From the Editor’s Desk…

By Michael J. Matt

Special Double Issue

Due to next week’s Pilgrimage to Chartres, France, we have decided to publish one large double issue of The Remnant for the month of May rather than the usual two smaller issues. Please pray for us as we will be praying for all Remnant subscribers and friends during the 3-day pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres, France. If you’d like to take part in the Pilgrimage by spiritually following along on a day-to-day basis, please look at our website on or after June 4th for details on how to become part of the Guardian Angels chapter of non-walking Chartres pilgrims from all around the world (RemnantNewspaper.

com).

As I’ve written before in these columns, I’m convinced the most important annual event happening the Church today is the Notre Dame de Chretiente pilgrimage to Chartres, which is why we’ve organized the U.S. chapter of Our Lady of Guadalupe for the past 26 years. And this year’s high-profile celebrant for the Pentecost Monday Mass in the Chartres Cathedral will be significant indeed.

Still, there are concerns. With all the unrest in Europe just now, just getting to this pilgrimage starting line is becoming something of a leap of faith. Greater security measures are being taken for this year’s event than for any I can remember over the past quarter century—proof, once again, of the "progress" of the burgeoning New

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From the Editor's Desk Continued. . .

Soul-killers of the New World Order

World Order in that bastion of peace and harmony called the European Union.

Please pray for the safety and security of the U.S. chapter. And as we’ll be a bit underhanded here at home, I’d ask for your patience when it comes to our limited staff processing your telephone orders and inquires over the first two weeks in June.

Jesuits of Fordham Stand Strong Against ... Chick-fil-A The campus of the Jesuit-run Fordham University is at peace after having undergone a terrible ordeal last month that could have resulted in the establishment of a dangerous and subversive group being set up in the heart of one of America’s most venerable Catholic universities.

Here’s how it went down. A Chick-fil-A restaurant was planning to set up shop at Fordham’s New York City campus, if you can believe that! And the fast-food chicken giant would have succeeded, too, had it not been for Fordham’s rainbow-sashed crusaders who managed to step in at the last minute and save the day.

As The Fordham Observer reports, thanks to the courage of the LGBTQ lobby (who didn’t allow fear of a fastfood restaurant stop them from standing up for peace, justice and the American way), other groups on campus soon discovered the will to fight. Everyone from the Commuter Students Association to the United Student Government leapt into action—led, of course, by the fearless campus’ Rainbow Alliance—to keep the pro-Christian marriage Chickfil- A far away from Fordham. After all, there are young and impressionable kids on that campus!

We can laugh about it now, of course, but for a while there it looked like a pro-marriage chicken sandwich seller was about to gain a foothold at one of our premier Catholic universities. Thank God, the Rainbow Alliance at Fordham found a way to alert the Jesuit brass to the fact that, back in 2012, Chickfil- A president Dan Cathy had had the audacity to tell a Baptist newspaper that he believed in the biblical definition of marriage. The horror! Once that message went viral on campus, it was easy for the Jesuits to understand the urgency of the situation, and to do the right thing. "Get thee behind me, Chick-fil-A!" The Jesuits at Fordham took a stand.

Disaster averted! That’s one way of putting it. Here’s another: Because a few whining activists put up a little stink over a chicken peddler on campus, a school run by one of the most powerful Catholic missionary orders in history couldn’t summon the intestinal fortitude to stand with a restaurant chain under fire for defending the Church’s position on marriage. Incredible as it may seem, Chick-fil-A is too Christian for Fordham University.

We’ve come a long way, baby!

The Society of Jesus, requiescat in pace.

"But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh."

– Jesus Christ

Sometimes the news of the day is just too heart breaking to consider.

I have little children, and, quite frankly, this story breaks my heart. Out of consideration for the children of our readers, we’ve cut out half of the drag queen—all made up in women’s clothing and makeup—reading to little kids and their parents in a New York City public library. We’ve all seen and heard these guys’ befuddled cries for help (and desperate quest for attention) before, but look at the children. . . look at their faces…and imagine they’re your kids, your grandkids.

His name is "Little Miss Hot Mess," and in an accompanying video (see RemnantNewspaper.com), he sings for the kids, dances, and talks about storybook characters who are really girls but think they’re boys. Parents of the children are interviewed in the video, and they’re all smiles, as they explain how important diversity is to them and to their children. One is left nearly despondent at the image of parents so proud to be abusing their own children in this way.

The thought of my kids being subjected to what’s going on in that public library every week, fills me with desperate sadness. Their little minds—so innocent, so inquisitive, so trusting—suddenly assaulted by a barrage of ideological warfare served up by the adults in their lives, even the mothers and fathers they trust so implicitly.

Regardless of where you come down on the homosexual question, there’s got to be a part of you that recognizes something very wrong with brainwashing little kids in subject matter even most adults don’t fully understand.

Can any civilization in history be accused of conducting such dangerous psychological experimentation on their own children?

Not long ago, doing this to children would have been against the law, God’s and man’s. We used to understand the value and fragility of innocence, the tragedy of innocence lost and the precious balance of childhood. Children were protected, shielded from that which they were too young to understand, and to which if they were exposed too young could destroy their innocence and cause permanent psychological damage.

We used to understand this, just as every civilization in history did. And then one day we decided to start sacrificing our kids on the altar of political correctness.

We even started killing our babies in their mothers’ wombs. Lots of them, millions in fact. And this evidently cannot be done without massive psychological and moral consequences.

Today we have thus developed an almost insatiable need to corrupt the little ones that made it past the abortortuaries.

"But," our critics will say, "we as a society have evolved beyond such archaic moral concerns." Really?

Are you quite sure about that? The civilization that has developed the most efficient killing machines in history—capable of wiping out entire nations with the push of a button—has simultaneously developed a better moral compass? We who abuse children, objectify women, drug kids by the millions somehow have developed a keener sense of morality than that which our grandmothers possessed—an evolved societal conscience that informs us it’s just fine to expose innocent little kids (whose bodies haven’t even fully developed yet) to cross-dressing sexhibitionists? Well, what if we’ve been misinformed? What if we’re wrong about that? What if we’ve lost the ability to even know the difference between right and wrong? What if it turns out we’re actually damaging our kids— permanently?

Isn’t anyone interested in the science and psychology behind what we’re doing to our kids in the name of political correctness? Because if we’re not interested in even looking into possible long-term effects, then can it not be said of us—not that we’re morally more evolved—but rather that we just don’t care what happens to our kids? Risking their psychological health is worth it to us, if it means we can justify whatever it is we’re doing in the here and now.

Such Orwellian mind-control sessions held in public libraries at the very least suggest that we’ve become so twisted— in mind, heart and soul—that we simply cannot stand the sight of what’s straight, even in kids. We’re phobic of innocence and innocents, and the way to make us feel right about the monsters we’ve become is to demand that our children give us absolution, approbation and approval.

Again, if there’s precedent for this in human history I’d like to know what it is.

Like vampires feeding on the blood of virgins, we suck the innocence out of the littlest and purest among us, so that before long there will be no goodness left in the world—just addiction, death and darkness. Everyone around us will either be dead or dying, and then it won’t be so hard for us to look in the mirror and see the spiritual zombies we’ve become. When everyone looks and stinks just like us there will be no more guilt and the dehumanizing process will be complete.

God help us. God forgive us. We’re worse than Sodom, worse than pagan Rome—we the Christophobic soulkillers of the New World Order. ■