You are Called to Be Independent Counsel, Kenneth Starr

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, or even if you refuse, is to judge everything you see by its fruits. Regardless of whether we enjoy this mandate, we have a duty to evaluate the external circumstances and manifestations all around us. This includes how we interface with others, since, as the scriptures say, we must neither honor nor answer a fool.

To avoid fools, we must recognize when we stumble across one, which involves vigilance. Likewise, at the end of Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, he urges us to beware wolves in sheep’s clothing, who we might presume are every bit as dangerous as the fool (if not, worse).

Yet despite these warnings in Holy Scripture, many pacifist Christians, who flee spiritual conflict, would rather cling to “Judge not, lest ye be judged (Matt 7:1)” without comprehending it. Not that this passage (14 verses before the “wolves” exhortation) is incorrect or misleading, but because people refuse to understand how it all fits together.

Taken in its entirety, these sections show us how Catholics are to judge externals, scrutinizing no one’s internal disposition. That’s why we keep a vigilant eye for fools, wolves, and lions, without violating the “judge not” component.

Enter Independent Counsel, Kenneth Starr

What does this have to do with the title of this post: our call to be Kenneth Starr? Why would I want to be that guy?

Kenneth Starr, in case you forgot, was the independent counsel that Congress appointed in the 1990s to investigate Bill Clinton before impeaching him. Here, we have an example of an authority (Congress), the only ones capable of prosecuting and impeaching a president, outsource the investigative component. They instructed Starr to judge the external and observable fruits of Clinton’s rotten and murderous presidency to find prosecutable misdeeds.

Leaving aside my extensive analysis of this country’s loss of legitimacy, this is how an institution of authority delegates and/or shares the responsibility of holding important persons accountable. The U.S. government has done this numerous times, including this example involving Joe Biden recently.

You and I aren’t called to be Kenneth Starr literally. We’re called to be like him and investigate the fools, villains, and Clintons in the world. One of those villains is none other than antipope Bergoglio.

Everyone with any understanding of Catholic ecclesiology (i.e., the way the Church hierarchy operates) knows that jurisdiction to depose an antipope rests with the College of Cardinals. This is how the Church operates, through its legal apparatuses and disciplines, something that distinguishes us from chaotic Protestant groups. However, this doesn’t mean that only the fellows with red hats have God’s mandate to use their brains.

We play a role in this mess, too, my friends. You don’t have to be a lawyer (like Starr or other “independent counsels”), nor do you need “express written consent” from the College of Cardinals. Here’s where we get our mandate . . . 

“But the College of Cardinals Didn’t Appoint Me to Investigate Bergoglio” 

“Wait, just a second,” you might say. “I didn’t get any notification from the College of Cardinals telling me to ‘investigate’ anybody, least of all Jorge Bergoglio.”

This is a decent objection and might throw a slight monkey wrench into the Kenneth Starr analogy. For after all, Congress appointed him, obviously based on his lawyerly or professional qualifications. This is probably where many Catholics will apply the “above my pay-grade” card, and assume they have no right, duty, or responsibility to investigate the wretched antipope.

They’ll take this scapegoat even though this investigative responsibility is primarily a matter of awareness. You have a duty to know there are wolves around you so that you aren’t devoured (or . . . scandalized), especially when the shepherds have ceded to hirelings. Moreover, nobody in the anti-antipope movement has called for lay people to apprehend Bergoglio.

In addition, if nobody raises the proverbial red flag on Bergoglio’s heresy, Pope Benedict’s fraudulent resignation, and other scandals, how would the cardinals know how/why to adjudicate this nightmare?

If we sit on our hands, the modernist villains will continue to enjoy impunity.

Here’s one other analogy. Imagine what it would be like if every aspect of police accountability was left to their internal affairs department; no external watchdog advocacy whatsoever. That’s essentially what you’re doing when you disavow your ability to “see the signs of the times” and identify dangerous pseudo-shepherds and usurpers.

