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Monday, 18 April 2016

Murray, Royal and Arroyo - telling it as it is!

Watch the whole discussion. Both Father Murray and Dr. Royal tear the document apart. Arroyo asks just the right questions.

Raymond Arroyo: What do you expect the reaction to be among canonists, among bishops and how do they register the critiques that I'm hearing and the concerns to the pope in a way that could reach him and possibly reshape or read just this document. 

Fr. Gerald Murray: This is the effort I think all of us who are concerned want to see happen, which is to tell the pope that flattery would mean we keep our mouths closed and say nothing, but gospel frankness, remember that word he used in the Synod, “parrhesia," the gospel frankness calls upon us to say, “Holy Father either you been poorly advised or you have an incomplete conception of this issue. We know that we can share some information with you.”  But the thirteen or so Cardinals (including Father Murray's Dolan and Toronto's Cardinal Collins - Vox) who wrote to the Pope at the beginning of the last Synod, I mean that’s the perfect kind of example I think is going to happen. Also you know canon 220 - all the faithful have the right to express their opinions about matters in Church life.  This is good that this be debated and brought forward in the press. …St. Thomas is used in Chapter eight to justify this new approach (in the Exhortation). I can't believe that a good group of Thomists won’t be having a response to that I don't want to criticize the pope. I think the pope is a wonderful man. I think he's a holy man in so many ways. I hope to be a good man and holy myself. I don't judge, but what I will say is when you do something in public that contradicts what your predecessor did, there has to be an accounting for it and a responsibility to upholding the gospel and I think that's what many bishops, Cardinals and priests will call for.

Sunday, 17 April 2016

No Syrian Christians suffering on the Island of Lesbians?

You know, like if you're from Toronto you're a Torontonian?

Well, how many Syrian Christians did the Bishop of Rome bring back from the Island of the Lesbians?

I guess there weren't any, eh?

Meanwhile, in Pakistan.

Hello George? George, are you there?..Hello...

 

Petition to the Cardinals of the Roman Church regarding the grave improprieties of Pope Francis



Petition to the Cardinals of the Roman Church regarding the grave improprieties of Pope Francis

 

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio takes the vow of secrecy at opening of the 2013 Conclave (BBC, screenshote by From Rome blog, cropped)
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio takes the vow of secrecy at opening of the 2013 Conclave (BBC, screenshot by From Rome blog, cropped)
As a Baptized member of the Catholic Church, in accord with my divine right to make known to my sacred pastors, the things which I see as necessary to the unity of the Church, the preservation of the Faith and the salvation of souls, I herewith submit this petition to the College of the Cardinals, as princes of the Roman Church, to whom it belongs both in law to elect the Roman Pontiff, and by immemorial right, to judge the man who holds the Pontificate if he err from the faith, and depose him, ...
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition2CardinalsReFrancis

Saturday, 16 April 2016

"I can say yes. Period!"

Bishops, Cardinals, the Catholic faithful demand you do your duty before God!

Pope Francis, I don't want you to refer me to what a Cardinal said, what do you say?

Let your yes be yes and your no be no!


Well, you said, "yes!"


Francis: 'New concrete possibilities' for remarried after family exhortation
by Joshua J. McElwee | Apr. 16, 2016

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE TO ROME -- Pope Francis has affirmed that his recent apostolic exhortation on family life has opened up "new concrete possibilities" for Catholics who divorce and remarry without first obtaining annulments.
In a press conference on his way back from a one-day visit to Lesbos, Greece, a reporter told the pontiff that some had interpreted the language in his exhortation to mean that there were no specific changes to the church's pastoral practice for remarried Catholics while others thought there were.
"Are there new concrete possibilities that did not exist before the publication of the exhortation, or no?" asked the journalist.
"I can say yes," responded Francis. "Period."
The pontiff then suggested that people looking for more information consult the presentation given by Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn at the Vatican April 8, the day the new exhortation, titled Amoris Laetitia ("The Joy of Love"), was released.

Lest you doubt the translation, read Hilary and the manipulation by Vatican Radio to get it wrong.

Someone needs a fizzakeyatryst or maybe an exorcist!

