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Thursday 12 November 2015

Fomenter of Something

As you've probably read by now, Bishop of Rome Bergoglio delivered a nearly hour-long address in Florence. Coupled with yesterday's audience statement on the Eucharist, bread and that "all" are to be included, it gives a not so subtle or subliminal message as to where he is going. If where he is going is in to heresy and Eucharistic sacrilege , I will not follow.

It was a "forceful" address, we are told; emphasizing that the "Catholic Church must change." The Catholic Church will never "change!" She cannot "change." This is a heretical notion that it must "change." This "change" is nothing more than political, Marxist bile - do you remember Obama and "change we can believe in?" "Change" and "forward" - two words used by revolutionaries to push their agenda. 

While in Florence, the Bishop of Rome visited a food bank. I always understood from Scripture that you do not "let your left hand know what your right hand is doing" and that you do these good things in "secret" so as not to seek the praise of the world. The whole Vatican press office is nothing more than a screed machine of propaganda that would have made Goebbels himself jealous. No pope ever before took a bus, or carried a briefcase or visited the poor, "ostentatious humility" as someone recently stated. Poppycock!

As for the Florence talk, it was a typical jumbled mishmash of jesuitical gibberish that we have been cursed with these nearly three long and tumultuous years. Much of it came from that lutheresque curse of environmental waste, Evangelii Gaudium, ghost-written by the archbishop of kissing, Heresiarch Fernandez. author of Heal Me With Your Mouth. Pure and utter bile, on all counts.



The most stunning statements delivered in this Peronist Papacy are these:
"We are not living an era of change but a change of era.”
Spoken like a true Freemason. A "change of era," a "new world order." What a pile of dung. "fomenter of coprophagia" he has said of some; well, if the anything but red shoe fits. The only "change of era" will come after the LORD strikes down the Antichrist and his False Prophet and we enter the time of peace prophesised by Our Blessed Lady when Russia and the entire world is converted through Her Immaculate Heart. However, since this is not what he referred to, nor is it even hinted at, then we must assume that he means something else. If the Church needs to "change" it is to change from the wrong direction It has been on under these modernists for the last sixty plus years.
“Before the problems of the church it is not useful to search for solutions in conservatism or fundamentalism, in the restoration of obsolete conduct and forms that no longer have the capacity of being significant culturally,”
This statement is so blatantly upside down as to be diabolical. It is only through a return to the fundamental roots of our faith found in unchanging tradition that our future lay. It is, in fact, through what he sees as "obsolete conduct and forms" that will lead to any "restoration" of the Truth and Faith of Our Fathers. He has used the word "restorationist" in a derogatory sense on numerous occasions. One only need to recall his statements on those who presented him with the humble gift of a Spiritual Bouquet to experience his thoughts. Outright insult to the simple, humble gesture of Catholic faithful.

He continued that:  
"The reform of the Church then, and the church is semper reformanda … does not end in the umpteenth plan to change structures, It means instead grafting yourself to and rooting yourself in Christ, leaving yourself to be guided by the Spirit—so that all will be possible with genius and creativity."
It is "us" that require endless reformation, not the Church. It is we who must be reformed and conformed to Our Lord Jesus Christ. The Church is His Mystical Bride and cannot be "reformed." What must be "reformed" are the modernist notions and liturgical banalities, the false hermeneutic, the errors of the last sixty years and that which lead to these. What "spirit" is he talking about? I wrote in the post below what comes from the Holy Spirit. If what we experience is the opposite of the "coolness in heat" and the "warming of the chill" and the "sweet repose" then it is not the Holy Spirit, it is a spirit from another places. These people blaspheme. 

Please, if it is out of my simple ignorance that I cannot understand what this man is saying and I am wrong, tell me; but my Catholic heart has not betrayed me yet. Nor has it betrayed Barona who has smoked out the comments from our friends Rosica, Beck, Spadaro and Martin.

Be at peace friends. It is all coming out in the open. What some of us have known since March 2013, is rapidly being made known to many. The desire to vomit, the cold chills, they were for a reason.

Fill your lamps.

