Sunday, June 30, 2013

Method to his madness - Part II




Continuing my stream of thought from yesterday, I have another story to tell.

It is frustrating to hear the pablum from the Pope but let us face it - there is a lot of hysteria and we would do best to avoid it until we see what's going down.

We are not there yet.

The Pontificate of Blessed John Paul II was magnificent in spite of the Liturgical antics. The Deposit of Faith he left us takes my breath away. Pope Benedict cleaned up after him.

We should be all in agreement: We are not capable of reaching the intellect of the masses because the spiritual effects of personal and cultural sin have made them deaf, dumb and blind.

We have a pandemic of diabolical disorientation on our hands.

We have corruption of power and sex at the Holy See.

The enemy is sitting in the seat of politics and he is going to carry out his role. The world is in chaos.

Along comes a pope who is on fire with love. It has been very attractive to those who have lured away. They are watching. His language is pablum.

The folksy are dusting off the guitars and practicing Gather Us In. They will come to tell their story, disinterested and ignorant that the Liturgy is the worship of The Story, all happening in front of them.

They are like people who pay for an Opera but when sit in the seat, think the people around them put their best clothes and pearls on to gather in the theater to hear their sob story, so we will lift them out of their state of low self esteem.

It's hard not to panic. We just got rid of it and the Liturgies are about Christ.

We await the Pope's first encyclical: Chicken soup for the soul.

The educated and elect see his flaws. He is Peter - the nature of his intimacy is human. That flaw manifests itself in the lack of respect for the Divinity of Christ in our Sacred Liturgy. He does not know the difference between the thoughts inside of his head and his tongue. He takes pride in his humility.


These people have been looking for the answers since Peter, Paul and Mary told them they were blowing in the wind on the Ed Sullivan show. The bishops are with them. Now we have a Pope that sounds like them.

My conversations with every practicing Catholic who has managed to escape them are basically all the same. We observe the stupidity, heresy, cowardice and we strategize on how to stamp out the fires. For the last three or four years, the fires are so out of control one can hardly keep up with indexing them to make decisions on where to spend energy and resources.

We always end with 'What do we do..I don't know what to do...it's a train wreck', etc.

All I am saying is, there might be a method to the madness because I am seeing some fruit from Pope Francis. Grab something and see if you can hold onto it. Grab somebody and see if you can rope them in. Keep your ear low to the ground and your eyes wide open because I am seeing lots of opportunities that have not been available to us for quite some time.

I've worn my scapular through the madness for a number of reasons. It preserves me from the approach of evil, it saves me from myself, but more than that, it is the witness and identity of the kind of love that stands by Christ through His crucible, even if it results in having stones thrown our way.

There is one other benefit, which I have spoken about before.

When working and living among people who do not practice their faith or who may even resent it - they will come to you to ask you to pray when something terrifying is happening to them or the people they know and love.

Living in Massachusetts and riding the commuter rail for almost ten years, I meet and speak with many who don't practice, who have questions, who have difficulty understanding and processing it all.

Wherever you are, I know that you do too. They probably know that you are faithful to Church teaching, are daily Mass goers, etc. The scapular or crucifix and Miraculous Medal are a beacon to strangers and acquaintances who may not know but can't help but see.

A few weeks back, a fellow traveler on the commuter rail whom I have known for close to ten years, sent me a text. She said I know you are a daily Mass goer and I know somebody who needs emergency prayers. She was in the hospital with some reaction to medication that was literally eating her skin alive and the prognosis was very poor. Most die. They were in need of a miracle.

I told the woman I would bring the petition to the Altar of Christ, seek the intercession of two powerful souls - Padre Pio and Blessed John Paul II and I brought her holy water from Lourdes with instructions. I also told her that by bringing her acquaintance to the Holy Altar of Christ for a miraculous healing, that Christ would bless her faith.

If you will it Lord, you can heal this woman and I will testify to You, your mother and your saints and they will know.

Late last week she texted me again. The woman was healed and released from the hospital. She said my prayers work and she asked me to pray for a special family intention of hers.

I could tell she was amazed at the turn of events and her skepticism was melting away.

