Tuesday, July 29, 2014

I've changed my mind. I want his phone number.

Say it to his face.


When a priest disagrees with his bishop or when bishops disagree with each other, they must air their differences -- even loudly -- but never talk behind each other's backs, Pope Francis told the group of bishops and priests. A transcript of the pope's remarks was released by the Vatican July 27. "Say it to his face," the pope recommended.

"You're a man, so if you have something against your bishop, go and tell him. There may be consequences, but pick up your cross, be a man!"

A mother and grandmother has a lot more at stake than a celibate man.

I've got a glass or two of lemonade I'd like him to swallow.

Pope Francis Ten Tips for Happiness - Folk Wisdom from Dalai Franka



Pope Francis doozy to the Pentecostals shed some light on his canard about happiness.


I thought to myself, "Oh,I get it. He's giving out advice to make people feel good about themselves when they're in a state of mortal sin."

And brother, are the poor uncatechized slobs of this world ever going to need it.

This is brutal, isn't it?

If the translation is accurate, in the Pope's speech to the Pentecostals, he actually announced heresy, apostasy and the separation of countless immortal souls from Christ's Church should be 'celebrated' as 'diverrsity'.

It's clear Archbishop Chaput is troubled by the dissatisfaction with the folk wisdom of Dalia Franka.

Through the years, Archbishop Chaput has forged a special bond with Catholics who know true happiness and peace of mind and spirit can never be found outside of a state of sanctifying grace.

I'm sure he is getting an earful from people for whom he holds a great deal of respect.

There is one flaw in Ab Chaput's thesis that I have found repeats itself when people try to urge mothers to accept the antidote of watching the faith of their children unravel in the switcheroo from Sanctifing Grace to cheap grace.

They keep trying telling us that Pope Francis believes in the teachings of the Church.

Nobody sound and rational is disputing that Pope Francis himself is faithful to the teachings of the Church.

What they don't seem to get is, we are not interested in his personal set of values and his personal practices. Our dissatisfaction is related to his actual job: teaching our children and the people we love what to believe.

So when the Pope suggests the worst thing to do is evangelize the teachings of the Church or we should let apostasy live and let live or 'celebrate' the 'diversity' of the people we love moseying on down the road to a protestant church - and all the other nonsense that has been the fruit of lo these 500 days, we take no comfort in the proposition that Pope Francis knows his own way to Heaven.

God bless him, I hope he makes it.

But I am beside myself about he is teaching our children to believe is the path to their salvation.

If Archbishop Chaput believes there is some place in Heaven where prelates who have misled souls reside, I do not join him in that delusion, but where Pope Francis goes for his eternal place of rest is not on my radar.

If over the course of 500 days, the Pope taught our children faithfulness to teachings of the Church, these ten suggestions would be benign. They may actually be welcomed.

Even if he said nothing to instruct our people how to make judgments on the deposit of faith, the ten suggestions wouldn't stand out like a sore thumb.

But Pope Francis has repeatedly and consistently given our children the message he's come along to show us all the key to happiness is poopoohing 2000 years of judgments in the deposit of faith and focusing on what everyone does with money. You can sleep around, take contraception, murder your children, go to the protestant church -- so long as you donate time and money, you are on the path to salvation. Anyone who is honest has to agree this is the message of this papacy.

Pope Francis has painted himself as the white horse who is going to save Christ's Church from the faithfulness to Christ's teachings which is making the world miserable.

Unrepentant, murderers feel emotions that might temporarily lift their spirit when playing with their children and could in fact spend 24 hours of their day following the Pope's 10 suggestions, but they are nothing but distractions. The state of their soul controls their intellect which in turn controls their emotions. Outside of a state of grace, those wires are frazzled.

Leisure is not going to fix the problem any more than the drugs the shrinks are passing out like candy.

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Fr. Pepe's Dirty Dancing




The only better name for him is Fr. Poopoo.

In new interview, Pope Francis caricatures Communism as Christianity.

The Pope has put himself into the spotlight again with another "interview" and the first reports indicate it is another doozy.

The oppressive, immoral, atheist political science whose goal includes apartheid of Christianity helps poor people he said, and so that makes it Christian.

This reminds me of grammar school at St Mark's when the class clown would hijack a lesson by yelling out something he thought was clever or funny.

There was no need for the mass tranquilization of children with Ritalin when the nuns were allowed to pull them out of class by the shirt and tell them to knock it off.

I saw the pic of Pope Frank tooling around in the cafeteria with workmen wearing blue shirts.

I could imagine myself in that predicament... thinking to myself "on no, here he comes".

How long do you think I'd last before I would say, "Begging the pardon of His Holiness, while I'd love to sit and shoot the breeze, every time I see your face I'm reminded of my children and the people I love who now think the principles of Catholic moral theology are only followed by kooks on the fringe - so I'm going to mosey on over to another table to each my tuna sandwich and chips. Pray for me and have a great day. "

Before its over,I wouldn't be surprised to see pics on instagram of him coming out for morning coffee in his robe and slippers without his dentures.

You know, the regular schmoe code of conduct for future men elected to chair of Peter.

Reports are beginning to surface on the agenda for the Synod. If they are accurate, in the chaos of Captain Quigg worrying about the strawberries, the City of Rome has been hijacked by madmen.

The tailspin from the alleged proposed theologically asinine agenda will be irreversible. We ain't seen nuttin yet.

We just ain't seen nuttin yet.

