Saturday, January 31, 2015

Transgendered Woman Says Meeting with Pope Francis Left Her Convinced He will Change Moral Theology on Human Sexuality



I wasn't really following this story because frankly, having a Pope meet with a transgendered person doesn't bother me. I think priests who are ramming their own same-sex attractions down the throats of Christ's people have done terrible damage to the Church by pretending same-sex attracted people are not welcome.

Same sex Catholics have never been unwelcome.

What sometimes happens..let us face it, what most times happens after the welcoming: The demoralization of everyone else's children.

The family is welcomed in the pews and moral theology can no longer be taught - to anyone - because it offends them.

Any time a priest teaches or has resources and programs that teach moral theology, they raise a big stink.

Our children are shut off from Church teaching.

Which isn't a small problem.

Yes, we can catechize at home, but it gives the appearance this is our own set of values, not a teaching that the Church really wishes us all to practice because it hasn't caught up with the values of the world.

Skeptical, they go to school where the teachers there take it upon themselves to instill their values and the values of our nutty politicians into OUR children.

This is against the law but we really don't have a system anymore where laws are in effect. The country is operating in lawlessness.

We attempt to continue to be convincing, we try to find families who practice the Catholic religion, but we are not all that effective when the local Bishop in the Chancery paints the practice of our religion as outdated fringe, appoints reprobates to teach immorality and sin in his own administration and Catechesis, and his polishes his public image with Ted Kennedy, Tom Menino and Obama.

Further, when a local Bishop defends priests who teach Catholics to practice same-sex to his congregation, the reality is, we become ineffective when we teach at home.

Before Pope Francis, we had this situation localized. The leadership in the Chair of Peter taught the faithful practice of our religion.

1. Some diocese were completely gonzo - Rochester, NY, the loon in Florida who had to pay off his eyecandy - his name always escapes me! Whatever. In these diocese, the bishop proactively snuffed out orthodoxy.

2. Others had a bad bishop, but too cowardly to fight off the pockets of orthodox priests who managed to quietly teach the faith and help families foster virtues in a world gone spiritually insane.

I could an epistle about the ill effects of this to our Church, our families and the culture - but that is not what this post is about.

3. We had some diocese who had a faithful bishop whose own cowardice has effectively filled our apostolates with apostates who demoralize our children. Pockets of orthodoxy survive in this environment. Again, because the Popes walked and talked moral theology that affirm what we teach at home.

4. And finally, we have good bishops with an entire diocese of people who are catechized living every day pursuing Sacramental Grace.

In the latter two situations, we had same-sex attracted priests who have been pounding the pavement with their sob story that same-sex Catholics are not welcome in the Church.

My good friend Fr. Bill Scanlan used to refer to them and their whole shtick as 'self-loathing gay priests'. How I miss him!

Pope Francis is operating the papacy as a #1.

He is snuffing out orthodoxy. The things he is saying and doing, not saying and not doing - have eclipsed the teachings of the Church and made every family in every diocese an at-risk family.

Irrespective of how Mark Shea and Mr. Weigel want to spin it, this is the reality inside of our homes. He has become an enemy of the family.

But the part about compensating for the messages people are not welcome is absolutely true.

We have to face the reality that the messages the Church doesn't welcome homosexuals did terrible damage.

I am on board attempts to ensure our homosexuals, bisexuals, trisexuals, transexuals, premarital sexuals - whatever your sexuals - feel welcome.

So, I wasn't really bothered when I read the Pope was reaching out to a transexual.

It didn't mitigate his eclipse of Church teaching in the world and I worried the woman would walk away with the wrong message.

That worry seems to have become a reality.

God help this poor woman, and I pray she is protected from the negative feedback of attributing affirmation that her meeting with the Pope left her with the feeling he'll push for change of moral theology.

These publicity stunts have got to come to an end.

He has control over them because there is one thing I can guarantee.

When the reporters on the back of a plane ask him about his meeting with the transexual, he will not say So I said to this dame, what are you doing to yourself? You're using sex like a gerbil. You are tempting God!

It won't happen.

So this isn't a problem with a Pope who has Tourette's syndrome.

He has not uttered a single indiscreet or insensitive insult about immoral sexual practices in his off the cuff remarks.

He's tipping his hand. The appointment of Kasper to form policies that eclipse Church teaching on moral theology is also a tip of the hand.


I know it. You know it. The media knows it. The dissidents know it. The children know it. I think Shea and Weigel know it, frankly.


Neria recalls heated discussions with a parish priest and some others in town. Afterward, he started staying away from Mass.

Well, yes.

Don't you notice the other sexuals coming and going without getting into heated discussions about the sex?

Those are private discussion in a confessional or with your spiritual director.

You don't come to "Mass" and then make stink when you hear the teachings of the Church.

You need to examine your purpose in coming.

If you're coming for an affirmation of the sex you are having or want to have, it's an abuse of the Sacrament.


The Mass a Sacrifice. Sit in the pew and take what you need from Him. Let the priest do his job.

Otherwise, while you are welcome, what you say and do is not welcome. It will never be welcome.

The blowback from people who want their children formed in the faith is going make you feel like your ideas are not welcome. Because they are not. Keep your ideas that stray from Church teaching to yourself. Keep your struggle private. We don't indoctrinate other people into ideas that mislead them from doctrine. People are coming to the building for support in the practice of virtues against our own ideas.


This is why drunks who are not interested in pursuing sobriety avoid AA meetings. If they show up to get into heated discussions about the virtues of drinking booze, the leaders say and do things that make them feel unwelcome. They are committing their time to helping people get and stay sober.

Priests have abandoned their vocation of expelling demons to become a celebrity. The Pope is living the dream.

Catholic doctrine holds that sex change procedures do not change a person's gender in the eyes of the church.

"But if this Pope has a long life, which all of his followers hope," Neria says, "I think things will change."

I think his plans have hit a little snag.

He's run full-throttle into the hand that rocks the cradle. I wish him a lot of luck.

I think they are back to the drawing board.

They didn't anticipate the push back. They never do.

An excellent post here with several links I would encourage you to follow and read.

Faithful Catholics are not going along for the ride. He has a problem on his hands. I think he'll need a few more kicks where the sun don't shine. There are a lot of feet in Christendom lifted into position.

About a year or so ago, practicing Catholics created quite ruckus about something Cardinal O'Malley said or did. I don't even remember the controversy. But per usual, they were caught off guard by the wagons surrounding their initiative. There were several rounds of heated private exchanges wherein they expressed their frustration that we were scorching the earth.

"You better believe it but don't blame us. That is your own fault." I said. "We tried twenty years of rational phone calls and letters asking for intervention. I've got a cellar full of dishonest and patronizing letters and newspapers filled with insults and slander. I hope my children and grandchildren will someday treasure them but we are not wasting any more of our time. Scorching the earth is the only thing that works."

I never thought I'd be scorching St. Peter's Square, but so be it. Worthy is the Lamb.






Dear Pope Francis: Saving the World Requires Contraception



I like how this guy just calls him Francis.

I'll spare you the agony. It's a letter to Frank explaining how killing babies saves lives.

Wait, stop laughing.

They are shilling the Church's edicts on birth control pills is responsible for the climate changes.

But, Francis, providing people with access to the full range of contraceptives is also crucial to combatting climate change. If you're serious about engaging in this work, you simply must end your proscription of modern birth control.

Food for thought for the responsible prevention of babies agenda.

The priorities and communications from this papacy are a hot mess.

Pope Francis and Cardinal O'Malley Infusion of Communism Advancing



More details here.

You would really have to have your head in the sand not to see the shoves they are giving to our country.

Friday, January 30, 2015

Petition to Pope to Save the Family (from the people he has appointed)



TFP Student Action has initiated a petition to the Pope asking him to save the family at the next Synod.

I would encourage all to sign up and to send to your email and prayer groups.

In my 50+ years of being a Catholic, when we find ourselves burdened by leadership that appointed dozens of heretics to distort Church teaching which results in chaos and confusion, but they keep on going in spite of it, it has never turned out to be ignorance and unintended outcome.

Before Pope Francis crossed the line of twisting his face into disgust when he told his story about rebuking a pregnant woman, we spent two years asking him to stop his attacks on the Deposit of Faith, to stop appointing heretics.

The response was, he and his team had no intention of paying attention to the expressions of concerns of mothers divulging the damage they are doing to catechesis and our families.

I believe him.

Nevertheless, a petition is a worthy endeavor to put names under his nose that inform his intellect that we see what he is doing.

A lot of time and energy was invested into pressuring Catholics into not being critical of a pope who is misleading our children. They have learned the valuable lesson that those days are gonzo. And they are not coming back.

There are new sheriffs in Christendom. Mommies and Nannies.

