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[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Well, we have the Church saying some things that are troubling because we follow not what weve taught in the past, but what we want to create. Theres something that took place eight months ago that is just now coming to light. And its called, The Letter to the Bishops Regarding the New Revision of #2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the Death Penalty from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, August 2, 2018.

So, how do we know about this now what happened eight months ago? Because this past week, Pope Francis aroused more controversy and became even more explicit in his apparent belief that the death penalty is always and everywhere wrong, and is reported, That is in the case, while frankly, (Pope Francis) acknowledges that the Church has not taught this in the past. So, how do we come to this teaching now? Pope Francis justifies his changes of the Catechism citing St. Vincent of Lrins, and Pope Francis expresses this of this fifth century French monk, St. Vincent, of how to explain that we can grow in faith and explain things better and also grow in moral understanding, and always be faithful to the roots. In other words, the awareness of faith and morals can be strengthened through the years, expanded over time.

So, Pope Francis says, quote, This is how we understand, for example, that today, we have removed the death penalty from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. So, what Pope Francis is advocating is just the opposite. St. Vincent was unmistakably against novelties in doctrine of which he meant teachings that were not true developments, but reversals of what the Church has taught in the past. So, Pope Francis, using St. Vincent to justify what hes doing, is completely in error. Vincent was against these novelties of changing things, that, if you taught that in the past, it has to stay in the past. St. Vincent absolutely bared down that Catholics must avoid novelties or even reinterpretation of past doctrine, and that, when some new teaching, or reinterpretation, seems to conflict with antiquity, we must cling to antiquity. A Dominican theologian that spoke with LifeSite News on the condition of novelty Why is that? Why does he not want to be known? Because of what hes about to say. He says,

Regarding Pope Francis recent comments on the death penalty, quote, On capital punishment, Pope Francis unfortunately continues to talk as if he can justify putting himself in contradiction with the teachings of the Church by speaking of development.

And thats the argument of Pope Francis. We have come into a moment of enlightenment where we can change things because we know better now. Everythings different. In the letter of August 2, 2018, it states:

If, in fact, the political and social situation of the past made the death penalty an acceptable means for the protection of the common good, today, the increasing understanding the dignity of a person is not lost even after committing the most serious crimes.

You might think where Im going with this. I want to blow all this out of the water. Because Francis is on the wrong side of the river. He continues:

In the development of more efficacious detention systems, they guarantee the due protection of citizens have given rise to a new awareness that recognizes the inadmissibility of the death penalty, and therefore, calling for its abolishing.

Im going to blow that out of the water. Weve got these wonderful facilities, and they can make sure nobodys going to harm each other. We can protect society. This is a lie. This is why it said, Its not important to know the king. Its those who serve him. So, theres a clear call in this document to stop the death penalty. The statement continues:

Pope Francis has reaffirmed that today, capital punishment is unacceptable however serious a condemned crime may have been.

And he calls for the Magisterium to bring forth a coherent development of Catholic doctrine. How do you do that, when this is not whats being taught throughout Church history? Bishop Snyder says, Pope Francis is contradicting a 2,000-year doctrine. And he added, This is heretical. Im not saying that. A Roman Catholic bishop said that. How do we reconcile that the teaching on the death penalty be reformulated so as better to reflect the development of the doctrine on this point that has taken place in recent times? Because we have grown more in respect of life. Really?

So, thats one pope. We have another pope who contradicts this: Pope Benedict! As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, he said this, quote:

There may be legitimate diversity of opinion, even among Catholics, about waging war, applying the death penalty, but not, however, with regard to abortion or euthanasia.

So, hes saying, You cant disagree with me about abortion. You cant disagree with me about euthanasia. You can be diverse on your opinion about the death penalty or war. And thats not the only time Benedict said that. He said, as Ratzinger,

Catholics can argue about war and the death penalty, but not about intrinsic evil of abortion or marriage not being between one man and one woman.

