Sunday, March 31, 2013

Google Posts Chavez's Communist Puss On Easter Sunday - Boycott



I was fit to be tied to open up my browser and see a picture of what looked like a Chinese communist on my google page.  It  turned out to be Chavez, to venerate his 86th birthday.

They could have put up Easter bunnies, Easter Eggs or even chosen to ignore it.

But no, they chose an outlandish and nefarious kick in the head to Catholics and Christians all over the world.    I suppose we were lucky they didn't blow up pictures of their genitalia.  Though I'm not sure it would have been any less offensive to me.

I couldn't delete google fast enough.

I immediately downloaded internet explorer 10.

I'll be getting rid of my gmail and switching the blog over to a forum outside of google.

I suggest you do the same.



Saturday, March 30, 2013

Fr. Cantalmessa suggests the Papacy of Pope Francis will proceed with the destruction of the Roman Catholic Church

There is so much to talk about, but I am on my way out the door.  More later, but I wanted to post this important exhaltation.

I do take this with a grain of salt, as I have never considered Fr. Cantalmessa, who no doubt is very well-intended and loves Christ, to be theologically sound or the shapest tool in the shed.    But, his homily leaves readers with the impression that Pope Francis considers the rituals and Liturgy to be 'impediments' and 'debris' and his pontificate will proceed with It's destruction.

We must do everything possible so that the Church may never look like that complicated and cluttered castle described by Kafka, and the message may come out of it as free and joyous as when the messenger began his run. We know what the impediments are that can restrain the messenger: dividing walls, starting with those that separate the various Christian churches from one another, the excess of bureaucracy, the residue of past ceremonials, laws and disputes, now only debris.

Again, it could simply be poor syntax, as we know the corrupt bureaucracy needs to be torn down - but, this is certainly a profoundly disturbing statement - to say the least.

Friday, March 29, 2013

Feetgate: Pope Francis Witnesses His Disobedience to Church Law



Earlier this week, the Magnificat had a spectacular meditation on Judas who at moments, contradicted Christ.  One of those moments was when Mary washed Christ's feet with precious oils and Judas became angry and chided Christ about not caring for the poor.

It asked the question "Why do they (these moments) provoke such a negative reaction in Judas?"

"In each of these situations Jesus appears weak and vulnerable, in search of communion.  He no longer looks like the strong, powerful Messiah who is going to liberate the Jewish people.  Jesus who loves and calls others to a communion of love.....Perhaps Peter has the same temptation but more fundamentally he trusts Jesus. He is not completely blocked by Jesus call to love and communion even if he does not fully understand."<

The meditation mentioned Judas may have been jealous or had psychological and spiritual blockages to commuion and love.  It ended with this compelling thought:  "This jealousy and revolt against a gentle, loving Jesus pave the way for the devil to enter his heart.  Satan then can take over and inspire Judas to betray Jesus and hand him over."

Let us proceed with caution - speaking the truth, but like Peter, trusting in Christ.


The damage done to this sacred ritual and to communion, is catastrophic.   It seems the Pope has taken his new name but is struggling with how to bring people into communion.  What he did yesterday to the Sacred Ritual that commemorates the ordination of the Apostles, the Institution of the Eucharist and Roman Catholic Church--is a disaster.  It's a disaster not only to the Sacred Ritual, it is a disaster to the witness of fidelity and consequently, to communion.

Jack O'Malley must be having a cow!

It's very important to express that come what may, even if he starts wearing a rubber ball on the end of his nose and his mother's tights and high heels, I'm staying on the Ark.  

I wil ride out any and every storm.  Pay any price.

But in loyalty to Christ, I can't and won't put the spin on a Pope's public display of disobedience.  The damage done by the Pope is being compounded by well-intentioned converts who are making up their own theology to paper over the Pope's disobedience.     Blogosphere and facebook has turned into a quite a brawl.

When I was a teenager, there was a woman who would throw parties for teens and supply them with liquor.  She would talk up charity and love and call the teens hon and honey.  She would subtley ridicule  parents with curfews and discipline and expectations that their children uphold civil, moral or religious laws.   All the teenagers were drawn to this cool cat.   Oh how they loved her.

But her love shack incited these children to have contempt for their parents, for the the kind of love that sacrifices and honors parents and God.  

I am sorry to say it, but the witness of Pope Francis is beginning to remind me of this Jezebel.  It has been several weeks now and..nevermind a Pope, I have yet to see a Bishop.

Excellent commentary by Ed Peters.

And, I couldn't agree more with some of the comments on Rorate.

I have been trying hard to give the Holy Father every benefit of the doubt, to exercise charity in my expectations and interpretation of his exercise of his office. I wanted to wait until he had actually *done* something wrong or ill-advised before criticizing him.

Well, I am very scandalized by this affair....

But instead of changing the law, he has chosen to break the law, as publicly as possible. The law remains as it was, but the lawmaker thinks he can decide for himself whether or not to abide by it.

If the Pope will not obey the law of the Church – why should anybody else?...

The young people were aged between 16 and 21 and chosen from different nationalities and religious backgrounds - including two muslims, according to a Vatican spokesman."

It just gets worse...

How can I speak about such things - the self-offering of Christ, the 12 viri selecti - when our Holy Father is witnessing to something different?

I feel like going up to the congregation and saying, "I don't have any idea what the symbolism of the washing of the feet is. Why don't we just all do what we want."

How hard this is for young priests...




Yes. And as Ed Peters points out, the Pope is inciting contempt for those who, out of love for Christ, uphold and remain faithful to Church teachings and law. Just like the woman in my neighborhood. I've mentioned this before but I'll say it again - Running a little blog with a couple of thousand readers, you wouldn't believe the inteference from the devil. I cannot imagine what this Pope is up against. I'm praying he can put on his big boy pants, uphold a faithful witness to Church teachings and law. And I'm praying for the rest of us. Satan is nearby and threatening to sift us like wheat. A Blessed Triduum, love and the peace of Christ to you and yours.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Tom Hamill, RIP

Good and faithful servant Tom Hamill has finshed the race.

Oh, how he will be missed.

Eternal rest grant to Him, Oh Lord, and Your Perpatual Light shine upon him and all the souls of the faithfully-departed, and through the mercy of God, may he rest in peace.

Matt Moore

I came across this post from another SSA blogger who is pursuing celibacy.

Apparently while giving witness and encouraging others to live a celibate life, he joined a SSA match service and his struggle and fall to temptation were publicly exposed. More details here.

It doesn't sound like he is Catholic - and so our responses and our river is quite different. Nonetheless, he does a great job articulating his struggle, and his frustration that his deep and genuine love for Christ doesn't seem to be enough to win a permanent victory over his sinful desires. We can explain that, can't we.

Concupisence baby.