We've got our tar and feathers and we are ready to use them on every prelate who aligns themselves to this perverted agenda.

You know what's really funny?

Millions are being poured into Crux on Morrissey Boulevard and a couple of mothers and fathers with free blogs have the power to pull the rug out from underneath it all.





Thursday, January 29, 2015

Bishop Chris Coyne Installation Homily



Worth a read.

I am not a politician. I am a pastor. I am not a policy-maker. I am a preacher and teacher of the Catholic Faith. My desire is to teach what the Church teaches, to preach the Good News of Jesus Christ, and inform the consciences of my fellow Catholics about what we believe and why we believe. While I always seek to foster the common good of all, I recognize that I do so as one within a diverse and multi-faceted culture of which the Catholic Church is only one faith among many.

It seems to me that the reading that we just heard from the Letter of James is quite appropriate for this task. It was not a reading I chose but one that is prescribed for the Feast of Saint Thomas Aguinas, which we Catholics and a number of other Christian communities celebrate today. My hope is to be “wise” in the manner of which James writes: peaceable, rich in sympathy and the kindly deeds that are the fruits of wisdom. I can’t make any guarantee about being docile though. It is just not in my nature.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

When Pope Francis said this is going down and they don't care about opposition..



You can believe him.

Pope says: "It all depends on how you interpret Humanae Vitae"

This supposedly was said in an interview last March - which I somehow missed:

"It all depends on how Humanae Vitae is interpreted."


The National Catholic Reporter explains what the Pope means with his cryptic messages about contraception.

The interview offers an interpretive key to understanding the Jesuit pope when he speaks specifically about the topic of birth control. (Until the papal visit to the Philippines, he's done so only seldomly.)

There's another interpretative key. It's a principle he put forth in his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, and has repeated on numerous occasions: "Realties are greater than ideas."

These two instruments are critical to understanding how Pope Francis interprets Humanae Vitae.

First of all, the comments he made in the Philippines, on the plane trip back to Rome and, finally, those at his Wednesday general audience following the trip all suggest one thing: the pope is a realist.

The Pope is like like the Velveteen Rabbit - he's real.

Swallow your birth control pills because the Pope is saying reality is more important than the ideas in Humanae Vitae.

Pope Francis is explaining his interpretation of the cryptic message in Humanae Vitae: Don't be selfish and irresponsible, use birth control!



Reality is more important than any idea -- or ideal. And Jorge Mario Bergoglio knows this. He has been closely involved in the day-to-day reality of people's lives probably as much as any bishop could be. He knows that most Catholics have a hard time accepting the encyclical's teaching on artificial birth control and that many simply ignore it.

On the personal level -- or, rather, on the level of the couple -- he also believes the encyclical has much else to say that is of even greater value than opposing the pill and condoms. In the pope's interpretation, the encyclical's message to Catholic couples is to be generous and responsible. Basically, its message is, "Don't be selfish! Don't be irresponsible!"

They go on to explain that this is what Pope Francis means when he says he doesn't intend to change Church teaching, he's going to find people like Cardinal Kasper to explain the hidden meanings.

They explain, that in Humanae Vitae, the hidden meaning was the use of birth control and population control as a fundamental protection of the poor.

This is what happens when you have a Church leader who refuses to teach and in the absence of teaching - the apostates rise up to convey what you think.

The ammunition Pope Francis has given them is a full eclipse of 2000 years of theology.




This is not all that far-fetched



Vatican II Updates to Rome.

John Allen asks: Is Pope Francis ordering Catholics to stop trying to convert people and bring them into the Church?


A very valid interpretation.

Are Catholics supposed to be trying to convert people and bring them into the Church, or not?

It's unbelievable that John Allen believes the Pope has flushed such a toilet of confusion into our baptismal promises, he felt the need to explain it - but it is what it is.

Pope Francis has repeatedly said and done things to convey conversion of souls isn't necessary in his modernization of 2000 years of Church teaching and practices.

To Allen's credit, he does explain the distinction between conversion and proselytism.

But here's something interesting: Allen goes on to explain that the reason that Pope Francis was simply addressing the pockets of Catholics using aggressive and coercive techniques.

I know what you're asking.

Where are the Catholics using aggressive and coercive techniques?

I will tell you.

They're with with the non-existent priests obsessively and compulsively teaching about contraception.

I think there is another tribe who is with prolifers who reject Church teaching on sharing money, food and shelter with the indigent.

Cardinal Bernadin's imaginary Isle of Urban Legends where you use tall tales to pervert Church teaching.

Where the self-absorbed, Promethean neo-Pelagian Restorationists are afraid to dance and only speak Latin.

Honestly, I think Pope Francis was probably talking about you-know-who - the political science of islam that mass murders those who will not convert. But, the Pope's unwillingness to effectively express who and what he is talking about leaves us in a place where the National Catholic Distorter types use it to 'rip' effective teaching and converting.

Every clown in the circus capitalizes on the confusion the Pope is imposing to pull down his pants and show us what's in his diapers.

Here's one that said the Roman luminaries are simply trying to figure out how to circumvent unchangeable doctrine to help people who don't enjoy the fullness of Christian marriage.

Isn't that sweet?

Regrettably, I am dreading the Holy Father's address to Congress.

I am concerned the mission of the Church is going to change from feeding the substance of souls to feeding stomachs.

I am afraid the seeds of communism Pope Francis planted with the behind-the-scenes collaboration with Hugo will be fertilized and watered.

Pope Francis can say he is a not a communist all he wants. He talks like one and he walks like one and his work with Hugo put an end to any doubts I once had.

The reckless disregard for the people of Cuba suffering violence and oppression to get another cover on the photo of TIME magazine as, of all things, 'a peace-maker', didn't have its intended effect at my home.

Saying he is not a communist is about as sensible as picking the well-known apostate to lead theology on his synod on the family and then tell us it isn't his intention to mislead our children with heresy.

The intellect of mothers is just too sophisticated in America. We've had to develop it because the priesthood became a place that indoctrinated their own same-sex attractions into the minds of two generations of children. They continue to do so.

When Pope Francis made his announcement he wasn't going to make any judgments about two decades of the pleas of mothers to relieve us of the agenda, we got the message.

There is a lot of talk about 'the seamless garment' we all see without making reference that the force behind the current manifestation of its intellectual dishonesty is the Pope.

Jimmy Akin wrote a piece about its intellectual dishonesty.

In essence, it's priests obstruct moral theology, discredit and insult those who teach it's practice and make claims that when Christ asked Peter as the Head of His Church to accept the martyrdom of loving Him enough to feed His lambs, He was talkin' 'bout bread, cheese and milk.

America is a war zone. American mothers welcome the Pope's presence here. But we are as likely to permit him to gather the people we love and roll out communism with the seamless garment as we are likely to set up a pedophile brothel using our children for the Roman Curia.

In fact, as I've repeatedly mentioned before, we would sooner do the latter.

Put.The.Garment.Back.in.its.Closet.

Pope Francis is merely the current occupant of our Chair of Peter. They come and they go. He's going to preserve doctrine the easy way or the hard way. And, he is not going to mitigate it with a set of instructions on how to teach our people to ignore it through pastoral practices.

Put it away, or we shall rip it to shreds along the credibility of this papacy.

I leave you with this week's homily from Fr. Rutler.



FROM THE PASTOR
January 25, 2015
by Fr. George W. Rutler


The great edifices of classical cultures are also morally edifying by their anonymity. The artists and artisans who embellished them are generally unknown because they were honoring something greater than themselves.

The desire to be known, however, is not unworthy of human dignity, provided it is not just selfish pride. Homo faber, man the builder, is entitled to take just satisfaction in an accomplishment, provided thanks for the inspiration are accorded to the Divine Inspirer.

Humility refers all things to God, but it dispenses with the false modesty, like that of Dickens’ Uriah Heep, that solicits praise but pretends not to want it. When Michelangelo carved his name very visibly on his Pietà, he wanted people to know that God had done a great thing through him. That is different from those who want their names known just to advertise themselves. “Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names” (Psalm 49:11).

Once a man desires to please God first, he will begin to understand that he is not just a statistic in the divine regard. “Non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam—Not unto us Lord, but unto thy name give the glory.” St. Paul warned St. Timothy not to be a “man pleaser” because that distracts from the primary relationship with God who made us for his delight. To be dependent on human recognition is to forfeit the radical dignity that God alone gives us. “We love him because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19).

No one wants to receive mail addressed only to “Occupant.” Christ does not address us as statistics, the way a bureaucrat does. St. Paul wrote his epistles to churches composed of individuals, each of whom he was willing to die for, as Christ died for him. He does not end his letter to the Romans without naming them: Phoebe, Prisca, Aquila, Epaenetus, Mary, Andronicus, Junias, Ampliatus, Urbanus, Stachys, Apelles, Aristobulus, Herodion, Narcissus, Tryphaena, Tryphosa, Persis, Rufus, Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, Philologus, Julia, Nereus, and Olympas. It is quite like the list of names with which Cardinal Newman ended his Apologia pro Vita Sua. That is the greatest modern autobiography in the English language, and he named his friends because he had shown them that they were friends of God.

