Sunday, January 31, 2016

These claims are becoming more exotic than the floozies claiming JFK slept with them.


Yes. The current Pope. So the Vatican is behind this research and has no problem based on the idea is to help humankind. And in theory all that we will be doing is killing pigs.




Sometimes I will read stories about people claiming Pope Francis did or said something and think there may be some embellishment going on or omission of facts.

So when a friend of mine sent me this story with the question "Could this be true?!", my immediate thought was "Blessing a project trying to create people pigs with stem cells and embryos is so demonic, I don't see how it could be!".

I won't say I didn't google it while muttering "Dear God, I hope not!!!"


If the Holy Father contradicted Church teaching on embryonic stem cell research and took a position that scientists can now ethically engage in work injecting them into animals to experiment with prototypes of what can come out as human - one would think that would be blockbusting theological news. I only found the original article and one blog who picked up on it.

Here's another glaringly-false assertion:


While the Catholic Church has opposed research on human embryos, it endorses evolution and generally takes a liberal view on scientific matters. In fact, the Vatican’s position on “human-animal chimeras,” as the mixtures are known, may be more liberal than that of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which in September instituted a ban on funding chimera research until it can weigh ethical questions associated with it.

Catholic Church teaching positively does NOT concur with scientific moonbattery involving human life and natural and Divine law. There is 2000 years of theology that condemns unethical and immoral activities as, among other things, divination and murder.

Here's a statement Pope Francis made in 2014 condemning scientists playing with life.

There is plenty of material we can substantiate that raise concerns about the Holy Father's trajectory. I would not get flustered about people pulling things out of their pocket in an audience and independent people claiming the Pope contradicted Divine, moral, natural law with the nudge and wink.

Medjugorje Update



A bit of a strange twist to the expected pulling of the rug from under the fraud 'seers' at Medjugorje.

The Archbishop of Sarajevo is lobbying the money-making circus be allowed to continue pick-pocketing naive Catholics.

He's hoping the ancient Roman practice of nonfeasance will allow the heretical circus to continue drawing wallets into the area.

Even Pope Francis can smell the rat, but the Archbishop of Sarajevo is not 'worried' about his attitude or the CDFs attitude.

"The Church does not hurry, but always arrives at a conclusion. I'm not worried about the attitude of the Holy Father or those of the CDF. "

I don't think the inaction has anything at all to do with delays in drawing a conclusions. Even a moron knows that the Blessed Mother is incapable of heresies, lies and contradicting the Magisterium of her Son's Church.

I've spoken about my own curiosity and reasons for my own ultimate conclusion on Medjugorje but they are worth briefly mentioning again.

I initially believed it was real until one of the seers who lived in the North End of Boston booked a parish hall with a parish secretary to receive the messages at 5pm. A few local friends had invited me to check it out with them and we made plans. When the priest got wind of it, he cancelled it because there is a regularly-scheduled Mass going on upstairs at that time and he would not permit any other event to happen during that time.

The priest's decision was sound judgment to me. I assumed everyone would agree and the seer would book it somewhere else. But people were very upset with the priest and for the first time, my BS detector went up as I found this to be inconsistent with the fruit of truth. Attendees received a message from the seer asking people to sit tight because the Blessed Mother had agreed to change to a later time and they were asking the priest for permission to proceed at 7pm.

The Blessed Mother would not have scheduled a competing event downstairs from a Sacred Liturgy to begin with, so the idea that she did not know, would cause angst against one of her priests and then needed a human to fix her blunders was nonsense.

The priest, who had been open to this apparition, backed off. Devotees surrounded this faithful priest's wagons and spewed venom at him and everyone who smelled something stinky.

I know Our Lady quite well. Childless after 8 years, my parents did the Novena to the Immaculate Conception and a year later, I was born on December 8th - the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. She has been present in my life even when I wandered from Christ. This just wasn't consistent with the fruit of her womb.

I observed the phenomenon for a few years following this event. I knew many of the devotees. All of us were no stranger to the buffoonery of luminaries in the Chancery and non-believing bishops. We worked on many projects in the past and knowing the victories of the devil in Boston, I knew we would work on projects in the future--so I kept quiet about my thoughts on Medjugorje (which was not always easy!).

A pattern began to emerge after several years of observation. When a priest would obstruct or sabotage Adoration, Rosary, Church teaching or blatantly teach heresy, everyone productively worked together to hammer away at it. Yet, in spite of many years of faithful teaching, demonstrating our love and practice of the Sacraments and love for the Eucharist, venerating Mary and spreading word about the power of her protection and intervention -- if devotees of Medjugorje got wind that someone was a skeptic, there was a fatwa against that person and their family.