Answering a question on the plane back after leaving the Lesbians on Lesbos, about the inappropriate meeting with U.S. Marxist, abortion advocate Bernie Sanders, Jorge Bergoglio, the apparent Bishop or Rome said:

“This morning as I was leaving, Senator Sanders was there,” Francis said. “He knew I was coming out at that time, and he had the kindness to greet me.”
“When I came down, he introduced himself, I greeted him with a handshake, and nothing more,” the pope added. “It’s common courtesy, this is called common courtesy.
“If someone thinks that greeting someone is getting involved in politics,” he said, “I recommend that they find a psychiatrist.

How did Bernie Sanders know to be there when the Pope would come out? Because it was set up the night before! Sanders knew. The conference orgnanisers knew to tell him, but we're expected to believe the Pope didn't know? Sanders says that they had a five-minute discussion, the Pope says it was a handshake. At this point, what difference does it make?

He thinks we need a fizzakeyatryst?

Nonsense. 

I hear Father Amorth is still in Rome!


Pope Bergoglio meets with Bernie Sanders - a blatant interference in the United States election - gives cover to American Catholics to vote for a Marxist

Bernie Sanders, the socialist American candidate for President who honeymooned in the Soviet Union, met for five minutes in a private meeting with Jorge Bergoglio, Bishop of Rome.


Sanders, an atheist Jew and advocate of the killing of babies up to the moment of birth said, "It was a real honour for me, for my wife and I to spend time with him. I think he is one of the extraordinary figures not only in the world today but in modern world history."

This is the second time that the Bishop of  Rome has interfered in the American election, first calling anyone that would build a wall to keep illegal migrants out of the United States as not being "Christian" referring directly to Donald Trump.

Image result for sanders vaticanBoth of these actions on the part of Jorge Bergoglio will give cover to leftist American Catholics who now will vote for the socialist, abortion promoter, sodomic marriage advocate and property-confiscating believer with the Pope's blessing. That is the underlay of this action.

Abortion is an abomination before God and socialism has been condemned as "evil" by the Church beginning with Pope Leo XIII in Quod Apostolici Muneris.

It is also worth noting that no other candidate for American President, other than Sanders, has been interviewed by Thomas Rosica of Salt + Light.

"Same-sex unions" are not "marriage" but they are a "family situation?"

Well, not in the Christian sense to be sure; but to Francis and the malefactors that wrote the apostolic expectoration; sure, why not?


"We need to acknowledge the great variety of family situations that can offer a certain stability, but de facto or same-sex unions, may not simply be equated with marriage."

Bergoglio has enacted what the Synod Fathers rejected!

They may go to Hell for this.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/popes-exhortation-adopts-the-approach-to-same-sex-unions-that-synod-fathers

Thursday, 14 April 2016

I will no longer stand for O Canada!


The Government of Canada has tabled today, Bill C-14; An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts for medical assistance in dying. 

The Bill is not as draconian as that proposed by the Parliamentary Committee


The can call it what they want, it is legalised murder.

I will no longer stand for O Canada!

This is no longer my country.

This Francis revolution breaks with "2000 years of tradition!"

I wrote an email to a priest friend with something I read on social media: “Mommy, what does pastoral mean? Oh sweetie, that is when daddy shows up at Mass with his new wife and Father pretends that I am dead.” My friend wrote back, “or with the other daddy!”

Let us recall for a moment what the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1650 states, 
“Today there are numerous Catholics in many countries who have recourse to civil divorce and contract new civil unions. In fidelity to the words of Jesus Christ—‘Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery’—the Church maintains that a new union cannot be recognized as valid, if the first marriage was. If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God’s law. Consequently, they cannot receive Eucharistic communion as long as this situation persists. For the same reason, they cannot exercise certain ecclesial responsibilities. Reconciliation through the sacrament of Penance can be granted only to those who have repented for having violated the sign of the covenant and of fidelity to Christ, and who are committed to living in complete continence.”
At least, he can keep his sense of humour in this insanity.
The Rev. Brian W. Harrison, O.S., M.A., S.T.D., a priest of the Society of the Oblates of Wisdom, is an Associate Professor of Theology in the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce, P.R.. He is also parochial vicar of the parish of Saint Joseph the Worker in the city of Ponce, and a ‘Defender of the Bond’ for the island’s marriage tribunals. He was born in Australia and, after being raised as a Presbyterian, converted to the Catholic faith in 1972. In 1979 he began studies for the priesthood in the major seminary of Sydney, and after completing his Licentiate in Theology at Rome’s Angelicum university was ordained as a priest in Saint Peter’s Basilica in 1985 by His Holiness Pope John Paul II. In 1997 he gained his doctorate in Systematic Theology, summa cum laude, from the Pontifical Athenæum of the Holy Cross in Rome. Fr. Harrison, who has lived in Puerto Rico since 1989, is well-known as a speaker and writer. He is the author of two books and over 120 articles in Catholic magazines and journals in the U.S.A., Australia, Britain, France, Spain and Puerto Rico. His special interest in theological and liturgical matters, in keeping with the charism of the Oblates of Wisdom, is upholding a ‘hermeneutic of continuity’ between the teachings of Vatican Council II and the bimillennial heritage of Catholic Tradition.
Father Harrison, more than a little qualified to comment, has written at LifeSiteNews:

Fr. Brian Harrison, O.S.The most troubling aspect of AL, however, is its treatment in Chapter 8 of those living in irregular sexual relationships. Not a few stalwart champions of the magisterium are reassuring us that, basically, all is well. Canonist Ed Peters insists that the exhortation effects no change in church law. That is true, but it misses the point. For in paragraphs 302 (last section), 304 and 305 Francis has sent a clear message to priests that in individual cases they can and should bypass, rather than apply, the law, making ‘pastoral’ exceptions to it according to their own ‘merciful’ discretion. Robert Moynihan and George Weigel assure us that there is no change of doctrine embodied in the new document. But that’s only half true. Moral doctrine (i.e., teaching proposed as divine law) will be effectively changed not only if the Pope directly contradicts it, but also if he undermines it by relaxing disciplinary measures needed to protect it. Lamentably, like a tiny mustard seed full of massive potential, this kind of change has now been carefully planted in the fertile soil of two footnotes to an Apostolic Exhortation. 
Remember, when does doctrine change?
"Doctrine changes when pastoral contexts shift and new insights emerge such that particularly doctrinal formulations no longer mediate the saving message of God's transforming love. Doctrine changes when the Church has leaders and teachers who are not afraid to take note of new contexts and emerging insights. It changes when the Church has pastors who do what Francis has been insisting: leave the securities of your chanceries, of your rectories, of your safe places, of your episcopal residences go set aside the small minded rules that often keep you locked up and shielded from the world." Thomas J. Rosica from Richard Gaillardetz
Returning to Father Harrison: 
In notes 336 and 351 to paragraphs 300 and 305 respectively, the Holy Father breaks with the teaching and discipline of all his predecessors in the See of Peter by allowing at least some divorced and civilly remarried Catholics (with no decree of nullity and no commitment to continence) to receive the sacraments. Since “discernment can recognize that in a particular situation no grave fault exists" owing to a variety of mitigating psychological and other factors, Francis affirms in n. 351 that the Church’s “help” to these Catholics living in objectively illicit relationships can “in certain cases . . . include the help of the sacraments”. The context indicates that this means mainly Penance and Eucharist. Commentators of all beliefs and none have almost universally interpreted the footnote in that sense, and their widely trumpeted claims have been confirmed by eloquent silence from the See of Peter.
It would seem to me then that Father Harrison, who's article is in harmony with the Catechism of the Catholic Church, doctrinally infallible and magisterial document is correct and Jorge Bergoglio, neither a theologian or a philosopher but not much more than a simple modernist pastor, is quite wrong.

The Bishop of Rome has set himself against the Catechism because Amoris Laetitia grants permission in its pastoral footnotes to provide the sacraments to those in adultery and other "irregular" situations. Of this, there can be no doubt.

The Pope himself is responsible for this confusion. He must clarify what he meant or Cardinals and Bishops must meet together and demand that he clarify the errors inherent in the Joy of Whatever you call Love.

Perhaps the Archbishop of Los Angeles would like to explain this? 