The real pity is watching the nightmare unfold and realizing there isn't a single person in Rome who has the courage to yank him out by the shirt and tell him to knock it off.

UPDATE: The consistent and disturbing theological message from Pope Francis should be recognized in this outstanding article on "the fundamental option" which (evidently) grew out of the theological turmoil following "Vatican II".

Fundamental option separates specific moral actions from a more general – fundamental – orientation of life. It holds, therefore, that specific sins do not bear on the status of one’s soul, or on the destination of one’s soul after death. All that matters for salvation, in this view, is that one “fundamentally” lives for God rather than evil.

This is precisely what our loved ones are regurgitating from Pope Francis jumbled messages.

The author does a great job quoting St. John Paul II condemnation of 'the fundamental option'.

With every freely committed mortal sin, he offends God as the giver of the law and as a result becomes guilty with regard to the entire law (cf. Jas 2:8-11); even if he perseveres in faith, he loses sanctifying grace, charity and eternal happiness.

I had never heard of 'fundamental option' before, but instinctively recognized the problems in the execution of judgment and spiritual practices each time Pope Francis invites journalists to publish his thoughts and remarks.

The author also articulates, I think succintly, the same thoughts and questions I have - we all have:

The sheer menace of fundamental option and its patent disregard of Church teaching spark some pressing questions. What would possess someone who should know better to teach this most dangerous and most destructive distortion? What benefit does the teacher gain by proffering a bogus path to salvation? Surely he knows that he himself will not be the arbiter of his students’ eternal fates. Why, then, teach his own theory of salvation when he could teach the means taught directly by the Judge Himself?

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Obama Agrees to Revise Mandate to Outsource Providing Putana Pills


Obviously, this is a week I probably shouldn't be blogging!

The rules, which are still being worked out, will provide an "alternative way for objecting nonprofit religious organizations to provide notification," according to the White House.


We can't sign any stinking form that entraps others into doing what we know results in a spiritual suicide or physical homicide.

It isn't rocket science: Let the government notify them they can go right down to CVS, pull five dollars out of their own wallets and buy their own contraception.

Fr. Pavone expresses the level of trust Obama has earned with Catholics:

But Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, told LifeNews that he doesn’t trust the Obama administration to adequately accommodate pro-life groups that object to the mandate.

“The Priests for Life lawsuit against the HHS mandate is the next to be decided, having already had oral arguments in the nation’s second most influential Court, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. At the crux of the issue is that our completion of the form required under the “accommodation” given to religious non-profit groups constitutes cooperation in the very evil that the form says we are objecting to,” he told LifeNews.com.

He said, “If the government just kept us out of the process altogether of either triggering, authorizing, or in any fashion being the gateway for employees to receive coverage for objectionable practices, that would satisfy our concerns. Of course, we would have to carefully examine any changes the Administration makes to its current policy, in order to verify that what our faith considers immoral cooperation is completely excluded.”

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The Bishops Doth Protest Too Much


Reading the news, the world is really in a free fall, isn't it.

Obama's army of Christ killers are marking the homes of Christians in the Middle East for the planned executions as the son of beezabul vacations on the Vineyard.

It took a long time to get to this point in time and as far as I am concerned, the Bishops have as much blood on their hands as the Democrats. The Bishops are worse because though they knew the truth, they collaborated in the subversion of it. They traded the salvation of their people for a seat at the table with corrupt politicians. They continue to do it to this day.

As the cronies of the agenda were brainwashing our children in schools, parishes, as civil law robbed us of the constitutional right to refuse to do harm to the soul or physical body of another human being, they honored the politicians, sat silent through the slaughters or worse, maligned Catholics who attempted to save Christ's people from it - including the people we loved. They stood at arms length from it all, thinking they had no accountability for people they had set up for spiritual suicide.

Their pious exchanges and publicity stunts with politicians and their cronies is their coup de grace to their uncatechized and wounded countrymen.

Ecce Homo.

I know more than I ever want to know. It was like having a front row seat to the USCCB seated beside Nero in the stadium chomping on grapes and escargot as they tortured and killed Christians below.

The most compelling example was the outsourcing of abortions. Many years have passed and I still can't get over their willingness to deliberately entrap hundreds of thousands of souls into killing other people. I knew in that moment we were toast.

Up until this point in time the situations didn't really put their own hands-on the gun to pull the proverbial trigger but I knew the day would come.

They are all in a dither and a dather over Obama's executive order.

I couldn't agree more with Janet.

It was ok when teachers and doctors and nurses and cabdrivers and pharmacists and priests and children had to carry out the orders, contracts and edicts they negotiated with politicians.

As the policies start circling their own wagons, the crybabying from the USCCB has finally commenced.

Cry me a river.



Last Christians Alive Flee Iraq



These headlines claim that Barack Hussein remains silent as the ethnic cleansing of Christians in Iraq is in its final hours.

He helped supply the guns and is behind the murderers.

That is his statement.

New Bishop of Rochester Blowing Off the Stink of Mattie Clark


Priests give homilies, lay people sit in the pews.

Monday, July 21, 2014

Somebody want to drop a dime?

Found in blogosphere:

"A good example of this irrational block is a discussion of transubstantiation. A Protestant who is ignorant of the teaching might think Catholics believe that the bread and wine are transformed physically into human flesh and blood."

Anyone want to venture a guess as to what Father thinks is irrational about that?

I wonder what he is explaining as happening?

Saturday, July 19, 2014

A prolife reader asks, where is Cardinal O'Malley?