I told her that I had nothing to do with it. She brought the woman to Christ and I only carried her request to the Altar. I again reminded her that she did something incredible. She gave life back to a young mother and she was a witness of the Power of the Divine Physician, that I had already asked that God bless her for it. I told her I was confident that He would but that she needed to ask God herself and I would also pray again.

I bumped into her a few days later and she told me the prayers worked, the issue had favorably resolved. I told her I was confident that it would.

She told me she thought I was a saint but I explained to her Deo Gratis. The glory is God's, who always rides into town on the back of an ass.

I am not telling this story to focus on what Carol said and did but I am laying out the details on how we point the people who can and will come to us in the direction of Christ - just in case a person stumbles across the story who isn't as seasoned (old?!) as we are.

I know many of you have dozens of these stories.

While worrying about Pope Francis, as God is my witness, there is fruit and all I am saying is, I am reaping the harvest and asking you to watch for it and hit the ground running.

It's the game plan and I'm looking for what He is asking me to do in this mess, every day and every hour.



I will trust in You Alone.
Where You, Ill go.
Where You stay I'll stay.
When You move, I'll move.
I will follow You.
Who You love, I'll love.
How You serve, I'll serve.
If this life, I lose,
I will follow You.








Blessed Feast of St. Pater and Paul.



Saturday, June 29, 2013

A method to his madness?





Or just madness.

I'm still holding out the hope that he's lightyears ahead of me in knowing what we need to say and do as the serpent collects his heirs and own.

It's indisputable that Pope Francis has said and done things that are stupefying.

But at other times, I know that God's ways are never ours. I see something like this and wonder, in these days of the triumph and plunder of the beast, is this the emergency call to conversion? The invitation to come closer and observe.

It could be construed as the call to abandon evangelization to make disciples out of all men, by the Roman Pontiff of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. If that's what he meant to convey, he is a menace.

I'm still watching.

My gut instincts tell me that's not where he's going - at least with this one.

Let me explain why.

We've been watching the chaos of sin and destruction escalate into complete madness over the last few years.

This guy in the White House is tyrant who has clearly been given the power to destroy everything and kill us all, in every corner of the world.

All of us have been asking Our Lord what He would have us do.

There is no other answer but step up the conversion. As fast and efficiently as we can.

The other day, I was speaking to a gentleman who worships Jesus in some Christian megachurch.

He is a good, decent, loving, kind and holy man who loves our Beloved and his fellow human beings. He is actively engaged doing what he can to make this world a better place for underprivileged and suffering.

He is a convert from islam. He was born in the middle east and saw the murdering tyrants kill his relatives, friends, neighbors and countrymen in front of his eyes. He fled. Made his way to the US. Assisted his relatives out and converted to Christianity.

In greeting him hello, how are ya, he will sometimes say every day that the soldiers are not at our door, we are well and it is a good day.

Sometimes we will briefly speak about Catholicism. He clearly has read and heard the urban legends of the secular press. He'll repeat something that clearly puzzles him and I briefly explain the spiritual and theological, the intimacy, the Sacraments. The conversations are productive in disarming the misinformation.

I bumped into him early in the week and he told me he often thinks of me when somebody speaks about Catholicism to him. The conversation somehow led to the puzzlement of our practice of a celibate priesthood.

We briefly talked about the history and then I explained the spiritual power of it in terms I thought he could relate to - his relationship with his wife. How in his love and respect for her and their relationship, he disciplines his thoughts, actions, temptations, urges to keep his relationship intimate and healthy. I explained how Catholic theology develops the same kind of discipline to deeper intimacy with Christ through and with the Sacraments and the fruits of our Sacraments.

I reminded him of the spiritual power behind fasting with prayer, how sexuality is a magnificent gift, and the men who choose to forbear it are doing so as the ultimate sacrificial offering to God. He offers the fasting to God and with prayers of intercession, the people reap the benefit. It is the highest form of fasting prayer for a man -- which he agreed!!

I briefly explained how the fasting from whatever we fast from, be it something bad like sin - or something good like foods we like to eat - can and is something we offer to God to assist the efficacy of our prayers. Food is great but we can use it in unhealthy and harmful ways. We also can fast from it in conjunction with prayers. There are people who sell cupcakes and greasy foods. We know what foods are not good for us but we are tempted. There are nurses who teach how to use food property. What to forbear to keep us healthy with whatever medical conditions we may or may not have.