There is a overwhelming inability of devotees to pursue and admit truth.

For instance, I've heard a multitude of stories from devotees about people who hopped on a plane to Bosnia and had a conversion and this then proves the seers are authentic. But when you explain that a person who hops on a plane to go to Bosnia has already been groomed by Our Lady and converted, they are just sealing their relationship with Sacraments and prayer in a retreat, there is an unwillingness to admit to sufficient facts.

It's a third-world, war-torn country, halfway around the world. It costs a lot of money to go there. It is saturated with people who are devoted to Christ's Church and the Ark of the Covenant. The itinerary is filled with Sacraments and prayer.

A person who books a flight to Medjugorje wants to get something different out of their vacation than a person hopping on the plane to Turks and Caicos. A person going to Turks and Caicos plans snorkeling and windsurfing and laying on the beach with a tropical drink.

A person going on a religious pilgrimage is seeking an encounter with Christ and His Mother, the angels and saints - and they are going to get it. They would get it if they planned an hour at the local parish to sit in front of the Blessed Sacrament every day for a month.

Yet, devotees of Medjugorje tell the conversion stories as if they kidnapped and shackled a reprobate and took them to the seer and they were miraculously converted.

When you discuss the defrocked priest who knocked up a nun, the lack of vocations of the seers with the same people who have the vapors when Pope Francis propagates some of the same disturbing heresies, they refuse to admit there is a problem with the seers.

You can't seem to scratch the surface of this deception and I never trust anything that evades truth.

Why would this bishop portray the situation as if the Holy See has signaled this is on course to be found angelic and should therefore not be disturbed?

It is absolutely not the case and everyone knows it.

Another liar that is flocked around this phenomenon.




Michigan bishop initiates chant at Mass!




Bishop John Doerfler of Marquette, Michigan, has issued directions for all parishes in the diocese to institute programs that will lead to the congregation chanting the Ordinary parts of the Mass.

Following up on the work of his predecessor in Marquette, then-Bishop Alexander Sample (who is now Archbishop of Portland, Oregon), Bishop Doerfler has called for the action to carry out the vision of Vatican II, which encouraged the use of Gregorian chant and congregational involvement in the singing.


He's a sly dog that one!

Love it.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Pope Francis is close to dropping the shoe on the 'papal exhortation'



One reliably informed source, a recognized moral theologian who has seen the draft, said he was "deeply disturbed" by the text as it “calls into question the natural moral law”.


Stampeding towards anathema.

From Rorate

[Abp. Paglia] said the much-anticipated document, which summarizes the Pope’s conclusions of the two synods dedicated to the family, will be “a hymn to love, a love that wants to take care of the welfare of the young, to be close to wounded families to give them strength, a love that wants to be close to children as well as to all mankind in need. "

He is not talking about families wounded by his apostate priests and bishops. He is not referring to the welfare of their victims. He's going to leave all that in place to continue luring a multitude of children into its lethal course.

Something I keep coming back to: The devil is in the details.

I don't think this is a coincidence:


An incredible cloud formation which appeared over the skies of Portugal has been dubbed the 'hand of God'.
The cloud took the form of a fist from Heaven with a hand holding a fireball as it dominated the skyline across the island of Madeira on Monday.






Obama claims he carried a Rosary in his pocket...with a poker chip and a monkey god.




Reason 1,999,999 why we don't give pearls to the swine.

'I'm not that superstitious, it's not like I think necessarily I have to have them on me at all times, but it does remind me of all the other different people I've met along the way and how much they've invested in me.


'If I feel tired or I feel discouraged sometimes then I can reach into my pocket and say "that's something I can overcome because somebody gave me this privilege to work on these issues that affect them. I better get back to work."'

When he's feeling glum, he reaches for the rosary beads to remind him how important he is and how much the Holy Father needs him to continue on with his work on the destruction of human life, the country and conscience protections of practicing Catholics who could never follow his orders to rob the village idiots of their salvation.

Some days he reaches for the monkeygod.

That's his wife's job.

Reducing the mysteries of Christ's Incarnation, three years of ministry, Salvific Death and Resurrection to a symbol of Obama's self-importance didn't do him a bit of good.













Monday, January 25, 2016

Celebrating the Loss of Salvation of Millions of Immortal Souls.




I'm sure you've all read the news that Pope Francis is going to celebrate the most famous heretic leading millions from Christ's Church and the Sacraments.


Perhaps any day now we'll be reading about how Pope Francis will concelebrate a Latin Mass with Bishop Fellay to commemorate when he fled Mapplethorpe?

Mikey says it better than I can.



Sunday, January 24, 2016

Have the Romans given up converting Jews?



Our friends at the Eye-Witness have picked up on a story I somehow missed in December.

