Is Patheos More Dangerous Than the National Catholic Reporter?

Are they serious?

God's abundant blessing upon the young lady who has found her way from atheism to Christ.  The lack of discretion is not her fault.  I wouldn't exactly give her a clean hands certification, but this is the fault of the poorly-formed adult converts who saw the distance between an atheist and Catholic theologian as a couple of RCIA classes and an internet cash cow.



Check out this sophistry from infamous character on patheos who warned Leah that a woman who is sexually active with women AND men may run into the Catholic Inquisition when she writes things to discredit Church teaching:

Well, actually, I’ve known that Leah thought this since forever, just as I’ve known that Leah did not magically get rid of her bisexual orientation when she came to faith in Christ. Indeed, we spoke about it at the time and I warned her that the Combox Inquisitors would be out in force looking for blood and asking “What? How come you are still bisexual and have problems with some of the Church’s teaching after you’ve been baptized? CINO! Fifth columnist? Infiltrator! Subversive! Celebrity convertses!  We hates it forever!”

I'll bet you can guess the identity of that crackerjack. 

Look - let's stop beating around the bush.

 While Leah is 'a new convert thinking Catholic teaching through' she has the responsibility not to publish and encourage her problems with immorality. If she doesn't know any better, and the adults operating Patheos don't know any better, Catholics to whom the Deposit of Faith belongs need to to tell her to keep her personal opinions to herself or stop writing about moral issues until she is more educated and can assent to Church teaching.

 This is what responsible Catholics do.

 I get a really creepy feeling when I read Patheos - like they really don't care what is written, who they are leading into peril, their objective is to get as many hits as possible to earn money for themselves.

 Kinda like the circus at the Chancery.

 The exploitation of Christ is really getting hard to watch.

The National Catholic Reporter Responds

You just knew they would.

They have an explanation.

Bishop Boland blessed their building and spoke at their 40th anniversary.  (Was the prayer of exorcism said under his breath as he splashed Holy water?)


Sister Rita Larivee once had a cordial meeting with Bishop Finn.   (Cracking the secret code of social graces and handshakes)


They report on Church matters, including the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.  (So does the Washington Post)


They report and comment on people who call Church teaching into question.  (The Pope)

Are you ready for the clincher?

They are a member of Catholic Press Association (CPA) which is listed in the Catholic Directory and whose honorary president is the Bishop Chairman of Communications for the USCCB.  (This could be their future protocol for apostolic succession)

The article originally said the CPA was 'sanctioned' by the Bishops but the CPA contradicted Tom Fox and NCR by explaining they are most certainly not sanctioned by the USCCB and furthermore, the status of membership of the National Catholic Reporter is going on the butcher block at their meeting on February 21st.   (I'd love to know what sparked that)

Fr. Z has graciously designed their new banner.

Bishop Finn Reminds Catholics that The National Catholic Reporter isn't Catholic

Duly noting that the characters at the National Catholic Reporter were asked to remove the word "Catholic" from their publication close to 50 years ago, their stories are increasing in scandalous content, they refuse to return phone calls - he reminds Catholics to avoid their publication.

 Please cover him with your prayers.

“I have a responsibility as the local bishop to instruct the Faithful about the problematic nature of this media source which bears the name 'Catholic.'” He says that he remains willing to discuss the issue with the Reporter staff, but as things stand, “I find that my ability to influence the National Catholic Reporter toward fidelity to the Church seems limited to the supernatural level.”

Not much reaction at the swamp. 

A quick review of this week's edition demonstrates the reason why Bishop Finn's phone is ringing off of the hook with concerns and complaints.

I'm wondering if they're going to try to lead a formal schism.

A 91 year old kook from the Society of Jesus explaining a theory that the Holy Spirit "began" at the Second Vatican Council and everyone knows ecumincal councils can lead to schisms.  Things are just starting to pop and he's hoping to live a few years to see it.

Here's an article written by a diocesan priest on the "Real Presence".  Maybe you better not read this one.  His despicable instruction on the "Real Presence" isn't the Eucharistic Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, the 'real presence' is them - the people all around us.  The 'mystical body' doesn't exist.

This priest has a parish in Renault, Illinois?  Frankly, I have more tolerance for the priest who was selling drugs and sex toys.   The pedophiles are less dangerous to children and families.

