Sunday, March 30, 2014

Excellent Post at CMR




HERE

(If you've never read Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich, it is spectacular Lenten reading.  I mean spectacular.)

To CMR's point, many do not know where to find their guidance through the reckless statements coming out of Rome.

Sure, some of it is translation.  I'll go so far as to say most of it is translation, misunderstanding.

The Pope's selection of Cardinal Kasper - that isn't a translation problem.

The Pope's own words stating Cardinal Kasper's trainwreck theology is excellent and something the bishops need to open their mind to - that isn't a translation problem.

The Pope indicating he doesn't know where to find all the examinations already done on civil unions and the Catholic materials leading to conclusions and instructing the faithful based upon those examinations - that isn't a translation problem.

This is a different kind of problem. The Pope thinks a Cardinal misleading Catholics into formal revolt and schism in Germany is the person to lead his see from being open to his excuses to subvert 2000 years of doctrine.

I mean, you know...come on.

I am not concerned about the SSPXers.  They've already jumped the Ark.

In the madness, the sedevacanists are rising to take advantage of the confusion of a call of a shepherd's voice we do not recognize.

Here is a Catholic, I deeply admire and respect who is driving the bus off of the cliff.

He found a link from a whackadoodles who claim The Blessed Mother contradicted Christ at LaSalette.

It is an oldie but a goodie.

“Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.”

Our Lady never said this. The visionary did not report that Our Lady said it. Somebody made that up years afterward and added it to the substance of the message. It has been spreading around like blasphemy of Joseph d'Hippolitto in Catholic comboxes.

It is not part of the apparition.

Steve goes on to build his case:

Apostasy. Antichrist. A liar, a divine impostor reigning from the “temple of God”, which we can only take to mean the Church that Christ established: the Catholic Church.

Listen - folks. The Pope is a faithful man. He belongs to Our Lady. I am most confident in my convictions about this.

It is getting crazy out there. When confusion is reigning, when crazy comes, lots of people latch onto the honest disclosures of the problems and look for the way through the storm.

IMO, pretending the problem doesn't exist contributes to people being sucked down the drain.

I think it is critically important to stop people from following the toot-toots of the ancient tooter - to step forward and say keep your eyes on the the teachings of the Church as they are bound. Bind your conduct to it. Get to confession and the Sacraments when your conduct strays from it. Increase your reception of the Eucharist. Show and teach others the way.

Archdiocese of Boston Searching for School Superintendent Who Despises Church Teaching on Morality and the Sanctity of Life



Cardinal O'Malley is on a search to find a new Boston Catholic School Superintendent in the colon of Catholic thought.

Let me throw this question out there.

If any reasonably prudent person wished to evangelize a generation of children to give them the tools for their salvation, what steps would one take to conduct the search to find the right candidate?

Finding the right candidate to match Cardinal O'Malley's objectives is a very purposeful process.

Would Human Resources advertise in a magazine read by plumbers, construction workers?

I would think not as Catholic Superintendents don't subscribe to those publications.

Hiring a candidate takes numerous steps that are thoughtful, intentional and very directed towards a select pool of candidates you're looking to attract.

One would want to attract a Catholic with the right credentials.

Not just any Catholic.

For instance, there are plenty of Catholics who work at Planned Parenthood.  We wouldn't want to attract people who subscribe to Planned Parenthood publications, so we wouldn't advertise there.

I would think the Cardinal wouldn't even be setting the bar as low as a Catholic who simply assents to Church teaching.

There is a curve on the road to conversion where one goes from dissent to assent with reservation.  When a Catholic assents with reservation, they've come to the place where they know Church teaching is the Truth and they accept but do not understand it.

This is the point of surrender.  When a soul acknowledges they are not the author of truth and surrenders to God, it is magnificent.  But these people do not have what is necessary to pass the faith onto the next generation.

Assent with reservation indicates the person doesn't have a handle on reason.  They haven't looked for it or found it yet.  They are on their way but not there.

The Cardinal's search should be conducted from a pool of candidates on the conversion curve at the benchmark of understanding Catholic reasoning and desperately in love with Church teaching.

A Catholic Superintendent of Schools is accepting a position that is responsible for the salvation of thousands of Catholic children.  They select books, resources, reading materials and programs to appropriately convey Catholic teaching to children for the outcome of making right judgments - the distinctions between right and wrong actions, good and evil, truth and lies.

A Catholic who does not understand Catholic reason is not able to detect flaws in educational materials.  They don't get it yet.  The soul has surrendered but the intellect is not equipped.  Yet.

I suspect that was the problem with the last superintendent who was set up for failure.  When Catholic parents came across the koolaid their child is came home with, it was one long and painful fugatz, until she moseyed on down the road.   The Chancery could keep up stock of Advil and toilet paper.

Of course, the problem isn't limited to selecting the right candidate for the Superintendent of Schools.  The problem is bigger and higher up the ranks and manifests itself in every nook and cranny in the Archdiocese.

Where is Cardinal O'Malley looking to find the right candidate to fill the shoes of the last battle-fatigued Superintendent?

A publication written by lesbians and homosexual men, priests, bishops and those who dissent against the moral teachings of the Catholic Church as they pertain to sex, contraception and abortion

When the Cardinal asks himself what's the attraction he'd like to lead his flock to, this is where he goes with it.

It has the stink of Rev. Bryan Hehir, as everything the man has done (as Cardinal O'Malley has been traveling from one airport to another) has been cultivated from this antichrist.

Regretfully, Boston Catholics have long ago given up the hope that Cardinal O'Malley has a different agenda than Rev.  Bryan Hehir.  He recruited him, has retained and protected him as he has rolled out his agenda.

As the Cardinal is a faithful man himself, it has been most difficult to understand.  But faithful Catholics cannot and in fact do not survive Cardinal O'Malley's administration.  He defends and protects their persecutors and their ultimate removal, and Rev. Bryan Hehir's agenda always rolls forward.

We are coming up on nearly ten years of demoralization and immoral sexualization of Catholic children.

I always thought the "little monsters" running the Boston Chancery didn't like the brawls, but after years of explaining why we are going to hold their feet to the fire to pass on our religion to our children, hold them accountable, all the way up to the Chair of Peter, I'm beginning to wonder if they actually like family feuds.    The place is filled with the kind of folks who show up on Thanksgiving having had one scotch too many to start a brannigan.

You want another decade of embarrassing revelations of corruption and the sexual perversion of our children?

Really?

You haven't had enough of it?

It is duly noted that the 'strategic vision' of the Archdiocese is bankrupt in it's ability to outline goals for religious formation of our children.

You will note the strategies for finances and math have all been thought out but nobody in the room had any idea on how to execute educating Catholics on their religion.

2012 - TBD
2013 - TBD
2014 - TBD

Still stumped in 2014 and looking for leadership to come up with the plan from people attracted to Joan Chittister and Thomas Gumbleton.

It is jaw dropping.



Friday, March 28, 2014

Every Picture Tells a Story Don't It






Down in Rome I wasn't getting enough
of the things that keeps a young man alive
My body stunk but I kept my funk
at a time when I was right out of luck
Getting desperate indeed I was
Looking like a tourist attraction
Oh my dear I better get out of here
'for the Vatican don't give no sanction
I wasn't ready for that, no no



ps
John Kerry has 
more
makeup on
than
Bruce Jenner


pps

Meanwhile, some poor nun experiences
the Pope Francis Factor

The Rev. Tim Reid, pastor of St. Ann Catholic Church, sent an email lauding the nun, saying “she represented well the Catholic positions on marriage, sex, same-sex attraction and proper gender roles … The Church has already lost too many generations of Catholic schools students to … a very muddled and watered-down faith.”



The petition, which has drawn more than 2,000 supporters, listed 10 objections to her remarks, including this: “We resent the fact that a schoolwide assembly became a stage to blast the issue of homosexuality after Pope Francis said in an interview this past fall that ‘we can not insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods.’ We are angry that someone decided they knew better than our Holy Father and invited (this) speaker.”


Some students told their parents that a few teachers left the assembly in tears.
 (Cry Carol a river!)

In addition, parents called for a letter-writing campaign, sending out emails that listed the addresses of the Diocese of Charlotte, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, even the pope in the Vatican.


