications (they were publishing every year the number of seminarians, priests and bishops they had.) he traced  it back to when they started, it began in 1924. And then five years later, in 1929, the communists began their infiltration of the priesthood and the two groups did exactly the same thing. "

George H. Kubeck

Memo to His Holiness Pope Francis,

    The other day via the Drudge Report, there was a news item from the Vatican that praised the anniversary of the Communist revolution in Cuba. It disappeared shortly afterwords. In the name of Truth, how can this mindset exist in the Vatican? Atheistic Marxist/Leninist/Communism is an abomination and anathema not only to the Catholic Church but to the human race. It is an identifiable public cancer in the public arena. This brings to my mind, the most shameful and tragic hidden news story of 2018  occurred in Venezuela. This nation was infiltrated and prostituted by Cuban communists. I can understand why the mainstream media and Hollywood kept it silent. But why YOU!

THE ANTI-FA MENTALITY IN PORTLAND, OREGON!

THE ANTI-FA MENTALITY IN PORTLAND, OREGON!

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM -TUES.JAN. 8, 2019

"HEAR YE" "HEAR YE", KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON ON PORTLAND, OREGON'S ANTIFA'S CITY, IN THE "NATIONAL REVIEW" ON DEC. 31, 2018.

"IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT A BUNCH OF HALF-BAKED IDIOTS AND KETTLE-CORN PSALMISTS IN A POLITICAL MARCH ARE UP TO, THE EASIEST THING TO DO IS TO MARCH AROUND WITH THEM, AS I DID FOR A WHILE IN PORTLAND...

"The kettle-corn girl is but one of the many madcap escapees from the great mental ward of the Pacific Northwest out here making strange noises on the mean streets of downtown Portland on Election Night 2018.... (Hear the chant.) "Whose streets?" "Our Streets!" "Whose Streets!" "Our Streets!" "Whose Streets!" "Our Streets!"...                          

The thing is the pointy-headed little black-shirted goons aren't wrong about that.The official target of tonight's march is U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement - an agency within the Department of Homeland Security.... "Abolish -ICE!" is the official theme of the evening.... but the real subject (the chants) "F ### The POLICE!" --- "A-C-A-B" "ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS!" --- Repeat ---...And these absolutely are their streets, as the two neutered Portland cops following them dutifully around make clear.                                                           

The goons and thugs occasionally take a moment to amuse themselves by messing with the cops and screaming obscenities at them.... The cops trundle on ... pretending not to notice as the hoodlums pound on passing cars, block intercessions, and menace bystanders...

"A police vehicle cruises down the street a respectful distance behind the mob. The purported lawmen inside announce over the loudspeakers that they are there to assure this rabble of miscreants that they are there to help the mob "exercise your First Amendment rights safely," so please stay on the sidewalk and obey the traffic laws. ...

"In real life, Portland's mayor is Ted Wheeler, a sniveling little runt of a bureaucrat who professes to be "appalled" at the politically violence that is now a commonplace on the streets of Portland bu complains that he is effectively unable to do anything about it. When Antifa thugs attacked a march held by Patriot Prayer, a local right-wing group, police reported seeing people brandishing guns, clubs, knives, and pepper spray. They made no arrests....                        

According to Andy Ngo, a local journalist who has written for the Wall Street Journal  and other publications about the Portland fascists who style themselves anti-fascist ... the police are under orders to avoid creating "flashpoints," meaning confrontation between police and hooligans that might look bad on video....

"Peter Beinart, writing in The Atlantic, forthrightly describe Antifa as a group of "people preventing Republicans from safely assembling on the streets of Portland." And elsewhere, of course. And in spite of the ridiculous rhetoric surrounding Antifa, this is very much a Democrat-vs- Republican issue...Antifa, in Ngo's estimate, is made up of "young people who are ideologues wanting to be heroes. With the ideological monoculture in Portland, people here really think that they are in some kind of cosmic battle with fascists.... George H. Kubeck

Who in the world wants to visit a cowardly city like Portland, or for that matter, Oregon itself?