The pantheon of fame has its cracks. I recently spoke with a college student who had never heard of Bing Crosby. The only recognition that matters is how we are known to the Lord. Should we be blessed to meet him in glory, he will not say, “How do you do?” He will not even say, “I think I remember you.” He will say, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you” (Jeremiah 1:5).





n.b. Isn't it ironic that while Pope Francis issues rebukes to pregnant women about tools the Church gives us to make responsible judgments about whether there's enough money to feed another mouth, he and Cardinal O'Malley pretend they don't know that the money of working people in this country isn't enough to sustain the people in it - and yet they are at the borders promoting illegal entry of millions more.

They will bankrupt our people into poverty and make a third-world country out of America before they ever apply the principle of responsibility to the economic collapse they're working on with Obama and the communists in Cuba.

How 'bout we needlepoint that onto your seamless garment?






Monday, January 26, 2015

I think I've honed in Margery Eagan's problem


I read this article and nearly fell off of my chair.

She sure has a dolt of a spiritual director. He told her Christ doesn't ask us to do things we don't want to do.

Are ya kiddin' me?

Christ is love and love asks us to do things we don't want to do.

If we love Him back, we do them. With joy.

A spiritual director who perverts the stupid and sinful things we use free will to think, say and do into a trajectory to advise the suckers who believe him to go.

The blind leading the blind.

Maybe her spiritual director is John Allen!

There's only a handful of priests in the diocese daffy enough to tell her Christ and His Church doesn't asks us to do things we don't want to do.

Of course we have the free will to reject truth. The purpose of a spiritual director is to keep us from doing it.

Back in the days when I rejected Church teaching on contraception, I used to cherry pick priests who would tell me it wasn't a sin.

That is the curse of unrepentant sin: The devil leads you to his own.

But in my worst day, I couldn't swallow the koolaid which completely contradicted the fiat of Christ.

I think that's what saved me. That and St. John Paul II. And maybe because I am so in love with love, I fill every moment I can practicing it in my human relationships.

I recognized they were so completely daft about Christ and Scripture, I eventually knew the caricature they portrayed of heroic priests helping Christ's Church come out of the dark ages was a lie I wanted to believe. I had to face the fact I wrong about contraception. I read, in good faith - wanting to know and understand - everything I could get my hands on that explained the Church's position.

I was shocked that the beauty of the truth was there all along. I couldn't believe that the intellect could be so blinded by hostility of our own agendas. I went on a pursuit to find out why sin affects the intellect.

What an education.

It took me a couple of years to understand that the Church is a Mother who tells me what to do and not to do because God knows more than I do and wants to save me from myself.

How could Mags swallow that Chrst doesn't ask us to do things we don't want to do?

That is what love is and does.

Doing what we don't want to do to please our Beloved.

That is the meat and potatoes of love. The critical component of successful human relationships whether you are a pope, bishop, priest, mother, father, relative, friend.

Love does not survive without sacrifice. I don't even think it is love if you don't have the instincts and desire to sacrifice.

Christ is Sacrifice because sacrifice is love.

Every image, every story, every teaching.

The Blood Christ sweat in Gethsemene wasn't a symptom of wanting to say yes to what His Father was asking Him to do. We all come to terms with the magnitude of what God asks us to do.

How does she process 2000 years of martyrs?

Does she think they wanted the people to kill them?

That must be why she has such big fangs and claws.

She thinks we don't want to hop into the sack with that eyecandy like the people who are doing it.

When the hunk of love tells us they love us so much they'll have no choice but to find somebody else if we don't sleep with them, she thinks we aren't attracted to doing it. She thinks we don't want to do it.

When a man averts his eyes from cleavage, she things he doesn't want to look at it. LOL>

When he a different bus or quits his job to avoid somebody he has a sexual attraction to, instead of asking Marty Walsh to turn the Catholic parade into a parade about the sex we're attracted to, Maggs thinks those men don't it.

Forget about understanding God, she doesn't even understand men!

Sure men get to the point where their very nature doesn't want to do it.

But it takes years discipline and suppressing thoughts that lead to sexual attraction.

Women are no different.

When you love your children, you may want to buy that mink coat instead of a swing set. But we don't do it because we love them more.

Sure we want a job where we rise to the top. But we stay home with our children because we love motherhood and our children more than we love ourselves or the stuff our success buys.

Many women, including myself, never want to be a power broker in the business world. We've had the insatiable appetite to be the mother who is home taking care of their own children.

When you love your wife or husband, there may come a day when your marriage is suffering and you may want to act on a sexual attraction to a neighbor, coworker, somebody you met in a bar anesthetizing your emotions with booze. We don't do it because we love our wife/husband more.

Those of us who love Christ the way we love others..wait, no..Those of us who love Christ above all others, there are many things we want or desire - Christ asks us to lay down what we want, as He laid down what He wanted.

The Catechism is the index of things Christ asks us not to do, even when we want to do them.

If and when you love Him enough, you give it all up. Sometimes reluctantly, painfully.

That's the whole shtick.

One day you wake up so in love with Christ, there is no interest in the things you used to want. You have it all.

She is reading Fr. Ciszek:

God asked him “to let go of the reins and place myself entirely at his disposal. He was asking of me an act of total trust,” Ciszek wrote, “a complete gift of self, nothing held back. It demanded absolute faith in God’s existence, providence, his concern for the minutest details, in his power to sustain and protect me. It meant losing the last hidden doubt, the fear that God will not bear you up, like the eternity between anxiety and belief when a child first lets go of all support — only to find that the water truly holds him up and he can float, motionless and totally relaxed.”

You can't do it on your own. You'll never do it if you are hooked into daffy priests. Cut them loose. They are a danger to your soul.

Get to a faithful confessor and express your sorrow for using your gifts to mislead other Catholics from Him. Go to Communion and in a state of Grace ask Christ to enlighten you. Spend time in Eucharistic Adoration reading the Saints. Bishop Sheen. Pope John Paul II.

You have to want to know the truth. Be willing to accept the embarrassment that you have been wrong and wronged other people. Wronged Christ and His Church. And not in little ways. Nobody wants to do that.

You have to be willing to swallow your pride. Nobody wants to do that either.

You have to be willing to lose the fan club you built with your crusade against Church teaching and those who teach it. They will turn on you and give you a good dose of your own medicine. Nobody wants to do that.

You won't want to accept your 'spiritual director' has been misguiding you. All these years. Though I'm not sure that is completely honest because you were really writing that script. You chose him because you knew his convictions and you knew he would 'spiritually direct' you by affirming your heresy. You were co-dependents.

You might lose your job. Lose your priest. Lose your parish. Lose your friends.


As that once famous Prophet once said...

Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to dress yourself and go where you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”

He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

Twisting the Definition of Love to Affirmation



Love like this will be seen in hell.

Prayer against Storms



The Prayer Against storms, found in your Pieta Prayer Book: (Make the sign of the cross on the + symbol)

Jesus Christ a King of Glory has come in Peace. + God became man, + and the Word was made flesh. + Christ was born of a virgin. + Christ suffered. + Christ was crucified. + Christ died. + Christ rose from the dead. + Christ ascended into Heaven. + Christ conquers. + Christ reigns. + Christ orders. + May Christ protect us from all storms and lightning. + Christ went through their midst in Peace, + and the Word was made Flesh. + Christ is with us with Mary. + Flee you enemy spirits because the Lion of the Generation of Juda, the Root of David, was won. + Holy God! + Holy Powerful God ! + Holy Immortal God! + Have mercy on us. Amen.

Pope Francis is surprised and sorry over reaction to his rebuke to a pregnant woman as 'tempting God'



The more I think about his rebuke, the daffier it gets.

 Theologically, he is actually suggestion that the modus operandi of God is, the more you love and trust Him, the more likely He is to punish you with death.  

The Pope is saying each act of faithfulness is a temptation to God. You only get so many chances to be faithful before he lashes out in vengeance to take your life.

Christ becomes vindictive if you are too faithful to Him.

I am flabbergasted by this bizarre mischaracterization of Christ.

In any event, reports are now circulating that Pope Francis was surprised about the...misunderstanding on his words on large families and is sorry and saddened.

I believe that is true as he immediately did some damage control.

You know there is a but coming.

Though this is progress, -- I hate to say it -- his explanation comes up short for me.

