Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Laity role with an elected Pope who contradicts Church Teaching

A few noteworthy things over the past few days.

A story materialized a few days back, wherein a mother claimed she told the Pope her son didn't go to Mass, and he reportedly told her not to worry about the Ten Commandments so long as her son is a "good kid".

A few months back, I would have thought this to be an exaggeration, but this is consistent with his shtick: When Christ's heirs are committing adultery, skipping Mass, lying, bearing false witness, using contraception, killing, the role of Christ's priests is to find the good in it.

How many times have we brought our families before a priest so they could substantiate, affirm, confirm and enlighten about the beauty and necessity to judge our own conduct in accordance with Church teaching, only to have the man undermine and rob them of it?

My prayers are with that poor woman. Can you imagine the impact of watching the Pope rob your family of it all, knowing this moment could affect generations?

Don't get me wrong, the adverse effects of depriving a generation of catechesis and turning the Sacred Liturgy into Sunday morning religious entertainment they think people are going to get up our of bed for is a conundrum. You can't drag your children to Mass, but when we very much need the support of a priest to enlighten , encourage and support us in our quest to give them the tools for salvation, what is the purpose of saying something that unravels them from the Deposit of Faith and the Sacraments, perhaps for the rest of their life ?

Why not compliment him, help the mother find a place where he can contribute his gifts and feel connected to his spiritual home?

When a mother approaches a priest with her family to seek his help, the hour has come for him to reign in the soul. There is never a time to convey the Commandments are legal mumbo jumbo impertinent to salvation.

Never.

In another development, the Pope contradicted the Deposit of Faith on the death penalty, suggesting the Charlie Mansons of this world should be set free as life imprisonment is a death sentence to mass murderers.

Yet another example he considers himself to be the crusader who leads Christ's people away from the slavery of the Catechism.

Russ Douthat wrote a brutally honest assessment of the problem we have with this Pope: he is contradicting Church teaching. Catholics who pursue their lives trying to live in a state of Grace - and that is not a small group - are about as likely to introduce his ideas to our children as we would introduce Joan Chittister as a role model for feminine fashion.

Russ stated, and I agree, that when the Church is burdened with a Pope who contradicts Church teaching, the role of the Church is to resist his errors.

But if he seems to be choosing the more dangerous path — if he moves to reassign potential critics in the hierarchy, if he seems to be stacking the next synod’s ranks with supporters of a sweeping change — then conservative Catholics will need a cleareyed understanding of the situation.

They can certainly persist in the belief that God protects the church from self-contradiction. But they might want to consider the possibility that they have a role to play, and that this pope may be preserved from error only if the church itself resists him.

A few stories at Fr. Z's are worth commentary.

First, Fr. Z is a bit ruffled by the timing of SSPX threatened excommunications.



I don't have the empathy Fr. Z does for SSPX and my own diligence found documents from the CDF stating SSPX Masses doesn't fulfill Sunday obligation. There is no place in the world where SSPX is permitted to administer Sacraments.

However, it is duly noted that a week after we are told Pope Francis wants the Church to be a welcoming place for apostates who spent decades teaching defiance to Church teaching (and millions have died in that state), actions are taken to excommunicate victims who fled from the danger and scandal.

Finally, there is this jewel about the story at Buzzfeed stating Cardinal Burke did not say the Pope is harming the Church.

Cardinal Burke corrected the record to relate the literal message was:

Here is what Cardinal Burke actually said:

“I can’t speak for the pope and I can’t say what his position is on this, but the lack of clarity about the matter has certainly done a lot of harm.”

What BuzzFeed reported:

“According to my understanding of the church’s teaching and discipline, no, it wouldn’t be correct,” Burke said, saying the pope had “done a lot of harm” by not stating “openly what his position is.”


Are you kidding me?

If the Pope has been in office for a year and a half and his pontifications have left Christ's people confused, and that lack of clarity is doing harm - who do you think is the party responsible for his lack of clarity and the harm it is causing?

The Pope.

Who is the responsible party to mitigate the harm being done?

The Pope.

I don't see any correction on Cardinal Burkes reported words that the Pope giving us clarity was long overdue.

While I get why the calibration of Cardinal Burke's point was upsetting to the Pope, what it is exactly everyone is pretending was supposed to be the conclusion?






Saturday, October 25, 2014

The Pope is the Problem

As most of you have probably read by now, Phil Lawler wrote a piece wherein he goes into painful details about the scattered bodies from the train wreck of this papacy and then makes an astounding conclusion that the Pope isn't the problem, the problem is "traditional" and "conservative" Catholics are not "listening".

First of all, educated and informed Catholics have to stop using the caricatures of the uncatechized and ignorant.  There is no such thing as conservative and traditional when we are speaking about a fiat involving Catholic Church teaching.

What Phil and others are really talking about is faithful and unfaithful Catholics.  

Faithful Catholics accept Church teaching and when temptation arises, they use the Sacraments to resist it.  If they fall to sin, they know their soul has digested a poison that is lethal and will continue to flow through the system of communication between our brain and our soul and erode judgment.   The effects weaken and eventually erodes our ability to control impulses, emotions, thoughts, resulting in further sins.    The sin, even one of them, is a product of the devil that is a living force which consumes internally.   When we receive Communion in this state, there is, literally, a clashing of the living properties in the Body and Blood of Christ and the properties of the devil in the sin.

This battle which rages within, takes place in the intellect and causes great harm.   Consuming the Eucharist and then committing sin was the cause and effect which drove Judas to his betrayal.  His remorse was not related to his betrayal to Christ, so he did not seek Christ's forgiveness.  This predicament further decayed the wiring between his soul and intellect and his thoughts drove him to his own suicide.

Unfaithful Catholics are a product of sin.   Their is faulty wiring between the intellect and the brain.  They have reached the point where they are giving themselves the license to sleep around, steal, kill, lie, by concluding Church teaching is wrong and they are right.  These folks have stopped the process that removes and cures the poison of the devil which they repeatedly ingest into their soul.  They are convincing and luring others to live this way.

Being a faithful Catholic is not a tradition.  

Pursuing a parish where a priest will not defray Sacramental Grace in the Sacred Liturgy with the human who believe themselves to be the reason people should come to Church and the product they should receive is not conservative.

Phil seems to be taking up the position that the Catholic religion has a number of what he describes as "bents".

Bents?

There is no such thing.

A battle is waging between the forces of angelic and demonic forces and the forces are harvesting like they never have in a 4000 year history.

The idea that faithful Catholics have some kind of a listening problem is, quite frankly, cocammamy.
The Pope is a problem and it is not a little problem.
Prude and rational Cathics were obsessed with listening to Pope Francis every word.   When he contradicted 2000 years of Church teaching, we listened to our own children regurgitating his instructions that they no longer have to make judgments that are symbiotic to Church teaching. 

We related what we heard to Church Fathers, including the Pope, and we kept our ear low to the ground to listen for the relief we begged for on behalf of our children.   

The Pope used that opportunity to tell them their parents were not keeping up with the modern world and Church teaching is obsolete.

We listened to his appointments to relay the theology through the people he hand picked at the synod and we watches his sneaky attempt to obstruct the majority of Bishops from releasing their statements which straightened the crooked paths he is laying before our children and the damage he is doing within  our family to ever teach the truth with efficacy.

We listened to his Relatio. The Relatio was his product. He reviewed and approved its contents and in fact gave it out to the press before the Bishops, whose words were twisted and obstructed, had the chance to review it.

If anything, we were obsessed with listening.  He has revealed himself to the point where it is undeniable.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Michael Voris' Clarification

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2014/10/michael-voris-card-burke-corrections/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wdtprs%2FDhFa+%28Fr.+Z%27s+Blog+-+What+Does+The+Prayer+Really+Say%3F%29

Another peculiar development in Christendom.

The substance of Michael's condemnation is so unsettling one hardly knows where to begin.

Was he willing to twist Cardinal Burke's selfless sacrifice to speak the truth knowing he would be persecuted by the enemy forces now in control in the Vatican into a matter for the Confessional out of a knee-jerk reaction to Verecchio or because a donor threaten him?

Whatever the reason, it is stomach turning.

It's funny, when I read Verrechio's post I thought it was cheap and started a blog post I thankfully wasn't able to finish before Michael published his "clarification".

I highly doubt Michael is not in the loop with sources that now confirm Pope Francis' agenda is intentional, sneaky and catastrophically dangerous to the salvation of souls and unity of our 2000 year old Church.