Shelley Earnhardt, who is divorced and who sent one of the emails, wrote that “in my home, there was outrage, embarrassment, sadness, disbelief, and further reason for my 16-year-old to move as far away from her religion as possible and as soon as she can.”


Oh no, not that!!!

Please stay!

We will all stop teaching Catholics their religion so you do not get the vapors!!

Pope Francis good; Nuns and priests and parents who teach Church teaching bad!

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Obama Says Pope Francis Is Not Concerned About the Religious Freedom of Catholics Under Obama's Edicts




According to Barack, the Pope did not express any concern about the murder, mayhem or religious freedom under his regime.

The Pope simply was looking to find common ground with him.

It must have been an exhaustive search.

The good news is, the Vatican was very proactive about reporting Obama was taken to the shed regarding his offenses against religious freedom.

This is an excellent step in the right direction.

That being said, Pope Francis once again said nothing.

He distanced himself, giving the world the appearance everyone speaking about the murder and mayhem is an enemy of the mission of the Church, modeled of course by Pope Francis himself.

With silence, Pope Francis is able to give the appearance that Cardinal Parolin was not speaking for and on behalf of the Catholic Church or Pope Francis, giving Obama control of the efficacy of the threat to salvation of millions of Catholics.



And I explained to him that most religious organizations are entirely exempt. Religiously affiliated hospitals or universities or NGOs simply have to attest that they have a religious objection, in which case they are not required to provide contraception although that employees of theirs who choose are able to obtain it through the insurance company,” the president haltingly continued.

“And I pledged to continue to dialogue with the U.S. Conference of Bishops to make sure that we can strike the right balance, making sure that not only everybody has healthcare but families, and women in particular, are able to enjoy the kind of healthcare coverage that the ACA offers, but that religious freedom is still observed.”

That's right nice of him.

But religious freedom belongs to every Catholic who owns a business.

Obamacare has only protected the Bishops. The Obama administration was relying on the Bishops to take the deal and run, protecting their own salvation and leaving the rest of us to forfeit salvation for food and shelter.

When is Pope Francis going to put his own face and name on Church teaching?

John Kerry expressed how delighted he is with the destruction of 2000 years of teaching faithfulness to doctrine as the basis for salvation: I'm “a great admirer of everything you’ve been doing, as a Catholic, for the church.”

Obama also expressed his admiration.

These exchanges of mutual admiration warm the cockles of the heart of Catholics and Christians undergoing persecution. We are so happy that Pope Francis found a place where he could make peace with his own silence. Getting downright giddy.

I must apologize for being a skunk at the lawn party, but handing Evangelii Gaudium as the message the Pope wished to convey, is a bit like handing Kim Jong Un a treatise on the charity of communism.

The man should have been handed Evangelium Vitae, Humanae Vitae, Theology of the Body and an autographed copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Instead, he was handed his license to proceed with the destruction of America.

*ADDENDUM

A few very interesting quotes with emphasis from Fr. Z.

On Thursday, he headed here to benefit from the popularity of his replacement: Pope Francis.

Obama planned to use the closely watched meeting to show how aligned he is with the pope on income inequality, poverty and immigration — issues important to both the White House and Democrats as they try to paint Republicans as insensitive to the needs of Americans before the upcoming midterms.

“He needs the Francis bump,” said Chad Pecknold, a theology professor at The Catholic University of America.

Obama's talking points are as follows: He and the Pope are two kindred spirits trying to unravel the Catholic Church and the world from the trivia of morality and murder and focus on kisses, hugs, companionship.

There is absolutely zero evidence that the Holy Father wasn't on the same page with him.

Carry on. Here's your book.

Carry on. Here's your carrots. You cwazy wabbit.


Until the Pope rightly orders the absolute necessity to remain celibate outside of Sacramental marriage, the absolute necessity to make judgments about our conduct based upon the 2000 years of Church teaching - the need to teach it in every home, in every classroom, in every apostolate, parish, the need to execute every action based upon the principles of truth - we are all in for one hell of a slide into the abyss.

It is a painful thing to watch and experience.


Monday, March 24, 2014

The Samaritan Woman at the Well



Pope Francis explained his approach with his Angelus reflection on today's encounter between Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well.

I've always loved this encounter and the genius of Christ.

He approaches, as Pope Francis explains, with great delicacy. She is at ease, intrigued with His boldness. He reveals His Divinity, draws the confession out of her with a clever question, reveals His knowledge of the half dozen pairs shoes that have been parked under her bed and offers her the living water. She is converted.

This approach is definitely Pope Francis' game plan. He's still, what he describes as 'entering the interior world of a person' filled with love.

He mentions a very interesting but subtle theological praxis that could be the basis of some misunderstanding:


And Francis explained that Jesus does not judge, but acknowledges each person making him or her feel considered and recognized, and stimulating in that person the wish to go beyond their daily ‘routine’. He explained that the thirst Jesus speaks of is not so much a thirst for water, but the wish to quench the thirst of an arid soul.

Let's break this down.

"And Francis explained that Jesus does not judge.."

Actually Christ DID make a judgement about the woman's actions and He came to the conclusion her actions were immoral. That's why He approaches her.

He simply does not verbally express his judgment. He simply revealed that He knew.

"...but acknowledges each person making him or her feel considered and recognized, and stimulating in that person the wish to go beyond their daily ‘routine’. He explained that the thirst Jesus speaks of is not so much a thirst for water, but the wish to quench the thirst of an arid soul..."

He then said each one of us needs repentance, Lent is the time, encouraged Confession and announced a world-wide invitation to approach the Sacrament on Friday and Saturday.

I thought the reference that Christ does not judge was very interesting.

Most likely his impetus for the 'who am I to judge' disaster?

I can't say for sure that it is a communication issue, but find it hard to believe he thinks Christ approached the Samaritan woman without making a judgment on her immoral actions?

If Christ doesn't judge, why would he invite us to the Sacrament of Confession?

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Excellent Reflections



HERE.

Who's Your Daddy



Despite his highly influential religious office, he makes time to sit with the people, comfort the sick, and help the poor. He often forgoes traditional fancy threads and maintains a quiet, humble disposition. He is, above all things, a pastoral man.

If you think we're talking about Pope Francis, think again.


I was particularly interested in this article because of the following caricature of us as 'far right':

While O'Malley's life is marked by praise, he is not without criticism. He recently had a female Lutheran minister anoint him in a sign of ecumenism, which received backlash as a "farcical ritual" by the far right.

Pope Francis has made those of us that believe, teach and practice our religion enemies of the fiat of Catholicism.

What beliefs must a Catholic hold to be caricatured as 'far right'?

1. We believe sexual activity outside of the Sacrament of marriage violates the Sixth Commandment and requires the Sacrament of Confession and a firm purpose of amendment not engage in the adultery in the future.

2. We believe divorce is a grave offense against marriage and natural law and remarriage is forbidden without a dispensation of the marriage through annulment and anyone proceeding to a second marriage without it commits adultery.

3. We believe homosexual acts are gravely depraved, contrary to natural law, intrinsically disordered and a violation of the sixth commandment.

4. We believe the regulation of birth through contraception is morally unacceptable and intrinsically evil.

5. We believe in one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and the baptismal promises that accompany the Sacrament of Baptism in the Catholic Church have vows that are distinct to the mission of evangelization and conversion to Christ's One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Since all of these beliefs are memorialized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, necessary to follow for the reception of Sanctifying Grace into the substance of the soul which informs the intellect on right and wrong choices, wouldn't you think the statements and conduct of It's most "influential" leaders would be levied upon their reputation and substance of who they are?

Since the Pope is the custodian and preserver of these truths, why isn't he caricatured as 'the far right'?

Could it be because he earned 'influence' by discrediting faith and practice of the substance in the Catechism of the Catholic Church?

I don't mean to beat a dead horse here, but the only place I am really interested in trapping and exposing falsehoods and lies is in my family, children, grandchildren and people I love and care about in my circle of 'influence'.

It is impossible to 'influence' them to believe the tenets of our religion when It's most 'influential' leaders have told them they are here to usher in an era of how to ignore, circumvent and disobey Church teaching.

