By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK
Well, the Church has had its Neros and now it looks as though we might have a new “Julian the Apostate.”
Initial counts of the 2020 election vote are indicating that Trump is likely to go down in defeat under and in competition against someone I simply can’t imagine people voting for because of his incompetence. Biden’s advancing senility means we may soon have the anti-Catholic Kamala Harris for president. What’s worse, much worse than her hatred for our faith and those who profess it, however, is her rabid pro-abortionism.
For those of us who believe, Biden’s apostasy while masquerading as a “practicing Catholic” is grave in consequence because it is a true scandal.
Biden’s faux Catholic posturing will make things immeasurably worse for the Church in our struggle to teach and hand on the true faith.
I don’t understand why anybody would vote for Biden/Harris except that many people in the country now positively embrace evil.
The Trump team is lawyering up, as I write, to contest the count, so hope remains as of this writing.
The Democrat-run battleground states showed an early Trump lead in contrast to 2016. But as the avalanche of mail-in votes were counted that lead was soon dwarfed and then buried. In Wisconsin, we are to believe, an all-time record 89 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot this year.
Election fraud would not be something new. One hundred percent of the mail-in ballots cast for one candidate, as is rumored in some locations, strains credulity.
But what won’t change is the fact that we are Catholic. We need to and we must fight on regardless of the election results. Together as faithful Catholic Christians, we will persevere in our faith and keep our eyes on the prize of the goal of eternal life.
Diane Montagna posted a new post-election letter from Archbishop Viganò on November 5 with the following commentary:
“In new appeal amid potential U.S. election fraud, +Viganò asks Catholics to make acts of faith and humility in the ‘Lord of Armies’ & to pray the Rosary imploring Our Lady to ‘grant the victory to the forces of Good & to inflict a humiliating defeat on the forces of Evil’.”
He responds as a pastor should to people oppressed and in crisis among the wolves. Obviously well-informed about the U.S. situation, in his letter Viganò writes:
“News of electoral fraud is multiplying despite the shameful attempts of the mainstream media to censor the truth of the facts in order to give their candidate the advantage. There are states in which the number of votes is greater than the number of voters; others in which the mail-in vote seems to be exclusively in favor of Joe Biden; others in which the counting of ballots has been suspended for no reason or where sensational tampering has been discovered: always and only against President Donald J. Trump, always and only in favor of Biden.”
He goes on to give us spiritual counsel:
“In these hours while the gates of hell seem to prevail allow me to address myself to you with an appeal, which I trust that you will respond to promptly and with generosity. I ask you to make an act of trust in God, an act of humility and filial devotion to The Lord of Armies. I asked that all of you pray the Holy Rosary, if possible in your families or with your dear ones, your friends, your brothers and sisters, your colleagues, your fellow soldiers.
“Pray with the abandonment of children who know how to have recourse to their Most Holy Mother to ask her to intercede before the throne of the Divine Majesty. Pray with a sincere soul, with a pure heart, in the certainty of being heard and answered. Ask her . . . to defeat the forces of the Enemy.”
The children of the Evil One indeed know how to makes friends for themselves with this world’s goods. As children of light we must have recourse to the most powerful weapons of divine grace and truth while in constant prayer. All this while we suffer under a regime in Rome that’s systematically re-branding Catholicism as some kind of “Anglican high church LGBT socially so-called progressive” substitute. Many leaders in the Church are, in fact, embracing evil and teaching others to do so in word and example.
As a result a kind of “anti-Church” is growing within the ecclesiastical corpus like a cancer which threatens to compromise and consume the healthy cells in an attempt to remove true apostolic leadership in the Church.
We are indeed besieged on all sides.
The Church will witness much scandal if a purportedly Catholic president regularly receives sacrilegious and useless Communions in full public view.
Priests and faithful bishops will find it necessary to speak out frequently and remind Catholics of his anti-example and scandal. No doubt he will find himself more than welcome at the Communion rail in certain cathedrals and parish churches.
This while there continue to be signs of hope in places such as Louisiana, where there’s currently no right to an abortion, and in Alabama, where a pro-life candidate, Tommy Tuberville, won a U.S. Senate seat this November.
As a “third Obama term,” Biden, if finally elected, will enable much evil in our country and in our world.
We can continue to hope and pray that the Trump Supreme Court nominees will form a pro-life bloc on the court and sustain pro-life laws sent from states where good outnumbers evil.
Democracies and presidencies come and go, yet the Church will remain the divinely founded Body of Christ on Earth until the end of the world. For this reason we need to embrace the long view and put the priority on our faith.
In conclusion, I would like to add this quotation from Christopher Bedford in The Federalist:
“Former Vice President Joe Biden ran his presidential campaign on a pro-late-term abortion, pro-child sex-change, pro-gay marriage, pro-contraception mandate platform. Two of these positions stand in direct defiance of the Catholic Church’s ‘five non-negotiables,’ one targets Catholic nuns, hospitals, and adoption agencies, and the other targets children.”
We fight on.
Thank you for reading and praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever. Continue the conversation on Parler, the new free speech social network, where you’ll find me @FatherKevinMCusick.
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