It is one thing to make a decision that he personally is not in the position to sacrifice it all for the truth.  I respect discernment on everyone's  delicate balance of the good they can continue to do going 3/4 of the way or letting go of the money donors use to cover up the corruption on every level of everything.

I've been in this "business" for 20 year.  His logic is so twisted, it has the stink of a donor.

But to take up arms against the people who have the highest level of sacrificial love for a handful of cash is as cheap as it gets.



Michael has been a tremendous help to us here in Boston and I have valued and defended his apostolate over the years.   My initial reaction to this development was this is so far over the line, my own spirituality is calling me to distance myself from throwing Cardinal Burke under the bus with a screed indicating he is doing it out of holiness and respect for Christ's Church is too much for me.

Out of respect for him, I do not want to go into any more details on the reasons why, but much like he  is distancing himself, I need to do the same.

He and all at CMTV have my prayers.


Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Ok, who gave me the flowers and didn't attach a card?

My children only leave me laundry, dirty dishes and notes asking me to babysit or what's for supper, so it wasn't them.

There was a candy corn with my name and a smiley face so that probably rules out Pope Francis trying to make up with me.

You don't suppose it was somebody who read my sarcasm in my synod posts and someone came to now my lawn and cash in?

Mike Voris for today's lame vortex?

Whoever it was thank you for your thoughtfulness!

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Boston Priest Advances the Mercy of Pope Francis



We really know how to pick them here.


Boston priest Tony Medeiros  is out in the public square advising a terminally ill woman (and all who read) that there is no more judgement in Christ's Church,just the divine mercy of walking with you, so go right ahead and kill yourself .

This is a classic example of the agenda being 'pushed' by Cardinal Kasper, Marx and Pope Francis.

A woman is faced with a life-threatening crisis affecting her body, mind and soul and there are two forces at work.

In a beautiful example of Christian charity, another terminally ill woman, Kara Tippetts, has issued a passionate plea asking her to reconsider killing herself.

What does that provoke from the team of Pope Francis who wants to advance the divine mercy of accompanying us on our journies to self-destruction?


According to the Boston Herald, Father Tony believes God has given Brittany free will “to do anything she wants. She can take those (life-ending) pills, or flush them down the toilet. It is completely up to her.” But he wants to support Brittany with hope and compassion, not judgment.

I never heard of the priest before, so I did a little diligence and found he is associated with Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary. I never heard of that before and figured it was Protestant, but alas, here is a picture of Cardinal Sean in the middle of the group of seminarins wearing shirts and ties in a formal seminary pic with the Cardinal.

The seminary describes itself as such:

Redemptoris Mater Seminaries are a fruit of the Second Vatican Council and an inspiration of the Servant of God, Pope John Paul II. Redemptoris Mater is Latin for "Mother of the Redeemer."

The fruit of the Second Vatican Council? What is that supposed to mean?

Jesus didn't speak to their souls like the 2000 years of other men he called to ordination, a council whose theology robbed people of sanctifying grace which then emptied the pews, inspired them.

Anyone know what this seminary is? Is it the neocats?

If so, I had no idea they were this dangerous.

There isn't a dime's worth of theological difference between Fr. Medeiros failure to respond to the terminally ill woman in crisis and the agenda of Pope Francis who is asking Christ's priests to stop teaching the faith, show people the good side of their spiritual suicides and accompany them as they carry it out.

Not a dime's worth.

I found this post by Fr. Ray Blake,outstanding.

It is a very transparent and accurate picture of the internal schism, the elephant that has been in our Sanctuaries for decades and is squatting in the Chair of Peter.

Something happened in Rome during Pope Bendict's reign and it was overcome. I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories but it is painfull obvious, at least to me, that Cardinal Kasper and Marx were involved in the coup.

I echo Michael Voris Vortex from yesterday -- let's just say for the sake of argument, it's all true we have a bad pope, etc - so what?!! The Pope cannot change the deposit of faith and we wait him out. He is up against daily Mass goers whose prayers are lifted in the Holy Sacrifice. I wish him a lot of luck. He has my prayers!

The Language of Dissent





With the recent unveiling of plans from Rome to confuse the flock, our  friend and catechist Kevin Lents has written a very timely and important book for the days ahead of us in the next year. 


The Language of Dissent:  Answering Those Who Distort the Catholic Faith


I would anticipate a resurgence of  "The Voice of the Faithful" type initiatives to advance the agenda on the diocescan and parish level.   These folks have run their course and are pretty washed up, but vigilance and action is going to be required, i.e., watching for the meetings, attending and defending the faith, making sure what was said in the event is published on the internet  etc.


You know the routine!


I really like his intro


As a Catholic, can you answer these misleading statements about the Catholic faith? +Jesus did not know He was God. +There are errors in the Bible. +Adam and Eve are merely legends and myth. +Jesus really did not multiply the fishes and loaves. +The Catholic Church no longer teaches the doctrines of purgatory and Indulgences. If not, then there is good news. The Language of Dissent was written just for you and it will equip you with all the answers you need against those who distort the Catholic faith.


Kevin's book is organized into several sections - the papacy and magisterium, Sacramental theology, moral theology, Scriptural inerrancy and hermeneutics, and really dives into dissent and confusion and arms the reader with outstanding theology and responses.


It is a great tool for yourself (especially if you frequent patheos) , your parish priest, CCD teacher, Bishop and Pope.  (Ooops, there I go again!)


I would encourage all to check it out, pick up a copy and have it on hand. 

Monday, October 20, 2014

Is it me, or is Pope Francis trying to replace "Church Teaching" with "tradition" in Pope Francis Urban Dictionary?

It's called doctrine not tradition.

If God's people can be convinced doctrine is merely tradition, everyone can just change the furniture.

It becomes a matter of style and taste, which is precisely the way he pitched our Catholic fiat at the sham synod.

Come to think of it, since the day of his elevation, he has not uttered a syllable that didn't paint the faithful practice of our religion as the antiquated fringe trying to cling to the old chestnut of resisting temptation to sin in our clothes that went out of style in the 60s.

In his swan song at the sham synod, he pigeonholed "traditionalists" as a group that needs to work on their inflexible hostility to renounce the baptismal vow of rejecting satan's lies.

Someone mentioned in the comments section below that the pope referenced a revolution at the 2015 synod.

I don't remember that and will have to read context, but I do remember him saying the sham synod was only his first push and his post synod homilies indicate he is not able to read the writing on the wall, throwing hints out there that that the world has morphed into Caligula and God is surprising us with the new definition that family is whoever you're sleeping around with.

I think his redefinitions bear watching and frisking.

The plan is to brainwash the uncatechized in the pews. We need to be right there to unravel, frustrate, undermine the language of deceit during this upcoming year.

He wants a revolution, he's got one.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Does Pope Francis think our Baptismal Promises are Obsolete?



This jabberwoky said a few very interesting things on 20/20:


http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/10/for-francis-resounding-defeat.html?m=1

First, I was shocked he described Pope Francis as "cunning" in this context.  It came across to me as though Pope Francis suffered a setback to thwart and pervert Church teaching, the Pope is a conniving fellow and he will go back to the drawing board to see if he could do it without the fallout of a schism.

Good luck with that.

That ought to help the unity he has broken for the first time in 1700 years.

Though this professor is clearly on the side of the counterfeit church, he actually makes some astute observations.

Like, Pope Francis is toast to Catholics faithfully teaching our fiat and we basically are going to hunker down until he moseys on down the road.  This is the first time in centuries, he says, that bishops and Cardinals do not have confidence in the Pope.

He  also is pitching the story line that Pope Francis' agenda to "welcome" cohabitating couples, divorced and homosexual Catholics and respect abortifacients suffered a defeat.

For the life of me, I can't figure out what this means.

I didn't know people committing adultery were not welcome, did you?

This is a dilemma.

How do Catholics get to the Confessional box if we can't come into the Church without a welcome?

Is there some kind of a mind reading process I've been excluded from?

Do they stop people at the door?

I never saw this shake down before, have you?

How do people know what kind of sins have been committed?

This explains why the Holy See didn't invite this blogger to their frufru blogging event!

I never knew there was a welcoming process, did you?

Is it secretive?

Seriously, isn't it farcical for the Pope to suggest there is a welcoming process that we have been excluding people from for 2000 years?

Does he think inflexible hostility to priests who mislead and confuse people with lies, errors and omissions is something he was born to ensure is welcomed into Catechesis?

It seemed like his bullet points in the closing synod homily conflates those who are inflexible to breaking our Baptismal promises with the list of things he wants to fix in the 2015 synod.