Finally, if we haven’t already, let us sear into our minds the holy example of St. Catherine of Siena. She was that magnificent saint who didn’t let a derelict, crooked, or even malicious group of cardinals impede her quest to restore the true Roman Pontiff during one of the Church’s worst crises. Let us be like her, ignore those who browbeat us into silence (“You’re in schism! You’re in schism!”) and discern the truth through the Holy Ghost’s gift of counsel.

“No! No! You have to wait for the College of Cardinals! Wahh!! Cardinals!!”

Then, there’s the common refrain that we, as lay people and low-ranking clergy, have no purpose or mission during this crisis. Many would have you believe we can do nothing more than to wait for the College of Cardinals to re-assume their jobs and handle the antipope fiasco. While this is technically true, because we cannot formally do anything about it, it doesn’t mean we have no role to play.

I addressed this issue more extensively in the previous post where I compared waiting for the Cardinals to waiting for economists to declare a recession. Consider reading that for more insight into the difference between acknowledging antipope Bergoglio versus the formal ability to expunge his faux reign.

Nevertheless, here’s a quick review of what we commoners can do to end the antipope’s reign of terror:

• Pray the Rosary – specifically asking for the end of the antipapacy.
• Pray the Rosary – specifically requesting a new pope and consecration of Russia to Our Lady’s Immaculate heart.
• Evangelize the Antipope Message – so that others don’t succumb to scandal.
• Convert as many others as possible to traditional Catholicism (not the modern Vatican 2 protestant nonsense).
• Continue to investigate, ala Kenneth Starr, the Bergoglio saga and make sure NOTHING catches you off guard as secular and church affairs become more and more bizarre.
• Find Virtuous Distractions – This doesn’t mean bury yourself in the hamster wheel of worldly work, but it doesn’t help your sanity to think about Bergoglio non-stop. St. Paul calls us to pray ceaselessly, not ruminate on the negativity of the antichurch.
• Stop Abusing God’s Mercy – St. Alphonsus Liguori reminds us of why we must not abuse God’s mercy. Many of us presume his mercy and commit horrible sins, thinking it’ll be okay to just “confess them later.” However, as the venerable Doctor reminds us: “The mercy of God is different from the acts of His mercy; the former is infinite, the latter are finite. God is merciful, but He is also just.” 
• Avoid “Conservative Outrage Porn” – I could devote an entire article on neoconservative media (Breitbart, Daily Wire, etc.), and their spread of outrage porn. They make a lot of money on it, folks. While it’s important to sound the alarm when there’s a wolf nearby, we should be suspicious when news outlets spend all their time harvesting wolves for clickbait. You can tell they’re doing this when they inundate us with crisis reports (say, on the Trans-Jennered movement), yet never address root causes (sodomy, immodesty, loss of Catholic faith, etc.). Find better information sources than your basic, generic, yellow-journalistic outfits.
• Avoid “Fascination with Abomination” – Similar to the last point, we better keep close tabs on our fascination with the prenatural evil around us. I recommend avoiding the clickbait YouTube videos titled “Demons this . . . “ or “Exorcist priest says that.” There’s also an entire cottage industry dedicated to analyzing every atomic detail of Catholic prophecy, ad infinitum. It’s useful to know these things in proper proportions, but when they become a four-hour-per-day habit, then it’s a vice of excess. We cannot fixate on evil (or the END TIMES) at the expense of daily prayer, state-of-life duties, exercise, and building virtues. Keep some eye on the news (since they could spring something like the scamdemic and face panties on us again), but otherwise temper your consumption.
• Pray Lauds (Morning Prayer) – If you struggle with scruples or melancholy, you can find relief in morning prayer. All the poetic and beautiful psalms have a supernatural effect of calming the soul and re-oriented it toward God. It’s a great way to begin the morning, especially if you can pronounce Latin, and pray the Old Breviary aloud. God’s holy words (said out loud) can disinfect your surroundings, relax various anxieties, and attract many blessings.

In a future post, I’ll give some treatment to this dreaded Gay Slime Month. There I’ll explain a simple mathematical formula for comprehending God’s infinite love, and how rapidly it can transform someone’s life, even amid all the viscous, degenerate slime all around us.

Until next time, don’t be a zombie, meditate on Our Lord’s Passion every day, go to Confession at least every other week, study the faith, and become a saint.