As legislators are furiously trying to overrule the SCOTUS and write another piece of unconstitutional legislation that gives a patrolman in a cruiser the power to jail and fine Eleanor McCullen $10,000, everyone has been asking the question - Where is Waldo?

Since Eleanor McCullen is a fairly decent benefactor to the Archdiocese, one would think the Cardinal would speak out against the character assassination of her prayerful and gentle work saving lives and souls and the retaliation tactics of the politicians who have a stake in the killing of babies be as they don't have any desire to give shelter, formula and diapers to American unwed mothers.

Who knew, all this time the government would be willing to put up six thousand dollars a month to give food and shelter to a needy child?

Who knew Cardinal O'Malley would zoom in front of a camera to help advocate food and shelter for children so long as they are not American children.


"I can help with housing, medical — we work with St. Elizabeth's, just down the road, and everything is free," she says, walking with the women as they approach the door.

Martha Coakley and the sled dogs of a government whose answer is to murder children rather than give them free or cheap stuff they need don't wan't people like Eleanor McCullen and Bill Cotter offering women the help they need. They don't want them to know help is out there.

Planned Parenthood invents all kinds of boogeymen that the police are not able to find. The reality is, these are people, most are retired or clergy, who are offering women help and praying.

Here's the 'threat' to 'public safety':

"Good morning, Jesus loves you," said Mary O'Donnell, an 82-year old woman carrying rosaries and pamphlets who arrived at the center at 7 a.m.

Why would the Cardinal sit silent as these heroes are being maligned as violent thugs who need to be fined $10,0000 and jailed at an arbitrary judgment of a patrolman who receives a false allegation?

The United States Chairman of the Prolife Committee is nowhere to be found on this critical battle in the saving of lives and the constitutional rights of Catholics.

Yesterday, while standing in line at an amusement park in New Hampshire, I got a phone call that there was a sighting.

Cardinal O'Malley was on television with Governor Deval Patrick.

I know what you're thinking.

Was he advocating for housing, formula, diapers and other things necessary to stop Deval Patrick and Martha Coakley from killing the children?

Was there a big announcement on a collaborative effort to feed, house and clothe the children and their mothers?

No. Eleanor will go to jail and the poorhouse, the children will be put to death and their mother handed over to the devil without a peep from Cardinal O'Malley.

He was on television helping Barack Obama find housing for the invasion of illegal alien to advance the collapse of our country.

Boston Catholic Insider has said everything on the subject matter that needs to be said.

I encourage all to read it.

Helping Deval and Martha find homes for illegals are more important than stopping them from killing American children who are protected by the Constitution of the United States.

Living in a state of mortal sin and considering yourself in a "personal relationship with Jesus"

An outstanding piece on the problem of living in a state of mortal sin whilst considering yourself in a blissful personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Several years ago, Cardinal O'Malley cherry-picked a group of priests to develop a blueprint for the 'new evangelism' he wanted to see promoted in the Archdiocese.

I always smell a rat when I heard the words 'new evangelism'. It seems to always turn out to be the trajectory away from teaching the Catechism, giving people the tools they need to live in a state of sanctifying Grace to enable Christ's Properties in the Eucharist to flourish in your soul and intellect and bring you to the mystical place where Christ resides and reigns.

Being somewhat familiar with those he cherry picked to put the plan together, I had a feeling future Boston Catholics were going to be robbed. And, sure enough, when the plan was unveiled, it was a cheap welcome wagon contest wherein the archdiocese would arrange to have secret shoppers visit each parish and score on how 'welcoming' each parish is, and they would keep a scoreboard somewhere in the Chancery.

A counterfeit church where dogma and doctrine is forbidden and replaced with a battalion of washed up women and sissified men constantly distracting you from your pursuit of entering into deep mystical communion with Christ. These people don't have any idea what the whole thing is about. While we are running into the building where we put everything else out of our minds to concentrate on going to the mystical world where we are met and greated by angels and saints, Our Truine God, the Blessed Mother and we immerse ourselves - they're trying to find ways to plug into each other and grab something to help them overcome the sick feeling they have in their soul from sleeping with somebody they're not sacramentally married to. They've been coming to the parish for years and the priest has never told them what that feeling is all about and the only way to get rid of it.

Every time I hear or see people trying to turn the City of God into that, I think about Archbishop Fulton Sheen who would startle the welcome wagon types by asking them what sin they were holding onto.

Isn't this what the Pope is turning our religion into?

Attracting with a welcome wagon, withholding and undermining doctrine and the tools to get people into a state of Grace, ridiculing doctrine and dogma and turning it all into a welcome wagon so people can find a personal relationship with Jesus on Sunday morning after they roll off of their lovers?

There's nothing like a Sunday morning breakfast after having your adultery affirmed by your local Catholic priest. That kind of a 'personal relationship with Jesus' really gets your juices going for the week.

I found another interesting quote from a celebrity in this CRISIS piece written by Dr. William Oddie that captures the essence of the spirit generated from the messages of Pope Francis.

Jane Fonda, who tweeted last year “Gotta love new Pope. He cares about poor, hates dogma.

Actually a reasonable and accurate conclusion drawn from the shtick.

This is the fruit of the cheap grace of making doctrine an enemy of your people. It always has been and it always will be.

Everyone indignant about the articulation of what is now painfully obvious to all of us is hanging on by the thread that it all may be an unintentional outcome. We do not know whether the Pope intends or does not intend for listeners to receive the twisted messages.