#19 of 25 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

# 19 OF 25 - THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM - FRI. JAN. 4, 2018

PADRE PIO - THE TRUE STORY BY C. BERNARD RUFFIN

CHAPTER 6 OF 34 - BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL, 89-93

"St. Francis of Assissi also appeared to him. "Seraphic Father," Pio complained, "are you expelling me from your Order? ... Aren't I your son anymore?" Pio seems to have assured by St. Francis that he would never be expelled from the Capuchin Order and that it was God's will for him to remain in Pietrelcina for a time....

"During late November and early December, Padre Agostino brought Holy Communion to his sick friend several times while he was in ecstasy. The visionary apparently did not realize that he had not received Communion because several times times during the ecstasy, he asked Jesus, "Did I receive Communion this morning?" Agostino could deduce from Pio's surprised responses that Jesus had told him that the professor had indeed brought Communion to the him. Jesus moreover told him the exact words that Agostino had uttered when when he was giving him Communion: "Pio, see Jesus" and "I command you to partake {of that Sacrament}, in the name of Jesus, whom I hold in my hands!" Jesus even repeated to Pio a French expression that Agostino had used Petit enfant. ...

"Everything Padre Pio said in his ecstaries - at least everything written down - was coherent. Dr. Lombardi was much struck by this fact. These were not the ravings of a delirious or mentally deranged man. Not only were Padre Pio's statements coherent, they also referred to real persons and real events. Of some of these he knew nothing in his normal state!

Perhaps most important, what Padre Pio said was edifying, theologically correct, and expressive of a deep love of God and man. There was nothing self-centered or uselessly sensational about Padre Pio's ecstasies. In them he asked to grow nearer to God and, in doing so, to serve individuals better.

Meanwhile Padre Pio's physical condition continued to cause concern.... Dr. Lombardi wrote, "From these facts I excluded a specific affection of the lungs, and I judged that this was a case of nervous disturbance."According to him Pio's illness was psychosomatic.

A psychosomatic affliction is one in which the nerves or emotions work on the physical system to make one truly physically ill. This does not mean that Padre Pio was a hypochondriac or a malingerer. His illness clearly seems to be a result, not of self centered anxieties or repressed conflicts, but of his off-repeated desire to suffer with Christ for the redemption of mankind. A times, as we have seen Padre Pio asked Jesus to permit him to take on the punishment due to other people's sins; often he asked to bear the physical miseries of others simply to give them some relief.

Evelyn Underhill observes that mystics and visionaries very often suffer from ill health, frequently from undiagnosable illnesses. SS. Bernard of Clairvaux, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Catherine of Siena,  and Catherine of Genoa are in this category. Miss Underhill felt that the usual poor health of many mystics may be caused by "the immense strain which the exalted spirit puts on the body which is adapted to a very different form of life. ...

Padre Evangelista, concerned because Pio had not been able to retain any food for weeks, first wrote to Padre Benedetto, begging the Provincial to permit the young man to return to Pietrelcina.... Padre Pacifico thereupon instructed Padre Benedetto to permit p\Padre Pio to return home. Benedetto, in a fury, wrote to Agostino, fuming: "I do not to make of this concern to run to Rome for a provision that is supposed to be left to my wisdom. I am troubled because it is a sign of a lack of respect and reverence towards one's immediate superiors...."

Benedetto nevertheless gave his consent for Padre Pio to return to Pietrelcina and authorized Agostino to accompany him. And so, on the morning of December 7, 1011, Pio and Agostino set out for Pietrelci. The next day Padre Pio was able to celebrate Mass in his hometown - "as if he had suffered nothing."

George H. Kubeck - Info: Padre Pio Foundation of America, (860) 635-4996, www.padrepio.com

THERE IS HOPE FOR FREEDOM, JUSTICE, COMMON SENSE AND TRUTH

THERE IS HOPE FOR FREEDOM, JUSTICE, COMMON SENSE AND TRUTH

In pursuit of the truth - Http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019

     
Let's take a second look at a lonely voice in the wilderness in the 1950's, Russel Kirk, his mindset made possible the Ronald Reagan for Presidency. "In essence, the body of belief we call "conservatism" is an affirmation of normality in the concern of society," Russell Kirk, "The Conservative Mind." Whittaker Chambers, the author of 'Witness,' lauded Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind as "the most important book of the 20th Century".

