Archbishop of Edmonton Implies Freedom Convoy Is Guilty of Violating 'Divine Directives' of Justin Trudeau

'Smitty' as he is colloquially known is my former Archbishop. In fact, I used to live across the street from his Cathedral. He is no friend to Tradition.

From LifeSiteNews (H/T to Vox Cantoris)

By Celeste McGovern

Archbishop Richard Smith cast the truckers and protesters objecting to vaccine mandates as the rebellious and hard-hearted, angry mob that wanted to kill Jesus, both groups forming 'a convoy of resistance.' 

EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) — If there was a shred of hope in our Catholic hierarchy left, a recent homily from the Archbishop of Edmonton annihilated it. Our Canadian Catholic leaders are completely out-of-touch with reality. They don’t know the people they are meant to shepherd. They don’t even seem to attempt to understand the working class. They are elitists, as dogmatic and hypocritical as Pharisees.  

The reading for Sunday Mass on January 30 was Luke 4:21-30. Jesus was in the synagogue among his own people. He called out their hard hearts, the reason he would not work miracles among them. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.” Enraged, they “drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.” 

Archbishop Richard Smith began his homily by pointing to the Freedom Convoy of truckers in Ottawa opposing vaccine mandates. “I raise this not in order to offer a public comment on this particular demonstration,” he began. But then he did comment, politically and theologically, for his entire homily, on the trucker convoy. 

In his analogy, the archbishop cast the truckers and protesters objecting to vaccine mandates as the rebellious and hard-hearted, angry mob, both groups forming “a convoy of resistance” rejecting God’s “divine directives.” 

Following this line of thought, though Smith didn’t say so explicitly, it is the reviled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who slipped out of town that is the persecuted Christ, and the fast-tracked injections from the pharmaceutical corporations that are mandated by heaven where … the Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates types live? 

“Far from inhibiting freedom, obedience to divine mandates is liberty’s necessary prerequisite,” the archbishop said.  

That is a statement we know as Catholics to be true; following God’s laws and the truth leads to freedom. “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life,” says the Lord.   

What is stunning, is how the archbishop applied this truth to something as wholly illegitimate and corrupt as an elitist, authoritarian, anti-Christian government subjecting its people to unlawful injection mandates. He even used the phrase “divine mandate” in connection with a tyranny that violates the most fundamental principles of medical ethics, the Nuremberg Code, and the concept of informed consent to medical procedures. 

Vaccine mandates across this country have created a government-persecuted segment of society. Many of the persecuted are out of a job. They are barred from hospitals, unable to board a plane or train, banned from restaurants, demonized by the government, and shunned by the people who obey. 

In the province of Quebec, this segment includes faithful Catholics whose bishops have capitulated to the state, making it impossible for them to receive Holy Communion in their churches. They are effectively excommunicated, pushed out of the Church like lepers—the lepers that Jesus embraced. 

Many of the Canadians who have taken the shots were forced to violate their own free will and consciences; they’ve been coerced, like prisoners, by government diktats, a reality at which our Catholic consciences should revolt and our bishops should rise to oppose.