The same applies to sex. It's great under all the right circumstances which cannot be defined outside of God because it is a gift from Him. There are people out there who sell bad ways to use it and we are tempted. Much like a nurse, there are Catholics who evangelize the healthy ways sex is used and when to forbear temptations of those unhealthy ways.

I could see a light go on.

Concentrate on every person around you and if a door opens, witness to the truth.

I have another story to tell tomorrow.

Like Noah building his Ark - we can only do what we can do and invite. It's always a small crew that avoids the calamity that comes with the gross abandonment of God in a culture or civilization. He will always destroy it and start again. He's been known to delay the destruction if ten good people ask him for more time to work on luring people away from their captor and back into His arms.

I don't know where he's going with the disaster we have on our hands but things are not always what they seem to be on face value.

Justice Kennedy calls religious and morally convicted Americans enemies of the human race.




Do you think the name Kennedy is cursed?

Where is Kennedy going with this?

People who don't climb on board the reckless abandon of moral and natural law, not to mention common sense, are enemies of the human race to this clown.

How disconnected from reality can you get?

Forget about the taste of Kennedy's obvious religious bigotry and malicious insult.

The man actually thinks that people who care enough not to hoodwink others into their own destruction are enemies of the human race.

There is nothing more revolting than being forced to observe a jerk who has unhinged himself from God and sanity lead others into the abyss.

I just can't get over how boldly a SCOTUS judge would pronounce the laws of our Republic are now grounded in making enemies of the human race out of those who hold religious and moral convictions.

Dear Justice Kennedy:

You knock yourself out pal.

So long as you know what your declaration of war means.

We'll never get on your Titanic no matter what you do to us, including killing us.

Your reckless abandon of respect of human life and your brothers and sisters will eventually take you there.

After all, what the next logical step to stopping enemies of the human race but for the government to dispose of them?

Your counselor will take you there.

He always has and he always does.

He is first a liar and then he tees you up for suicide, homicide or genocide.

We see what you are doing to our brothers and sisters in the middle east and we know it will be our fate. As soon as you can feed enough countrymen your hatred of God and truth, what is right and good and holy, our blood will be in the streets.

But know this: We will never, ever, ever, ever stop telling the people you are luring into your swamp that what you're telling them will lead to misery and destruction.

Friday, June 28, 2013

Travon Martin's Character Witness Ridicules Special Needs and Creepyassed Crackers



This chick is a real piece of work.

When asked to read something she wrote, she said she can't read cursive, said it is acceptable to call whitey crazyassed crackers and told the defense lawyer he was retarded.

I wonder how she feels about fat and stupid.


Thursday, June 27, 2013

Barack Hussein's Troops Have Beheaded Orthodox Bishop in Syria - RIP

Obama's ethnic cleansing of Christians continues with the brutality of a demon.

He has murdered the orthodox bishops who were kidnapped in April.

The muslims Obama is supplying with weapons and money to carry out his agenda are executing us like there is no tomorrow.

I've read comments in the TTC comments section about perhaps thinking all of the insanity around us signals the end.

I don't think so.

Obama has yet to roll it out.

When he does, his armed forces will be gunning Christians down in our Churches, in the streets and in our own homes.

The United States is gone. Gonzo.

You'd really have to have your head in the sand not to see the diabolical circling the wagons.

This is a good read from Fr. Longenecker.

You know what gets me?

It is all the fruit of the rotten trees at nearly every Chancery in the United States.

The culture pimps who just happen to be the bishops pets.

The Bryan Hehirs. Garritys. Unnia. Fr. Butterballinos. Josomas. Coynes. Sassanis.
   

If it were the enemy, it would be easier to take.

Voris has an updated report on the culture pimps at the Holy See.

Nothing we didn't already know or suspect.

The Windswept House was not fiction, including the demonic worship.

Some cretin who got out of jail and tried to put them over a barrel to be reinstated went to the police when they wouldn't. They've got the pics and videos.