Here's another article on the Mick on the make leading the eejits astray in land of my ancestors. 'Well educated Catholics' know more than 'veiled Roman enforcers' who do not have a grip on 'modern theology'.   They have cracked the code of the hierarchical structure of the Catholic Church:

hierarchical form that was adopted from the hierarchical cosmological view of the universe and expressed in secular kingdoms, including the Roman Empire, whose provinces and proconsuls provided the model for laying out the governance of the church.

The Roman Empire was a train wreck, lady.

There was a big economic collapse and then Nero torched it to the ground to build himself a bigger mansion. The fire got out of control and he blamed the Christians whom he then crucified and fed to the lions.  Then everyone in charge of governance committed suicide ahead of a mad mob.

Oh boy, this could get ugly.  You don't suppose we'll see Joan Chittister and the Nuns on the bus coming up our driveways in iron pants with hungry lions?

You don't think this could be real, do you?

I digress.

In other words, the succession is a function of the collegiality that Pope John Paul II so energetically suppressed with the help of the present pope when he was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It is not related to the hierarchical form the pope is trying to revive throughout the church. ...it should be recognized as a harbinger of the kind of problem that sure-of-their-infallibility Vatican authorities will encounter in their relationships with the rising generation of theological scholars, most of whom are laymen and women who will not accept condemnations such as that now imposed on Father Flannery. ...Flannery's condemnation is an augury of the deepening estrangement that will take place if the Vatican does not respect the growing theological understanding of its members.

Flannery said the crackdown is coming from the CDF and he has been threatened with excommunication.  That would make the second priest featured by the National Catholic Reporter.

Wouldn't it be a crying shame if the apostates leave their posts in religious education and pastoral councils?

 As my grandmother used to say... Here's your hat. What's your hurry?

May God bless and protect this Bishop for distancing his sheep from this pathetic movement.  They have come out of the closet with their agenda and they are tipping their hand on the what's next.

 But wisely, the Vatican has shot a flare across their bow of priests who do not believe in Apostolic succession. Bye-by room in the rectory. Bye-by three meals a day. Bye-by insurance. Bye-bye checky.  At the end of the day, they may not believe in the Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, but they're going not going to put themselves into the position of having to get a job.

I'm sorry I'm feeling so cynical.  Please pray for my tolerance to asshattery.

I saw the 1951 movie Quo Vadis last weekend. I wondered how the people in a nation could ever rise to that level of such butchery of their fellow countrymen, women, children.  I saw Les Mes again this week with my daughters and duly noted that in both films, the people being oppressed sang a song as they were being massacred.

Maybe we should start thinking about a theme song.

This should be in the running:
 Bread of Angels, made the bread of men
The Bread of Heaven puts an end to all symbols
A thing wonderful: The Lord becomes our food Poor, a servant, humble
We beseech Thee, Godhead One in Three
That Thou will visit us as we worship Thee
Lead us through Thy ways,
 we who wish to reach the Light in which Thou dwellest.
Amen.

"Gifted, Accomplished and Compassionate Priest"

I just got caught up reading the story about Fr. Wallin, who was enough of a chancery sweetheart to be elevated to the status of Monsignor.

"News of Monsignor Kevin Wallin's arrest comes with a sense of shock and concern on the part of the diocese and the many people of Fairfield County who have known him as a gifted, accomplished and compassionate priest," the diocese said in a statement on Jan. 16 after learning about Wallin's arrest. "

You don't say.

Monsignor was quite an accomplished businessman.  He had a successful store that sold sex toys and in his compassion, sold drugs to children and drug addicts.  $300,000 worth in 2012.

Sadly, the diocese learned he was trying out his gifts with sex toys in the rectory in April of 2001 and sent him on a 'sabbatical'.

The reporter quotes "Voice of the Faithful".  What's needed here they say, is more sex and women priests.  They said male priests who don't have sex are a terrible malady and threat to the Eucharist.

