Saturday, February 28, 2015

The Split in the Road That Lies Ahead of Us in October: Desuetude?



I had never heard of Vox Cantoris before the Team Francis thugs threatened him.

If his writings are anything like this one, I now understand why a father with a free blog became a target for the Pope Francis team of hit men.

Now, it all becomes clear.

When Kasper insulted our African brothers and sisters (the Fox is born in South Africa of Irish, Dutch and African descent) and mocked them in his arrogant, euro-centric, xenophobic, paternalistic, condescending and racist tone, "they should not tell us too much what to do" there was more there then, than most picked up. I stated in discussions what Kasper and these Germans were up to -- let the Africans be "bigots" we Germans, we are better after all, we are efficient and much superior to these, you go your way, we'll go ours. I said it then: It is the German Catholic Church, that is what these manipulators, these traitorous prelates and their minions are out to accomplish. The logical step of a false collegiality as promoted by a hermeneutic of rupture from the Rhineland influence and domination at the Second Vatican Council. Isn't this one of the critical doctrinal points of the Society of St. Pius X? Theodore McCarrick has revealed his part in what appears to be a lobby effort to elect Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio as Pope. He would only need "five years" to have the Church "back on track" McCarrick himself, with a special interest in extra-curricular activities, says for all to hear in this video.

Now we can begin to put the pieces together - it is just too obvious, they have shown their cards.

Schism in on the horizon de facto or de jure remains to be seen but schism, no doubt. Each bishops' conference will do what it wants with pastoral practice under a static universal doctrine to cater to its own needs and to do so, they needed to ensure that they could elect someone that they think would be sympathetic to their cause.

I keep saying this, but the schism has been in swing for decades. The losses are catastrophic. Our beautiful Churches, schools, our relatives, friends, loved ones, our country.

I haven't visited another county or state and walked into a local Church for at least 15 years. I do my homework first, find out how close a priest who practices our religion is and the means to get there. I look at their parish website, review linked ministries for content, review 'youth ministry', read bulletins, do research on the priest with buzzwords, ask people I know living in the area, etc.

Long gone are the days when we can just find out where the local Church is, especially if we are towing our children.

One priest can undo years of Catechesis in a nanosecond of a heretical homily. That moment can impair your children's judgment for the rest of their lives and has the potential to rob them of their salvation.

Personally, I am repulsed when an ordained man incorporates homosexual lust into his persona, in the way he walks and talks and mannerisms. The priesthood is no place to incorporate the gifts we all have to lure lovers into bedrooms.

Let me be clear: I don't care about what a priest's 'sexual preferences' were before they were ordained. I know several that I suspect were at one time, attracted to men but are now asexual. I've never heard a heresy from their lips and they teach and practice the moral theology of the Church. They are kind, generous, loving witnesses and a gift to the priesthood and Christ's Church.

There is a dramatic difference between a faithful asexual priest and a priest who incorporates sexuality into the way he walks and talks.
My dear friend Fr. Bill Scanlan, RIP, used to refer to the phenomenon as "he floats". Gliding across the room or Church in effeminate movements that look like their feet are not touching the floor, movements in wrists and arms that give the appearance they are underwater. I want to avoid a priest's sexual pole dance in a Sanctuary during a Sacred Liturgy like I avoid stepping into a big pile dung on a sidewalk.

When heterosexuals let lust drive their animus in the workplace, they are eventually terminated. Sensuality and sexuality is reserved and preserved for private moments in a bedroom.

Bishops have been ordaining effeminate men who use their homosexual lust inappropriately for decades and the Pope is warning the elephants in the room not to ordain prayerful, pious men. And he thinks his agenda doesn't resonate from his private edict to keep pious, prayerful men out of the priesthood?

Please.

Let us not kid ourselves.

An invisible schism has long been in operation for decades. We have to do our homework. We don't just walk into the nearest Parish or buy homes in towns where the counterfeit church is operating. And, that is what it is: a counterfeit church within.

But something big is brewing now. I am not sure how we will take the ax to the root because we are tied to the Chair of Peter and always will be. That is where the Deposit of Faith and Sacraments live.

We will go nowhere voluntarily.

If the Holy Father wishes to avoid his official jeweled crown of anathema, he would be wise to cut Cardinal Marx loose. Remove him from his position and see if he can keep the structure and people underneath him tied to the Ark.

Retaining him on the team of superdooper Cardinals will be construed as a deliberate inaction and tactical approval and salute to the strategy of 'decentralization'. As Mundabor suggests, the man should have been defrocked years ago. He has no place on a team brainstorming 'reforms' for a pope to implement. The appointment was ludicrous.

If it all proceeds on course, as Pope Francis has said it will, I am starting wonder if Cardinal Wuerl's post and Fr. Rosica's tweet of it was a tip of the hand of their strategy. Perhaps taking up the offensive position of severing faithful Catholics involuntarily with the slander "we" are dissenters in Pope Francis Church.

The election of a Pope who spends two years discrediting the faithful practice of Catholicism, the sleazy corrupt synod, an announcement from one of his supercardinals that a failure to accept virtue in adultery and sodomy will be construed as 'dissent' by Team Francis , Rosica's threat to sue Catholics who openly discuss theological errors of Team Francis, Marx's announcement that 'decentralization' severs the deposit of faith from bishop's conferences and gives them the power to codify desuetude...

Is it possible that Team Francis is going to take up an offensive position of caricaturing our rejection of pastoral policies shepherding the clapping uncatechized into Mapplethorpe as the schism?

It never occurred to me that Team Francis could force an involuntary schism by declaring the faithful adherence to doctrine in the face of policies that contradict It as schismatics.

Why would one of Team Francis 'Super Cardinals' post an op-ed that makes a declaration that faithful adherence to doctrine is 'dissent'?

Why would the Pope's spokesperson promote this declaration and then threaten a Catholic father who points out his promotion of Cardinal Wuerl's slander?

Why exile Cardinal Burke and appoint the longstanding heretic Cardinal Marx to Team Francis?

Why no disciplinary action from the Pope to Cardinal Marx's schismatic announcement?

Why no disciplinary action against Cardinal Wuerl and Fr. Rosica?

In the stead of disciplinary actions against Cardinal Marx and Wuerl and Fr. Rosica and in the face of the herd of ordained men prancing their lust in Sanctuaries practicing heterodoxy that has done catastrophic damage to the Church, why, in the Sacred and Holy Name of Christ, is the Pope warning against the ordination of prayerful and faithful Catholics as the scourge in the priesthood?

All this time, I have been worried that people will voluntarily flee turning over Christ's Deposit of Faith to the demons.

Is it possible they will slander us as the schismatics?

It sure looks to me like that is the road they are going down.

Turkey Closes its Borders to Christians Fleeing Murderers



Breathtaking cruelty that is painful to watch.

Really? You can shut your border to Christians fleeing savages and sleep at night?

You know what is striking?

Where is Cardinal O'Malley and Pope Francis who are always praising their own "concern" for immigrants?

Why wouldn't he say something publicly about Turkey's cruelty and publicly beg them to temporarily take fleeing Christians with promises to rescue and bring them to America?

Why wouldn't he fly over there and pass out Communion at the border? These are the people who need it.

Do you remember Cardinal O'Malley's publicity stunt?

He flew to the border of a country where the Catholic religion is alive and well and passed the Blessed Sacraments through the gates so the photographers they brought could snap pictures of them doing it.

Why didn't he fly over the border to any of the thriving Churches in Mexico, including the Shrine of Guadalupe and say a Mass?

Catholicism is not oppressed in Mexico. Savages are not slaughtering our brothers and sisters. Mexicans are free to apply to Immigration. There is a process in place which my grandparents used or I would be writing from Waterford and Dublin.

The borders of Syria is where that publicity stunt would be meaningful.

Why isn't Pope Francis making public statements begging Turkey to shelter fleeing Christians?

Couldn't they take a break from their vigilant work spinning and weaving virtue into adultery and sodomy and help our brothers and sisters?

Why wouldn't they make their phone calls to Obama like they did in their work with the communists in Cuba and beg him to do something meaningful?

Why isn't the USCCB calling an emergency meeting and organizing something to pressure Turkey?

I can't stop thinking about these families, how terrified they must be to experience unspeakable cruelty of the crusaders of the religion of peace, to know they can do nothing to save their children and will most likely witness their massacres, hear their cries for help, before their own death. Knowing the bishops and pope are working on pastoral policies making virtue out of adultery and sodomy.

I am beside myself at their priorities and their deafening and craven silence.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Team Francis Code Red




The antics directed towards Cardinal Pell are laughable.

We wouldn't be able to figure out this is a malicious attack against another faithful Cardinal.

Just look at the rubber ball on the end of our noses!

Boston Globe Editorial: Vatican Outdated Rules on Divorce and Annulment Need Reform



The Boston Globe is very encouraged by Pope Francis who, unlike 2000 years of his predecessors kisses the little children, and has added dissolving marriages and using contraception to his agenda:

It’s encouraging that Francis is adding divorce to the list of topics open to debate under his papacy. But just like other controversial matters of dogma, such as the church’s ban on artificial contraception and gay marriage, there’s a wide gulf between traditionalists and those who long for change.

Francis is trying to bridge that gulf. But it still feels like it’s going to take a miracle to convince those who oppose any softening of the idea that the sacrament of marriage is forever.