It is perfectly in keeping with the Apostolic Exhortation. Notwithstanding what the document says to uphold Catholic faith and doctrine, there are more holes in it than a slice of Swiss cheese and what you see below is well within the pastoral initiatives of this document. After all, Edward Beck, Blase Cupich, Anthony Spadaro and James Martin have told us so.

The question is, what does Jorge Bergoglio think and who will get the answer out of him?

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

"Give him the benefit of the doubt, if ANYONE deserves that, it is Cardinal Burke!"

Not just a few blogging colleagues have issued harsh criticism of Raymond Cardinal Burke's response to the Apostolic Exhortation in the National Catholic Register. Following that column of His Eminence, I wrote it up on a few posts below and contrasted it with the heretical remarks of Blase Cupich on the reception of Holy Communion. 

I wrote then:

"It is important to read all of what Cardinal Burke wrote and to read it slowly and carefully. He is not condemning the exhortation, but he is certainly not praising it either. His approach is clearly one of a Canonist. It is reasoned and rational. He makes it clear, it is the "opinion" of Francis, it is not infallible, it is not magisterial. Reading between the lines, one can surmise, he is disgusted."

It is my view, that we have not heard the last on this from Cardinal Burke, nor have we heard what he really thinks. If he is anything, he is a faithful and true Bishop, that has been proven again and again. He is also wise and a Canonist and sees the long view. I have no doubt, that in time, the right time, we will hear more from this man. 

I present here, a letter which I have received from someone who has suffered at the hands of certain priests and prelates in ways unimaginable and who received only kindness and mercy from the one pictured above.


The Few, the Faithful, the Traumatised
The Sheepdog
The so called fight-or-flight response originates in the autonomic nervous system – that part of everyone which acts unconsciously, responding to a deeply ingrained biological urge to protect oneself from imminent harm. This system is present in both humans and animals, the difference being that humans have the gift of reason, and are largely able to moderate through their conscious mind the autonomic urges to protect oneself. When a person is traumatized, ostracized, and emotionally or physically beaten down, the PTSD that results inhibits the ability of the rational mind to intervene in these processes.
 In the years since the Second Vatican Council, the Church has been attacked by dark forces, the most insidious of which, “the Spirit of Vatican II”, (which is in complete opposition to the actual Council)  “has entered the church through some crack or fissure”.  These dark forces have inspired legions of evil and wicked bishops and careerist priests to join forces to batter down by whatever means necessary those who have tried to hold back the advancement of the forces of Baal into the Holy of Holies.
 Looking back along the road the church has travelled since the Council, one may observe the battered and bloody spiritual corpses that are strewn along its length. These were those faithful, priests and lay alike, who tried to resist those forces, but were vanquished by the darkness. And so having our rational mind unable to fully function because of trauma, we revert to our instincts – we fight ferociously and indiscriminately or we flee the battle in an attempt to circle the wagons and isolate our families in an extreme way, from what is happening. Those of us who are still around, still faithful, have been traumatized by having to witness such evil by the hands that have been anointed to offer the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. A truly Satanic perversion of grace indeed. How can we not be traumatized? How can we not be fearful? How can we not be angry, suspicious, and even paranoid? We have most, if not all, the features of PTSD.
 Our rational mind and soul is so beaten up that it is often not strong enough to overpower the instinctual urge to attack that which we perceive is the source of our trauma. We began to act like animals, relying on pure instinct, without the aid of reason. This is what happens when the faithful Catholics are cornered, isolated, and poked with the stick of heresy by the very men who should be their shepherds and pastors: they scratch and bite at everyone who may approach to offer to help, even their friends. They become paranoid and see in everyone who might not fully agree with their approach to what is a common problem as an adversary.  I have PTSD, and I am doing well. I have my fight-or-flight response under control, but many of my friends do not, and some of them have started turning on me in the post A-L frenzy. How do we combat this? PRAY PRAY PRAY before you have conversations. Fast from things you are entitled to. Mortify your senses, and most importantly, as often as you can, get on your knees before Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament and hurl your hurt, your agonies, your betrayal, and your doubts at the foot of the altar. If you ask Him to bear this burden with you He will. Our trials, sufferings, and agonies have NO VALUE except to the extent that we conform them to the Passion of Our Lord. That ability, given by God Himself when He created us, is what makes us different from animals. And this advice from a saintly Bishop from LaCrosse, Wisconsin is what saved my soul from turning in on itself in anger. Cardinal Burke has been the subject of attack these days. Having recovered from my PTSD to a point where my rational soul is back in control, I must say, having known him personally for many years, that he deserves the benefit of the doubt:  because he knows things we don't, and he’s playing the long game. I'd bet my life on that.  What he certainly isn’t doing is caving or compromising, although those of us who are traumatized and have not sufficiently recovered our rationality can’t see that, and it’s not their fault. It’s the fault of the men who caused the trauma in the first place.
 I may find the first two paragraphs of his piece in the NCR difficult to swallow as well, and I find it hard to accept his proposition that A-L is somehow a non-magisterial document. I would certainly like to hear him expound on those particular areas because there is certainly more than meets the eye. I may ask him privately, as my “Ghostly Father”. He has an infinitely greater chance of being correct than I simply because he is so much holier than I.
 But if my choice is to publicly attack him and not give him the benefit of the doubt (if ANYONE deserves that, it is Burke), then the problem lies with my sinful pride, my own rash judgement, and not Burke's character or faithfulness to tradition. So I’m NOT going to start attacking the only bishop who ever cared about my immortal soul. I'm not willing to do to him what they accuse him of doing to us.