What I can't figure out is, what then is their objection is to his sex shop? A parishioner at Monsignor Wallin's parish called for prayers and said "This is all the work of evil," she said as she left Mass last weekend. "He was not close enough to God. He was tempted by the devil." I'm afraid it was even worse. Not only was he tempted by the devil, he was tempting others, and there's isn't a dime's worth of difference between Monsignor Wallin and Fr. John Unni, Fr. John Martin, et al. Selling sex and temptation is what makes them so appealing, 'accomplished' and 'compassionate'. But there is always a reason which the chancery and religious superiors choose to exercise its perpetual state of blissful ignorance.

What difference does it make?

Hillary Clinton sure is a piece of work, isn't she.

They're sending women to the front lines in combat now.  Perhaps a nice trip into the bowels of Syria and into the hands of the Taliban without the Secret Service - whilst the Pentagon takes the phone off the hook - will enlighten her.

The Fly Guy

Your Will Above All Else, My Purpose Remains: The Art of Losing Myself to Bring You Praise

I love this week's readings.  After the adoration of the sweet God child, dependent upon our Blessed Mother and St. Joseph for nourishment, Christ begins his ministry curing the sick and driving out demons.

The readings remind us that Christ bequeaths us this power in his One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Since the children share in blood and Flesh, 
Jesus likewise shared in them, 
that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, 
that is, the Devil, and free those who through fear of death 
had been subject to slavery all their life. 
Surely he did not help angels but rather the descendants of Abraham; 
therefore, he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every way, 
that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest before God 
Because he himself was tested through what he suffered, 
he is able to help those who are being tested

.

The power to resist, combat and drive out demons comes through Sacraments of the Catholic Church, and only through the Sacraments of the Catholic Church.  Bishops and priests can use the power or ignore it.

What the world is experiencing now are the consequences of the ordained who ignore, obstruct and thwart it.    What a test, eh?

As Christ was going from town to town throughout the whole of Galilee preaching and driving out demons each day this week, I was struck by the contrast.  It seemed to be all around me.  It was brutal.

Late last week, one of the detractors of the Catholic Church who frequents our comments section (whose sad afflictions have led him on a crusade to blaspheme the power Christ bequeathed to us on earth - His Mystical Body - as demonic) said something so profoundly stupid that it illuminates the power the devil currently has over his captives.

Joseph produced a torrent of excuses for his conduct which included an explanation that he was saved because, he 'accepts the sacrifice' and everyone who 'accepts the sacrifice' is saved.

I couldn't have been any more wigged out by his predicament if Joseph tried to convince me his car is a spaceship that flies him to the moon.

The sacrifice is the very thing Joseph does not 'accept'. You can't 'accept the sacrifice' if you reject It and devote yourself to blaspheming It.

There is only one Sacrifice. The Oblation of Christ is the Sacraments and Sacred Liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church.  It is inseparable. Christ cannot be divided from Himself and His Salvific Act.

Let us be on our guard while the promise of entering into his rest remains,that none of you seem to have failed. For in fact we have received the Good News just as our ancestors did.But the word that they heard did not profit them,for they were not united in faith with those who listened.

Early in the week a friend who for many years has permitted the demon of the victim mentality consume her took me on a tour.   This kind and caring soul suffers bouts of rage and anguish which she medicates with alcohol and prescription drugs.   By no means is she ignorant of the power in the Eucharist and Sacraments, but she is drawn to self-pity and hatred like a moth to the flame.  She lights the torch and invites others to gather around those flames while she burns herself with memories and rage.

People who are hurting are attracted to people of faith because they see our endurance, joy, peace, surrender but they know not the Source.

 Every person who has experienced abuse needs to tell their story, do what they can to protect others from an abuser, receive affirmation, kindness, mercy - but ooooohh, how the demons flock to obstruct, twist, contort and empower their own momentum.  It deserves its own post, but suffice it to say, it all comes down to the obstruction of the authentic healing from Christ in the Sacraments of the Catholic Church.

Attempts to lead a suffering soul to the Source can't involve enabling, can't involve egotistical use of the situation to flatter ourselves into the role of the healer.   When a person hangs their recovery upon you, they never proceed to Christ.   Ultimatums and insults follow every attempt to move them beyond watching and listening to hours of their self-destruction.  I'm at a loss for what to do next, if anything.