So, theres a clear cut, that how do you take out of the Catechism, legitimately, but only illegitimately, something thats been taught for 2,000 years? Im saying this because this is why Our Lady is here. Our Lady is showing us many things, how to understand things, how do we read it, how do we look at this. You cant reconcile Pope Francis with Pope Benedict saying two different things, contradicting, and even the fear of speaking truth, that this Dominican theologian says that Pope Francis is in contradiction to the teachings of the Church.

So, where do we fall down on this? Why is this important? Because you need to understand, there are major parts of a hierarchy, even on the conservative side, is duped. They dont know truth. They dont have wisdom. We see our Church and where it is right now, because were following a doctrine of socialist justice, and its not coming from the Church. It wasnt taught by the Church. It was taught by people outside of the Church for us to adopt it.

In 2012, September 11^th, Archbishop Chaput, a conservative, very conservative bishop, calls for the end of the death penalty. He says, quote:

As children of God, were better than this, and we need to start acting like it. We need to end the death penalty now

He said,

It simply does not work as a deterrent, but answers violence with violence. That implicates all citizens. In other words, were the murderers. If were for capital punishment, were complicit to murdering the murderer. The death penalty does not heal or redress wounds, he says, because only forgiveness can do that.

Forgiveness and the death penalty are two different things! And Archbishop Chaput adopts a lie thats been given to him thinking they came up with it. Thats not where it comes from. This comes from outside the Church. Its an agenda. And if youre smart, you have wisdom, and youre looking at whats happening right now with the deep state, you know where this comes from! Ive been wanting to right about the death penalty for a long time. I have a box Ive stored stuff. Thats why I have this document here from 2012 about the archbishop, Chaput, because I knew Id be writing about it. But because this just comes in the news now, we need to address it as children of Our Lady. How could Francis say, with this new revision, that because we now have an understanding of the inadmissibility of the death penalty because we grew, quote, Francis, in the light of the Gospel.

So, now were illuminated. Now were so enlightened, we can get rid of it. Who wants to get rid of it? Who are the people that are behind this? How do you do this? Our Lady said on the same day this document comes out, August 2, 2018, I looked it up, because I knew the date the document came out, what did Our Lady say that day? She says this:

They think

Whos they? Those people who are changing doctrine.

They think that they can do it without directing their thoughts towards the Heavenly Father who illuminates

Our shepherds are not illuminated. Theyre influenced. Stalin said we have to destroy the Catholic Church. Thats why we have abomination in it. Thats why we have nothing being done about it. And its still there, and its not going to go away.

Its strange that Pope Francis is quoting St. Vincent because he was dead-set against this. He condemned, harshly, unmistakable terms of novelties. What Francis is doing, he labelled as novelties. Quote,

These new novelties in doctrine by which he meant that teachings that were not true developments but reversals of what the Church has taught in the past.

So, they hijacked Vincents formulations, that they can change it. This is exactly what Congress is doing. This is what the deep state is doing. This is what these people are doing all over the world. The whole Left is doing this. And were adopting that! Chaputs doing that! Its amazing to me. Our Lady does not want us to believe lying voices even if its coming from the pulpit. You have to recognize that. She wants us to see that. She wants us to have widom.