This is true.

But somebody may be a bad driver, drive through the doors and CVS and kill people standing in line, unintentionally. Whether intentional or unintentional, the Registry of Motor Vehicles is going to take the keys away.

Truth be told, when somebody does something over and over again, it's never been a sign to me that signals the outcome is unintentional.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter to me whether the outcome of his messages are intentional or unintentional. I'll give him the benefit of my doubt. What I am focused on is the irrefutable outcome, how it affects the people I love and what do I need to do about it.

Dr. Oddie is yet another faithful Catholic who is expressing discouragement caused by the herald of the new edict from the Vicar of Christ that doctrine and the people who teach it are the enemies of the Church. He also mentions the reality that most responsible, lucid Catholics have already expressed about their blogs and other tools they've been using for years to talk about doctrine, evangelism and the challenges inside and outside of the Church - what do we do now?

I share their concern, but what I do with the blog is really not my main concern. My main concern is about how to get my own children/grandchildren/relatives/people/friends around the larceny.

I'm feeling kind of resentful 'bout 'dat.

For years, when Fr. SoandSo encouraged dissent and I flew the coop with them, I always had a Pope to point them towards to explain the mess on the ground and give them the ability to mentally process how to apply doctrine to the judgments they make every day when faced with temptations.

It has all been turned upside down for them.

That is what I am upset about and what I am focused on. The Pope has ripped my children from the intellect and sound judgment of Christ. Possibly for the rest of their lives. I couldn't be any more disgusted and upset about it.

When I think about writing on the blog right now, I'm thinking...

That I dug my key into the side
of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats...
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires...
Maybe next time he'll think before he speaks.





Friday, July 18, 2014

Should Catholics take a chill pill about Pope Francis?

Our friend Mike Voris is suggesting the proper response to Pope Francis style of saying every thought that comes into his head no matter how unwise or unsound is to wait a few days until the Vatican can crack the code and tell us what he meant.

Here is a transcript.

Even if Catholics ignore a year and a half of the consistent messages that moral theology and commandments can be violated and will not result in a judgment and adjudication from Christ, evangelism should be about what should be done with money, the economy, lonely people, teenage unemployment and making sure trees (not women or children)can bear fruit without exploitation, Fr Lombardi has already confirmed that the scandalous things reported captured the essence of what Pope Francis said though is not a precise translation.

Michael seems to be swimming in the river of denial.

Further, and more importantly, how does Michael propose parents explain this new method of catechesis to their children?

Yes honey, I heard the Pope telling the world that the Catholic Church should not make judgments about homosexual sex and other small-minded rules about adultery, contraception, abortion and I know you have not heard him teach any of the things in the Catechism I have been teaching at home, and I know this appears to confirm what Father so and so preaches in the Church we fled -- but we must wait a few days or a few years until Fr Lombardi sends out a press release.

What exactly does Michael think has happened inside of every Catholic home after a year and a half of having Fr. Lombardi say, Ya, that is basically what the Pope said but not a precise translation?

Suggesting to parents that the right action inside of their homes is to ignore and continue to contradict the Pope and their children will get the tools they need for the rest of their life for the salvation of their souls is farcical.

There is a reason why there is a 2000 year history of Popes who adopt the style of not saying every thought that pops into their heads.

With every single vocation each of us accepts, there comes change.

We can no longer be who we are when we accept a vocation.

A woman who takes a husband has to come home and put a meal on the table instead of grabbing a salad and going to the gym. Even though going to the gym after work is very much who she is.

When she becomes a mother, she prepares herself by studying the best practices, she reads, observes, studies and she takes on an entirely new set of habits, discipline and sacrifices.

A man does the same as a husband and a father.

Is Michael now suggesting that vocations do not require the discipline and change that make them succesful?

Pope Francis is teaching us all how to be loosey goosey when we enter into a vocation and we should not inform our children and the people we love about how that road leads to a train wreck?

A priest spends years learning how the sacrifice of celibacy creates an intimate and powerful connection to Christ and how to use the connection and power to crush Satan's head. He surrenders who he is when he lays on the floor on the day of his ordination. He practices the art of discipline and sacrifice.

A priest who finds himself elected to the Chair of Peter requires the ultimate sacrifice of who he is. This change is so ginormous, Christ memorialized it with the practice of changing His Vicar's name, and telling him he is about to be chained and dragged to a place he will not want to go.

Cheapening this vocation as something a man could accept while continuing to act as he pleaseth no matter what the cost is to catechesis, salvation and unity is a terrible disservice to Christ and His Church and needs to be rejected.

We have a duty to preserve the vocation of a Pope, most especially when a current occupant wants to turn it into the adventures of Forest Gump.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Holy See Posts Scalfari Interview on Vatican Website as if it's part of the Magisterium



I thought this was insidious the first time they did it but was somewhat relieved when they pulled it down after the fallout from the irresponsible statements reported by Scalfari on the first interview.

After the third interview and fallout, they have put the interview back up on the Vatican website, as if the buffoonery is part of the Magisterium.

Ok, it is getting pretty impossible to hold onto the charitable thought that it is all unintentional.

I am beginning to equate what is being done by the Pope to the people I love and our religion with the feelings I have for Joan Chittister.

With all due respect to Fr. Z, the idea that the Pope has nothing to do with the outcome of three interviews he himself participated in, with full knowledge of what happened each time - is kinda..you know, ludicrous.

