Sunday, October 31, 2010

Gross Mismanagement of the Boston Catholic Ghouls

I am still battling this cold/flu.  (Week 3) and have not been able to get everything on my radar I should be getting on there but I hope that you have all been keeping up with the breathtaking revelations at Boston Catholic Insider about the Seminary Squeezola and the fax campaign on the scam committee for the head lobbyist at the Mass Catholic Conference.

When you read how little (Jack Connors) Boston College paid for the assets of the seminary, be sure to carefully read this ten page response of the rector to the shady proposal and his ultimate the resignation letter of the former rector seminary Fr. Farren and then compare the situation to the Caritas giveaway.


The way in which a $65 million project was presented with no advance specific information that would allow study,evaluationand consultation, and then be voted favorably is incomprehensible to meThe fact that no one in the Seminary was consulted, or even informedabout the proposal is incomprehensible to meThe fact that public events to announce the news were scheduled even before our meeting was held last night and are being carried out this morning is incomprehensible to me. Finallythe fact that announcements are being made to the public with no vote taken at all by the Corporate Members is not only incomprehensible to mebut is contrary to law. Last night’s meeting was a burlesque of the Board of Trustees and of the ways of proceeding of any serious board.
Even more distressing to me is the substance of last night’s “deliberations.“  Exaggerated statements about a projected budgetary deficit for FY08 served as the point of departure for the presentation, the explicit recommendations of the Congregation for Catholic Education were dismissed peremptorallya proposal was made to remedy a problem that we do not have, the remedy proposed is that the seminary alienate assets that are needed to assure its future fiscal viabilityand all this was done in the name of assuring our financial stability and viabilityIn my judgment, all of this is utterly preposterous.
For the second time in three yearsRCAB plunders the assets of St. John’s Seminary. In 2004, the seminary conveyed to RCAB assets worth about $56 million and received in recompense $21 million and a promissory note for $4.8 million. If the seminary were in possession of even the cash represented by the noteour financial “problems” would be greatly eased. Instead the seminary is presented as “not able to make it financially.” Nowassets of the seminary will be taken and combined again with assets of RCABwho will in turn sell them to BC. The Chancellor stated emphatically last night that the seminary will not be recompensed according to the value of the assets conveyed, but the $65 million to be derived from this sale will be applied “where it is needed.” Clearly, in this disposition the seminary is considered as not one of the “needs” of the archdiocese – even as a beneficiary of its own assets.

Sadly, with all of the exposing Boston Catholics have been doing, we have only seen the tip of the iceberg of the corruption in the Archdiocese.

UPDATE - The Massachusetts Catholic Vote on Tuesday - Throw the Bums Out

The idea here is to get as many seats as possible away from carrying out the dictates of the Obama White House.


My recommendation:

Write ins:

Scott Lively, Governor, Keith Davis, Lt. Governor

***UPDATE  - Jim McKenna for Attorney General

After some controversy in the last few weeks of the McKenna campaign, namely that McKenna was quoted as saying he would not work to repeal abortion laws but would work to repeat DOMA, McKenna has issued a correction.

McKenna's staff is apparently being run by Beth Lindstrom of Romneybot fame.  Lindstrom was Scott Brown's campaign manager, who won in spite of her.  Scott is an affable fellow - and was and is certainly better than Coakley, but the Romneybots hijacked MCFL and used them to lie to prolifers about Brown's positions.  Apparently, their targets for campaign lies on McKenna's run was the gay community.   The Scott Brown tornado in the prolife community is a lightening rod that is the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back in the prolife community.  Grassroot prolifers are in no mood for any more nonsense.

In any event, the Romneybots apparently made up the quotes, attributed them to McKenna and emailed to Bay Windows, the largest Boston gay newspaper.


The McKenna staffers involved include Laura Keehner Rigas, McKenna's PR person, and possibly also Beth Lindstrom, his campaign strategist. Lindstrom, a longtime Republican apparatchik, was Scott Brown's campaign manager and did extensive work for Mitt Romney. They apparently decided that there was some political advantage to do this, even without McKenna's direct knowledge, and despite the fact that it's contrary to his personal views.

Romney's clan is out of touch with prolifers.  They don't know what to say or how to say it and what it means when prolifers have to spend hours getting to the bottom of your position on life.   I don't know why prolifers keep hiring the Romneybots but I hope this is another lesson that will be put an end to it.

The Republicans better pull their heads out of their butts.

Here's how one can be honest without creating a firestorm:

"Like everyone else, I have personal convictions. My role as AG is to enforce current law. Personally, I do not believe that killing an unborn child is the answer in an unexpected pregnancy. While some tout this as "safe", it is not safe for the person who is killed and the mother, who later in life deeply regrets what she has done suffers in many ways that the public is ignoring. I believe all funds being used for abortion should be put into helping the mother stabilize her situation and adoption processes. I believe the majority in this country are with me on that. While I may support my ideals in my personal life, I will not use my role as AG to thwart current laws"


Guy Carbone would make a fantastic candidate.  This is a tight race.  With the clarifications Jim McKenna has made, it is in our best interest to vote for McKenna.  

William Campbell  Secretary of State  (he is reported in the grassroots as 'to the best of our knowledge prolife')

Treasurer - leave blank.   Two proaborts.

Mary Connaughton , Auditor


Keith Davis, Lt. Governor

Jim Lyons 18th district seat house of reps
Dan Webster 10th district.

District 5 - vote Dale Brown.

Here's Bill Cotter's comments which I completely agree with.  - Vote the Democrats out across the board.  (desperation/protest vote).   We actually have a few good solid prolife candidates - most of them are a mixed bag.

The District 10 Vote between Perry and Keating, has been a struggle for me.  I was completely dissatisfied with how he responded to questions asking him to clarify whether he would actually vote for life but after a lot of back and forth, he did say he would.   My struggle was compounded with his past history that is murky on honesty in various other things that happened on his journey in life.      What tipped the scale for me is that several solid prolifers on the Cape have worked with him and he has put effort in on the ground.  Moreover, his opponent's vote is definitely not going to be with us.   Vote for Perry.