When Jews and Christians make a joint contribution through concrete humanitarian aid for justice and peace in the world, they bear witness to the loving care of God. No longer in confrontational opposition but cooperating side by side, Jews and Christians should seek to strive for a better world


That is some twisted creepy puzzle.

Here are a few more teasers...

In reading, among other, things the Vatican Commission’s report of sunny humanitarian relations between Jews and Christians, we found it all rather bewildering, to say the least. Bewilderment, we dare say, is in fact a common (perhaps intended) affliction resulting from reading many diffusively murky, but warm and fuzzy publishings from the Vatican in these times. It’s a pattern exactly contrary to the strong, clear, precise moral guidance the world was ever accustomed to receive from Rome – until the years that prefaced the Second Vatican Council.

When the Vatican Commission says Jews and Christians are “no longer in confrontational opposition but cooperating side by side” for world justice and peace, its blurred generalities tell more about what’s being hidden than revealed. Of whom is the Commission speaking? It’s left to the Statement’s reading audience to decide who was in confrontational opposition to whom.
...

“the relevance of revelation,


The relationship between the universality of salvation in Jesus Christ and the affirmation that the covenant of God with Israel has never been revoked, and the Church’s mandate to evangelize in relation to Judaism.”

Read the rest of this outstanding expose on the insidious abandonment of the mission of the salvation of souls at The Eye-Witness.

POTUS 2016 Pundit Update





Something fun to look forward to: In a few short months, Barack Hussein and Michelle will be vacating our White House. Worth a vacation day to watch on television! I might gather a few friends for a goodbye Barack Hussein luncheon.

January 20, 2017 would be a day to organize a massive exorcism of the entire city. The priests have let the demons infest the world without restraint. I honestly think this is a major problem nobody speaks about. Every time Christ and the Apostles walked through a town, they focused on diagnosing the source of trouble and casting out demons was part of their daily routine.

I remember once in my naive days meeting with a bishop who I didn't know that well but thought was on the ball. I really don't remember the content (who could keep track!) but whatever it was, it was so completely nuts I knew it was not of human origin.

We met, I got right down to the wide-spread involvement of nuttiness. He was engaged, agreed something was rotten. I causally mentioned that I thought (knew would be a more accurate word for it) was not of human origin. I mentioned a few other things going on in the archidoicese and asked him why the diocese had not replaced the diocesan exorcist who had retired several years back. Said this doesn't seem like the time to be slacking on that front. Cleaning the locus of this city is a full-time job.

I saw the look on his face and thought to myself Whooooaaaaah baby! This guy is not a believer! I was shocked. Stopped my train of thought dead in its tracks for questions that went through my mind. Don't they teach them about this stuff in the seminary? They make people bishops who are this out of touch with the spiritual world? How could he get this far in his vocation completely unaware of the existence of this world and the burdens on the shoulders of his people he has the power to dispel and cure? It was like being hit by a truck. LOL. I had to pull myself together to wrap up the meeting and get out of Dodge.

Two steps from his front door, I dialed a priest adviser and relayed the story to him, asking him the questions going through my mind. He expressed his surprise that this particular bishop was clueless but then dropped the other shoe. He told me this was the case with most bishops and part of the reason why the Church and world was in such a mess.

Readers will not be surprised that experience put me on the kick to ask that Boston get the exorcist replaced. I reached out to every priest and bishop in the US I knew and asked them to help to reach out to their contacts in Rome. I reached out to a few contactsI had in Rome. I sent a nastygram to US Nuncio basically saying Boston has been without an exorcist for a few years, we are infested, you people have got to be kidding me, send help and do not send a kid, a moron or non-believer!

About a year later, a few priests in Boston told me one was in place and the person was well-qualified.

Wouldn't it be productive to fly about ten of them into DC on January 20th with 50 gallons of holy water and salt?

A woman can dream!

I haven't really paid much attention to the political pundits but note there were a few noteworthy things this week.

I found the brouhaha on NRO (National Review Online) positively fascinating. NRO has never struck the right chord for me. It's always come across to me to be a group desperate to be loved by the GOP establishment, selling their talking points in spite of the stupidity. I haven't followed this week's controversy closely, but I guess they organized a fatwa on Trump that backfired on them.

Their own readers are cancelling subscriptions - and here comes a shocker - the GOP has removed them as co-hosts of the GOP debate.

This is a huge deal. The NRO folks LIVED to be invited to swanky GOP events and be popular celebrities at the Dubliner. When they are in a room, the stink of self-importance emanating from their pores evaporates oxygen.