Another man contacted me this week to tell me of his own abuse at the hands of the screwball priests and women who obstruct the power of the Sacraments in our local parishes.  More about this later, but his story is the same old.  Seeking true and authentic conversion through obedience to the teachings of the Catholic Church and the Sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion, he was accosted by parish thugs.   Seeking relief from Chancery wizards was as fruitful as talking to his refrigerator.  Scandalized, he fell away from the very source that Christ is teaching us about this week in the Scriptures.

Near the end of the week, I had an experience with a homeless man who stands in the recesses of the rectory on Isabella Street.  I pass the man to and from Mass.  His face is weathered and he is always smoking a cigarette talking to someone he sees beside him.  I'm a little afraid of him.   He is not a happy camper.  Often uses the "F" word when carrying on a conversation with his invisible friend or foe.   I've often wondered whether he is mentally ill, whether there's something spiritual going on.  Maybe even his guardian angel keeping him company in the streets of Boston.

This week, he yelled as I walked by "Hey, you've got to fight those devils".    I looked around me and thought, "Whoah baby... God only knows what he sees!!".

I'll tell you something.  As God is my witness, I ran like the dickens up the stairs of the Church and inside, to share in the Flesh, Body and Blood, the price of my soul's salvation, the power that overcomes the power of death of a soul.

Don't ever let anyone rob you of It.

In 1931, the magnificent prophet Venerable Fulton Sheen predicted that "in 50 to 100 years, there would only be the Catholic Church and paganism, we would be left to fight the battle alone, and we will".

It's going to be a hell of a ride.  Let's pray for eachother.

It's all about you Peaches

When I read this week's bulletin message from Fr. John Unni, it brought me back to my high school days when I used to needle the nuns about the futility of going to Church and 'getting something out of it'.

We were looking for better entertainment. Beatles songs or something.  Some percussion, and we want our egos stroked.  The world was changing and we were rocking and rolling.   We're coming to Church to get God's stamp of approval on us.

How those nuns must have prayed for my enlightenment and conversion, eh?   Thank God for them.  They did not waiver. They kept explaining the Eucharist, Sacraments, virtue and salvation.

Still, some priests implemented our stupid ideas.  We flocked there to hear the guitars and tambourines and the "I'm OK, You're OK" homilies.    We drifted from Christ and Sanctifying Grace to adore ourselves.

I get a boot out of the priests who are still living in the 1970s, paganizing what is holy and telling us we are living in the past.    They're drying up and they are pooling their resources.   This week's golden turd is from Fr. Austin Fleming.

The Baptism of Christ is conveying to us that Christ is soooooooo human.  The message for us to take home is: I am who I am and who I was made to be.  God finds me pleasing.  I am good.  I am the likeness of Christ.  My Maker is pleased with my very being.  I was made to love and be loved.   Listen to the Father tell you that YOU are the beloved.  

What is next?  Fr. Fleming telling us to imagine the Angel Gabriel deliver the message from God that we are all the Immaculate Conception?

The Gospel is about a sinless Man and how the Sacrament of Baptism - and for the already-Baptized the Sacrament of Confession, restores our soul to a sinless state. Christ was not down in the dumps looking for a compliment from His Father to lift his spirits.

The Father is speaking to a Man who lives a perfect life of obedience - from the cradle to the grave.  That is why the Man standing in the Jordan River is pleasing to His Maker.

This homily might be safe to give in a Convent or seminary or monastery - but at the bottom of Mt. Sinai, where the pagans are dancing around their golden calf banging their tambourines, it dangerous to those who heard and now read it, because its message is diametrically opposed to God's.

Fr. Fleming left out the most important parts of God's message.

It is not possible Fr. Fleming misunderstood, because  today's readings are carefully chosen to illuminate the reasons the Father is pleased with His Son and consequently when He is pleased with us.

Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.

 The grace of God has appeared, saving all and training us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live temperately, justly, and devoutly in this age, Why would Fr. Fleming - and Fr. Unni - want to cheapen and subvert the message of this Gospel?

 He's got to know the consequences of his subversion is that people with think "Hot diggity dog. What was I thinking? I am who I was meant to be. Come on honey, let's go home for a roll in the hay. Our guilt has been expiated. We pleaseth God."

 Do you suppose these priests believe the subversion of the salvation of souls pleases God?

 Their march into hell with the souls Christ died to save is the purpose for which they were ordained and the Father is pleased with their very being? 