Oh, believe you me, Pope Francis will be needing something outside the realm of 'a miracle' to issue his edict saying marriage is over when you meet some new eye candy. If he doesn't realize by now that disordered and heretical act will be the waterloo of his papacy, his expertise in willful ignorance will go down in the annals of Catholic history as historic.

Check out the drama:

THE SISTER-IN-LAW who faithfully attends weekly Mass, but couldn’t celebrate a second marriage in a Catholic Church because she and her husband-to-be were previously divorced. The friend who was told he couldn’t join the Parish Council because he married a divorced woman and, by the way, shouldn’t be receiving Communion.

To Catholics, practicing and lapsed, those are familiar anecdotes. They are the stories of fellow Catholics who find that due to a decision to end their own marriage, and remarry, or to marry someone who is divorced, “they are excommunicated de facto,” as Pope Francis put it, with all the personal anguish that can entail.

These people entered into a contract with the Church where they vowed to remain in their marriage until death - no matter what happens.

Through sickness, poverty, boredom, unhappiness, meeting someone else or whatever else have you.

They couldn't be bothered filling out paperwork that explains the reasons why they didn't or couldn't.

It was too much trouble and they don't wish to state that when they entered the contract and made the promises and vows to remain in the marriage unto death, they lacked information or substance to enter into the contract.

Yet annulment is still unappealing to many couples who want to dissolve an unhappy marriage but don’t care to share intimate details, as required by the church, or agree to the notion that the marriage never happened at all.

Today, those couples have only two choices: Stay in an unfulfilling marriage and remain a good Catholic in the eyes of the church; or end their marriage via divorce and lose connection with their church. How wonderful if Francis could change that. For Catholic families burdened by the church’s unfair annulment process, that would be revolutionary.

Good old Francis is on the case.


TTC friend CJ Doyle submitted an outstanding letter to the editor:




February 27, 2015

Letters to the Editor
The Boston Globe
P. O. Bo 55819
Boston, MA 02205-5819

To the Editor:

In its editorial on the Catholic Church and divorce, the Globe referred to those who believe "the sacrament of marriage is forever." (Outdated rules on divorce, annulment need reform, 2/23/2015).

Your editorial writer neglected to mention that those who believe that marriage should be until death include the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, who said "What God has joined together, let no man put asunder."

Does anyone seriously think that the Catholic Church is going to abandon the 2,000 year old teaching of her Founder so she can embrace the bourgeois values of modern society exemplified by, well, the Globe's editorial board?

The Globe views the Church in sociological terms, as a human institution which could ease the consciences of its members by making its requirements less rigorous. The Church understands herself as an institution of Divine origin, entrusted with the mission of saving souls, by bringing men and women to the knowledge of the truth.

Sincerely,

C. J. Doyle

Executive Director
Catholic Action League of Massachusetts
35 Montclair Avenue
Boston, MA 02132
(617) 524-6309
CATHOLICACTIONLEAGUE@GMAIL.COM




I believe they do seriously think Francis is going to abandon the 2000 year old teaching of Christ!

The muslims are executing villages full of Christians



Prayers for our brothers and sisters who are experiencing the terrifying and malicious 'religion of peace'.

If you have ever wondered whether the systemic executions of ethnic groups could be happening in the town next to yours and Americans would ignore it, I think we have our answer.

The coverage of the mulsim crusade to ethnically cleanse the world is practically non-existent.

God help them.

Latest Schismatic Statement from Pope Francis "Reformation" Team Member

I've read several stories now on Cardinal Marx schismatic announcement that the church he runs in Germany is severed from the authority of Rome.

Marx said sin resonates in a human heart and so sin needs to resonate within the Christian message and the bishops themselves.

How sane people sit through his insufferable screwball performances is beyond me. I couldn't do it without barging the podium and inviting him to sit down and shut up.

Let that resonate in the bishops conference!

Remarkable that the Pope isn't calling Chanceries around the world to tell them to to reject applicants for the seminary who promote adultery, sodomy and sacrilegious Communion as it indicates they are head cases.

Anyhow, some of the writers think Marx's revelation indicates the winds in Rome have switched direction and are now blowing against him.

From Rorate

The main point seems to be the new German Bishops' attitude of moving on alone, which could indicate that they foresee that they will not be able to "guide" the Synod as easily as they had thought possible. Blackmail is in the air in the German Conference...

It could be the division and chaos the agenda has created for Pope Francis has pulled the rug out from underneath them. Marx and company have waited 50 years for a pope who would do what Pope Francis is doing.

If they were a few months away from a pope issuing a dictate to stop teaching moral theology, start teaching the virtue of adultery and feed Christ's elect sacrilegious communion, why would he risk formally announcing the operation he runs in Germany is schismatic?

Wouldn't the Pope have to do something in response to his statement?

The absence of an action from the Pope means something and will be judged.

After all, who would let one of eight men you have appointed to reform the Church make a schismatic announcement and not do anything about it?

A pope focused on penalizing and obstructing faithful Catholics perhaps?

I don't construe Cardinal Marx's actions as a sign Pope Francis has defected from helping him carry out his agenda. He may simply know Pope Francis is going to look the other way or keep his focus on insulting, discrediting and exiling faithful Catholics.

I will say this: I do firmly believe that a Pope who would foster the culture in the Church and world against the faithful and dedicated practice of our religion has challenges ahead of him.

I read something on The Catholic Thing that really got under my skin.

Cardinal Marx’s troubling interview is a warning: we cannot assume that Church teaching and discipline will be properly maintained at the October Synod on the Family in Rome.

Pope Francis is a pope who has played a fiddle of the virtues of adultery and conducted his affairs to lead the world and Church into this uncertainty.

Every uncatechized and misled Catholic I know has been led to believe adultery is good and the 2000 years of practicing our religion before Pope Francis played his fiddle in St Peter's Square, is bad.

The corrupt bishops the Pope surrounded himself with to carry out his 'reforms' lack his prudence.

I doubt they expected so many of us to resist a pope as we have resisted the priests and bishops who have carried out the destruction underneath the Chair of Peter.

They best be keeping the virtues of adultery and sacrilegious communion off of the agenda in October, or they have a few more surprises in store for them.


Thursday, February 26, 2015

Cardinal McCarrick Admits being lobbied to vote for Pope Francis






They must have started with the dullest tools in the shed.

God bless the man. He doesn't even know enough not to disclose evidence the election of Pope Francis involved corruption. (Do not be scandalized by this revelation. We see them come. We see them go. This too shall pass. It will correct Itself. Stay close to Sacraments.)

You know what this reminded me of?

I can't remember the saint - but one of them who could see the mystical world told the story of seeing a group of demons being driven to their own destruction. They were moving in a direction over her head saying something about the Holy Spirit forced them to reveal themselves, their lies and deception.

Does anyone remember the saint and the exact story?

Here's another member of Pope Francis' hand-picked team of 'reformers' revealing himself.

We are not waiting for any stinking synod. The Church headed by me in Germany is separate from Rome!

This guy is chosen as one of Pope Francis most intimate advisors to carry out "reforms" of Christ's Church, while at the same time demolishing FFI and telling Chanceries to be suspicious of men faithfully practicing our religion as it indicates they may be mentally ill.

He's got to be kidding me.

And, another blunder from Pope Francis Pontifical Council for Culture. Don't be chewing any food when you open up this link:

Do you think for five minutes these men would want what their own mother means to them to be portrayed in this piece of sexually perverted trash?

What kind of a twisted image is Pope Francis trying to make out of women?

Aaron eat your heart out.

Fifty Shades of Barbed Wire in St. Peter's Square.

I guess they must have been out of duct tape.

They claim it is supposed to represent women in bondage, whose voices and intellect are struggling for freedom.

I notice they didn't use one of the nuns on the bus for the image.

How degrading and insulting to women is this pontificate going to get?

Get yourselves some popcorn and lemonade kiddies. We are watching a three-ring circus.

Let's not turn out like the Sexicans.


The Holy Father just can't keep himself out of trouble!

n a private email to a friend, Francis had lamented increased drug trafficking in his native Argentina, using the term "Mexicanization."

"Hopefully, we are still in time to avoid the 'Mexicanization.' I was talking to some Mexican bishops and it's a terrible situation," Francis allegedly wrote.


Pope Francis seems to have the same problem picking 'friends' that is manifesting itself in his choice of bishops for the Curia.

Who takes a private email from a friend and gives it to the press?

Who does that?

This is the least of our problems.

The real problems are beautifully expressed on a post at Rorate.

[There are those who] are scandalized by the fact that whoever tries to voice an objection in the face of the current situation is quickly labeled as “a divisive person”…The tactic of accusing dissidents of being “people who divide” usually is employed by those in power or by the spineless. We must remember that often those in power are the spineless who happen to have a lever of power in their hands. Whenever there is someone who dares to debate the issues in opposition, the ones holding power avoid the debate by withholding their own convictions and their real position, while the spineless avoid the debate because they have no convictions, and, if they have them, they do not have the courage to defend them. Nothing is easier than to hold up to public ridicule anyone who dares to crack the veneer of unity by delegitimizing him a priori; if he threatens unity, he is not allowed to speak. Truth, with a capital T, succumbs to expediency. Pilate, who prefers to remain a friend of Caesar, never stops looking for fellow travelers.