The gift from Adam and Eve that keeps on giving.

If you love Christ enough, you're halfway there. The rest is getting into the Sacramental frequent flyer program and intense discipline over your thoughts and emotions.

Confession. The Eucharist. Prayer. Penance. Fasting. That's the easy part.

The hard part is what we call the nip it in the bud program. Keeping vigil over your thoughts and emotions.

  After about six months of resisting the devil at entrance gate, along with the Sacraments - he stops wasting his time trying to fuel your flaws.

The devil is an impatient principality. He has work to do and will find another soul. But he never leaves for good.

 Not in this life. He'll come back when you least expect it. As soon as you drift from the discipline, when work or your relatives are driving you crazy, in moments of self-pity, doubt. When you are not paying attention to your gut instincts and the unseen.

When you conquer one struggle, the devil will find another weakness and feed it.

If you think of it, please pray for Matt over the Triduum.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

The Mom Song


This captures it, with a few more verses for Catholic Mom's.





The Mom Song.

Will the Pope Live in the Papal Apartment?



Did you watch the video of Cardinal Bertone showing him around and giving him the keys?

I never actually checked the digs out.

My thoughts were, dial 911-ETHAN-ALLEN, there isn't a comfy chair in the place.

Check it out.

While renovations are taking place, he's residing at Domus Sanctae Marthae, and seeking refuge from the Romans with the janitors and gardeners.  Perhaps trying to embrace the cross of living with men who know not human interaction, who have spent centuries protecting corruption with their foolish games.

Perhaps they inspected his suitcase with a couple of pairs of fleece pajama pants, shoes with holes in them and Michael Smith CD and they won't let him in.

Meanwhile....

The cocks are crowing.  The clock is ticking, and they say this is the time to let their voices be heard.  They site a sexually active lesbian and practicing witch who shares these thoughts:

The election of a doctrinally conservative pope, even one with the winning simplicity of his namesake, is especially dangerous in today’s media-saturated world where image too often trumps substance. It is easy to rejoice in the lack of gross glitter that has come to characterize the institutional church while being distracted from how theological positions deepen and entrench social injustice. A kinder, gentler pope who puts the weight of the Roman Catholic hierarchal church behind efforts to prevent divorce, abortion, contraception, same-sex marriage—as Mr. Bergoglio did in his country—is, as my Argentine colleague observed, scary. While he may clean up some of the bureaucratic mess in the curia, he shows no evidence from his Argentina actions that he will be any more responsive than his predecessor to changing policies and structures

Ha.  Yeah.  That's what I'm thinking too.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down, in the most delightful way



I confess:  I find myself opening my browser several times a day saying to myself "Okay, Pope Francis, what's your shtick". 

Until we find out, I'm going to be just as obsessed as everyone else.

I'm going on record with my prediction.  I think he's riding into town on the ass and they're all hailing him but in the end, they'll turn on him and it will all get ugly.

Same old story.

I doubt he'll ever stray from beckoning loyalty to Church teaching.   Sometimes what these learned and holy men do not realize is, when they stray from the directives of the Church in the Liturgy, they are giving witness to disobedience in the Most Sacred Moments.   We'll get a good dose this week of how he's going to play it out his witness to obedience to our Sacred Ritual of The Holy Sacrifice.

All eyes on deck.

I also doubt he'll ever stray from the charism of delivering the sucker punch with a velvet glove.  So long as the shtick doesn't get sissified or make Church teaching ambiguous or confusing, this gal is looking forward to learning from him.

Yesterday, he took the diplomats to the shed on moral relativism, telling them it endangers to co-existence of peoples.

Recalling the love of the poor practised by his namesake, St Francis of Assisi, the Pope lamented both material poverty and the “spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously. It is what my much-loved predecessor, Benedict XVI, called the ‘dictatorship of relativism’, which makes everyone his own criterion and endangers the co-existence of peoples.”

“Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace,” Pope Francis said. “But there is no peace without truth! There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth.”


A crying shame Pelosi and Biden went home, eh?

I think he threw a dig in about the islam's crusade of slaughtering Christians:
“It is not possible to build bridges between people while forgetting God,” he said. “But the converse is also true. It is not possible to establish true links with God while ignoring other people.”
Either that, or it was a subliminal message to the luminaries in the Boston Chancery?

Here's what we know from Scripture: It is impossible to preach truth and teach truth in a way that will be tolerated by the crowds who want the freedom to kill others at will or use human sexuality immorally without remorse, repentance or purpose to amend their lives.

  They will eventually kill us, no matter how nicely we say it.

Were it possible, Christ Himself would have executed such a plan.

My guess is, the Pope knows this, as he has repeatedly mentioned that it all ends on the wood of our cross.

But, there is a way to rise above it all and gather the uncatechized, the bitter, the angry, the unforgiving.

Oh, it is hard to work for God,
To rise and take His part
Upon this battlefield of earth,
And not sometimes lose heart!
He hides Himself so wondrously,
As though there were no God;
He is least seen when all the pow’rs
Of ill are most abroad.
Ah, God is other than we think,
His ways are far above,
Far beyond reason’s height, and reached
Only by childlike love.
Workman of God! O lose not heart,
But learn what God is like,
And in the darkest battlefield
Thou shalt know where to strike.
Then learn to scorn the praise of men,
And learn to lose with God;
For Jesus won the world through shame,
And beckons thee His road.
For right is right, as God is God,
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter were to sin.

 Frederick W Faber
 Jesus & Mary 1849

h/t to KD

n.b.  The name change on the blog is temporary.  Until the shtick manifests itself or I get over my obsession!

Friday, March 22, 2013

Prankster in lockdown in the hoosgow after yelling BINGO in crowded hall



Austin Whaley was arrested after busting in on a crowded bingo hall in Covington, Ky., filled with elderly women.

The 18-year-old yelled “bingo,” and the hall erupted in chaos.

“When they realized it wasn’t a real bingo, they started hooting and hollering and yelling and cussing,” arresting police officer Richard Webster told the Cincinnati Enquirer. “People take their bingo very seriously.”

When Whaley refused to apologize, the officer arrested him on a disorderly conduct charge.
 


He woud have been safer taunting the taliban.

Did Pope Francis Genuflect or Didn't He?

I'm going to end the week with one more Pope Francis post.

Here's the feed.

221:31 Bows when Consecrating Christ's Body.

222:31 After Consecrating Christ's Most Precious Blood, he goes down, disappears behind the Altar.

Either he was tying his shoes or he DID genuflect.

Do I think that his bow at the Consecration of Christ's Body is an inferior response to what just happened?

I sure do.

Readers here are passionately in love with the Eucharist and Sacraments.   We all know that Christ deserves more than a bow.  

But you want to know what is chickenbleep?  

