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Seedpods of a Catholic Spring or:
How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Satan2





By Philip D. Ropp

November 15, 2016

Since the time I was a very young man, I have stated repeatedly that there are two events which I believe signal our irreversible entry into the latter days.  The first is the detonation in anger of a nuclear device, and the second is the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series.  As of November 2, the latter of these conditions has been met and, given the current state of world affairs, the former may be soon to follow.  Indicative of this is the fact that Russia has proudly announced the addition of the Satan 2 to its nuclear arsenal.  This is a 16 warhead, 2000 megaton devil capable of wiping out an area the size of Texas, and it is being paired with a delivery system so swift as to render our current defense systems helpless against it.  Russian President Vladimir Putin likes to show off this abomination that maketh desolate like a proud papa.  This calls to mind numerous prophecies in the book of Isaiah [1], as well as the words of Major T.J. “King” Kong in the movie Dr. Strangelove: “Well, boys, I reckon this is it — nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies.” [2]  We do indeed find ourselves in perilous times.

However, I believe it is also time to stand back and take a look at the bigger picture so as to come to a greater appreciation for these strange days that have found us.  The full title of Dr. Strangelove is Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.  While I am not arguing that the bomb itself is anymore lovable than it was when this film debuted in 1964, I am suggesting that it is high time we stopped worrying: stopped worrying about not only the potential for nuclear holocaust, but also about all the other boogeymen and long legged beasties and things that go bump in night that terrorize us.  Terrorism itself is only effective when we are terrorized. Confront and conquer our fears and even the dogs of Al Queda and Isis will simply slink off whimpering into the dark night of the impending apocalypse.

Let me explain.

The election cycle just passed has demonstrated in no uncertain terms what I have been harping about in this column since it debuted in December of 2012: the problems of humanity are too deep-seated and rooted in sin to be solved in any meaningful way through the political process.  This has been the truth of the human condition since the hunters and gatherers organized the first mammoth hunt and had the strongest in their midst rise up and exert command over who got the meat.  And it is true today in a world in which the most wicked and cunning rise up and exert command over the rest of us in the guise of establishing a fair and equitable (for them) New World Order.  This is actually nothing new, just another attempt at global domination brought to you courtesy of the latest despots in a long line of despots so inclined. Like Dr. Strangelove might have said, “Die Neuordnung der Welt!  All hail the Fourth Reich!  Sieg Heil!”  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The first of these Reichs, was, of course, the Holy Roman Empire.  It came into existence under the reign of Charlemagne in 800 AD, some eight centuries after Jesus had his experience with Imperial Roman democracy at the hands of Pontius Pilate.  This election, as recorded for us in the gospels, pitted our Lord against the robber and insurrectionist Barabbas, and the prize they were vying for was freedom for the winner versus death by crucifixion for the loser.  We all know the outcome and I suspect it was rigged.  Again, nothing new under the sun, just as Qoheleth pointed out in the book of Ecclesiastes.

Now the point of all of this is that I am writing it for Christian Democracy, which is a very intellectual online publication that endeavors to show by superior reasoning, and through the citing of irrefutable evidence, that the democratic system of government, when enlightened by the higher principles of the Christian religion (particularly as espoused in Catholic social teaching), does provide a worldly solution to the ongoing problem of man’s abject (and long term) failure at self-governance. [*] And there is no greater example of this failure than the case of Jesus of Nazareth as stated above, wherein the King of the Universe, and the Son of God Himself, is subjected to trial in a human court and suffers the most egregious miscarriage of justice ever recorded.  That this miscarriage is conveyed through a corrupted democratic process in which the election is tilted to a miscreant and criminal candidate merely shows once again, in light of recent events, that little has changed in two millennia.  Time marches on but humanity’s inability to govern itself, in a truly fair and equitable way, remains forever with us.  It is for this reason that we should be neither disappointed, nor falsely buoyed, by the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the ascension to the presidency of Donald Trump. 

