Stalin, killer of at least 20 million people, said “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” In mid-nineteenth-century China, the civil war known as the Taiping Rebellion cost upwards of 30 million lives.

The feast of Saint Augustine Zhao Rong and his 119 companions, on July 9, is a reminder that the persecution of Christian missionaries and native Chinese, begun in the mid-17th century, continues into our time. Augustine had been a soldier assigned as a prison guard for the French missionary bishop, Louis Gabriel Dufresse, whose martyrdom in Chengdu moved Augustine to request baptism, after which he became a priest and was tortured and killed in 1815. Later, in the Boxer Rebellion, 30,000 Christians would be slaughtered.

There are magnificent witnesses in China today, among whose champions is Cardinal Zen, indomitable at the age of eighty-eight. The insouciance with which some timorous Western ecclesiastics have cast a blind eye to the persecution of the Catholics in China, will be remembered as a dark blot on the history of our time.

Mao killed at least 40 million. His “Cultural Revolution,” which executed upwards of 3 million, excited mobs of youths as agents of government repression. Monuments of ancient culture were destroyed. These included nearly 7,000 priceless works of art in the Temple of Confucius alone as part of the frenzied attack on the Four Olds: Old Customs, Old Habits, Old Culture, and Old Ideas.

In our own country, the debutantish radicalism of hysterical youths whose misguided idealism makes a venomous brew when mixed with poor education, is exploited by more sinister strategists. James Madison described such mobs as: “united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”

Young people eager to condemn the immorality of forebears, while exulting in their own undisciplined lives, recently pulled down a statue of Saint Junípero Serra. It evoked the attack on the Franciscan mission in Alta California on November 4, 1775, when 600 native warriors pierced the friar Father Luis Jayme with eighteen arrows as he called to them: “Love God, my children!”

Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, the one Iraqi combatant to receive the Medal of Honor, has said that our universities are turning out “Peter Pan” adolescents who would profit better if they joined the Army where they would be taught how to be men and women.

After the destruction of the statue of Saint Junípero Serra, the wise Archbishop of San Francisco did not engage in polemics. He simply went to the site of the vandalism and said the exorcism prayer of Saint Michael. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12).

Faithfully yours in Christ,

Father George W. Rutler

7.4.20

 

VIRUSCHURCH:  ITALY SET TO MAKE BELONGING TO A GROUP THAT CALLS GAY SEX A SIN PUNISHABLE BY FOUR YEARS IN PRISON.  PEVERTED ITALIAN FRANCISBISHOPS:  GREAT IDEA!

THE ITALIAN BISHOPS SUPPORTING A LAW THAT WOULD LITERALLY CRIMINALIZE MEMBERSHIP IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

CATHOLICS IN MICHIGAN PROTECTING THEIR CHURCH FROM RIOTERS.

TOP U.S. PRO-GAY FRANCISBISHOPS WESTER, STOWE PRODUCE PROPAGANDA VIDEO AGAINST ‘HATE’ AND ‘HOMOPHOBIA.’  INCLUDE TOP GAY ADVOCATE U.S. FRANCISPRIESTS

SOCIALIST REALISM? ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL INSTALLS BLACK JESUS

HOLY FRANCISTWEETER:  THE UN HAS CALLED FOR A GLOBAL CEASEFIRE BECAUSE OF THE BLESSED AND ETERNAL VIRUS!  IT MUST BE DONE QUICKLY!

EVIL AND WELL-PAID VICAR OF XI DECLINES TO READ ANGELUS ADDRESS CALLING FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN HONG KONG

NEUMAYR: THE WILTON GREGORYS LONG AGO TRANSFERRED THEIR FAITH FROM CATHOLICISM TO LEFT-WING POLITICS, AS EVIDENT IN THEIR SUPPORT FOR BLACK LIVES MATTERS, AN ORGANIZATION WITH AN EXPLICITLY ANTI-CATHOLIC AGENDA.

“N95 MASKS ARE ESTIMATED TO REDUCE OXYGEN INTAKE BY ANYWHERE FROM 5 TO 20 PERCENT.  IT CAN CAUSE DIZZINESS AND LIGHTHEADEDNESS. IF YOU WEAR A MASK LONG ENOUGH, IT CAN DAMAGE THE LUNGS. FOR A PATIENT IN RESPIRATORY DISTRESS, IT CAN EVEN BE LIFE THREATENING.”

FR. RUTLER: STALIN, MAO, AND THE YOUNG ENEMIES OF STATUES

GUITARS PLUNKING  AND THUDDING AGAIN AT DEACON KANDRA’S VIRUSCHURCH AFTER FOUR MISERABLE MONTHS OF EVIL SCAMDEMIC

ON INDEPENDENCE DAY DO WE LOOK MORE LIFE PHILADELPHIA IN 1787 OR PARIS IN 1789?

HOLY COMMUNIST FRANCISTWEETER EMITS HIGH-OCTANE GLOBALISM IN THE NAME OF CHRIST, I SUPPOSE

AND YET, IN SPITE OF THE AMERICAN APOCALYPSE, WE CELEBRATE OUR NATIONAL MYTHOS ONE MORE TIME.

REPULSIVE FR. MARTIN:  IF YOU DON’T PASTE ON THE MASK OF DEATH, YOU’RE NOT PRO-LIFE!

WHAT DOES MATT GASPERS DO?

NY FRANCISBISHOPS COULDN’T CARE LESS ABOUT THOMAS MORE SOCIETY’S COURT VICTORY.  NOTHING CAN STOP THEIR HOLY VIRUSCHURCH OF DEATH

FREEDOM IN DANGER BY ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN

SNATCHING DEFEAT FROM COURT VICTORY: CHALK UP ANOTHER ONE FOR THE CONCILIAR CHURCH

SMILING POPE OF PERVCHURCH RECEIVES GAY-BAR PRIEST FROM NYC

POPE OF THE COMMUNIST CRUCIFIX GIVES THUGGISH BOLIVIAN EVO MORALES APPARATCHIK A VATICAN APPOINTMENT

NOVUS ORDO PERVCHURCH MUSIC GIANT:  ALLEGED DAVID HAAS SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM SPEAKS OUT

ACQUITTED CARDINAL BARBARIN WILL RETIRE TO BRITTANY.  CD. PELL: STILL NO AUDIENCE

BR. BUGNOLO: IT IS LEGALLY NECESSARY THAT THE UPCOMING CARDINAL-ELECTORS ADHERE TO THE TRUE POPE

UNDERSECRETARY FOR ISLAMIZATION CD. CZERNY TO NEW FRANCISPRIESTS:  WOULD JESUS NOT WEEP FOR THE REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS WHO DO NOT RECEIVE MEDICAL ATTENTION, MANY OF THEM CROWDED INTO IRREGULAR SETTLEMENTS, WHO TODAY IN DESPAIR?

IS RORATE’S NEW CATHOLIC A FORMER SOCIALIST?

FR. ROTHROCK: A COURAGEOUS PRIEST AND HIS CRAVEN BISHOP

MAKE AMERICA GRATEFUL AGAIN

WHAT HAS HARVARD BECOME?