Are we supposed to reject satan's lies or teach and tolerate them in the name of charity?


The Pope was still at it today, asking us to adapt to changing society because God isn't afraid of new things.

We are not following you down that road. Give it a rest.












Saturday, October 18, 2014

Pope Francis Manipulates Process to Include Rejected Paragraphs of Relatio



Good News - in fact great news: The dissident push embracing adultery as a good and precious vocation of family life in the Church and sacrilegious Communion was officially squashed.

Michael Voris states, and I agree, the shove to the push back seems to have had an effect. As it always does.

The victory won't last long. Though the disturbing paragraphs were voted out of the Relatio, the Pope ordered the Relatio to be published as if the vote and removal never took place.

Supposedly: as for the rejected paragraphs, they will still be sent out (!) as part of the entire text to dioceses around the world for "discussion" in preparation for next year's assembly. Yes, even though they were rejected...

In the end, this was going to be released with perverted content and distributed to every soul, come what may.

(There is an effective plan for this which we can discuss later.)

I'm very interested in the dissecting of the Pope's final message.

He indicates those hostile to consider embracing adultery and sacrilegious communion are not listening to that wee little voice inside of us that tells us evil is good and good is evil - that is surprisingly God, you see. He wound up that train of thought with the insult that modifying our conduct according to Church teaching and using the Sacraments to strive to resist sin is a temptation of scrupulous, solicitous zealots and...brace yourself...

and of the so-called – today – “traditionalists” and also of the intellectuals.

Then he gave a kick in the pants to the wolves:

The temptation to a destructive tendency to goodness [it. buonismo], that in the name of a deceptive mercy binds the wounds without first curing them and treating them; that treats the symptoms and not the causes and the roots. It is the temptation of the “do-gooders,” of the fearful, and also of the so-called “progressives and liberals.”

and he didn't forget himself:

The temptation to neglect the “depositum fidei” [the deposit of faith], not thinking of themselves as guardians but as owners or masters [of it]; or, on the other hand, the temptation to neglect reality, making use of meticulous language and a language of smoothing to say so many things and to say nothing! They call them “byzantinisms,” I think, these things…

The temptation to come down off the Cross, to please the people, and not stay there, in order to fulfil the will of the Father; to bow down to a worldly spirit instead of purifying it and bending it to the Spirit of God.

His concept of Church seems a wee bit off of the reservation. When everyone gets in a room, those who malign Church teaching and mislead God's people are not erring. They are not confusing and misleading our children and parents should not find it a source of discord.

This is the Church, our Mother! And when the Church, in the variety of her charisms, expresses herself in communion, she cannot err: it is the beauty and the strength of the sensus fidei, of that supernatural sense of the faith which is bestowed by the Holy Spirit so that, together, we can all enter into the heart of the Gospel and learn to follow Jesus in our life. And this should never be seen as a source of confusion and discord.


A big tent with Joan Chittister and me in a room under and with a Pope, children don't need the direction from a Catechism. The truth is found in the battle of the wits.

However, I could not agree more with this:

Many commentators, or people who talk, have imagined that they see a disputatious Church where one part is against the other, doubting even the Holy Spirit, the true promoter and guarantor of the unity and harmony of the Church – the Holy Spirit who throughout history has always guided the barque, through her Ministers, even when the sea was rough and choppy, and the ministers unfaithful and sinners.

The gates of hell never prevail against It.

Fr. Fessio had some extremely interesting observations on the readings of the Office as all of this was going on.

Outstanding job to all those who spoke out against the prevailing wind. Most especially Cardinal Burke and Cardinal Muller, Cardinal Pell. Worthy is the Lamb.

Final Message from Synod Fathers: An invitation to walk away from Church Teaching with them.


I'd say its a synopsis of different situations where people have strayed from Church teaching and it isn't clear to them what their role is.

What's a Pope to do when the whole world is sleeping around and clinging to boats in the middle of the ocean.

When darkness is growing to the point of becoming a dense shadow and when evil and sin is working into the heart of the family, what's a see of bishops to do but to point out the precious value in the evils and dense shadows.

Too much of a challenge to remain faithful to conjugal love. Indifference, money problems and stress create failures. We find new lovers to sleep around with and everyone down at your local parish and chancery is too much of a coward to point out the choices that are faithful to Christ. Now with a coward in the chair of Peter, there is nobody all the way up the ladder who is willing to show you your choices. That leaves people sleeping around with choices that are not obvious to them.

Everyone is wandering in the desert, so not having any idea what Church teaching is, you and the person or persons you are sleeping with have become the authors of truth. They intend to continue to impovish us all. They are replacing the deposit of faith with the evils that have arisen from their starvation of Church teaching.


Here is their prayer:

Father, grant to all families the presence of strong and wise spouses who may be the source of a free and united family.

In case it isn't clear what I think about the 'final message' of the synod fathers, it looks to me like they're inviting us to walk with them for the next year as they walk away from Church teaching.

It's the biggest bunch of hooey this side of those three days in Woodstock.

Do check out the comment on the link to the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston's newspaper from a man who is the fruit of the people lighting the way.

He states:

Please mention the use of contraception after procreating 4 children.
secondly, the continuing education of young and newly married couples in the Faith.
Thirdly, what about accepting gay couples into our church community?


Poor ignorant and misled man doesn't get it. They are not going to inform his ignorance or explain away the perversions he's been taught or is teaching to others.

They are going to let him stew in his own urine and tell him it smells like roses.

Christ's Mystical Body: Where is It in Its Journey to Follow Christ's Three Year Ministry?

On yesterday's post, I spoke about a comment Cardinal Burke made sometime in the last week that I found thought-provoking.

He spoke about the Relatio and basically said if this is where it's going, he wouldn't know where we were.

Whenever events in Christ's Body are disorienting, I try to figure out, literally, where Christ's Mystical Body is and what is happening. That way, I can see the roadmap Christ left for us more clearly.


Sometimes my guess is in the vicinity and other times, as events unfold, I find I was off the mark.

Over the past year, as the muslims have once again risen to pursue and kill us - wiping us out of every country, down to the last Christian in town - it became a little clearer that we were in Gethsemene where Judas and the soldiers were approaching Christ's Body in pursuit to kill It.

Yesterday, I thought we were further along. Judas has arrived with the soldiers and Christ's Body has been seized.

I mentioned my observations this morning to a friend and he responded: Peter's Denial.

Duh!

Of course!! That is precisely where we are.

The Deposit of Faith is in captivity. The cock has crowed three times and Peter is denying Christ.

Watch your step in the chaos.

Events have shaken out the wheat from the chaff in Peter's see.

They have all been revealed and each has taken their role of Judas or Peter.

The mystical properties of Christ's Body are complex.

Cardinal Erdo is a shining example. Standing by the fire, he denies Christ but them somebody or something dope slaps him and he returns to what he knows is the road to his persecution and martyrdom - wet or dry martyrdom doesn't matter, we have not begun to see ugly yet. LOL.

Whether Pope Francis goes to his casket playing the role of Judas or whether he wakes up one morning to realize he is denying Christ is really immaterial.

We stay tethered to the Chair of Peter and the Deposit of Faith.

At some point, maybe the next Pope or the Pope after that, Peter once again returns.

I don't know who Fellay and SSPX is, but they are not part of Christ's Apostolic Church at this point in time and so they are to be stayed away from. Just remember Christ's instructions. Go right down to your local parish and stand up and speak the truth when it becomes clear the pastor has taken the role of denying Christ and the truth. If they throw you or chase you out, go to the next town.

If you have small children, it is not time for you to play in the game. Find a pastor who is playing the role of Peter and let him teach your children the tools for their salvation. The time is now. Evaluate who your pastor is, and mosey on down the road. Tell him why you are going before you go. This way, you have gifted him with the opportunity to recognize what role he is playing and may some day wake up. But you and your children flee to a safe place.

Much prayer for all.



Friday, October 17, 2014

A Walk Out?



According to this report, at least one Cardinal threatened to walk out of the sham synod if it didn't conform the Relatio to Church teaching.

It's a good idea.Why would you bother to take a vote on something you know you do not have the authority to do or say or change or pervert?

Why lend credibility to the action of a vote on a sham document in a sham synod?

A walk out would pull the rug out from under their feet.

It would suck the oxygen out of using a document for a year-long brainwashing of God's people.

Pope Francis and Cardinals would know there will never be, not now, not a month from now or a year from now, any collaboration to carry out this agenda.