The Church of the last decades has functioned, or rather malfunctioned, by actually anchoring herself to a will to be the friend of Caesar. She has been weak to the point of losing blood on the ground of doctrine and morality. She has shown herself to be aggressive and unsparing in her repression and negation of every legitimate opinion that has the intent of reaffirming the doctrinal and moral truths. The result is to silence those whose intent is to defend her and to give free reign to those whose intent is to destroy her. This methodology is highly praised and is put into practice from the very top down to the parish church.

If the Pope praised the ideology of ISIS, appointed ISIS militants to head his Synod and incorporated their rejected ideas into his Relatio,calling it his pastoral policy on freedom of religion would be laughable.

We are done wondering what outcome the Pope hopes to achieve.

With the antics of the various characters appointed by Pope Francis coming to light, we have come to the end of the period of wondering about the Pope's agenda. It's being carried out right in front of us.

I repeat: we are in a battle to preserve the Catholic faith, and all the battles being fought on various fronts, even those that are so important like moral truth, are only the terrain of confrontation in a war that is much deeper, involving metaphysics and religion. The most important thing in play is faith.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

More Info on Manipulative Synod



In my 58 years of practicing Catholicism, every layperson, priest, bishop and now Pope, who brought in heretics to teach heresy also obstructed Church teaching. They always claim they're teaching heresy because Church teaching is offensive and they are the welcome wagon. Obstructing, undermining, insulting, discrediting Church teaching always goes hand-in-hand with teaching heresy.

Attracting people to the Catholic Church with heresy cant let Church teaching be proclaimed because the minute it is, you lose the people you attracted with heresy.

It stands to reason that if the Pope's intention was to bring Cardinal Kasper into communion with Church teaching, he would have put faithful people in charge of the Synod, said how fabulous the theology is and asked Cardinal Kasper and friends to be 'open to it' -- NOT THE OPPOSITE WAY AROUND!

Fr. Z reveals another creepy little detail.

Remember the Five Cardinals Book...It blew the Kasper proposals and arguments out of the water.

You will also remember that Synod members were up in arms because of the manipulations and machinations of the staff of the Synod office. Remember all the controversies about whether texts of speeches would be released? About what could be reported? About how the mid-term report was produced? About certain strange paragraphs that didn’t reflect the discussions of the Synod?

There’s more.

Here is something of the story that you don’t know, because at the time it couldn’t be told.

The people who crafted the Five Cardinals Book™ wanted to make sure that Synod members had copies, at least in English or Italian, as the Synod was starting up. Therefore, they sent copies to every member of the Synod (quite a few) through the Italian post to each member’s personal mailbox near the Synod Hall which was set up individually by the Vatican Post.

When the organizers of the Synod realized what had been sent to the members of the Synod, someone removed all the envelopes from the members’ mail boxes!

That’s called theft. That’s called illegal. They stole people’s mail.

That’s how frightening the Book is to those who want to overturn the Church’s practice and, therefore, teaching.

The Kathnet piece, by Manfred Ferrari, indicates that the heist was ordered by Card. Baldisseri, who is the head of the office of the Synod of Bishops.

Kindly read the entire post at Fr Z's.

The cast of characters in this administration has an off of the charts sleaze factor.

Stealing the Deposit of Faith at the Synod is quite symbolic.

The only problem they face, is trying to rob people with 40 years experience with thieves.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Dr. Tim Scott removed as Basilian media spokesperson


The cup you offer is poison. Drink it yourself.

Mike Voris and Church Militant TV did an outstanding job with this disturbing development in the Catholic Church.

If you haven't done so already, watch the Vortex:






As bold and outlandish as Fr. Scott's conduct was, a few noteworthy observations.

After Catholics pointed out his errors, he didn't threaten to sue them. He thanked them. He apologized.

Fr. Scott is in our prayers.

I am convinced that his conduct is like one piece of fruit falling off of the rotten tree.

The empowerment to publicly tell a Cardinal faithful to Church teaching to shut the bleep up is a direct result of 'the Pope Francis effect'.

Pope Francis has spent two years caricaturing the faithful practice of our religion for the 2000 years before him as hateful. He has set the fires ill will against us and poured gasoline on it every few days.


Mike also did a spectacular job on this vortex on Fr. Rosica's disturbing history of theological errors:






Voris brings up very astute observations.

How and why would a priest with a history of this kind of skullduggery rise up through the ranks?

When he gets called out for his lack of fidelity to Church teaching, who is empowering him to threaten to sue Catholics who point out he needs to believe and teach the Catholic religion and not his own imaginary version of it?

A few articles in Christendom are referring to what is becoming a pontificate for thugs.

The shoe seems to fit.

Monday, February 23, 2015

Fr. Tim Scott - Poster Boy for Charity of the Fr. Rosica Poisonous Tree


Fr. Tim Scott, 'spokespesron' for Fr. Rosica's religious order and Executive Director of the Canadian Religious Conference, published a tweet telling Cardinal Burke to "STFU" (SHUT THE F*CK UP).

He rushed off on 'a sabbatical'

I can see why Pope Francis found the spirituality of the Basilians accurate communicators of his welcome mat for practicing Catholics.

The Church really knows how to pick priests with expertise in communicating their messages - from Pope Francis all the way down to the local chancery.

Really, this malice is directly related to the the culture Pope Francis has created for practicing Catholics.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Good News: Thomas Reese thinks Pope Francis 'progress on reforms' is moving too slow


A pleasant story to kick off week two of Lent

The most likely result of these mergers is that less will be done. Fewer documents will be written, fewer conferences will be attended, fewer initiatives will be taken because there will be fewer employees, and their initiatives will have to go through another layer of review before seeing the light of day.

In my opinion, the best result of these mergers is that there will be three fewer positions that must be filled by archbishops and might be filled by cardinals in the Curia. Anything that reduces the number of archbishops and cardinals in the Curia is good. On the other hand, there will be two more positions that must be held by cardinals. That is bad.

That it took the Council of Cardinals two years to come up with this reshuffling of boxes on the organizational chart simply shows they really don't know what they are doing. It should have taken two months to develop this plan, not two years. At this pace, Pope Francis will be dead before real reform hits the Curia.

A conspiracy theorist would say that getting the Council of Cardinals to focus on this reorganization was a way of distracting them from any real reform in the Curia.

I can live with that!

With bishops shilling for adultery, contraception, communism and keeping faithful seminarians from seminaries, Pope Francis shows us his cards. Again.



The comments came in a meeting with Roman clergy that - get this - in order to be allowed to flow freely, Pope Francis asked not to be televised.

He seems to be suggesting all of the insults he has hurled against faithful Catholics in front of journalists were reserved expressions of how he really feels?!!

When he was ready to really let loose, he knew enough to restrict the cameras from recording what he was going to say.

Well, the Holy Father been making convincing statements about how transparent he wants to be, saying things in secret must be his idea of how transparency works?

He advised all to be suspicious of seminarians rejected by other diocese who look like they practice our faith devoutly as this is a sign of mental and psychological problems.

Yes. There is nothing as mental as the devout practice of our religion on the Isle of Crete. That's what I always say.

TTC readers will remember that Pope Francis said seminarians with sexual attractions to men was something he advises the Church not to make judgments.

He couldn't be ignorant of the mental and spiritual problems of prelates demoralizing Catholics. He must know all of the problems they have caused over the last few decades, including legal troubles. Priests who demoralized generations of Catholics have emptied the pews and nearly bankrupted Christ's Church. They feed and empower the demons both inside and outside of the Church. The order of the world is collapsing around us.

And the Holy Father is worried about seminarians demonstrating faithfulness to Church teaching and piety?

Something really screwy is going on here.

It reminds me of something that I can't quite put my finger on.

I think I'm going to dig out my copy of Windswept House.

Meanwhile, Lifesite articulates the longstanding reason faithful Catholics are rejected in seminaries:

For many years in many seminaries, reported Rose, only those sympathetic to the cause of the sexual revolution made it past these gatekeepers. Those men who applied to seminaries who upheld the teachings of the Catholic religion - especially believing homosexual acts are gravely sinful and the homosexual inclination is intrinsically disordered - were systematically excluded.

Who wants faithful Catholics around in seminaries where the powers that be want Church teaching not to be upheld?

A man wanting to enter a seminary to be a practicing physician who does the things to absolve sin instead of teaching the virtues of it, naturally will object when the seminary attempts to teach contradictions to teaching or welcomes a brothel atmosphere.

It's risky to have us around.

We may secretly smuggle out evidence and their corruption will end up on the internet or in the news.

Wait...you don't suppose keeping faithful Catholics out of seminaries is a long-term strategic tool to return the priesthood to Mapplethorpe, do you?

We made great progress unraveling the mandate of accepting or practicing sodomy to get into a Catholic seminary. But I would say this little nudge-nudge-wink-wink speech from the Holy Father indicates we are going to suffer a setback.

It is very important that your sons only apply to diocese where faithful bishops have resided and are presently residing. Even this is not a guarantee as the Pope could remove and replace a bishop at will. They might be better off in orders for now. This is definitely not my area of expertise but with this revelation, great caution is advised to any family whose children are considering ordination.

Pope Francis team is rushing off to a retreat to heal 'defects'.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall to hear what they perceive 'defects' to be.

Perhaps this is another hint:

Francis also said the heart is where daily choices are made between "good and evil" and between "indifference and sharing."

The animus is actually much more complicated.