Those reporting the Pope did not acknowledge Consecration to paint him as some kind of apostate.

 It's inaccurate.

I've chronicled my low tolerance for disrespect and shenanigans in the Sacred Liturgy for the past ten years.  There was a time when things were so bad here, I walked out of a 10am Mass and went to a 5pm where I had to walk out of that one.  I zoomed over to catch the last train to Golgotha at 6:15pm.  With my children in tow.

Things are much better across the diocese.  I'm still a nomad as there are still a few rogues that throw Christ around or will say or do something scandalous.

But the installation Mass, where Christ was elevated and worshiped with love and devotion, the music spectacular, the Blessed Mother venerated -- in my worst days of intolerance -- when every little thing distracted me, angered me -- his bow, instead of genuflection, would never even have made my radar.

He's a believer.

It could be the mother in me, could be aging or maybe it's because there is so much going on around us, but I am really into choosing battles.

The Mystical Body of Christ has been caricatured as hate.   We've got Liturgical antics, problems with Catechesis, sexual misconduct, malpractice and entrenched corruption.  We've got diabolical disorientation.  We've got wars, famine and enemies of life heading almost every country in the world.  We have hysteria and histrionics.

The devil is in high gear. 



I hear the whisperings of many:
“Terror on every side!
Denounce! let us denounce him!”
All those who were my friends
are on the watch for any misstep of mine.
“Perhaps he will be trapped; then we can prevail,
and take our vengeance on him.”


Thursday, March 21, 2013

We cannot separate, you're part of me...





(Listening to praise and worship on Pandora and have a big list I'll be sharing!)

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Rubrics, Gestures and Symbolism of Our Sacred Liturgy


Here's something that should be painfully obvious to TTC readers: Carol does not take a shine to people who make up their own teachings of the Catholic Church, especially when it comes to the Sacred Liturgy. It doesn't matter to me whether it's the friends-with-benefit/seven deadly sins spin on our Sacred Liturgy or if it comes from the Traddies.

The devil is always in the details.

I'm going to talk about this piece from Anne Barnhart in a minute, but before I do, I have a little parable.

About six months ago, I was sitting in a Panera Bread having lunch and an elderly woman came in and sat at the table beside me.  She was modestly dressed, but wearing diamonds, gold, emeralds that would give Liz Taylor a run for her money. 

She took notice of my cross necklace and began talking to me about Christ, the depravity of the world and in particular women, the threat Obama is to the moral compass and sovereignty of our country.  It was clear by her cogent thoughts that she was educated, articulate, bright. 

Then she told me about the aliens from space who steal body parts and jewelry - and the bunker she was building to hide from them.  She told me there was room for my family and invited me.

The moral of the story is, sometimes brilliant people can be right on the money in 75% of something and just about the time you are salivating for the climax, they take off in a spaceship.

Let me start by saying, every educated Catholic would ratify Anne's citation from our theology that  Christ is a Bridegroom to his Bride, the Roman Catholic Church.   We would also affirm that our fiat here on earth is to gain admission to the Wedding Feast of the Lamb - eternal life in Paradise with Christ and Christ's atoning sacrifice in the Sacred Liturgy is mortal participation in His Glorious Feast.

While 60% of what Anne wrote to subsidize Catholic teaching is consistent with Church teaching, the spaceship lands just about the time she starts talking about the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

There's a general rule of thumb that every Catholic better hang onto as we navigate the storms of this time in history:  We have 2000 years of Pontiffs and a Deposit of Faith that define the meaning and symbolism of rubrics and gestures of our priests in our Sacred Liturgy (and teachings). 

If you've never heard it before, ask the person for official sources from the 2000 years of the Deposit of Faith.   Do your own diligence.  If you can't find it in the Deposit of Faith, there's a problem.  Give it zero credence.
Here we go:
In the traditional, pre-Vatican II rites, such as the Tridentine, Ambrosian, and Byzantine rites, at the moment of consecration, when the priest, in an act of masculine initiation, is calling God to the altar, both at the consecration of the Host and at the consecration of the Chalice, the priest MUST bend over the altar, stare intently at the Host or the Chalice, and rest his elbows on the altar. In this posture, and this posture only, does the priest then say the words that actually effect the change of the bread and the wine into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ

The priest puts his elbows down on the altar because the altar is A MARRIAGE BED...The priest lovingly holds the Host in his hands beneath him atop the supernatural marriage bed of the altar..YES, the consecration of the Host and Chalice in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is a direct analogue to sexual intercourse between husband and wife. There. I said it. That wasn’t so difficult, now was it?...A baldachin is a bed canopy...

.The rubric of the elbows-down posture was intentionally stripped from the Mass by the Communist-homosexualist infiltrators in the 1960′s because they hated Our Lord, His Church, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, His Real Presence in the Eucharist, and specifically because of the connection to the marital act.... DO WHAT YOU WANT! Contracept! Sleep around! Be a sodomite! Abuse yourself!

The altar isn’t a table. It’s a bed, complete with bed linens. And it is NOT SYMBOLIC.


BEAM ME UP SCOTTIE.

Giving the woman the benefit of the doubt, perhaps this piece is poorly written or perhaps I have developed a reading comprehension problem - but my read on this was the insinuation that our priests are simulating sex between the sheets on the marriage bed.

This woman is worried about the innovations of puppets in the bleachers at Cardinal Bergoglio's Mass in Argentina?

I don't think I have ever encountered anything more offensive. For a variety of reasons. Considering I am in Boston, that is saying a lot.

I'm here to remind all that the meaning, gestures and rubrics of the Sacred Liturgy come to us through Apostolic Succession.

I stopped reading Anne about six months ago. When an individual sent me a link to the piece, I spent about 1/2 hour reading. I could, quite literally, feel tidal waves of hatred pounding over me. The magnitude of visciousness and venom consuming this poor lamb rattled me.

  My Jesus Mercy.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Is Pope Francis a Liberal and Liturgical Wreckovator?

Because a few friends and readers have expressed reservations about Pope Francis, I wanted to circle back and talk about falling in love with his charisms and gifts butressed against concerns being raised about Our Sacred Liturgy and conjecture about what exactly it is he'll reform, if anything.

After years of experiencing the modus operandi of the crew in the Boston Chancery let's call it "PPP" (the protection of perverts and perversion) and after a decade of experiencing the modus operandi at the highest levels of the Roman Curia, let's call it the "PPPP" (the protection of protectors of perverts and perversion), while watching Pope Francis, I find myself in the familiar territory of "Note to Self:  "Be careful what you ask for".

I want you to think about something for a minute.