With the Pope telling them moral theology on human sexuality is something they do not need to guide their judgment and behavior, the idea that Michael Voris thinks 'trapping and exposing' the lies of on the national, parish, school or local level is going to have any efficacy in our homes against a Pope who makes obedience unnecessary...it isn't gelling for me.

The Pope has distanced himself and his see from teaching obedience, which in turn renders those of us who do teach it, and the very nature of Church teaching and truth itself, discredited. Though we can and must try, we have no efficacy.

My children are currently robbed of their salvation and I want their inheritance to be restored.

After a year of contradictions coming out of Rome, I am still waiting.

I'm going to keep on beating my drum until that is fixed.

What does gel for me is that our good friend and warrior Mike Voris wishes to give the Pope room to do what he wishes to do. We all need to understand where he's coming from and support him in his trajectory.

There is also more news on another topic we are following:

In an interview at the National Catholic Register, Cardinal O'Malley appears to disclose some of the Pope's talking points on how they will exercise the edicts to disobey Church teaching.

Question: Pope Francis has expressed sympathy for Catholics who cannot receive the Eucharist because they have divorced and remarried, and some German bishops say that Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage should be modified. Can you give us any information on this issue, which will be addressed at the 2014 Extraordinary Synod on Marriage and the Family?



Cardinal O'Malley:The Church will not change her teaching on the indissolubility of marriage. There will be an effort to help those people who have had a failed marriage and try to sift through ways [to consider what] can be done. The Holy Father is anxious to discuss that, but I think it is premature to make any forecast for how it will play out.

The simplification of the annulment process would be a wonderful first step for addressing a very crucial pastoral problem for the Church.


As the Sacrament of Marriage cannot be dissolved, they will sift through ways to dissolve marriage by making the annulment process the Catholic Divorce at the local parish level.

I presume they will come up with an amended list of reasons to dissolve marriage.

Catholic divorces at the parish level is the only technical way to absolve the adultery.

I'll go on record right now in saying this does impact the irreversible nature of the Sacrament of Marriage and we can all feel badly about that, but when it happens (my gut instincts are, we are not talking 'if') we all need to acknowledge the Pope's authority to alter the list of reasons to annul and move on.

Frankly, I've got a bunch of people I'm going to encourage back to communion.


Saturday, March 22, 2014

Pope Francis is Anxious to Appoint Women at the Holy See



Excellent news indeed for women who put ambition over needs of their children their families.

Permanent appointments will require women sell their homes, move away from their families and friends.

When her mother or father's health fails and her family is struggling with caring for them, she is absent.

When her children need her attention, advice, companionship - she will be on the phone or at a meeting with 'important' people.

This is a service Pope Francis and Super Cardinals are doing to the vocation of women 'for the Church'?

There is no question that if you are educated in our religion, smart, intuitive, articulate, zealous and courageous - people will invite you to think tanks and apostolates.

I have some experience in trying to stop the damage to our children inside of our Church and in the culture. The two will always intersect.

Perhaps placing celibate and faithful nuns in these roles could work - but if you're a mother, I don't recommend it.

I spent a few years being very involved in trying to stop the dismantling of the Roman Catholic Church on a more national level.

The energy level is consuming.

I remember once standing in a room filled with extremely talented and accomplished people in Washington DC, expressing my reservations to continue my involvement. There was a circle of about five of us gathered. One gentleman, thinking he was doing me a favor, asked me to look around the room at the company I was in. He reminded me about our very real accomplishments in preserving Christ's people from scandal and oppression. He told me about meetings he had arranged for his own children with this or that important person.

All true. But I politely asked him some questions.

How many times are his children standing in front of him trying to get his attention while he's on the phone?

How many times have they stood their anxious or frustrated as he held his finger to his lips to send them a signal to keep quiet?!

How many times has he been at their sports events with the phone constantly ringing?

How many times has a friend struggling tried to reach them without success?

How much energy, time and investment in our real relationships is being compromised?

How much attention can you really give to being in time and place with the people who are more important to you than the people in this room?

I looked at the one other woman in the circle and asked her how the healthy meal planning and serving the needs of her family is going? How's washing curtains going and cleaning windows? Washing and waxing floors? When you hear a friend pulling into the driveway unannounced, do you say "OH OH!"!!

The questions were a sincere attempt to find peace in the struggle with time and priorities.

I didn't receive any enlightenment.

I don't think it exists.

I'm not saying women shouldn't volunteer limited time in an apostolate.

I am saying most of the things on high level rob your family and friends of your gifts, talents, time, treasure.

The bishops and Pope have the education, time, treasure and talent. This is why Rome and Vatican City has been filled with celibate men for two thousand years. They do not have the responsibilities that we have. They don't have to worry about being fired from their job for having and teaching moral convictions pertinent to salvation. They have 2000 years scores of libraries of literature written by saints - some of them women.

They don't need women. They need a backbone to accept their vocation and some common sense. Neither of which women have the capacity to impart as these things come from the Eucharist.

These men are ignoring their own see, their own priests, their own people. It is a state of mind and a way of living that has very little value to the vocation of woman.

My advice, FWIW, is that Catholic women ought not to get sucked into the madness.

Let's take a collection and ship over the bus full of heretical nuns who are destroying our country with their nonsense and let them have at each other.

Take care of your family and friends.



Friday, March 21, 2014

Cardinal Burke on the Many Difficulties with Cardinal Kasper's Text


Name that difficulty.

Sadly, the problem goes deeper than Cardinal Kasper.

Pope Francis hand-picked Cardinal Kasper, called him a superb theologian attempted to cultivate acceptance by asking for 'flexibility' and expressed support for his 'serene theology'.

There aren't that many of us who are seeing serenity in the contradiction of permanent indissoluble nature of Sacramental marriage.

Nothing flexible 'bout 'dat.

I thank God for the refreshing honesty of our courageous Cardinal Burke.

In this perilous time in our precious Church's history, he reminds me of Athinasius.

A few days ago, he said the following:

"It takes uncompromising Catholics" to oppose the killing of unborn children, artificial insemination and the gender ideology. In an exceptional and very long interview with the monthly magazine Radici Cristiane by Roberto de Mattei, the Cardinal treated in a Catholic manner, the burning and controversial issues of the current debate over which, anti-Church circles exercise an increasingly radical cultural hegemony and how the thinking of Europeans is veritably brainwashed, which begins in kindergarten. There is no more time to watch idly or to talk about compromise. Nor is it legitimate to resign. The tacit resignation in the face of a psychological, moral and spiritual destruction thus constitutes a form of compromise with evil, says the Cardinal.

He also recently spoke of the false mercy of 'simplifying' annulments.

I worry that the Romans will circle his wagons, steal his coat and throw him into the cistern.

I've been thinking a great deal about the gifts and challenges of our Pope.

We all have challenges and need to know our limitations.

Recently, a local parish ministry asked me to write up an introduction for a Eucharistic Miracle exhibit that would be published in a secular town newspaper. I'm not sure I'm the right gal for the job, I said. My writing is much more suitable for the converted, consecrated and Eucharistic. I drafted it, but it was a struggle to resist the zeal and mysticism to try to strike the right chord to intrigue non-believers. (LOL.)

You have to know the language you speak, the most effective use of your talents, what to avoid. It takes discipline to not to be you when speaking or teaching about Our Beloved Christ and His Church, Sacraments, salvation.

I don't belong in RCIA. Send me into the deep to talk to daily Mass goers, Marian consecrations, the Adoration and Rosary crowd. I try to be meticulous and measured when expressing theology (most of the time!)

John Paul II and Pope Benedict were also careful and meticulous (most of the time!

The Pope has different gifts.

I recently saw a quote that reminded me of Pope Francis: Fall in love with as many things as possible.

It's the right time and the right place and the right message.

This is the beauty of The Mystical Body at work. Cardinal Burke and Pope Francis and you and I.

The Pope's flight of thought, off the cuff style and whatever he's got going on behind the language he speaks, his allergy to faithful Catholics and attraction to kooky theologians, I pray he recognizes his own limitations and in his second year, puts more emphasis on... the ministry of thinking things through.

Can we get another bravo from Cardinal Dolan?



Hawaii police need legal exemption to have sex with prostitutes.