Still, it is really something to think they could finally all be going out in handcuffs.

It is alleged they cruised gay bars and promised young gay men and/or teenagers modeling contracts. Seduced them and then enslaved them into some kind of prostitution ring for the Roman priests and prelates.

See it and weep.



The Lavender Mafia at the Holy See - They had a good run.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Breaking News: Pope sets up special review!

Of how the shepherds are dutifully taking care of...

Are you ready?

The money.

In other news, Pope Francis said Joan Chittister is as important as a Pope.

We are all living stones.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Peter Paul and Mary.

He explained.

When you are Baptised, you are a living stone.

What does a living stone make you think about?

A building.  Construction.

That means We are church!

Get it?

He said have you ever noticed how ugly tired people are?

Do a little dance.  Make some love.  Get down tonight!





Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Obama-armed Rebels Massacre Entire Village of Christians


He is a no good liar and murderer.

The escalation of Obama's crusade to ethnic cleanse Chritians from the face of the earth is devastating. 

The silence is devastating.

The cowardice is devastating. 

The complicitness in these murders by Jack Connors, Bryan Hehir and company is devastating.

I am beside myself with grief.

Cardinal O'Malley Bans Dissident Priest Schuller



Wow.  He did it!

I am stunned.

What a gift to St. Susanna's parishioners who have been grossly misled from the Body and Blood of Christ.

What a gift to the priest and deacon.  With a bolt of lightening, they were awakened with the choice between life and death.

Some at St. Susanna’s parish are reportedly upset and a bit confused. Deacon Bloom says this is the first time they’ve been ordered to cancel one of their many talks. When asked if the parish regularly hosts speakers who espouse dissident positions, Bloom responded, “Oh yeah.”

Deacon Bloom told LifeSiteNews.com that the talk has not been cancelled altogether, but instead has been moved off of archdiocesan property.

Bloom went on to say it is a pity all of Schuller's good ideas are now banned.   People are very troubled about the ideas the Church has, and Fr. Josoma brings people to give his parishioners the talking points on why the Church is in error.

Deacon Bloom - a word to the wise:  Loose lips sink ships.

Sunday, June 23, 2013

If only you would put up with a ilttle foolishness from me. Please put up with me.

After reading this story, I really got a boot out of St. Paul this week - begging people to overlook his foolishness.

He's feeling henpecked.

I imagined him faithfully preaching and teaching the Gospel, offending people as it always does, but going through a period of unguarded thoughts, words and actions - and early Christians having just about enough of him.

Frustrated with their impatience, he reminds them that the truth is in him and he's gone out of his way not to ask them for food, sheleter and the things he needs.  He reminds them of the great love that he has for them.

What is a little foolishness amoungst people who love each other.

True dat.

But when you start saying things that would make our children think that uniting with the local priest and bishop who is demoralizing his community is more important than doing what it takes to get him to stop, we're moving from foolishness to dangerous for our children's salvation.

You don't keep dangerous men who have been ordained in their positions and then tell the faithful unifying with them is more important than finding a priest who will unify them to the truths that teach them the difference between the truth and lies, right and wrong, what is angelic and what is demonic.

I take that back.

You can, but given where we are in history, it just isn't going to fly with those of us who somehow managed to survive it and are trying to keep the people they love from being sucked into the vortex of false shepherds.

I'm not convinced that's what Pope Francis was saying, but when you're the Pope, syntax and context matters and you've got to choose your words very carefully to disarm the enemy who is standing by just waiting for us to say and do something stupid so he can run with the ball to feed the nitwits.

When it comes to privately sharing a prayer with a Jew or a Christian in the midst of something you are working on or towards, knock yourself out.  I've done it in the past and will continue to do it.

Catholics are literally the custodians of the Divinity of Christ's Body and Blood.   We don't do anything that would give anyone the impression that we are among a shmorgasboard of religions that are equal.

A responsible person wouldn't pray with a neopagan whose god is the dirt and water, a witch or a political faction who call their ethnic cleansing of Christians a 'religion'.  Any more than we would hold a public prayer service with Hitler a few miles away from the concentration camp where he was burning Jews in the oven.