Wednesday 11 November 2015

Like lambs to the slaughter, we are being set-up

Reading deeply into the Bishop of Rome's speech yesterday together with Barona, it became clear, that we are being set up for something. Yesterday, he returned to consistent themes of name-calling and setting up those who believe in Catholic doctrine and truth and ritual as Pelagians. Louie Verrecchio has written with clarity and gets right to the heart of the matter in his post, Francis reveals content of upcoming Apostolic Exhortation.

Never before in our lifetime and maybe not in history have we seen a pope create an environment of havoc, distress and confusion such as we have now.

If we consider for a moment some of the words of the great hymn to the Holy Spirit, Veni Creator Spiritus or the Sequence Veni, Sancte Spiritus, we see what the Holy Spirit brings. coolness in heat, warmth in chill, solace in grief, sweet relief. He is "sweet unction and true love" a "living spring." The Holy Spirit brings wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord. 

Nowhere does He bring strife, confusion, distress or heresy. He cannot at the same time do one and the other - He cannot oppose the Law of Noncontradiction. Just as Our Lord said, that "Satan cannot cast out Satan" the Holy Spirit cannot contradict, the Holy Spirit.

Today, at his audience, the Bishop of Rome said this:


Pope Francis - AFP

Dear Brothers and Sisters:  In our continuing catechesis on the family, today we consider the importance of togetherness.  Sitting at table for the family dinner, sharing our meal and the experiences of our day, is a fundamental image of togetherness and solidarity.  Because Jesus gave us the Eucharist as a meal, there is a close relationship between families and the Mass.  The togetherness we experience in our families is meant, in the family of the Church, to extend to all as a sign of God’s universal love.  In this way the Eucharist becomes a school of inclusion, in which we learn to be attentive to the needs of everyone.  Sadly, the family meal, this great symbol of togetherness, is disappearing in some societies.  Food itself, the very sign of our sharing with other, is wantonly wasted in some places, while our brothers and sisters go hungry in others.  The Eucharist reminds us that our bread is meant to be shared with all.  May our families, and the entire Church, be signs of togetherness and solidarity for the good of the whole human family, especially during the coming Jubilee of Mercy.
It is there for all to see. Something is coming on the matter of reception of Holy Communion.

Yet, to now; he has done nothing. He has changed no doctrine. He has changed no practice, though he is telling us something. He is telling us what he wants to do. Whether he does it or not remains to be seen.

There is no sense getting too worked up about "what if" unless and until it becomes reality. Keep your cool. Pray and take courage.

Remember, Our Blessed Lord said that the "Gates of Hell will not prevail." He did not say that Hell will not attack the Church in an all out effort to destroy Her.

If the worst comes, there will be true Shepherds who will emerge and speak with clarity. 

PostScript:

On Thursday, November 12, 2015, Father Raymond J. de Souza of the Archdiocese of Kingston has written:

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/november-13th-2015-2/what-will-the-pope-say-his-friends-tell-us/

Buffalo Pie

Growing up in Toronto we only had a six channels on TV. Two in Toronto, one in Hamilton and three from Buffalo. This was even before PBS and Goldy's fundraising. Who remembers Promo the Robot or Captain Tom a poor cousin of Captain Kangaroo?  Ah Buffalo, the Queen City as I recall. I have family there. South Buffalo, Lancaster, Cheektowaga. Ebeneezer. Uncle Sarkis. born in Lebanon, owned the Wehrle Drive-in Theatre on Transit Road and his brother Frank, The Willamsville Inn on Main Street. Together, they lead the building of St. John Maron Church. Buffalo was my second home. An auntie organised the Variety Club Telethon which was watched in our house all day those Sundays after Mass. How I remember Our Lady of Victory Shrine and all the stories Auntie Mary would tell of the great Father Nelson Baker. How Catholic Buffalo was. German, Polish, Italian, Irish. 

Some of the most beautiful churches in the northeast maybe in all of the United States of America, are in Buffalo. Many look like little Cathedrals. Most would put Toronto's to shame except for a handful. The faith in that Queen City is about as bad as everywhere else. Some say the Church "is not a building." But these buildings were built by the faithful who loved God, respected how to worship Him in beauty and in truth and gave Him their best. Not like those today.


Image result for irv weinsteinI suppose there were no fires last night in Lackawanna for Irv Weinstein to report on. Wait, Irv's not on Channel 7 anymore? Well, if he were, he'd be reporting on this little dust up that "Jesus had two dads and he turned out just fine." 

