From a Sermon by Bp. Giles
"President Ngo Dinh Diem...he was a Catholic, he was a daily communicant, very devout, but the communists couldn't stand him. President Ngo Dinh Diem... (was) murdered. President Ngo Dinh Diem has an older brother, Bishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, who survived this family massacre because he wasn't in Vietnam. He happened to be in Rome at the time...he was never permitted to return to his country. He had lost everything to communism, to the works of Freemasons. All that he had left was the church. And he tried his best to stop the corruption from entering the church. When finally, after stepping back, observing everything, he makes a public declaration. He sees that Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ has infiltrated the church. He sees the corruption that has entered the church...being destroyed from within by these infiltrators. He stood up and boldly said to the world, "This is not the Catholic Church. The see of St. Peter is vacant, this is not a true pope, this is not the true Catholic Church."
And everyone said, "Who is this crazy old bishop from Vietnam?" They laughed at him, ridiculed him, ostracized him, but he would not change. He held on to his position, and they called him a fool, insane. And I say yes, in the eyes of the world it is insane, who would make such a statement when they know that they are going to lose everything? What did he have to gain?... He had nothing to gain except the truth. And so he spoke the truth and was willing to lose everything, which he basically did. This bishop consecrated other bishops. That is how I happened to become a bishop. The pectoral cross that I wear, you see me wearing, was once worn by Bishop Ngo Dinh Thuc. This bishop recognized the evil in the world. He stood up and said, "This is wrong. This is demonic. This is not the church that I love, and I must preserve the church by any means that are possible."
And so he began to do what he could do, and as I say, he was reduced economically to nothing. He was destroyed economically, worldly speaking, he was a nobody. But he came to Rochester, New York. That was before I entered the seminary. And from there, he taught in the seminary. He celebrated mass there in Rochester, New York—the same altar, the same chapel that I have Mass in.
...but then he was invited by his fellow Vietnamese Catholics to come for a New Year celebration—the Lunar New Year, the Tet New Year. They wanted to take him to have a celebration of his country, their culture. And he agreed to go with them to New York City, and from there he was abducted. He was diabetic; they refused to give him his diabetic medicine. He had insulin shock, entered an insulin coma. And they took him from New York City with the help of the modernist church, Pio Laghi, the papal nuncio arranged to take this old dying bishop,
handicapped and crippled by his disease and the lack of treatment that they were refusing to allow him to have. They took him to a modernist Vietnamese seminary in Missouri where he died, and we maintained that he was killed.
And Bishop Lewis actually wrote in the Seraph- A Martyr for the Faith. He died for the faith. His last conversation that he had with Bishop Lewis was over the telephone, and Bishop Lewis said he was laughing. They want me to retract what I have said? They want me to retract what I've done? He said, "But I will never do that! That would ruin everything." And that was the last conversation that Bishop Lewis had with him. And so I think truly he was a martyr for the faith..."
Topic: Autobiography of Archbishop Thuc (Read 259893 times)