By CHRISTOPHER MANION
Events are moving quickly, and “instant analysis” will prove unsatisfactory. As we go to press, the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments in State of Texas v. Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, State Of Georgia, State Of Michigan, And State Of Wisconsin. Now joined by 17 states, Texas asks the Supreme Court to “enjoin the use of unlawful election results” in those “Defendant” states.
If successful, the selection of electors in the “Defendant” states would lie in the hands of the respective state legislatures. They are all controlled by Republican majorities. Should the Supreme Court decide in favor of Texas, et al., it’s possible that the legislatures in those states would name electors who would vote for President Trump when the Electoral College votes on December 14. Should that come to pass, President Trump will have more than enough votes to be reelected.
That would be historic indeed, with consequences far beyond politics.
So we wait.
In the meantime, we lost a great friend and a great man when Walter Williams died last week at the age of 84. A gifted black economist, Williams was often vilified by the Left as an “Uncle Tom” for his sensible views. The news that Pope Francis is teaming up with the world’s super-rich to install the “Great Reset,” moving beyond free-market capitalism, which our Peronist Pope profoundly disdains.
The elites’ “reset” calls to mind Williams’ classic: “Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering, and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” The Pope’s plan would have the elites loot, plunder, and enslave the vast majority of our fellow men, but we would be equally looted, plundered, and enslaved, so that’s good.
These elites want to boss around our fellow man, all in the name of “equality for thee but not for me.” They have the same attitude as the countless stars and politicians who are demanding that we remain incarcerated in our homes while they indulge in flagrant violations of their rules, flaunting their usual contempt for us Deplorables.
Unfortunately, our bishops have been powerfully tempted in similar ways. They cheered this week once more when a court resuscitated Obama’s long-disputed DACA program. That diktat defied immigration law, and that’s fine with America’s Catholic bishops. After all, it conforms to their leftist political agenda.
But the bishops’ defiance was missing when secular officials locked down the country for months. Taking a page from Obama, bishops could have defied Caesar and kept our churches open, but they did not. Sadly, they couldn’t afford to. Their agenda depends on Caesar’s pleasure and his coin, however severe his persecution. There is no way around it, their failure represents a historic capitulation of the hierarchy to the state. The unhappy consequences, added to their other scandals, will haunt the faithful for years to come.
Wake Up! Population
Controllers Are Planning On A Banner Year!
“Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme!” “Sleepers, awake! The voice of the watchman calls us!” For good reason it’s hailed as one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most beloved cantatas.
In every generation, Jesus calls on the wise virgins to stay awake, and still their foolish companions snooze the night away.
Not Satan. He never sleeps, and he doesn’t take Sundays off. “Never let a crisis go to waste,” said Clinton adviser Rahm Emmanuel, and day in, day out, Satan churns the spirits of crisis, chaos, and conflict. He sows fear, doubt, and distrust as his allies move the pieces on the chessboard, closing in on the faithful and putting the final touches on the straitjackets they plan to use in their final attack on our religious freedom.
They’re moving at the speed of light, not even hiding it any more. Here at home, millions are still barred from Mass and the sacraments. Schools are shuttered and students shoved onto a flat, lifeless screen. Countless businesses have closed and many neighborhoods have become no-go zones. Arbitrary politicians turn neighbor against neighbor, demanding we report violations of their capricious lockdown diktats.
Population Control
Means Control!
We’ve mentioned Pandemonium, the new book from the Population Research Institute. Founded by Fr. Paul Marx, OSB. PRI has followed population issues — and population’s enemies — for years. You can download a free copy from PRI’s website, pop.org, today.
The book contains accounts from several countries describing the alacrity with which governments, international organizations, Big Tech and Big Media have moved to seize control of the pandemic for their own ends. It is breathtaking.
The setting is new but the story is as old as the Garden of Eden. The world’s first lie — “Ye shall be as gods” — eternally entices the libido dominandi, the lust for power. On the first page of his City of God, Augustine identifies this vice as the driving force of the City of Man, whose ruler is Satan.
The lust for power fairly oozes among the Population Controllers. They love to boss people around. We bear in mind that, when the United States launched its family planning programs in the 1960s, the controllers’ agenda had widespread, bipartisan support. Before long, our foreign aid programs required “family planning” to be included in every grant. If the Third World’s poor wanted clean water or basic medicines, they had to have contraceptives and abortifacients too, our controllers dictated — and their word was, literally, law.
All power planning requires that style of coercion. Today’s advocates are hyping the “horrors” of the pandemic in order to tighten their grip in other ways on daily life, both in the United States and around the world. Their proposals travel under several banners — “the Great Reset,” “Globalism,” “Post-Pandemic Society” — but they all focus on eliminating America’s leadership in the world, erasing our country’s unique character and replacing it with a tawdry “universalism.”
We must resist — and we are not alone. In The Day Is Now Far Spent, Robert Cardinal Sarah states the problem clearly. “Globalization is contrary to the divine plan,” he writes. “It tends to make humanity uniform. Globalization means cutting man off from his roots, from his religion, from his culture, history, customs & ancestors. He becomes stateless, without a country, without a land.” We become a “planetary herd. . . . Globalized humanity, without borders, is a hell.”
Rejoice!
Bach’s rendition of Wachet auf expands on a hymn written in 1598 by Philippus Nicolai, when his German hometown of Unna had been beset by the plague for almost a year. Sound familiar? And always mindful of God’s will, Dr. Nicolai hoped that the hymn would “comfort other sufferers whom He should also visit with the pestilence.”
Let us find comfort in God’s promise. Today’s pestilence threatens the spirit as well as the body. There was no public liturgy in the Vatican for Holy Week and Easter this year, and there will be none for Advent and Christmas. But we must celebrate nonetheless!
Every year, the Christmas Season lasts for a full forty days, ending with the Feast of the Presentation on February 2. With the gift of Bach’s beautiful Cantata, we can join in song and in spirit, “Des sind wir froh, io, io, ewig in dulci jubilo.”
“And so we rejoice, io, io, in sweet and eternal jubilation.”
A blessed Christmastide to all.
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