 Let's celebrate "Permanent Things: Kirk's Centenary" by Roger Kimball in "The New Criterion" Jan. 19. "The philosopher Roger Scruton once observed that Kirk showed that conservatism is fundamentally not an economic but a cultural outlook, and that conservatism "would have no future if reduced merely to the philosophy of profit. put bluntly," Scruton said, "conservatism is not about profit but about loss: it survives and flourishes because people are in the habit of mourning their losses, and safeguarding against them."...

"But if Bill Buckley re energized the political and social fortunes of conservatism, Kirk was the person most responsible for reinvigorating the intellectual heritage of conservatism in this country. Kirk died in 1994, at seventy-five was a lonely voice in the wilderness when, in 1953, he published his magnum opus, The Conservative Mind (two years) before the inaugural issue of National  Review). ..."

"A brief introduction outlines the six touchstones of Kirk's conservative vision:"belief in a transcendent order"; "affection for the proliferating variety and mystery of human existence"; a commitment to ordered liberty; a recognition that freedom and property are closely linked; faith in the prescription against the putative expertise of the "sophisters, calculators, and economists" that Burke memorably anathemized in Reflections on the Revolution in France; and the understanding that change is not synonymous with betterment.  (Kirk would have liked Lord Falkland's observation that "when it is not necessary to change, it is not necessary to change.") ..."

"Kirk wrote some thirty books - novels and those hot-selling ghost stories along with works of intellectual history - as well as countless magazine articles and lectures. His influence was enormous...

Kirk left behind two memoirs, Confessions of a Bohemian Tory and The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict, a book he completed shortly before his death."Among those who were likely to be vexed by his meditations, Kirk notes, are enthusiasts for modernity, global village, the end of history, the gross national product, emancipation from moral inhibitions, abstract rights without concomitant duties,  what Samuel Johnson called, "the lust for innovation." ...

"Like other conservatives, Kirk affirmed that "freedom and property are closely linked." But what he said of Wilhem Roepke was also true of himself; Kirk was "no apologist for an abstract 'capitalism.'" He was no doctrinaire disciple of Friedrich Hayek or Milton Freedman, and he frequently inveighed against "our fetishes of creature comforts and material aggrandizement." Kirk rarely used the word "Progress" without a sarcasm and initial capital.

"The automobile, he wrote - and he always wrote "automobile," not "car" - was a "mechanical Jacobin." an "instrument of civic and familial undoing," difference from the guillotine, he implied, chiefly because it lacked a sharpened blade. In his view, "industrialism was harder knock to conservatism than the books of the French equalitarians."  Although Kirk was a friend and avid supporter of Ronald Reagan, he nevertheless voted for the socialist Norman Thomas in 1044 to "reward" him for his anti-imperialist

stand before Pearl Harbor...

"Although he was a fervent patriot, Kirk believed that all the wars fought by America, the Revolutionary War included, "might have been averted." I do not think he would have been pleased by a Secretary of Defense whose nickname is Mad Dog."..."Kirk was not a defeatist, a quietist, or a reactionary alienated from his country and its political struggles. He was a conservative in full, who gave priority to faith and culture while nonetheless embracing politics as necessary and, within the proper limits, good."

"Kirk did not hesitate to enunciate forbidden opinions: "There ought to be inequality of condition in the world," he wrote. "For without inequality, there is no class, without class, no manners, and no beauty; and then people sink into public and private ugliness. ... Although Kirk came late to religious belief - he was not received into the Catholic Church until 1964 - he always believed that "political problems, at bottom, are religious and moral problems...."  +++ George H. Kubeck +++

P.S. "Let's Celebrate Ronald Reagan in the Public Arena in Orange County at Mile Square Park."