So, where does this come from? Whos fathered this? Where do we get mankind into humankind? Whos changing those things? Why was it always brother beforehand, and now we add sisters? Where did that come from? And now we change it, not brothers and sisters. Its sisters and brothers. Whos putting this out? Do you think that just came out? When we made the first move from mankind to humankind, who initiated that? Im asking you a question. Tell me where did it come from? How did that change in our culture? Why did it come in our culture, and why did it make changes? What was the purpose? It was to debase the authority of man, that man was put on the earth first, Even came from him. The authority of the father comes from God the Father. And Eve reversed that. And were changing it in languages. But Im going to come back to that. I want to challenge you, where did that start? The political correctness of brother and sister did not come on by itself. Its an agenda! And if its an agenda, then why are you a part of that? Listen all day long about our democracy. Weve got to protect our democracy. Our democracy is in trouble. Our democracy is a right. We have to open our democracy to others. This is a lie! We don have a democracy! Who is putting that out there? Why are they adopting that? Because were not a democracy in this country. We are a republic. A republic goes by laws. A democracy goes by mob rule of the vote. Ive said it. Ive written about it. Fifty thousand and one can out-vote 50,000 other people, unless you have a law that neither side can vote against it, like protecting a baby in the womb. Why do you accept this? I dont accept what Chaputs saying. I do not accept what Francis is saying, because it doesnt come from them. You say, How dare I say that. I respect their position, and Ive been through this over and over and over, I believe more in their power and who they are than what they do.

So, heres the bombshell: where does it come from? This is in my box about death penalty. November 23, 2007. Why would I be interested about capital punishment back then? Because I was sitting in a classroom in high school, and they were indoctrinating us. We've got to get rid of the death penalty. This is bad. Its awful. We cant do what they do. If they kill somebody, we cant kill them. And I was sitting in the classroom, How do you argue against this? And you know what came to me in school, maybe as a junior, maybe I was a sophomore. I dont remember what grade I was in. But it came to me: These people, all these people, every one of them who are against the death penalty have a low value of life. They dont put a price tag on life. You can kill two people, five people, twenty people, fifty people, and they want to ban and abolish the death penalty? They have a low value of life. If you cant say the most valuable thing you have is your life, and that, if you take a life, youre going to pay with your life, thats the highest price you can pay. And you know what you do, if you murder one person, you get the death penalty, youve committed two murders. How is that? And that came to me in high school. You murder the person you murder, and then you have yourself killed, because youre responsible for that, and then you pay with your life. Theres two murders youve committed, your own. Who thinks like this? This is in the 70s Im thinking this.

So, immediately, when I see Chaput, I put it in the box in 2012. Immediately, in 2007, I put this in the box, knowing Id write about this one day. And I didnt want to announce it this way. I wanted to do a book on it, and Im going to, to give all the people the correct teaching about the death penalty.

So, lets look at the news today. Whats happening today with the deep state? What are they all doing? How do we fight that? Where are the roots of this thing in the Catholic Church? Heres a Catholic newspaper, and it says this, The Human Rights Committee Keep in mind 2007.

The Human Rights Committee of the United Nations voted 99 to 52, November 15^th, to approve a resolution calling for worldwide suspension of the death penalty

Why are they doing that? Why is coming from the United Nations? Its not coming from the Catholic Church at that time. Yes, there are bishops who are fighting for it, but this is the assembly of the whole worlds nations. It continues:

A general assembly could vote on the measure in December. Only 25 countries carried out the executions in 2006, and 130 nations have banned the death penalty

Why? Whats the purpose? Why is the United nations so interested in doing this? It continues:

On November 8^th, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty presented to the U.N. general assembly, President ???, five million signatures on a petition, calling for a worldwide moratorium on capital executions

With that statement, remember what Francis document relays, that theres growing public opposition to the death penalty. So, where does it come from? In other words, that brings a legitimate deference that we have to get away from it, because people are signing petitions for it. The Communists do this kind of stuff. Bad people do this. Use your brains. Think about this.

So, after it says, worldwide moratorium on capital executions it says:

The United States resolution will have no binding significance, but it is thought to be an important step to pressuring countries that use capital punishment, to move toward abolishing.

Why is the United Nations so interested in this? Ive got a sticky note above this that I put there in 2007, and it points to what I just read to you. And I wrote this:

This is because they know what theyre tempting to do with globalization, and if they fail, they might be executed.