This drivel imprisons souls for decades. Some, if not most, die in this state.

 The Holy See has ordained busload of bishops for Boston. Do you suppose one of them has the fortitude to use the power entrusted to them to unhinge the wagon full of souls from the lunatics?

  Boston Catholics are most disturbed by the trajectory of the reconfiguration. The first wave appears to be hitching more wagons full of souls to priests who spiritually mislead.

 There are some new people at the Boston Chancery in charge of the reconfiguration, so here's the flare across the bow: Boston Catholics are going to be making some recommendations.

 Here's the bottom line: Reconfigure the parishes and put faithful priests as the pastor of the cluster. We don't care what you do with the assets our ancestors labored to build for 200 years. Dispose of it as you see fit.

 But we are going to get our religion freed from the hands of these priests.

 We love you, we pray for you, we want peace and unity - but truly, as God is our witness, we are finished watching you destroy our children, our parents, our relatives, our neighbors, our friends and our enemies.

 If you continue down this road, it is going to get ugly. You've got Church Militant here in Boston. I would invite you to contact the people who packed their suitcases and limped out of town.   You do not want to go this route.


ADDENDUM:    Fr. Rutler's homily surprised me.  I think you'll see why.  Yikes.

FROM THE PASTOR 

by Fr. George W. Rutler 

 While St. John the Evangelist was still alive, there was already a Gnostic heresy that separated the human Jesus from the divine Christ. It supposed that the man Jesus was given divine power at his baptism (one form of this mistake is called “Adoptionism”), but that this power left him on the cross. The Gnostics could not accept that God would have anything to do with physical matter, which they thought was intrinsically evil. One of these heretics was Cerinthus, an Egyptian who made his way to Ephesus in Turkey. St. John was living there and fled from a building when Cerinthus entered, for fear that the roof might fall in.

   This explains the urgency with which St. John writes his letters. He is the only New Testament writer to use the term “AntiChrist” (1 John 2:18, 2:22, 4:3, and 2 John 1:7), although St. Paul speaks of a “son of perdition” (2 Thessalonians: 2:3-4). It certainly would be wrong to claim to know who he will be (or, to be gender neutral: who he or she will be), but this devastating being will have seductive power to enlist followers, will hate the Church, will destroy innocent lives, especially infants, and will claim to be greater than God. St. John says that the AntiChrist already is at work in the world, so anyone who cooperates with him is in one way or another a lesser AntiChrist. The essence of the AntiChrist is deceit. AntiChristianity calls good evil and evil good and inverts the natural order, taking pleasure only in disorder and perversion. “Every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God” (John 4:2-3).

   Trying to see the truth of God is like “looking into a cloudy mirror” (1 Corinthians 13:12), but at least we “seek his face” (Psalm 27:8). The AntiChrist would have us seek our own face. This narcissism is his cunning deceit, and it has infected our culture. Results of the American Freshman Survey, to which more than nine million young people have responded since 1966, show that a growing number of them are “convinced of their own greatness whether or not they have accomplished anything.” Along with a 30 per cent increase in narcissistic attitudes since 1979, there is a decline in study, work habits, and the ability to communicate with others. Not surprisingly: “These young egotists can grow up to be depressed adults.”

   The cult of “self-esteem” foisted on young people in their schools is not a modern invention. The Prince of Lies told the very first man and woman: “You shall be like God” (Genesis 3:5). False pride is the alchemy for creating little AntiChrists. It was out of love that St. John wrote: “But we are children of God, and those who know God listen to us; those who are not of God refuse to listen to us” (1 John 4:6).

Ha ha. Good luck Nero.

Check this out.

 National Education Minister Vincent Peillon is in pursuit.

 The Catholic Church outlasts every government who rises to morally bankrupts the citizens of a country. It is then that She shines the brightest.

  Whom does the devil pursue most? 

 Perhaps you are thinking that it must be those who are tempted most; these would undoubtedly be the habitual drunkards, the scandalmongers, the immodest and shameless people who wallow in moral filth, and the miser, who hoards in all sorts of ways. 

 No, my dear brethren, no, it is not these people. 

 On the contrary, the Devil despises them, or else he holds onto them, lest they not have a long enough time in which to do evil, because the longer they live, the more their bad example will drag souls into Hell. 