He would never try to pull a stunt like this again.

Maybe something could be salvaged.

That is what you call mercy.

Synod Day 10: Veil Ripped off of Pope Francis and His Sham Synod "on the Family"


You've all no doubt read the explosive interview by now.


Cardinal Burke has always been an extremely prudent servant for Christ's Church.

For him to be so transparent about Pope Francis and his sham of a synod, I would venture to guess the situation is probably as bad as it gets.

If, as any rational person observing the situation has concluded, Pope Francis jury rigged the synod to discredit Church teaching, Carinal Burke said the following:

If Pope Francis had selected certain cardinals to steer the meeting to advance his personal views on matters like divorce and the treatment of LGBT people, Burke said, he would not be observing his mandate as the leader of the Catholic Church.

It is a misfeasance and malfeasance of his duty and role of supreme custodian of Church teaching.

I don't know what canonical ramifications his orchestrated buffoonery has upon his election, but I think the deliberate deception and outcome is catastrophic to his leadership as Roman Pontiff.


According to my understanding of the church’s teaching and discipline, no, it wouldn’t be correct,” Burke said, saying the pope had “done a lot of harm” by not stating “openly what his position is.” Burke said the Pope had given the impression that he endorses some of the most controversial parts of the Relatio, especially on questions of divorce, because of a German cardinal who gave an important speech suggesting a path to allowing people who had divorced and remarried to receive communion, Cardinal Walter Kasper, to open the synod’s discussion.

“The pope, more than anyone else as the pastor of the universal church, is bound to serve the truth,” Burke said. “The pope is not free to change the church’s teachings with regard to the immorality of homosexual acts or the insolubility of marriage or any other doctrine of the faith.”

The irony of all this is, if he had only chosen faithful bishops to calibrate his message and help him deliver the invitation for all to see the beauty of Church teaching, we all could have pulled it together.

But, Burke said, the church must always call a “person who’s involved in sinful acts … to conversion in a loving way, but obviously, like a father or mother in a family, in a firm way for the person’s own good.” There cannot be “a difference between doctrine and practice” on questions like homosexuality or anything else, Burke said.

“The church doesn’t exclude anyone who’s of goodwill even if the person is suffering from same-sex attraction or even acting on that attraction,” said Burke. “If people don’t accept the church’s teaching on these matters then they’re not thinking with the church and they need to examine themselves on that and correct their thinking or leave the church if they absolutely can’t accept. They’re certainly not free to change the teaching of the church to suit their own ideas.”

The Jesus who gathered apostles and ended His day walking them to the brothels to get some precious, good and valuable support is a fata morgana.

Jesus immediately drove out demons and cured the spiritual problems of those around him. He excluded entire races of people saying they were not worthy as we do not give what is holy to the dogs. He instructed His Apostles not to case pearls before swine - and He was talking about people, not pigs. He told people they could not hear Him because their father was the devil.

Do you remember when Jesus invited Ciaphas to teach His people?

Me neither.

Do you remember when St. Peter invited Nero to teach his beliefs on moral theology?

They do not know the Man.

Who Pope Francis hand-picked to calibrate Church teaching was deliberate, as is the outcome, which we all know contradicts 2000 years of Church teaching.

He didn't just pick one crackpot, he surrounded himself with them and appears to be conspiring to ambush and obstruct the moral authority of Church teaching.

Who could deny what we are all now hearing from everyone around us?

Even our good friend in Christ Mikey had to pony up.

Who's left? Robbie George, George Weigel and the motley crew of juggernauts at Patheos.

It is a really sad situation, but the damage the pope has done to his papacy is irreversible, IMO.

Justin Beiber the out of control drug addict paid the Pope 16,000 to go into the vacant papal household and kick a football around the room. The Pope is renting our ancient Sistene Chapel, turning it into some kind of a coporate function hall serving booze and food. He demonstrates not an ounce of respect for the treasure over which he was appointed temporary custodian, including the Deposit of Faith. A treasure which does not belong to him.

Words could never convey the gratitude I feel for Cardinal Burke's devoted service to Christ and His Church. In some ways, he will be much freer to speak and lead us through this crucible from Malta.

He said something the other day that I've been thinking about. So

mething like, if it turns out the Cardinals write a document that contradicts Church teaching, he would know where we were.

I've been thinking about what it would mean and where we are in the journey of Christ's Mystical Body. I wonder if we are in the Garden of Gethesemene and Christ's Body is about to be seized.

I don't know - but I don't think it's good. Wherever we are, stay put, and keep your powder dry.

Here's a great suggestion from Fr. N:

Dear Little Crackerjack;

Cardinal Burke has asked us to pray the Chaplet of the Holy Face for the Extraordinary Synod on the Family. You can find it here. Devotion to the Holy Face is simply greater devotion to the Sacred Heart.

Pray the chaplet HERE http://www.fatherpaulnicholson.com/holyfacechaplet.pdf

Be sure to watch for my special videos coming from Rome next week, as I attempt to capture something of the spirit of the Extraordinary Synod of the Family. Sign up your friends and family to receive these special messages, and enrol them in the Seven Roman Masses that I will offer for the Crackerjack Club. Share this email with them, and encourage them to go to www.fatherpaulnicholson.com/email.php to sign up!

Watch my homily for October 18th, and be sure to share it with your friends ... because faith grows by sharing it!

God bless you and Mary keep you;

Fr. Paul Nicholson
fatherpaulnicholson.com

By-the-bye, Fr. N's facebook status was the following - and I couldn't agree more!

I shall land in Rome tomorrow just in time for a great hornet's nest explosion! Stay calm my little crackerjacks! Rome has seen many hornets! Wheels up!

URGENT - Please Follow Link Below to Send Petition to Pope Francis and Synod Fathers -- Share, Post and Encourage Others

Our friends at BCI have set up an incredibly simple urgent petition to the Synod Fathers, urging them to defend the Faith.

Kindly note, one you fill in your information, the petition will take you to a separate page where you will review information to make sure it's correct - then you hit "send emails".

After you've done it yourself, please share, email, post and encourage others to send the message.

As many TTC readers have already discovered, George Soros - the man who funded the culture of death which was ha proven to be incredibly destructive to the family, has found Pope Francis to have a such a similar agenda to his own - he is funding a petition to help Pope Francis roll out their mutual agenda in the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis and George Soros are on the same culture warrior team helping children of Catholic families.

Soros would make a good speaker at Pope Francis 2015 Synod on the Fami.ly. He's an expert in the field of finding value in adultery.

The Pope's Circus Wordsmythes Adultery from Precious Support vs. Valuable Support


When you pick up somebody in a barroom and take them home to sleep with you, Pope Francis is shifting the response of priests for 2000 years to helping us all see the value we can receive from the activity.

For instance, after the sex, you could ask the individual to help you pay the electric bill or fix the leaking faucet.

When we are not feeling well, our sexual partners can give us a sponge bath.

Get it?

This is saintly.  Full stop.

Pope Francis is trying to get us to see that our children actually benefit from cohabitation and adultery.

The more I think about it, this could be the fix for the problem I have getting the lawn mowed.

When the grass gets ankle deep, I could run to the nearest barstool and grab me some of St Faustina's Divine Mercy.

The corporal works of mercy of Christ's Church have shifted to immoral sex and sacriligious Communion.  

The first caricature of the benefits received from adultery was described as "precious support".

After the uproar, they felt it would help us to accept the Pope's skullsuggery if they reduced the benefits from precious support to valuable support.

Is there a rubber ball on the end of my nose?

Thursday, October 16, 2014

"Will" Catholics faithful to the fiat of fidelity to Christ's Teachings "Turn on Pope Francis"?



John Allen asks.

The story has a problem with tense.

They already have.

He's crossed the Rubicon and we've burned the bridges down.

If the final document contains anything resembling Monday’s draft, it’s likely criticism of Francis will intensify.

Combine that with speculation that in the near future Francis will remove Burke from his position at the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican’s supreme court, and it’s not difficult to imagine that many on the Catholic right could conclude, once and for all, that Francis is not on their side.

Which just so happens to be the side where 2000 years of defined truth is anchored.

But there's a miracle in the making.

For at least ten years Catholics have been asking wealthy donors to stop giving the bishops money - and tell them why you cut them off. Quit their committees, resign from their boards and councils, stop answering the phone.

I think they've finally got it.

Yet there will be a price to pay.