Participate in a civic gathering where we all stop quietly to pray for our country's safety but invitations to interfaith prayer services in a place of worship should be declined.  Especially by a Pope.

I was still trying to process the above when I read this witness that obedience is for the birds, even in the most sacred of moments.

Here, you guys hold this and I'll whistle Dixie.

Give us a break.

If you want unity, you need to be a witness you're not going to tell our chilren that following the instructions of Joan Chittister or Bryan Hehir should be more important to them than truth.

Kick it up a couple of notches there Paul.


Sunday, June 16, 2013

Anyone know anything about this guy?



He has some interesting posts.

We should keep our eye on him. 

I'm not one to subscribe to conspiracy theories, but I'm not stupid enough to ignore people investigating current events who suddenly dropping dead or "falling out" of helicopters or found with a "suicide note" pinned to his chest.

I was particularly interested in this story.

The lies around the incident in Benghazi were so organized, that when Obama suggested that freedom of speech of Americans be curtailed, that citizens who make films about the slaughter of Christians by islamists be arrested and jailed, when he told the UN that the future does not belong to those who duly note the pedophila, the oppression and abuse of women, the carrying out of their goals to execute those who refuse to convert to islam - only a fool could deny that the President is pathological liar who is attacking the Constitution of the United States from every conceivable angle. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms and the separation of powers which create and enforce laws.

The organized persecution of the IRS certainly add to concerns that Obama is an enemy of the United States and its citizens.   It is irrefutable evidence that Obama is using government agencies to spy on those with religious, moral and political conviction and has already built structures to surrpress, oppress and persecute. Consequently, Hangmann's assertions are quite possible. Snowden has upped the ante, but he lost me when he started blabbing about spying on communists and other potential threats to our sovereignty and safety. I don't give a rat's patoot if the government is reading blogs and Facebook or listening to phone conversations in an effort to catch terrorists. The problem is, they are arming and empowering terrorists and using surveillance to catch people working to counter the belief that people have the legal right to kill people whom they perceive as a burden. Obama's political and military structures evolve sound the eradication of the sanctity of life and morality. The author of that has a tail and horns. It is already ugly. It's just a matter of finding out how far they have advanced the communism in our own country.

The Happy Prostitute



Brazilians tried to put the spin on the sexual exploitation of women and children - they're happy to be living on the streets and be the sexual repositories for creeps.

It didn't blow over well.

This is another manifestation of the concept that victims of poverty, poor catechesis, intellectual, emotional and/or spiritual maladies are told by the neopagans running the government that what they are doing, or more appropriately, what they are having done to them, is delightful.

The amoral and immoral sexual appetite of the neopagan culture can never be satisfied.   History demonstrates that that they will eventually come for the children.     

The government is in the process of indoctrinating children into believing human sexuality is about stimulation and finding a person to reach orgasm - and that this is happiness.  The misery that follows that lifestyle is painted over with giddy and pride.

There is nothing stopping the legalization of pedophila, and even civil unions or marriages to children.

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Just do it.



Bill Donohue has the same response we do

You don't need a group of eight other people to tell you what to do about your corrupt employees.

The person in charge fires them.

That would be you, Dear Pope.

Spending time with the people who work in the kitchen is refreshing.

But when you are doing it to avoid what you are supposed to be doing, it's dysfunction.

Friday, June 14, 2013

Sebelius tells third graders they are losers who should drop out of school



These kids better be careful - she may euthanize them, especially if they're fat.



Gee, I wonder how generations of geniuses came about before the government mandated mothers send their children to school at the hour of birth.

This is actually quite scary.

Are there actually mothers out there turning their children over to be brainwashed by the government at birth?

Positively frightening.

Let us face it.   I wonder what symbol they'll use for their communist regime.

They won't resurrect the swastika.   The fist is too obvious.

I think it will be something sexual.

The crack of a bum?  ( l )

Suicide Notes for Homework at Swanky New York School



Recently, teachers at a swanky New York school told their students:  Here kiddies, read this book and then tell us the reasons you want to commit suicide.

I wonder if it was diocesan. 

Sounds like something the Chancery would do, doesn't it?

The parents called it 'inappropriate'. 

Is that the right word for it?