The Barney Frank vote is a very close one.   See Bill Cotter's notes:


DISTRICT 4 - SEAN BIELAT (R) v. BARNEY FRANK (R)
By all means, if you live in the district, vote for Bielat.  But don't mistake him for a pro-life stalwart. Check out Bielat's stammering reponse to a question about abortion during a debate with Barney Frank. Refused to answer direct question on whether he opposed Roe v Wade! Go to http://www.votecorevalues.org/Congress/2010_CONGRESS.html and scroll down to the 4th Congressional District and click on the video. Embarrassing! 
The issues.

NO on Question 1.

Repeal the sales tax on alcoholic beverages, recently passed by the Legislature.



The last thing we need is to start cutting money to take care of our poor, our police, our firemen, our children's education - etc.  I couldn't give two wooden nickels if people buying their booze have to pay more money.  When essential services start drying up, taxpayers are going to end up footing that bill.

NO on Question 2.


Repeal the 40B law regarding permits for low-income housing.



We're in a foreclosure crisis.   We can't take away services for housing that many snooty towns would like to see in the inner city where families do not do as well.

NO on Question 3.


Question 3: Reduce the sales tax to 3%


Same reasons as described in #1.

Prayer over the next few days is critical.  But I don't have to say that to my readers!

Michael Voris is leading our men to be the kind of men they are meant to be

Please help him protect our children and families and the Deposit of Faith of Christ's Church from spiritual malpractice. 


See one. 

Be one. 

Teach one.


The New Crusades


We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence."   St. Catherine of Sienna

Dies Irae - Mozart's Requiem

A treat for All Soul's Day




I. Introit: Requiem 
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion,
et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem.
Exaudi orationem meam,
ad te omnis care veniet.
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them.
You are praised, God, in Zion,
and homage will be paid to You in Jerusalem.
Hear my prayer,
to You all flesh will come.
Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them.
II. Kyrie 
Kyrie, eleison.
Christe, eleison.
Kyrie, eleison.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
III. Sequence 
1. Dies irae 
Dies irae, dies illa
Solvet saeclum in favilla,
teste David cum Sibylla.
Quantus tremor est futurus,
quando judex est venturus,
cuncta stricte discussurus!
Day of wrath, day of anger
will dissolve the world in ashes,
as foretold by David and the Sibyl.
Great trembling there will be
when the Judge descends from heaven
to examine all things closely.
2. Tuba mirum 
Tuba mirum spargens sonum
per sepulcra regionum,
coget omnes ante thronum.
 
The trumpet will send its wondrous sound
throughout earth's sepulchres
and gather all before the throne.
 
Mors stupebit et natura,
cum resurget creatura,
judicanti responsura.
Liber scriptus proferetur,
in quo totum continetur,
unde mundus judicetur.
 
Death and nature will be astounded,
when all creation rises again,
to answer the judgement.
A book will be brought forth,
in which all will be written,
by which the world will be judged.
 
Judex ergo cum sedebit,
quidquid latet, apparebit,
nil inultum remanebit.
 
When the judge takes his place,
what is hidden will be revealed,
nothing will remain unavenged.
Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
quem patronum rogaturus,
cum vix justus sit securus?
 
What shall a wretch like me say?
Who shall intercede for me,
when the just ones need mercy?
3. Rex tremendae 
Rex tremendae majestatis,
qui salvandos savas gratis,
salve me, fons pietatis.
 
King of tremendous majesty,
who freely saves those worthy ones,
save me, source of mercy.
4. Recordare 
Recordare, Jesu pie,
quod sum causa tuae viae;
ne me perdas illa die.
 Quaerens me, sedisti lassus,
redemisti crucem passus;
tantus labor non sit cassus.

Juste judex ultionis,
donum fac remissionis
ante diem rationis.

Ingemisco, tamquam reus:
culpa rubet vultus meus;
supplicanti parce, Deus.

Qui Mariam absolvisti,
et latronem exaudisti,
mihi quoque spem dedisti.

Preces meae non sunt dignae,
sed tu, bonus, fac benigne,
ne perenni cremer igne.

Inter oves locum praesta,
Et ab haedis me sequestra,
Statuens in parte dextra.
 
Remember, kind Jesus,
my salvation caused your suffering;
do not forsake me on that day.
 Faint and weary you have sought me,
redeemed me, suffering on the cross;
may such great effort not be in vain.

Righteous judge of vengeance,
grant me the gift of absolution
before the day of retribution.

I moan as one who is guilty:
owning my shame with a red face;
suppliant before you, Lord.

You, who absolved Mary,
and listened to the thief,
give me hope also.

My prayers are unworthy,
but, good Lord, have mercy,
and rescue me from eternal fire.

Provide me a place among the sheep,
and separate me from the goats,
guiding me to Your right hand.
5. Confutatis 
Confutatis maledictis,
flammis acribus addictis,
voca me cum benedictus.
 Oro supplex et acclinis,
cor contritum quasi cinis,
gere curam mei finis.
 
When the accused are confounded,
and doomed to flames of woe,
call me among the blessed.
 I kneel with submissive heart,
my contrition is like ashes,
help me in my final condition.
6. Lacrimosa 
Lacrimosa dies illa,
qua resurget ex favilla
judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce, Deus,
pie Jesu Domine,
dona eis requiem. Amen.
 
That day of tears and mourning,
when from the ashes shall arise,
all humanity to be judged.
Spare us by your mercy, Lord,
gentle Lord Jesus,
grant them eternal rest. Amen.
IV. Offertory 
I. Domine Jesu 
Domine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae,
libera animas omnium fidelium
defunctorum de poenis inferni
et de profundo lacu.
Libera eas de ore leonis,
ne absorbeat eas tartarus,
ne cadant in obscurum.
 Sed signifer sanctus Michael
repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam.


Quam olim Abrahae promisisti
et semini ejus.
 
Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory,
liberate the souls of the faithful,
departed from the pains of hell
and from the bottomless pit.
Deliver them from the lion's mouth,
lest hell swallow them up,
lest they fall into darkness.

 Let the standard-bearer, holy Michael,
bring them into holy light.


Which was promised to Abraham
and his descendants.
2. Hostias 
Hostias et preces tibi, Domine,
laudis offerimus.
Tu sucipe pro animabus illis,
quaram hodie memoriam facimus.
Fac eas, Domine,
de morte transire ad vitam,
Quam olim Abrahae promisisti
et semini ejus.
 