It's like saying Tom Fox has nothing to do with content of the National Catholic Reporter - it's all just booboos of the people he has around him who have their own agenda which he is incapable of stopping.

Come on!

Mass Legislators File Another Unconstitutional Buffer Zone Bill After SCOTUS Ruling



Another shining example of what the unannounced dictatorship under Barack Hussein manifested itself in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts lawmakers delivered another kick in the gut to prolifers earlier this week when they announced they intended to trump the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States striking the buffer zone with a new piece of legislation creating a 25 foot buffer zone.

The new bill would allow police to issue a dispersal order if at least two demonstrators are found to be blocking patient or staff access to abortion clinics. Such an order would bar protesters from coming within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of the clinic's entrance for a maximum of eight hours.

You can read the bill HERE.

I know what you're thinking!

Why didn't the SCOTUS ruling making it clear Massachusetts lawmakers had enacted an unconstitutional law by creating a buffer zone stop them from creating another law creating a buffer zone?

This is what lawlessness looks like in an unannounced dictatorship. The dictator uses 'executive powers' to unconstitutionally 'create' law and lawmakers at the state level just go ahead and do what they damn well please, knowing it takes years and years to go back to SCOTUS.

The lies being told about prolifers who prayerfully gather and peacefully offer alternatives and support to desperate women have saved thousands of lives and souls. Their peaceful and prayerful support has been slandered as violent behavior - though they do not have one shred of evidence to back up their lies.

Feel free to cruise photographs of these heroic men and women here.

Claiming these people are violent or threatening is so full of... crap.

NB - Although the Massachusetts Police Commish is quoted as though members of his police department have been involved or even eyewitnessed any of the conduct he appears to be appalled by, on direct questioning, he appeared to admit that nobody in his department had eyewitnessed or been involved in any altercations. He said 'somebody told them about them'.

Somebody like Martha Coakley and Marty Walsh who also has never been there?

Give us a break.

Killing children is big business. The Commonwealth's interest to keep children from receiving the charity by killing them makes Planned Parenthood their perfect bedmate.

I am curious to know what, if anything, the USCCB Prolife Chairman, who praised the SCOTUS ruling (but did not lend a helping hand to the initiative) had to say about the violation of constitutional rights of prolifers.

I can't find anything on google.

Finally, Popealooza was too much for even Phil Lawler to spin




What's wrong with the Pope's latest interview...

We should not or must not speak in any way, shape or form of an interview in the normal use of the word,” Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Vatican press office, tells us. Yet he says that the Pope’s conversation with Scalfari was “very cordial and most interesting”—taking time to refer to Scalfari as an “expert journalist.” Father Lombardi says:

It is safe to say, however that the overall theme of the article captures the spirit of the conversation between the Holy Father and Mr. Scalfari while at the same time strongly restating what was said about the previous “interview” that appeared in La Repubblica: the individual expressions that were used and the manner in which they have been reported, cannot be attributed to the Pope.

What are we to make of that paragraph? The Vatican spokesman says that the article in La Repubblica accurately “captures the spirit of the conversation,” but any given statement attributed to the Pope might be inaccurate. Yet he does not correct any inaccuracies. Having said that the article is “most interesting,” he leaves readers to sort out truth and error for themselves.

And thus the Pope expects children and uncatechized to sort through the irresponsible, misleading and heretical outcome of the shtick of his papacy and make judgments about truth and error for themselves.

And, they're doing it.

What parent, husband, wife, brother, sister, friend and responsible Catholic would (or could) remain indifferent or silent as he ushers it into our homes, parishes, schools and culture?

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Patheos Starts Another War - This Time its...(drumroll).......Pewsitter!



Pewsitter uses word "Admits", potty-mouth woman writes screed saying 'to hell with you pewsitter'.

Musta been a dull day in Christendom at the covan.

Then she passed the crack pipe to Fr. Longenecker.

I've noticed something about Fr. Longenecker. It seems to me he goes on a roll with some really decent stuff but takes a quantum leap into Lalaland when ditzy women get their britches in a twist. I'm betting he was quite a ladies man in his prime!!

I normally don't link when the vultures are feeding at patheos, but you just have to check this one out.

Fr. Longenecker took issue with criticism of the sissified letter the UK Bishops sent to the Anglicans on the invalidity of matter (women!) with respect to the Sacrament of Ordination.

While the point of the statement was to state clearly that the Anglicans had erected a yet more grave obstacle to unity, the bishops’ statement was diplomatic in the usual terms, expressing thanks for the progress made over the years in discussion and the warm affection many Anglicans and Catholics share.

I found it strangely negative and sour therefore to find that the new hounds over at Pewsitter created a headline that was cynical and seemed to undermine the Catholic bishops.

Meow.

Fr. Longenecker comes across to me as strangely negative, cynical and quite the sourpuss himself! Right back atcha there kiddo.

Those of us who find an act of reckless misfeasance in Catholic Bishops expressing thanks and warm affection to a feckless group of episcopal wizards hoodwinking Christ's people into their macabre world of apostasy are getting under Fr. Longenecker's skin.

Fr. Longenecker is mystified. He asks:

What did the folks at PS expect from the English bishops?


Put your thinking cap on dude.

How about they dust off the Code of Canon Law and start exercising Its principles of Law?

How about they put their nose back into Scripture and take good notes on Christ's behavior when it came to heretics and apostates and start acting like Him?

Or, how about you pull It out and see if you can find Christ penning a sissyboy letter to Caiaphas expressing thanks for the progress made in discussions and warm affections the Apostles shared with him.