Put that underneath your hat. Dont you see what our shepherds have fallen into? Dont you see the deep state are committing treason? And they know if they get exposed, and if they failed, theyd be executed. Sarah Sanders just said this! What theyre doing against the President is treason and its punishable by death! So, they have to erase that because they have plans there. The United Nations have been known for a long time to do globalization, and the powers behind it, were seeing this manifesting, with Q, the Q book. All that is there. Thats why thats being eliminated. And weve got stool pigeons that are in the Church buying into this, Oh, well, were modern now. We can illuminate, and we can do these things and keep people in prison because we have such an ability to keep them from hurting anybody else. This is garbage. Who is this advocating to stop the death penalty? Who is it against the most? Im asking you who are listening to this. Who do you think its the most against? And who are they condemning the most? God the Father of Jesus Christ, Who said, Man is in the bondage of sin, and it cannot be erased. Its not going away. Not by ten deaths, 100,000, 75 billion people who lived since Adam cant erase this sin. Only One Person could. And the punishment for it that was required by God the Father was [PAUSE] God Himself. You think about that. Gods not against capital punishment. He required it. That was the sentence. You say, Oh, yeah, well, Jesus, now, has changed everything. Really? Were more of a murderous people now than ever. Thats why Our Ladys here. They think, Oh, okay. Were enlightened and Jesus paid the price, and we dont have to have capital punishment anymore. As Chaput says, It doesnt deter. Yes, I agree with that. It doesnt deterif you live 20 more years. We need expediency.

I got off the airplane, got on the bus to go to the car lot to get my truck after a trip. A black lady was driving it. Nobody else is on there. This was years ago, and there was some news about somebody who was going to be on the death penalty in Georgia. She starts talking about it. She says, Ill tell you what, if my son kills somebody and he gets sentenced to the electric chair, then thats what needs to happen. And she says, You know what? With DNA, theres no mistakes about it no more. They can prove it, DNA. I was amazed. But shes right!

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Can I interject something also. We have a prisoner who has been on our mailing list for probably 20 years. He murdered somebody, and hes in prison for life. And he came to know Our Lady in the midst of this and got on our mailing list, went through conversion and would write to a Friend of Medjugorje on a regular basis. And those letters really touched us, that he was fed through this mission through what a Friend of Medjugorje wrote, and he would follow the mission closely.

But a couple of years ago, he wrote, and he said, I cant stand this anymore. I cant stand the cursing. I cant stand the noise, the darkness thats surrounding me, the grey walls He goes on. He said, I dont think Im going to make it. And a Friend of Medjugorje wrote him back and said, Invite me to come to your prison. I will come. I will speak there. I will bring Our Ladys messages. See what you can do to invite me to come. Weve never heard from him again in the last two years.

My thought is, what is more merciful? So, he doesnt have capital punishment. And the prisons are getting more and more filled, overcrowded. Is that more merciful to have somebody have a life of that? He was in his twenties when he committed this murder, and he could have prepared for what he did in his conversion and be in Heaven. But will he receive salvation if he despairs? And that, to me, is a greater travesty than had he received the death penalty.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Well, we cant advocate for what youre saying because if his sentence is twenty years or life, whatever, all authority is from God. So, this individual, we have to respect whats been sentenced because thats from God. What I would advocate is a quick trial, not appeals for twenty years, but being given the death penalty, they have to go within six months.

Bundy was a wicked, wicked man, killed many women. James Dobson went and videoed him, and he said why he did what he did. But he came to Christ. Do you know how many people come to Christ on death row? And that youre cheating these people of being converted when they can stay there five years, ten, fifteen, twenty years. Theres no appointment with death. The death penalty for these people is a grace. There are people who have made it to Heaven, like Claude Newman in the book It Ain't Gonna Happen. The guy murdered, cold blooded, another black guy. Claude was black. It was an atrocious thing. And, of course, the storys in It Ain't Gonna Happen. Its an incredible story, because he was sentenced to death, and he changed so much, that even the sheriff went to the governor to give him a pardon. And when he came back to delay it for two weeks, Claude was upset, very upset, because he had fallen in love with Our Lady. Our Lady had appeared to him. Its an incredible story. We did all the research on it. And he knew he was going to go to Heaven. He was ready. Theres so many people who are beasts that would never convert without a deadline. This is cruel to these people, and many of them will stay in prison and never have the pressure that Hey, Im going to meet my Maker.

