Cardinal O'Malley Bringing in a Yoga Master to teach Sanskrit to Chancery Employees

Boston bloggers have been hearing now for months that the coven of women in the Chancery have had a serious outbreak of the vapors.

Since sitting in front of Our Blessed Lord in Adoration does absolutely nothing for them, they consulted the ouiji board and Cardinal O'Malley has decided to bring in a yoga master for sanskrit.

The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on the Hindu concept of divinity or Brahman. The word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Janism and Buddhism.

I'll bet you didn't they couldn't get any weirder.

Off the record: my sources tell me that the women are so grateful, they have bought the Cardinal special red leotards and tutu, and will be presenting it at the first class. (It is a surprise, so please button your lips.) Sources also tell me Jim McDonough's former office has been turned into a space for the Hare Krishnas to do cleansing enemas, under the supervision of Mark Dunderdale.

It could happen!


Our friends at BCI have posted the contact information for the legumes who have oversight and accountability for the pagan ritual. Please give them a call or drop them an email.

Boston Parish Cluster Buster

The wizards in the Boston Chancery have come up with another doozy.


On the one hand, you have the Archbishop painting a rosy picture for the future. There's enough money to pay for everything. The mass exodus out of the irreligious katholyc schools is down to tiptoeing out of dodge. The seminary is overflowing. They see progress in rebuilding and rejuvinating parish life. Parish collections are up.

It's all about hope.

Remember how that worked out for the rope-a-dopes who voted for Obama?

Simultaneously, we have the chancery chicken littles tweetingthe sky is falling.

Well, which is it?

Are the schools, seminaries and parishes growing and we have enough money to pay for everything or is it all collapsing?

Who knows. They are incapable of telling the truth.

Here's what they expect people to believe: Now that attendance is up, people are starting to put money in the basket and the seminary is full and they see some smooth sailing ahead, it's as good a time as any to muck it all up again.

Somebody has masterminded a new plan: Psts.

All over town people are having Pst meetings. It seems to be very succesful because everyone who attends a meeting gets pst when they hear the plans.

Here's the reader's digest of pst. Brace yourself.

Two or three parishes will become one uberparish. Nothing is closing just yet, just a centralized center of operations for two or three parishes. All the pastors will be forced to resign. There will be a big shuffle of priests. All the spiritual healing that is going on between a priest and parishioner will be ripped apart. One chancery crony will be appointed uberpastor over the uberparish.

I can't figure out what happens to the priests being demoted, but I do know one thing: They won't be saying the Masses they say now.

Masses are going to be cancelled. They say some of the priests are lonely. Christ isn't cutting it. Tending to thousands of souls is isolating them from human contact. They are encouraging them to all live in one rectory and shutter the others, so maybe these priests get to huddle or watch television together to cure their lonliness. Whatever they're doing, it's the Sacraments getting scratched off their calendar.

Here's some good news: You know the staff at your parish running CCD and other programs who have been shilling for dissent and liturgical madness? They're being let go. (The bad news is, these folks are not eligible for unemployment.) There will be an uberreligious ed director who will handle the programs for 5000 families. With that ratio, I suppose they'll be hiring magicians.

Oh...I forgot to tell you. Forty percent of these parishes can't pay their bills, so there is a Phase 2 of this roll-out.

I know what you're thinking. How can that be? The Chancellor and the Cardinal said they have enough money to pay for everything.

Well, they don't mean us. They're talking about the money being siphoned from every parish to pay the megasalaries of the cronies in the Chancery. It's all working. There's enough money. For them.

After all the infighting among the priests and lay people over who gets to be pastor, who has their job saved, Phase 2 will kick in. The Reality Show: While we're all sending enough money for the Chancery luminaries to cover their expenses, there isn't enough to pay the bills of two or three parishes. This is when the fun will begin.

Remember all the commotion and raging at the Cardinal over which parish will get closed? That was giving him headaches and agita. All that will now happen right at the parish level. Committees will form about which parish to close. The histrionics and fighting shall then commence. Good times will be had by all.

Do they really think the fighting to hold onto assets, parishes, jobs, positions of power will bring unity between parishioners? Will build on the momentum? The pst people will continue to put money in the basket so the Chancery can pay their high-salaried cronies and balance their budget?

It beats me how they could but 66 Brooks Road is the center of gravity on earth for delusions of grandeur.

