The Church has abandoned us. Jesus help us.

Mass has been cancelled throughout the country. The Sacraments have been taken away from the faithful. The clergy is holed up in their rectories and monasteries and episcopal palaces...for fear of the flu. At most, we get to watch a private Mass on Youtube, but the clergy dare not come into physical contact with the laity. Has anything SO COWARDLY ever been seen in our lifetimes? Has the Church ever done anything so cowardly, even during WWII, the Mongol invasions or the Black Death???

We grew up marinated in tales of priestly heroism, from ancient times to the modern day, telling of priests who risked all to bring the Word and the Sacraments to the Faithful. Tales of these martyrs strengthened us and inspired us, since what besides a supernatural Faith could make these men do what they did?

After all, to be a priest is a form of sacrifice, giving up family and friends for Christ, explicitly offering one's life for Him, no matter the cost.

Yet today our priests have fled to the hills in fear of the flu, taking the Sacraments with them. The demoralizing effect of this can hardly be imagined. In the aftermath of this crisis, it might perhaps be quantified in the number of people who have left the Church after it abandoned them in the hour of need. Indeed, the Pope's own secretary said the same thing.

Why?? The larger issue, which I've been pondering ever since the disgraceful silence of the clergy during the St. Patrick's Day parade debacle, is what kind of men are becoming priests these days? I don't think these men are made of the same stuff as an St. Edmund Campion for instance. We'll leave that for another day. What I want to explore now are those historical examples of Catholic priests who risked their lives to say the Mass and bring the Sacraments to the flock despite the presence of disease and plague. A martyrology of priests who showed courage in the face of persecution and certain death is one thing. After all, we Staten Islanders have the example of Father Vincent Capodanno to inspire us. But in this time of fear and disease, let us look to the past to learn how we should act.

I will follow up this post with examinations of historical examples.

Hierarchy voids the Third Commandment

It's amazing what you can do when you have no respect for God or His Church. From the Pope down to his minions like Cardinal Dolan, Masses across the world have been either cancelled altogether or Catholics have been relieved of fulfilling their Sunday obligation. In other words, mere men have voided one of the Commandments. Is it any wonder that modern man feels himself empowered to do the same, if mere mortals can so casually declare that a Divine Commandment need not be obeyed.

Staten Island, the Center Ring of Clown World

If the West has officially become Clown World, then Staten Island has got to be the center ring of the whole honking sh*tshow. After the spineless traitor Cardinal Dolan marched as the Grand Marshall

of the 2015 Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade, along with an openly gay organization, the attention of the rainbow-tinted forces of Hate turned to our little island's own Paddy's Day march.

At first, the Democratic politicians predictably led the way in risk-free virtue signaling, and boycotted the parade. Then, last year, our "Conservative Republican" Borough President, the reprobate Jim Oddo, made news by announcing a boycott of the parade until the organizers allowed the Staten Island Pride Center to march. The floodgates opened this year, with oafish Republican Councilman Matteo; Brendan Lantry, the incoherent millennial Chairman of the Republican Party; Miss Richmond County Gabrielle Ryan; and Miss Staten Island Teen Angelica Mroczek (the daughter of Advance columnist Gracelyn Santos) all announcing that they wouldn't march either until sodomy was proclaimed mandatory for every man, woman and child and enshrined in the Constitution as the highest of all virtues. The Janus-like Assemblywoman and Congressional candidate Nicole Malliotakis, the apotheosis of political hacks, announced that she would march but proclaimed her support for the inclusion of the Pride Center. Republican Councilman Joe Borelli said the same. To top off the circus, Miss Staten Island 2020 Madison L’Insalata announced she was bisexual the night before the parade and vowed to be

driven down the parade route wearing rainbow paraphernalia. The Advance joined the pile-on as well. And it need not be said, that pretty much every person involved in promoting degeneracy is a product of local Catholic schools and rationalized their position by referencing "Pope" Francis and hippie Jesus.

It also need not be said that the local Church provided zero leadership as ravenous wolves ravaged their flock. These senile milquetoasts smiled and said nothing as aggressive homosexuals and their useful idiots recruited our God in their campaign to corrupt souls and groom our children. I attended Mass at Blessed Sacrament before the parade and listened to its pastor give an asinine sermon about some idiotic irrelevancy, while a full blown gay pride march was taking place on the lawn of his church. Staten Island's priests have covered themselves with disgrace during this episode. If they can't even say a damned word when these people are coming for our kids, what the hell good are these so-called shepherds?

With the betrayal of the so-called "family-values party", the hometown newspaper and the institutional church, a hero arose in the form of parade chairman Larry Cummings, who summarily banned Miss Staten Island, Councilman Borelli, the marching bands of Tottenville and Port Richmond High Schools, and everyone who showed up intending to flaunt the rules of the parade and wear the symbol of men who eat semen and masturbate in each other's anuses. Oh, did those words offend you? Then why aren't you offended by the acts themselves and the people who want to promote that lifestyle to our children?

Nevertheless, it is obvious that the parade's days are numbered. The agitation will continue and the pressure increased until the citadel of normal standards is stormed and overthrown. The playbook of social engineering has been tried and proven effective over and over again since the victorious Allies tested it out on the conquered Germans after WWII. And it will definitely work on low-IQ, media-addicted, poorly catechized Staten Islanders of the 21st century. Just look at the heterosexual couples_with children_who were out in force yesterday doing what their masters want them to do, which is waving rainbow flags and advocating for semen-eating and anal sex. We won't win this battle by doing what we've been doing up until now. The resistance will be long and hard. Traditional allies will desert us. Casualties will be many. But victory is the only option.