Father Martin's Monthly Newsletter

Volume 1, No. 5	March Message	March 12, 1998

The Assassination of Christ's Hero

Kunz was born in Dodgeville, Wisconsin on April 15, 1930. He grew up in Fennimore and his family owned a cheese factory nearby. His father was a Swiss immigrant and his mother, a German, was born in America. He had three brothers and four sisters. Kunz went to St. Mary's grade school in Fennimore, then left the state for 12 years of schooling at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio. He said his first solemn Mass on June 3, 1956, at St. Mary's in Fennimore. He was associate pastor at Congregations in Waunakee, Cassville, and Monroe, before coming to St. Michael's in Dane to serve as pastor in 1967.

For 26 years, in addition to his parish work at St. Michael's, he served on a Tribunal in the Madison Diocese reviewing broken marriages and recommending which ones to annul. A typical story of his life is: once he went to visit a family from the parish that was anxious to show him photographs they had taken when they saw Pope John Paul say Mass in Chicago. As Kunz paged through the photo album, he was horrified to see a Communion Host they had brought home as a souvenir. He ripped the host from the album, took the wafer into his mouth, and asked everyone to get on their knees with him to ask God's forgiveness. As a practical parish priest, he was a tinkerer who performed repairs around the church and school and on his own car, a crimson Volkswagen with 150,000 on the odometer and tires that always seemed near flat. Kunz took no salary for himself. The school children attended Mass every morning, three times a week in Latin. They began each service on their knees, praying the rosary.

Kunz was a strong, healthy man who seemed never to run out of energy and needed little sleep. Every year he went deer hunting with a younger priest and brought back venison to give to people. He also prided himself on being an expert cook. And he was a fixture over the deep fryer at the Church's fish fries -- his method of raising funds for the Church.

He hated abortion, often preaching against it from the pulpit. Three years ago, on a rainy Saturday, he conducted a funeral for a little baby that had been taken dead from a trash can at a Milwaukee abortion clinic. He placed the baby in a small casket and buried it in front of the church, next to a shrine of Our Lady of Fatima.

Kunz was an expert on Church law who was consulted by religious leaders across the country. He also performed exorcisms, and was venerated as a Confessor. One long standing penitent of his says, that "when you went to confession to Fr. Kunz, you knew you were in the presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ".

On Tuesday, March 3rd, he was dropped off at his parish by a fellow priest. The time was 10:00 p.m. We know Fr. Kunz was still alive at least at 10:30 -- there was a telephone conversation with a friend at that time.

On the morning of March 4th, the first Wednesday in Lent, a young teacher arrived at Fr. Kunz's place at 7 a.m. He found Father lying face down in a pool of his own blood on the floor of classroom corridor of the school wing of St. Michaels. His throat had been cut from ear to ear and he had been left to die in his own blood. Typically, in the case of a traumatic attack in which the victim's heart continues to beat rapidly, the body surrenders blood rapidly and Fr. Kunz might have lost consciousness in as little as two to five minutes, dying of insufficient blood and heart failure shortly thereafter.

We hate to think of him lying there knowing and feeling his life ebbing away, but we can be consoled that he had time to commend himself to God through Mary and, I am sure, to pray for his murderer or murderers.

The police quite rightly are taciturn about details while the investigation continues with more than 30 county police on the case. But those in the parish, we who knew his very, very extraordinary activities and others who knew him more intimately are convinced that his death was not a random act, or the senseless result of a break-in by someone searching for money, but a deliberate attempt by those who hated what he represented and what he was doing, to silence and disable him permanently. One Luciferian punishment for an adversary such as Al Kunz was simple and vicious: one hand holding the knife, the other jerking the head back suddenly so as to tauten the neck and expose the jugular vein and carotid arteries. Then a quick slash from ear to ear, and it was all over.

We must not have fuzzy and erroneous ideas about the Luciferian Warfares that pits us against the Prince of this World and on the side of Christ.

Approximately ten years ago, it was estimated by competent authorities that about 100,000 Satanists lived in the United States. This figure has likely become larger in recent years through the numerous Satanist websites now available on the Internet and the immense notoriety of rock stars who have adopted the Prince of this World as their patron.

But there are two basic types of Satanist groups operating in North America today. The first of these is the "sickies" and they are namely disconnected groups of occultists who employ Satan worship to cover a variety of sexual, sadomasochist, clandestine, psychopathic, and illegal activities. This branch of Satanism is used to rationalize pedophilia as well as the perversion cited above, including grave robbery, sexual assault, and the ritual blood letting performed on animals -- rarely on human beings. The "sickies" are not theological in their approach.

The other branch of Satanist, or we should correctly call them Luciferians, are groups of people who resemble Christian theologies and have added one powerful symbol; Lucifer the Prince of this World. This group takes the cult of Lucifer serious, as a religion, and should not be confused with the "sickies".

It is important to note that Catholics should be wary of those who reject legitimate Religious authorities, or who appear to be obsessed with the environment, and so called women's rights, while not respecting sanctity of unborn human life. Support for Luciferianism in the main stream media rarely comes directly, but is disguised as a plea for freedom of expression or belief. Similarly, support for witchcraft appears as a plea for tolerance and understanding of those who simply wish to return to a pre-industrial world where women could enjoy "natural well-being and spirituality without being oppressed by men".

The point to be remembered about the many supporters of the Prince of this World, no matter what name they use in referring to him, no matter how lofty the ideals they profess in this name, is that we must remember ultimately he is the Prince of this World and is bent on corrupting any vestige of real faith. Already, he has made huge inroads, not merely in Academia (including supposedly Catholic Academia) but, in Catholic organizations and amongst the Catholic clergy not merely in North America but in South America and in Europe and in Rome.

Reflecting on the death of Al Kunz, we should remember the words the Lord Jesus spoke to the women of Jerusalem as He wound He way to Calvary, and came across them crying and weeping for the coming loss of His life:

"Weep not for Me", He said, "but weep for yourself and your children, because if they can do this to Me, the Greenwood, what do you think they are going to do to you, the dry wood".

If the evil of Lucifer can reach out -- with God's permission -- to strike down cruelly a saintly man such as Fr. Alfred Kunz and leave him die in his own blood, shouldn't we realize that in this warfare we are facing a merciless opponent, who is supported by merciless supporters and agents?

- Malachi B. Martin (March 1998)

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