THE DEATH OF GOOD MAN.

   1. The Catholic teaching. 
       Elections in the US is getting hot. And everybody is going Pelagian, i.e. everybody is thinking that the results depend on human ingenuity or human degravity. 
     Let us state  the Catholic doctrine. The politicians give speeches,  their henchmen hack voting machines and the people vote; but God decides the outcome.  During the time of the Chosen People, God gave them a good leader if they were Faithful. When they were unfaithful the Chosen people were given leaders who tyrannized them. So in the U.S. election, if the Americans are Faithful to God, He will give them  a good leader to head the country. But if they are unfaithful to God then God will give them a bad leader who will enslave them. 

2. The providence of God. 
     He disposes everything to increase man’s possibility of being saved. So all things that happen is geared to man’s being able to repent, the first step towards salvation.  
     To attain this mediate goal of repentance, God sends preachers to invite men to repent. If man learns how to repent but relents from doing so, God sends him chastisements to, sort of, force him to repent. And a potent force He uses is chastisements.

3. Chastisements.
     The common chastisements sent by God through the centuries is on the kind of leader He sends. In directing His own Chosen People towards the Promised Land, if the people were unfaithful, God would send them leaders who are bad and who mistreated them. But when the people were faithful, God would send them holy leaders or kings. 

4. Sometimes, even if the people were unfaithful God would send them good leaders to lead them to a better life. If they become better, so be it. But even if inspite of a good leader they do not improve, then God would take away the leader, physically or through death,  and give them, instead, a bad leader who would tyrannize them. Thus we say, God is chastising the people. If this chastisement does not teach them a lesson, then they die and go to hell, as God did during the deluge.  

5. We have seen this principle in the case of Capital punishment.   
     The criminal is chastised by being arrested, brought to court, jailed  and condemned to death. The whole process is intended to make him repent for his crime. 
     His impending execution is his last opportunity to repent after which he has no other reason to repent. St. Thomas wrote; ‘if the criminal does not repent during these processes, there is nothing else that will make him repent. He is destined to go to hell.
     The same process takes place in a nation. After God had done everything possible to teach a nation to repent and they do not, God chastises the nation by giving them a bad leader or president who will oppress them. If in spite of this they do not repent, then God causes them to die through pestilence, through war, earthquake or a great flood. 

6. But sometimes even if the nation is bad, God sends them a good leader in a last attempt to make them repent.  If this does not work, God removes the good leader physically or through death and sends them bad leaders who will drive them towards evil and eternal destruction. God removes the good leader in many ways, usually by death as in the case of Josiah. 

7. The case of King Josiah.
     The kingdom of Juda was unfaithful to God. All their leaders were evil. Manasseh and Amon were very evil rulers. Then came Josiah, the son of Amon. His father being assasinated he became king at eight years old. But he was a creation of God for the welfare of Juda. In fact, Josiah was, as it were the last gasp of the Kingdom of Juda. He was the king before the destruction of Juda. Josiah was Juda’s last chance. 
     Guided by God, Josiah rebuilt the temple, found, read and implemented the found book of law. He feared  the Lord, repented and decreed that the kingdom of Juda do the same. He prohibited all evil ways and destroyed pagans temple. 
     But the Jews of the Kingdom of Juda continued to be unfaithful to God; wherewith God informed King Josiah that he was pleasing to God and would die honorably in his youth  because He would destroy the Kingdom of Juda for their continuous infidelity to God. Josiah would be spared seeing the Kingdom destroyed. 
     But outsiders wanted to enter Juda’s borders and Josiah refused and had his borders guarded. The outsiders insisted and attached Juda. Josiah died in battle. His son took over but the migrants shortened his rule and God destroyed the Kingdom of Juda. 
      
8. The death of a good leader.
     Why punish the good leader when it is the people who have sinned? God did not punish Josiah; He rewarded him with eternal life. The people were punished by depriving them of a good leader. So if followed that the people had a bad king who followed and the destruction of their kingdom with the bad king. 