Sacrifices and prayers of praise, Lord,
we offer to You.
Receive them in behalf of those souls
we commemorate today.
And let them, Lord,
pass from death to life,
which was promised to Abraham
and his descendants.
V. Agnus Dei 
Agnus Dei, qui tollis
peccata mundi,
dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis
peccata mundi,
dona eis requiem.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis
peccata mundi,
dona eis requiem sempiternam.
 
Lamb of God, who takes away
the sins of the world,
grant them eternal rest.
Lamb of God, who takes away
the sins of the world,
Grant them eternal rest.
Lamb of God, who takes away
the sins of the world,
grant them eternal rest forever.
VI. Communion: 
Lux aeterna
Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine,
cum sanctis tuis in aeternum,
quia pius es.
Requiem aeternum dona eis, Domine,
et Lux perpetua luceat eis,
cum Sanctus tuis in aeternum,
quia pius es.
 
Let eternal light shine on them, Lord,
as with Your saints in eternity,
because You are merciful.
Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them,
as with Your saints in eternity,
because You are merciful.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Episcopal Corruption That Keeps On Giving

If these news reports are accurate, this is another creepy example of the corruption that keeps on giving:

The Bishops are set to elect a pedophile enabler.

When Bishops are looking for judgment to lead them, they pull the Curriculum Vitae whose poor judgment shuffled and enabled pedophiles.

Are you wondering why they keep telling us the process is sending letters they don't answer?


Kicanis was the rector of Mundelein Seminary in the 1990s when McCormack was a seminarian there and knew of three cases of "sexual improprieties," one involving a minor. Kicanis recommended McCormack's ordination anyway. His assessment even after McCormack's history of child sex abuse was, "It would have been grossly unfair not to have ordained him. There was a sense that his activity was part of the developmental process and that he had learned from the experience. I was more concerned about his drinking. We sent him to counseling for that." Sexual activity with a minor is part of the "developmental process?"
So 23 youngsters (at least) were sexually abused and psychologically damaged because it was "unfair" to recognize McCormack's homosexual depravity for what it was and refuse him ordination. To see exactly how horrible McCormack's actions were go here and read what one father only recently learned about the homosexual rape of his young son over a three-year period. He can thank Bishop Kicanis for helping it happen.  

We'll make him the poster boy for next year's 'de-fund the Bishops' annual campaign.     Maybe we'll name it "Bishops Laughing All the Way to the Bank".   

Sounds like a good name for a blog doesn't it.   Whoops.  There I go again telling tales out of school!


I suppose they figure enough time has passed now and they can go back to their old bag of tricks.  The US Attorney was stupid enough to call off a RICO investigation when they promised to clean up corruption by telling kids graphic stories about their parents and relatives putting their hands down their pants.  They've sold off Catholic Hospitals to build the foundation of socialized medicine.  They've elected a baby killer who is bankrupting our country and their cleric Bryan Hehir is busy replacing the structure of the Roman Catholic Church with the wealthy laity who threaten to defund the Bishop who can't keep up with his travelogue blog about his luxurious trips around the world and pot luck suppers.

To read more about this Bishop's positions on the faith, go HERE.

It's time for the semi-annual posting of my favorite quote about the "Episcopal Conference" (which the Pope has called to disband), written by Fr. Joseph Wilson in an article called The Price of My Soul's Salvation.

Watching the bishops’ conference in action is like viewing the film of a train wreck over and over again. With bright-colored clowns hanging out the train windows, waving and blowing kisses. One only wishes one had a tomato.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Voris Gives a Compelling Review of the Statement on Voting from the Bishops of Massachusetts

If you haven't seen the statement from the Massachusetts Bishops giving cover to politicians who legalize killing babies -- you can find it in my post HERE.

These Bishops are concentrating on the freedom to vote instead of voting for freedom.




As Michael says, it's got to stop and it will stop.

The billions upon billions of dollars we are giving to these Bishops to receive this insignificant drivel has also got to come to an end.    You know that old saying "you get what you pay for"?  Coming in the new year is a new campaign - "when we get what we're paying for you'll get your pay".

I have a post going up with the guidance of the Pope and Bishop Burke on voting over the weekend.

Have a great night.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

POSTED AT: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2010 11:28:36 AM
AUTHOR: JAMES MARTIN, S.J.

Believe it or not, I'm a member of a theater company: the Labyrinth Theater Company, who I first got to know when they asked me to help them with a play called "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot," 

I Desire Mercy - UPDATED

The ongoing discussions about Rachel Zoll's article have flushed out publicly the thrust of the theological problems we have been facing inside of our parishes, schools and community.

Discussion with Elizabeth Scalia sheds decent light on the counterfeit church being erected.  The theology she is using to warehouse her gig is "I desire Mercy", from St Faustina.   I wanted to dissect it so we can be armed for future discussion.

So you'd have to believe that Scalia, who desires mercy, picked up the article written by Zoll and draws the conclusion she needs to tell the world that Zoll is a bigot.

For the record, Zoll is not a bigot.  She in fact expressed to me that as a religion reporter, she is reading with interest and has has gained more perspective on orthodox Catholics and this has been an insightful and pleasant experience.

Scalia, completely out of tune with the spirit of the article, decides she's going to give her readers her judgment call about Zoll and the new breed of nasty, hateful Catholics who want their religion taught to them.

While trying to explain to Elizabeth Scalia that her clouded judgment is inciting the malice against Christ's Church that is intimidating people into proclaiming the teachings, she said that wasn't her intention but she was standing by her words.


Yes, there are a handful of extreme Catholic bloggers to whom Jesus might say, “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy. . .’.”


And, because they are extreme types, they will each assume that that line is meant for the “others”—
the ones against whom they burnish the swords of righteousness; the ones they lampoon, often, unto snotty incoherence"

That one line from St. Faustina can get played over and over in some heads.  But lampooning innocent people and their intentions to make Christ's Church and Her teachings look like hateful things said by nasty people  isn't exactly what St. Faustina was talking about.    It is taking away the teachings that inspire us to seek the Sacrament of Confession and the Divine Mercy St Faustina was talking about.   This is why the Sacrament of Confession is an essential part of the feast day of Divine Mercy when we granted indulgences and Divine Mercy.     You won't be seeing people Elizabeth Scalia is spiritually forming lined up on Divine Mercy Sunday because they are instead going to her to get kindness.  