You know what the role of a Bishop is supposed to be? Absorbing the blows that come from the culture and from within for the flock. Devoting themselves to do what it takes to offer the truth that drives us to Confession and Holy Communion so that our intellect can make the right choices in our lives. Keep us out of temptation and the effects of sin. It is a vocation that surrenders the pursuit of being popular, winning affection for oneself. A father, who accepts the anger that comes with making the hard decisions for your children or disciplining, knowing - maybe hoping is the right word - some day they will understand. And, even if they never do, it is all about pleasing God. If they are doing it right, the worldly hates them, just as it hated Christ.

Today's old testament readings remind us of the ramifications of sin.

'The sword shall never depart from your house,
because you have despised me
and have taken the wife of Uriah to be your wife.'
Thus says the LORD:
'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house.
I will take your wives while you live to see it,
and will give them to your neighbor.
He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.
You have done this deed in secret,
but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel,
and with the sun looking down.'"

Getting people to Church and keeping them there is about Sacramental grace. It has nothing at all to do with the popularity of a bishop.

When you have a bishop who lacks the spinal fortitude to carry the cross that comes with the role, who needs be adorned and adored to feel good about himself, he deflects the role of saying and doing what is necessary for the salvation of souls to sheep. The consequences of the stroking of his ego, id and superego, the divisions and rage, the spiritual starvation, the murders, among his people is the price worth paying. It isn't the ramifications of sin on the intellect that keeps people from Church, it's the self-worth and popularity of the Bishop.

I don't have the bandwith to embrace their ludicrous ideas. They are dividing and throwing the sheep to the lions to be torn apart. My heart breaks for Christ. I am pained for the souls they have abandoned. Good luck to them. Good luck fighting over the stuff.

Want my advice? Keep yourself in a state of Grace. Stay as far as possible away from the casting of lots for Christ's garments. As the fur is flying, plant yourself in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Adore. Praise. Love. Witness to the Reason for your hope. Christ is in the Stern. If they move Him, move with Him. The gates of hell do not prevail. Nothing else really matters.

Crash Course on Writing to Your Archdiocese

For a few decades now, faithful Catholics have been reporting scandals to their Bishop. At least we thought that's who we were reporting them to. Come to find out, the Bishop likes to keep himself clueless. He surrounds himself with people who are experts at obfuscation.

Though we know hundreds to thousands of people may be writing the Bishop about a scandal, here's their most famous and tired excuse for not investigating or doing something about a complaint based upon the merits: "You're the only one complaining".

It's not whether their employees and agents are abusive, it's the number of people visible who are raising a ruckus. How much of a PR disaster it is, dictates whether or not they will muster up the energy to send you a patronizing letter from their Microsoft Word template collection.

99% of people will take them on face value. They know how to give you a forum to say whatever you feel needs to be said, knowing the minute you walk out the door with the delusion they are going to do something about it, their work is complete.

This is one of the reasons why Boston Catholics have embarked on:

1. Reporting the scandals publicly.

2. Organizing a communication campaign where they know that we know a large group of people have reported the scandal, put forth factual information to expose their public relations poppycock, ask them to respond to specific questions that we know the answers will make liars out of them, or ask them to take the appropriate action.

Guess what?

Now they're complaining that too many people are contacting them and saying the same thing.

If you want to see a beaut, check out the email written by one of the Cardinal's cabal that's posted on Bryan Hehir Exposed.

We be naughty. You see it's customary for Catholics to talk up their complaints to their representatives on the pastoral council. That group of spineless wimps meets with the Cardinal to rubber stamp his ideas. They are saddened, down in the dumps, got the doldrums that the word corrupt is being used to describe such a fine group of luminaries.

Here's a bit from the crash course on writing to your diocese:

From: Joe Sacerdo
To: “Reverend___@rcab.org”
Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:47 PM
Subj: Re: Stop sending copies

Fr.____,

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts back in the detailed message. Much of what you outlined would make sense and would work in the means you outlined–if the actions by the archdiocese weren’t rooted in deception and were rooted in the teachings of the Church.

I think we may differ on much, but on this we should agree–the Catholic Schools admission policy and it’s means of coming about were rooted in deception. Cardinal Sean put out his statement last May saying the Denver policy would be carefully studied and considered, but Fr. Bryan Hehir said a day later on WBUR that the Denver policy didn’t matter at all to the Cardinal–the Boston Archdiocese was already admitting children of gay parents and would continue doing so, just with a formal policy. One of the these two gentlemen was lying. Based on the outcome policy, it would appear that it was the Cardinal.