A 'heart' pumps blood and oxygen. There is no such thing as a 'heart' in the spiritual world. As such, a 'heart' does not have the tools to make informed choices. That is why Christ provided His Church with a Catechism.

The Pope is talking about the communications between the soul and intellect that stirs emotions.

But that system relies upon years of catechesis and instruction from parents, priests, bishops and our popes. Our people have been deprived of catechesis since the nutjobs hijacked Vatican II. In that malfeasance and misfeasance of priests, the devil communicates.

The effects of mortal sin affect that system. This is the cause of all of our 'defects' in the system.

The dynamics of 'changes' Pope Francis and his team have been promoting involve depriving the faithful of catechesis that lead to remorse for sin and absolution, and replace it with 'pastoral practices' that inform the intellect of heir people that evil and sin is good.

The damage is catastrophic to communication between the intellect and soul that authors our emotions.

This is why he has positioned himself into the camp of the enemy to Catholics who have no intention of telling our loved ones, "
this is an updated version of Christ's Church" - Go ahead and follow the instructions.

The insults, slander, threats and bullying coming from the authority which has seated itself in the Holy City of God, is nothing new. This dynamic has been in play for decades as the 'defects' consumed the souls underneath the Chair of Peter.

When I think about the power play in Rome, I am really baffled by their ignorance of where faithful Catholics are after 40 years of it. I'm shocked that they did not realize that we spent the last 20 years recapturing our seminaries, priests, parishes and there is no going back for us, come what may.

It seems they believe a slow drip from the Chair of Peter, while insulting, threatening, exiling faithful Catholics hoped to persuade Catholics to go along to get along, just like we did when they ordained and protected pedophiles. They seem ignorant of the changes that have taken place in laity over the last fifteen years, how the internet connected, fed and empowered us.

Take a look a the number of blogs that are expressing disgust over Fr. Rosica's threats to sue a Catholic father who has formed an opinion about his statements and erroneous and offensive theology.

Maybe they thought they could fire their weapons at will because Mark Shea and Lizzy had control of Catholics in blogosphere?

They would do well to read this post on Rorate to divest them of their delusions.

They are still living in the world of the glory days. It's astounding.

I really believe they think when they pull the trigger, their authority will survive the resistance.

Judging from the sentiments about Pope Francis that have overcome practicing Catholics, they are underestimating the effects of the split in the road that lies ahead of us in October.

Even the people collaborating with John Allen are starting to see the picture coming into focus.

I was at a dinner in Rome last week in which a senior churchman, someone who would conventionally be seen as fairly conservative but who’s struggling to give Francis the benefit of the doubt, wondered aloud whether by this time next year we’ll be in a situation in which “orthodox” or “faithful” Catholics have permanently given up on Francis and gone into overt opposition.

I don't think we are talking about 'next year'. Fr. Rosica has accelerated the clock.




Saturday, February 21, 2015

Things I trust more than the Catholicity of Fr. Thomas Rosica's theology




Me in a store that sells high-quality cupcakes.

Me at a Sacred Liturgy when a priest's homily is heretical or daffy women are running around the Church competing with what's going on in the Sacred moments between Gethsemene and the Resurrection.

A theology course at Boston College.

An invitation from the Chancery

Catholicity at Patheos.

Me at Arch Street.

A column written by John Allen and Margery Eagan

When a bishop asks me to be on a committee.

Gender theology at National Catholic Reporter.

It's a long list but I think you get the point!


I spent a little time reading up on statements Fr. Rosica has made over the last five years or so.

This guy has some nerve to make a federal case out of Catholics who don't trust him or the bleep show he is putting on in Rome.

I don't have time to do a full-blown expose on why practicing Catholics do not trust his opinions and resources as consistent with 2000 years of the Doctors and Saints of Christ's Church, but I did feel an urgent need to talk about the relationship between what priests say and do and judgments families make about spiritual safety based upon those presentations.

Somebody is going to have to do it. Maybe several of us.

Fr. Rosica's threat of litigation against faithful Catholics is far more than the usual and customary attempts of Catholic hierarchy to threaten whistleblowers of their corruption.

It is similar in some ways. We are getting down and dirty into the belly of the beast that protected ordained pedophiles. Namely, a high-ranking prelate's misuse of his appointment and power to prevent practicing Catholics from exercising their Canonical rights.

In this case, it is about our Canonical right to faithful education of the Deposit of Faith by the people forced to rely upon them to give it to us.

Receiving our right to a faithful Catholic education requires that we report priests who contradict or undermine Church teaching, mislead the faithful, turn a liturgy into a circus or a weekly talent show or simply deprive us of our religion. We have to rely upon superiors to take actions against those priests. That system has been broken for decades. There is no system of discipline in the brotherhood, even when the rape of children is involved.

Here we are experiencing this same brotherhood dynamic when the controversy is about Church teaching.

Fr. Rosica, in effect, is making a civil claim that his own statements and his salt and vinegar show are part of the infallible Magisterium of the Church which Catholics are unable to question. He claims the infallibility of his own statements have to be substantiated in civil court because when publicly compared against 2000 years of Church teaching, his statements are found not to be credible and he is losing subscribers to his shows.

No kidding. When you contradict Church teaching, you need look no further than the mirror to find the person responsible for the loss of your credibility.

Is the Holy See going to start suing us for their mistakes?

This is one of the dumbest things they've ever done.

I smell a rat.

Somebody in my comments section mentioned this a Canonical problem we have on our hands and when I thought about it, I think they may be absolutely correct.

I've been thinking that if Fr. Rosica proceeds with this charade, perhaps a countersuit should be filed. A class action countersuit against Fr. Rosica while simultaneously trying to get his allegations switched to a canonical court.

Think about it. They now have a Pope marching heretical ideas around St. Peter's Square, into our synods, into our parishes, into our homes and families -- with the instructions that Catholics are to spend the next ten months debating them.

Fr. Rosica follows the Pope's instructions and produces shows that demonstrate he is gaga for political advocates of gay marriage and the Holy Family was against the canonical laws of Christ's Church on marriage. When when mothers and fathers take up the debate, the Pope's spokesperson threatens them with a lawsuit.

Let that percolate for a bit and let me point out a few statements Fr. Rosica is trying to claim are infallible pronouncements of Church teaching.


Fr. Rosica used his media apostolate to invite a gay marriage advocate, whom he referred to as a 'real model of hope'.

Fr. Rosica sees in those orthodox, the “pseudo-orthodoxy” who “are among the most unhappy and sad and angry that I’ve ever met.”

Salt and Light CEO fails to mention Baum’s decades-long dissent from the teachings of the Church. Fr. Rosica astonishingly goes on to state, “I’ve certainly admired very much your theology,

Last year, Fr. Rosica referred to Catholic theology as 'ideals' and criticized Cardinal Burke for 'sticking to 'em instead of ministering to people'.

One is left to conclude that Fr. Rosica is suggesting that priests leave a soul in a state of mortal sin as a 'ministry'. Not surprising. This is the ministry the Pope is suggesting priests switch to.

One of the most offensive things I have ever read was Fr. Rosica's caricature of the Blessed Mother, St. Joseph and Christ as a canonically irregular family, thereby cheapening their holy and sanctified virginity and the Incarnation of God into a rebellion against religious law on the family and sinful state.

The Catholic meaning of an irregular family is one where sins are being committed and the require changes to comply with Church law.

We are not simply 'allowed' to make a judgment upon Fr. Rosica's statement--it is a right and a duty. As to Fr. Rosica's suggestion that the Incarnation of Christ into the womb of a Virgin was against the laws of Christ's own Church and was consequently canonically irregular: The statement is blasphemous.

When Fr. Rosica makes public statements that affect the judgement of Catholics or Church teaching, they are subject to comparison against 2000 years of Church teaching. If during that comparison, Fr. Rosica's statements are found to be inconsistent with 2000 years of theology and he loses his credibility, it means in the opinion of educated Catholics, he was found to be presenting theological errors.

You want to talk about a public relations mess?

Pope spends two years building a manifesto of insults against faithful Catholics.
Pope parades in heretics and tells us all to debate their ideas.
Pope's spokesperson states he admires the ideas and the ideas give him hope.
Pope's spokesperson states Catholics holding onto 'ideas' manifested in 2000 years of theology are angry people who are not ministering.
Pope's cabinet advisor suggests people who won't accept ideas of said heretics are dissenters of Church teaching.
Pope's spokesperson publishes this slander on his twitter.
Pope's spokesperson threatens to sue Catholics debating ideas.


This is exactly how dissenting priests shut down Church teaching in our parishes, schools and apostolates isn't it?

They present heresy under the claim the Church is a big tent of ideas and not an institution that guides us and gives us the tools to make right judgments. When their errors are corrected, all hell breaks loose.

When a lay person, priest, bishop, Cardinal, Pope or the people he has appointed to speak on his behalf as the Roman Pontiff - talk about theology in the public square, in our parish, in our schools and apostolates -- Catholics are going to ensure it's Catholicity by comparing it to the Deposit of Faith.

If and when it contradicts Church teaching, scandalizes or undermines It or its teaching or practice, it is the right of every Catholic to point out its errors, flaws and scandal.

Nobody is exempt. It is the free exercise of our religion and our duty as a baptized Catholic. The Pope and his team of luminaries may wish to reconsider opening up this war.


It reminds me of an old knock/knock joke.