That sign in front of Sts. Columba and Brigid Church in Buffalo, a far cry from what was built generations ago, has caused a lot of outcry. Catholic Family News, Father Z, here on this blog, we all wrote about it. The Bishop of Buffalo instantly saw the problem and ordered the phrase removed. The backlash to me includes a comment on the post and an email from the pastor, both of which I received this morning. Let us take a look at them.
Good Evening! It was with great interest that I read the comments that you all posted in the Guest Book of the St. Columba-Brigid Church website.  While I want to allay your concerns, I also find myself wondering where such hatred and vitriol come from.  Did you spend any time at all pondering the true meaning that our billboard was trying to convey?  Or did you snap to judgement as soon as you saw it or heard about it?  Did you hear about it second hand, without seeing it yourself, and join in the condemnation of it based on what someone else shared with you?  These are all things that you should consider. But my task is to provide you with some sense of understanding of our message.  You accept that Jesus Christ had two fathers, God the Father and Joseph - His foster father.  I don’t think that there is any argument there.  He had His heavenly Father and His human father.  Those are the two fathers that we are referring to on our message board.Due to broken marriages and relationships where no marriage occurred, there are literally millions of children in the world who are raised by two sets of parents. Again, there is no arguing this point. Some families actually achieve this quite successfully, with both sets of parents getting along if for no other reason than the benefit to their children. These children flourish in the love and support provided by the love to two families: two mothers, two fathers, several grandparents and shared siblings – a blended family. It is a win-win – wonderful and fulfilling for the children and the parents. This was beautifully exemplified recently on tv by the actions of two dads walking their daughter down the aisle. The biological father suddenly recognized that the stepfather had been equally instrumental in raising their lovely and amazing daughter, and he had him join in the happy ritual of ‘giving her away’ to her new husband.  And that act of love and acceptance resonated around the world.But sometimes children are ridiculed for this circumstance in their lives.  Some children hear snide comments from other children who are lucky enough to be growing up within nuclear families – one set of parents and siblings. The message on the board was put there in support of children who are growing up with two families – two dads- and who may be experiencing some conflict because of it. Your rush to judgement leaves us perplexed because as a good Christian and Catholic you know the Bible very well. Therefore you know that Matthew 7:1-2 says: “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgement you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.”Obviously you read other nuances into our message, things that we did not intend. It was only meant for children who have a step-father and a biological father - to give them understanding, support and encouragement and to let them know that they can have a healthy, normal life in the future.Thank you for your concern. And please keep these children in your prayers. God bless! Fr Roy 
My response.


Dear Father Roy,  
Given that you have publicly said that the sign referred to "step-children" I will accept your explanation and apologise publicly here for my rash-judgement and for insinuating otherwise.
However, your decision to put up such a sign was imprudent and careless. At a time when marriage is under attack by a sodomite mafia that is bent, not on marriage for its own sake, but in their own words, the "destruction of marriage and the family," the words you put up contained inflammatory language. Language is important as your fellow New York State priest, Father Tom Rosica (because we Canadians can take responsibility for Justin Bieber okay) likes to remind us. As an educated man you are aware that your sign is the exact dictionary definition of a double entrendre. You are surely aware of the "Heather Has Two Mommies" books. Given the rather "progessivist" nature of your parish and your late "Nun on the Bus," may she receive her just reward, you most certainly would know how the political left uses words to its advantage.
The fact that I, and thousands of others, "read other nuances" into the sign is not our faults, it is the fault of those who put up a sign with those words. To assume that everyone would have seen the video to which you refer is a stretch on your part. To think in this day and age, something so inflammatory and potentially heretical would not make it to social media is foolish. Certainly, the person driving past the church would easily have interpreted the sign as a support for an abomination against the Catholic faith, the raising of children by two sodomite "fathers," well one father actually as the other is his fellow pin-cushion. Nobody is ridiculing any children here. I have children. I had step-children, I had a decree of nullity, I am a sinner. So don't go down that rabbit hole. That is a ridiculous statement on your part. As for "giving away" the bride. You should know, she is not "given away" in the Catholic Sacrament of Matrimony. She comes of her own free will, she is not her "dads" property to give to anyone. Some progressive you are. This is not about the children, it is about the sign you authorised to put up that contained a phrase that would be interpreted by the overwhelming majority of those who saw it as support for sodomite so-called "marriage." As for your liturgical abuses at the camp mess, please read Redemptionis Sacramentum. Please accept my apologies for the "rash-judgement) of misunderstanding your sign.
Vox.