When they revived the death penalty in Mississippi, the news media was making a big deal. The guy was black, you know, how bad it was. When he was on his way to death row, a newsman asked him, What do you think about this injustice? He says, Injustice? If I stayed in prison, I would have killed somebody else or got killed sooner or later. I made peace with my Maker. Dont you get this common sense? Dont you realize that? And the highest price that can be paid for these crimes is your own life. Anybody against the death penalty has a low value of life.

Bill Clark was a judge in California. When Ronald Reagan became governor, he gave him a position. And so, there were several cases. Theres one case they had to decide, and Ronald Reagan didnt know if he should give a pardon. Bill Clark and him prayed all night. And at the end of it, his answer was, this guy needed to be executed. Theres a case in there that they cite, what Chaput says, This is not a deterrent, what Pope Francis says, that we can control these people, is a lie! They may not know theyre lying, but this is all orchestrated from the United Nations, from Communism, from all these agendas. And the deep state, theyre part of this. Do you know what the deep state just did? Theyre bringing laws now in different states to stop hangings. What is that about? Nobody gets hanged now. When was the last time you heard of someone being hanged? See, they knowThose laws are still on the books. Why do they want to remove them when nobodys getting hanged? Because they know when we find out what theyve done, there may be a lot of people getting hanged, because its so bad what they are doing. Its all going to come out. Thats what the Q book is about. Thats what Our Ladys here for. Does She want people hanged? No. We want them to convert. But for the atrocities and the crime to overthrow this country, there are serious issues. By trying to get these laws off the books, theyre saying what they are concerned with for the measure of what there crime and how serious it is, that they know it can be applied to them. Theres no other explanation for that.

You have the Rosenberg trials after World War II. They were condemned to death. You know who was going up for the prayer meetings, calling the churches? It was the Communists. They were out there fighting against the death penalty, because if they execute them, they may be executing others. President Eisenhower said, These two people increased the possibility of atomic war by what they did. And that might have condemned tens of millions of people to death. And so, he says, The execution of two people is a grave matter, but a graver matter is the thought of millions of people who die. And he said, Thats exactly what these two spies did. And they executed them in 1953, June 19^th. And the deep state knows history.

So, I want to pose this question to you: Why is the deep state, everybody on the left, trying to get rid of the hanging laws? Answer that to yourself. You have to peer into this to understand what these people are doing.

And so, going back to what I was referencing a little while ago about Reagan and Clark, theres only one thing for many of these people to bring them to God, is that they have an appointment that they can have the grace of knowing 60 days from now, Im going to the electric chair, Im going to be there. You think they would reflect? Thats why Bundy changed. He had an appointment. This is a grace. If you still disagree with me, listen to whats in the book The Judge about Bill Clark and Ronald Reagan.

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So, Judge Clark made the following observations regarding a specific case that supports the need for the state to have the right to give a verdict for the death penalty. He wrote:

In order to faithfully implement the intent of the legislature in this case, we must remind ourselves of the evil to be remedied by death penalty statute. There is no better way of doing so than by review of the facts of this case

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

I want to stop you right now, just for a moment, because I want the people listening to this to listen to this and concentrate on whats being said, because this is the one argument, just this one case, proves everything Im talking about.

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In 1975 in Anaheim, defendant brutally murdered Earl Reed for a $1.75. Reed choked on his own blood after defendant first beat and then smothered him.

When defendant went to Reeds room that night, he intended, by his own admission, to rob Reed and then murder him, [quote]Just so I could get away with it. [unquote] (the robbery). Defendant had, he admitted, no other motive for killing Reed.