Elizabeth wants to emulate kindness, humility and gentleness and we need this spirituality in the Church.   Each of us is animated with gifts we are perfected and sponsored and prayed for by great Saints who had these gifts when they were alive and served Christ's Church with them.

None of us are perfect with these gifts, she admits, but she wants everybody to have the same gifts she is perfecting and mocks others

There are also many great Saints who carried swords.  The next time you run into a Bush basher, remind them that St. Joan of Arc not only carried a sword, she led an army of people who lampooned people with them in a thing called just war.   People who use mercy as the symbol of their spirituality ought not to be mocking other Catholics whose gifts and symbols of those gifts are not the same as her own.

What St. Faustina meant by "I desire Mercy", was Christ's reminder that in our personal lives, when people malign, insult and hurt us,  we apply the virtue of "charity" to nurture mercy in our heart.

If you read the thread, you will see a comment by "Bender" that really demonstrates how backwards the unsound theology is.

In the scenario they are proposing, "wrong lessons" are taught to our children and "right lessons" are withheld from the person espousing the "wrong lessons". This leaves both people in these circumstances ignorant of the truth.   What is astounding to me is that they see this as the sign that they are doing God's work. This is impossible.

Maybe a little parable will help put things into better perspective.

There was once was a father who taught his children and his servants the moral theology of the Catholic Church. He brought his children to Our Lady of the Puppets because it said "Catholic Church" and it was animated with lively music and entertainment for teenagers.  He sent them to CCD where they learned the teachings of the Church are antiquated.  Everyone has sex as teenagers and if they need condoms or an abortion their god desires mercy so call 1-800-Caritas Christi or Partner's Health Care and the Cardinal and Jack Connors will fix you right up.  They helped many people at Our Lady of the Puppets to understand that they can vote for people who legislate abortions.   They desire mercy.  His eldest son, let's call him Prodigal, started visiting the local brothel, being licentious, drinking, partying, etc.   The other children in the house started to wonder if this was okay and thinking it looked like fun.  After repeating moral laws of God, the son was getting madder and madder at his father.

There was another 'family' who lived next door who was always out in the public square saying this man was mean old snooty curmudgeon.  Other people in town started being mean to the father.   Prodigal loved the woman next door.  She was so kind, he thought.  Prodigal kept comparing this woman to her own father.  Prodigal grew angrier and angrier at his own father until finally one day he did not want to hear what he was doing was wrong and left his father's house.

The woman next store was wild.  She went to the local church and gossiped about how the father purged Prodigal from his own house.   She tarred and feathered the father until he was no longer welcome in his community.  There is no joy and love in people like this, she told everyone in cyberspace.   Other parents who also teach their children the morals of the Catholic Church were afraid to say anything because the woman had influence and they did not want to be tarred and feathered like the father at Our Lady of the Puppets.  

One day the priest at Our Lady of the Puppets was transferred and the new priest was all fired up for leading souls to the Sacrament of Confession and Divine Mercy St. Faustina was talking about.  He dusted off the Catechism started teaching the people moral theology in it and about Humanae Vitae and about God's Mercy in the Sacrament of Confession helps us to amend our lives and be better prepared to understand the truth when it is spoken to us because it awakens our consciences.    Father noticed more and more people asking him for the Sacrament of Confession.  He was pleased.  But the woman was very upset with Father and told everyone in the parish that father was cold-hearted snotty extremist and he has to learn the meaning of  "I desire mercy".   The more and more the woman complained about Father, the mobs in the pews started swearing at him and telling him they were not going to give him any more money.   The mobs called the local Bishop, lets call him Cardinal Spineless, and telling him they were not going to give any more money to the Cardinal's Appeal.  Cardinal Spineless and his chancery bureaucrats told Father that he couldn't teach that kind of stuff anymore but to teach people how to rely on the woman for kindness.

People stopped coming to church because they can be kind in the grocery clerk and they can be kind to trees and plants.     They hung quarts around their necks for energy and power and they drew circles in their yard and walked around in circles thinking about the peace they are creating on the planet and how Jesus must be so pleased with them.


They link to the faith of Stephen Colbert and John Lennon.  

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try.  Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too.  No need for greed or hunger.  A brotherhood of man.   You may say they're dreamers.  But they're not the only ones.  They hope some day you'll join them and the world will live as one. 

They didn't intend to whip up malice to shut people up and they don't know how that all happened.  They're just trying to be nice and the father of Prodigal and the priest who teaches the Catechism who is making people hate the teachings of Christ's Church and keeping them away from the mercy of the women at church. 


See anything familiar with Elizabeth's Scalia idea of "I desire mercy"?

The prodigals are being keeping from conversion by whipping up a frenzy against our priests and prophets.    They have replaced God in the hearts of His people.

Elizabeth and others seem to think we are trying to get them to go back on their 'words'.  They think we are upset and angry and have hurt feelings about the names they are calling us.   That used to work so well.

But they better pull out the Book of Revelation to see where it's going.   We no longer have attachment to whether they accept or reject what we are saying or ridicule or mock or slander.  We're doing it because our eyes on on Our Beloved.

n.b.  Before anyone reads the parable and sucks on their charity crack pipes starts to throw around slanderous assertions about my children - for the record - all of them have done none of the things described in the story of the prodigal.  I was referencing the story in the Bible.       Your poor judgment has caused enough people anguish, especially Our Lord.

Good day to you, ma'am.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Hating on Catholics



"Say the truth people need to hear, come hell or high water or whatever threats you receive, even from those who pretend to tell the whole truth themselves."

I am reposting my comment in this thread because it is worth repeating:

I have been very open with my struggle (and ultimate surrender) to the teachings of the Church on contraception and the discipline of celibacy.

What I find most disturbing, is that our goals were twisted to imply we only want people in the pews who assent to the teachings of the Church. When in reality, our objectives are about getting people in teaching roles to either teach the interpretation of the Catholic faith and if they refuse, to replace them with somebody who does. 

It is either deliberately being twisted or egos with low self-esteem trolling the internet pounced on this opportunity to make other people look uncharitable to replenish their own vanity.

We are in a fight for the soul of our Church with those don't see the Church as a provider of sound teaching for salvation, but a place to provide others with fuzzy feelings - ultimately to make them feel good about themselves. At the price of other people's salvation.