It's freeken nuts.  Dangerous.  An act that should end in somebody's termination, tuition refunds and counseling.

These parents are paying $41,000 dollars a year and this is what they are teaching their children is Literature?  

What's music?

Coordinated belching and flatulence? 

What a rip off!







When in Rome, do as the Romans do






Oh wait.


I guess this could explain why Pope Francis is keeping his distance from them.



I have a dream






Thought I would lighten up the mood a bit!

To the "Irishman"

I received your message which you signed:



"Regards


The Irishman who always watches you and your family"

I know who you are and what you are and I'm doing more than just watching you pal. 

If anything happens to my children, you'll be dragged out of your corner with the rats with bracelets around your wrists for a nice ride in the back of a police car so fast your head will spin.

You'll heed my warning if you know what is good for you.

You've got some nerve threatening a mother.  And for what?

You circle the wagons of Catholics who proclaim Church teaching that calls homosexuals to their only option for their salvation, celibacy, and you insult and intimidate and threaten them.    You are a predator.  In every conceivable way.

Every time you have an itch and you look for somebody to scratch it, when you roll off of him, know this: You have robbed him of his salvation.  

Misery loves company doesn't it. 

That's somebody's son or grandson or nephew and they are loved and cared about.  The people who encourage them not to respond to the advances of people who want to have sex with them, are people whose intentions are pure and good and loving. 

You come around to convince them it is driven by hatred for your own selfish motives.  You are shooting the messenger.

You don't want people to learn and know the ways of Christ, and practice abstinence,  go to Church, sit in front of the Blessed Sacrament praying to be preserved from acting upon temptations.  Because there you'd be, leaving that barroom to go home and sleep with yourself.

The skullduggery of threats and intimidation may scare the priest in your local parish.  It may scare the cowards in the Chancery.   It may even scare the Pope.  But you don't scare me.

I have access to the source of the same power that rose men from the dead and you, my dear, are his monkey.

Póg Mo Éireannach Thói.

Good day to you sir.

Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee.
Blessed art thou among women and Blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.  Amen.

St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, pray for us. St. Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland, bless and protect the sanctity of the children of Ireland and their ancestors.

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Pope Francis Off the Cuff - Stai Zitto!


Conclude.
Callate.
Ferme la grande bouche.

Pope Francis off-the-cuff has been a...how should I put this...it's been..... a bit of a freak show

If there is any truth to the published reports, we certainly have a problem on our hands.  At best imprudence and at worst, an individual who has absolutely no resect for the teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

Let's review the week, shall we?

He's told children that being elected Pope is something to reject because it isn't a ministry that serves people.  He's a people person.

Christ sure had some dumb ideas, I guess.

So much for his three years walking around teaching and curing...I'm assuming they were PEOPLE?

It begs the questions:   Aren't the people who work at or visit the Vatican people?   Aren't the people he visits in other countries people?

He seems to be confusing the Papacy with the Carmelites.

Somebody show him pictures of the 2000 years of Popes, will you?

Then, he said the gay prelates did pull a coup de tat at the Vatican, but he is too disorganized to know how to walk down the hall and fire them. He needs a team of people - at least one of whom inculturated his diocese with more homopromiscuity than a hot night in in July in Provincetown.

Yesterday, we learned that the Pope is wringing his hand in concern for the moonbats who sent him a spiritual bouquet of decades of the Rosary they said for him. They are people who never left the 1940s, says he.

Organizing people to say the Rosary and letting him know the intensity and power behind those prayers - that's something the sitting Pope tells anecdotes about so he and his audience can ROFLOL.

To him, they're as crazy as bedbugs, doing things that even don't exist anymore!!   Why, they'er bad as the pagan women who take baths instead of praying!

Incredulous.

Today, we read that he told his audience the CDF is pish posh.  Yeah, that's right - pay no attention to the CDF.  He wants to build a church that makes mistakes.  Get it?

But here was the kicker:  he's opting out of making the mistakes that bring consequences to his own backside:

Pray for me... that I make mistakes the least possible.

Hello hypocrisy.

There is a reason why 2000 years of Popes icksnay on the spontaneous chatteray. 

Saints preserve us!