So here we are in Boston under a regime that, literally, is bringing in the agenda of homoerotica and the PPP's in the Boston Archdiocese submits, with great confidence, the following comment:

"You're kidding yourself if you think anyone in the Boston hierarchy gives a whit about you & your thoughts about the Church. You are derided at the highest levels. You'd be better off visiting a soup kitchen & leaving the Church to God & those whom he's chosen to run it. Your "paper trail" is off no interest to anyone who matters. "
Priests rolling out the agenda of perversion of minds and souls of our children have great confidence they are protected under Cardinal O'Malley - and in fact, all the way to Rome. They are absolutely correct.

Even when some of those priests were perverting the minds of children and once they were groomed, raping them, the PPPPs in Roman Curia currently are as brazen as ever.

Over the last fifteen years, we have solicited the assistance of very powerful lay people, priests and Bishops across the United States. I say this with the deepest affection: The Romans are an odd lot.

There is some kind of pomp that forbears and forbids whistleblowing, discipline and cleaning out corruption. I hesitate to use this word, but it's the only word I can think of that is suitable: It operates like a cult. A cult that penalizes those who reports criminal activities or civil and spiritual misfeasance and malfeasance.

It's got to go.

We want these priests removed. Sent for spiritual counseling and if they are redeemable, returned to ministry. If they remain defiant, permanently sidelined, where they are no longer a danger to the salvation of souls. We want any lay person who contradicts Church teaching or forbids it to be taught to Catholic children in side of our own schools to be removed. We don't want any more asinine template letters sent on behalf of the Cardinal thanking us for expressing our concerns and telling us they're "watching" the situation.

 The era of watching the Cardinal watching his priests abuse and defile souls is over.  Gonzo. But ten years later, they are not willing to let go of it. In my opinion, from what we have experienced here in Boston, the cult mentality only entrenched itself further. It is much worse than it was before the newspapers unraveled its fruit.

What we want is a system that protects our children. Where complaints are not just watched but acted upon. We want a fire set to dismissive template letters. We want letters telling us the dangerous priest or person has been relieved of their duties and we are all free to teach anything and everything in the Catechism. Wherever and whenever we wish to do so.

I've watched Pope Francis over the course of the last few days. I've watched his discomfort with the ornate dressings of the royalty of the papacy. It does concern me. But I cannot imagine a humble man being thrown into that and finding his balance between accepting his own transparency in the expressions of reverencing the majestic royalty of Christ Our King. I'm praying he finds it and sooner rather than later.

 But truth be told, if he never finds it, if this is the price we pay to eliminate the mentality of the cult, it is a bargain I am more than willing to live with through this papacy.

I've read and heard concerns over the Liturgy with the puppets in the bleachers.   These kinds of sophomoric antics do a terrible disservice to those present.  We are transported in time to Golotha.  Imagine the Apostles bringing puppets and hopping around like around the crucifixion of Christ as giddy as Cheech and Chong afer smokin a big blunt. It is appalling to those who are mystically present at Christ's Crucifixion.

I've read concerns that he does not genuflect at Consecration.  The man is 76 years old.  Twenty years his junior, my knees, my back, my balance - I can't do it without holding onto something and even with support, it is a spectacle trying to get up.   I don't buy into these as signs he lacks intimacy and respect for the Holy Sacrifice.

The culture in Argentina is jiggy and it is more than possible and even likely, he did not know about the puppets in the bleachers. They probably came from some parish "youth minister" on a bus into the stadium - without anyone knowing beforehand.

He deserves the benefit of the doubt because I see his spirituality and ministry embraces the culture he is in.  I understand and affirm the concerns, but doubt we'll be seeing these things in his Petrine ministry - though this remains to be seen.

I observed his interactions with the crazy journalists who suffer from malicious religious bigotry and generate such across the globe with the moonbat commentary and lies. After persuading them to report the truth, he told them he loved them all.   It brings me to tears. Still.

I watched him today, hop out of the popemobile to bless a cripple man who had been lowered through the roof. Faith and love like this, intimacy -- I have greatly missed, and I am overjoyed to see its return.

In town, there is a local hairdresser who scandalizes residents with his advertisements outside of his salon that promote SSA, promiscuity. He openly and loudly speaks of drugs, booze and sex inside of the salon. Outside of his salon this week, the sign welcomes Pope Francis and says 'love your pope'.

I speak to friends and colleagues who are bitter, broken, resistant to Church teaching, and I see their intrigue and even admiration.

And I am loving it.

But all of this does not mean I have surrended the trust the antics of the cult have broken.

As my grandmother used to say - the proof is in the pudding.

I want to see for myself who he appoints. I want to see for myself what happens when we whistleblow. I want to see for myself what happens when we have to go over the heads of the corrupt in our Chanceries to remove priests and persons who are a danger to souls.   I want to see for myself whether we start to see our Latin Rite treated with passive-aggressive antics.  I want to see if our inheritance is sullied with sophomoric wreckovation.

Until I see where he's going, I'm resting in the love, mercy and praying for and with the man.  With joy.  

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Frs. Unni, Garrity, Fleming, Josoma need orders to replace their homoerotica with speakers like this one

Boston Catholics would be very satisfied with a very quiet switchout of the Archdiocescan homoerotic agenda of the last five years with speakers like this one.

Here's Matt's About Page.

Let us put an end to the charade: There is absolutely NO opposition to an apostolate of priests in parishes who focus on pastoral outreach to SSA persons.

We welcome the welcome--with the caveat that programs and speakers and the agenda be celibacy and our teachings be unrestricted, embraced, encouraged.

What is going in the schools and parishes in Boston under Cardinal O'Malley has got to be addressed, corrected, supervised.

Immediately.

Expeditiously.

With the urgency of knowing they are dealing with Catholics who have exhausted patience.

Then bursting forth in glorious day, up from the grave He Rose Again

In Christ Alone




And as He stands in Victory...


Don't miss it.
Don't. 
It's unbelievable.
It really is.


No power of hell,
no scheme of man can ever pluck us from His Hand.
For I am His. And He is mine. Till He returns.  Or calls me home. 
Here in the power of Christ we stand.




Go ahead, fall in love with Pope Francis.

I have.

I've read and heard concerns about the Sacred Liturgy.  I don't think the situation is as serious as some are making it out to be.  I don't think we'll be seeing Liturgical nonsense from St. Peter's Square, but time will tell.

If we have something to worry about, it will manifest itself in the appointments he makes.  Appointments are the means for rolling out the agenda of the person in charge. 

If he appoints prelates with corrupt agendas to key positions - we'll know nothing has changed.  We're right back to appointing the corrupt to corrupt under his nose and then distancing himself from it.

When the dust settles, Boston Catholics are going to test the waters.  

Let's be clear.