All police need is the proposition, but I guess sexually exploiting dysfunctional, indigent and deranged high-risk women has become a perk for the police in Hawaii.

They don't say 'book 'em Danno' until after they roll off of the woman and zip up their pants.

What a despicable abuse of power.

Are they taking pornographic pictures of children to catch pornographers?

Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Bishops and Bloggers



The bishops, meanwhile, should consider embracing the Catholic blogosphere. The best way to do this would be through face-to-face meetings with bloggers in their dioceses. Misunderstandings could be resolved and bloggers encouraged to bring bishops’ messages to a vast new audience.

Unless you are in one of the handful of dioceses with a faithful Shepherd who treats faithful Catholics with honesty and respect, I do not recommend forming relationships with the Bishops.

The minute a Catholic blogger accepts an invitation to get chummy with the Chancery, it is the beginning of the end of your efficacy.

I remember once going to a meeting about the crazy sex ed program. I brought all the materials with me and spent 1/2 hour educating the Bishop's representative.

I presumed the meeting was called in good faith and after hearing the irrefutable evidence the program was perverted, against the Canons, not to mention creepy, weird and dangerous, the outcome of the education would be intervention.

Instead, I was invited to be on a Committee.

I remember saying I have a job, a family, a home, friends, relatives and a life. This action doesn't require any stinking committee. You just need to show it to the Bishop and then he makes a phone call and yanks the thing. It will be all over in an hour and a half. Why on earth would I put the needs of my family and life aside for months to sit in a room full of people you've stacked with victims of apostates? Is that what you've dragged me here for?

That was about fifteen years ago and I was never invited back.

Do you think it was something I said?

If you are a Catholic blogger, keep your distance from the Chancery - except to give them the goods and ask them for intervention. Your efficacy in freeing victims relies upon their knowledge in what will happen next if they don't intervene.

For the first few years, be prepared for passive-aggressive references about you on the Bishop's blog and Archdiocesan newspaper and MSM. Expect to be discredited, slandered, bullied, threatened.

When they realize your focus is solely Christ, they will come to terms with the checkmate. Eventually. After a lot of eggs on their faces.

You want and need the freedom to report what happened to Mrs. So and So when she wrote to tell the Bishop about the coven of women who are baking bread with cinnamon and sugar for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

You want complete independence. Don't accept any invitations to meetings or swanky events. Don't take money or a job.

That's my advice. Take it for what it's worth!

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

After a period of penance...



Should kidnappers be admitted to Holy Communion?

The theology of sacramental grace and the biology of mystical properties in the Eucharist interacting with bad soil - Kasper's suggestion is applicable to this analogy!





Congratulations to Michael Voris: He is now thinking like Mark Shea

How's this for irony - while Mike has finally won the admiration of Mark Sheat, the Vortex trilogy has given Shea the ammunition to call faithful Catholics (including yours truly) Francis haters, insane reactionaries and kooks committing mortal sins against charity. (I am not sending traffic to his blog so he can earn money off of his post)

By refusing to distinguish sedevacanists from honorable and faithful Catholics, that is quite a service Mike has done for faithful Catholics.

Oh well. No good deed goes unpunished.

I watched the last Vortex which suggested that we all act like nothing is wrong in the public square and privately send our Holy Father a letter explaining to him what the Catholic religion is and how his contradictions are affecting our family members, community and the culture.

Putting aside my reluctance to throw away ten years of honest dialogue and due diligence which has earned me credibility, I have several observations I wish to share.

1. What makes Michael think we didn't contact the Pope (and for that matter, everyone else underneath him)?

There's a McKinley library in every layer of bureaucracy of the RCC, from the every ministry in the Archdiocese to the Vatican archives.

I have copies of 20 years worth of letters I sent stored in banana boxes in my basement, labeled by subject matter.

2. Because of the corruption, it is ineffective.

For example:

There's a four foot pile on the sexual education program they pretended was the fix for their hiring, ordaining, not supervising pedophiles and then discrediting and bullying whistleblowers.

Remember the fix?

In the tsunami of bad press, a group of witches and former prostitutes wrote a sex ed program to tell children all their relatives are people who want to put their hands down their pants and rape them - with detailed stories of these pending rapes - and THEY are here to help us all out.

Hundreds of thousands of people of sound mind and soul wrote letters to the Holy See and the Pope about this abusive and pornographic program.

You know where that got us?

A few articles in the newspaper and threats from employees running the program in the Archdiocese that they would put our names on a list of suspected child abusers.

There's a two-foot pile of boxes labeled "Bryan Hehir". We compiled forty years worth of this priest's scandalous conduct and sent it over to Rome.

You know where that got us?

A ceremony was arranged to honor Reverend Hehir in Vatican City. He is still in place here in Boston. The structure of the Archdiocese has been completely dismantled and priests like Fr. Butterballino and Fr. Unni and Fr. Garrity are being protected under the twisted administration. Threats are made to those who teach moral theology. Seminarians and deacons are told not to teach it.

I could go on and on about letters and documentation and requests for intervention, all the way up to the Chair of Peter.

Every Nuncio to the US has heard from me about once a month on some scandalous matter.

After rallying troops to write to tell them what we know they already know, the Holy See has unplugged their fax machines.

There was a time when I would not speak out until the protocol had run it's course and I gave them ample time to intervene.

Still, I always use internal forums before I scorch the earth in the public square. But, I no longer give them months to rectify scandals and spiritual abuse.

I'll notify the right people in the Archdiocese, wait a week, notify the Nuncio, wait a week, notify Rome, wait a week and after a month, I let it rip.

The public square is not my method of communication to Holy Father or any other accountable persons underneath him.

It is my communication to other Catholics whose families are being (or potentially could be) victimized by it.

After doing what St. Paul instructed, I shoot the flare across the bows of other potential victims.

Not only are these instructions memorialized in Scripture, they are written into Church law.

Can 212§3

The corrupt are still in power. They haven't been removed under Pope Francis. The efficacy of sending letters to prototypes of Tommy Gumbleton and Rembert Weakland is worse than an exercise in futility. They use the information to protect and advance the enemy.

3. Catholics whose children have a distorted view of doctrine due to the constant confusion coming out of Rome are at risk for jumping off of the Ark.

On the parish and school level, the trajectory of catechesis has already turned into the School of Catholic Friends with Sexual Benefits. Many parents (and Catholics) do not wish to drag their children into the pews to be misled.

As I mentioned before, until the moment when the Pope selected Kasper to lead his see and subsequently implied future openness to civil unions, I reserved judgment.

During that time, the omission was hard to reconcile with people who expect honesty from me. Many expressed things about the Pope and the leadership of the Church - and their thoughts about finding refuge in sedevacanists.

The number of faithful Catholics with whom I have worked for twenty years who began to make startling revelations about finding refuge for themselves and their families, quite frankly, scared me.

I'm talking about high-ranking lay people with impeccable credentials for faithfulness to the Church.

I agonized over what to say and when to say it, how to say it.

I am disclosing the consequences to my own family and the people I love, while zealously expressing that I will never leave the Mystical Body of Christ and His Sacraments because I believe leadership is desperately needed to navigate scandalized Catholics.

The objective of these disclosures is not to elicit a reaction from the Holy Father. They are a witness for the faithful who are being pulled in all kinds of directions in this storm.

To:

1. Pray for our loving and affectionate Holy Father.
2. Find a faithful priest and increase your reception of the Sacraments.
2. Tie yourself and your family to the Ark and the Sacraments.

Making believe I don't see the problem or am not experiencing serious consequences every day is not an option for me.

I'm a firm believer that the Pope knows what's wrong with civil unions, why the Church can never accept them and what happens to the intellect when Catholics receive the Eucharist when their soul is not in a state of grace. I am positive that a local bishop knows he can't subcontract abortionists and supply a free ride to babies in a taxi to be executed by the people they've hired to do the job for them.

I think it's worth sending a letter to memorialize that I know that they know and ask them to stop.

The idea that we all pretend it isn't happening, or ignore the mayhem being caused inside of our families and communities -- after swallowing it for twenty year and watching the damage, I'm all done with it.

St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, pray for us.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Boston's St. Patrick's Day Parade Goes Off Without a Hitch



Many thanks to those of you who have been praying the Lorica for this intention.