What this election did demonstrate, and the aspect of it that I have found the most interesting, is the way in which Catholic online media has come of age as an alternative to the secular mainstream media.  Since 2005, the purpose of the Radio New Jerusalem website has been to provide an access point to this Catholic media in a way that encompasses the broader spectrum of it, and which presents the Catholic faith to the world as something sacred and eternal rather than as a mere extension, and “Catholicized” version, of each contributor’s personal religious, secular and political views.  By clipping the bandwidth to largely exclude the extreme sedevacanist right of Catholic expression that would move us back to the 14th century, and the extreme modernist left which would move us into a dystopian future in which globalist liberalism is substituted for legitimate Catholic teaching, one is left with a daily compendium of Catholic news and inspiration that is both helpful and enlightening.  And it has gained a new and powerful voice in determining political outcomes.

It should not, and must not, be lost on us that it is the perciptious shift in Catholic support caused by the “Catholic Spring” revelations that cost Hillary Clinton the presidency.  This was accomplished by demonstrating, in no uncertain terms, that this globalist liberalism, substituted for legitimate Catholic teaching, was not the stuff of conspiracy theory but was instead conspiracy fact.  And it was none other than Julian Assange, the master of Wikileaks, who provided the emails of John Podesta, et al, to prove it.  These emails were then disseminated far and wide and, while being largely shrugged off in the liberal mainstream media, they were discussed and debated at length and in detail within the Catholic media, and the result was the greatest upset in a presidential election since Truman defeated Dewey.

Frankly, I’m glad to see Julian Assange back from the troubles I wrote about in my column of September 1, 2013 titled, “Invasion of the Soul Snatchers.” [3]  This piece is an allegory in which I compare the government of the United Stated to the situation in the mythical town of Santa Mira, California as portrayed in the classic, 1956 sci-fi movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers.  I mention this here because John Podesta’s attempt to alter the Catholic faith in the United States to match the godless agenda of the Democratic Party demonstrates the reality of what I meant then when I wrote, “The government is comprised of two soulless parties, each of which offers a hypocritical and false lip service to God, and neither of which looks to heaven for guidance. They offer alternatives designed to put the people at each others throats, and they offer no real solutions, merely different routes to the ruin of the nation…” 

Within this context, I referred to the Wikileaks revelations of Julian Assange, in his attempts to provide “open government” as, “turn[ing] over a truck full of seedpods on the information superhighway.”  It was the load of seedpods represented by the Podesta emails that resulted in the revelation among faithful Catholics that such “pod people” Democratic Catholics as Podesta were fully about the task of substituting the party politics of abortion, euthanasia, gay “marriage” and the end of religious expression in the public square for the true expression of the Christian faith as expressed in Catholic social teaching.  And, thanks to the exposure this got in the Catholic media, it cost Hillary the election.  It should have.  She earned it.

The bigger picture, brought into view by yet another truckload of Wikileaks seedpods tipped over by Assange, is seen in a series of articles that columnist Elizabeth Yore has done for The Remnant [4].  These articles, which are based upon a significant dump of emails from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, implicate the hierarchy of the Catholic Church from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, all the way up the ecclesial food chain to the Vatican, in a “pay for play” scandal that ultimately promotes the same globalist agenda that we witness in the Podesta emails.  Just as it is no coincidence that Hillary Clinton was openly promoted by Soros as his candidate of choice in the election just past, it is also no accident that the American Catholic bishops were largely silent in opposing the unholy and un-Catholic “progressive” agenda of the Open Society Foundation she represented.  And if the behind the scenes machinations that brought Trump to power instead of Hillary are yet to be revealed by Julian Assange and Wikileaks, that will be yet another fascinating truckload of seedpods.  Say what you will, this stuff is never boring.

If we are to believe that George Soros is truly the king maker that Elizabeth Yore makes him out to be, then Trump’s election takes on an even more interesting significance.  However, the Republicans remain merely the other soulless party, and we shouldn’t be fooled by the lip service they classically give in opposition to the anti-Catholic agenda of the Democrats.  In the Confetior of American politics, it is the Democrats who have greatly sinned by what they have done, and the Republicans by what they have failed to do.  To my cynical mind, Trump’s candidacy was always about trying to gain a more level playing field and not be squeezed out of the big money by such truly mega-rich globalist players as the likes of Soros and Warren Buffet.  He seemed willing and able to destroy the tattered remnants of the Republican Party to gain power, and it remains to be seen, in the wake of his election, just what will become of the “Grand Old Party.”  While it is easy enough to malign the two party system, we would do well to remember that the only thing worse is the one party system: see Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and the present day Russian Republic of Vladimir Putin.  And, of course, the New World Order.