Now, to Anonymous in the combox who judges me to Hell.


I just want to say that you and all of the others who have posted comments full of hatred and vitriol are going to burn in hell. People like you that (use) the word of Christ, which I was taught were words of love, and twist them for your own evil purposes. You are no better than the racist Trump, than the murdering members of ISIS, than rapists, than thieves. You name anything that's evil, and you are all worse. I always thought that God didn't make ugly, but I guess He did, because (he??? Vox) you made all of you hatemongers. How do you look at yourselves in the mirror?  God is everywhere. He was at that outdoor Mass, where we sang His praises to the skies. Mass doesn't have to be in a church, because church is not a building, or didn't you know that. To be able to praise God right there in the midst of His creation is a blessing. But you wouldn't know that because you wouldn't recognize a blessing if it hit you in the head. Oh, and by the way, have you ever heard of Kinte Cloth? Try and get a little bit of culture, it would serve you well. Remember that the only judge is God himself. And He will be judging you and using your hatred against you. You all need to repent and atone for the tons of sins that are burning your souls. I know you're not going to publish this because you don't have what it takes to deal with anything or anyone that disagrees. But God is watching you. Have fun in hell!
Dear Anonymous,


First, read the above response to Father "Roy."  Second, look up to your words of "hatred and vitriol," along with your accusations of my "judgement"  and then look in the "mirror" you speak of and consider what you see.  The "racist Trump" comment is calumny and rash judgement on your part. If you don't know what these mean, please contact Father Roy. I have publicly apologised for my rash judgement. As someone who is of Lebanese heritage, who sees my Christian countrymen in Syria butchered because of your derelict malefactor in the White House whom you probably voted for, I would hope that you are as forthright with those who advocate for the murder of babies in the womb as you are at me. For murderers and thieves, you can look at your own leaders.  As for the outdoor Mass, it was an abomination. I suggest you read Redemptionis Sacramentum linked above to see the sinful liturgical abuses committed by your priest. Plastic cups for the Eucharist, the Precious Blood, this is acceptable? Mass in street clothes? We are not in priest holes (you might need to look that up) nor in Vietnamese prison camps (look it up).


Would you like to compare your unholy sacrilege of the camp mess to this?
In honour of Canadian Remembrance Day today or your Veteran's Day on this 11th day of the 11th month, let us look back a few decades to this.
This is Father Emile Kapaun in Korea. He died in a prison camp and his cause is going forward for canonization. Did he disrespect the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as you people under a wayward priest did at Sts. Columba and Brigid?
Father Emile Kapuan in Korea
What about this one? If this priest could vest properly and dress a jeep on Omaha Beach on June 4, 1944, with an antependium, (you might want to look that up) and an antemension (you'll want to look that one up too), then why should we, with all of our modern conveniences, do any less for God.
All that effort in the midst of war and a thanksgiving offering on D Day for making it off the beach. How many did not?
As for Kente cloth, it may be "African" but African priests don't wear it  at Mass so don't patronise them in your arrogant white liberality. 
My South African wife is offended. Should Africans wear denim vestments as a tribute to America? Vestments such as these are not praiseworthy to God and they are insulting to Africans.
Do these look like Kente cloth?
 
Here is a google search for kente cloth vestments. I see no African Catholic priest wearing them but I see some old white guys.
I am shocked, shocked; that a progressive such as you would not see your statement as actually being racist and patronising.
Thanks for your comment.
Vox

Tuesday 10 November 2015

Pope Francis stumbles in more ways than one

Reuters is reporting that the Bishop of Rome stumbled yesterday at Mass at the Lateran Basilica on his way up to the altar for the celebration of the Feast of its dedication. This is the second time in three days, the first being Saturday at St. Peter's Basilica. He is aging, stressed no doubt, and may have a brain tumour. We have sympathy for him as a man.

But let me be perfectly clear; he has stumbled in more ways than this.

If there had been any doubt that his appointment of Jozef de Kesel as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels is a disaster for the faith, erase it from your Catholic mind. The man is a heretic and advocate of sacrilege.