We want everyone struggling with sin, seeking the healing Sacraments of Christto feel welcome in every parish in the Archdiocese. Because that is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

When a person or persons presence starts demanding restriction and silence of Church teaching on the necessity for SSA persons to be celibate, parents with children-the families sitting beside you in the pew are deprived of the tools they need to properly form their conscience. Consequently,they are sent into the world to face temptation with the tools of depravation and ignorance and seek pleasure in the carnal.

Such persons are not welcome to conduct themselves inside of any ministry in the Roman Catholic Church with these restrictions. If that makes people feel unwelcome - it's a crying shame. The Catholic Church is a place where we all come to learn how to deprive ourselves of sinful things we are attracted to.  Being deprived of that is not panning out for our children, our families, friends and the world at large. Moreover, it is not panning out for Christ.

Plans are underway for Boston Catholics to  circle back to the Vicar General and Cardinal to put the paper trail on their desks. We are going to inform them that if it isn't stopped by a certain date, we are heading to the Nuncio.

I am personally going to fly to Washington DC with the paper trail and meet with the Nuncio to ask him to seek the intercession of the Holy See and Pope. We'll give him six weeks to fix the problem and if it isn't fixed,we are going to call in our chits at the Vatican and fly over to Rome with the paper trail in our hands.

When we remand the matter to the Holy Father, we'll find out if we are back to the same old games.  This is all going to take time.    

Every priest in this diocese is going to have his own little copy and be told exactly who knew, what they knew and when they knew it - what was asked of them and what was done in response to those requests- and the fact that we are on our way to Rome with the trail.

With Vatileaks, you'd truly have to be under a rock not to realize that everyone from mothers and fathers in every parish to the highest levels in the Vatican are done with the foolish games.

In the meantime, I have a very, very good feeling about this Pope.  He deserves our trust, our love and our support.    He is truly extraordinary from what we all can see.

Stop resisting this magnificent gift and fall in love.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Nancy Pelosi Received Message from the Seagull


Dear Friend and Advocate of Abortionists Nancy Pelosi Stumping for an Invite to Papal Inauguration.

This is really something:
Pelosi expressed her "insatiable appetite" for every detail reported on the historical event, and she recounted how she absorbed the developments on TV as the news unfolded.

"You're always looking for signs. But when the bird was on the - did you see this? That there was a bird, a seagull on the chimney for like 40 minutes before the white smoke came
Wow.

Get it?

How could we have missed this rich symbolism?

The father, the son and the holy seagull.

What I wouldn't give to sit behind her at the inauguration, put some fried haddock and french fries under her chair and watch her run out of St. Peter's Square all Tippi Hedrin.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Pope Francis

What a day.

I just read yesterday that Pope Francis came in second in the election of Pope Benedict but it still caught me off-guard.   I've been scrambling to do homework.    What is out there is mostly good news - no doubt you have all read it by now.  I'm waiting for Michael Voris' report as I also read concerns from our Latin Rite Catholics, but wanted to share my initial thoughts.  

I confess - I panicked when I heard he was a Jesuit!

On doing initial diligence, he seems both faithful to the teachings of the Church and lover the poor. He comes across as loving, kind, humble. Marian. He is articulate, willing to hit below the belt in the public square when the politicians are pulling his flock into the sewer. The fire is going.  Burning hot.  I couldn't help but be attracted.

At the parish where I go to daily Mass, there is a statue of St. Anthony that takes my breath away.  It's the traditional statue - in one arm he is holding the Christ Child and with the other, he is blessing.  But the kindness, warmth and love on his face is really exceptional.  It was facing me today and the love on his face moved me to tears.   Pope Francis has the same kind of face and aura around him.


Thus says the LORD:
In a time of favor I answer you,
on the day of salvation I help you;
and I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people,
To restore the land
and allot the desolate heritages,
Saying to the prisoners: Come out!
To those in darkness: Show yourselves!
Along the ways they shall find pasture,
on every bare height shall their pastures be.
They shall not hunger or thirst,
nor shall the scorching wind or the sun strike them;
For he who pities them leads them
and guides them beside springs of water.
I will cut a road through all my mountains,
and make my highways level.
See, some shall come from afar,
others from the north and the west,
and some from the land of Syene.
Sing out, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth,
break forth into song, you mountains.
For the LORD comforts his people
and shows mercy to his afflicted.

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.”
Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.

n.b. There is a plenary indulgence if you receive the Pope's blessing - even if received through the electronic media. You can voluntarily bequeath it to a soul in purgatory for their release and ransom. A soul who has nobody to pray for them - or lay it at the feet of Our Lady and tell her to use it as she sees fit - for the living or the dead.  A win win.

pps - ChurchMilitantTV reports that it is confirmed that he took the name after St. Francis of Assisi.

Here we go kiddies!

Soli Deo Gloria.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Is Fr. Butterballino assigned to Holy Family in Concord?



Until about 15 years or so ago, St. Anthony's Shrine in Boston, which is lovingly known as "Arch Street" and sits in the heart of downtown Boston, was home to Catholic immigrants and daily Mass goers. Subsequently, the place was trampled and pillaged by friars who devoted themselves to promoting immorality, licentiousness and sins against the First Commandment.

Several years ago in Boston, the friars at St. Anthony's appointed gay porn novelist Scot Pompfret as a lector, Eucharistic Minister, trainer of lay ministers and oversight of social justice ministry.

The priests were, evidently,  too busy. And, you are about to find out why.

Scott, who describes himself as a ‘happy porn-writing sodomite’, became quite chummy with the friars and several diocesan priests who shared Scott’s interest in SSA eroticism.  The less than sharpest tools in the shed agreed to be interviewed and disclose their personal genital activities to Scott. 


The whole affair – no pun intended – came to a screeching halt when Pomfretpublished the stories the priests told him as sexual memoirs. 

Since My Last Confession," proved too much for the friars, many of whom were interviewed by Pomfret as he wrote the book. The book suggests that some local clergy, who are given fictional names, are sexually active, and is mocking toward Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston.

Pomfret was shocked that he had the rug pulled out from under him by the friars at Arch Street who said they were upset what was pitched as a 'memoir' turned out to be an "exposé" on them.

"I am still kind of speechless - I am on some level amazed that it came from the friars, since these guys sat through interviews with me for the express purpose of this book."



In case you're wondering how the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston, who has episcopal authority and oversight of the See, responded: He sent his sleddogs out to assure the faithful that he took no part in the decision to have Pomfret removed:

The shrine is overseen by the Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province and is not administered by the Archdiocese of Boston; a spokesman for the archdiocese said officials there were not involved with the decision.
He may not 'administer' the Shrine but he certainly has authority over it.    In charity, I will refrain from editorial commentary as it speaks for itself. The book named notable presbyteral characters from the Archdiocese of Boston and chronicled the libido prances of others under pseudonyms.