What people generally think of as “conservative” Catholics are often among the Church’s most dedicated members, among other things serving as major financial donors. Already, one head of a conservative think tank in Rome this week said he’d gotten a call from one of his benefactors saying that if things keep going the way they are, he was going to stop ponying up.

More broadly, Catholics typically labeled as “conservative” are often people who carry water for the Church at all levels, from the local to the universal. If that pool of human capital begins to dry up, it could make it more difficult for Francis to advance his agenda.

Even John Allen is admitting "Francis" is advancing an agenda.

The God of surprises has a surprise for Pope Francis' agenda: No tickee, no shirtee.

I don't think the bishops have come to Jesus on the line in the sand they've drawn.

They are just not getting it.

At no time in the history of Christ's Church has there been a crisis of this magnitude. Maybe going back to St. Athinasius. But not in the last 1700 years. The mood in faithful Catholic circles is irreconcilable, determined, prepared for battle and as ticked off as I have ever experienced in the pews. People are really, really hot under the collar.

By the time this is over, the scuffles over their ordaining and shuffling pedophiles is going to seem like a fight in the kindergarten schoolyard.

A coup of the Chair of Peter to rob our children of their salvation was the last cheap trick.

When Mommy and Daddy ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

Synod Day 10: If you like your lover, you can keep your lover

Lots of news today.

Cardinal Kasper fine tuned his practice of deception.

Here's the audio of Cardinal Kasper saying it.

Grandpa...what big teeth you have!

Before I get to the dust up over Pope Francis attempt to bury the evidence that discloses what he is doing to Christ's Church and His people, I wanted to point out Cardinal Shonborn's revelation of what Pope Francis thinks.

He said what Pope Francis is doing at the synod a bit like the tension between Mommies and Daddies.

While Mommies will tell you its too dangerous when you shack up with your sexual lover, Daddies will tell you to go ahead, be not afraid.

When you want to have sex outside of marriage, the role of Christ's Church is to say positive things to encourage you on your sojourn.

If we knew this was Pope Francis theme on the role of the Church to help Catholic families, packages of condoms with positive messages would have made fun chachkies.

"If you like your lover, you can keep your lover"

"Don't make a judgment about what you're doing - Be not afraid"

"Be careful. Condoms for Saints. Full stop."

Think of the positives. Condoms will help the world fight Ebola.

Speaking of which, while the rest of the world googles 'Ebola' every few hours, we are googling "synod"!

I can pretty much come up with a positive side of everything.

If we steal a car, we'll have wheels to go to beautiful places.

If we kill our unborn children, we'll save a boatload of money -- why, we can even give to the Cardinal's appeal.

If we give free crack to the junior high kids, maybe they won't shoot heroin.

Give us a break.

Pope Francis sat through the synod session, once again looking like an innocent bystander. Until Cardinal Baldisseri announced Pope Francis decision that small group summaries would be buried.

A big scuffle ensued.


The Secretary of the Synod, Card. Balidisseri, was watching the Pope, as if in search of advice and lights, and the Pope remained silent and very serious...

This in full view of the Pope, who seems not to have shown his hand, but also who seems not to have been pleased at what was going on....

Apparently, Card. Pell was the first one to rise up against Card. Baldisseri. When Baldisseri made the announcement, Card. Pell took the floor and said that the reports had to be published and that they were tired of the manipulation.

From that point, the bishops also rose up. When Baldisseri repeated his position, he was effectively shouted down.

At that point, Card. Baldisseri turned to the Pope and got the nod to publish.


I am still flabbergasted that a Pope would misuse his authority to recruit heretics to filibuster Church teaching and take a vote on producing a document with talking points on how to turn the mission of Christ's Church into a institution that teaches cohabitation, contraception homosexual sex is positive and good.

I just can't get over how absolutely insidious it all is, how quiet he was about his intention to present and vote on distributing these perverted convictions to Christ's lambs.

I digress.

The link to the Circuli Minores is HERE.

Cardinal Burke's group, as expected, straightened the crooked paths.
For example, where the Relatio appeared to be suggesting that sex outside of marriage may be permissible, or that cohabitation may be permissible, we have attempted to show why such lifestyles do not lead to human fulfillment. At the same time, we want to acknowledge that there are seeds of truth and goodness found in the persons involved, and through dedicated pastoral care these can be appreciated and developed. We believe that if we imply that certain life-styles are acceptable, then concerned and worried parents could very easily say “Why are we trying so hard to encourage our sons and daughters to live the Gospel and embrace Church teaching?”

A number of parents will respond by deciding the Pope has robbed the teachings of the Church of their moral authority and consequently nothing they say would have any effect. When their children tell them they want to move in with their girlfriend - last month, they would have defended Church teaching, this month, the children will move in without the opportunity to hear what every Catholic parent would tell them.

But I actually think the consequences of this are much, much worse.

Priests will not bother to contradict the Pope's contradictions of Church teaching. The Pope has robbed them of any efficacy.

I believe the most damaging consequence will happen - and has already happened - in families like ours.

 Parents who will encourage our sons and daughters to embrace Church teaching even when the Pope contradicts it. In families like ours, our children stood a chance of resisting the temptation. Their peers and the community had a witness on how two young people faithfully fulfill God's Covenant. We'll never give up - but last month, our children would followed Church teaching, this month, the children will inform us of Pope Francis index of positives in shacking up - and go right ahead and do it.

He's robbed us all. It is Grand larceny.



Synod Day 9: Apostasy Really Livens Things Up a Bit - One only wishes one had a tomato.

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On the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila



This is turning out to be quite the family feud.

One can hardly keep up with the developments.

Judging from the information from numerous reliable sources, the outcome appears to have been jury rigged and Pope Francis appears to be holding a smoking gun.

Rorate is doing a bang up job.

Cardinal Muller has joined the chorus of outrage.   I read something he said earlier this morning that really gave me the willies.  I am trying to find it again so I can link but it was something to the effect that he is out of power.

Whatever the context was, it gave me the impression the synod is a sham, no matter what anybody says, it is an exercise in futility as the outcome has been fixed and nobody has the power to stop it.

Robert Royal's postings are also a must read.    Fr. Z links to it and comments.

Another outstanding article at American Spectator.   Pope Francis organizes a synod to help strengthen families and then orchestrates hundreds of screwballs to undermine Church teaching.

He's done more damage to the Catholic family in a week than 50 years of dissidents.

The Remnant also has some must-read articles.

Sometimes the culture of death can reveal the truth more transparency than they probably intend.

For instance, this Time Magazine headline:Pope Francis' Machiavellian strategy to liberalize the Catholic Church      The Vatican's synod on the family hasn't changed church doctrine. But it could slyly lay the groundwork for a major upheaval down the road.

Machiavelli.

I hate to admit it, but the dishonesty and sneakiness -- the year and a half of keeping the agenda veiled while he was behind the scenes organizing this well-planned sham -- I can't quite put my finger on it but Machiavelli struck a familiar chord.

The situation is explosive.

I was a scheduled lector today and prepared for reading the ordinary time readings.

When I read what they were, I thought - I am not in the mood for these readings as they are THE most misunderstood teachings of Christ.

They so hit the mark - prelates who have laid the terrible burden of robbing our children of their salvation - twisting and perverting Church teaching and  nothing or worse than nothing to help us.

And the kicker is, they use today's Gospel to imply Christ meant Church Teaching and those who teach it that are the burden.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious:
immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry,
sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy,
outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness,
dissensions, factions, occasions of envy,
drinking bouts, orgies, and the like.
I warn you, as I warned you before,
that those who do such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.




The irony that at the very hour this reading was to be read, our Holy Father was executing his synod to propound the Church should be teaching the virtues in immorality and licentiousness did not escape me.

All I could think of on my way over to Church was, if the homily tries to capitalize on the mess Pope Francis is making, I'm checking out of the Novus Ordo and heading for TLM at the Cathedral.    I'm not in the mood to get dragged down to the bottom.   Watch Christ's uncatechized be led to their own spiritual suicides.    Been there, done that and I don't have the bandwidth to stomach it again.

Look, we have to face what is happening in the Chair of Peter.  It is the natural progression of the same battles we fought in every parish in the United States.

They purport to want to 'help' out the children of two mommies.  We are certainly all for that but the truth of the situation is, once the children sit in the class with 40 other children who are there to learn how to make judgments on right and wrong, little Johnnie runs home to tell his two mommies what he learned in school today.


Then, the two mommies go up to the rectory to threaten the pastor - sometimes calling in a newspaper to tell the sob story about how they are being discriminated against.