Where do these people get their ideas???!!!

The barkle does end with a lucid moment:

I’ve gone off track.

Amen brother. Amen.

Israel and Palestine


Over the course of the last twenty years or so, Catholic pilgrims visiting the Holy Land have come home with stories of Christian persecution from both the Jews and Hamas. It has been crystal clear from these stories that the overwhelming majority of the cruelty and persecution of Christians in the Holy Land is coming from the Israelis. The cruelty is unbearable.

Given this state of affairs, I've had a tough time ginning up empathy for Israel, though my gut instincts repeatedly tell me I should.

I don't claim to be a historian on this situation. Catholics have been preoccupied with their own persecution inside and outside of the Roman Catholic Church. But, from what I have read and observed: I get that the Jewish people were living there and were targets for the terrorism of muslims. And, let us face it - the terrorism of muslims through the centuries is insidious and well known to Christians. There is no living in peace with them.

The muslims want us dead. Both Christians and Jews.

I've never actually found peace in the displacement of Palestinians, making them refugees from their own homes to create the state of Israel. But when I cut to the chase, the Jews were struggling to survive in a place where they lived. It simply was not possible because of the terrorism. There is no living in peace. There is no chance of survival. We have seen it with our own. The Jews fought back and won a homeland where they could survive, pass on their heritage and practice their religion. The muslims have continued to throw bombs, kill and terrorize.

We've never had to live with the kind of unceasing terrorism that finds three of our teenage sons murdered in cold blood as a political message from the muslims who live next door.

At the end of the day, those wounds run deep and the situation causes people to behave in ways they ordinarily wouldn't. Each time they are dragged to the negotiation table, it seems that Israel tries to be reasonable.

Here again, we see Israel accepting a cease fire and Hamas defiantly telling them they will continue the terrorism and massacre. As Israel lays down its weapons, Hamas continues to bomb and murder.

Where is nobel peace award recipient Barack Hussein?

In six years, they have reduced centuries of leadership of this once great nation to rubble.

All he could muster was a public announcement asking Israel to exercise forbearance as the muslims throw bombs and murder their children in cold blood.

With the world watching the sissification of the POTUS, Egypt had to step in and take the lead. While he was having a supper with the muslims, Barack Hussein 'praised' the Egypt's attempt to stop the escalation in the conflict.

He either thinks the whole world is as stupid as the people who elected him or he just doesn't give a hoot how his passive-aggressive jihad is playing out.

The Canadian PM has already spoken out. Every American who has done their diligence has found out that Barack Hussein is funding and behind Hamas.

I have to wonder, is the Obama-funded ethnic cleansing of Christians in the Middle East now so victorious that they are well-positioned to attempt to conquer and ethnic cleanse the Jews?

Are our people so dead and gone, the Jews are next on the agenda?

Deos enim religuos accepimus, Caesares dedimus



Sunday, July 13, 2014

Pope Francis thinks celibacy causes pedophilia and 1/50 priests are pedophiles?


...says 90-year-old Scarfali who doesn't take notes.

According to Scalfari, who is an atheist, Pope Francis called the Catholic Church’s priestly celibacy a “problem.”....“There are solutions and I will find them,” the pope allegedly said...


The response from the Holy See is underwhelming: Kinda what the Pope said but not precisely.

In a statement in response to the interview, the Vatican respectfully questioned Scalfari’s memory, saying the journalist may have relayed “the sense and spirit of the conversation between the Holy Father and Scalfari,” but that the article is, ”the result of his memory as an expert journalist but not of a precise transcript of a recording nor of a revision from the part of the interested, to whom the words are attributed to.”

Celibacy is to the vocation of priesthood as monogamy is to the vocation of marriage.

Celibacy is the rocket fuel for intimacy with Christ and efficacy of prayer.

It is the ultimate in a fast offering. A thousand times more powerful than a fast from food.

The Pope thinks this is a problem for which he intends to find a solution?

Does he also believe this most efficacious form of fast from sex is causing pedophilia? It's a bit unclear from the article.

How would that work?

A normal man who is attracted to women offers Christ monogamy and that turns him into a pedophile -- and 1/50 priests are now pedophiles?

This...absolute lunacy captures 'the sense and spirit of the conversation...but not of a precise transcript"?

How close was it?

I would think such a quote would be so far out of sync with the convictions of a Pope on celibacy, it could safely be said that it bears no resemblance.

It does not go without notice that Pope Francis has absolutely zippo on the record about the powerful and magnificent, prayerful fast offered to Christ in celibacy.





The destruction of America



I have not been able to stomach the stories chronicling the destruction of our sovereignty and country by importing hundreds of thousands through the Mexican border.

The end is nigh.

You've just got to love the intellectual dishonesty of pretending they don't know the proper course of action is to deliver the children to their own embassies and drive the empty buses away.

So what is immigration now? You just walk across our borders where they will point you to the office to sign up for free food and housing? Paid for by whom? Where is the money coming from?

I know numerous American single women with children who are denied food and housing. The government tells them they do not have the resources.

The streets of our country are loaded up with starving and homeless Americans because Barack Hussein and the Bishops said they did not and do not have the resources to help them. Our sick are dying because we do not have resources or money to give them and the solution of the government of Barack Hussein is to kill them with legal injection.

The communist priests and bishops are all over using the situation to promote the agenda.