 I think we better start hunkering down and praying for the man.  He is going to be under siege.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Dear Pope Francis: The Elephant is in the Room



A friend passed along this article, wherein the Pope said that there is a group of gay prelates in the Holy See that is strategically working to undermine Church teaching and rob Catholics of their salvation.

He says he just can't fix it on his own because he is disorganized.

Let us help him:

1. Identify said prelates.
2. Walk into their office.
3. Tell them they are relieved of their duties.
4. Put the next in command in charge of that office or dicastry.
5. Encourage and persuade them to intensive spiritual counseling and healing with the Sacraments.

That's it.  One by one, relieve them of their duties.  Tomorrow is good.

With all due respect to the Holy Father - how could he have selected a Bishop who has inculturated our schools and apostolates with the very heresies he wishes to eliminate in Rome?

If you were looking for a crackjack team to help you flush out fatsos, would you pick a thin bishop who was forcefeeding cupcakes to every child in his diocese?





Monday, June 10, 2013

Obama Losing the Trust of the...Press!


I wonder if Bambam thought he'd never get caught treating journalists as a bigger security threat than the Taliban.

The most compelling thing in that story is, Quinnipiac found 49% of the people they polled still thought Obama was trustworthy.


I'd love to know if the same people think Charles Manson trustworthy.

What's their litmus test?

IRS tells an American to "keep their religion to themselves"


The Communists are really getting bold.

Caught on tape.

We are not as stupid as we look:   Here's the transcript.


(Boston's) Bishop Chris Coyne Celebrates Ad Orientem Anglican Use Mass

Ok, he's not in Boston now, but Boston is his home town.

Nice.

Here's a funny Fr. Chris Coyne story.

When he was here serving as the Cardinal's Secretary of Communication (Terry Donilon's job), must be 20 years ago now, and I was being my usual pest self about something stupid somebody was doing.  I don't remember exactly what it was, but I want to say it was reiki or something like that.  They weren't acting fast enough to spare people of being sucked in, so I was turning up the heat and pestering, driving them crazy. 

He told me to have a glass of Dewar's and chill!

Never heard of the stuff and had to ask him what it was.

He was fresh.   But, you had to love him. He wasn't a game player.   He truly wanted to do the right thing for Christ and His Church.  He took the time to really investigate, follow up and follow through.  Even when I disagreed with the end results, I could respect them because the process was honest and almost always, the errors and wrongs being carried out came to the right resolution. 


He is aging like a fine wine!

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Seven Times Seventy

Another dust up and apology from Mark Shea.

In the past, the problem has been that Mark makes up his own Magisterium which contradicts the one written by the Church.  With his gross misunderstandings of theology and the Mystical Body of Christ, he takes pot shots at the people trying to exercise their vocation or ensure that his use of his platform is free of error and slander.  Error and slander are things he -- we all are - responsible to correct.

His theology on covert operations of police, military and lay people to catch terrorists and murderers as forbidden by our faith is not Catholic theology. He has fooled himself into thinking the thoughts in his own head are Catechetical proscriptions of the Catholic Church.

The piece clearly indicates he is sorry, but I actually can't tell what conduct he is actually sorry about. 

He mentions burning of Lila Rose at the stake, but his explanation led me to conclude he was sorry about his response to the stupid people who willfully refused to accept his caricature of  Lila Rose as a liar whose ministry is forbidden by the Catholic Church.  He seems to say that he wished he just called Lila first to get her to sign off on his mandatum.

I don't walk away with the conviction that he'll stop inciting contempt with lies and falsehoods against faithful Catholics who serve Christ through the legitimate and effective avocation (or in cases like Voris vocation) of Church Militant.

  I can't sink my teeth into anything that tells me he understands how the Mystical Body works and his intentions are to cease and desist from inciting contempt with slander.

He repeatedly says it wasn't that he is wrong in his original opinion that Lila, or Voris or Fr. Wesst are lying and sinning - only that the way he expressed those opinions were ineffective and bitter and in the future, he will try to find ways to express his right opinions to be more convincing and persuasive.






Here's the irony - the fur started to fly when he wrote this excellent piece about the proper tone and conduct of an argument.   How sin makes you stupid and immerses us in lies, darkens our intellect and makes us fight the light.