Most Catholic conservatives I know are not thrilled by the surge of the Donald, but every time Obama-backed rebels pulls a stunt and he articulates what we are thinking in the public square, more and more people are convinced he might be exactly the right dose of medicine the village idiots in this country need at this time in our history. The resistance Romney received is simply not present in anyone I have encountered. With every politically incorrect utterance, Trump gains traction among politically-conservative Catholics. Truth be told, it's surprised me. Given Trump's past history, I'm stunned.

I know a lot of politically-conservative Catholics. About 50% of them are behind Cruz. All have expressed that they will vote for Trump if he's the nominee. About 45% are directly supporting Trump and 5% are supporting other candidates, mostly Rubio. I personally wish Huckabee had more wind behind him.

Trump is playing on emotions of people who feel Obama has empowered ISIS around the world and in our own country and our survival is at stake. Playing emotions of frustrated Americans is exactly what the democrats did when they packaged Obama. Trump was smart enough to know the audience and he's done better than anyone expected.

What is even more surprising is the GOP seems to have their finger on the pulse of the largest base of voters and cut the cord to NRO. They historically have been marketing candidates to appease older wealthy tycoons.

I also found Sarah Palin's support of Trump fascinating. Sarah is no fan of the GOP establishment (and rightly so), but Trump does not strike me as her kind of candidate.

The press couldn't wait to return to the glory days of trashing Palin. After eight years of the stink of Obama, I don't think that's going to work for them but time will tell.

Palin and Trump would be an interesting pair, wouldn't it? Trump seemed to be exploring Scott Brown who is a proabort. Picking a proabort would send his campaign into a tailspin.

I like the idea of goodbye Barack parties. Morning Mass, a nice lunch while we watch them board the plane, some Adoration in the afternoon, maybe even a wine toast with dinner. I can't wait!


Update -- Just found this relevant piece from Douthat. I'm not sure I agree with Ross about Romney's demise, though I don't think his wealth helped him, Romney tanked because prolife Massachusetts Catholics had the goods on how Romney threw us under the bus. Prochoice, pro-socialized medicine, and anti-conscience rights. When we educated conservative wealthy Catholics and showed them the evidence, they withdrew their support and all they had left were political hacks who acted like asses as they were circling the drain.

Prolife Catholics have long memories and a significant voter block.

When Disaster Strikes, its Time for a Holy Sacrifice of the Lamb of God




The Alpha, Omega, Beginning and End.

Saturday, January 23, 2016

A video worth watching...




I have often admired Celine and Rene's devotion to each other, their faith in each other and our Sacraments. They preserved themselves from the temptations and evils that plague so many others in the music industry.

This video taken at Rene's funeral at Notre Dame Cathedral needs no explaining.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

After careful consideration, Pope Francis proclaims that Poor Jesus did not know how to fully express and carry out the meaning of His Own 'Gestures'.



Another day, another asshat gesture from Pope Francis.


Pope Francis has issued a decree changing the way that the Holy Thursday foot-washing rite is celebrated around the world.

The decree was published today by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and signed by prefect Cardinal Robert Sarah.

The decree says that the rite should no longer be limited to men.

The Vatican website has published a letter from Pope Francis to Cardinal Sarah confirming the changes.

The letter, written in Italian, says that the Pope made the changes “so that it might express more fully the meaning of Jesus’s gesture in the Cenacle, His giving of Himself unto the end for the salvation of the world, His limitless charity”.

The Pope continues: “After careful consideration, I have decided to make a change to the Roman Missal. I therefore decree that the section according to which those persons chosen for the washing of the feet must be men or boys, so that from now on the Pastors of the Church may choose the participants in the rite from among all the members of the People of God. I also recommend that an adequate explanation of the rite itself be provided to those who are chosen.”

Poor Jesus was too dumb to know how to fully express and carry out the meaning of His own gestures.

It's mighty nice of Pope Francis to straighten Jesus out.

What do you think will come after a ritual simulating Apostolic succession and ordination?

After cheapening the Sacrament of Marriage, I suppose the entire vocation of a woman seemed like a good encore.

What'careful consideration' is he talking about?

Did he consider the sad reality that women have been brainwashed into thinking raising and forming their own children and taking care of family members and the community is an insult to them?

The damage done by dropping babies off at daycare centers and babysitters to try to find a cure for their low self-esteem?

Why is he luring them into the stupid cultural propaganda instead of demonstrating and explaining the magnificent gift and vocation given to women by God?

Moreover, if it's one thing our parish ministries are overflowing with, it's women!!!

We need MEN.

Real men want to spend time down at the local parish with gay priests and old ladies about as much as they want to sell bras at Macy's. (The archdiocese of Boston actually ordained a priest who did that! Helloooooooooooooooooooo.)