Fr. Z posted an interesting commentary from Dick Morris that is pretty accurate:



http://wdtprs.com/blog/2014/07/depressing-autopsy-of-how-pres-obama-promotes-socialism-in-less-than-5-minutes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wdtprs%2FDhFa+%28Fr.+Z%27s+Blog+-+What+Does+The+Prayer+Really+Say%3F%29



You can't fool all the people all of the time.

Pope Francis doesn't want to convert Evangelicals...The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.


Earlier this week, Pope Francis reportedly said he'd like to give a homily to protestants in their church. He reportedly gave them assurances that he wasn't interested in converting them... he just wants to apologize for all the nasty Catholics who came before him.

Anyone have any idea exactly what the purported nasty conduct actually is? I'm on the edge of my seat hoping it isn't the virtue of explaining they're in a building separated from Christ's Church and Sacraments.

On the one hand, like much of the buffoonery, it came from a private conversation. One of our separated brothers had lunch with the Pope and his first hand account is reported on his blog. Who knows what was really said.

On the other hand, the report seems consistent with the tenor of withholding and obstructions of Catholic doctrine from Catholics, and many of the things Pope Francis has said and not said during his papacy.


It’s fair to ask what kind of Catholic Church we as Evangelicals want to see. At lunch I asked Pope Francis what his heart was for evangelism. He smiled, knowing what was behind my question. His comment was, “I’m not interested in converting Evangelicals to Catholicism. I want people to find Jesus in their own community. There are so many doctrines we will never agree on. Let’s not spend our time on those. Rather, let’s be about showing the love of Jesus.” (Of course Evangelicals do evangelize Catholics and Catholics do the same to us. However, that discussion we will raise another day.)

We spoke about how in our diversity we might find unity and strength. Borrowing from Swiss Protestant theologian Oscar Cullman, we reflected how “reconciled diversity” allows us to stand within our own understandings of how Christ effects salvation. And then we press on to deal with global issues like religious freedom and justice and other matters, which affect our wellbeing.


I don't know about this one kiddies. I'm thinking there was a mix up, either in the telling or the listening. It actually contradicts what we have a video of him saying here.

Further, when one analyzes the theology behind the concept, it's just too...crackers.

Pope Francis believes Jesus can be found in religions with doctrinal errors leading consciences and souls into immorality and sin and alienating them from His actual Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity?

The Sacraments Christ offered in oblation so we could use Them and gain entry into heaven,are not matters which affect the well being of protestants and there is no need for their conversion as far as he is concerned?

It's waaaaaaaaaay out there.

Maybe he did say something that led our separated brother to draw his misguided conclusion.

There is a valid trajectory that repeats itself over the course of our history wherein we hole ourselves up and try to gather in Catholics and convert them to the doctrines necessary for their salvation.

Christ was not shy about caging people out.

"Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.
Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”


What Christ didn't do, was say things to the caged out to hoodwink them into believing their condition, nationality, plight, heritage was pleasing to God and they are on the road to salvation.

Some of the things Christ said must have made the Apostles cringe.

When a caged out woman approached Christ for healing, He called her a dog and said He would not give what is holy to her. Christ knew the Canaanite woman was a believer but He used questions to provoke her to publicly declare her belief so those present and witnessing would understand:

1. What is holy is reserved and preserved for those worthy to receive It.

2. There are entire nations of people excluded - perhaps through no fault of their own. The choices of our ancestors burden us and our choices will burden the generations who come after us. Spiritual maladies are gifts that keep on giving.

3. Who's in and who's out.

Hoodwinking cast outs is a theme that keeps on repeating itself with Pope Francis...ad nauseum.

A lot of damage is being done. It is a trainwreck that is tough to watch.

I am too much of a jealous lover of Christ to let anyone or anything put me into the position of being cast out. The Sacraments are tied to the Chair of Peter. Ride out the storm come what may.

The Kingdom of Heaven is definitely at hand.

Monday, July 7, 2014

St. Agnes Sr. Dianne Bergant Explains Vatican II

St. Agnes Sr. Dianne Bergant (have enough names there lady?)explains the victorious march of clapping fornicators to a motley crew of priests in St. Louis -- The Bible has been transformed!!

Sarah Bernhardt's full report is here. Scroll down and check out the picture of "priests" in the audience. Proves my theory that dissent on moral and sexual teachings of the Church makes your hair fall out.

Here's the Reader's Digest on her report. Vatican II gave way to hiring Protestant ministers to teach Catholics dissent. Catholic doctrine didn't matter anymore and as a result, the Bible doesn't have any definitive teaching in it. 'Meanwhile' leaders with zero training in any form of biblical interpretation organized groups to 'run with this new openness' to teach others how to interpret the Bible the way they do.

Here comes the kicker:

"As a result, catechetical programs grounded in Bible study began to be established and liturgical preaching became Biblically based."

Sanity was as hard to find in that room as a full head of hair.

Another apostate nun 'connects the dots' in a book called 'Conscience and Calling' chronicling "catholic women, especially women in canonical religious communities, who are the focus of most of her attention, have moved from a default reaction of obedience'


Because faithfulness to a Person you deeply love is something you twist into the default of forced "obedience".

Fr. Z reports on Joan Chittister's honey-do list for the Synod. Cardinal Kasper's talking points really struck a chord.

Here's another dame who is working with Debra Haffner to chemically sterilize women and kill unborn children. Haffner, the former president of SIECUS was a proponent, among other things, of teaching adults to masturbate children. Priests are serving prison sentences for executing some of her ideas.