Wherein somebody responded:

I don't quite know how to take this. I want to assume you mean what you're saying, but it's not easy. You seem to take disagreement very personally. You also seem to have a quick fuse. Put those two together, and they produce a lot of sarcasm and insult instead of argument. I don't mind reading you when I disagree; I just brush you off. When I get really uncomfortable is when I agree with you. It's way to easy to join in your enjoyment of ridicule and belittling. I wonder if that's why a lot of people read you.


Whoah baby, did she ever hit the raw nerve. 

Sometimes something comes along and changes us.  That and the Sacraments - nothing is impossible with God.  Time either heals all wounds or wounds the heel.

Writing about theology is incredibly convoluted.  The mischief and peril can never really be understood unless you've experienced its traps.  

You are in the public square like a clock that all kinds of people and principalities approach to wind up.   Others fire their guns.  Then, there is the crazies.

I pray God blesses his contrition and brings much fruit.





Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Middleboro High Abuse of a Child and Disrespect of Women

In Middleboro, if you dress up to attract the kind of sexual partner you'd like to attract, you can be crowned prom queen.

Nothing against the kid himself, who is clearly a victim of the culture and irresponsible adults in his community, but the ideology behind the crowing of an individual who is costumed up to befriend the person he wishes to have a sexual relationship with, is profoundly disturbing.

Will next year's prom queen be dressed like a prostitute?

Who was the king?   The young man who slept with the most underage children at the school?

What is the matter with these adults?

Do they not realize that the actions of children can be sexually predatory?

 Rather than getting this  young man the spiritual, psychological and medical help he needs, the staff at Middleboro high school crowned Quasimodo as prom queen, burdening him with consequences.

How the adults can sleep at night, crowning their negligence and neglect of this young man in this way, is beyond me.

It is reprehensible.

I do not believe I have ever read a more despicable insult to the magnificent beauty, femininity and God-given gift of woman.

What are the young women to believe about themselves if this counterfeit representation of  "woman" is the definition of femininity, grace and beauty to this community?

What shall young female children in Middleboro aspire to become?

 I am beside myself to realize that these irresponsible, insulting adults would caricature woman as throwing a wig, lipstick and a dress on whatever you wish and you have created a woman.

 A woman is a creation of God that is designed to receive life and give it back to God. Our features are beautiful and designed with the alluring sensuality that attracts her husband. She guards and reserves her sexuality to please only him and her God.

A woman serves her family, friends, community, instinctively observing their needs.

 We are creatures that no cheap trick could ever come close to imitating.

 This macabre display is proof positive that public schools are gone to the dogs.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Cardinal O'Malley Evicts Retiring Priests in Boston

Our friends and colleagues at BCI have the sad story of one priestwho was served up with eviction notices sent to senior priests in Boston.

 Fr. Connelly, who is 90 years of age, is not the only senior priest who received the eviction notice. The letter to retired priests said the pastor wants you to vacate the rectory, pack your belongings and get out, you are homeless and need to find your own place to live. The priests, naturally, were and are extremely upset to receive the disturbing notice.

 The kind of charity one finds in hell.

 With all the property they own, all the rectories with empty bedrooms, they told our senior priests that they are homeless.

 My Jesus Mercy.

 What kind of people could do such a thing? It is heartless. They throw their sick and elderly into the gutter like empty wallets.

 Get out nana and gramps and take your stuff with you. We are done putting a roof over your head and feeding you.

 It is frightening. Truly, it is.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Hour of Adoration with the Pope

I hope you all found a place to unite your prayers with Pope Francis and millions of Catholics. It was a scramble in Boston, but she/he who knocks shall have the doors opened! All of your intentions were lifted in prayer.

It was quite powerful.

 I watched a movie this weekend on John Paul II and was again reminded how similar in personality and charism Pope Francis is to Blessed John Paul II. The fall of Poland to the communists, the game plan for getting through the hate and murdering dictators refined +JPII like gold. He was able save lives and guide many Catholics through the crucible to their sanctity. In spite of everything.

 The Holy Spirit is always so far ahead of the game, our shortsightedness is no competition.