They Have Abdicated the Church

Harry Palmer

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Abandoned and alone is a feeling I fear is coming to many in the next few years as populations are divided for political advantage by our politicians and their puppet masters and the newly created groups are set against each other.

This breakdown and alienation is reflected in the Catholic Church, too. My schooling included religious instruction of half an hour each day, learning about Jesus Christ and the ten commandments given to Moses. The much later founded Catholic Church has its own six commandments, which are handily given to worthy clergymen by ‘the Holy Spirit’ and are not allowed to be questioned.

From the Catholic Catechism – first printed in 1556 – the six commandments of the church are:

1. To keep Sundays and Holidays of Obligation holy, by hearing mass and resting from servile work.
2. To keep the days of fasting and abstinence appointed by the church.
3. To go to confession at least once a year.
4. To receive the Blessed Sacrament at least once a year, and that about Easter time.
5. To contribute to the support of our pastors.
6. Not to marry within certain degrees of kindred, nor to solemnise marriage at forbidden times.

To avoid any of these commandments is to commit a ‘grave’ sin. The psychological pressure to conform is reinforced by the system of ‘indulgences’, where remission of sins – like those against the original 10 commandments and the six commandments of the church – is granted on fulfillment of the following:

1. A complete and whole-hearted detachment from all sin of any kind, even venial sin.
2. Making a valid sacramental confession.
3. Receiving Holy Communion in the state of grace.
4. Praying for the intentions of the Pope.

The ‘sale’ of indulgences – to those who were too lazy or simply couldn’t be bothered with the foregoing remission process – by corrupt clergymen was one reason that around 1517 Martin Luther was motivated to compile his 95 theses that eventually lead him to break away from Rome.

To further increase its power over members, the dogma of Papal Infallibility was defined and introduced at the First Vatican Council of 1869–1870. This means the Pope can do no wrong when pontificating on faith and morals. This was useful for whipping the great unwashed and stroppy clergymen into line. This apparently led Catholic Earl Acton (John Dalberg Acton) to write, in April 1887, the immortal phrase: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

With these ‘tools’ – along with the use of deliberate obfuscation and evasion techniques including the interjection of Latin words and phrases learned in the seminary, and the invocation of “Our Blessed Mother” and “Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” – the church introduces and subsequently maintains its authority over individual members and runs the church as a collective.

The church’s overseeing of its people is set against the background of the wheelings and dealings various popes got up to even beyond the second half of the second millennium, not to mention the indiscretions of an avowedly celibate number of them, especially in the 1400s.

In my early education it was made plain to me that the religious instruction I was being given was the Adamantine foundation on which my life was to be built. The downside being (as the man said, “Give me the child until he is seven and I’ll show you the man”) they end up having your balls in a psychological vice. But that hasn’t prevented Pope Francis and his acolyte prelates from subtly trying to undermine the foundations of the faith I was given as a child. No wonder the faithful are deserting in droves.

I believe it was social psychologist Stanley Milgram who posited that only around 20 per cent of any given Western population has an inner life and the ability to think critically and analytically. This leaves the remaining 80 per cent dependent on others to make decisions for them. The whole 100 per cent, however, are the people the Pope and the hierarchy of the church – one suspects contemptuously – call ‘sheep’, a description stolen from one of Jesus’ parables. Being able to call members of the church ‘sheep’ to their faces and get away with such a derisory expression no doubt gives cause for a snigger up the sleeve of the alb and a thrill to cynical clergymen.

The ‘sheep’ of the church, over a billion of them, give money, power and status to the Pontiff and recognition among world leaders of him being a serious player. Hence the welcoming of Pope Francis to join his fellow ‘world leader’ peers – including King Charles III – for COP28 in Dubai this month. It now seems Pope Francis was ill before the commencement and hasn’t attended COP28. Maybe he felt ashamed at having to cadge a lift off ITA, while thousands of other attendees turned up in private jets. If only fellow attendee Charlie had the balls to give them the finger and stand up for his nation instead of being prepared to treacherously sell it out to supranational organisations like the UN and World Economic Forum.