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Alpaca.
Alpaca who?
Alpaca your suitcase.


Calling a priest now warrants a complaint from fellow Americans and an 'investigation' from the government



Like the gays who bankrupt Catholics who own businesses that insist we use our gifts from God to endorse a celebration of sin of disordered and sinful use of sex, this story is another example of intolerance and bigotry.

Apparently a school scheduled a long trip that would interfere in one of the most important days in the life of Catholics who practice their religion.

Upset students brought the obstruction of the practice of their religion to the attention of teachers and asked that a priest be made available.

Even when filled with a school of fellow students and their families who hate Catholics, the constitutional rights of practicing Catholics isn't the business of any other family in the school. Nor is it the business of the administration.

As much as I object and excluded any my children from the government's indoctrination into islam in 'history' classes, if a scheduled school trip was going to interfere with the celebration of important religious practice, love for our brothers and sisters and respect for our fellow citizens would respond supportively to a similar request.

A school can't schedule a trip that interferes with the practice of our religion and then crybaby when a priest is provided in the face of that obstruction.

It's a constitutional right people. Get over yourselves.

Guardian Angels

Today's Lenten extra - I thought I would talk about my Guardian Angel and Guardian Angels in general.

I probably speak to my Guardian Angel more than most, but I don't listen anywhere near as often as I should. I recognize his work almost daily. He or she is one overworked angel. I send him on missions a lot, especially when I see a person struggling. I ask him quite a bit to communicate with another person's guardian angel.

Their intellect and knowledge of spiritual matters rarely requires much directed communications. I hesitate to impose my own will upon a situation but I won't say I never do it, especially when it's about my children. It's all about the intercession baby.

He is very real, even though he cannot be perceived by our senses. He has a mind that is always thinking of God, and a will that is always united with God. He has been specially appointed as our companion through life. And he exercises this companionship by his constant assistance in illuminating our minds and inspiring our wills.


Outstanding basic information on angels written by St. Thomas Aquinas.

Angels manifest knowledge to one another, and to this extent they "speak" to one another. But the speech of angels is not a matter of sounds or of uttered words. The speech of angels is a direct communication of knowledge from spirit to spirit.

An inferior angel can speak to a superior angel, even though, as we have seen, it cannot enlighten the superior angel; a candle cannot enlighten the sun, but it can burn visibly in the sunlight. An angel speaks by directing its thought in such ways that it is made known to another angel, superior or inferior. Such directing is done according to the free will of the angel speaking.

Certainly the angels "speak" to God by consulting his divine will and by contemplating with admiration his infinite excellence.


Generally, my practice of communicating with the angelic, communion of saints and God is intercession, with me doing the talking. I do love experiencing resting in Christ or being in the moments at the Sacred Liturgy but as such I sometimes miss their signals, even when my radar is telling me there is something in a room or situation or person that is negative or out of sorts. I am getting better but feel like I'm tapping less than I should into a very valuable resource.

This is an excellent resource on discernment on some of the bigger decisions in our lives:

Msgr. Pope's Six Principles of Discernment

Bouguereau beautifully expressed the mystical world of angels around us in his paintings.

This is one of my favorites.

I'm trying to spend some time in Lent pursuing our valuable resource of angels and will try to share.

Hope your Lent is off to a great start.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Blogosphere Coverage of Fr. Rosica's threat to sue blogger



So far, it's unanimous: Fr. Rosica's actions convict him of the corruption his letter claims is a distorted opinion of merciful priest of high moral character.

From the Lepanto Institute:

So, if we are to understand the complaint here in its proper context, Fr. Rosica is upset because a one-man blog has openly criticized Fr. Rosica’s public statements which conflict with the Traditional teachings of the Catholic Church. And, in the act of complaining that Mr. Domet’s comments “suggest that Fr. Rosica is willing to act unethically to further his own agendas and to do so at the expense of others,” Fr. Rosica is willing to file an unethical lawsuit at the expense of a family man in order to further his own agendas.

Restore DC Catholicism:

My blogging colleague Vox Cantoris has been targeted by Father Thomas Rosica, Vatican spokesman. Within the linked post you can see another link that is a pdf of the letter he received from Rosica's attorneys. Take a look at it and you can see that Rosica doesn't like it when his public statements draw comments that aren't favorable to him. The whole list of grievances reads like a big temper tantrum

Austin Ruse

“Dissenter” is a word loaded with negative meaning in the Catholic world. It implies the person disagrees with a fundamental teaching of the Church.

LesFemmes:

Spread this far and wide. It's time to lift the rock and expose the slimy little critters before they can run for cover. - See more at: http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2015/02/unbelievable-fr-thomas-rosica-threatens.html#sthash.edj1F0JT.dpuf



Mundabor


I am not an expert in Canadian law, but it seems extremely difficult to imagine the letter has any chance at all of being successful.

Rather, it seems to me that here something different is at stake: a Vatican official uses a financial muscle (the threat of a very expensive, long-drawn lawsuit) to shut up a faithful Catholic blogger.

Fisheaters

When Faithful Catholics like Cardinal Burke are marginalized, and the likes of Rosica, Kasper and Marx are elevated, there is a serious problem. Now Rosica is going to the ultimate trump card of the progressive left and suing a Faithful Catholic into silence. When did Stalin start running The Church? Are reeducation camps next? Oh, wait, that is what the FFI received. Never mind.
How much longer oh Lord? How much longer will You tolerate this Faithless generation?

The EyeWitness

If the Lavendar Mafia in Rome is going to resort to these kinds of games it is time for bloggers to call their bluff.

Eponymous Flower

in support of the evil Father Gravel, a Pro-Abort, aberrosexual, Canadian priest then suing Life Site News, also had all kinds of nasty things to say about faithful bloggers. Maybe this aberrosexual enabling, Ted Kennedy supporting priest may have bitten off more than he could chew?

Mike Voris linked to at Sancte Peter

Representatives of the Pope, whose duties are to express the Pope’s wishes, should not be using their offices to express their own opinion, appearing to gin up support for a case that is the very issue at hand for those above him to debate at October’s Synod. But this is not the first occasion that Fr. Rosica has gone to social media to express personal “out there” thoughts and opinions.

Is it a conflict of interest for a papal spokesman to keep expressing his personal opinion and either asserting that the Pope holds the same opinion or creating that impression? How is this situation being allowed to continue? A lot of people are beginning to wonder.

Catholic Sacristan

Out of line?

The radical Catholic

Is the Vatican, through the person of Fr. Rosica, attempting to intimidate independent Catholic bloggers into silence in advance of the 2015 Synod?

Ex Magna Silentium

It has become clear to me over the last week or so that the spotlight glaring on these men has been bothering them, as they realize that Faithful Catholics will not stand for this program of theirs, where sin will be called good, and where the Eucharist will be profaned by its reception by those who are in a state of mortal sin, blessed by the Church. Apparently, I was right.

What a shameful disgrace. What a shameful disgrace at the start of Lent.

Who else is behind Father Rosica’s weak shot across the bow? Is this the way the Church will treat its Faithful members? Is this how Pope Francis would stop internecine strife, by silencing opposition? Is this what Pope Francis meant about the Church reaching out to the marginalized?

Several other links to blogs who find Fr. Rosica's actions beneath contempt on this Canadian Catholic blog.

Musings of a priest

Apparently Fr. Rosica is offended by the blogger's public criticism of his (Rosica's) promotion of the October Synod's "liberal" agenda embodied by the mid-term Relatio. But there's much more to it than this, as you'll see in the article.

Dallas Catholic blog

Fr. Rosica re-tweeted Cardinal Wuerl’s blog post denouncing Cardinal Burke, and straight up called Burke a “dissenter,” which is rich, coming from him:

We've barely been at it for 24 hours.

Can you hear us yet?

Nearly every Catholic has questioned whether Fr. Rosica's is doing the dirty deed with the knowledge and consent of the Pope and the Nicolatians he appointed to his see as a strategy to stop criticism before they roll out something regrettable in October's synod.

How's that working out for the Holy Father and his papacy so far?



Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Pope Francis Spokesperson Fr. Rosica threatens to sue Catholic blogger for expressing opinions on synod


I think it's going to be a lively Lent.


Michael Voris has an excellent Vortex on the slimy development in Pope Francis Cabinet.

Seems Pope Francis has surrounded himself with quite a group of weasels.

The poor blogger is distraught. Please keep him in your prayers.

If it is any consolation to him, I had a priest or two threaten to sue in my blogging career. The second time it happened, I LOL.

These men are accustomed to shivering weenies who keep their threatening conduct private.

As soon as you let it rip into the public square, they don't know whether to poop their pants or wind their wristwatch.

These men simply have no idea what they are up against and why. I doubt Rev Roscia knows the power of Catholic blogosphere. He certainly is grossly unerestimating the determination of faithful Catholics who have been robbed of their religion. He is about to find out.

How would you like your eggs on your face, Fr. Roscia? Over easy?

Judging from this hairbrained idea to have your lawyer send a letter to this poor man, I'd say scrambled.

Here's a link to the blog.

What did he to do deserve Rev. Rosica's wrath?

Well, the Rev. Rosica published a tweet that maligned Cardinal Burke as, of all things, a 'dissenter'.

The story tweeted relates to Cardinal Weurl's latest publicity stunt to slander Catholics who rebelled against the heretical theology presented at Pope Francis' synod as 'dissenters'.

You read that right.