Our Catholic veterans refused to permit clapping fornication theme to tarnish the honor of our great Catholic Saint and the service we offer to God and our country as Irish Catholics.

The parade was a smashing success.

The streets were jammed packed.

I can't say enough to convey the gratitude Irish Catholics feel for the leadership of the Catholic Action League's CJ Doyle.

The craven silence of the Archdiocese and the Mass Catholic Conference does not go unnoticed.

CJ is passionate about working for the glory of God and His Church. Please pray for his apostolate and if you are inclined, support his work with a small donation which can be sent to the following.

Catholic Action League of Massachusetts
PO Box 112
Roslindale, MA 02131





NEWS RELEASE

SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE
(781) 251-9739
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CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE CONGRATULATES
ALLIED WAR VETERANS COUNCIL

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today congratulated the Allied War Veterans Council---the organizers of Boston's Saint Patrick's Day Parade---for successfully resisting the political strong arm tactics of Mayor Martin Walsh and Congressman Stephen Lynch. Walsh and Lynch tried to pressure the veterans to abandon their 22 year prohibition against groups which identify their sexual preferences from participating in the event. (Lynch, ironically, ended up marching in the parade.)

The Catholic Action League hailed the veterans for their "determined defense of their Faith, moral principles, and constitutional rights."

Catholic Action League Executive Director commented: "In the end, the veterans refused to surrender, despite demands from politicians, criticism from the media, tensions with some sponsors, and duplicity from homosexual activists. It was an admirable example of courage, fidelity, and integrity."

"The homosexual group which tried to force its way into the parade cared nothing for Saint Patrick or Irish culture, and had nothing but contempt for the Catholic religion. MassEquality wanted to use the parade to promote its own agenda. As this controversy unfolded, more and more ordinary people came to understand that."

The predecessor organization of the Catholic Action League provided legal assistance to the Allied War Veterans Council in Hurley v. Irish American GLIB Association.

CMTV Responds



Our friends from CMTV have clarified what they intended to convey.

Excellent post by Mundabor.

Reasonable and faithful Catholics who are pointing out the consequences of the Pope's statements in their families, homes, people they love and care about, their parishes and in the culture - they are not the problem.

It assigns blame to the wrong party.

If the Pope taps an apostate bishops to guide his see and after the kooky lecture, caricatures it as great theology - the onus for that scandal is on the Pope.

If the Pope says he's open to civil unions for insurance reasons, the fix isn't silencing the expression of how what the Pope is doing, saying and isn't doing and saying is affecting catechesis, evangelization and salvation.

I could go on and on with the long and painful year's worth of nonsense that has caused people I love and care about to see moral theology and sanctifying grace as irrelevant to their salvation.

Blaming parents and people who are correcting the errors and setting the crooked lines straight - is a cop out.

It allows the party doing damage to continue to do harm.









Saturday, March 15, 2014

The Latest Vortex


Thanks to readers who gave me a heads-up on our great warrior Michael Voris' latest Vortex.

Janet Baker has responded HERE.

I couldn't agree more with the following:

First, he seems to think that the only ones noticing the miscues of Pope Francis are "extreme left" and "extreme right". That's simply not true; every now and then Voris intimates that he himself has noticed them (See 2:58-3:03, 3:10-3:13, 4:30). In artificially dividing them into two camps of either progressive liberals or sedevacantists without acknowledging any honorable motives on the part of us who also see the problems, he demonizes us.

and this:

At 3:48-4:15, Voris launches into those on "the right", stating that all in this group attack the Holy Father as a person. That's simply not true.

I would mention that Michael does specifically mention the misunderstandings of Ubi Petrus Ibi Ecclesia, Where Peter is, there is the Church (St. Ambrose). The unity of the Church is centered upon the Office of the Pope.

Michael states that many conflate the man who is the current Pope with the Office of the Pope. Mike blames the consternation over Pope Francis on the misunderstanding.

Given this context, it is possible Michael meant to limit his observations to the select group who have taken flight from Ark.

I do believe it is of critical importance to be clear about the context of the concerns being raised and to be a witness to unity with Christ's Church.

I can be no more divided from Christ and His One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, His Sacraments, Magisterium and Office of the Pope than I could decapitate myself and go on living.

It is impossible. Christ's Church and I are indivisible. His Blood runs through my veins and my animus is connected to His Head.

I'm not going anywhere and I have gone overboard to ensure that anything I've written or said navigates through a Pope who is going to instruct the faithful to obstruct catechesis and disobey Church teaching.

We find a faithful priest and we ride out the storm. We increase our consumption of the Sacraments.

Recently, Michael did a Vortex named "stop doing the interviews". I presumed it was about the Pope. It turned out to be about that poor simpleton in New York who is yelling bravo when people use the media to announce they are sexually active with a person or persons of the same sex.

Compare that vortex to the vortex implying it is some kind of flaw of fringe to raise concerns when "the pope said this or the pope said that".

How does Michael reconcile his own shtick to the same actions he opines is a scandal and 'weakens the Church'?!!

Michael has been, and is, a great warrior in the battle between good and evil. He has drawn a line in the sand, explained he cannot raise concerns about the confusion coming from the Pope.

Fine.

Love ya Mike, but to produce a video claiming criticizing Church leaders is divisive to unity and a scandal is as mad as a hatter given your own vocation!

Look around us. "Criticism" about the antics of kooky priests and bishops have done catastrophic damage to unity. Yet raising concerns about the undisciplined kooky statements, actions and inactions is your role for Christ's Church.

It's precisely what you've been doing.

You can't have it both ways.

What is good for the goose, is good for the gander.

Kooky takes prisoners. It is a virtue to release imprisoned from vices they are brainwashed into believing acceptable to God.

The "who" of the sad state of affairs doesn't matter. Even when it is the Pope.

As you have mentioned yourself, we are united to the Office.


As I have mentioned before, not everyone is endowed with the gifts to rise to the occasion and accept a role in Church Militant.

I do NOT mean to imply this role is superior in Christ's army. It is in fact, inferior to the endowments that lift the mission of the Church in the daily Eucharist, in front of the Blessed Sacrament, in mystical prayer with the communion of Saints.

I see the role as a penance. After conversion, when our conscience recognizes the harm we have done, Christ asks How much do you love Me?

Amen, amen I say to thee, when thou wast younger, thou didst gird thyself, and didst walk where thou wouldst. But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and lead thee whither thou wouldst not.

Mike's doing a great job. He's issued a limitation. I respect it, but it is not good enough for my children and the people I love and care about.

Let us face reality. We do not know this Pope and we do not recognize his voice. The words coming out of his mouth and the omissions and obstructions to Church teaching is inconsistent with the voice of my Shepherd.

This is an instinct that we cannot control.

Our mind is hearing his messages and when we compare them to the Deposit of Faith, they contradict 2000 years of doctrine. Our unity is with our Church, not the man.

This is a conflict and leaders need to rise to the occasion.

Do we follow the voice telling us to contradict Church teaching?

No.

Do we sit silent as the man sitting in the Chair instructs generations of Catholics, including our own children, to contradict Church teaching?

No.

So what now?

Keep denying there is a problem with the Pope?

Keep pretending it doesn't contradict Church teaching?

Let us face it.

The Pope has not stretched forth his hands in his role as Pope and bound himself to the Deposit of Faith.

He has and does bind his own soul. Nobody denies that he, himself, is a faithful son.

But in his role as Pope, he is as running from Nero as Peter's legacy in Quo Vadis.

This doesn't make him unworthy of the role, does it.

He is not the first, the second or the third who has taken flight from the binding of the role of a Pope.

Great saints in our history have chased after them.

Let us not make a mockery out of what is right and true and just.

I love Pope Francis. Each time I see him or watch him, I am drawn into his intimacy and love for Christ and all of us.

But he is moseying on down the road away from Rome. He is estranged from his role as the custodian of the Deposit of Faith.

Like Peter and many before him, he has not yet accepted the role of a martyr.

Pope Francis is confusing the masses and those of us with children, grandchildren, relatives - or in fact any loved one, want and in fact need to tell them not to listen to kooky ideas and the reasons why.

After a kooky idea is proclaimed, pointing to the truth is not intended to be a condemnation of the person who presented the kooky idea.