You will very much enjoy this forthright letter. As you can imagine, he did not receive a reply.

We are finished with the Tom Foolery.

When will they get it?

Boston Archdiocese Blogging and Governance Suggestion Box - Part 2

The Blogging and Governance Suggestions, Part 2 is up at Boston Catholic Insider.

If the ten suggestions were humbly and prayerfully given the serious consideration they deserve, it would go a long way to making straight the crooked path of the pastoral buffoonery at 66 Brooks Drive.

Boston Catholic Blogger Community Roundup

A lot of news in the Boston Catholic Blogger Community (BCBC) over the last few days.   To be honest, there's a lot of news every day!   Boston Catholics started  the whistleblower project because there was (and is) no forum to report or people of good will who will do something about it internally.  This was (and is) giving people who want to take advantage of the situation the opportunity to do anything they want without any accountability.  


The situation over the last 8 years has become untenable.  


Our priests, our deposit of faith, laity are being victimized in all kinds of ways.   No lover of justice and righteousness could watch it and stand by and do nothing.


I've got to tell you something, now that there is a venue for people to report things, the river flowing is not a pretty sight.  We're blown away by the magnitude of the mess.


But enough seriousness.  Let's get to today's roundup.




For giggles, I thought we'd start with a post at Boston Catholic Insider taking a trip down memory lane to refresh your memory on how the Archdiocese gushed over Voice of the Faithful when he met with VOTF "reform group leaders".

By way of the request, the VOTF representatives expressed a desire to be helpful to the Archdiocese. Cardinal Sean continues to demonstrate a willingness and openness to dialogue, and is committed to vibrant parish life throughout the church of Boston. We welcome the participation of all people who wish to assist with this work.”

But the BCBC expressed a desire to be helpful and demonstrates a willingness and openness to dialogue with the Archdiocese too, didn't we?


 The only beef we have is trying to pin down who would be doing the talking and who would doing the listening.  


Remember the communication Catholic bloggers received from the diocese?

Good morning,

The objective of the meeting is to have a frank conversation about what is the best way to serve Christ and His Church.  I believe there is much on your blog that is untrue and harmful to individuals and to the Body of Christ. I know of your convictions based on what you write in the blog. I hope our conversation would give you a broader frame of reference for future blog entries.   I anticipate Fr. Hehir, myself and, perhaps, one or two of my colleagues from the Pastoral Center being present for this meeting.

This indicates the objectives of the diocese are frank conversations and lessons on how to sweep things under the carpet.


The dialogue of reporting corruption is when we do the talking, show the documentation, ask for injunctive relief for whoever and whatever is being victimized by it so that everyone present can be a witness to what the diocese knew and when they knew it.  


We've each been to the diocese individually to have frank discussions controlled by diocescan cronies.   


If you like tricks and treachery and have a few hours of your life you feel like wasting, by all means, head to 66 Brooks Drive.  Pull up a chair and have some conversations with the people who wrote the wikpedias on how to stretch and obfuscate truth to give this world broader frame of reference on their ineptitude and corruption.  


The conversations we want to engage in are about freedom and justice. We want to know up front that the games they've been playing for the last decade in Boston are not going to be played with us.  


The conversations they want to have are not "Christ-centered" at all.  They are them-centered.


They don't know the difference.  We are not playing the game just when the whisteblowing project is giving people the forum they have needed to report situations and have something done about them, instead of victimizing the people doing the reporting.


Yesterday, the two million dollar plus PR machine sent out the following email to add to their 50 year pile of Memos on how they kept themselves in the dark so they could claim things are unfounded:




From: Terrence_Donilon@rcab.org
To: 
Sent: 8/23/2010 9:58:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight 

Subj: Globe story on blogs

Good morning,

Today you may have seen a story in the Boston Globe regarding blogs which have been critical of the Archdiocese and its leadership.  

Following is a statement we provided to the Globe and any media following up on today's story:

"Cardinal O’Malley and his staff are dedicated to building unity in Christ and Christian community within the Archdiocese.  Toward that end, we have reached out to bloggers on numerous occasions to ask them to enter into a professional and  Christ-centered conversation with us.  We are concerned about the harm caused to individuals and to the community by anonymous and unfounded claims on blogs.”