 So, you will ask me, who then are the people most tempted? 

 They are these, my friends; note them carefully: The people most tempted are those who are ready, with the grace of God, to sacrifice everything for the salvation of their poor souls, who renounce all those things which most people eagerly seek. It is not one devil only who tempts them, but millions seek to entrap them." 

 St. John Vianney

Biden is leading the charge to solve the problem with gun violence?

Having Biden lead this charge is a bit like appointing the Khadashians to protect the country's children from irresponsible and licentious men.

 You've brought the problem into the house.

 You've taught children the voices they hear in their own heads are teaching them truths.

 You've taught children that women are ishtar, freedom is chemical sterilization and marriage and mothering children is slavery.

 You've taught them giving value of human life is a choice and they have the freedom to dispose of people who may burden them.

 You've robbed them of God, grace, truth, virtue, empathy and taught them the pursuit of their own gratification is love. Even if it leaves people dead.

 They are living the dream.

 The "problem" is the fruit of teaching children that freedom comes from immorality and killing at will.

 It can only be fixed if we admit what 'the problem' is, teach them God is the author of life, truth and salvation.  The 'silver bullet' Joe Biden and others cannot see is abandonment of the culture of hedonism, pointing them to God and His Truths, encouraging them to live by it.  Embracing the culture of life.

They have taken leave of their sanity.  Some of them are on a permanent vacation with their bag of pills and their maladies will be the death of us all.   At least that's the story according to the Book of Revelation.

 What a circus it is to watch the various characters spin their folly.

 Send in the clowns to spin the mental and spiritual maladies with the constitutional right to defend ourselves and our children from their violence and tyranny.

 There has to be clowns. Well...maybe they're here.

What to do when a priest is all alone in the Sanctuary

Here's a fun piece for of us who breath a sigh of relief and pray the Holy Sacrifice:

  Quick thinking parishioners rush Altar to assist lonely priest.

 I am so grateful for the refuge of priests and parishes where one never has to worry that something disrespectful or scandalous could happen at any moment.

I'm getting spoiled.

How's that pen working out for ya?

The National Catholic Register gave Sr. Carol Keehan a venue to talk about Obama's 15 billion dollar cut to hospitals.

When she first heard about it, she was very worried the doctors would have to take a 26% paycut.

I kid you not - that's what it says!

You'll all be relieved to know that because of the previous $155 billion cut in the budget, they were able to spare the doctors income loss.

(I can see why she did the interview with the Register and not the Reporter?)

Any thoughts on the Register giving Carol a pulpit to spread the misinformation that there is no federal funding of abortion in Obamacare?

Do you suppose an interview with Nancy Pelosi will follow?

If you're a subscriber to the Register, here's a good use for this week's edition:

Westward leading. Still Proceeding. Guide us to Thy Perfect Light

Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! 

Your light has come,

the glory of the Lord shines upon you.

See, darkness covers the earth,

and thick clouds cover the peoples;

but upon you the LORD shines,

and over you appears his glory.

Nations shall walk by your light, and kings by your shining radiance.

Not much to add to that one, is there.  It is all so clear.

The teachings of the Church are your friend or your foe.   When our own desires contradict the teachings of the Church, this is where the rubber meets the road.  This is where the choices are made as to which star you follow.

There are many priests and even bishops whose messages lead away from God.  What they say and don't say mislead their flocks into believing the teachings of the Church are their enemy.  They rise to shine like a star to proclaim they are your comrade against your foe:  Christ's Church.

Their pews are filled with people who want their desires and addictions to be given the gas they need to continue.

The Boston Blogging Community has made a New Year's Resolution:  The creation of new blog which will name these priests and parishes which are to be avoided all together.   The supernovas who are spiritually abusing.

 This is something the Boston Catholic community of faithful has been requesting for quite some time.

The list is not a short one, but it is about half of what it was five years ago.  It will be a handy tool for our esteemed luminaries in the Chancery who are reconfiguring and consolidating our parishes.

The objective for this is to have a public resource for families who wish to avoid having their children misguided and misled.    Many, if not most Catholics naively think that if a Cardinal or Bishop has appointed a priest to a parish, what the priest teaches, says and does is approved Catholic teaching.    They mistakenly and tragically believe that Catholic Bishops would never appoint a pastor who lead children away from Christ and Catholic teaching.