      Similar to King Josiah is the case of US President, John Kennedy. A speech before his assassination showed he was about to eliminate all the pagan and sinful practices in the US government. He was not intending to make American a land of saints. He was just directing the nation to be human. It was all in the natural and political level. And the US government killed him; but not after Kennedy had shown that a Catholic could be a very good President of the US. The US, being mainly protestant, is unfaithful to 
God and this looks like a last call for repentance. And God saw that it would not work. So God, through His Divine Providence, allowed the great evil in that government to assassinate him. Just as God allowed the forces of evil to crucify Jesus. No one can kill anyone without God’s permission.
     So John Kennedy received his reward in his attempt to eradicate the thousands of idol worship in the US that is loved by the covetous rich cabal, while the nation was deprived of a president that could have increased the possibility of the salvation of their souls. They were  chastised by having successors to the office that would continue the idolatry.
     They were further punished in that attempts to re-instate Kennedy’s sound social-political speech was totally thrown out with the subsequent assassination of Robert Kennedy and John John who were planning to expose the powerful idol worshippers of the pagans. And there is Justice Scalia who was a stumbling block for money worshippers. God allowed the devil possessed pagans to kill him with a pillow over his face and a fatal injection in the heart. The nation does not deserve his wise and godly advise.    
     God allows the death of a good man to render to him his reward while punishing the nation for their sins. With this chastisement, the nation becomes worse, thus the decline of civilizations. If a nation can kill babies up to nine months old, they can kill anybody, even their own President, their supreme judges and their presidential candidates.  Sounds like the apostle possessed spiritually by Satan, because of covetousness…….. Judas the god-killer. 

9. Every election is a way of finding out if a nation is about to be chastised further with a bad leader or blessed with a good leader. What happens in a nation is just a reflexion of what is happening in the Catholic Church. Christ had prophesied that this age will be an age of ‘no Faith’ in the Church. If the Church has no Faith, what kind of Pope will God give us. Surely, a Pope without Faith. And that means a Pope who is not even a Catholic. 
     What is happening in the US, in Europe and the rest of the world is what is happening in the Catholic Church. As President Kennedy said; ‘the US is filled with devilish idolatry that must be abolished and replaced with human philosophy and common sense.’ Unfortunately, these are the gods of the wealthy. So they arranged that he may be assasinated. 
     Pope Francis just installed, not our Lady of Fatima during her 100 year anniversary, in the Vatican but the idolatrous statue of Martin Luther. And he has just demoted the last two decent cardinals in the Vatican, Sarah and Muller. The Vatican is now occupied by weirdos; child abusers, heretics, erotic buddhist, experts is kissing, propagators of adultery and Protestant evangelicals…… together with unbelievers in the Holy Eucharist and in hell. These are the occupants of the head offices in the Vatican. Is that how bad the Church has become that she deserves such leaders? Yes! The church does not have a single visible signs of the true Church as described in the Nicene Creed. If so, she deserve to have a Pope that does not have a single sign that he is a Catholic.
     Sometimes we wonder which is worse; the dollars of George Soros or the statue of Martin Luther. Pope Francis love them both. And there are photos to prove it. Is Pope Francis  one of those condemned by Pope Pius X?
     God has given the Church a Pope that is more a disciple of George Soros than a disciple of Christ, the apostles and St. Thomas of Aquinas. We were given a man condemned by Pope Pius X, a ‘scillion’ or ‘an enlightened.’ These are the lovers of money and will do anything and kill anybody and wage war anywhere to increase their wealth. They are the children of that great prostitute the French Revolution. They were the ones who killed Kennedy, Scalia……and is now killing the Mystical Body of Christ. 
     We no longer have a King Josiah in the Church. We have a king Saul, a chastisement because like the Israelites we refuse to believe and trust in God.