Gabino's Bambinos

Over the past few weeks, there was a lot of puff pieces in the Catholic media about how much progress the Bishops have made on sex scandals in the past ten years. I suppose the puff pieces were convince the regular pewsitter coming and going once a week and the people who alienated themselves from the Sacraments because they were so scandalized that the fix is in. But, from the standpoint of the catechized Catholics who tied themselves to the Arc with the Sacraments to ride out the storm and whom have repeatedly run up against the same flaw, it the Mr. Fix It media blitz was more than an empty gesture that gives us a queasy feeling on our stomach.

This is what it was like before:

Catholics who called the Chancery to report corruption, crimes, were 'listened to'.

When the listening was over, that was the end of their actions on the matter. Naive people who are 'listened to' inside of the Catholic Church feel a tremendous sense of relief. They did the right thing. It is implied in the listening that the people they told will then 'do something' about it.

But, they don't. They only veil it or shuffle it.

Some whistleblowers returned to a Chancery to insist something be done about it.

That's when they did something.

They used money, 'obedience', a sob story, to get people of good will to be silent.

If the whisteblower wasn't satisfied with those offers, they would circle the wagons to slander him or her as a whackadoo. They were bullied, threatened, shunned.

The priest being reported was protected. Some of them honored with public statements from the Archdiocese saying what a swell guy he was. Sometimes, they roasted them with honors.

You know what has changed from the above?

Not a thing.

In my opinion, the whole dynamic is worse than it ever was.

Everyone in the Chancery and Episcopal Conference is shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn this week Gabino Zavala had a cookie shacked up somewhere and fathered numerous children.

Tell me something, do you suppose there are signs and red flags when a married man is living a double life with a family in another state?

Weird behavior.
Phone calls.
Absences.
Money starts to disappear.

Here's another question for you. If he had a bunch of children holed up in a house somewhere, he could have been getting away with it all these years, right?

A woman, a man or a bunch of children. To this day, they can still shack them up somewhere and have a go at it.

Everyone looks the other way. Pretends they don't see. When they are close enough to see and know, they cover up for them.

That was the problem.

It remains the problem.

Happy 10th Sex Scandal Anniversary.

The Same Catholic Bishops Who Gummed Up (and Mucked Up) Catholic Religion for the Last 40 Years Have Something To Say About Laity

After Forty Years of Distorting (and stealing) the Catholic Religion, Our Liturgy and the Souls of an Entire Generation, they're alarmed that laity has pushed them aside, taken the reigns of teaching (and defending) the Catholic religion.

As I talked with brother bishops in preparation for this presentation, there was consistent agreement that one aspect that is most alarming to us about media is when it becomes unchristian and hurtful to individuals. For example, we are particularly concerned about blogs that engage in attacks and hurtful, judgmental language. We are very troubled by blogs and other elements of media that assume the role of Magisterium and judge others in the Church. Such actions shatter the communion of the Church that we hold so precious.

Get it?

They've "held it so precious".

This is what you call audacity given their stewardship of the Catholic religion.

Did they think we were going to let another generation go by with them at the helm?

Pot, meet the kettle. The USCCB is a congregation that has been constructed between Rome and the faithful whic has no authority to do what they've been doing for the past 40 years - hijacking our religion.

They are a group of individuals who have a history of maligning the reputations of people who have charitably stepped forward to ask them to deliver their children from the pedophiles they hired and people who are finished with the dissent that is now rocking the farce and false church they have erected in the United States.

Truly laughable.

Did anyone bring up the elephants in the room like the National Catholic Reporter? America Magazine? Catholics United, Catholic Democrats (or whatever they morph into when they need a new bully pulpit)?

Ask them what they've done or intend to do about these phony initiatives?

After 40 years of making no judgments whatsoever and an entire generation gone haywire, I have one thing to play on the world's tiniest violin.

You don't like media sources that blog about the teachings of the Church and expose those perverting it?

Boo Hoo.

We like the way we're saying it better than the way you say nothing at all.

There is no respect for truth among the majority of Catholic Bishops. There is no respect for civil and moral and ecclesiastical law.

The only thing that works with Bishops is who can make the biggest amount of noise and create the biggest headaches and conflict. Whoever wins that contest, has the Bishops behind them.

Scandal.
Upheaval.
Argita.


We're going for the first place blue ribbon.