They couldn't leave the one thing that reaches out to men alone?

It seems Pope Francis doesn't think before he speaks and acts. He likes to be as surprised as everyone else about what he says and does.

Here's a news flash: This is a lousy substitute for catechizing our children and absolving their sins. If you're going to lure our babies into adultery, you could at least do our laundry.

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

He just can't get a break (for suggesting Lutherans can receive Communion, etc.)



Fun article.

The Romans are still not getting it...



I am absolutely floored that the Romans are still in the dark about why the Pope Francis show is being kicked to the curb by faithful Catholics.

Tornielli: Like Paul VI. who published the encyclical Humanae Vitae, there were articles with very severe criticism. But it is true, at the Synod, there was a moment of tension. And it seems to me that there is an organized movement, which uses all media, including the Internet, to spread discord and criticism of the Pope. What amazes me is that they find something to criticize every day. In this movement, it does not really matter what the Pope says or does. That surprised me a lot and this perseverance clearly points to a prejudice, because it has not taken into account what he actually says and does, when it does not fit into clichés.


Piqué: Can this daily critique of Francis, especially by blogs, who accuse him of being a populist, of being ambiguous, desacralizing in matters of doctrine and the papacy, hurt him?


Tornielli: If the criticism is not right, but on the basis of prejudice when it is systematic, even ridiculous, because of their insistence and their instability, they turns in the end against those who express them.

It is not a prejudice. It isn't the internet. It isn't the media.

It is the conclusions are children and loved ones are expressing after listening to the Holy Father.

If every day, a science teacher told the class the earth was flat, we'd have to make a phone call every day to tell her to knock it off.

We'd love a few months off.

But he has, unfortunately, God love him, made an enemy out of the hand that rocks the cradle. That, along with priests and bishops who take the salvation of souls seriously, we have enough of an army to cause them to retreat.

Always have. Always will.

Spiritually-Dangerous Priest Given Leadership Role at Eucharistic Congress



Have you had a chance to check out this line up of characters for a "Eucharistic Congress"?

Will there be any testosterone in the room?

And they wonder why people have fled to the TLM?

Would you please explain to me who, in their rightly-ordered soul, would go to a 'congress' about the Eucharist run by a group who have robbing souls of their salvation?



Another doozy.


When I read stuff Pope Francis says, I usually read every line to give him the benefit of the doubt.

So when I started to read this piece of work, which is also covered at Rorate, I actually didn't think it was too bad until I was about half-way through it.

I wondered if it were possible that the Holy Father is trying to reach people who have closed their hearts to Church teaching.

Was he talking to people who have always slept around and used birth control?

Christians who stop at “it’s always been done that way” have hearts closed to the surprises of the Holy Spirit. They are idolaters and rebels will never arrive at the fullness of the truth.

How could he possibly be talking about Catholics who use the Sacraments to resist temptation?

I find it hard to swallow he could be suggesting that the Holy Spirit has changed His mind about Adam and Eve, and Christ and Mary and the absolution of sins were not necessary to the story of salvation.

The people, after a victory in battle, wanted to offer a sacrifice of the best animals to God, because, he said, “it’s always been done that way.” But God, this time, did not want that. The prophet Samuel rebuked Saul: “Does the Lord so delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obedience to the command of the Lord?” Jesus teaches us the same thing in the Gospel, the Pope explained. When the doctors of the law criticized Him because His disciples did not fast “as had always been done,” Jesus responded with these examples from daily life: “No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse. Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.”

You don't take sacrilegious Communion. It is unhealthy. It ends up frying communication between the soul and the intellect. It short-wires, twists and perverts communication--ultimately leading you to your own spiritual suicide. Christ is explaining what happened to Judas.

“What does this mean? That He changes the law? No! That the law is at the service of man, who is at the service of God – and so man ought to have an open heart.

I'm with the Holy Father right up to here.

This is where he starts to lose me:

“It is the sin of so many Christians who cling to what has always been done and who do not allow others to change. And they end up with half a life, [a life that is] patched, mended, meaningless.” The sin, he said, “is a closed heart,” that “does not hear the voice of the Lord, that is not open to the newness of the Lord, to the Spirit that always surprises us.” This rebellion, says Samuel, is “the sin of divination,” and obstinacy is the sin of idolatry:

“Christians who obstinately maintain ‘it’s always been done this way,' this is the path, this is the street—they sin: the sin of divination. It’s as if they went about by guessing: ‘What has been said and what doesn’t change is what’s important; what I hear—from myself and my closed heart—more than the Word of the Lord.’ Obstinacy is also the sin of idolatry: the Christian who is obstinate sins! The sin of idolatry. ‘And what is the way, Father?’ Open the heart to the Holy Spirit, discern what is the will of God.”