Seeing the headlines, the Holy Father, with whom I spoke yesterday, smiled and was a bit surprised that his words were not fully contextualized with regards to a very clear passage of Humanae vitae on responsible parenthood,” Archbishop Becciu stated.

Bl. Paul VI's 1968 encyclical on the regulation of birth said that “responsible parenthood, as we use the term here, has one further essential aspect of paramount importance. It concerns the objective moral order which was established by God, and of which a right conscience is the true interpreter. In a word, the exercise of responsible parenthood requires that husband and wife, keeping a right order of priorities, recognize their own duties toward God, themselves, their families and human society.”

This doesn't get me anywhere:

The archbishop said the correct interpretation of Pope Francis' words comes from the teaching of Bl. Paul VI and from the ancient tradition of the Church, which Pius XI’s 1930 encyclical Casti connubii : that “even if the unitive and procreative aspects of the sexual act must never be separated,” the act “must always be included in the logic of love” with regard to the “capacity of each person to open to the mystery of the gift of self in the bonds of marriage.”

Too convoluted and still, as far as I'm concerned, is suggesting coming up with an excuse to use NFP to foist your marriage upon the road of having to trust in Christ and intercept His plan for children He planned for the marriage before we were even born.

John Allen at the crucks posted a story suggesting Pope Francis believes the Final Chapter of the Bible (add this to the small list of Church teaching he's willing to substantiate) and is taking short-cuts.

I think that is an astute observation.

You really have to have your head in the sand not to recognize the diabolical disorientation as the symptom of an apocalyptic harvest of the devil. Catholics, including Pope Francis, understand the events in the Book of Revelation could take generations to play out. Prayer and fasting delays it.

Keen observers of the escalated pace of the devil and the magnitude of the diabolical disorientation - - suffice it to say, we're thinking we best be picking up the pace just in case. In other words, the gut instincts are educated guesses based upon demonic activity that is off of the charts. Historically off of the charts.

Lord of the World is a good book.

The Book of Revelation is cryptic to the uninitiated.

As Pope John Paul II said at the turn of the century, we are inching our way towards it.

The concern of practicing Catholics is, the last thing we want our Pope to do is identify the Cardinal Kaspers of this world as the example of his sheep to follow -- while he thwarts and discredits those who faithfully teach the theology of Christ's Church.

The agenda has two horns and a tail.

He's in the wrong rabbit hole.

As he has before, Francis went out of his way to invoke an apocalyptic 1907 novel by an English convert from Anglicanism called “Lord of the World.” The novel lays out a dystopic vision of a final conflict between secular humanism and Catholicism, with the showdown taking place on the fields of Armageddon.

Author Robert Hugh Benson depicts a world in which Marxism and secularism have run the table, culminating in a charismatic “savior” figure, increasingly recognizable as the Anti-Christ, who arises to lead a one-world government. Attacks on Christian symbols and believers mount, and euthanasia is widely practiced.

Francis first praised the novel back in November 2013, in the context of a homily in which he denounced what he called “adolescent progressivism.” He returned to “Lord of the World” in the recent airplane news conference, saying, “I advise you to read it” because it explains what he meant by a reference to “ideological colonization” during a session with 20,000 Filipino families in Manila.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Rick Santorum said practicing Catholic families find it 'difficult' to listen to Pope Francis



His commentary here.

That's a polite way to put it.

It's more accurate to say practicing Catholic families find having their children receive the messages of Pope Francis is 'dangerous'.

Dangerous is the word.

When our children came to us to tell us they wanted to save money and move in with their boyfriend, we had the Deposit of Faith to explain the damage they are inflicting upon themselves, the person they love, God and the disadvantages all of it places upon a relationship intended to be life-long.

That has been taken away from us.

I shouldn't say its been taken away from us because there's nothing Pope Francis can do to take it away so he's relying on undermining us to demolish the 2000 years of theology.

It's more accurate to say, he's taken away our efficacy. And we all know that means.  The children of God's elite army are in the hands of the tempter.

Every nutjob priest they ordained over the last forty years is emboldened and teaching and preaching immorality. Every apostate teacher in every Catholic school and apostolate is ramming their heresies down our children's throats - courtesy of the new age pope.

I feel sorry for Pope Francis because I don't think this was his intention.

But it is what it is and as much as I care about Pope Francis, I care about my children and their salvation more. And, I care about Christ and his Church even more than that.

The Pope has alienated faithful Catholic families practicing our religion. When journalists have informed of what he knows or should know, he said he didn't care about any opposition, he and his team are going to keep on carrying out the agenda of putting apostate Cardinals in charge of 'pastorally' misleading his flock into temptation, sin and sacrilegious communion.

He is misleading the people we love.

It's way more than 'difficult'.

His shtick is 'dangerous' to our children.

He's made himself an enemy of the hand that rocks the cradle.

I wish him a lot of luck with that because here are a lot of wabbits. More wabbits than he realizes. And our kicks where the sun doesn't shine are going to send him to the moon.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Pope Francis Praises Big Families as a gift from God -I bet you say that to all the wabbits.





Jumpin' without a parachute? Kinda dangerous, ain't it? - Bugs Bunny

At least we know he's getting the messages.

I also think his immediate reversal is an action taken in good faith to demonstrate he is on the same page with the fiat of woman.

When the Holy Father said we all need to listen to women because they can see things men can't, this is a shining example. And he did respond.

There are still several problems here and they are not insignificant problems.

1. The two-year history of ridiculing, rebuking, penalizing faithful Catholics while shilling for the goodness in adulterous relationships that has just got to stop.

"Stop breathing on my fur!"

He knows how to be careful with what he says. It's time to stop the off the cuff remarks. He knows his stream of consciousness is not orthodox by nature. It's time to give them ice cream on the plane without talking about theology.

2. He owes the pregnant woman he rebuked an apology.

3. He's given the world the idea that NFP is the approved-approved method of birth control.

Technically, this could be argued when a mother's life is in danger, but if there is the extremely rare genuine case where a pregnancy is killing the mother, the Church does not penalize the woman if the pregnancy is terminated.

We don't promote this as a valid Church-approved abortion.

See the theological and pastoral problem with the spin on contraception?

TTC readers are not going to like what I have to say about this one, but it could be we could hijack this and get women off of the pill and into using NFP.

Think about this for a minute.

The reality is, most contraception use is about the inability to afford a child. Most people are exaggerating their financial situation to delay a family, but there are some legitimate cases. If we were to jump on this to get women into good NFP programs that teaches the distinction, more good than harm would be brought to bear from this booboo.

Why not? Every mistake made by the Holy See gets put into full throttle into catechesis. Let's play the game.

4. He's got to stop appointing apostates.

5. This is the most important one: He has to teach moral theology and encourage priests to do the same.

While we have a captive audience, any other suggestions?


I wanted to post today's optional readings for the Memorial of St. Agnes. They are speaking to us. Having trouble finding them. the USCCB site, unbelievably, does not have them.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Chiding a Pregnant Mother of Seven for 'tempting God'


I've been thinking about Pope Francis revelation that he chided a pregnant mother of seven for for 'tempting God'.


What's the action he expected her to take?

Inquiring minds want to know.

This is what happens when you have a good sexual relationship at home. When two people are still on fire for each other, and that takes work, even using the authority of the Church to give yourself permission to say 'this is a good reason' to refrain from relations on this week, sometimes the Author of Life has other plans.

Was she supposed to responsibly abort her baby?

Is she and her husband supposed to go out and find a same-sex partner so her Pope won't judge her and will go out of his way to find good in the sex they are having?

He wouldn't dare tell the communist Castro he is tempting God.

He wouldn't dare tell the nuns on the bus, who led generations of children into temptation and gehanna, they are tempting God.

Out of his long list of insults to faithful Catholics, I think this is the worst.

Forget about his vulgar caricature of conjugal love as a mindless sex of rabbits and the theological problems he continues to foster, where is his faith in God through Whom all things are possible?

Where is his trust?

Where is his surrender?

Even if a mother dies rather than kill or intercept a life given to her by God, that is our fiat. We don't balance consequences and then obstruct the Creator of Life.

If God creates, we trust and love Him enough to say yes.

What good was accomplished by making her feel shame for doing what the Church has taught for 2000 years?

Is SCOTUS set to formalize our country as Sodom and Gomorrah?

Fr. Z recommends hunkering down in prayer.

It's a giant leap for the cultural warriors who wage war against God.

It is point in time where the entire country tells God we are the arbiters of moral law, not You. In the mystical world, it is a force of an entire country putting a false god before God.

In spite of the gargoyles who think they have the power to dictate good and evil, every locus on earth is God's. He creates and permits its destruction at will. This is the mother of all wars against God.

Some of judges are long-suffering pagans who have been fighting God all their lives.

For those who know better, or should know better, the wisest thing to do would be to limit the opinion to two sentences.

The power to give edicts or moral laws belongs to God and He has spoken through the design of the human body and procreation. I recuse myself on the grounds that my religion forbids the use of my authority to subordinate God's.

Nothing more needs or should be said.

It is telling that the Pope suggested Lord of the World as good reading material. He knows a frantic harvesting is going down in the spiritual world and desperate times call for desperate measures. He's on the right side but meandering off of the track.

We need to keep kicking him where the sun doesn't shine, showing him the poor he is crosses the street to avoid. The poor he walks over and tramples on. The poor his see and priests have starved to death. The poor he himself is starving to death.

And in the meantime, hope THOSE poor suffering from diabolical disorientation he is inflicting upon his people with his own hands, get caught into his loving arms.


It was incredible, she told herself, that this ravening monster, dripping blood from claws and teeth, that had arisen roaring in the night, could be the Humanity that had become her God.~Lord of the World

There are too many macho men in the Church who don't listen to women's ideas.


There are too many macho men in the Church who don't listen to women's ideas.


Some of the things he says are so removed from reality, it is beginning to get weird.

One has to travel many kilometers to find a macho man in Vatican City. Maybe he needs a new prescription for eyeglasses.

What's next? Too many feminine women in the Leadership Conference of Women Religious?

Brace yourself:

"(We) don't allow room for women but women are capable of seeing things with a different angle from us, with a different eye. Women are able to pose questions that we men are not able to understand," he said to more applause.

It's frightening. He's clueless.

The problem isn't macho men who don't listen to women's ideas. It's sissified men listening to women with the wrong ideas.

Monday, January 19, 2015

Pope Francis: "Some think that being a good Catholic means breeding like rabbits.”



Another plane ride, another dumb statement.


He talked about contraception and responsible parenthood denouncing the neo-Malthusian theory in favour of birth control. But regarding child birth he also said: Some think that being a good Catholic means breeding like rabbits...adding the Church promoted "responsible parenthood".

The man is making it impossible for women to be an effective witness of living the Magnificat.

The Spectator made the Pope's Statement into the eleventh commandment: Catholics must not breed like rabbits said the pope and yes you read that right.

The National Catholic Distorter actually goes further: he pontiff has also made what appears to be an unprecedented statement that Catholics may have a moral responsibility to limit the number of their children....

Telling the story of a woman he met in a parish in Rome several months ago who had given birth to seven children via Cesarean section and was pregnant with an eighth, Francis asked: "Does she want to leave the seven orphans?"

"This is to tempt God," he said, adding later: "That is an irresponsibility." Catholics, the pope said, should speak of "responsible parenthood."

"How do we do this?" Francis asked. "With dialogue. Each person with his pastor seeks how to do that responsible parenthood."

"God gives you methods to be responsible,"

Damien gets the gist of what the Pope probably meant to convey:

I know what he means. I think. Contraception and family planning are fine so long as you don’t artificially block procreation. But the subliminal and unintended messages are (a) that Catholics have a reputation for breeding like rabbits and (b) birth control is OK, full stop.

Now, I won’t pretend that I’ve ever agreed with the Church on the wickedness of the pill, but better Catholics than me who observe Humanae Vitae to the letter will be dismayed. Because they know that the media will seize on this interview as evidence that Francis is softening Church teaching.

Do you think it's the thin oxygen in high altitudes?

Might be time for some Sea Bands around the lips before getting on a plane.

This was my favorite quote:

Speaking about corruption, he disclosed that, in his native Argentina in 1994, he almost kicked two government bureaucrats "where the sun doesn't shine" after they tried to involve him in a kickback scheme.

I'm beginning to feel like kicking him where the sun doesn't shine. LOL.

When he comes to the US, maybe we could lead his motorcade to an intensive Dale Carnegie course.

The Holy Father also recommended the journalists read Lord of the World.

He obviously knows where the diabolical disorientation has taken the village idiots. God help them!

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Maybe if we rush this over to Cardinal Kasper, they can include it in their treatise on the modern family



Teenager marrying her father.

If they're seeking God in their relationship who are we to judge?

After all, they may have children and we wouldn't want to give them the idea that what Grampa and Mommy did is offensive to God.

Maybe they too can become Church leaders who teach the people the good that comes from incest.

They can share living expenses.

They are keeping each other from loneliness.

What were some of the other things on the new pastoral bent of hoodwinking the congregation into moral chaos?

Is it too late to produce a video for the Pontifical Council for Culture on what these two poor misguided creatures 'think about their body'?






Magnificent News: Margery Eagan is "feeling devastated by this pope".



For two years now, the Pope has been trying to tell Catholic parents that when we're living in a world overcome by diabolical disorientation, we all have to swing into a mode that withholds and discredits Church teaching to win the admiration of the uncatechized. Once they love us for discrediting Church teaching and maligning those who practice it, the strategy then shifts into second gear where we express Church teaching.

Seasoned parents, who have tried every trick in the book, know the fatal flaws of his naivete.

When the strategy backfired at the Synod to the point where it was clear irreparable harm was being done to his papacy, our Holy Father finally did what Cardinal Burke has been asking him to do: He expressed his beliefs in the teachings of the Church.

Maybe that meeting in Rome went a little different than the 'Vatican II' wingnuts had hoped.

If I were an honorable man sitting on the Chair of Peter who wanted to really understand why my show was making enemies in the camp of catechized Catholics who practice their religion, I would call the man who speaks so valiantly for them and ask him to speak openly and honestly. I would listen in good faith and try to understand. Then I would do some good soul searching and if I found the truth, I would use the next opportunity I had to reveal my convictions in Church teaching.

Just saying.

I haven't been curious enough to run over to the Crux to find out how the cultural cronies at our lady of the mattress reacted, but somebody sent me Margery Eagan's op-ed this morn.

Lookie here. It's Ms.Funeral Face.

I'll save you the pain of reading her drivel. Here's the Reader's Digest:

Pope Francis left me feeling foolish for even hoping that he’d somehow see his way to ending the Church’s completely indefensible contraception ban. Mostly, I just feel sad.

It turns out all this time the ambiguity of talking about people who love with joy are the people who believe and practice Church teaching.

That's right Maggs. You are the wicked witch he's been talking about in the pews.

You are the little monster in the annals of history.

You're the Vatican II museum mummy.

For the last fifty years, every time a priest or bishop has tried to convey Church teaching on the gift of human sexuality - you are the sourpuss he's been talking about.

You are the querulous and disillusioned pessimist who drove two generations into the fog of diabolical disorientation. Instead of going to Church, they don't know whether to wind their wristwatch or try to figure out if they were born a man without a penis. Yeah, ya sure have come a long way baby.


It's you sister suffragette. You are the people without the Light, the real downers, rotting in the heart, weak, weak to the point of rottenness.

You are the pickled pepper faced old lady pining for structures that are not life-giving in today's world. It's Sacramental Grace. Get it?

You've convinced daffy women that the 'dream' of owning a 50 thousand dollar car beats the incredible joy of the divine gift of being a mother. Being there when your children get off of the bus to tell you about something upsetting that happened in their day. Bind their wounds. Having a home-cooked meal ready for your husband when he walks through the door to talk about his challenges and receive your healing wisdom. The role of the Blessed Mother is all too demeaning to you.

You're a fool all right.

And a much bigger one than you will ever know.

UPDATE

I did find a Jacko Allen's take on the Pope's long-awaited announcement that he accepts Church teaching on contraception and marriage and the role model of the Blessed Mother for women.

As for the gay marriage and birth control remarks, what will emerge upon examination is that Francis was actually voicing the moderate Catholic position, not veering to the hard right.

What he said about priests being generous in individual cases was the tip of the hand.

In broad strokes, liberals want the Church to change its teaching on sexual morality and conservatives want it to be ever more aggressive in enforcing it. Moderates uphold the teaching, but want to be flexible and merciful in applying it to concrete situations.

In other words, nothing Francis said Friday night ultimately will change the big-picture perception of him as a compassionate centrist.

He better touch base with the magpie.

Second, media narratives are surprisingly durable once they’ve been set in stone, and often prove stubbornly resistant to correction.

By now, most media organizations have invested a good deal of their own credibility, not to mention a lot of money, building up the story of Francis as a maverick populist and reformer, and it would take a lot to convince them to let go.

It’s not clear that what we’ve seen this week, especially given that it happened half a world away in the Philippines, will do the trick.

Finally, while Francis may occasionally do things that challenge the narrative that has grown up around him, he also constantly delivers words and gestures that reinforce it.


This is why it is critical to keep beating the drum that nothing short of moving apostates out of roles that teach our children their religion is imperative. We need to be more vigilant and louder than ever.

What John Allen is saying is, the Pope is giving lip service to everyone. When it comes down to what he's doing to change the Church is putting appointing Cardinal Kasper in the role that will shape theology on the family. That is what will form our children's moral compasses and shape the culture.

The roles given to Kasper to lead theology on the family is beneath contempt for it.

I don't know what he is doing and at this point, I don't care. John Allen is correct. The appointments of apostates to lead and teach is where the rubber meets the road. It's practice that we need to see meets its end on every level.

In a lot of ways, I see the Holy Spirit giving us the chance to put it out of it's misery on a very public level.

We have made some progress this week but we are nowhere near getting to the root of the evil an whacking it with the ax.

If I were a Cardinal summoned to the Holy Father's office to help him understand what's going awry with his show in the land where the hand rocks the cradle, here's what I'd tell him:

You evidently don't understand the convictions of mothers who saw the system you have here of men who rape children because now your appointing men who rape our children's souls to lead theology on the family.

Perhaps I'm being presumptuous, but it seems to me you don't understand ordained men who physically rape children are nowhere near as dangerous to parents as the ones you appoint who rape souls under the guise it's 'mercy'. It seems you don't understand that the days are gonzo when we will sit quietly in the pews as the sickness of clericalism puts on a new face. Even when it comes from a sitting pope.

Keep going with it brother, because you're about to find out.



Fr. Rutler's Weekly: False Prophets Who are Wolves in Sheep's Clothing




FROM THE PASTOR
January 18, 2015
by Fr. George W. Rutler


A prophecy is a declaration of truths from God: “Thus says the Lord . . .” Because it is a very serious matter to speak that way, our Lord warns against “false prophets who are wolves in sheep’s clothing.” It is inexact to think of a prophecy as a prediction, as when someone who says something will happen on the world scene is said to have made a “prophetic statement.” The confusion is understandable, since when the Lord speaks, there are warnings and promises about the consequences of not obeying the Voice.

Since people are not divine, even those of acute insight can lack foresight. Some of their wrong predictions are amusing, but only in retrospect. In 1876 an officer of Western Union saw no commercial use for the telephone, and before that, in 1830, an inventor said that rail travel at high speed would cause people to die from asphyxia. Even before then, it is said that Napoleon stomped out of a room indignantly when he thought his intelligence had been insulted by Robert Fulton describing a boat propelled by a steam engine. Then in 1807, right down the street from our church, a crowd gathered to jeer “Fulton's Folly,” but the Clermont did work and made it up to Albany, albeit at five miles per hour.

Pope Innocent III decided that the world would end in 1284, 666 years after the founding of Islam. The Michigan Savings Bank decided against funding Henry Ford’s horseless carriage because it was only a fad. In 1878 Oxford professor Erasmus Wilson confided, “When the Paris Exposition closes, electric light will close with it, and no more will be heard of it.” Hiram Maxim said of his own invention in 1893, “The machine gun will make war impossible.” The New York Times displayed its infallible intuition for fallibility in 1936: “A rocket will never be able to leave earth’s atmosphere.” In 1943 the Chairman of IBM said that there would be a world market for no more than five computers.

These days there are various predictions about climate change, a legitimate concern that should be tempered by caution about turning hypotheses into absolutes. Fifty years ago we were told from many quarters that by now there would be massive starvation caused by overpopulation, and England would be covered in ice, just as the meteorologist Albert Porta thought that an exploding sun would engulf the earth in 1919.

Abraham Lincoln’s self-effacement resulted in a most memorable miscalculation when he said: “The world will little note nor long remember . . .”—in the Gettysburg Address. The Mother of our Lord made an opposite and very accurate prediction, stunning as it was: “Henceforth all generations shall call me blessed . . .” In her case, perfect humility dispensed with natural modesty. John the Baptist was the last of the prophets, which is why any religion that proposes Christ as a prophet but not the Son of God misses the whole point of true prophecy itself.

Christ did make some predictions—the death of Judas, the destiny of Peter, and the destruction of the Temple—but he counseled against worrying about the future. His only prediction we need to know is fulfilled in every generation: “Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will never pass away.”

I wonder what he's talking about here.

Oh wait...

Friday, January 16, 2015

Don't tell me blogosphere doesn't make a difference - all the way to the Chair of Peter



The Pope has finally expressed Catholic moral theology for the family.

At this evening's encounter with families in a 20,000-seat Manila arena (fullvid), the Pope went off-script at length to issue a bluntly pointed condemnation of an "ideological colonization" of domestic life by forces that would "threaten" it, including among its examples attempts "to redefine the very institution of marriage" and "a lack of openness to life."

What do you make of this?

The pressures on family life today are many. Here in the Philippines, countless families are still suffering from the effects of natural disasters. The economic situation has caused families to be separated by migration and the search for employment, and financial problems strain many households. While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality. The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.

I think of Blessed Paul VI in the moment of that challenge of population growth, he had the strength to defend openness to life. He knew the difficulties families experience and that’s why in his encyclical (Humanae Vitae) he expressed compassion for specific cases and he taught professors to be particularly compassionate for particular cases. And he went further, he looked at the people on the earth and he saw that lack (of children) and the problem it could cause families in the future. Paul VI was courageous, a good pastor and he warned his sheep about the wolves that were approaching. And from the heavens he blesses us today.

Explaining to Christ's sheep that Kasper and his cohorts are wolves would go a long way to lending credibility to the practice of his own talking points?


Two cute posts from Eye of the Tiber




I loved this one - Our lady of good intentions, our lady of those who mean well. I always refer to the Vatican II moonbattery as 'our lady of the mattress'.


This one rocks: Priest can't wait to hear your whole life story in the Confessional.

I don't even get into any detail on Commandments I've broken unless I need to to clarify. I raffle off the Commandment violated and badabing, badaboom. Most don't even ask for any more details and they proceed to pastoral counsel they think you may need, penance and the Absolution. In and out. Save the sob stories for your relatives and friends.


And a bonus: This one is a little vulgar but cracked me up.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Pope Makes a Big Boo Boo




When asked about the massacre at Charlie Hedbo, he said insults against the faith and your mother, it's normal to give them a punch. He said 'normal' twice to emphasize how normal the situation was in France.

You are not going to believe this, but we have reached the point where the wizards at the White House have more common sense than the Pope.

"No act of public expression justifies violence."

Big change in talking points since their Benghazi disaster.

The press office at the Holy See lit up a meltdown at a nuclear power plant.


They said the Pope was making a little funny.

While making this comment, Vatican Radio reported that the pontiff “gestured with a pretend punch” directed at Gasbarri — an action many journalists interpreted as a joke.

He did actually follow the comment with condemnation of killing in the name of God.

Notably, in the same conversation, Francis steadfastly denounced the terrorists’ killings and the idea that anyone — as the France attackers apparently did — could pretend to justify such violence in the name of God.

“One cannot make war (or) kill in the name of one’s own religion,” Francis said on his way to the Philippines. “… To kill in the name of God is an aberration.”

The Vatican later responded to a CNN question about the “punch” remark specifically.

In an email, Vatican spokesman Thomas Rosica told CNN that “the Pope’s expression is in no way intended to be interpreted” as somehow justifying last week’s violence, and he pointed out that “the Pope has spoken out clearly against the terror and violence that occurred in Paris and in other parts of the world.”

“The Pope’s words about Dr. Gasbarri were spoken colloquially and in (a) friendly, intimate manner among colleagues and friends,” Rosica said Thursday. “His response might be similar to something each of us has felt when those dearest to us are insulted or harmed.”

Rosica explained Francis’ remarks as consistent with his “free style of speech,” a plainspoken and conversational approach that has earned him admirers. Such remarks “must be taken at face value and not distorted or manipulated,” the Vatican spokesman said.

Get it? The free style of speech is winning him admirers.

First of all, I know a lot of Catholics and I have yet to come across any admirers of the things coming out of his piehole.

Do you?

Maybe they're talking about the bunker at the Vatican.

More importantly, winning admirers is the exact opposite of how Christ operates. The Corpus of Christ hangs from a Crucifix.

The role of a parent isn't to win the admiration of their children. You don't throw booze parties and turn your role into telling them all the good they do when they have immoral sex.

Sane people are not admiring the show.

Look, Charlie Hedbo is sinister. They routinely trash Christianity. It's one thing to point out it is a political science that kills people who won'g convert to it and there is nothing religious or peaceful about it. Taunting violent sick people with vicious ridicule is beneath contempt.

I think this is what the Pope was trying to say.

Perhaps he should consider getting the ball rolling with ending his ridicule of practicing Catholics.

Pot, meet the kettle.

Taking money from people who worked for it is stealing.



Ten reasons why working people are footing the bill for 'free community college'.

Also, a good op-ed from Ann Coulter below.