In addition, we wish to share with you information which is made available to dioceses by the USCCB on the use of social media.  While these USCCB norms specifically refer to use of social media by Church personnel, they are illustrative of good practices/habits for everyone within the Church.  The guidelines and information are available at http://www.usccb.org/comm/social-media-guidelines.shtml.  If you are unable to access this site, please contact Kate Zabriskie, in the Chancellor’s Office and she will assist you in retrieving this information.  Kate is available at 617-746-5659 or via email at kathryn_zabriskie@rcab.org.  

Finally, some priests and parishes of the Archdiocese have been sent unwelcomed emails, including a request to take a survey, from an anonymous blogger. Please know that this request has not been authorized or endorsed by the Archdiocese.   

Thank you,

Terry

********************************************** 

Terrence C. Donilon 

Secretary for Communications 

If you never let people put the evidence on your desk in the presence of witnesses, if you never have a good faith forum to listen to scandals your accountable for - you never have to order an investigation that leads to a pursuit of truth.  You never have to claim your critics complaints are true.  You never have to fire an employee who is hurting somebody or the Church.

When you spend your time obstructing yourselves from receiving the information - or keeping the information from your employees, when people go outside of the Church to seek justice, this crowd dips into the treasury of answers they deliberately didn't find to claim the allegations were 'unfounded'.

This Chancery blocking and banning the information is simply another round of the game.

Finally, you won't believe this - but there is yet another scandalous proabort 'social justice' conference headed up by Bryan Hehir.

With blogs blocked, they march on.

Stand up and fight.  

The Archdiocese Launches Strategy Against The Coalition to Save Catholic Healthcare

As I previously mentioned here, last week the Coalition to Save Health Care held a press conference to talk about the deal structure that puts Catholic identity of the hospitals and Catholic healthcare in Massachusetts in grave danger.

When the Globe covered the story, the Cardinal's multi million dollar public relations team was quoted:

“The wild speculation engaged in today is absurd,’’ Murphy said.

Get it?

Speculation that the Cardinal's talk about Cerebus keeping the Catholic identity of hospitals isn't absurd, the people pointing out the 'ethics team' is set up to be controlled by Cerebus and there are lucrative golden parachutes for the diocese built into the deal are wild and absurd.

Meanwhile, as reported on BryanHehirExposed, Cerebus had the Cardinal's portrait removed from the lobby of St. Elizabeth's, the Blessed Mother has been removed from the emergency room and religious artifacts are being purged from the hospital. (Do take a look at the blank wall where the Cardinal's picture used to hang.)

Amazing since there's a pretense that the deal hasn't been approved by the Attorney General.

We announced yesterday that an agreement has been reached with Cerberus that ensures the Catholic identity of the Caritas Christi hospitals. The sale is still pending as the Attorney General has to review it, but this stewardship agreement was a key component for us because it will preserve the Catholic identity of Caritas. (Cardinal Sean’s May 7, 2010 blog)

The Stewardship Agreement memorializes Steward’s commitment to maintain the Catholic identity of the Caritas Christi Healthcare system and its fidelity to the mission of the Church’s healthcare ministry.” (Fr. Richard Erikson, Vicar General, quoted in The Pilot, May 14, 2010)

This is a substantive and structural commitment by the archdiocese and Steward to operate this hospital system by the religious and moral directives of the Catholic Church.” (Fr. Bryan Hehir, Secretary for Healthcare and Social Services, quoted in The Pilot, May 14, 2010)

Judie Brown at the American Life League picked up the story today in her column "Catholic Heroes and Villians".

The entire scenario is most disturbing. In addition, we find the underhanded tactics of Caritas representatives like Chris Murphy, which cannot be unknown to Cardinal Sean O’Malley. The Boston Globe interviewed Murphy, who slammed the Coalition to Save Catholic Health Care, saying “The wild speculation engaged in today is absurd.”

Oh really? Not so fast.

As always, Judie hits the ball out of the park. It's a must read.

Her ending is just too good not to repeat here:

This sort of skullduggery doesn’t sit well among faithful Catholics. But it proves once again that, when Catholic identity is diluted or denied for any reason, including a few measly dollars, nothing good can come of it. Judas Iscariot found that out the hard way. Shame on the Archdiocese of Boston! Thank God for Catholic heroes like John O’Gorman, R. T. Neary and El Paso’s own Father Rodriguez!