Parents find out far too late, after much damage has been done, that this is simply not the case.

The timing of publishing this information in Boston is also an important part of an objective.   Our esteemed luminaries at the Chancery are reconfiguring the hierarchical structure of what constitutes 'a parish'.  In a nutshell, a parish will include several Churches in several towns or cities and will have one pastor over its head.

Ergo, the timing of publishing this information is the fervent wish and expectation of Boston Catholics that the priests who have been misleading Catholics be excluded from a list of appointed pastors.   (More on this initiative later.)

Inevitably, some gadfly will come along to tell us that the effort will be received as a threat to the power of a Bishop and their reaction will be to deliberately appoint these priests.

Many a Bishop to whom the truth has been spoken has protected the wayward with this Tom Foolery, believing they are penalizing the whistleblower.

To avoid such commentary in the peanut gallery, nobody involved in the project gives a flying fig what the Bishop does with the information.   Once he has it, our mission is fulfilled.  If he chooses to deliberately mislead souls - that onus is on him. Good luck to him.  The victims of his canard will one day walk over the skulls of men who use their power this way.

Pastors choose and control resources for education.  They control the quality and substance of books, teachings, philosophies, sources and uses.  They control the prayer and devotions.  In the absence of a system to discipline and if necessary remove priests who are a menace to the salvation of souls - in this time and place in history, the information needs to be published.

This follows St. Paul's clear instructions.

You'll find the following parishes (among others) on the upcoming published internet source:


St. Cecilia's - Boston
The Paulist Center - Boston
St. Anthony's Shrine - Boston
St. Ignatius - Chestnut Hill
Holy Family - Concord
Our Lady Help of Christians - Newton
St. Catherine of Siena - Norwood
St. Mary's - Randolph
Our Lady of Sorrows - Sharon

There will also be a section about priests who are misleading Catholics on the internet.

Priests like Fr. James Martin, whose latest instructions for a clap-clap hap-hap happy new year has some good advice to get your giddy on.

Say please and thank you.
Kick your shoes off and relax.
Extend your neck upwards so you can see the color of the sky.
Pay attention to the taste of your cereal and juice in the morning.
Pray just a tiny bit.

You might try hot booties, too.  I received a pair for Christmas and would recommend them for people avoiding repentance and the Sacrament of Confession who are agitated from the state of their souls.

Giddy up.

God help the poor people who suffer the indignities and injustices of priests who make themselves the guiding light of deliberate ignorance.

What do we call the poverty stricken people whose light is the solace of Frosted Flakes and manners.

What's the opposite of wise men?

Wow. Ha. Been to this place.

How about you?

St. Catherine of Siena, pray for us.

Christus Mansionem Benedicat, Epiphany Blessing of the Door

I frequently will bless the doors of my home (and office) throughout the year.

I never knew of this beautiful tradition on the Feast of the Epiphany.

This is another beautiful version - of course what would be written would be 20 + C + M + B+ 13.

I'm in!

What are you looking for?

Yesterday's readings rocked, didn't they?

After this reading:

Children, let no one deceive you. 
The person who acts in righteousness is righteous,just as he is righteous.
Whoever sins belongs to the Devil, because the Devil has sinned from the beginning. 
Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the Devil. 
No one who is begotten by God commits sin, 
because God’s seed remains in him; 
he cannot sin because he is begotten by God. 
In this way,the children of God and the children of the Devil are made plain;
no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, 
nor anyone who does not love his brother. 

Christ asks two disciples whom He noticed were following behind Him in the Gospel "What are you looking for?"

The priest asked us to stop and think about how we would (or do?) answer this startling question.

I pretty much know the answer of readers here.

I want to be with You and In You. All the days of my life and in eternity.
I want to taste You, feel You, serve You in everything I do.
I want the same for my children and my grandchildren, relatives, friends, people I love.
You have and know the incidentals on my personal laundry list which I entrust to Your care.

The mystery of how we find these things goes back to the first reading and then follows the two disciples in the Gospel.

Where He stays.

Where His One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church keeps us free from sin through repentance and absolution of the Sacrament of Penance.