Cardinal Wuerl is attempting to change the definition of 'dissent' in the Roman Catholic Church.

Remember before Pope Francis 'dissent' meant opinions that contradict 2000 years of theology?

Cardinal Wuerl is now saying when bishops and cardinals contradict 2000 years of theology, 'dissent' is when Catholics won't contradict it along with them.

Like every other lucid person in Christendom who read about Rev. Rosica's published tweet, the blogger asked why on earth the Pope's spokesperson would be using media sources to impugn Cardinal Burke as unfaithful to Christ's Church.

Naturally, a seasoned public relations professional, Fr. Rosica is educated in the rules and etiquette of publishing. For instance, Pope Francis public relations team wouldn't publish messages from ISIS on their twitter feeds, would they. One can certainly quote or cite something one disagrees with, but as a responsible public relations professional of the highest ranking member of the Church, he has the duty o take the time to make remarks that carefully make clear your disagreement.

Rev. Rosica published Weurl's redefinition of 'dissenters' in a story that did what Cardinal Wuerl doesn't have the spinal fortitude to do - name the people Weurl is talking about.

We are not as stupid as we look.

Weurls story is beneath contempt. As was the the tweet coming from the Holy Father's public relations team.

Vox Cantoris articulates the opinions of hundreds of thousands of us.

Rev. Rosica's poor judgment in publishing the tweet was enough grounds for Fr. Lombardi to terminate him.

Compounding that poor judgment with issuing threats to sue Catholic bloggers better be his waterloo -- or none of them will have to worry about waiting until October to see if they can recover the trust and respect of Catholic families who live our fiat.

If anybody needs to remove something from the internet, it's Cardinal Weurl article slandering the reputations of Catholics offended by the immoral theology presented by the Holy Father and his out of control see.

Cardinal Weurl has no authority or right to slander our reputations in front of our children. He is the problem in this dust up. Do not blame bloggers for what is painfully obvious to an overwhelming number of Catholics.

Faithful Catholics are in the unbelievable position of having to tell our children the theology coming from the synod and relatio is a danger to their salvation and must be ignored.

Mike Voris asks some very interesting questions. What did the Holy Father know about this threat and when did he know it? Do you think this threat could possibly be a strategy to get out in front of the synod in October?

This is something our brothers in Rome can take to the bank:

Put your threats where the sun doesn't shine.

If you think a bus full of old liberal nuns wearing polyester pants and no bras was an ugly eyesore, just wait until you see what a couple of hundred thousand women whose hands rock the cradle can do in Catholic blogosphere.





Tuesday, February 17, 2015

"Imagine Obama's outcry if 21 muslims were beheaded by Christians?



This reflection is quite thought-provoking.

This map of how much territory muslims have conquered since the Obama administration is shocking. Especially when compared to the time of the crusaders who stopped them he last time they rose to ruthlessly ethnically cleanse the world. Europe has become a haunt for demons. They are poised and bloodthirsty.

It actually makes their threat to conquer Rome much more dangerous. Let us keep the Holy Father and all those who serve the Church in Rome in our prayers - especially the Nicolatians standing on the precipice of their own torment:

But as for cowards,* the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.
(Maybe what we should invest in is wallpaper with the Book of Revelation on it and for Lent, volunteer to paper the living rooms of everyone who writes for Patheos with it?)

Italy is hoping for somebody to help them. Wait by the phone. When Obama doesn't call, you'll know its him. As Rome and bodies burn, we can count on Hillary Clinton will call it the great religion look for a Christian website warning people of the ethnic cleansing to blame it on.

Seriously, I don't know about you, but I am really looking forward to a prayerful Lent.






Monday, February 16, 2015

Obama Refuses to Call 21 Martyrs Christians


It is hard to find the words that adequately express the martyrdom of 21 Coptic Christians on the Mediterranean. Unspeakable cruelty. They cried out the name of Jesus before their executions.

After these savages murdered the Christians, they said conquering Rome was next.

If one had any doubt as to the antichrist in this administration, this puts an end to it:

White House called for a “political resolution” in Libya to resolve the “conflict.”

Salvation of non-Catholics


Fr. Fr. Z

We live in a time where the reality of hell is often either ignored or flatly denied. Our society – and our pulpits (both Catholic and Protestant) have become places where Universalism (the teaching that everyone goes to heaven) reigns. It is seen as “pastoral” to comfort the grieving by telling them that their deceased loved one is in paradise, and only a cruel or heartless preacher would dare to remind people that the dead need our prayers. And God forbid that you might raise the specter of Hell as a possible outcome of a life lived in defiance of God’s commandments.

Hell, friends, is real. It is possible to wind up there.

Church teaching has not changed. The Church still teaches, and has consistently taught, that the sure path to salvation is found in the Church that Christ Himself founded. One stays on that path by being humbly obedient to the authority of that same Church.

Those who place themselves outside of the authority of the Church do not have that surety of being on the right path.

Want to avoid Hell? Stick close to the Catholic Church, frequent the sacraments, believe her teachings, practice works of mercy, and reform your life.

Media Coverage on Pope Francis "Decentralization" Discussions with Cardinal



A few more details have emerged on Pope Francis plans for shuffling the chairs around on the Titanic.

They're mulling over the idea of two new 'super-departments' - one headed by the peace and justice moonbats and another for 'the laity and the family.

A Vatican spokesman said during a press conference that the aim of the reform is to guarantee a more efficient form of service by the Vatican, both to the universal church and to bishops’ conferences around the world.

The Rev. Federico Lombardi acknowledged that the jury is still out on whether the reform will work.

“If the reforms lead to a more efficient and less centralized service is something that only time and history will tell,” he said.

With the painful exposition of corruption on the levels underneath the Holy See, why on earth would they see less supervision and authority from Rome as the solution?

If anything, we need a place to report corruption where the corrupt will know it will be acted upon.

We need a place that will tail priests who are suspected of living with their lovers or just plain old demoralizing parishioners - and then act upon the information cultivated from the investigation.

Other than political expedience and publicity stunts attempting to give the false impression that laity is running the Holy See, what possible benefit could be derived from this reshuffling?

I can't think of a single thing that would help the catechesis of our people and the problems with corruption.

They just finished putting the shinola on their image of woman with an infomercial using a sex kitten with over-sized false eyelashes and botox-injected lips.

The Pope has selected an apostate to lead theology on the family.

They have absolutely no discretion on what people to put in place and why.

It is particularly disturbing that the Bishop Gumbleton 'peace and justice' brigade is proposed on top of the hierarchy. They are notorious heretics and have been a major force in silencing Church teaching, promoting contraception and immoral sex - in the name of 'peace'. I've never come across a single clown involved in the ministry that was faithful to Church teaching. Not a single one in 58 years. The ministry has lead the crusade of the destruction of catechesis both inside and outside of Christ's Church.

It stinks to the high heavens.

With their people uncatechized and demoralized, the emphasis on 'the environment' is the sound of Nero's fiddle as Rome burns.

After the antics of the Pope's synod and Relatio, his assertion he operates his see with 'absolute transparency', I am sorry to say, is simply not believable.

Bishop DiNardo has also expressed his doubts.

The article in Crux clings to the hope that a list of folks having sex outside of marriage will be allowed to partake of the Sacraments without remorse, the Sacrament of Confession or amending the situation.

There is no theology that would allow cohabitating, same-sex, divorced and remarried to be welcomed to the Sacraments. It is not possible. If the Pope even attempts to push this agenda in October, his authority will not come out unscathed on the other end it. It will be the frosting on the cake of his slow creep towards anathema.






Sunday, February 15, 2015

Pope Francis latest homily



When reading the remarks of Pope Francis over the last few days, one cannot help but notice a theme emerging.

He perceives the Church before his arrival as a place that has been excluding and treating sinners harshly.


In his homily to his see, he portrays Jesus as walking around healing 'nearly everyone' He came upon.

That com-passion which made him draw near to every person in pain!

He most certainly did not.

The Christ we read about in Scripture makes very clear that His gifts are reserved. He was very selective about who He healed.

He excluded an entire race of gentiles, whom he referred to as dogs. You certainly don't see Him flitting about from town to town healing unrepentant sinners.

Perhaps he has once again not conveyed his thoughts clearly enough, but he seems to leave one with the impression that sin does not make a person unclean:

Compassion leads Jesus to concrete action: he reinstates the marginalized! These are the three key concepts that the Church proposes in today’s liturgy of the word: the compassion of Jesus in the face of marginalization and his desire to reinstate.

Marginalization: Moses, in his legislation regarding lepers, says that they are to be kept alone and apart from the community for the duration of their illness. He declares them: "unclean!"

The references about lepers are theological lessons on sin.

What's next?

An Adam and Eve who isn't thrown out of paradise?


He then goes on, if I understand his analogy correctly, to suggest there is an inquisition before a soul is absolved in the Sacrament of Confession, a 'study of the situation and all it's possible consequences' before restoring a soul to Sacramental Grace:

Jesus, the new Moses, wanted to heal the leper. He wanted to touch him and restore him to the community without being "hemmed in" by prejudice, conformity to the prevailing mindset or worry about becoming infected. Jesus responds immediately to the leper’s plea, without waiting to study the situation and all its possible consequences! For Jesus, what matters above all is reaching out to save those far off, healing the wounds of the sick, restoring everyone to God’s family! And this is scandalous to some people!