Conveniently, this brings us back to where we started, which was with the tongue-in-cheek observation that the World Championship of the Chicago Cubs, and the sabre rattling of Mr. Putin, have brought us to a Dr. Strangelove-esque end time scenario.  From this beginning, we went on to explore the “practical politics” of the globalist agenda as opposed to the “holy politics” of Catholic social teaching, and we have seen, thanks to the truckloads of Wikileaks seedpods overturned by Julian Assange, that it is impossible to implement this holy politics when the political game is rigged against it.  And it is easy enough to demonstrate that the game is rigged against it when it is revealed that those Catholics who are in positions of power, and who should be working for the kingdom of God, are actively working for the devil’s New World Order instead.  And this means it is rigged in favor of a theory of “sustainable development” in which the world’s population is to be reduced by 80 to 90 percent through abortion, contraception, euthanasia, eugenics, war and virtually any other means that opposes Catholic social teaching, natural law and basic human decency. [5]

The election our Lord lost at the hands of Pilate, and the leaders of the Jews who insisted upon his persecution, was for our benefit and enlightenment.  It shows us that the testimony of each of us in this first century of the second millennium is to be the same as that of Jesus and the martyrs who gave their lives willingly for Him in that other first century so long ago: “My kingdom is not of this world.”  The beauty of this is that we are bound for heaven and the only requirement to get there is that we do not lose faith or courage, but merely believe.  The crisis that confronts the Church today is a crisis of faith.  So many members of the body of Christ – laity, clergy, religious and hierarchy – just simply don’t believe the old faith of the cross and have traded it instead for the false faith of the New World Order: the globalist agenda that teaches modernism over tradition, and science over the revealed truth of Scripture, and which poses as a new Catholic teaching that has supplanted the original.  And the original is eternal and so are we.

In the end, it matters little who is president in a nation where Christ is no longer king.  And should the slaughter of the unborn, and the domination of globalist sin in the United States and throughout the world continue unabated, the king we once elected to the cross will enlighten us in a long prophesied and terrible Great Chastisement.  This should be the witness of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the world.  That it is His Blessed Mother who issues this very warning, through children and the innocent souls she so chooses, indicates that the Church that compromises itself to the moneychangers of the world must repent of this or stand judged with them.  The gates of hell shall not prevail against the Holy Church of Christ, but God help those who position her so the King Himself must return to assure that this is so!

So what’s not to fear?  Like Pogo said, “It is always darkest before it goes pitch black.”  However, like the Cubs found out, the game only really gets good when your back’s against the wall and the Indians are up three games to one.  In these perilous times, we must play the game out and seize the opportunity provided.  Donald Trump became president by reassuring Catholics that he got it and Hillary didn’t.  As Catholics, we should do our best to hold his feet to the fire, and, with conservative changes to the Supreme Court, and a Republican Congress for at least the next two years, we should apply all due pressure to see that not only Roe v. Wade is overturned, but that a constitutional amendment is passed protecting the lives of our unborn citizens across the nation.  The new political climate means the time for making excuses has past – and the window of opportunity will not remain open long.  This is merely a start at taking back our nation and our world from the New World Order which is, in reality, merely the latest incarnation of the Old World Order that crucified our Lord in the court of Pontius Pilate.  Should our nation and our world continue in the ways of Satan the original, it will find the judgment of the Lord the world has denied a much greater threat than that of the namesake nuclear device, Satan 2.

Will we succeed?  Probably not.  And that is why we must trust in God all the more and in an ultimate future in which all good and just things are realized.  We must, through prayer and faith, be crucified with Christ, and, with our Lord, look out from the cross at the human condition and see beyond it, with the eyes of faith, the eternity that is ours if we endure.  We have nothing to fear if we can say from the summit of Calvary’s hill, “I have been to the mountaintop and I have seen the Promised Land!”  And if we can embrace the faith of the cross, then we will have the courage to ride the Satan 2 to the Promised Land without fear, and, in the last scene of our last act on earth, we can wave our cowboy hat over our head and call out in the words of Major T.J. “King” Kong,

“Yee-Hah!” 


*This article was not published in Christian Democracy due to the author's refusal to accept editing of content vital to the integrity and meaning of the work.