Christians who obstinately maintain ‘it’s always been done this way,' this is the path, this is the street—they sin: the sin of divination.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

Divination was the sin of Adam and Eve. Those who place themselves above Church teaching.

Christ was smart enough to memorialize truth in writing so that there wouldn't have to be any guessing.

So when someone comes along to tell we don't have to say no to the snake just because we've been doing it since Adam and Eve...

When someone comes along to tell us that mortal sin no longer needs the absolution of the Church...

When someone comes along to say there is beauty in adultery...

When someone comes along to say they are going to invent a liturgical dance that will replace absolution and abstinence from sin...

Comparing these invitations to Church teaching is diametrically opposed to divination.

When we surrender the authority of our own desires and intellect and look for the answers in guidance written by the Holy Spirit--this is the process of 'opening of the heart to the Word of God'.

Those who devote themselves to the path of Christ are not opposed to changes or surprises.

When St. John Paul opened up our Rosary to the Luminous Mysteries - we enthusiastically devoured it.

Each time a Saint has come along in our 2000 year history to break open a teaching, we are the people who are read to understand, enlighten and practice.

Most of us are devoted to Divine Mercy, we look for opportunities to obtain plenary indulgences and offer them for the souls in purgatory.

We live every day in the practice of offering prayer,penance, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - for ourselves, our family and our brothers and sisters in Christ.

It stands to reason that if we accept the 2000 year history of writings that break open Church teaching and are doing all the things necessary to intercede for God's mercy - that we are neither opposed to new ideas and change or wish to obstruct all avenues of mercy, even new ones. But we are not going to accept something that contradicts 2000 years of Church teaching, not to mention common sense.

The truth about the absolution of mortal sin through the Sacrament of Penance is not changeable for reasons we should not need to explain to a Pope.

There is no magical recitation of a phrase that absolves mortal sin. There is no ditty we can recite that somehow makes it acceptable to continue to commit adultery. You've got to stop committing it. You've got to have it absolved through the Sacrament of Confession.

Suggesting the use of Church teaching to make a judgment upon an invitation to live in a perpetual state of adultery is 'divination', is pretty loony. I frankly don't know of anything in our 2000 year history that is loonier.

It couldn't be where he was going with it!!

I think we can all agree that it is absolutely critical that a Pope have the skill to communicate Church teaching and what he means to say about it, very clearly. We do not have that in Pope Francis and this is an experience that should never be repeated in the history of our Church when picking a Pope.

I read something last week that indicates Pope Francis tried to clarify his statements about homosexuals in the priesthood:

“I am glad that we are talking about ‘homosexual people’ because before all else comes the individual person, in his wholeness and dignity,” Francis told Tornielli, according to the National Catholic Reporter. “And people should not be defined only by their sexual tendencies: Let us not forget that God loves all his creatures and we are destined to receive his infinite love.”

The National Catholic Reporter further reports that Francis said he prefers “that homosexuals come to confession, that they stay close to the Lord and that we pray all together.”

“You can advise them to pray, show goodwill, show them the way and accompany them along it,” the pontiff says in Tornielli’s book,

The good news is, he finally states the purpose and mission of the Church is the epiphany that sex outside of the Sacrament of Marriage is a sin that needs to be confessed and absolved in the Sacrament of Penance.

The not so good news is, the original questioned posed was about homosexual priests. Priests that have told people they are sexually attracted to other men and the overwhelming majority of which are teaching others that homosexual sex is ok. Some of these priests have taken a lover.

He is still dancing around the elephant.

The Vicar of Christ and the bishops underneath him have an absolute duty to make a judgment upon that situation. Not doing so has demoralized, confused and scandalized generations of Catholics.Though it is good news to hear there is a purification of the 'gay lobby' underway at the Vatican, the perversions that came out of the Synod on the Family do not leave us edified. Further, that is lightyears away from the problem that needs addressing: What is being taught at our local parish and schools - is not being addressed. This is where the damage is being done.

Which brings us to the Holy Father's conclusion:

“This is the message the Church gives us today. This is what Jesus says so forcefully: ‘New wine in new wineskins.’ Habits must be renewed in the newness of the Spirit, in the surprises of God. May the Lord grant us the grace of an open heart, of a heart open to the voice of the Spirit, which knows how to discern what should not change, because it is fundamental, from what should change in order to be able to receive the newness of the Spirit.”

With all due respect, this calls for a good dose of his own medicine!

What needs to change isn't the improvision of a deceptive ritual that leaves souls in a perpetual state of mortal sin. That turkey is not going to fly. Ever.

We all would embrace reaching out to children of divorce and remarried or children of any other irregular situation. We have an opportunity to do so when they bring their children for a Sacrament. Stop making it a 'drop your children off at CCD' program and minister to and teach the family as a unit. Children in one program, parents in the other and do what it takes to help make the situation regular and draw them back to the Sacramental life of the Church. There are all kinds of fabulous catechetical programs at our disposal.

Why don't we just move on with it?

Why are we burdening this work with all kinds of foolish talk about the Holy Spirit suggesting it might be time to hoodwink a person into believing they are not in a state of perpetual mortal sin?

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

St. Ziggy Stardust - Vatican's Patron Saint of any Orifice in a Sexual Storm


Here we were thinking Pope Francis' assembly of 'leaders' at the Vatican could not possibly outdo their freak show of projecting images of primates and elephants upon the Mystical Body of Christ in St. Peter's Square.

But alas, they rose to the challenge earlier this week with what is described as 'an extraordinary tribute' to David Bowie.

The Holy Father's newspaper caricatured Bowie as 'never banal despite his excesses'.

Is that what the Holy See is calling man-whoring now? 'Excesses'?

What does the announcement from the Holy Father's staff mean?

Drugging oneself and sleeping with men and women is 'not banal'?

The Holy Father's leadership team wants to give children the message that turning to any sexual orifice when aroused is nothing more than a little indulgence.

Look--I was a fan of Bowie's earlier stuff - when he was a little weird and his music creative, but when his theatrics turned vulgar and disgusting, the sight of him grossed me out - even as an immature 20-year-old.

God rest his soul.

But it stands to reason that it is inappropriate, not to mention irresponsible, for the Vicar of Christ's staff to reinvent years of selling sexual depravity, godlessness and the occult as the equivalent of indulging in a banana split.

And is it me or is this statement creepy:


But it said that aside from such "excesses," Bowie's legacy "is one of a sort of personal sobriety, expressed even in his dry, almost thread-like body."

I'm trying to reconcile what they are implying about the sobriety of the bunch of dried up fatsos at the Vatican.

An outstanding summary of the Vatican's tribute to Bowie at Crisis from Fr. Rutler - "A Misplaced Grief".

I won't even cite anything from the article because of the riches in every paragraph. Mandatory reading!

The'Vatican tribute' focused on the lyrics to the song "Major Tom".

I think the below Bowie lyrics are more appropriate - don't you?


Oh babies just you shut your mouth.

UPDATE--It should be noted that the Cardinal suggesting to children that the Vatican is now ok with drugging oneself into oblivion and having orgies with men and women is Cardinal Ravasi.

The ideas in Cardinal Ravasi's head were so appealing to Pope Francis that he appointed him to as the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

This is the culture is ramming into the souls of the people we love, into our families, homes and world.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Outstanding post at BCI on Mercy without Repentance



Great reading - be sure to read the links in post.

Supporting Families with Small Children at the Sacred Liturgy



I recently came across a person who complained about parents giving their toddler children raisins and a book during Mass. The complaint was something like if toddlers can't hold their attention for an hour Mass and you give them a few distractions so you (and everyone around you) can pray the Liturgy - then they will grow up thinking Church is an amusement park.

That is way off of the reservation in the world I live in.

Toddlers are incapable of sitting through a Liturgy for an hour. Teaching them what is happening and reverence is not contradicted with reasonable expectations that are age-appropriate. Good parenting doesn't lay the a burden of expecting a baby to act like a 5 year old.

If you're bothered by a mother stretching the attention span of a baby with a couple of raisins and a book, you are a curmudgeon. And you are no prize to sit beside yourself.

This story also caught my attention today.


It's a great reminder.


Small children are going to have something to say to their parents during Mass or have a moment here and there. Most parents are extremely sensitive to quieting the child right away - and the children are usually responsive. Be supportive to the young families around you.

And the curmudgeons too!

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

The Jury is in...Practicing Catholics seem to be sitting this one out....




Pope Francis is no longer drawing the massive crowds that were so evident in the first two years of his pontificate.

You can't bring children to enthusiastically salute a Pope whom you know is misleading those listening because your own children might be one of them (if they are not already).

We've had to identify him as a person who does not faithfully or effectively or accurately convey Church teaching. Point them away from the contradictions being taught and keep Church teaching as the compass for making judgments on right and wrong.

Take a look at how the fishwrap describes victims of the deception circling our families wearing a fisherman's ring:

Catholics who have been resistant to the Jesuit pontiff's "revolution of tenderness and mercy" must be smiling. They have been terrified that his intention is to use the Jubilee to unleash a tidal wave of God's mercy and forgiveness, even to the point of allowing divorced and remarried members of the church to return to receiving the sacraments.