This mortal creation is a counterfeit church that we are not going to hand off to the next generation.

All we care about at this point in time is gumming up and clamming up unsound teaching. This is the flare across the bow. Going forward, when priests and Bishops offer poison to souls, it will be publicly journaled in Boston (and other places). 

It is the most effective tool we have to silence dissent at this time. When dissent is silenced, our children can't hear it and that is all we care about at this point in time in the history of the Church.

Line up and take your places. Stay, go, throw barbs and insults at those of us doing it. Knock yourselves out.

When we stand up to those barbs and insults and we keep on holding priests and bishops accountable for the souls they are accountable for, a hundred more will have the courage to do it with us. And so on and so forth.

They wanted us to "Arise in Christ", well congratulations.  Here we are.

Purging from One's Own Petard

I have read with much interest the reactions to Rachel Zoll's AP Article describing the new breed of theological conservatives who are finished tolerating dissent and corruption in the Catholic Church in America.

Before  I talk about the reactions I wanted to go on record about the author, Rachel Zoll.   I found Rachel to be a very gracious young lady who was genuinely interested in what we were doing from the perspective of an objective journalist.

The article was originally named Catholic Loyalists Take to Their Blogs to Defend Teachings.

The first time I saw anything about 'purging dissenters' was when our detractors on Morrissey Boulevard (The Boston Globe) posted the article.

I expected the article would bring anti-Catholicism, which I assume was the Globe's intention.

Still, the vitriol of the bigots posting on MSNBC and the Blaze was surprising.   As crusader extrordinare Jack O'Malley pointed out somewhere in blogosphere, what people think about our religion is none of our business.  I certainly don't give a flying fig and you shouldn't either.  It should be noted and exposed - but this is the beauty of diversity.

Fr. Z, while being pleased righteousness in the panegyry is in high gear, was not pleased with the tenor of the article.  I've never disagreed with Father Z's theology and seldom disagree with his observations. Perhaps being on the ground in Boston has jaded my perspective, but  I see this article differently than Fr. Z.


Nobody wants to 'purge' people from the Catholic Church. I will say that depending upon the circumstances, if charitable attempts to come to the solution have been railroaded,  it is righteous to escalate the situation  to removing the person from teaching and governance roles.


Any attempt to do this over the last few decades has been met with various kinds of internal pandemonium and terror.  The push backs have been successful in driving us out of our own parishes and schools.   I hope those doing so have enjoyed the cowardice and inertia because those days are behind us now. 


Let's get to the reactions.


A few doses of the kind of anti-Catholicism and bigotry that is out there:  MSNBC and the Blaze.  

After not faring well in the theological discussion, the Commonweal crowd shut down the discussion.

Over at America Magazine, James Martin is a chronic abuser of deleting comments of people who espouse Roman Catholic translations of teaching.  Martin's trousers get all twisted up in a knot when he finds out the days ahead of him are going to be a right back atcha.

Helllllllloooooooooo hypocrisy?  Is that you dear?   Speak up, I can't hear you.

Before I say anything else, I'd like to (once again) classify exactly what it is we are doing.

The freedom to teach our own religion in our own Catholic schools and parishes has been under siege for a very long time.  Many of us have been parish hopping for at least a decade to avoid having our children scandalized and spiritually abused.

Shall I spell out the consequences of having a lay person, priest or Bishop give a teaching or governance position to a person andand have that person tell our children that the teachings of the Church on human sexuality, contraception, abortion, drinking, drugs is antiquated?   The culture of everyone is doing it so do it, just do it safely?


Cheap sex has replaced human intimacy and has alienated Divine intimacy.  Sacramental grace is held hostage.   There is depression, low-self esteem and self-worth, drugs, alcohol.  There is breast cancer from abortions & the hormones they are giving naive women to give irresponsible men license to jump from bed to bed.

Most important of all, for Catholics, these abuses have put our children's salvation at risk.

There is a protocol and process for Catholics to follow when you (or your children) are victims of error, scandal and corruption.

We assume the goodwill of the person and point out the error.  If that doesn't help, we go to the priest in charge.  As we are rebuked or dismissed, we take it to the Vicar Forane (an appointed pastor in a locus who is supposed to be the next level in the heirarchy).  Next comes the auxiliary bishop, then the archbishop or Cardinal of the region.   If all of these people fail or refuse to correct the situation, you go to the Nuncio.  Then whatever dicastry in the Holy See the problem falls under.

We don't expect the Holy See to act upon every spiritual abuser but when you have a Bishop who has let his diocese get out of control (as it is here in Boston), the idea is to let them see how extensive the problem is and how many souls are being sacrificed and it is reasonable to expect them to act.

But, the reality is, they don't.  For all the hooey and talk about how sorry they are, there is no system in place to holding corrupt accountable.  It is the same good old boy network it always has been.

What does work, is when you take your problem into the public square and expose their misfeasance, cronyism.

St. Paul gives us the instruction to testify openly when you have exhausted all other options so that other people steer themselves and their children away from being abused.

This is what the new breed of bloggers on the internet is doing.  We are going through the system and when we have failed at getting help for the people being abused, we are exposing what is going on in Boston.

There is a dysfunction among lay Catholics who try to make something sinister out of any attempt to expose abuse and remove somebody who is abusing somebody else.  This same "enabling" dynamic is the reason pedophiles thrived for so many years. There is a code of silence and if you break it, there is a certain breed of Catholics who will turn against you.     Knowing you will be thrown to the wolves keeps most Catholics silent.   It is a spiritual sickness  -- the mentality of cult.

I've talked about it before but it has reared its ugly head again and I think it is important to take a new refreshing approach - talking openly about it.

It is one thing to have the Boston Globe take what you're doing and mischaracterize it to incite a riot.  When Catholics do it, and Catholics who portray themselves as examples of fidelity to follow, we have to start talking about the consequences of this unspoken policy.

The bad news is, these two well known apostolates  HERE and HERE were invloved in this recent example.


Here are the rules to apostolate #1.