If the author of a kooky idea feels condemned in the contradiction to truth, the onus for such condemnation is upon them.

My focus is my children and the people I love. A wrong needs to be righted.

I can't imagine how Michael manages to silence this righteous call that echoes from our soul.

This is a terrible situation but I can't and don't have any desire to silence that call.

I am focused on serving Christ. All the way baby. Nothing is going to divide me from the truth. Not even a Pope.

A few things I feel important to point out.

a) This is not simply an abstract battle for the soul of the Church where people are clapping or apoplectic depending upon who is in the seats of power.

Yes, we are active participants in the battle between good and evil. But our most important duties do not lie on the internet. The substance of our mission happens on the ground in our lives. The real world of the people around us. Our relatives and friends.

Do I want my children to make judgments on their actions based upon the Pope's statements caricaturing doctrine as irrelevant pishposh?

Do I want my children to stop making judgments on moral theology because the Pope told them he and the Church do not?

Do I want the lethal combination of defiance and Sacrilegious Communion to compound the ill effects of dissent being rammed down their throats on the parish level?

You would have to be a fool to choose silence as the effects of this papacy does this to our children and the people we love.

We know the very real and physical effects upon the soul and intellect.

Much like giving chemotherapy to a healthy person, it is chemically destructive.

The Pope has the power to change Church law.

If he is going to unravel 2000 years of sanity, he needs to fortify his actions officially so we can all move on.

Let him memoralize his edict that we can dump our wives, husbands and children as many times as we wish, ad infinitum, right into Church law.

Let him write civil unions as acceptable into the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Let him state, ex Cathedra, that using contraception and killing children does not obstruct salvation so long as we focus on the real evil of lonely people and visit Eleanor Rigby in the nursing home.

Until he does that, my children are not released from the effects of sin upon their intellect and soul and he is poisoning them - just like Cardinal Dolan and every other half-witted prelate we have had the misfortune to encounter on the road to salvation.

Let's have the decency to be honest about the physical science of sin. It is real and has catastrophic effects upon the lives of people led clapping into sacrilegious communion.

So long as his pronouncements, irrespective of what he intended to convey, instruct us all to ignore, obstruct and disobey Church teaching, I need to tell them to ignore the man, even though he is sitting in the Chair of Peter.

Just like I told them to ignore the priest who told them the Sacrament of Confession is for lunatics. Just like I removed them from the parishes of our ladies of the mattress.

b) The Pope needs to hear and know what we intend to do in the madness of following his instructions to disobey the small-minded rules of Church teaching at every parish in Christendom.

For thirty two years, I've tried to show them, and be a witness to how to tie oneself to the Deposit of Faith and the Sacraments and ride out the storm, come what may.

Now, I have a Pope trying to untie them and unite them to himself and instruct them to disobey Church teaching.

I'm going to sit silent?

I don't think so.

I need my children to hear that if they have an attraction to have sex with another person and those urges are outside of a Sacramental Marriage in the Catholic Church, they need to make a judgment about that attraction, the Church makes a judgment about that transaction and Christ makes a judgment about that attraction. That attraction requires a judgment that it is wrong to act upon it. My children need to hear that the judgment of the Church is right judgment and in complete harmony with Christ's judgment. My children need to hear that the consequences of not making judgments in harmony with Church teaching.

With all the confusing statements coming from the Pope's own mouth, I keep refreshing my browser waiting for him to tell my children. After a year of doing so, I have given up. I'm done with it. It is time to tell them myself that something is askew with the Pope's judgment.

This doesn't mean I don't love our Holy Father, continue to pray for him, but I do not take a shine to his unraveling and I am going to do and say everything I can to tie my children back onto the Ark. That is my fiat as a Catholic mother.

And, my second fiat is to be a witness to anyone else I have the ability to influence how to navigate through this storm.

We all know the Pope is not going to change Church teaching, don't we?

He knows he can't and is trying to find ways to circumvent it.

No can do.

Get thee back to Rome!

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Ms. Kurt recently took the Pope Francis prayer card down and threw it away.



My refrigerator still has Pope John Paul II, but I feel for Ms. Kurt.

So long as we can remember to continuously pray for the man.


In an interview on Friday, Mr. Skojec said he was overwhelmed by the positive response to his blog from people who said they were thinking the same things but had not wanted to say them in public. He said he had come to suspect that Francis is a “self-styled revolutionary” who wants to change the church fundamentally.

“There have been bad popes in the history of the church,” Mr. Skojec said. “Popes that murdered, popes that had mistresses. I’m not saying Pope Francis is terrible, but there’s no divine protection that keeps him from being the type of guy who with subtlety undermines the teachings of the church to bring about a different vision.”....

Matt C. Abbott, a Catholic columnist in Chicago with Renew America...“For orthodox and conservative Catholics,” he said, “the last few months have been a roller-coaster ride.” He added in an email, “I’m not a big fan of roller coasters.”



Can't argue with that!

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Corey Booker's Pants are on Fire




Too funny.

Parishes in the image of Pope Francis



Boston Paulist Center, the worst apostate parish in the Archdiocese of Boston, is selling itself as being carved in the image of Pope Francis.

I think that is a very accurate assessment of the image Pope Francis has created.

Sadly, this is the fruit of his shtick, in our homes, parishes, community and world.

He is dividing them from truth, from sanctifying grace, from salvation to unite them to apostates.

He has undone fifteen years of catechesis, obstructed any efficacy to teach truth in our homes, to the people we love, care about, for God only knows how long into the future.

A few stories to cruise:

Pope Francis at odds with faithful Catholics.

To say I resent what he has done to the understanding of truth in my own family would be an understatement.

With all due respect to Phil Lawler, you'd have to be living under a rock not to see the poison being passed out all around us.




Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Another Gem out of Germany


What the world needs now is more sleeping around.

How to Answer Stupid Job Interview Questions



Pardon this interlude, this was too fun not to post.

I've had a few doozies over the years.

Amadáns



This is getting to be quite the show.

The Pope wants the teaching of the Church silenced so the bishops can 'study' the reasons why people are sleeping around.

They're looking for talking points to find out if it's wrong.

When it comes to sleeping around, they don't know where to find the answers right and wrong conduct.

It's a mystery.

Without the proper resources, they will need to assemble a committee immediately and start brainstorming.

Consequently, Pope Francis has issued an edict that priests and bishops stop teaching it's harmful to salvation. It might be okay. They don't know.

Since they don't know, the appropriate response to public announcements about sleeping around is 'BRAVO'.

Maybe Father Butterballino could Fed Ex a copy of the book that annotates the sex lives of priests in Boston and they can use it for their talking points.

Why the smoke and mirrors?

I think they already know what caused it, don't you?

Ordained men encourage it, through omission and commission.

Some of them gave personal lessons on how to do it, starting in kindergarten, but mostly with each other or in barrooms and in the rest stops of highways.

Meanwhile, watch Pope Francis get on a bus to go on retreat.

What a swell fella.

Color me impressed.

If I could only get over the irreversible damage he (and they) is doing to my children's intellect and moral compass, maybe I could join the party at the base of Mt. Sinai, help them polish their golden idols.

If I could only reconcile the irreparable harm done to my children's communion with the Deposit of Faith and Truth, I would grab a tambourine and yell bravo to every immoral actions they tell me Pope Francis has told them it's okay to do now.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Media Creating "Spirit of Pope Francis"?



Suggests Bishop Morlino.

With all due respect, that water has gone over the dam.

The Pope is carving his own image.

Nobody is in control of it but him.

If his image is being poorly communicated, he has the pulpit and audience to correct it.

We've been sitting vigil for a year.

What Pope Francis doesn't say is more important than the disturbing and spiritually dangerous errors being promulgated from his cryptic messages.

Mario Palmaro, Concerned Catholic Father, Avenged for Criticism of Pope - R.I.P.



“Do you understand, dear Editor? 
Soon they will take my seven years old child at school 
and they will make him play with condoms 
and his own genitals, 
and what does the Church talk to me about? ..."


Mario Palmaro has finished the race.

The last gift of the Catholic Church to Palmaro and his family was avenging his courage to speak about the silence and absurd priorities of Church leaders, including the Pope, as our children are being indoctrinated into perverting their divine gift of human sexuality.