At the time, I wrote to those in Boston who have charge over the safety of children to inform them that Pomfret’s book included at least one story glorifying sexual pleasure of the sexual exploitation of minor at-risk children and asked them to investigate and flush out the ebophile. I also notified sexual abuse groups.

It would seem like if you have an author writing an expose on the sexual romps of priests and one of the stories speaks about sexually exploiting at-risk teenagers at rest stops, it would be a matter for the police to get Pomfret to reveal the identity of that dangerous individual.

That was the problem, was it not? Grown men exploiting at-risk male teenagers? The truth of the matter is, neither the Chancery, the attorney general or the people who promote themselves as advocates for children, really cared there was an ebophile on the loose and that it was being used as sexually entertainment. Turning SSA men on with it.

Frankly, if it came to a contest for the most useless group of people when protecting children against pedophiles and ebophiles, the attorney general, SNAP,“Bishop Accountability” and the rest of the loudmouths who promote themselves as interested in the welfare of children would be neck and neck with the people in the Chancery. 

   Sadly, the clock has ticked out waiting for the Cardinal to take actions against priests who are a danger to themselves, a danger to the faithful and danger to the Church as they are subject to blackmail. Parents whose children and loved ones have been affected by their disordered apostolates and ministries have solicited Boston bloggers for assistance.

Forensic examination of their attempts to get the Bishops and Cardinal Archbishop to take action has been underway for the past few months. Other sources – some in the presbyterate – brought connections to Pomfret’s book into the disturbing trail of dereliction of duty. A summary of one disclosure is posted in the comments section of Boston Catholic Insider by “Catholic forensic nerd”


1. I’ve figured out who “Fr. Butterballino” is and what parish he’s at. The parish is Holy Family in Concord. The book preview says: “When the Brown Bag (aka Cardinal O’Malley) started issuing statements concerning same-sex marriage and adoption, Father Butterballino addressed them directly in his parish bulletins. For example, he wrote that to call gay adoptions “gravely immoral” and a form of violence proved only that those issuing such statements had never spent a second with gay adoptive families.”

I Googled on: parish bulletin gay adoptions “gravely immoral” form of violence The first hit you get is the letter from the pastor of Holy Family in Concord to parishioners:

“November 4, 2005 Dear Sisters and Brothers, At a recent meeting of …” The link on Google doesn’t work, but you can go to the parish website and get the letter from the pastor Fr. Austin Fleming here.
 
http://www.holyfamilyconcord.org/pdf/lettersarchive/letter11-4-05.pdf
The passage referenced in the book is at the bottom of the second page of the letter.

The book goes on: “In fact, Father Butterballino supported Joan and Claire’s civil marriage and the civil marriages of other gay parishioners. He admitted, “I’ve been to four civil weddings of gay people. It scares the s#(t out of me because those are very public situations. After the rite is over, I do some kind of prayer or blessing. If I’m called on it, I can say I was there and I performed a prayer. I didn’t perform a wedding.”

Couple paragraphs later: “Since the incident with the petitions, Father Butterballino reported some progress, which I couldn’t help but attribute to his remorse. He came out to a member of his parish staff who had learned her son was gay. He had triumphant comings-out to select acquaintances. He even learned to be open with his parishioners that he was spending his summer vacation in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the gay beach mecca.”

I Googled: Fr. Austin Fleming and Provincetown

This says he vacationed at Herring Cove beach in P-town:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/concord/news/lifestyle/columnists/x1185657618#axzz2Mx0HPD5h

The pastor is quite the prolific writer and blogger. It’s like he’s leaving a papertrail especially so someone will find him and do a rescue/intervention.
At this point, all I am willing to say is--there is going to be a whole new meaning to the Archdiocescan motto "The light is on for you".

Monday, March 4, 2013

Cardinal O'Malley Prepares for Conclave by Reading the Fish Wrap


John Allen, Joan Chissiter and Bishop Gumbleton among his go-to guys for information on the Cardinals of the Catholic Church.

How are you preparing yourself?

Spiritually, I’m trying to focus on the seriousness of this, asking for God’s help in prayer. I’m also trying to learn as much as I can about my brother cardinals.

How are you doing that?

I downloaded Mr. Miranda’s material, because he has a page of just the cardinals who are going to be at the conclave. [Note: Salvador Miranda of Florida International University maintains a web page on the cardinals.] I had my secretary go through and take out the biography of each one. A lot of them, of course, I knew, but this was one way of putting names to the faces of those I don’t know. That’s especially true of the Eastern Europeans and a couple of the Africans. I’m trying to read articles, to become acquainted with some of these issues in the past faced by conclaves. Your articles are all very interesting too.

Interesting?

In what way?

When assembling information for his talking points in discussions about electing the future Pope why would the National Catholic Reporter even be on his radar?

When he needs to appoint the head of women religious would he tune into the Khadashians for his talking points?

When he is looking for attributes of future seminarians, does he turn on Charlie Sheen for an interesting perspective?

Wouldn't you send your underlings to run some google searches with keywords and come up with things they've authored, written, been involved in?

Wouln't you find out what his passions are? What he has done for the poor? What he has done to keep his flock in a state of grace?

Why would you cultivate your opinions on the writings and opinions of the journal whose authors undermine, discredit and blaspheme the teachings of the Church?

Do yourself a favor and take a few moments to listen to this interview on NPR in which CJ Doyle and Fr. Landry discuss their sentiments on whether Cardinal O'Malley is qualified to be the Pope. (On the right hand side of the page, download the audio file.)

CJ respectfully, yet tactfully explains that those both friendly and unfriendly with Cardinal O'Malley can all agree that he is not a hands-on or highly engaged administrator. CJ explains that though the Cardinal can't be blamed for the flood as he inherited it, after ten years, one would hope he would have some plan for flood control.The prerequisite skill set for being a Pope is handicapped by the ongoing trainwreck called the Archdiocese of Boston, which is certainly not a model of success for the Catholic Church.

Then Fr. Landry pipes in with his opinion.

Fr. Landry is one of the finest priests I know. He is more than faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church and he evangelizes them with zeal. But, what I deeply respect about Fr. Landry is, he takes his job as a physician of souls seriously.

I know that he deeply respects and loves the Cardinal... but the rooster just can't help coming home to roost and cockadoodledoo.

Let me show you what I mean.

Fr. Landry first speaks about Fr. O'Malley's quieting of the folly around the priests who sexually manipulated teenagers and young men as a credential for the papacy.

Fr. Landry highlights the Cardinal's sincere and great compassion for the victims. The Cardinal's work in trying to bring victims healing is to be commended. However, and I am sorry to say it, but it isn't enough that Cardinal O'Malley leave a room full of victims sobbing. Fr. Landry said that running out of the room sobbing is the only response of a parent. This is incredibly naive and dangerous.