There is nothing in the pews but sinners who are struggling with their desires to sin.

What people does he suggest are scandalized by the very mission of Christ's Church? I have never met such an individual.

And more importantly, other than being a baptized Catholic, which is presumed, where are these examinations taking place?

I object to this mischaracterization. This is not what is happening. At all.

What is happening is, people sitting in the pews who object to Church teaching are forbidding it to be taught because they are offended by it. In the absence of teaching our children their religion, all kinds of stupid statements are being made. Like having same sex desires is not something our children have to make judgments upon, there is virtue in same sex or living together outside of the Sacrament of Marriage - to name a few. This then misleads children to reject the catechesis we teach at home. Ultimately, this model perverts the minds of catechized children. We've been there done that and have lost several generations of children to it.

Nobody even knows what kind of sex other people are having until they make an issue out of it. They make an issue out of it when Church teaching is presented to children belonging to families that practice our religion.

This is what is missing from the practices he is suggesting the Church formally adopt.


Jesus is not afraid of this kind of scandal! He does not think of the closed-minded who are scandalized even by a work of healing, scandalized before any kind of openness, by any action outside of their mental and spiritual boxes, by any caress or sign of tenderness which does not fit into their usual thinking and their ritual purity. He wanted to reinstate the outcast, to save those outside the camp...

There are two ways of thinking and of having faith: we can fear to lose the saved and we can want to save the lost. Even today it can happen that we stand at the crossroads of these two ways of thinking. The thinking of the doctors of the law, which would remove the danger by casting out the diseased person, and the thinking of God, who in his mercy embraces and accepts by reinstating him and turning evil into good, condemnation into salvation and exclusion into proclamation.

These two ways of thinking are present throughout the Church’s history: casting off and reinstating. Saint Paul, following the Lord’s command to bring the Gospel message to the ends of the earth (cf. Mt 28:19), caused scandal and met powerful resistance and great hostility, especially from those who demanded unconditional obedience to the Mosaic law, even on the part of converted pagans. Saint Peter, too, was bitterly criticized by the community when he entered the house of the pagan centurion Cornelius (cf. Acts 10).

The Church’s way, from the time of the Council of Jerusalem, has always always been the way of Jesus, the way of mercy and reinstatement. This does not mean underestimating the dangers of letting wolves into the fold, but welcoming the repentant prodigal son; healing the wounds of sin with courage and determination; rolling up our sleeves and not standing by and watching passively the suffering of the world. The way of the Church is not to condemn anyone for eternity; to pour out the balm of God’s mercy on all those who ask for it with a sincere heart. The way of the Church is precisely to leave her four walls behind and to go out in search of those who are distant, those on the "outskirts" of life. It is to adopt fully God’s own approach, to follow the Master who said: "Those who are well have no need of the physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call, not the righteous but sinners to repentance" (Lk 5:31-32).

In healing the leper, Jesus does not harm the healthy. Rather, he frees them from fear. He does not endanger them, but gives them a brother. He does not devalue the law but instead values those for whom God gave the law.

For the Pope to suggest this model does not devalue the law ignores 50 years worth of consequences and outcome of its practice. Debasing the law to make people feel valued has robbed generations of Catholics of Sacramental Grace and salvation.

It is a model we have no intention of accepting.

Even if one were to distort every Scripture reading of Christ and His ministry, one cannot escape the final exhortation and explanation of Christ's One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church:

He that hurteth, let him hurt still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is just, let him be justified still: and he that is holy, let him be sanctified still. [12] Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to every man according to his works. [13] I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. [14] Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. [15] Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and unchaste, and murderers, and servers of idols, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

I Jesus have sent my angel, to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and stock of David, the bright and morning star. [17] And the spirit and the bride say: Come. And he that heareth, let him say: Come. And he that thirsteth, let him come: and he that will, let him take the water of life, freely. [18] For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man shall add to these things, God shall add unto him the plagues written in this book. [19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from these things that are written in this book. [20] He that giveth testimony of these things, saith, Surely I come quickly: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

[21] The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Pope Francis Deconstruction of the Roman Catholic Church (and some strategic suggestions)




Most of the intervention focused on the relationship between the Curia and the local Churches, with cardinals discussing “decentralization,” and some also introduced the theme of “subsidiarity.”

This has the potential to be really bad.

As if we didn't know already.

Here's the weasel headlines: Pope Francis is poised to change Catholicism forever

I keep thinking about Pope Francis' remark after he surrounded himself with communists and apostates and shipped out Cardinal Burke. Some reporter asked him whether the opposition to his reforms bothered him. He said he didn't know anything about any stinking opposition but he and his team expect opposition and have well-formed plans to proceed in spite of it.

The revelation of this plan explained the insertion of doctrinal errors and moral chaos in the final Relatio and his instructions to feed it to Christ's people.

Seriously, nobody picks an apostate to convey their spin on Church teaching unless your intention was to pervert the minds of the people on the receiving end of their messages.

This principle includes everyone from a parish priest all the way up to the Chair of Peter.

When a minister of the word looks around for people with ideas to convey Church teaching, that selection is intentional.

We need to face the reality of what is happening here. Because if we don't, our children and the people we love are going to be indoctrinated into the apostasy of Cardinal Kasper and his ideas that rob us all of our religion and our salvation.

The time to get off our butts is now.

The Pope is a big boy who can take care of himself. I suspect at some point, he will do a back flip when he sees his own authority to teach is being pulled out from underneath him.

The time to make a choice is now.

What is more important to you?

The feelings of a Pope?

The tools of salvation for your children and your children's children?

This is no contest for me.

I am not interested in what the Holy Father claims his own convictions are on Church teaching. I pray for the man and wish him the best.

When he starts appointing apostates to put together programs to convey Church teaching and those concepts are in the hands of priests and meetings are scheduled to distribute those ideas - the Pope's catechetical reform then becomes my business and your business to point out his comedy of errors.

If his feelings get hurt in the process, we're sorry about 'dat.

Let's get real.

The faithful bishops and Cardinals are not going to be able to stop what he is doing. They are going to do it anyway. He has the power to do it and he is going to do it.

Or so they think.

There are two obstacles I can see to the best laid plans of mice and men.

One, Cardinal Burke has hinted about that relates to the Pope's authority that will be challenged if he steps over the line.

1. Effectively cutting his power would come from his see of bishops and Cardinals.+
2. Making a mess of it on the parish level.+

With respect to #1, that flare has been shot across his bow.
With respect to #2, it gives traction and momentum to #1.


The path of least resistance is #2.

He says he is unaware and doesn't care about opposition, but I think that might be a wee bit of a tall tale.

Watching this Pope and judging what he is saying and doing after we react to his remarks and actions - - my gut instincts tell me he is not willing to risk losing his authority.


The riot on the internet has stalled plans.

Next up: A riot in the pews.

Passing the Relatio out to parishes with the requests to gather the congregation and use the rejected content to discredit the deposit of faith is a longer route than they had hoped, but they are proceeding full throttle with plan b.

The most far-reaching and effective way to reach desired outcome is to contact the bishops office and put the squeezola on him to provide resources that let conversations happen in the parish but have a catechized facilitator answer each talking point and question with resources from the deposit of faith so that the outcome is a kind and warm invitation to understand the deposit of faith and their inheritance of Sacramental Grace. More on this later.

If effectiveness can't be reached on the diocesan level, a fugatz will have to take place on the parish level.

Kindly watch your parish cluster. When and if you receive the notification of meeting to discuss, contact the parish priest and ask him who is facilitating discussion to ensure faithful adherence to Catholic doctrine. Volunteer to help him plan outcome of each talking point. Tell him you are going to be there. Then be there.

This strategic game is called 'pin the responsibility on the bishop and pastor'.

Don't bother with parishes that are gonzo. Help out the good shepherds but the main focus is shore up pastors on the road to conversion but not quite there yet. This is where conversations could go awry and where we can be the most effective.

Again, more on this later - but kindly keep watch for notices in your cluster and contact me via email for help. For those of you who don't have my email, you can find it on the blog.


Friday, February 13, 2015

Why Catholics Don't Know What They Talkin' 'Bout


The irony of the title of this article at the Register does not go unnoticed.

Have any readers been Reading the Register?

I haven't read anything there for several years. Pewsitter linked to the article and I was blown away at how poor the theology was in the article.

What in Sam Hill is going on over there?

Do people just write whatever they want and there is no editing of content to remain consistent with Catholic theology?

On top of being bad theology, it is painful drivel.

When we teachin', we don't know what we're talkin about and that's ok. Think about it. We are talking beyond ourselves. After we talk, we ask others what it means. The answers my friend are blowing in the wind. The answers are blowing in the wind.

Saints preserve us!

In Joan Chittister's worst hour of menopause, her writings were not that bad.

What happened to all the catechized Catholics in the comments section?

Don't Give What is Holy to the Dogs


Every time I hear today's Gospel, I find something else to unpack.


It doesn't take a theological heavyweight to know that Christ excluded the majority of the people around Him from having access to what is holy.

The woman in today's Gospel was a Greek. Christ excluded her because of her heritage.

Christ did not make it easy for her. He called her family undeserving dogs when she asked for what she needed.

Typical mother. There's no mountain she won't climb, Rubicon she won't cross, insult she won't take to get help when one of her babies need something.