When you think of the decades of theologians who criticized Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI - whose careers never missed a beat - Palmero is the poster boy for what's wrong the culture inside of the Church.






Saturday, March 8, 2014

Please say a prayer for veteran organizers of our St. Patrick's Day Parade

They are getting more pressure from Marty Walsh to permit the group who wants to wear shirts and carry signs about who they're sleeping around with so people can yell "woot, woot" and clap.

It is a sick world.

If you're reading, would you mind saying St. Patrick's Breastplate for the organizers?


I bind this day to me for ever.
By power of faith, Christ's incarnation;
His baptism in the Jordan river;
His death on Cross for my salvation;
His bursting from the spicèd tomb;
His riding up the heavenly way;
His coming at the day of doom;*
I bind unto myself today.

I bind unto myself the power
Of the great love of the cherubim;
The sweet 'well done' in judgment hour,
The service of the seraphim,
Confessors' faith, Apostles' word,
The Patriarchs' prayers, the Prophets' scrolls,
All good deeds done unto the Lord,
And purity of virgin souls.

I bind unto myself today
The virtues of the starlit heaven,
The glorious sun's life-giving ray,
The whiteness of the moon at even,
The flashing of the lightning free,
The whirling wind's tempestuous shocks,
The stable earth, the deep salt sea,
Around the old eternal rocks.

I bind unto myself today
The power of God to hold and lead,
His eye to watch, His might to stay,
His ear to hearken to my need.
The wisdom of my God to teach,
His hand to guide, His shield to ward,
The word of God to give me speech,
His heavenly host to be my guard.

Against the demon snares of sin,
The vice that gives temptation force,
The natural lusts that war within,
The hostile men that mar my course;
Or few or many, far or nigh,
In every place and in all hours,
Against their fierce hostility,
I bind to me these holy powers.

Against all Satan's spells and wiles,
Against false words of heresy,
Against the knowledge that defiles,
Against the heart's idolatry,
Against the wizard's evil craft,
Against the death wound and the burning,
The choking wave and the poisoned shaft,
Protect me, Christ, till Thy returning.

Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

I bind unto myself the Name,
The strong Name of the Trinity;
By invocation of the same.
The Three in One, and One in Three,
Of Whom all nature hath creation,
Eternal Father, Spirit, Word:
Praise to the Lord of my salvation,
Salvation is of Christ the Lord.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Margery Eagan's Marching Orders




Today, Maggs Eagan announced that the Catholic Church will soon approve of civil unions.


Since that's about as likely as the Pope himself marrying Georg_Gänswein, the logic she uses to demonize Brother Thomas is dead in the water.

Still, the fact that Pope Francis is creating an image for himself that makes faithfulness to Church teaching an enemy of the people is disturbing. Margery Eagan is getting her marching orders from our Pope's talking points, or lack thereof.

In the absence of talk about Church teaching, he continuously makes farcical statements about a future where Church teaching remains in place but his manifesto will instruct us how to disobey it. He is discrediting truth, in our own homes and families. Dividing our children against the Church.

I think what is most unsettling about the situation is, I do not know the man. I don't recognize his voice. I am a distant observer struggling to hear his message, make sense out of his endless contradictions, insults against faithful Catholics and admiration of people and things that mislead. Trying desperately to hear the voice of my shepherd.

I wouldn't necessarily expect a prophet would bring faithful Catholics good will, but I cannot reconcile the contempt he is inciting for truth.







Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Pope Francis "Opens the Door to Civil Unions"?




According to CNS, Pope Francis kicked off Lent with by suggesting "the Church" needs to recalibrate Its teaching on civil unions:

Pope Francis has famously declared a cessation of hostilities in the culture wars on same-sex marriage, contraception, and abortion that had defined the Catholic Church for much of the modern era.

On Wednesday, he signaled a new direction in that regard when discussing civil unions in a short but wide-ranging interview that also touched on his discomfort with the hero worship that's sprung up around him. While still insisting that marriage is "between a man and a woman," he explained why he thought civil unions were created in the first place.

"The lay states want to justify civil unions in order to regulate diverse situations of cohabitation, motivated by the need to regulate economic aspects among persons, for example in assuring medical care," said the pope, in a translation of the interview provided by John Thavis, the former Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Services

When asked to what extent the church could understand this trend, the pope replied: "We need to look at the different cases and evaluate them."

The story written by the current Rome reporter for CNS said this indicated the church "could tolerate some civil unions."

Actually, it seems to me as though somebody asked him why civil unions were created in the first place and he said lay states want to provide medical insurance to everyone who is shacking up. Then, a luminary from the USCCB's news service(CNS)cracked the code of the Pope's intentions for everyone in the room.

Here's another version of the story that takes off like a rocket.

I've bolded what the Pope actually said, which appears to be taken out of context and surrounded by hysteria and conjecture:

(CNN) — Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s opposition to same-sex marriage Wednesday but suggested in a newspaper interview that it could support some types of civil unions.

The Pope reiterated the church’s longstanding teaching that “marriage is between a man and a woman.” However, he said, “We have to look at different cases and evaluate them in their variety.

For example, civil unions provide financial security to cohabitating couples, “as for instance in medical care,” the Pope said in a wide-ranging interview published Wednesday in Corriere della Sera, an Italian daily.

A number of Catholic bishops have supported civil unions for same-sex couples, including Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 2010, according to reports in National Catholic Reporter and The New York Times.

This is the first time a Pope has “indicated even tentative acceptance of civil unions,” according to Catholic News Service.

n.b. I did exhaustive research on the assertion that Pope Francis supported civil unions in Buenos Aires and came up with bupkis. It is an urban legend. Somebody from the National Catholic Distorter knew a man who knew another man who said the Pope told him so.

A bunch of blarney.

The Pope's support of civil unions would signal his willingness to encourage mortal sin between the parties for the sake of obtaining medical insurance.

This kind of bartering away of the salvation of the soul is...it pains me to say it...daft.

One can "examine" abortion or contraception to find out how people are being hoodwinked, exploited and murdered in 2014. That doesn't mean the outcome of the spin is going to be favorable to people looking for license from the Church to do it.


However, given the Pope's recent statements on Communion for people married to more than one person - my jury is still out on the man. We will just have to wait it out and see where he goes in October.

There's going to be a big fugatz if tries to persuade his see to drink that koolaid.

At the very least, this is yet another incident that indicates there should be less talking and more waving and blowing kisses.

UPDATE

CNN takes First Place Blue Ribbon in headlines contest with this whopper: Church Could Support Civil Unions.

Here's a better one: Pope Francis says the Church SHOULD tolerate some civil unions.

Sure. Maybe that's where the synod will go with it in October. Do away with marriage all together.

The Church wouldn't support gay marriage but should support shacking up. So long as when you do, you don't indulge in the real evil: gossip (if we to understand the hoo-ha on Pope Francis' theology of the redemption of one's soul).

Here's how to crack the code:

"The question is not whether to change the doctrine, but to go deeper and make sure that pastoral care takes account of situations and of what each person is able to do," he said.

Get it?

It's all about the situation.

Each situation is different and they're going to take a look at it to see what each person is able to do.

Your next door neighbor who situated himself under his secretary's lap while he was married to another woman - he has a situation. Holy Communion for you.

Sexually attracted to same sex? You can't get married because the Church won't accept it. Move in with the person. That's a situation Pope Francis says the Church should accept. You've got a situation. Here's your Holy Communion.

After 2000 years, Pope Francis has arrived to show us how to go 'deep' into Church teaching.

Gee, I hope he includes one-night-stands so the folks in Hollywood and Washington, DC can receive Holy Communion.

This is getting ridiculous.

In his vacuum of not teaching, he makes foolish statements and watches the damage in silence.

As a mother and about to be grandmother, I am fed up with the confusion being sown. He is making it impossible for Catholic parents to defend truth in their own home.

It is regrettable.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Boston's Catholic St. Patrick's Day Parade Update



I'm home with the flu today and turned on the secular news (something I haven't done for years - I get all my news from Christian news sources).

Quite the show.

A lot of women with distorted faces from plastic surgery doling out the propaganda with big toothy grins.