What a scandal that the Romans let this happen to nations full of Christ's people as they were dining on the finest wines and spaghetti and the meatatheballsa.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Church Parade Past Mafia Home Challenge to Pope Francis (WHAT?!)



In apparent defiance of Pope Francis, a church procession detoured from its route through a southern Italian town to honor a convicted mobster under house arrest...The July 2 procession included clergy, the mayor, parents pushing baby strollers and dozens of local men carrying on their shoulders an ornate Madonna statue.

Pope Francis is reportedly upset that local clergy and the mayor honored a murderer in a religious ceremony.

Oh come on.

It happens every day.

In fact, doesn't it strike you as odd that the Pope would excommunicate corrupt Catholics who murder adults in cold blood but will participate in a photo op with John Kerry and Barack Obama, who facilitate the murder of millions of children and rob millions of salvation?

Pope Francis doesn't seem to have any righteous anger or concern about the sin of exploiting women and hoodwinking them into killing their children for free, but has announced 'the sin of our time': The sin of exploitation of trees, saying trees should be allowed to give fruit without exploitation.

It's hard not to draw what seems to me to be a very lucid and logical conclusion that those are a set of screwed up priorities if I ever saw them.











Saturday, July 5, 2014

Great quote from Pope Francis




"There are those who believe they can maintain a personal, direct and immediate relationship with Jesus Christ outside the communion and the mediation of the Church. These are dangerous and harmful temptations." Pope Francis 25 June 2014

"If a woman's chosen form of contraception is to keep her clothes on does her employer have to pay for her wardrobe?"



The twisted logic can be comical

Pope Hints of Christian Persecution in America?



I apologize for the silence. As this pontificate manifests itself, many days I find I don't know what to do or say that hasn't already been said before.

I don't generally follow celebrity news and I am guessing readers here do not either, but I came across a story about Elton John's sentiments about the Pope Francis effect and I actually thought he nailed the moral theology coming out of Rome, in our parishes, friends and families:

Pop star Elton John called the Pope “wonderful” and said Jesus would approve of marriage equality in an interview on Sunday, the same weekend gay-pride events occurred all over the world.

Though no doubt unintended, who could deny the Pope Francis pontificate has been rocket fuel for endorsing same sex sex?

I get sick to my stomach when I think about the upcoming Synod on the family.

I worry that before white smoke rises again from a chimney in Rome, it will be Sacriligious Communion for everyone.

When it comes to diabolical disorientation and the spiritual whac-a-mole necessary to keep the demons from our doorstep, we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg of spiritual insanity.

I don't at all mean to imply this is Pope Francis' agenda because I sincerely do not believe it is. I believe him to be a faithful Pope who thinks getting folks to the endgame of celibacy outside of Sacramental marriage relies upon withholding Church teaching, silence, ridicule and persecution those who teach it and, preaching that the Church doesn't care who, what or when we sleep around with because getting into heaven is about the distribution of money.

As a blogger, it is scandalous to have to tee up a blog post with each incidence of misfeasance and malfeasance of the spiritual and temporal goods of Christ's Church.

I also came across this post and this one about the silence of blogs about the likelihood most faithful Catholic bloggers have had to come to terms with the...nightmare and are attempting to maintain unity through the exercise of silence.

True dat.

Of late, Pope Francis has been hinting that there will be Christian persecution in America.

It referenced a different kind of persecution, an ‘elegant’ forcing out, or ‘white glove’ persecution, which the Pope said, is “persecution” nonetheless.

To discover his meaning, we can turn to Francis’ speech to the International Congress on Religious Liberty from June 20, 2014. In it he warned that “in the name of a false concept of tolerance,” those “who defend the truth about man and the ethical consequences” end up being persecuted.

That would be you! LOL.

When I first saw Pope Francis trajectory, I remember wondering if it was an attempt to quell the ethnic cleansing of Christians being carried out throughout the world.

But setting up those of us who preach and practice our religion as an enemy of a Pope who gives the appearance salvation is about the distribution of money results in the painting of a bullseye on the backs of faithful Catholics, from which he sets himself apart.

The culture is deteriorating rapidly.

The American military has already been stripped of any rights to practice Christianity, with a particular focus on the free practice of the Catholic religion. It is gonzo.

The communists are now working on removing our ability to earn a living. They thought they had the Supreme Court stacked and could carry it out. Through God's mercy, a miracle has occurred and we have been given a reprieve.

I doubt it will last long. Overthrow of the three branches of government for tyranny and dictatorship has been in the plan. How he is going to pump hormones to chemically sterilize women working for practicing Catholics is under review for 'executive power'.

There is no legal principle through which a President can overrule the Supreme Court of the United States through executive power or congressional action that I can think of - any reader crawling into the gutter to attempt to think like them is welcome to post possible actions in the comments section.

The only thing I can think of would be to attempt to change laws protecting religious liberty by removing conscience protections, forcing people of every creed to carry out immoral and amoral acts the pagan government codifies into law.

I think Americans are stupified enough to get it through. The PR campaign to slander Christians has been successful for many years. Americans are glued to the Kadashians and Charlie Sheen and lined up at tatoo parlors. They have no idea what is happening to them and our country.

Fr. Paul Nicholson delivered an outstanding teaching on the acts of martyrs. Whatever you do, take the time to listen.

The end is ugly for everyone. The cruelty of persecutors, who themselves have already self-destructed, does not go unpunished. Our game is staying on the winning team, no matter who the bully of the month is.