Amen to all that!

When it comes to the perception that the archdiocese acts in good faith, Cardinal O'Malley and his team of advisors and hench men continue in a free fall.

Hot off the Press: Boston Archdiocese Gospel of Life Non-Referral Memo

Cardinal O'Malley Gets Support of Leading Theologians on a confidential hot off the press Non-Referall Memo for diocescan standards of care to Boston's poor and vulnerable citizens.

• You're eligible for an abortion but we don't do them here, call the 24-hour abortion hotline and they'll set up the appointment.

• We don't do Mercy killings here but here's a quarter. Go call Jack Kevorkian.

"For some of these prolife groups, no cooperation with evil is ever justified, but that's more of a prophetic stand, a new way of applying the tradition," said Cathleen Kaveny, a professor of law and theology at the University of Notre Dame.

• We don't sell blow. Here's a crack pipe and the number of the neighborhood dealer.

• We're not permitted to kill. Take this scalpel and a copy of OJ Simpson's "If I did it" and we'll see you for follow up in six weeks.

Those who are 'appalled' by these actions are of course entitled to their opinions, but not their own facts. Neither the Catholic moral tradition, nor the current Magisterium of the Church, has said that we absolutely cannot cooperate (or tolerate) in systems and/or actions that might be considered objectively immoral, said Rev. James Bretzke, professor of moral theology, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry

• These old sick priest are sucking our wallets dry. When retired priests get sick, throw them out of Regina Cleary, cut off their health insurance, reduce their salary to 500 a month and refer them to the shelters. We need resources to care for the sick and poor.

At a time when the Cardinal and Archdiocese are striving to combat the morally unacceptable fact of 47 million uninsured people in this country, it will already be a scandal if the most vocal Catholic response is a debate about 'the principle of cooperation.' Where is the Catholic debate about the best way to ensure health care for all?", said Lisa Sowle Cahill

• Thou shall not steal. You have a new baby. You're poor. The mother of those triplets in the bed beside you will never miss her Coach bag.

• If the contract compels us to promote abortion to the women, we can wash our hands of it. We'll give out Centene's number but not for the purposes of attaining the abortion (nudge-nudge/wink-wink). Centene's employees will be guilty of dialing the abortionist's number. If they're dumb and misguided enough to carry out the plan, I won't be held responsible. Let them eat cake.
  

"As I look at the way Caritas Christi has structured this arrangement, it allows them to be participants with the state in the care of the poor and the most vulnerable citizens of the state of Massachusetts in a way that brings the richness of their system and the caring nature of that system to the poor, without in any way violating any of the religious directives or the moral imperatives of our faith," said Sister Keehan of the Catholic Medical Association.

• We're not "willing" the cabbie to arrive at the abortionist from Caritas just because we give him the voucher to take her there. The abortionist would be killing children even if the Cardinal didn't order his employees to send them there. To hell with them all. Not my responsibility. They're pagans.

In other words, material cooperation refers to actions that may entail assistance in evil doing without the agent willing the evil action; formal cooperation signifies acts that are done with the agent’s will directed to the aim of attaining the evil, said Rev. Kenneth Himes, chairman of the theology department, Boston College:

• There's no hookers in the building. You can find them at the corner of Columbus and Mass Ave. Can I call you a cab?

"To be perfectly clear, Caritas Christi will never do anything to promote abortions, to direct any patients to providers of abortion, or in any way to participate in actions that are contrary to Catholic moral teaching, and anyone who suggests otherwise is doing a great disservice to the Catholic Church," the cardinal blogged. "We are committed to the Gospel of Life, and no arrangement will be entered into unless it is completely in accord with Church teaching."

Julia Fleming, associate professor of ethics, Creighton University

"By their nature, decisions about scandal and mediate material cooperation require prudence, as well as sensitivity to the local conditions and particular circumstances surrounding such choices. This is why the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services emphasizes the discernment of the local bishop, rather than claiming that a simple rule can resolve all difficulties. The document also observes: 'Scandal can sometimes be avoided by an appropriate explanation of what is in fact being done at the health care facility under Catholic auspices' (No. 71). One should read Cardinal O¹Malley¹s careful statement in that light."

Oh, do we ever my dear.

Do we ever.