Then the pastor gives an edict to the teachers to stop teaching our religion to the 39 other Catholic children in the class whose parents are paying tuition so what they teach at home will be fortified.

Bishops rob the entire village of Catholic families of their inheritance, the tools for their salvation, for the sake of one child of two mommies who position themselves to shut down Catholic moral teaching.

This is not about helping children - or any of us for that matter.

We have been dealing with the same old song and dance for decades on the parish and Chancery level.

The battle has advanced to the Chair of Peter.

I am not optimistic about the outcome.  Too many signs point to a big fugatz.

I arrived at Church ten minutes early, as I always do, to get acquainted with the lame intercessions.  Sometimes Carol adds or skips a word or two - like today I added "Holy" in front of "Spirit".  LOL.

I looked down to see today was the memorial feast of St. Teresa of Avila and the priest had chosen those readings.

I cried when I read them.

I know I keep repeating this, but we can't leave the vine.

I don't care if he marries Elton John to Cardinal Kasper in Vatican City.  We've got to hunker down where we are and speak the truth until we are kicked out of that parish.  Then, we go to the next and do the same.

These are our instructions from Christ and He promised us He would be back before it's completely demolished.

Buckle up.  We're going to give them a run for their money.

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of something Fr. Joseph Wilson wrote years ago about bishops. It's a timeless observation.


I watched Bishop Wilton Gregory catechizing that press conference about the National Review Board’s sexual abuse report and how it’s about "the children, the children, the children," whereas it is really about the bishops, the bishops, the bishops. This episcopate will never do anything but spin the problems; won’t ever settle down to address the hard work of renewal.

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

In the midst of it all, there’s one deep consolation, the one thing needful that they have not yet taken away: that still I can come forward and say with confidence, "I receive thee, Price of my soul’s salvation." And that is no small thing, at all, at all. But how long, O Lord?

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Synod Day 8 Extra: A False Message Got Out

Bishops not taking a shine to Pope Francis Synod Spinola

VATICAN CITY One of the prelates participating in the Synod of Bishops on the family has sharply criticized the landmark document the meeting released Monday, saying its message of openness to modern society has put the prelates in "a position that is virtually irredeemable."
"The message has gone out: This is what the synod is saying, this is what the Catholic church is saying," South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier said at a Vatican press conference Tuesday.

"And it's not what we're saying at all," Napier said. "No matter how we try correcting that ... there's no way of retrieving it."

"The message has gone out and it's not a true message," he continued. "Whatever we say hereafter is going to be as if we're doing some damage control."

Bear with me for a moment.

If I thought Church teaching led people away from Jesus and  obsolete, and I was the host of a room full of bishops faithful to Church teaching and I wanted to do damage control of their message, I would hand pick a handful of bishops known to distort and mislead Christ's people and I would ask them to calibrate the message.

The Relatio is Pope Francis damage control.  

Now the Bishops have to do damage control of Pope Francis damage control.

Every time he opens his mouth or does something, or doesn't when he ought to, thousands of people get going on the damage control.


Synod Day 8: Pope Exclaims If Church Teaching About Sleeping Around and Contraception is Keeping People From Church - That Means Church Teaching is Obsolete - Get it??!!


Here's the Reader's Digest:

Immorality is in vogue.  Church law prohibiting immorality is offensive and keeping people from coming to Church.  Therefore, Church teaching leads people away from Jesus.    People are having trouble seeing the signs:  God has a surprise, Church teaching is obsolete.

As dead as a doornail.

Love the Ten Commandments because they're God's but they are not supposed to be used as the endgame.

Got that Moses?

I think I liked it better when I didn't know the man is completely off of his rocker.

My favorite part of the Relatio was where they explain the role of the Church is to support and respect the taking of birth control of any kind.

The headlines in the news are only the beginning of the fruit of Pope Francis.

I wonder if it's too late for the bishops to round up Monica Lewinsky for an intervention about how Church teaching on fellatio drives her away from Jesus.

It would make for some good headlines.

Pope Francis frees people from the slavery of Church law on fellatio: The Relatio on fellatio.

Cardinal Burke has a full time job on his hands calibrating what is happening.

Cardinal Burke:The interventions of the individual Synod Fathers are not made available to the public, as has been the case in the past. All of the information regarding the Synod is controlled by the General Secretariat of the Synod which clearly has favored from the beginning the positions expressed in the Relatio post of yesterday morning.

While the individual interventions of the Synod Fathers are not published, yesterday’s Relatio which is merely a discussion document, was published immediately and, I am told, even broadcast live. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to see the approach at work, which is certainly not of the Church. …

While the document in question purports to report only the discussion which took place among the Synod Fathers, it, in fact, advances positions which many Synod Fathers do not accept and, I would say, as faithful shepherds of the flock cannot accept. Clearly, the response to the document in the discussion which immediately followed its presentation manifested that a great number of the Synod Fathers found it objectionable.

Burke called on Pope Francis to issue a statement reaffirming current church teaching on marriage and family life...

Wait by the phone, microphones and cameras.

When the Pope doesn't show up, we'll know its him.

Here's another sound observation about Pope Francis' Relatio: It lacks solid foundation in Sacred Scripture and the Magisterium.

CWR: How is that reflected in the Synod's midterm document, released yesterday, which is being criticised by many for its appeal to a so-called "law of graduality”?

Cardinal Burke: While the document in question (Relatio post disceptationem) purports to report only the discussion which took place among the Synod Fathers, it, in fact, advances positions which many Synod Fathers do not accept and, I would say, as faithful shepherds of the flock cannot accept. Clearly, the response to the document in the discussion which immediately followed its presentation manifested that a great number of the Synod Fathers found it objectionable.

The document lacks a solid foundation in the Sacred Scriptures and the Magisterium. In a matter on which the Church has a very rich and clear teaching, it gives the impression of inventing a totally new, what one Synod Father called “revolutionary”, teaching on marriage and the family. It invokes repeatedly and in a confused manner principles which are not defined, for example, the law of graduality.

CWR: How important is it, do you think, that Pope Francis make a statement soon in order to address the growing sense—among many in the media and in the pews—that the Church is on the cusp of changing her teaching on various essential points regarding marriage, “remarriage,” reception of Communion, and even the place of “unions” among homosexuals?

Cardinal Burke: In my judgment, such a statement is long overdue. The debate on these questions has been going forward now for almost nine months, especially in the secular media but also through the speeches and interviews of Cardinal Walter Kasper and others who support his position.

The faithful and their good shepherds are looking to the Vicar of Christ for the confirmation of the Catholic faith and practice regarding marriage which is the first cell of the life of the Church.

The Pope's reaction so far?

Look schmook. The answer to that request was a papal homily Church teaching drives people away from Jesus and is obsolete.

I could not agree more with this CMR post, with one caveat. The bishops and this absolute poop show in Rome are a problem. But they are a byproduct of the very real problem - the Pope, who appointed the men to hijack the synod and dole out the slop.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the Pope's trajectory is infidelity to doctrine. Making infidels out of our children and the people we love.

We've got a huge problem on our hands. Huge.

But we are up to the battle.

Worthy is the Lamb.


Monday, October 13, 2014

Synod Day 7: Pope Francis Apostate Coup Releases Midterm Report

The drivel is tough to get through. I have to keep walking away from it.

Generally speaking, it begins with a sob story about how taxes and anthropology are driving people to shack up and homosexual sexual relationships and the church wants to respect the freedom of the people so everyone should start focusing on the good aspects of immorality and licentiousness instead of focusing on the shortcomings of the loss of salvation in the situation.

The Pope's rogue group of luminaries said this is okay, because the truth is found outside of Christ's Church according to folks who went to Vatican II .

I would assume this means when your children tell you they want to move in with their lover, you are now supposed to welcome the "precious support" they give to each other, say the woman is a good cook, and buy them a frying pan.

They said this is what the church should do because this is what a mother would do.

The luminaries continued on, stating cohabitation and sex outside of the Sacraments involves affection and notable stability.

For this reason, what is required is a missionary conversion: it is necessary not to stop at an  that is merely theoretical and has nothing to do with people’s real problems. It must not be forgotten that the crisis of faith has led to a crisis in matrimony and the family and, as a result, the transmission of faith from parents to children has often been interrupted.

Not surprisingly, the entire thesis avoids culpability of the real culprits.

The crisis in teaching the divine purpose of matrimony and the family was interrupted by them.

They robbed our children of the tools for making right judgments. They withheld catechesis that offended the calls their own desires whispered in their hearts. They twisted and perverted minds and then abandoned the Sacrament of Confession.

Now, the fix is in, robbing the children of the tools for salvation and twist and pervert right judgment up some more.  Interrupt the teaching of the Catechism and teach the children the virtues in sleeping around and other  religions.

These talking points were delivered to the eyes and ears of our children from the hand of Pope Francis.







Sunday, October 12, 2014

Divorce and Same Sex Synod: Week 2 Preview - Pope Francis Wants to Institute a Gray Area of Church Teaching


The title of this post was inspired by this daily beast post: The Vatican's Same Sex Synod

The story line goes like this - In the hope of producing talking points on how bishops and priests can feng shui adultery, Pope Francis lined up people who have sex to talk about how Church teaching prevents them from feeling good about it - but are the bishops listening?


Hundreds of celibate men from the Roman Catholic Church have spent the last week hearing people who actually have sex actually talk about it...

Underscoring the CDF’s final word on homosexual unions in 2003, he said, “There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law.” He then quoted the Catholic Catechism teaching that, “Homosexual acts close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.”

Eleven years later, the Church under Pope Francis is about to produce another document on sex, this time a relatio derived from whatever consensus the extraordinary synod of Bishops can come to at their meeting on the family.

I never knew synods could be used to take a majority vote to embrace adultery, did you?

This should be a doozy of a document.

John Thavis has a story that I think is the most disturbing revelation about Pope Francis yet.

According to Rorate, the Pope's see elected a group of faithful Cardinals to produce a summary of Church teaching on the Pope Francis show, including Cardinal Burke.

So, what was the Pope's response to these surprising votes?

He personally appointed ad hoc, and without prior announcement on this before the synod, six other prelates for the composition of the final report (the "Relatio Synodi"), all known as strong liberals


I am not a fan of the term liberal in the context of faithfulness to Church teaching.

What this really means is, the Pope pulled the rug out from under the initiative to faithfully apply Church teaching by handpicking a group of Cardinal's with a history of misleading the flock into temptation and sin.

The Pope circumvented faithful practice by appointing a group of Cardinals with a history of robbing the flock of their salvation to write an action plan.

The sneaky slickness of this dishonorable action really hit me between the eyes.

Pope Francis wants to institute a gray area of Church teaching.

Dublin's Archbishop - who has helped lead my people into a destructive abyss, claims this twisted initiative is 'developing doctrine'.Mentioning an interview Francis gave last year to the Italian Jesuit magazine La Civilta Cattolica, in which the pontiff referred to two poles in the church of rigorist and lax adherence to church teaching, Martin said most people do not live at either extreme.

"Most people live their lives in the gray area between those two and we have to exercise our pastoral responsibilities in the gray area, not falling into either extreme," he said.

Sure, we fight temptation and sometimes fall to sin. But rolling out of somebody's bed isn't a gray area. It's temptation we have fallen to - we've given in to the devil and we are living in a place that is distant from Christ.

Pope Francis is looking for a gray area where we can take out lovers to Church, leave them in the pew in front of the Congregation and be lectors or sing in the choir, then return to our seat to hold hands with our lovers.

There won't be an empty seat at the Basilica in Washington, DC. Some of the political characters would have to reserve an entire section.

But, in order for that to be productive, Pope Francis has to circumvent and obstruct priests from the practice of teaching what the Church teaches and practicing what they vowed to practice when they were ordained. He has to prevent the actions that set the soul on the path to absolution. We are all supposed to enlighten ourselves from the gestures of equating adultery, multiple marriages, same sex civil marriage, playing house with our lovers - with the Sacrament of Marriage.

There will be no instruction, direction, spiritual formation in right and wrong. Gradually, people watch what is permitted through witness. Through osmosis, children are supposed to crack the code that Church teaching is relevant to making judgments about how to use the gift of human sexuality.

It's no longer a question of whether the Pope wants to roll out this agenda, he is doing it - and he is right on top of every action that tries to stop him from doing it.

Pat Archibold has written a noteworthy piece about the rising of what I have always called the counterfeit church.

We endlessly speculate and debate over who is with Cardinal Kasper and who is not, who will stand up and who will be quiet, and where does doctrine end and pastoral praxis begin. Meanwhile, a “dark and false Church,” as foreseen by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, which has grown within the Church for a century, continues its unhindered progress.

We have many Cardinals and Bishops of the Holy Catholic Church who publicly put God’s law in opposition to God’s mercy! We have Cardinals and Bishops who say that the very words of Jesus, the same second person of the Trinity who suffered and died so that we might live, insufficiently express love!...

This work of destruction is a century in the making...

This cancer that has been metastasizing in the Church for a century and those who cooperate with it hide in plain sight to the best of their ability. There is no Holy Canon, no dogma, and no principle at all, no matter how holy, authentic, ancient, and certain it might be, that remains free of censure, criticism, false interpretation, modification, and delimitation by those in this insidious “dark and false church.” All is clouded by senseless questions and elaborate arguments, even the very words of Our Savior. (See Holzhauser).

All that is necessary for those who work for its destruction to remain in the Church is to state that they accept the teaching of the Church while practically opposing it in every way...

If the Church were merely an institution of man it would be a foregone conclusion that the gates of hell will soon prevail. Of course, it is not. We have that promise. God will save His Church. But there will be a terrible price to pay. Our Lady will not be able to restrain the flaming sword of our destruction.
It is time that those who see the truth of what is happening to the Church speak out about the evil that would be done to Her. We must call evil, evil. We must get on our knees and relentlessly beg our good God to rescue us from this “dark and false Church. “


I couldn't agree more. But I would add one thing to this thesis. We have been living in the counterfeit church for decades on the parish, school and ministry level. We made great strides overcoming it but I would expect things to go back to outrageous dissent and misleading souls, overtly. They know Rome has fallen. There are no consequences to them. If anything, fighting dissent under this Pope puts faithful priests in danger of being retaliated against, removed. They know all this.

There are a lot of priests who are faithful to doctrine and dogma. We are a majority and we can and should 'push' back. But nobody really knows if the consequences of the Pope Francis show could make Novus Ordo community too dangerous for raising a family in it. It could go south very quickly and we may all end up in a parish with priests practicing TLM under Motu Proprio.

Faithful Cardinals could overcome. I suspect even if the Pope's team of unfaithful men make some headway, there will be a long ugly protracted division from the products delivered unto us from Pope Francis.

With the majority of us devoted to teaching the tools to make right judgments for salvation, this could all fizzle out, especially if we shove the push for the counterfeit church back to hell where it belongs.

We just don't know how this is going to play out, but we have been managing this for a long time internally and are not unaccustomed to what we do in response.

Cardinal Burke will be a key leader to watch.


Much prayer is required over the course of the next few days while the battle for the soul of the Church rages in hand-to-hand combat.

Irrespective of who is victorious, there is one outcome that has already been decided. Many private conversations have taken place, but I have not read the public disclosure anywhere.

Pope Francis has delivered a blow to his papacy from which he will never recover. There is no time or place in the future, nothing he can say or do that will resurrect his efficacy, trust or unity, IMO.





Saturday, October 11, 2014

Synod Day 5: Fr Lombardi says "all" highly appreciate interventions.


Why would Fr. Lombardi give such a distorted picture of the disaster in Rome?

Maybe the Romans think nobody outside of Rome counts in 'we' and 'all'?

Nah..that still doesn't make sense.

Cardinal Burke gave an interview that gently spoke the truth.



Burke added, “we don't want our children” to get the “impression” that sexual relationships outside God’s plan are alright, “by seeming to condone gravely sinful acts on the part of a family member.”


“We wouldn’t, if it were another kind of relationship — something that was profoundly disordered and harmful — we wouldn't expose our children to that relationship, to the direct experience of it. And neither should we do it in the context of a family member who not only suffers from same-sex attraction, but who has chosen to live out that attraction, to act upon it, committing acts which are always and everywhere wrong, evil.”

There's so much in our society today which is giving the message that any form of sexual relationship, if it somehow pleases you — or you’re attracted to it — is alright, is correct. And we don't want our children to get that impression, by seeming to condone gravely sinful acts on the part of a family member.

Now with regard to parishes, the situation is very similar because the parish is — I believe it was Saint John Paul II who once said — a ‘family of families.’ And so, if you have a parish member who is living in public sin in a homosexual relationship, well, the priest should try to stay close to that individual — or to both the individuals if they’re Catholic — and try to help them to leave the sinful relationship and to begin to lead a chaste life.

The pastor [should] encourage them also to pray and to participate in Sunday Mass and other appropriate ways of trying to overcome grave sin in their lives. Those people [who] are living in that way certainly cannot have any leadership role in the parish, because it would give the impression to parishioners that the way they are living is perfectly alright. Because, [when] we lead in a parish, in a certain way, we are giving witness to a coherent Catholic life. And people who are not coherent with their Catholic faith aren’t given leadership roles. They are not asked, for instance, to be a lector at the Holy Mass — or [to] assume some other leadership position — until they have rectified their situation and gone through a conversion of life and then are ready to give such leadership.



I believe Cardinal Burke referred to this intervention as 'damaging'.

It surely was and is.

There's a reason why Pope Francis didn't make a mockery out of truth with a woman telling a sob story about her husband wanting to take his mistress to Christmas Mass in front of her grandchildren.

Imagine the reaction of the world if they rounded up a husband, so brazenly disrespectful to his wife and God that he has been pressuring her to bring his lover home for Christmas festivities, and a wife, so far gone in her mind and soul, she is willing to stomp on her grandchildren's moral compass to keep her husband from the realization what he is doing is destructive?

What would everyone think about a Pope who would search for a couple in such obvious intellectual and spiritual turmoil, and use the pain and suffering of that family to promote doing it to families all over the world?

The deception of this agenda has a smell.

It is a familiar smell to me.

It's the stink of sulfur.

I don't profess to know where it's coming from, maybe Cardinal Kasper brought it into the room, but the Pope is at the very least, applauding it, asking his see to applaud it and bring it home to 'push' it to our families.  His spokesperson is out in the public square implying everyone in the room highly appreciates what Pope Francis is doing to Church teaching on the family.

The situation is pretty bad and I think we have only begun to see the whites of this demons eyes.

This story reveals the mud Pope Francis is slinging onto truth, and the bitterness he is imposing on family members who must speak it.

Can you taste the pain the author reveals and the hostility directed towards the man who has spoken the truth?


“And neither should we do it in the context of a family member who not only suffers from same-sex attraction, but who has chosen to live out that attraction, to act upon it, committing acts which are always and everywhere wrong, evil.” (Cardinal Burke quote)

But that’s exactly the approach that sends gay and lesbian Catholics — and members of their extended families — running away from the church, said Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of the largest Catholic gay and lesbian rights group, DignityUSA.

We have been waiting for this synod to put the final piece in the puzzle Pope Francis has been erecting in St. Peter's Square.

And now, we have it.


A church that never makes a judgment upon the sin, there is no remorse, no Sacramental absolution of the sin - they die in that state - has an occupant in the Chair of St. Peter. St. Peter - who was crucified upside down for holding onto Truth even when his own murderers were trying to force him to recant truth.

An occupant who makes truth and those who speak it, the enemy.

But this too shall pass. We will find a cavern WITHIN Christ's Church and we will wait it out. We grab a ministry and speak the truth. Loudly.

Do yourself a favor and watch Cardinal Burke's interview.

There is one little elephant in the room.

Raymond asks, Who else supports Kasper's theology? They don't see anyone else besides Kasper.

But the reality of the situation is, Pope Francis supports it.


I am always mystified why gay people think they are in a league of their own.

“It is clear this ‘love the sinner’ but ‘hate the sin’ approach does not work,” she said from Boston. “It is inappropriate in dealing with pornographers.”

Fill in the blank:

“It is clear this ‘love the sinner’ but ‘hate the sin’ approach does not work,” she said from Boston. “It is inappropriate in dealing with __________.”

Masturbators, adulterers, thieves, murderers.


The destruction Pope Francis has imposed upon our families will blossom in the coming years. A gift that will keep on giving, much like the distortions at Vatican II.

This is the time to get out of any parish where a priest is either starving the flock or overtly misleading - and find a shepherd for yourself of your family. IF it's a long drive, re-arrange your Sundays so that the Lord's business is your primary achievement for the day.


Rorate posted a letter that says everything we need to know about this papacy.

I live in the diocese of [omitted] in [a small country in East Africa], a diocese that's very full of life, marriages, baptisms, confirmations, vocations are so abundant that they would seem improbable elsewhere. Since I lived for many years in Belgium and in Ireland years ago, I know what I'm talking about. Our bishop, [name omitted], though not at all old, doesn't like to be online or read things on screen, he also hates smartphones even though they're everywhere here now, so I often print things I find online to show him. Now, our diocese isn't traditional at all, it was thanks to the web and pages as yours that I found out about the Old Mass, but Mass is usually very respectful, even when it's filled with our African joy, which is always very respectful.

Anyway, the bishop asked me to bring him news from the Synod as often as possible, and since I live very near the cathedral I am trying to print things and take them to him daily. So, yesterday I printed this page and he was struck by this passage from Thursday's meeting.

"With regard to cohabitation in certain regions, it was shown that this is often due to economic and social factors and not a form of refusal of the teachings of the Church. Often, moreover, these and other types of de facto unions are lived while conserving the wish for a Christian life, and therefore require suitable pastoral care. Similarly, while emphasising the impossibility of recognising same sex marriage, the need for a respectful and non-discriminatory approach with regard to homosexuals was in any case underlined."*

He was in the office with the Vicar-General, and he stood up and then fell down on his chair, took his hands to his head and started to weep silently. He was obviously very shaken. He said to the Vicar-General: "Oh my God, what are they doing? The people will soon get hold of declarations like these and they'll prefer to become evangelicals or even Muslims than remain Catholic! What are they doing in Rome? Oh my God, oh my God!"

Yes.

Fall on your knees and weep.

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Synod Day 4: Gradualism... When your children need a condom, the bishops are going to 'walk with them' to CVS to give a boost to their confidence.

I think we all have a snowball's chance in hell of getting any spiritual direction during this pontificate. According to Bishop Kurtz, the bishops job is keeping us entertained on the way to doing something destructive.

"We all agree on what is right or wrong," he continued. "The question becomes, As a good pastor, how do you accompany people as they embrace and make as a good habit that gift of gradualism?"


Who "we"?

Does he mean them?

Because the people whose minds are overshadowed with the consequences of mortal sin certainly do not agree what is right and what is wrong.

That's what the family feud is all about.

Our children's minds have been perverted to believe what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right.

It's almost as if they don't have the faintest idea how mortal sin obstructs sound judgment on right and wrong and the only thing that can fix that predicament is remorse, the Sacrament of Confession and abstaining from repeating the sin again.

Here is Carol telling her children Catholics do not live together before marriage - and the Pope is out in the public square saying the times are a changing and so what if they live together.

I heroically hung in there giving the Pope the benefit of the doubt months after he announced he doesn't believe there is such a thing is right judgment in temptation with same sex attraction.

As a woman with a great deal of contacts with practicing Catholics - I don't know anyone who agrees with the Pope on what is right and what is wrong. Not a single person.

What is Bishop Kurtz talking about?

Speaking of theology, the fix is in on circumventing 2000 years of the Deposit of Faith.

They are going to 'rethink' it.

The buffoonery in this story is jaw dropping.

Canadian Archbishop Paul-André Durocher said The Holy Spirit wasn't enlightening first 2000 years of theologians, but they finally got their answers from a 'study' at Harvard University.

"And we're only, in a sense, starting to learn how to do this as church leaders," he said. "And this is going to take time for us, to learn to do this and together to come -- as we reflect on this -- to find what is the way that God is showing."

His reflections, which came at the end of the 70-minute briefing, may suggest a change in how bishops develop theological thought, which in the past has typically followed deductive methods of authors such as Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas over inductive methods used in systems like pastoral, or even liberation, theology.

You will note Cardinal Meuller correcting their nonsense.

He better watch his step or he will find himself in some God forsaken jungle in charge of Ebola!

A word to the wise - if it contradicts what He taught the first 4000 years, it isn't Him, it's the other guy.

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Synod Day 3 Extra: Pope Admits Heretical Circus is "only the first PUSH" against "supposed interpretations of dogma"

Pope Francis has stated that the Church “must not withdraw into dogma”

Oh heavens no. Why would parents go to Church with their children expecting priests to teach dogma!

The Pope said times they are a changing, people are not getting married, these are their new habits, so what, the Church is supposed to make them feel comfortable with adultery.

"Don't expect a decision next week … This is only the initial push.”

They made up their mind a long time ago - they were going to drop the bird turds on the hoods of our car and let time corrode Church teaching.

You push. We shove.

Then we'll shove some more.