What the Cardinal has done to 'ensure it never happens again' leaves our children vulnerable to a program where they are brainwashed in CCD and schools that their parents and relatives are sexual predators. Their innocence is subject to stories about relatives who rape them in pornographic detail. They are destroying relationships and trust of the their most intimate and trusted relationships and portraying the great gift of human sexuality as perverted crimes. Incredulously, there isn't a single story about the sexual deviants they ordain in seminaries and protect at the Chancery.

The foolishness so highly exalted also comes at a great expense to truth, justice, constitutional, civil and canonical rights of our priests, who at any moment can have their life's work and vocation destroyed with a false accusation as the system for investigating complaints is covertly and overtly operated by Mitchell Garabedian who is on a mission of malicious prosecution.

I have my own sentiments about the efficacy of the fix the Cardinal threw at the problem, some of which CJ alludes to in his interview. They threw money at it, but by no means did they fix the problem. The problem is the good old boys and it is very much alive and well.

The interviewer asks Fr. Landry to respond to the widely circulated charges that Cardinal O'Malley is not invested as an administrator.

When you cut to the chase, saying that one is 'not invested as an administrator' is a polite way of saying he appoints and hires people to delegate tasks to and then distances himself from any accountability. Such a person with this style of leadership has no idea what is going on under his nose. This is, in fact the manifestation of an administration of a good old boy network.

Most of the Bishops and Cardinals and in fact the Holy See itself manages their day to day operations using this style of management. This in and of itself does not have to be a fatality. It is only a fatality when you consciously select delegates who contradict Church teaching and manage corruption with the following:

Plan A: Patronizing the whistleblower with platitudes and meaningless drivel in template letters telling the whistleblower the Cardinal thanks them for their concern.

When the whistleblower does not accept said template letter, they escalate to Plan B.

Plan B: Form a committee which they stack with the Cardinal's cronies and drones from the Chancery to draw the conclusion that the Cardinal is not responsible or accountable for the things his crazy appointees and employees are doing and upon this finding, adjourn.

When the whistleblower remains dissatisfied, it's onto plan C.

Plan C: Maligning the reputation of the whistleblowers, intimidation tactics, threats and poppycock from Terry Donilon and the Boston Globe to cover up the wrongdoing and mismanagement.

Corruption thrives in this environment. Pedophiles, psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists take advantage of an administration which operates this way.    This is how Cardinal O'Malley's administration operates.  The thousands of people who have experienced it for the past ten years are less than edified about the hoopla that the problems have been fixed.

Let's get back to the rooster: What did Fr. Landry say about the administrative style of the Cardinal?

I'm recalibrating what he said but this is the essense of his message: He said the Cardinal is invested in his responsibilities but it is impossible to take all the actions necessary to teach, sanctify and govern.  Consequently the Cardinal hires people who stink and the mission is compromised.

Again, for those of us with children and relatives and loved ones being compromised, the Cardinal's 'investment' in the outcome is not acceptable.

A Cardinal invested in teaching, sanctifying and governing his people may indeed make the determination that the people he is delegating things to are responsible for the trainwreck.  But then, they find out whether the person can be re-trained to carry out the mission or they remove the persons and replace them with somebody who does.

Carrying on for a decade blaming theological malcontents who share his interest in the opinions in the National Catholic Reporter, while retaining them, just doesn't gel.

Fr. Landry did admit that if the Church is looking for a top notch administrator for a Pope, Cardinal O'Malley is not the man.

Cockadoodledoooooooooooooooo

The governance of Church teaching involves the critical and tactical requirement to recruit persons to whom they delegate based upon the stratagem to effect the outcome - the redemption of souls on your watch. In the case of a Cardinal, a capable collaborator needs to be a Catholic who zealously accepts the teachings of the Church and knows how to articulate, explain, evangelize and execute Its morals, ethics and principles in the practice of their appointment or employment.

Cardinal O'Malley selects people who cultivate their opinions from apostates - just like he does. When people start reporting the damage and destruction of the faith and souls, he blames them for carrying out his own agenda. When parents ask intervention to save their children or the people they love from the whackjobs he's put into place, the whistleblowers are caricatured as no good so and so's doing irreparable harm and are a disservice to the Church.

The last person we need as the cornerstone of our foundation is a Pope who wants to teach and sanctify by appointing and hiring people who reject Church teaching and then point to his tin ear when the faithful ask him to remove the delegate poisoning Christ's children.

It's the same old tired game.  

We're all winding up here for a check mate, so stay tuned.

 

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Cardinal O'Malley Encouraged the Ending of the Practice of Celibacy to a Gathering of Priests at their Mardi Gras Celebration

Below is a 'statement' released from Fr. Ron Coyne from the Archdiocese of Boston in which he expresses his excitement over Cardinal O'Malley's encouraging words about ending the practice of celibacy. 

Accordingly, the Reverend Coyne wrote a statement explaining how the teachings of the Church from the Holy Spirit have been riddled with errors and his hopes that Cardinal O'Malley is elected to the Papacy to dismtantle the past two thousand years.

Frankly, I am not feeling rational enough to devote myself to correcting Fr. Coyne's heresies and apostacies at this moment.  They should stand out like a sore thumb to readers here.

For those of you who do not know Fr. Coyne's history, somewhere around 20 years ago, he was stationed in St. Brendan's parish, located in Dorchester, Massachusetts (part of Boston).   Dorchester had a very large settlement of Irish immigrants and their first, second generation descendants.

Admittedly, the blue-blooded Irish are quite a fiesty group. Especially Irish mothers and fathers
who take their vocation-the salvation of their children's souls- seriously. The primary purpose of living to Irish Catholic Blue Bloods actually extends beyond their own children and family members.  The intimacy we have with Christ, His Sacraments and His Church and salvation extends to all souls.

Irish parishioners at St. Brendan's became very concerned about the salvation of souls during Fr. Coyne's tenure when Fr. Coyne and his 'co-pastor' Fr. Josoma began openly conducting themselves as a sexually intimate couple.  Their homilies and general conduct inside and outside of the sanctuary were scandalizing.

The Irish immigrants, ever respectful of the protocol and heirarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, followed such - they sought intercession from the Vicar Forane, then the auxiliary Bishop, followed by Cardinal Law and finally the Holy See. 

Cardinal Law had very little tolerance for these sorts of conundrums and was actively trying to reign it in pastorally, but at a pace that was doing serious damage to the children of Irish immigrants.

Accordingly, when Frs. Coyne and Josoma used the vacuum of discipline to escalate their agenda and began simulating the Sacrament of marriage in the Sanctuary to homosexual couples, the Irish immigrants made a phone call to the Cardinal and said, in essence, >"if those two priests are not removed before Sunday, they will be dragged by the head of their hair from the Sanctuary and rectory and you may retrieve them on Morrisey Boulevard with their belongings at 7:30am. Good day to you Sir."