Where our soul clings to the reservation of His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity with a death grip on the Eucharist.

That's what we're looking for.

It's funny this reading would come when most have long taken down their Christmas tree.   They are wearing their new coats, playing with their new toys.  They have memorialized Christmas by refreshing their own spirit.  How good they are to have plucked a tag off of the Giving Tree and purchased gifts for a needy family.

The armor of faith and shield of good will.  The emptying of our vices and extinction of lustful desires, the increase of charity and patience of humility and obedience and all virtues, the strong defense of our enemies - visible and invisible.

Our sweetest Jesus, Body and Blood most holy, be the delight and pleasures of our soul, our strength and salvation in all temptations, our joy and peace in every trial, our light and guide in every word and deed and our final protection in death.

That's what we're looking for.

If You're looking for stuff to do, a cheap gym wouldn't be too bad either.

The Holy Name of Jesus

Jesus is honey on the lips, melody in the ear, joy in the heart. Yet not alone is that name light and food. It is also a remedy. Is any one amongst you sad? Let the name of Jesus enter his heart; let it leap thence to his mouth; and lo! the light shining from that name shall scatter every cloud and restore peace.
- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux



h/t Kelly!

Ordain a..what?

The word lady is a paradox in this context?

Hillary Clinton Conspiracy Theories

Hillary has been released from the hospital.   

I wish the woman well - and have prayed for her recovery, but I must say...that was one heck of a bimp.

Not sure I'm buying into the story, but I'm glad she is on the mend.

Nunsophrenia

Grab a latte, put your feet up and enjoy the adjectives, adverbs and allegory in this story.

They were walking into what Fr. Hans Küng, the internationally renowned theologian who has had his own battles in the palazzo, calls "a new Inquisition.... 

"The sisters were accused of undermining church moral teaching by promoting "radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith." To many sisters, the congregation's action is a turn toward the past, causing a climate of fear and a chill wind reaching into their lives.

Priceless.

 Yeah. When they promote immorality and hand out condoms and contraception, they are just taking care of the poor by embracing the social justice teachings of Vatican II.

Rob a soul of their salvation while giving them a piece of bread.    

The devil tried that trick on Christ but Grace in its most perfect form resisted.   And, it resists it still.  From the Sanctuary come the merits of the gifts sufficient enough, even in hunger, to resist. In every corner of the earth.

Brace yourself for the climax in the story:

But a stark drama of attrition has unfolded as the Vatican II generation reaches an eclipse.

I'd say Santa Claus brought somebody a new Thesaurus, wouldn't you?

 It was an eclipse all right. They stood in front of the Son and spent fifty years forcing us to listen to the werewolves barking at their own full moon. You ready for more?

The Vatican crackdown of LCWR has exposed a schizophrenic church... 

This is about the Vatican II church, how we have come to live collegially with participatory decision-making... 

When I entered in 1965 we studied and prayed with [the Vatican II] documents, implementing new charters. ... 

When Vatican II requested nuns to search their history, Rome believed in a mythology of plaster statue women...

In certain parts of the church we have an us-versus-them mentality...

Us' is religious, and 'them' is officers of the Holy See...The Vatican is trying to assert control, 'we are in charge.' ... Many people are saying the two churches are not coming together...

There was never to churches and there never will be, but I think something is getting through her thick skull.  Her life's work to divide the flock from Christ's Church is getting a ride on the end of the Pope's shoe.

There is a fundamental problem of honesty.

Yes dear. That would be you.

Get ready for the plaster statue women baby.  They're back.  And, one of them has Her foot on your head and is about to crush it.   Mr. Kung too. (Is he still alive?  I thought he was long dead.)

If you have not seen Les Meserables, get thee to this masterpiece. The timing of this story about love and redemption, valor, in a world of terrible oppression at the hands of the government during the French Revolution is perfect.

As I'm sure you have read, the message about the Catholic Church and the imagery is magnificent. I wondered though, how many of the people in the theater understood the final scene and its lyrics.

Do you hear the people sing?
Lost in the valley of the night
It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies
Even the darkest nights will end and the sun will rise

They will live again in the freedom of the garden of the Lord.
They will walk behind the ploughshare
They will put away the sword
The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes!