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Saturday, 11 March 2023

The Legacy of Thomas Cardinal Collins: Gaia and Antiochus in the Cathedral

As the great celebration of embracing gratitude for His Most Serene Eminence, Thomas "No Mass For You" Collins approaches, it behooves us to recycle some posts from the past.


Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Gaia and Antiochus both are welcome in the Archdiocese of Toronto!


Update: Confirmed from the concert organizer. "All details of the concert were discussed with (          ), the lady in charge of the events at St. Michael’s Cathedral. Posters of the event were dropped off at the Archdiocese in Toronto at 1155 Yonge Street, where they were further distributed to Catholic Churches across the GTA."

Clearly, this took place with the full knowledge of someone at the Chancery office, not just the Cathedral.


Again, what happened to the policy on concerts in churches under the late Cardinal Ambrozic which was in accord with the norms issued by the CDWDS?



Angelica's sensual performance in St. Michael's Cathedral
House of God turned into a cabaret

Look at what they've done to the Temple of God

Please excuse your writer for being a year or two behind the time but this is what they hope for. You understand right?; they want these things to pass under the radar (May 2011). Then one day, someone organises a concert in a Catholic Church with a composition of the Divine Liturgy dedicated to a pagan goddess known as Gaia and dares to call it a Mass and it is reported. Some other people read it and make recollections of other events. I've now asked a third time for the policy of the Archdiocese of Toronto on concerts in churches.  We had one once under Cardinal Ambrozic.

Msgr. Ronan is not amused
What you see above and below is so far from what is permitted in a Church and is nothing less than a scandal. This is a desecration of the sanctuary for commercial purposes. No fee or donation to the Cathedral can justify such a use of this sacred space. A lounge singer concert (and I mean lounge singer in the most positive of ways) in a strapless dress, singing profane music in the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Toronto. The signing of autographs and selling of (non-religious) items in the forecourt. A poster showing her bare midriff, close-ups of her body during the concert -- all of this in front of the Altar of Sacrifice! 

The Rector of St. Michael's Cathedral, Father Michael Busch has shown a failure of stewardship and a complete disregard for the sanctity of this place and the Holy of Holies. He should be ashamed of his dereliction in this regard; debasing this House of God for money!

Is it any wonder why people find refuge in the SSPX? 

Is there not something fundamentally wrong with the Church and the administration of a diocese when this is allowed to happen?

Don't we take our hats off in Church? 
The Cardinal Archbishop of Toronto, Thomas Collins lives at the Bishop's Palace attached to the Cathedral where this desecration occurred. Your Eminence this is wrong, we are owed an explanation. What are you going to do about this? What are you going to do to ensure that this kind of desecration in our churches is going to stop? What about reparation to God?

No artist has a right to desecrate the Cathedral with a secular, commercial performance in a sacred space set apart for the worship of God. 

The dress is beautiful, the woman is obviously talented and fully suitable to Roy Thomson Hall, but not here, not in the Cathedral of Toronto.  Concerts of this type are simply not to be held in churches, the Vatican Congregation responsible has already stated it. 


The quote below is from a composition about Jesus sung and available in the authorized links below.
"Nobody's wrong and nobody's right. We're all givers of light... you just be truth, be truth yourself and lead you as you really are

The "Dictatorship of Relativism" sung loud and proud in St. Michael's Cathedral Cabaret, but I can tell you with certainty; this is not what Jesus would say.

2 comments:

Kathleen1031 said...

Of course you are completely correct, Vox. I honestly don't know what the answer is. If Catholics don't understand it by now, they need to stop and really re-evaluate, these men hate Catholicism as it has been practiced for almost 2000 years. They really hate it, and they obviously hate the Catholics who want the traditional liturgy, the TLM. Once that is understood, everything else makes sense. They intend to dismantle it, and they don't seem to care about what happens to the Catholics who will never give it up, who will find it, somewhere, rather than revert to their pagan rites. God bless you for caring about sacrilege in God's house and for talking about it. It remains to be seen, what faithful Catholics will do once they ban proper worship everywhere and replace it with their pagan version of Catholicism. Will Catholics just say, oh well, I guess this is Catholicism now, I don't want to be "more Catholic than the pope" (although pretty much anyone is), or will they say no to these destroyers, and find that TLM, even if they cannot attend every week due to distance, etc. A once a month TLM, is worth 10,000 of these debacles.

Jonah said...

A few may be given the gift of discernment necessary to navigate such treacherous waters. Not so for the lambs without defenses against these predators. Canadian churches must be considered as adult venues and treated as unsuitable for children. Our families must receive their formation at home in these times of degradation and depravity. They must be given a chance to develop characters unstained and untroubled by such demons. They will have to confront these enemies eventually, but not before they are suitably armed.