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"As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom... it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate."

~Aldous Huxley
"Life in the villages had stopped;
it had ended in Israel,
until I, Deborah, arose,
a mother in Israel."
-- The Song of Deborah, Judges 5
Cantate Domino "...and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church."

Catechism of the Catholic Church

1260 Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved. It may be supposed that such persons would have desired Baptism explicitly if they had known its necessity.
Fratelli Tutti
263. There is yet another way to eliminate others, one aimed not at countries but at individuals. It is the death penalty. Saint John Paul II stated clearly and firmly that the death penalty is inadequate from a moral standpoint and no longer necessary from that of penal justice.[246] There can be no stepping back from this position. Today we state clearly that “the death penalty is inadmissible”[247] and the Church is firmly committed to calling for its abolition worldwide.[248]

Far from being guilty of breaking this commandment [Thou shall not kill], such an execution of justice is precisely an act of obedience to it. For the purpose of the law is to protect and foster human life. This purpose is fulfilled when the legitimate authority of the State is exercised by taking the guilty lives of those who have taken innocent lives”
(Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent, 1566, Part III, 5, n. 4.).
 
Genesis 9:6
“Whoever sheds human blood,
    by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
    has God made mankind.
Saint Moses The Black - “If we are on the watch to see our own faults, we shall not see those of our neighbor…To die to one’s neighbor is this: To bear your own faults and not to pay attention to anyone else wondering whether they are good or bad. Do no harm to anyone, do not think anything bad in your heart towards anyone, do not scorn the man who does evil…Do not rail against anyone, but rather say, ‘God knows each one.’ Do not agree with him who slanders, do not rejoice at his slander, and do not hate him who slanders his neighbor.”
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“Having abandoned the study of the old, modern barbarians no longer have access to any values other than those ‘of modern industrial civilization,’ and so, Lewis wondered if ‘we shall not have to re-convert men into real Paganism as a preliminary to converting them to Christianity.’”

- The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind by Jason Baxter
1st Ecumenical Council

Canon I
It is by all means proper that a bishop should be appointed by all the bishops in the province; but should this be difficult, either on account of urgent necessity or because of distance, three at least should meet together, and the suffrages of the absent [bishops] also being given and communicated in writing, then the ordination should take place. But in every province the ratification of what is done should be left to the Metropolitan.

Canon XX
Forasmuch as there are certain persons who kneel on the Lord's Day and in the days of Pentecost, therefore, to the intent that all things may be uniformly observed everywhere (in every parish), it seems good to the holy Synod that prayer be made to God standing.
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By Canon Law there should only be 120 voting members of The College of Cardinals. There are currently 132. 62% of the entire college has been appointed by Pope Francis
“We must walk open-eyed into that trap, with courage, but small hope for ourselves. For, my lords, it may well prove that we ourselves shall perish utterly in a black battle far from the living lands; so that even if Barad-dur be thrown down, we shall not live to see a new age. But this, I deem, is our duty. And better so than to perish nonetheless — as we surely shall, if we sit here — and know as we die that no new age shall be.”

— Aragorn; The Return of the King
Watch "Traditional Catholicism Debunked" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/q5rGHviyiqU
For five consecutive years, from 2012-2017, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) annual granting agency called the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) provided a total of $280,000 to a radical organization involved in the promotion of homosexuality and abortion.
The Community Alliance of Tenants (CAT) received the following grants:

$65,000 (2016-2017)

$50,000 (2015-2106)

$60,000 (2014-2015)

$55,000 (2013-2014)

$50,000 (2012-2013)

It is important to note that this money was provided by every diocese in the United States that participates in the CCHD collection. 
“I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it…” St. Teresa of Avila