One dame from New England Cable News (NECN)excitedly updated the viewers on the St. Patrickgate.

She announced The Immaculate Heart of Mary School was pulling out of the St. Patrick's Day parade all because 'gays are being allowed to march in it'.

What a crock.

Homosexuals have been marching in the parade since its inception.

They've been marching right along with every other person struggling or living in a state of mortal sin, since the parade's inception.

The controversy is about carrying signs identifying their particular set of attractions, temptations and afflictions and the witness of a group of individuals who 'help' others to see it as some kind of virtue.

It haseth no place in a religious parade.

March away with the rest of us. Play an instrument. Dance. Honor whatever service you are doing for God's people.

Wearing a sash about who you're sleeping around with is not welcome.

The pressure by a Mayor's Office to incorporate vice is inappropriate and illegal.

Marty Walsh (and Menino before him) are violating the constitutional rights of Irish Catholics by bullying them to inject the immoral and amoral positions of his office into their Catholic event.

Saint Patrick is not the patron Catholic saint of drunks and sex buddies.

He was a humble, prayerful man whose legacy is about conversion and salvation of our Irish ancestors.

St. Patrick's Day is a Catholic feast day. A holy observance.

Irish Catholics honor the virtues of serving God's people in our avocations.

We remember our gorgeous homeland, our culture, dance, food and most of all, our precious religion and a man whose virtues rose to the level of Catholic sainthood.

The 'archdiocese' finally came out with a statement.

An anonymous person representing our Catholic Cardinal said...are you ready?

A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Boston said they do not have any role in the planning of the parade.

They excel at the fine art of wimpery.

Dear Sirs at the Chancery Bunker:

Everyone sees what you are doing and God sees what you are doing: Send Uriah to the front and retreat.

I'm here to remind you that the fact that YOU don't have a role in the parade is irrelevant. This is about the people you have a duty to defend and protect. It is about controversy wherein the Mayor of Boston is twisting a Catholic Saint into the patron saint of the virtues of getting drunk and sleeping around.

Our veterans need your support, leadership and courage.

Why don't you make a phone call and explain to the Mayor that parade is sponsored by Catholics, it is a Catholic feast day honoring a Catholic saint and invite him to cease and desist.

Man up.

Parade organizers have issued a press release.

A closed door meeting was held last night at City Hall. It turns out that Mayor Marty Walsh and Mass Equality were representing only 'one supposed veteran' who wishes to wear a sash about who he or she is sleeping around with.

Parade organizers have concluded the application was submitted under false pretenses and have denied the request.

VETERANS TELL DIFFERENT STORY
MEDIA REPORTS SLANTED

South Boston Allied War Veterans Council
P.O. Box 350 South Boston MA. 02127

Sponsors of

The South Boston St. Patrick’s Day / Evacuation Day Parade

PRESS RELEASE



3, March 2014



At a recent meeting of The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, a motion was brought up about reconsidering an application that had been previously rejected. This application was submitted by LGBT Veterans of Equality, (An affiliate of Mass Equality). The reason for this rejection was a clear violation of our “No sexual orientation” rule, and not that we ban Gay people as reported by the press.

The application stated that 20 United States Veterans wished to March with Mayor Walsh and other Politicians in this year’s parade. They also indicated that they were a “Veterans Organization”, “helping Veterans from Cradle to Grave”. After some consideration, the Council agreed that Any Veteran should be allowed to march, regardless of sexual orientation. Further, any organization which helps our Veterans is welcome. This application was conditionally approved as submitted with the understanding that These 20 Veterans can march but no sexual orientation would be displayed, and the group would comply with our standard “Code of Conduct”, followed by all marching units in this parade.

To our surprise, the offer was rejected by Mass Equality’s representative Kara Coredini. Her rejection was based on the fact that we would not allow LGBT Veterans to identify themselves as openly Gay by means of signage and T Shirts Identifying Them as LGBT Veteran. This clearly violates our code of conduct.

At a closed door City Hall meeting last night it was made clear to us that the LGBT Veterans for Equality do not have 20 United States Veterans who wish to march. Rather, they presented only one supposed Veteran and a group of others carrying rainbow flags. When asked about a Color Guard, their loan Veteran replied that he wasn’t sure he could supply any more Veterans willing to march.

The Council performs background checks on groups wishing to march prior to their acceptance. We were unable to find any evidence of LGBT Veterans for Equality that would confirm them as a recognized Veterans Organization.

We appreciate the efforts the Mayor’s office to try and mediate this issue. However it is our intention to keep this an Irish Celebration, dedicated to our Men and Women serving in our Armed Forces. We will fight to keep our parade and its traditions.

Therefore, we The Allied War Veterans of South Boston fell we were misled by LGBT Veterans for Equality. It is our belief that the application submitted to us by LGBT Veterans for Equality was a ploy by them to enter this parade under false pretenses and is hereby denied.

It is our intention to keep this parade a family friendly event. We will not allow any group to damage the Integrity of the historic event or our reputation as a safe and fun filled day for all. We strive to hold the largest and most entertaining St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the Country.

God Bless our Troops and God Bless this Country!

No Veterans.
No marchers.

It was all a big publicity stunt, headed by Mayor Marty Walsh.

By the by, if you haven't read Maggoty Eagan's column on the controversy, do indulge yourself in your daily bigot.

She has some gall telling American Citizens they can't celebrate in the public square unless the message they condone sleeping around is included in the celebration.

Here's another troubadour of bigotry, urban legends and insults: Kevin Cullen

1. Irish are all drunks.
2. Men faithfully devoted to their Church and it's teaching authority are holy rollers.
3. The kicker: Cardinal Cushing appears to be his litmus test for Catholic orthodoxy and sobriety.

My ancestors would never permit our heritage to be caricatured as fighting leprechauns and drunks.

We are not interested in airing your dirty laundry in our parade.

Put a corned beef on the stove, Irish bread in the oven, grab your sober relatives and enjoy the parade.



Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig!

Pope Francis lets the f-bomb fly



Pope's vulgarity causes stir.

The press predicts cursing will add momentum to his appeal and popularity.

Yeah, sure. There's nothing more popular than the witness of contradicting virtue in the public square.

Someone should call Marty Walsh to see if its too late to add a float of swearing Catholics to the St. Patrick's Day Parade.

"Kiss me, I'm a potty mouth".

Seriously, I feel sorry for the Pope for this blunder.

As a woman, I am not much of a swearer, but from time-to-time, they have rolled off of my tongue - especially when I've done something stupid.

At my daughter's wedding, in the front pew, after a gracious stroll down the aisle all dolled up, when I went to kneel on the kneeler, it was broken and I had to catch myself from going down to the floor. Out of nowhere came the word 'sh*t'.

The Holy Father is carrying a heavy load. I'm lifting him in prayer today!

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Louie Verrecchio's Spoof on the Michael Voris' Vortex


Longtime readers here know that I am a huge fan of Michael Voris. I love his work, bravado and zeal for the house of the Lord.

The overwhelming majority of Catholic men are weak. They are weak in our parishes, our apostolates, our educational institutions and evangelization.

That overwhelming majority of weak men have been overcome by a tiny group of fringe secular social engineers.

Michael Voris is a leader.

It is fair to say that we have a problem on our hands with Pope Francis. The problem is highly exaggerated with the Pope's off the cuff style, translation issues and agendas, but there is a problem. I am sorry to say it.

And, it isn't a little problem.

Marriage is indissoluble.

Consequently, unless people living together are willing to live as celibates, there is no way to receive Communion.

There's no Sacrament of Confession without the firm promise to make the changes necessary to remain in a state of Grace - which can never be done so long as one is married to another person canonically.

The fact that Pope Francis selected Kasper to wind up his see of Bishops, causing the head of the CDF to take a position against the Pope Francis show, solidifies the irrefutable problem we have on our hands.

Pope Francis has also tipped his hand with THIS.

Again, I do not believe the problem is is bad as it is being caricatured in some places. But reasonable and prudent people must come to Jesus on the fact that there is a problem with execution.

I am in full agreement with Louie that if Michael does not wish to or feel called to speak openly about what we all know is a problem, that is his call but he ought not to go Mark Shea on the people who have the fortitude to speak the truth where it hurts the most.