When we are watching our relatives and loved ones break commandments unrepentant with a license they got from Pope Francis, we have been terrified they might receive receive the Sacraments.

What nonsense!

This cretin goes on to claim we want God to forbid our loved ones from their salvation and we feel 'contempt' for friends and relatives alienated from the Body of Christ.

These peoples' greatest nightmare is that this borderline heretic pope, who never even earned a doctorate in theology, might be tempted to conform the church's doctrine to "the spirit of the world" and end up peddling "cheap grace."

This is not an exaggeration.

If anything, it's an understatement!

Fun reading...


I thought readers at TTC would enjoy reading the fruit of hard work of one of the diocesan wizards here in Boston.


First, feast your eyes upon letter to the editor from one of the dim lightbulbs in Boston looking to the Boston Globe for guidance on matters of the soul.


He says people are not going to Church and this means there's a problem.

The problem isn't priests and the pope giving people the impression they think Church teaching is wrong, everyone who believes in that old crap is a nutcase who doesn't like to smile or dance and they personally approve of sleeping around.

It isn't a pope and his hand-picked bishops implying its ok for women to use contraception to flush their children down the toilet because he's on a quest to save the leaves on the trees and the tigers in the jungle - and there are too many children sucking up the oxygen needed for plants and animals.

It isn't the sixty years of Jesuits and nuns perverting Church teaching causing the destruction of two generation worth of children's minds at our schools.

Heavens no, it isn't the grand larceny of sanctifying grace by all of these characters.

What the Church needs is for women to abandon their children to become a Christ with breasts.

Just look at all the good things that happened in the world when women abandoned their children to prove they could be just like men in the workplace.


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...and finally, here’s an item for the Boston Archdiocese, and others in similar situations, to consider. Let’s do something about the rectories that sit half empty. The one at St Gerard’s in Canton has five empty bedrooms — a whole second floor which we parishioners pay to heat and maintain. Many other rectories around the city and state are mostly vacant and could be put to better use by programs for families in need, elders, or single pregnant mothers. The list is endless. Isn’t helping others the foundation of our faith?

When I made this suggestion to our beloved pastor, he bellowed that the “parish would have to buy me a condo.”

The Archdiocese doesn't even let priests live in rectories they get sick, old and decrepit, does this guy think they're going to take needy people in?!


For giggles, I looked up the priest who is the mastermind behind the conscience of this poor God-forsaken individual.

Are you ready?

Fr. Ron Coyne!

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Father Jerome Secillano suggests Holy Sacrifice Requires Mortal Entertainment to Break Monotony of Mystical at Our Liturgy.

Is there a new GIRM we don't know about?

"Father Jerome Secillano, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines-Public Affairs Committee, tells The Philippine Star that San Jose "went overboard" by using the scooter during Mass, saying that gimmicks distract from the solemnity of the occasion.  "You can innovate, you can be creative, but your creativity and innovation has its limitations," he says."


Saints preserve us!

Is this ignorant and inept individual the cream of the crop in the Philippines?

I've got an innovation for you pal, how about you teach your people what is mystically happening before them?

Cure the blindness of the eyes of their soul and introduce them to the invisible things taking place.

Show them who showed up.

Show them where they are and what is taking place.

Is the whole country so mystically deprived of what is going on in the sanctuary that they are compelled to make an ass of themselves to entertain "an audience"?

The secretary for the entire lot of bishops in the country is suggesting there is something more "creative" ?

One must rise above the dullness and boredom the mystical things taking place to "create" entertainment but one must not go too far?

Duly noted in the statement of the diocese is the whopper of the theological error that the Sacred Liturgy is a "memorial".

It is not a memorial.

What Protestants do when they gather is a "memorial".

Christ's One Holy Apostolic Church has custody of the River of Christ's Blood.  We are the custodians of the Properties of Divinity.  What takes place at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass honors Christ but we are not "remembering" something that took place 2000 years ago.  We are mystically taken Golgotha where Christ is executed before us, surrounded by all the characters recorded in history.  They are present, as are the angels and the communion of saints.

What kind of class clown would perform a juggling act or cartwheel during these moments?

The inappropriateness of setting up a personal performance during these moments suggests mental illness or spiritual illness.

A man who would stand with us at the foot of the Cross as we are trying to listen to Christ's last words and instruction and start breakdancing or break his own monotony with what's going on by bursting into personal performances needs an exorcism to cast out a demon.    There is a serious spiritual malady of  such a person.

The diocese has a priest on their hands that is deaf, dumb and blind to what is going on.

To suggest to an entire country of priests that a circus needs to be created on the Via Dolorosa, but only a little circus, calls for another reservation for a sick bed at the monastery.