AS LONG AS OBAMA BROUGHT UP THE COST OF COLLEGE ...
By Ann Coulter
January 14, 2015


I gather from Obama's "free" community college proposal that his plan for dealing with the Republican Congress over the next two years is to throw out ridiculously expensive ideas no one has ever heard of before, and then denounce Republicans for being naysayers.


Community college is already incredibly inexpensive. The only thing that will jack up the price is making it "free." How about a big federal program to provide every American with free toilet paper? Coincidentally, that's about all most college degrees are good for these days.


Obama's moronic proposal has presented the GOP with a fantastic opportunity. Since he brought it up, how about Republicans get to the bottom of why college is so expensive?


The cost of a college education has increased by more than 1,000 percent only since 1978. Nothing else has gone up that much -- not health care, consumer goods or home prices. The explosion in college tuition bears no relation to anything happening in the economy.


Would anyone argue that colleges are providing a better education today than in 1978? I promise you: People coming out of college in the '50s knew more than any recent Yale graduate -- unless we're only counting knowledge of sexual practices once considered verboten.


They're teaching gender studies, ethnic studies, moral equivalence and hatred of America. Did the Japanese Really Start World War II or Did We? It's worse than not reading Shakespeare. They're reading Shakespeare for homosexual imagery. As Yale professor Daniel Gelernter says, colleges are "threatening to become an elaborate, extremely expensive practical joke."


The fact that 80 percent of Weathermen -- the violent '60s radicals -- are full college professors tells you all you need to know about the state of higher education today.


The cost of college spirals continuously upward not because the product has gotten better -- it's gotten much, much worse -- but because college loans are backed by the taxpayer.



The government is chasing its tail every time it increases student financial aid. If the government hiked college loans and subsidies by $1 million per student, colleges would promptly raise tuition to: [current tuition] plus $1 million.


Americans are being bamboozled into paying any price for a college degree because they are relentlessly told that if they don't go to college, their lives will be hell. And they're told this not only by the colleges, but by the government.


The sales pitch is manifestly false. According to an article by Adam Davidson in The New York Times magazine last June,
"(m)ore than half of recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed, meaning they make substandard wages in jobs that don't require a college degree." Evidently, most jobs don't depend on a degree in women's studies.


More than a third of college graduates, Davidson says, will never make enough money to repay their student loans.


If any other business made such false claims about a product, there would be massive congressional hearings, media denunciations and prison sentences for the CEOs. A college degree is the most expensive purchase most families will ever make, other than their home.


Right before our eyes, Democrats are colluding with colleges to create a market bubble for an increasingly worthless product, and they're doing it by making the exact same promise that banks made about home mortgages before the housing market crash: Sure it's a lot, but it's an investment in your future!


Instead of hauling college administrators to court, Democrats are active participants in the fraud, acting as Big Education's carnival barkers. It's as if the government is telling people: "If you don't smoke, you'll never be cool."


Why is the left not willing to admit that education is an industry, just like Lockheed Martin, Enron or Philip Morris? Democrats love to rail about the high costs of everything else -- pharmaceuticals, health care, mortgages, missile systems, contraception and so on. College is a business, too -- a cartel that fixes prices, preys on teenagers and lies to consumers.


But liberals won't make a peep about the College Industrial Complex because college professors are brainwashing students into leftist politics. Every year, another 10 million graduates emerge, hating God, their parents, America and Republicans. For this, parents are spending $50,000 a year.


The education industry is how leftists make capitalists pay for socialism. It was a smart move for cultural Marxists to capture the country's education establishment. GOOD THINKING, CULTURAL MARXISTS!


It's not the fault of the students that they're getting a crappy product at inflated prices. They've been lied to by shady education peddlers, including the Democratic Party.


Let's see if the middle class is more interested in the cost of college tuition or the Democrats' endless global warming initiatives.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Finally, some good news from Pope Francis



Instead of meeting with Bishops, he took a ride by the costumed elephants.

Like!

Pope Admits the Church has been caring for the poor for 2000 years.



Pope said the Catholic Church has been caring and protecting the poor since its beginning some 2,000 years ago,

It's hard to believe this is a headline, but there you have it.

He put an interesting spin on the Epiphany. He said giving to the poor isn't communism.

Nobody criticizing his assertions about the Church before him ever said giving to the poor is an invention of communism.

What we said was, this is communism: The pope repeated that there should be a better distribution of wealth

Working people are giving 40% of their paycheck for the poor. Many of us work or contribute to the poor on top of that contribution. His econcomics collapses the whole system and then tyrants take over.

Of course he wouldn't know the burdens of working people. Judging from his actions with Cuba, the tyranny and oppression doesn't bother him.

Every time my mother saw a bishop on television, she would yell 'get a job'. I would be appalled, but I am beginning to understand the reasons why she did.

Taking the possessions I've worked for to give to people who don't is a sentence of slavery. That's why every country that does it is a cruel tyranny.

When a country is built upon handing out free fish, the recipients are at the mercy of the tyrants giving them handouts. They control religious freedom. They imprison and murder. That's why it's never worked in any country that ever tried it.

Pope Francis considers Castro to be a hero because of the handouts but the people suffering under the tyranny see the Pope's actions as cruel indifference.

Maybe Pope Francis and Cardinal O'Malley believe the cruelty and oppression of the people and the destruction of freedom to worship as a worthwhile price to pay for the 'redistrubution'. I don't know. But any way you slice redistribution, it's communism.

You teach a man to fish and let him provide for his own family.

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Mark Shea's head explodes



This is just for fun.


Blessed Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord.

Movie Alert: "Band of Sisters" playing at St. Albert's in Weymouth



Who is the pastor there??!!

Check out the trailer.

The 'documentary' starts with a group of nuns in slavery picking cotton and praying.

Then a woman explains how much she wanted to 'love God and be perfect' and in 1966, the only choice for women was to enter a convent.

I think it was filmed at a nursing home.

It shows a convent from the 60s filled to the rafters with women. The camera switches to an elderly woman wearing a cat-that-ate-the-canary grin who explains it all changed with Vatican II.

Another elderly woman says Vatican II told the Church to 'look at the sign of the times' and shows them battling with policemen in the streets for freedom. She states "To be a Catholic then was very exciting."

A woman wearing cataract sunglasses while driving explains that Catholicism was about social justice and politics were a part of that.

You know, the humble servant who isn't interested in power struggles.

It shows them at the Senate approaching politicians, asking them to support their political agendas. One politician tells them "it depends on you gals". Then it only shows one of them going down the stairs. The rest must have taken the elevator.

Another one explains, we are the risk-takers in the Church, there must be justice towards the planet.

Then newspaper headlines "US Nuns Facing Vatican Scrutiny" and the background music goes Bela Lugosi. Advance the trailer to 1:56, right before squirrel, and listen to the change up in music.

This is where they start getting deceptive.

Back at the nursing home ithw empty chairs behind her, one of the nuns says she 'did exactly what the Church asked of her' and now the Church is looking at her LIKE where are you coming from who are you.

But the Church asked them to teach Catholic children their religion and we all know what they did instead.

Another nun celebrating her 'golden jubilee' asks who is the Church to tell her she hasn't been faithful for the last 50 years, she doesn't think so.

They were just being creative.

It ends with them howling at the moon.

Why can't these women and their enablers at the Vatican, which include Cardinal O'Malley and the Holy Father, just be honest about what the gripe is?

It is about the actions the nuns took that constitute their unfaithfulness and the damage they cause generations of children. The damage they did to the Church. The damage they did to the world filled with souls who believed the things they were saying when they spoonfed immoral sex down our throats.

Even if they are too blind to take a look at their own movie and see the full convent of young holy women praying in 1966 and their own empty nest filled with old women, and know that God has taken his ax to the tree that produced the fruit of their golden jubillees, they could at least be honest that it women who built the paper trail against them at the Vatican.

They were under the scrutiny of the mothers of the children they misled, and continue to mislead.

They may have Cardinal O'Malley and the Holy Father on their team. But we are about to enter a new era in the Church: hell hath no fury like hand that rocks the cradle.

Something they evidently didn't learn from the crisis over the handling of pedophiles.

They still don't get that to the hand that rocks the cradle, these nuns are involved in more sinister crimes than the pedophiles, and their pussyfooting around with them will turn out to be a regrettable strategy for unity.

John Allen Advises Pope: Your Choice of Cardinals Could Backfire


This is interesting.

But some Vatican experts warn that by expanding the club’s membership to the peripheries, Francis’s plan for an all-inclusive church might just backfire... Not only are the 120 or so clerical members hand-picked by popes, they alone form the exclusive voting body to elect the next pope from among their clan.

The Jack Connors crowd is worried the new Cardinals are not going to buy into Pope Francis plan to finally open up membership in the Catholic Church to the people who were excluded by the 2000 years of Popes before him.