Some will tell you the Pope did not open the door for Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried, cohabitants, fornicators and sodomites. Bovine excrement!

Some will tell you the Pope did not open the door for Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried, cohabitants, fornicators and sodomites. Bovine excrement!

They're liars.

All over the world, the heretical priests and bishops are proclaiming victory.  

Who will rise to defend the faith and the Christian people? 

Who will stand against this Bergoglian Heresy and denounce it?

 Dr. Evil Air Quotes - The Catholic Bishops Have lost their MoJo

Read it!
305. For this reason, a pastor cannot feel that it is enough simply to apply moral laws to those living in “irregular” situations, as if they were stones to throw at people’s lives. This would bespeak the closed heart of one used to hiding behind the Church’s teachings, “sitting on the chair of Moses and judging at times with superiority and superficiality difficult cases and wounded families”. Along these same lines, the International Theological Commission has noted that “natural law could not be presented as an already established set of rules that impose themselves a priori on the moral subject; rather, it is a source of objective inspiration for the deeply personal process of making decisions”. Because of forms of conditioning and mitigating factors, it is possible that in an objective situation of sin – which may not be subjectively culpable, or fully such – a person can be living in God’s grace, can love and can also grow in the life of grace and charity, while receiving the Church’s help to this end. 
351 In certain cases, this can include the help of the sacraments. Hence, “I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber, but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy” (Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium [24 November 2013], 44: AAS 105 [2013], 1038). I would also point out that the Eucharist “is not a prize for the perfect, but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak” (ibid., 47: 1039).
Those who want to will use this to open the door, even though "in law" it has not been done.

Why?

Because as Tom Rosica has told us many times:



"Doctrine changes when pastoral contexts shift and new insights emerge such that particularly doctrinal formulations no longer mediate the saving message of God's transforming love. Doctrine changes when the Church has leaders and teachers who are not afraid to take note of new contexts and emerging insights. It changes when the Church has pastors who do what Francis has been insisting: leave the securities of your chanceries, of your rectories, of your safe places, of your episcopal residences go set aside the small minded rules that often keep you locked up and shielded from the world."

Even the secular world has caught on; what does this convert from secular Judaism have to say?
If there were any doubts that Pope Francis is a stealth reformer of the Roman Catholic Church, the apostolic exhortation he released last week (Amoris Laetitia, or the "Joy of Love") should settle the matter. A straightforward reformer of the church seeks to change its doctrines. A stealth reformer like Francis, on the other hand, keeps the doctrines intact but invokes such concepts as mercy, conscience, and pastoral discernment to show priests that it's perfectly acceptable to circumvent and disregard those doctrines in specific cases. A doctrine officially unenforced will soon lose its authority as a doctrine. Where once it was a commandment sanctioned by God, now it becomes an "ideal" from which we're expected to fall short. Before long it may be treated as a suggestion. Eventually, repealing it is no longer controversial — or perhaps even necessary.