We want to host a constructive but civil discussion among mature adults. With that in mind: 

1. No name calling or personal attacks; stick to the argument, not the individual. 

2. Assume the goodwill of the other person, especially when you disagree. 

3. Don't make judgments about the other person's sinfulness or salvation. You are not the Inquisition. 

4. Within reason, stick to the topic of the thread; no conversation hijackers, please. 

5. Encouraging or threatening violence against anyone will get you banned immediately. 

6. If you don't agree to the rules, don't post. 

We reserve the right to block or edit (tone, not content) any posts that violate our usage rules. And we will freely ban any commenters unwilling to abide by them.


Isn't blocking or banning actually a.....um...how do you say....... purging?


Would it be fair to say that in general poor Rachel Zoll didn't get the benefit of the assumption of good will?   Look, I am not naive when secular press wants to do a story on Catholics.  The AP story was in the works for a couple of weeks and when I got the heads-up that it was going out on the wire, I told the Boston blogging community here's hoping we won't need to retreat to the bunker stocked with Raemen noodles.  But when an article goes to press, I give the journalist the benefit of the doubt.  We were aactually very happy with the article here in Boston.


Further, do these comments "assume the good will" of parents who are no longer willing to sweep spiritual abuse under the cult carpets?:

there are always going to be people who go to extremes...
Certainly there are bloggers out there who do see conspiracies in every chancery... 
and I don't necessarily agree with some of the approaches described in the article...
the article goes too far in lumping together a wide range of conservative/traditional/right-wing/insert-adjective-here bloggers under this shady "new breed" banner. You can find extremists everywhere...




What is personally upsetting to this right wing insert adjective shady extremist hallucinating about conspiracies in every chancery, is that when this same apostolate was under attack several years back on the internet,  I spent a great deal of effort talking donors in off the ledge - and I mean big donors.     I also talked high ranking Catholics out of throwing them under the bus.  One day when I said things like linking Commonweal, the National Catholic Destroyer and other unsound things on the internet will lead people who are not in a state of grace to be further entrenched in their errors, I got a ride on a shoe!


I found out the hard way that there is some kind of secret list that "mature" or "civilized" people aren't allowed to talk about while your own apostolate has the mission of steering people away from spiritual error.


I would like to "insert" an "adjective" about how screwed up this is but I am too lady-like to say it.


Blogging is not always an exact science.   In   Boston, when planning strategy, or if we see something one of us has written or is doing, we talk to each other about it and each of us knows with 100% conviction that as flawed human beings we want to avoid hurting our Beloved and His Church, or our own souls, at all cost.  There is no contest of ego or implied threats that criticism will cost you a personal relationship or you may wind up going under the bus publicly in Christendom for it.  


Deal Hudson has been very supportive and helpful to our mission here.  He knows we have exhausted all avenues to rooting out spiritual abuse and we are doing what we have to do to get the Bishop to respond.  There are many great writers and works at the apostolate in question and I link to those frequently.  I bear no ill will.


But boy oh boy, women can sure be bitches.  


I asked one of our militants yesterday to spend some time stamping out  the fires of people who are getting caught up in the mischaracterizations of what we are doing and why.    


The other apostolate linked above resorted to another famous trick of Catholics who believe it is charity to leave children in the hands of spiritual abusers:  Accusing the poster of slander, threatening litigation but removing the post so that others can  not make a judgement.  She then goes on to explain that she is to be referred to as "Ma'am" or "fathead", etiquette the poster was unaware of, and this blogger went ahead and "purged"  her from further posting.


I am posting excerpts of her screeds that she claims are humble lessons in the spirit of Jesus on how not to caricature and mischaracterize people and their intentions.


She says one thing Zoll had going for her, was the likening of John Allen's characterization  of what we are doing as murdering terrorists.


See what you think about the rest of her humble observations:


Here's the humble picture she posted:
  




No purges in the family.


In fairness to Zoll, she did quote John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter, who seems sympathetic to the portrait—it was he who invented the term “Taliban Catholicism”—but also mentioned that “liberals can fit the mindset, too . . . [S]ome left-leaning Catholics are outraged by any exercise of church authority.”
Caricature can be cruel—it is the bigot’s most-effective weapon—but it only works when the cartoon retains some recognizable elements of the subject, which, sadly, it does here.
So, it seems we have a Catholic blogosphere riddled with vengeful self-appointed guardians and the anti-authority raspberry-blowers who call names and make faces at them. Zoll’s piece borders on caricature, but we should think seriously about it, because it marks the state of the Body of Christ, and not becomingly...
We add to the broken body of Christ when we try to judge who is the “better sort” of Catholic, or who is doing damage to that body. We all do impressive jobs of bringing “scandal” to the church by our very passionate need to see things “made right” (as we see it) and by the ways in which we indict each other’s imperfections.
I acknowledge that one can occasionally “write mad” and deliver a bit more zing than one has meant to, although I personally have never gone after other bloggers pronouncing who should “stay” and who should “go,” which is what the gist of my piece is about. Determining the state of someone else’s soul is none of my business, and I’m not interested in going there...

Yes, there are extreme Catholic bloggers, “progressive” and “conservative,” who tread recklessly upon their fellow Catholics, and whose motto should read ego usus a blog quod ego sum fortis utor is.Yes, there are a handful of extreme Catholic bloggers to whom Jesus might say, “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy. . .’.”
And, because they are extreme types, they will each assume that that line is meant for the “others”—the ones against whom they burnish the swords of righteousness; the ones they lampoon, often, unto snotty incoherence.
In fact, the line is meant for every one of us writing in the Catholic blogosphere, for no one manages perfect charity all the time. I am too cognizant of my own failings to believe I have any business drumming anyone else out of the church and I would venture that most Catholic bloggers, either “progressive” or “conservative,” feel similarly.
We add to the broken body of Christ when we try to judge who is the “better sort” of Catholic, or who is doing damage to that body. We all do impressive jobs of bringing “scandal” to the church by our very passionate need to see things “made right” (as we see it) and by the ways in which we indict each other’s imperfections.
End of excerpts.

Uncle Screwtape eat your heart out.


I posted the following, which she may remove, but I want to have my response on record:

"I  don't read  anything anywhere that accuses you of condoning spiritual abuse but it is clear that you consider the people who want to remove people who spiritually abuse children (or adults for that matter) as 'extremists' who want to 'purge' people and you don't ever want to say who gets to stay and who gets to go.

The rational conclusion of your position is that you believe people who spiritually abuse children and adults should not be removed from their positions. You pick up the mischaracterization of what we are doing and you call it a 'purge'.