This is the Gospel that tells you don't ever have to worry about approaching an Apostle or a Pope and asking for your children's freedom.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Pope Francis Closest Advisor Calls Faithful Catholic Children "Terrorists"



One of Pope Francis’ closest advisors, and the leader of one of the most “liberal” Catholic hierarchies in the world, has denounced “traditional” young people for wanting “to be clear in their positions,” warning that it is a path to “terrorism.” In a related interview with the Jesuit magazine America, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the head of the German Bishops’ conference, applauded people in homosexual partnerships who want a “lifelong” relationship.

Expressing and practicing faithful clarity of truth in the Catechism is the path to terrorism and having sex with a same-sex lover for an entire lifetime is applauded.

I don't mean to be scandalous, but I have often wondered why the Pope is attracted to this beast and why he would want his malignant ideas taught to his people.

Two legitimate questions. Every possible answer I have explored doesn't lift him out of the inexcusable conduct of this appointment.

College going Crocodile Dundee



This is hysterical.

The one comment on the article is priceless.

Archdiocese of Boston Survey Monkey Based on Relatio



As if we didn't have enough problems, the Archdiocese of Boston came up with their own survey monkey to help Pope Francis circumvent our religion with new "pastoral practices".

Kindly note that Pope Francis is calling this exercise a doctrinal "consultation".

Pope Francis has consulted with the 2000 years of practices and advice of Saints. It ain't workin' for him.

To Pope Francis and his team of luminaries - luminaries the likes of which 2000 years of pastoral practices in the Catholic Church has yet to see - it is time to consult with the erotic desires of the people and get new some pastoral practices around adultery.

That's what a pastor, a shepherd, does in their minds. The good shepherds that support our family by teaching our children the good accomplished when they have sex outside of the Sacrament of marriage.

They're going to help us all out. Isn't that sweet?

Pope Francis' doctrinal democratic referendum ballot is posted at the Holy See.

The intellectual giants at the Boston Chancery have come up with their own set of questions.

It's creepy how much thought went into framing questions to mislead the uncatechized into an abyss. This was not done by the simpletons. I'd love to know who was on the team. I'll find out!

Let's cut to the chase of their manipulative desired outcome.

Question #1

The 2000 year old mission of educating children in the teachings of the Church and the Sacramental practice necessary for their salvation is referenced in an ambiguous preamble before they go in for the kill.

You'd never know what their pastoral role was when reading it:

It is the teaching of the Catholic Church that the basic unit of society is the family, such that "The well-being of the person and of human and Christian society is intimately connected with the healthy state of the community of marriage and family." (Gaudium et spes 47). Promoting and supporting families is the remedy to fixing the ills of human society. Within the family, the individual best learns how to love and work faithfully with generosity and selflessness, and about sexuality open to life.

What exactly does "best learns how to love and work faithfully with generosity and seflessness" mean?

They certainly have NOT been promoting and supporting families with the 'remedy' of teaching what choices to make when desires to sleep with somebody hits our children in their pants. That's what 'families' have needed from them to 'fix the ills of human society'.


They go on to say that whilst the bishops at the synod acknowledged the feng-sui of 2000 years of practices that more clearly tell them what to do and how to do it, they have come to realize these practices are only 'basic principles' that don't support people who use their free will to reject Church teaching.


The ever curious and inquiring minds of the Romans beg us to inform their ignorance: What practices can they deploy to make sleeping around a welcome basic principle so those folks who object to Sacramental absolution will come and sit in the pews?

I'm going to suggest they re-write the story in Sacred Scripture of the Prodigal Son.

Daddy reverses everything he has taught in his home, gathers his sober and faithful family members and servants and tells them there's nothing like a good drunk and cheap women. Let's all have at it so my son's activities will feel welcome.


And, incidentally, the 'basic principle' of moral theology on the Divine gift of human sexuality is not simply about 'sexuality open to life'. Sexuality 'open to life' could be two teenagers in the back of an Oldsmobile. There's a Catholic Sacrament involved in moral theology in human sexuality.

Question #2

Anyone looking for a primer on how the devil talks, this is a gold mine of his baloney.

Three quarters of what he says is on the right trajectory and then he drops the shoe.

In this 'question', the mission of the Church is reduced from teaching Catholicism and supporting the tools of salvation and Sacraments, to incorporating the diabolical disorientation into their practice so we can all help 'form families' out of the spiritual mayhem of 'this day and age'.

Two thousand years of Church teaching is subordinated for "the importance" of "the formation of families".

How can the Church, here in this day and age better catechize and evangelize specifically with regard to the importance of families?

I'm going to suggest they model the priesthood after Bruce Jenner so we can all follow their lead.

Question #3

The 'importance of families' is carried into this 'question' which pertains to passing our religion on to the next generation.

This one is a doozy. The teachings of the Church are turned into ideas and 'values' held by each generation.

The Gospel message of the 'importance of families' is competing with messages and legislation of the Catholic politicians they admire and help elect. They suggest there are several generations fighting over 'values' and they just do not know how to turn the church into an attractive place where everyone respects the practice of each generations 'values'.

This thing sure has the stink of Bryan Hehir's 'values'.

Question #4

I'm going to cite this one in its entirety. It speaks for itself.

The Synod document acknowledges that there exist alternative forms of committed relationships outside of marriage as defined by the Church; namely merely civil unions or couples living together without marriage. It urges great respect for people in these situations but at the same time it states, "When a union reaches a particular stability, legally recognized, characterized by deep affection and responsibility for children and showing an ability to overcome trials, these unions can offer occasions for guidance with an eye towards the eventual celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage."(27) "How can the Church help couples to recognize that God is calling them to see the value of his Grace in Marriage as the logical purpose or outcome of their existing relationship with each other?"

Send them a copy of Dante's Inferno.

Seriously, what an insult to the Deposit of Faith.

They don't know where to find the magnificent writings of Doctors of the Church and Saints and lead these souls to the truth?


Question #5

This one also speaks for itself. The bishops already know the answer to the question about whether they can fiddle with theology on the Sacrament of Marriage. It is not possible. Nor is the practice of hoodwinking Catholics about their situation possible. Yet, they throw these suggestions out there to inure a disordered agenda which they know will rupture their lying butts right onto the trajectory of Martin Luther.


The Lineamenta raises the issue of the many divorced people among us. The document says that those who are divorced and not remarried give great witness to the Sacredness of Marriage and it urges mercy towards those who for whatever reason are in new relationships outside of Marriage in the Church. It asks if anything at all can be done within the theology of Marriage as defined by the Church to allow some or all in this situation to receive Holy Communion. At the same time it recognizes that there may not be a theological solution that can open the door to all people, but asks, how the Church still can be merciful to those in this situation by working on how Tribunals function and by promoting Spiritual Communion.

Question #6

Finally, there must have been a faithfully-orthodox priest on the team as this one is halfway decent.

The third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (October 2014) has raised the question of those in homosexual unions. The Synod urged great sensitivity and respect to those in these unions but stated that "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."(55) God's plan for marriage and family includes both a man and a woman whose conjugal relationship is open to life within the very act. How can the Church truly be sensitive and respectful to homosexual Catholics and non-Catholics yet speak about Marriage as something different and not analogous?

It wasn't truly for the first 2000 years, you see.

Please

I see faithfulness as the underlying desire of this one, but with this question reveals the same old painful unwillingness to accept the truth.

It is paradoxical.

The mission is teaching Catholics that civil unions are out of the question for practicing Catholics, as a homosexual must live their life as a celibate.

People in civil unions don't want that teaching taught when their family is in the pew.

These two cannot co-exist.

We have 'truly' explored every which way. There is a ministry, of which you are fully aware, that respectfully teaches the practice of celibacy. You have all been obstructing it and its practice for decades.

These men have been depriving our children of the teachings of the Church for two generations. Somehow, by the grace of God, there is a generation of parents who heard the testimony of the two previous Popes proclaiming Church teaching in the manner which they pretend doesn't exist.

Every answer to this foolish and deceptive exercise is answered in the witness of Saint John Paul II and the Pope Emeritus.

They have elected their reformer but they just don't get it.

This is not of God. We will not follow it nor invite our children to be attracted to it.

If it goes this direction, we will renounce the authority of this papacy. We have in fact, already done so in our families.

As Cardinal Burke talked about the responsibility of his vocation:

Cardinal Raymond Burke said he was “responding to a hypothetical situation” when he stated that he would resist any possible move by Pope Francis away from Catholic doctrine.

“I simply affirmed that it is always my sacred duty to defend the truth of the Church’s teaching and discipline regarding marriage,” Cardinal Burke told CNA Feb. 9.

“No authority can absolve me from that responsibility, and, therefore, if any authority, even the highest authority, were to deny that truth or act contrary to it, I would be obliged to resist, in fidelity to my responsibility before God.”

Every Catholic, especially parents, have a similar responsibility.

The only 'misunderstanding' of this nutty agenda, which the Pope is absolutely leading, is the gross underestimation of our loyalty to our Baptismal duty.

When it comes to making choices between Christ and His Church and accepting an agenda of the pied pipers leading children into the hands of the devil and his agenda, it's a no-brainer what the majority of practicing, educated Catholics are going to choose.

We've shot enough flares across the bow of the Ship. We will never abandon. But there is a room on the lower deck for Captain Queeg and we will not hesitate to compartmentalize him in it.

It is a sorry situation. But we will rise to the occasion.

Worthy is the Lamb.