Thus, they were swiftly removed by Cardinal Law and placed on administrative leave for several years. We assume they were given spiritual counseling and told to divorce themselves from each other, as they were never really seen in eachother's company again - at least publicly. They were among the missing for about five years.

 Boston Catholics prayed fervently for both of them during these years. Each one of us striving to be faithful to God has, at one time or another, been in the position of having to mosey on down the road from a person or situation.  It doesn't have to be sexual to understand the challenge and struggle and have empathy for it.

It would seem that any fool could or should separate compassion and empathy from the duty not to return them to active ministry unless they were healed, renewed their promise to faithfully teach Catholics Truth, administer the Sacraments of Confession and the Eucharist to ground them in Sanctifying Grace.

Cardinal O'Malley returned Ron Coyne and his partner Fr. Josoma to active ministry where they have been defiling souls for a decade or so. 

Another priest in the diocese was a third wheel in the theological rat pack, Fr Bob Bowers, who also went among the missing.  He later showed up at another theological hellhole "The Paulist Center".  He dropped the title of "Father" and promoted himself as a former priest.  However, he is still listed as an active member of the Archdiocese of Boston with the address of the Chancery headquarters in Braintree. 

Bob Bowers was teaching - brace yourself -marriage preparation for the Archdiocese of Boston.

The Archdiocese has, I believe, three megacenters for preparing Catholics for the Sacrament of Marriage.  One run by the Collellas in Braintree (which is very solid), one at the 'Espousal Center' which is metzametz but actually not too bad,  and the third was operated by Bob Bowers at the Paulist Center.

You can't make this stuff up.

I found out that Mr. Bowers was running marriage prep for Cardinal O'Malley when my own daughter brought the materials to me and asked me to vet the program. At the same time, I found out that others whom she knew and whom I have great affection and love for, went through Bower's program.

As you can imagine, I wrote a lovely letter to the Chancery, the Nuncio and the Holy See, explaining the inappropriate nature and consequences of the Cardinal's association with the Paulist Center, and in particular Bob Bowers, to prepare Catholics - people we love - for the Sacrament of Marriage.

I understand Mr. Bowers subsequently moseyed on down the road from the Paulist Center to a job with the Red Cross

I want to believe that empowering this network of priests is some misguided execution of mercy but I just can't find who the recipient of mercy actually under these senseless edicts.

It is not the priests who remain in a state of diabolical disorientation.  It is not the souls in the parish who are being sucked into their own destruction.   The only thing I can think of is, the sucking up they do to each other brings them personal satisfaction which they pathetically misinterpret as the mercy of God.



 A Statement by Ron Coyne


SUBJECT: A Statement by Ron Coyne

 Friends,
The following letter I sent recently to CardinalO’Malley. Thought I’d share my thoughts with you as well.

Dear Cardinal O’Malley,
It was good to see you at B.C. High on Tuesday.
There was in the past close to 100 priests attending that Mardi
 Gras gathering. This year around 30 (including Jesuits and
Staff at the school).
I mentioned to you how happy and surprised I was to hear you mention publicly that a married clergy is a possibilityin the Catholic Church although you think it unlikely. I also
told you I would write with my recommendation for the next Pope. Since I am unacquainted with the candidates and their backgrounds I think it’s only right that I just share some of my
dreams for the future.
The Catholic Church that we know and love is on life support. We have a major image problem and in many ways have removed ourselves from the life of the average Catholic.
The Vatican has been a source of pride for many Catholics and we have been a very powerful influence in the world, sometimes entering into areas that muddied the waters between
Church and State (politics & religion).
I strongly believe that during our history we have competed with secular authorities and have adopted their penchant for titles and robes that has set us apart from people rather than unite us. The number of Catholics emotionally, spiritually or physically invested in our Church is dwindling
fast. Every country in the world benefits from the Church’s presence and ministry. Education liberates the inhabitants of these countries. It has in the U.S. and it will in Africa, Asia
and Latin America. That liberation effects every area of knowledge including theology.
The priorities that I would like to see present in the next Pope would be openness to conversation and dialogue with all of God’s people especially with Catholics who have
convictions that differ from our present teaching. I believe titles and robes make that almost an impossibility. It is a barrier that has to be withdrawn.
Our concept of God truly determines our view of ourselves and humanity. Our understanding of God as among us and within us rather than apart from us is lived out in the life
of Christ. He loved those no one could love, touched those no one would touch, healed those no one would heal and forgave those no one would forgive. Our new Pope needs to lead by
 example. Contrary to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council our Church has recently moved to restore an understanding of God that is demanding and distant. The prayers of the new
Roman Missal are the latest indication of that shift. We need a Pope who will identify with the Second Vatican Council and implement it’s documents.
The church needs to have a leader who is comfortable with his humanity and expressing himself. The way we receive people who come into our presence or our lives is an
indication of our self-image. Pictures of the Pope meeting with private or general audiences and with the Church hiarachy itself, is so scripted and cold in appearance. It does
not put people at ease.
The way in which bishops are selected and the limited authority of organizations like the NCCB need to be looked at honestly. We need to encourage priests to be selected for these
ministries and positions not because of orthodoxy but because their lifestyle makes God’s presence known especially to those among us given the least opportunities.
As long as we continue to move in the direction of restoring the Church to pre-Vatican II theology we will continue to remove ourselves from the lives of everyday Catholic people. We need a Pope who can admit that the Church is a human institution that has made mistakes and poor
choices at times in our history. We need a leader who can admit that God cannot be captured by any religion or any words. God is beyond organized religion and no religion has
the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That’s why theology is such a challenging science and why biblical studies can be so exciting.
Our papal history is not something of which we can always be proud. Some of those who have held that position have done serious damage to the gospel message during our
2000 years. So our teaching has not always been consistent. Being able to admit that history can be good for the Church. I don’t believe that the next Pope’s ethnic background
 is the number one priority. His theology must be. My 2 favorite lines from the New Testament are from Romans: “God shows no partiality” and “Nothing can separate us from
 the love of God”. If I believe that, I have to live it. I wish you the best as you prepare to travel to Rome.
 What a privilege you have of being such a major part of Church history. You and the Cardinals from around the world are in my prayers and the prayers of the people of St. Mary’s
 in Randolph.
 If by chance there is an American selected as Pope, I believe it will be you.
 Sincerely,
 Ron Coyne
THE LIGHT IS ON FOR YOU
Really.

Do you believe this guy has been permitted to victimize souls for decades, without any recourse to parents and concerned Catholics?

The end is nigh.

The light is on you all right, pal. You  and his possey better invest in some sunglasses.