They are worried about the election of the next Pope.

We are too. And thanks to the internet, we have plenty of tar and feathers to get the job done.

I am still not sure who is on the list of excluded people.

I thought the Church was open to all Baptized Catholics and people going through RCIA and Sacrament prep to become one.

Maybe the Holy See should publish a list on their website. I'm not sure I'm invited. I've never see a welcome sign for me. Have you?

It looks like John Allen has seen the list.

Does anyone else know when your name goes on a list?

What behavior constitutes exclusion?

I know mortal sin excludes us from and the reception of the Eucharist but I thought all you had to do was show up ten minutes early and receive absolution. In fact, I am pretty sure that technically, if you arrive early and the priest can't do it because he is thinking about his homily, if you plan to grab him after Mass or even within the next few days, you can receive Communion and the properties in the Eucharist will be held in escrow until absolution.

TTC readers will let us know if I have it right.

I don't do it as a practice because I like my intimate union with Christ to be as flawless as possible. I've come to learn the benefits I receive when the union is flawless.

Let's make sure the plan of Pope Francis is understood. I've explained it before, but it bears repeating.

When you receive Properties in the Eucharist it is consumed into your soul, not your stomach. Your soul is a sanctuary that speaks to your intellect which then nurtures your animus.

Free will, which is afflicted by concupiscence also speaks to the intellect.

Concupiscence is desire.

When I watch and listen to Pope Francis, his theology perverts mortal sin into holiness.

For example:

I desire a new car. I can work for a new car or I can steal one. If I steal it, I may enjoy it for a while but not in the same way I would if I followed the law. In the back of my head, I know the pain I've caused to the person I took it from who payed for it. I would know its going to come back to haunt me some day. I know I've broken a commandment and my salvation is at risk.

All these worries also speak to my intellect and animus. It robs me of true joy. Gets me into trouble. But I have convinced myself I am entitled to a new car.

I know I can't receive the Blessed Sacrament with mortal sin on my soul but I am not 'excluded' from the Church.

The reasons for that are metaphysical. When you consume the Properties in the Eucharist into your soul in a state of mortal sin, the devil lies in waiting to do battle. Chapter 12 in the Book of Revelation describes the battle.

That battle brings spiritual and intellectual chaos that affects my animus.

The Catholic Church of the 2000 years before Pope Francis was there to absolve me of my sin, also represented in Revelation 12.

The reasons the law is set up to exclude us from Communion are not rooted in hatred for the sinner. It is the wisdom of a Church that knows what is not visible to the eye. It is God's mercy.


In the Pope Francis church, church teaching is perverted to mean stealing the car is actually holy.

I can do good things with the car. I can visit sick people and prisoners - help them not to feel lonely. I can get to work to earn cash to give to the poor. This makes me a good person. A good person is a holy person. When you break commandments, you are a good and holy person who shouldn't be excluded from Holy Communion. This is Pope Francis mercy.

The dame from the Daily Beast writes:

Days after rebuffing traditionalists as having ‘spiritual Alzheimer’s,’ Pope Francis chose a group of cardinals from the peripheries of the church. Why that move could haunt him.

I didn't realize Pope Francis named the group he was rebuffing as 'traditionalists'. I thought he did his usual and customary ambiguous insult with the nudge and the wink routine.

Everyone knows what he is talking about so why doesn't he just come out and name us?

What are 'traditionalists' anyway?

It's just more wordsymthing.

Does this look like the face of a traditionalist to you?

I have bucked 'traditions' all my life and I have the battle scars to prove it.

I keep telling an old joke to my children: The most horrifying thing about turning 40 is realizing your mother was right.

There's a reason why every culture respects elders. They have seen and tried it all. There is nothing new under the sun. The Truth never changes.

Here's my definition of what a 'traditionalist' is in the church of Pope Francis.

We are people without an agenda pursuing the Truth and who want the Truth taught and the mercy of the Church delivered to the people we love. We come to Mass to, quite literally, dissolve into Christ. To give ourselves completely to what is taking place in the Sanctuary - our presence in the Garden of Gethsemene to Christ's Resurrection. We want every microscopic substance of Divinity to have its effect upon us and in us until the next time we can consume Him again.

How's that for a tradition?

He has made an enemy of himself in our group. Knowing the history of 2000 years, his agenda of turning mortal sin into holiness is a loser.

I would love to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting between Pope Francis and Cardinal Burke.

Here is Allen's spin on it. In a nutshell: Pope Francis summoned Cardinal Burke because the article mentioning the sissification of the Church and Angelina Jolie is the new role model for women of Pope Francis Church. The latter makes perfect sense to me given the materials coming out of the Curia but the former could not possibly be true as the meeting was scheduled ten days before the article came out.

Still, if I were a Pope out of touch with the 2000 years of traditions of the Church, and I were a man of good faith, I would ask why my agenda was so offensive to people who subscribe to those 'traditions'.

I hesitate to use the language of the Pope Francis Curia because it makes Truth and Sanctifying Grace a disposable ritual but I think it is effective in this context.

This pic of the meeting juxtaposted against the picture of the Pope greeting Angelina Jolie tells a little story.

Allen said:

The Vatican did not disclose any details about what was said in either encounter, but given the personalities involved, it’s a safe bet that Pope Francis had a fairly interesting day.

That is a no-brainer.

I've tapped the pulse of those who subscribe to the 2000 years of 'traditions' before Pope Francis. Judging from the supply of tar and feathers in their basements, it's fair to say interesting times lie ahead.


Saturday, January 10, 2015

A reader writes: Have you seen the latest?


Sometimes I'll see a number ringing on my phone or a subject line in my emails and I'll say to myself, this is not good news.

And it seldom is.

A lot of times the email subject line will be "Have you seen the latest?"

Here's a link from one I received a few days ago.

Scroll down to the ordination.

See anything strange about it?

I never would have picked up on it but TTC readers are much smarter than I am.

“The abuse is reprobated whereby the sacred ministers celebrate Holy Mass or other rites without sacred vestments or with only a stole over the monastic cowl or the common habit of religious or ordinary clothes, contrary to the prescriptions of the liturgical books, even when there is only one minister participating. In order that such abuses be corrected as quickly as possible, Ordinaries should take care that in all churches and oratories subject to their jurisdiction there is present an adequate supply of liturgical vestments made in accordance with the norms.”

~ “Redemptionis Sacramentum,” # 126

Not to mention that the Cardinal should also cover the hood of his religious habit with an amice (or an alb that will cover the hood completely). The ordinandi did follow this, but not the cardinal...

“336. The sacred garment common to ordained and instituted ministers of any rank is the alb, to be tied at the waist with a cincture unless it is made so as to fit even without such. Before the alb is put on, should this not completely cover the ordinary clothing at the neck, an amice should be put on. The alb may not be replaced by a surplice, not even over a cassock, on occasions when a chasuble or dalmatic is to be worn or when, according to the norms, only a stole is worn without a chasuble or dalmatic.

~ General Instruction of the Roman Missal, # 336

One might ask, what's the big deal when a priest, bishop, cardinal or pope treats the edicts of the Church on the Sacred Liturgy and Sacraments like a piece of toilet paper he's flushed down the toilet?

Have you ever seen that commercial where a toddler is standing in his playpen and the dad comes into the room and apologetically tells him he's taking a sick day?

From the moment your child is born until the day one of you breathes your last breath, you are a teacher, a caretaker, a guardian of the body, mind and the soul.

Your actions are a witness to the veracity of what you teach.

A parent can teach their children all about the ramifications of drug abuse, but if they are getting drunk in their living rooms, what you teach about drugs is worthless.

A lonely single mother who brings home a cowboy and lets him sleep in her bed loses the ability to preserve the sanctity of sexuality of her children for the rest of their lives.

There are no days off. There is no time when you can go on a toot or have a good fling for yourself. You are a 24/7 witness.

Every priest, bishop, cardinal and pope that ever lived is a 24/7 witness.

If you give witness that you can disregard Church laws about the Sacred Liturgy and during the Sacred Moments where you put on robes to confer the mystical properties of a Sacred Sacrament - your witness subordinates every Church law to personal desires.

If you can't be bothered to be faithful to laws of Christ's Church in the Sanctuary, your teaching authority is as credible as an intoxicated father teaching what a gift sobriety is in the family.

All the cool cats in the Curia now are into public defiance of Church teaching and law.

Cardinal Burke recently said serving at Mass is a man's job.

Many do not possess the qualifications for the job.

If you take a look at the picture at St. Anthony's, there's enough estrogen there to power Edison through a month of Sundays.

It's very interesting that the author of the LA Times article sees feminization in the honor and royalty given to the Sacred Liturgy. Juxtaposed against the picture taken at St. Anthony's Shrine, perhaps the author doth protest too much.