Editor’s Note: If you think your encrypted communications on your cellphone give you privacy protection, think again. And if you think that a private company providing such services guarantees that governments are not spying on you, really think hard again, though Wikipedia tells all in the above article about ANOM.
Through this app, which is no longer in service (and though the data collected from it was inadmissible evidence in U.S. Courts), numerous criminals were caught using it outside the U.S.A.. Most recently, old data collected from this and another app, just resulted in a massive bust of the largest Drug Cartels in Europe, according to this report:
Some how, though a story like this makes one feel safer, the reality is that governments have way surpassed all ethical limits and now will use any pretext to spy on their citizens — a thing no one who went through the Scamdemic should be surprised by, since if a government tries to kill or maim everyone, why should they not try to spy on everyone?
So you can be sure that whatever email service you use, whatever messaging app you use, whatever cellphone you use, and whatever electronic communication you use, you are possibly being surveilled by some government employee, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year: with an extra day during leap years!
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The Book on the Trinity, every faithful Catholic priest would love as his next present
This is Br. Bugnolo's English Translation, of Saint Bonaventure's encylopedic book of theology on the Trinity: With this book, your priest will always have something intelligent and awesomely inspiring to preach to you about
God the Father, God the Son & God the Holy Spirit!
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This fund was started by Ordo Militaris Catholicus, an international relief organization founded by Br. Bugnolo and AJ Baalman. Click the image for more information.
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Even the Holy Family had privacy. Not that anything offensive to Heaven would ever have been uttered in that Sacred household, nevertheless they enjoyed their privacy, intimacy and family humor and even embarrassing moments, which human life is full of. Inside jokes, the secret vocabulary of children and parents, even not unkind laughing at the antics and personalities of the neighbors.
Privacy is a sacred right and therefore had to be destroyed by the servants of Satan. Now we must imagine that our mortal enemies, those who would destroy us, are listening to every sentence we utter in our homes. Praying aloud is one way of driving them mad; they’re thirsting for dirt, you give them liturgical poetry. Glory to God in the highest.
It should go without saying that one should never bring one’s phone into the Confessional. And yet I see people do it all the time. Etiquette requires that we do not converse with people while waiting in line for the Sacrament of Mercy; people are preparing themselves, otherwise it would seem a good thing to earn people that they’re about to share their deepest secrets with the American Stasi. But the time has come to warn Catholics that bringing one’s phone into the confessional negates the seal of confession and broadcasts a Catholic’s most private and sensitive matters to dark entities who will do their utmost to wield information gathered to harm you and the priest and the Church. Signs need to be put up. Leave your phone in the car.
A Theological definition of privacy is something I am working on. It will include the idea that there is a sacred relationship between family and privacy, intimacy and the Trinity, whose eternal conversation also enjoys privacy.
*warn people