If an archbishop-elect thinks the word "mercy" is  "somewhat condescending", what must he think of words such as "sin", "damnation", "hell", and "orthodoxy"? We don't know for certain, but perhaps that is just as well, if only for the sake of keeping one's stomach comments in place. The prelate in question is Jozef De Kesel of Mechelen-Brussels, interviewed by Kerknet and translated into English by Mark de Vries of "In Caelo et in Terra", who covers Catholic news in the Netherlands. The fuller quote: You did not take part in the Synod on the family, but will probably get to work with its proposals. What will stay with you from this Synod? “The Synod may not have brought the concrete results that were hoped for, such as allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion. But it is unbelievable how much it was a sign of a Church that has changed. The mentality is really not the same anymore. I may be a careful person, but I do not think we should be marking time. Mercy is an important word for me, but in one way or another it is still somewhat condescending. I like to take words like respect and esteem for man as my starting point. And that may be a value that we, as Christians, share with prevailing culture.” 
You can read his full report together with his erudite commentary and the link to the full interview and its official English translation.

De Kesel needs to be concerned more with esteem for Christ, than "esteem for man." He needs to have some concern for his own soul as well. 

Sandro Magister also reports of a little Jesuitical infighting. It seems there are a few Catholic Jesuits left in the world. Anthony Spadaro, S.J., of the #SpadaroBlockParty which is not quite as busy as the #RosicaBlockParty which actually trended on Twitter a few weeks back, is not one of them. He is the cause of this little storm. The reader may recall our work of this past Saturday on Spadaro based upon Magister's previous letter. The conclusion can only be that Spadaro is, in fact, speaking for the Bishop of Rome and that can be confirmed by the challenge thrown at him by his brother Jesuit at Boston College, of all places. 
Particularly striking was the peremptoriness with which Fr. Spadaro drew from the “Relatio finalis” of the synod - a text in effect open to multiple interpretations - a one-way orientation: in favor of communion for the divorced and remarried. The following commentary, however, shows how the director of “La Civiltà Cattolica” and confidant of Francis cannot disguise the fact that his conclusions contradict “the teaching of the Church” that the “Relatio sinodi” itself insists must be respected. In particular, he shows how one cannot shield oneself behind a few lines of John Paul II’s “Familiaris consortio” to draw conclusions opposed to those that are written there. The author of the commentary is a priest of the diocese of New York, Robert P. Imbelli, professor emeritus of theology at Boston College and an authoritative contributor to “L'Osservatore Romano,” in addition to “America” and “Commonweal.” An author of works of Christology and of Trinitarian and liturgical theology, his latest book is entitled: "Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations for the New Evangelisation". 
It's only Tuesday and it's been quite a good start to the week revealing to all, the heresiarchs and homosexualists amongst us in the Church. We've had an abomination, blasphemy and sacrilege in New York City at Our Saviour Church with the Hindu ritual, the same Archdiocese's Cardinal Dolan dancing it up withthe Rockette's (hey, their women, let's cut him some slack), the dear in the headlights Diarmuid Martin in Dublin telling all that the Church "must change" and the little episode yesterday in Buffalo promoting the sodomite agenda which the pastor deny but photos betray.



But it does not stop there. Earlier today in Florence, the Bishop of Rome spoke at the Fifth National Ecclesial Convention Annual saying once again resurrecting his lectures that those who follow the law are Pelagians. Edward Pentin has the story at National Catholic Register. So there we have it. Follow the two thousand year old Law of the Church, obey and preach the Ten Commandments and the words of Jesus, "If you love me, keep my commandments" and you're a Pharisee. Disagree with Francis of Rome, you're a Pelagian. You think that you're "superior" and you're not following the "breath of the spirit." I urge you to read The Radical Catholic's post on this speech drawing the parallels between Jorge Bergoglio and Martin Luther regarding their views on the Catholic Church and the heresy of Pelagianism.  Here is a quote courtesy of Southern Orders where you can also more: 


“We are not living in an era of change but a change of era. ... Before the problems of the church it is not useful to search for solutions in conservatism or fundamentalism, in the restoration of obsolete conduct and forms that no longer have the capacity of being significant culturally. ... Christian doctrine is not a closed system incapable of generating questions, doubts, interrogatives — but is alive, knows being unsettled, enlivened, ... It has a face that is not rigid, it has a body that moves and grows, it has a soft flesh: it is called Jesus Christ.”