You can't have it both ways.

Posting the consequences of your position is not slander.


n.b.   You are also wrong that people have to 'live with', which is more accurately described as 'tolerate' lay people who insist that anything but the status quo of leaving people in place who spiritually abuse Catholics is 'extremist', uncharitable or 'taliban'.

What the new breed of theological bloggers is saying and in fact doing, is when lay people, priests or bishops try to characterize a movement to remove people who spiritually abuse others as something uncharitable and sinister - we will lay out the dysfunction and consequences of children of your position.

Call the lawyer or call a holy war upon us, we are done being intimidated by it.

I apologize for being so forthright but I simply don't know how to say it any other way."


Whether you condone abuse or you try to set the tenor that the Catholic religion requires us to leave abusers in their positions doesn't make a dime's worth of difference to people being abused.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

URGENT: Mass Catholics need help cracking the code of the MA Bishops Statement on the Election

This just in.    The Massachusetts Bishops Release a statement to give us guidance on how to vote in accord with Catholic teaching.

They said you need to vote in accord with Church teaching.   

There are certain moral issues that are fundamentally important.

Human rights should benefit everyone.  Nobody should be excluded. 

Our deeply-rooted concern for the common good has moved us throughout history.

The Massachusetts Bishops have convictions about voting which are bolstered by the innate sense of hope that has endowed the nation in good times and bad.

I know what you're asking.    What are they saying? Which candidates will best represent the culture that Catholics want to hand their children ?    

Here's what Catholics have got to do:  step up to the plate and share your vision of a better society at the polls.

Catholics are people of hope, they said.

Get it?

What's that you say?  Still don't know who or what to vote for?

Here's some more of the statement:

Hope is the Christian virtue that confirms our belief that we are never abandoned, that we are always loved by God.

We express these truths every time we extend our love to others as part of one big human family.

This same hope guides our civic involvement, they said.

See the lovely tapestry they're weaving?   (Is it me or does it have the stink of Bernadin?)

They were able to slip in some advice from Pope Benedict:   "participate in political life in a manner consistently in accordance with the Church's teachings, bringing well-founded reasons and high-ideals into the democratic debate"

They said for Catholics, voting is an exercise of reason inspired by faith.

You're vote has far-reaching consequences they warn.  There are moral consequences.   People
"should not be afraid to enter into a profound and ongoing dialogue, for the good of our civilization.”

I know you're anxious for the close.  Surely they have something profound to say for the good of our civilization, right?

Ready?

"Deciding which candidate in any particular race offers the best opportunity to take us in the right direction is not an easy task. Yet there is a measuring rod by which all electoral choices must be evaluated: will my vote enhance human dignity? Certain moral and social issues are fundamentally important, since human rights are at stake and must be protected to help democracy to flourish in a way that benefits every citizen. These include the defense of the sanctity of life, the family based on marriage between a man and a woman, religious freedom, and the well-being of the poor. As shifts in societal challenges are inevitable, it is also vital to determine from election to election which human rights face the greatest threat at the time of voting."


Their full statement can be found HERE

If you can crack the code, please call 1-800-SEDE-VACANTE.  

Operators are waiting for your call.

Thank you.

Another Big Dig into Our Wallets

In the midst of a foreclosure crisis, and two weeks before the election, Deval Patrick says he's accepted 32 million to kick off grandiose plans to revamp South Station to 'relieve congestion'.

Nobody has done the assessment of how much this project is going to cost and where they think they're going to get the rest of the money to pay for it but they're going to improve the tracks for the people at the State House to get faster and more frequent service to Washington DC, add 11 new platforms,  restore the service to Fall River and New Bedford.  These plans require moving the central mail facility of the US Post Office for Massachusetts.

This project is going to cost tens of billions.

It's true that there is train congestion and we sometimes get hung up for three or four minutes waiting for a track - or waiting for a train to pass.

Is this small burden worth spending the money they don't have and we don't have?

Monday, October 25, 2010

Better Check the Minnesota Democrats for White Sheets, Gasoline and Matches

Hey, don't hold back on the anti-Catholicism.

A recent postcard mailed the the MN DFL State Central Committee has a picture of a priest wearing a button that says "Ignore the Poor".

The picture takes up the entire side of the postcard!

How low has the DFL party sunk that they would mail out pictures of a priest urging people to ignore the poor?


h/t to The Eponymous Flower

You couldn't ignore how much money, time and treasure Catholics give to the poor and serve in missions and make a statement like this without knowing you were lying about it.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

A Donnybrook at Commonweal over Catholic Bloggers Aim to Purge Dissenters

The wide circulation of Rachel Zoll's article about the momentum of Catholics rising to ensure Catholics hear authentic Catholic teaching 100% of the time has elicited somewhat of a fascinating response from the Commonweal crowd.

Frankly, I'm a little astounded.

While it comes as no surprise that Commonweal is theologically unsound, I am taken back by their lack of charity,  how frank they are about their opposition to Catholic teaching and their misunderstanding about the purpose of our apostolate.
“We’re no more engaged in a witch hunt than a doctor excising a cancer is engaged in a witch hunt,” said Michael Voris of RealCatholicTV.com and St. Michael’s Media.
I’m sure that Voris would reassure us that, really and truly, he loves those he’d like to see excised.

We don't want to see people 'excised', we simply want to hand you different material to teach so that those teaching and those being tutored are invited to Paradise.

Isn't it time to stop making what we are doing nefarious?

What we're doing is the purpose of the Catholic Church's existence.
From the Times article — note the unqualified descriptions of the two camps: “fellow orthodox Catholics”, “the more positive side of the orthodox Catholic blogosphere”, “faithful Catholics”, “unfaithful Catholics”
The acceptance of these terms by the NYT and others as accurate descriptions of conservatives and liberal Catholics needs to be scotched. The basic issue between the two camps is this very question: what IS an orthodox, faithful Catholic...At the very least such conservatives should be called “self-styled orthodox Catholics” or some equivalent term.