And the Pope has shown he’s a player among the Elite in other ways as well. One being the deal he promulgated – through the disgraced and defrocked sexual predator Cardinal Theodore McCarrick – with Chairman Xi in which the latter was handed the underground church in China to be harassed and tortured at will. Other expressions of his ‘temporal’ power (which he seems to prefer exercising over his supposed ‘spiritual’ power that most people believe he was elected for) include:

1. The sacking of those traditionalists throughout the ranks of the priesthood who he deems to be his ‘enemies’ and who, among other things, are in opposition to the overtures he’s making to the gay community. (Pope Francis’s vindictive cancelling of the pension of the faithful Cardinal Raymond Burke along with evicting him from his church-provided home can only be seen as extreme cruelty.)
2. The surrounding of himself with, and promotion of, prelates of questionable morals.
3. The punishing of those who questioned his demand that clergy and sisters be injected with mRNa gene therapy and the closing of churches during the ‘pandemic’.
4. Following on from Vatican II in the 1960s with efforts to further liberalise the church – turn it over to Satan many believe – by way of his proposed ‘synods’ (meetings).

People, not only those of the faith, also question the way Pope Francis came into that position after the sidelining and premature and unexpected resignation of his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI.

I wonder what that simple carpenter’s son who sacrificed his life for the individual members of church he founded and left to his apostles and their successors to tend to, nurture and grow, would say about the Catholic Church today with its hierarchical system of numerous fat, smug and self-proclaimed ‘holy men’ as they self-importantly swagger around in fancy uniforms, their place in the ranks being signalled by the colour of their hat and cummerbund? 

The church, as are all Christian churches, is struggling as the numbers of Sunday Mass attendees are seriously dwindling and have been for several years now. Its leaders seem to think that the selling out of its rich heritage of beliefs and behaviors, to be replaced by a sort of secular humanism, is the only way they can survive, caught, as they are, in the same downward spiral into the eternal darkness as society at large.

Whatever happened to “Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.’ Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life.”? (Philippians 2:15)

The problem, I think, is the love of collectivist power that the hierarchy of the Catholic Church has had over its ‘sheep’ since medieval times and which gives it status in the affairs of the world. It’s hardly surprising then, that the mere man Pope Francis seeks to reinforce and grow the unholy grip his church has on the minds of its membership, if only to maintain parity with his peers in the international elite.

If it were to take a serious look at itself (unlikely given the quality of the current incumbents of its ruling elite), the Catholic Church could only conclude that to survive and fulfill its mission – to give the gifts of life, hope and true love to its members, as its founder intended for them – then serious, radical change is required, beginning with a return to the poverty and humility of the early saints.

Such a change would require ridding the church of its collectivistic instinct and replacing it with a trust in the individual and education from a young age being designed to pursue self reliance as a major requirement, and to teach critical and analytical thinking, especially in regards to religion. With the guidance of dedicated teachers, the truths of Christianity would be taught in parallel with other subjects. In other words, back to creating that Adamantine foundation of old.

Those six commandments of the church, indulgences and the other bindings the church uses to keep members’ minds captive need to be ditched, too, and if a gay person wants to take the Eucharist, let it be on their conscience, releasing the church from the obligation of defending the indefensible. However, using ‘lawfare’ to drag other people, like priests and the bakers of cakes, against their will into practices that are explicitly forbidden in scripture, or go against another individual’s conscience, should, in my opinion, be outlawed and fought against loudly.

Is any of this possible? Of course not! Nothing can disguise the incontrovertible truth that the current Catholic Church is solely a human-led endeavour that has become moribund and incompetent at performing its duty of delivering the Word of Christ and comfort and spiritual healing to its members, as it is so immersed in navel-gazing and jockeying for acceptance among the globalists.

So back to the beginning. We who believe the Word in our hearts and who try to live by His precepts would appear to share our feelings of being abandoned and alone with the populations of countries whose politicians have made the decision to destroy their culture and country by inviting in hordes of primitive, tribal-minded occupiers. We’re all, each and every one of us, on our own now and going down, although that 80 per cent remain unaware. God help us.