For a complete repudiation of Jorge Bergoglio's statement today, given on All Saints Day visit:


There, did you drink it in? Do you have the Faith of Our Fathers or do you wish to sing a new church into being by these "modernist tyrants" where "even the documents of Vatican II and St. John Paul II are passé."

Do not be discouraged, all of this must come out. Do not let it get you down, Keep faith in Our Lord and His promise that the "gates of Hell will not prevail." Rejoice that we have this vehicle, the Internet - blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Email -- all these tools that our parents and grandparents did not have.

The Reuters story on the stumbling Bishop of Rome refers to the reputed tumour, perhaps, in its denial, the Vatican, “doth protest too much.” If the Pope has a brain tumour there is no way he should be making any decisions along the lines of what Spadaro, Kasper and De Kesel advocate. These men are heretics and malefactors. Does Francis really want to seek counsel from them? Will he soon make De Kesel, Cardinal and add to that the heresiarch and homosexualist Cupich for good measure? Now that Danneels is well over 80 and Cardinal George is dead, what is stopping him. Will he make the faithful Archbishops in Philadelphia and Montreal Cardinals, or will he bypass them because they stand for the faith?

He muses about a short papacy. May it be so. Not that I wish him any ill will, not at all. May he be inspired by to go for that slice of pizza and mate at a little cafe in Buenos Aires. He should consider it before December 8 and the gross insult to Our Blessed Mother with the motu proprio on Catholic Divorce. 

Benedict XVI has shown him the way. The door is open to him.


Monday 9 November 2015

Bull Coprophagia in Buffalo

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The above photo is of Sts. Columba and Brigid Catholic Church in Buffalo, a city with some beautiful churches, mostly empty. The story is reported from John Vennari at Catholic Family News.

Bishop Malone of Buffalo found out through Vennari and presumably other social media (another victory for the Catholic Internet) and promptly ordered the priest to remove it. In a response to John Vennari, the Bishop wrote:
“Thank you for your message regarding the sign at SS Columba – Brigid Church here in Buffalo. As soon as I learned of this sign, I took immediate action to have it removed. The pastor of SS Columba – Brigid Church told me that the “2 Dads” were meant to refer to a child who has both a father and stepfather. There are several children in his parish who have both a father and stepfather. However, given the potential for the meaning of this message to be misunderstood and even perceived in a heretical way, it was immediately removed.”
Yes, that's right. The priest meant those with a step-dad. Right.

But that's not all. I took a little look through the web page, Photos are always very helpful.

http://www.columba-brigid.org/9.html


Are you ready for "communion?"
Tell us now Father Roy Herberger, is that a rainbow in that stole? Is that a picnic because it certainly is not a Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is an abomination. It is a blasphemy at your hands. You are disgrace to the priesthood. A disgrace to Buffalo.



If you believe that sign wasn't about a couple of sodomites, I've some nice pristine land along the Love Canal for sale too. 

Who gave this man boy his First Holy Communion?

dob@buffalodiocese.org

Heresiarch Archbishop Diarmuid Martin - "Times have changed in Irish society and the Church must change."

Are there any men left in Ireland? Any Catholics?

Are there any men left amongst the clergy and episcopate?

Are they all sodomites and heretics?

Ireland, tell me, I know I have readers in the land of Saint Patrick, Brigid, Columba, Kevin and Malachy.

Tell me.


Or are you all a little queer too?


Dublin Archbishop: Church Must Change With the Times

by Christine Niles  •   November 9, 2015   5 COMMENTS
DUBLIN (ChurchMilitant.com) - Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin is saying the Catholic Church must change with the times. He is also supporting the increased secularization of Catholic schools.
At a Sunday Mass in Dublin held in honor of the 170th anniversary of the Catholic Institute for the Deaf, Martin said in his homily, "The Church is slow to change. Inertia may seem to mean that things can go on as they were and are; but the opposite is the case."
Referring to the June referendum that legalized gay "marriage" in the country, Martin continued, "I spoke some time ago of a 'reality check'; I could also have said 'a wake-up call.' Times have changed in Irish society and the Church must change."