In 1977, prior to defendants trial for the Reed murder, defendant was convicted of two other murders in Michigan. One of his Michigan victims was Norma Maxam, a 75-year-old woman from whom he rented a room. When Mrs. Maxam asked defendant to move out of the room he beat her until she was unconscious, tore off her clothes, bound her with electrical cord, and hanged her by the neck. After waiting until he was certain of his victims death, defendant left the house to buy pizza and beer. He returned to the room, and in the presence of the still-hanging corpse, ate the pizza, drank the beer, took a shower, and watched a football game on television.

While in jail in Michigan awaiting trial for the Maxam murder, defendant hanged a fellow inmate.

Defendant admits having committed at least two other murders, but states he has no idea of the total number of persons he has killed. He explains his incomplete recall by comparing the act of murder to drinking a cup of coffee. A month from now, defendant notes, one is not likely to remember having drank a cup of coffee today.

Defendant claims he can easily make a knife, while in jail, and will knife a guard if given the opportunity. Nothing the prison officials can do will deter him, defendant insists. If released from jail, defendant intends to return to his, [quote] everyday type of life. [unquote]

This is the person the majority free from the gas chamber, modifying his sentence to life imprisonment, with possibility of parole, by imputing to the legislature the intention not to have the 1977 death penalty statute apply retroactively, which provided for life without possibility of parole as an alternative to the previously mandatory death penalty. A review of the recent history of death penalty legislation in California reveals the utter absurdity of the majoritys conclusion.

That ended what Judge Clark wrote, and then if follows, saying:

Clark had essentially argued that the state was failing to protect its citizenry from this out-of-control, determined killer, leaving no option but execution. So long as the California court was allowing a possibility of Reed to strike yet again, the state was not protecting its citizens. Even so, the majority of the court voted against Clarks conclusion.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

The Church has always taught that society has capital punishment because it has a right to defend its citizens. This guy said what he was going to do. Hes waiting for another murder trial, and he hangs a prison-mate. And he says, Ill do it again. I know how to make a knife out of the bed. I can do that. We have statements that, Oh, well, this doesnt happen. We can protect. You cannot. It is a grace for this guy because its the only opportunity that would make him reflect, Is there a God?

You had years ago, in Texas, a woman who murdered, brutally, some people, really bad, bad things. She got the death penalty. She converted. She became a light in the whole prison and started converting everybody. And she would not appeal, because she said, I deserve that. But on death row, this made her come to know God and Jesus. Even the wardens and the people in the prisons tried to get her a stay of executions. She said, No. Im ready to go meet my Maker. This is my deserved punishment. And she was a light to everybody. Do you think she would have had that if she would have stayed on the streets?

We are backwards! Were letting our shepherds tell us things that are not logical. And thats what this theologian said, the Dominican, that it has to follow the logic of past teachings. And here it is, Francis, is throwing away two millennia of teachings from the early Church.

But forget all those other arguments. Just ask yourself the ultimate price that had to be paid for our sins and every sin ever committed. And Who demanded capital punishment? That didnt come from man. Jesus had the power not to do that. God had the power to do it. But He said, I require that. So, youre going against God. Theres no other argument you can present to me all the way from high school, all the way from grammar school. Its just common sense. So, dont buy into this push right now, because the deep state knows theyre getting exposed and they will do everything to save their life.

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[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

See, as Our Ladys children, were different. Give me my Liberator or give me death. We have a deep state that are tyrants. They want to run over you. They want to enslave you. They want globalization. Its all there. Climate change is all part of it. If you cant see the circle, then youre blind. Youre not praying. Youre not fasting. So, thats what I wrote. Tyrants reign will always end in disastrous defeat, ours in glory. We willingly give our life, while they unwillingly pay with theirs. Theyre not willing to pay with their life. But we are, and thats the difference, and were pro-life because we believe and will continue to believe in the capital punishment that God paid for our crimes through His Son. Thank you, Jesus, for giving us life.

We wish you Our Lady. We love you. Goodbye.

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