Getting hung up on labels here. How about calling us Catholics returning to ensuring what is inside of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is taught to Catholics faithfully?
In addition, I think this is related to the “smaller, purer church” debate. Will fine distinctions about what the pope said and didn’t say convince those who have put up a whole blog devoted to attacking Bryan Hehir?.
It also goes to why anyone should stay in the church. I think we can’t avoid the question whether the fine distinctions are merely the fine distinctions of dusty theological books–the church of an educated person in his or her head, but not at all related to what’s on the ground?...
But I don’t think there will be divisions–I think Peter Steinfel’s article shows what will happen–mass exodus.
"It also goes to why anyone should stay in the church..can't avoid the question whether the fine distinctions are merely the fine distinctions of dusty theological books--the church of an educated person in his or her head.."

I responded to Peter Steinfel's article here but it bears repeating in this thread.

Making Catholic Churches places where priests have to keep people away from the teachings of the Church so they can feel good about themselves is the antithesis of the Catholic Church.  It is a complete waste of Christ's Suffering and Death so we could have the Catholic Church and her Sacraments to work towards our salvation.  IF we wanted to.

Holding the 'dusty theological books' and the salvation of the Church hostage with threats by people who say they will flee if we proclaim what is in them is precisely what we have had enough of.
  1. It blows my mind that a barely-pubescent brat like Peters draws so much water in Catholic discourse (if that’s an appropriate name for it).
    By the way, “Mark,” I’m not part of the Catholic left, so the snideness, meanness, narrow-mindedness, and intolerance of what I just said is all mine, baby.
This one speaks for itself. They will know they are Christians by their love.

I'm skipping over all the daggers drawn against a list of Catholics who want the Catechism taught.

Along with other uncharitable remarks, apparently Cathleen Kaveny called Amy Welborn a 7th grader, which she promptly removed but not before Welborn got wind of it and responded.  

They seem to have the pins for Wellborn and accuse her of inciting mockery of people who bring human sized puppets, liturgical dance and other liturgical abuses.

Cry me a river.

Generally speaking, they don't much like the airing of abuses of theology, catechesis and our Liturgy and want to figure out how to protect people whose abuses are being highlighted.
.....
In the real world, I don’t think the big problem facing the body of Christ is Ratzinger hermeneutics. And let’s be clear: you’ve not shown positively that Ratzinger doesn’t believe in a smaller purer church, at best you’ve shown that those who think he does believe in it haven’t established their position beyond a reasonable doubt.
I think the big problem is the people who are using “smaller and purer Church” to kick others out. I think the big problem is what is happening to Bryan Hehir and others like him. So I want to convince those attacking Bryan Hehir to stop it.
See this:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-10-20-catholic19_ST_N.htm

And unless Ratzinger himself clearly denies that’s what he meant, I think it is going to keep happening. People will assume that he agrees with his archbishop.
So why won’t he say something? Simple, workaday, solution.
And what do you think should be done to help people like Bryan Hehir?

 Instead of asking the guy to stop teaching error?

They could join the archbishop of Boston in trying to discredit Catholics who are calling out the errors and post an entry about the spectacular contribution to faithful teaching Hehir has made.

As you can imagine, there is nobody scratching their heads about why the Cardinal didn't add links to anything authored by Hehir about the sanctity and truthfulness of Humana Vitae and Evangelium Vitae because there is no such animal.
  1. I have no idea, Joe. I don’t live in the real world now. I live under a dome over a cornfield.
    But I admire Bryan Hehir tremendously–he’s not only a brilliant scholar, he’s a very good priest. And people are trying to hurt him. And I think Commonweal Catholics had better figure out how to deal with all of this – because it’s only going to get worse, for the reasons David enumerated.
    King Lear–that didn’t end real well, did it?

You can take to the bank it is going to get worse....before it gets better!

The donnybrook has begun in the pews and we are not going to stop until the unsound teachings do.  If the people teaching unsoundly want to be thrown out with the dirty bathwater, it's sad, but free will is a beautiful thing.

Here's a post of interest.
  1. Dude, I thought it was the bishops of the US who said voting for a pro-choice candidate was not a great thing for a Catholic, not some blogger.
    Chaput, Burke….Wenski…Morlino (is that his name?). George. Dolan. Right? The USCCB?
    Anyway, I am loving this.
    Looking at Fr. Bryan Hehir – his words and deeds, not his “lifestyle” or whatever – is bad.
    Michael Sean Winters “exposing” Uber Capitalist Fr. Acton Insitute’s past (repented of) is good and not destructive.
    You guys make a living and a reputation from telling people to ignore the bishops you don’t like and then when the right does the same thing, you pull the civility card. Nothing new there. Move along.

It's not such a bad idea to gather up a nice long index of faithful Catholics the National Catholic Reporter/Commonweal/Vox Nova crowd has "exposed".     I think that would be quite a startling expose of the damage unfaithful Catholics are doing to people who want the teachings of the Church proclaimed.

They are shocked, shocked I tell you that the days of inertia are behind us.

Maybe they thought by taking us down one by one, we would all be intimidated.

  1. I suspect most Catholics, churchgoing or not, do not pay attention to the blogosphere.
    On the other hand, I think it’s true that Catholic blogs on the right have generally been more influential in capturing the bishops’ attention, whether to chastise them or to support them. “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” The generally conservative and, in certain quarters, reactionary character of various JPII bishops can guarantee a favorable reception to these conservative blogs.
    On the other hand, most Catholics ignore the bishops, and, but for the influx of Hispanic Catholics in the U.S. church, we’d be seeing a drop in Catholic numbers.
    So conservative bloggers influence (for good or bad, one way or other) the U.S. bishops who themselves are ignored by the Catholics in the pews.
    The mouse that roared?

Well, in case it isn't clear, when priests are unfaithful to doctrine, most of them are going to cave when we start sending moles in to record their antics.  No matter where Bishops are in faithfulness to doctrine, most of them are going to cave when we start to publicly record our requests asking them to intercede and counting the days when they don't.

In the end, though it is obvious they do not care about the souls of our children or the flock, they do care about their reputations and money.   All I can say is, let's have a go at it and we'll see how the donnybrook ends.

Finally, all that ever needs to be said about what we are doing is beautifully expressed in a comment on Fr. Z's Blog.

Sorry, but loud voices on the internet, like Michael Voris, our own host, and so many others cannot be silenced by spurious charges of incivility. If a priest or a bishop is teaching heterodoxy, or permitting heterodoxy to flourish, sound him out. Charity sometimes requires the use of harsh terms, and always requires honesty in discourse.

Amen.

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