Bishop Bootkoski obfuscates - kicks Patricia Jannuzzi under a second bus!

In the matter of Patricia Janunzzi the teacher put on "administrative leave" at Immaculata High School in Petterson, New Jersey, Bishop Paul Bootkoski of Metuchen has finally weighed in publicly.

Bishop Bootkoski is not being completely clear. Something is missing. Teachers are given one year contracts. Mrs. Jannuzzi's family has confirmed that she will not have a contract in September 2015. She is currently on "administrative leave." Technically speaking, Bishop Bootkoski is correct; "There has been no interruption in her pay or benefits." What he does not add is the word, "yet."

In Ontario from where I write, Catholic schools have elected Boards of Trustees and are funded from the provincial tax base. They are essentially "public" Catholic schools. Teacher unions are very strong and protective of their members. In other provinces of Canada and certainly in the United States this is not the case. Immaculata High School is essentially "private" in this case "parochial." It is in the Parish of the Immaculate Conception and is owned directly by Paul Bootkoski under the legal provision of a "corporation sole" recognised in the United States of America under Common Law. I've searched the school web page. There is no indication of a Board of Trustees or elected officials. Therefore, one can only conclude that it is part of the overall corporation sole of the Diocese of Metuchen.

This means that Bishop Bootkoski is personally responsible for the decision to not give Mrs. Jannuzzi a contract for September 2015. His treatment of Mrs. Jannuzzi is hardly that of a "Shepherd."

The issue is not only Mrs. Jannuzzi but Bishop Bootkoski's apologia!  

"We are a compassionate Catholic community committed to treating our students, faculty and parishioners with respect. We have never wavered from our traditional Catholic teachings."

His Excellency is in fact, not treating Mrs. Jannuzzi with respect. He has allowed her to be put on "leave" and she will not be rehired in September. He has not defended her against publc calumny and insults. His letter is even more testament to the lack of respect he has shown for his employee of over thirty years. Those in Metuchen are more qualified than this writer to comment on whether the Bishop has ever "wavered from traditional Catholic teachings." In the case of Mrs. Jannuzzi, however, that does not appear to be true.

'The teacher’s comments were disturbing and do not reflect the Church’s teachings of acceptance. However, she has never been terminated, as some media outlets have reported. She has been put on administrative leave. There has been no interruption in her pay and benefits."

Mrs. Jannuzzi's comments appear to the right. This is the Facebook post that has caused all of this and it was on her own personal page. If she made a mistake, it was not having her settings to the most private available (a lesson for all). Those who vilified this woman have done a great injustice to her. It has been aided and abetted by her superiors at the school and the parish pastor, a Monsignor, who has in the past downplayed the filming of naked boys in the school's shower room. Now Bishop Bootkoski piles on this woman. He cannot run from the obvious. He states that Mrs. Jannuzzi's postion has not been "terminated." The Bishop is clearly being Jesuitical in his approach. It seems rather clear that she is being set up not to be "rehired!" This is evident by the Bishop's description of her comments that these comments make her unfit to be a Catholic teacher insinuating that she does not "respect" her brethren and that she has used "harsh and judgemental statements." Not only will she not be rehired by Immaculata High School in September 2015 as confirmed by her family, with this kind of public condemnation by her Bishop, he has essentially rendered her unemployable as a teacher. He has engaged in nothing less than character assassination. 

Where is his culpability in this? 

The Bishop continues:

"Pope Francis reminds us that we are to accept all of our brethren. We must ensure that our educators steer away from harsh and judgmental statements that can alienate and divide us."

Where is the evidence that Patricia Jannuzzi ever disrespected a student? Any comments about her which I have read, even from those who disagree with her, indicate that she was an outstanding teacher and Catholic. What is "harsh and judgmental" about standing up for marriage between one man and one woman. Does Bishop Bootkowski believe that marriage should be otherwise? or that the Catholics of Metuchen have no right to an opinion or to express it? Perhaps the Bishop needs to read the Code of Canon Law, Can. 212.3 followed quickly by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the Unites States of America. The good Bishop may also wish to recall the words of Our Blessed Lord as recorded in the 10th chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew:

32 Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. 33 But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. 34 Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword. 35 For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household.

It is wonderful when these people quote or refer to statements by Pope Francis when it suits their agenda. It is unfortunate that they have forgotten the Pope's desire for "Mercy," but that does not seem to count for Patricia Jannuzzi.

Coming to the word "agenda;" in the close of his letter, Bishop Bootkowski takes a swipe at those of us who have been raising the alarm at what has happened here:

"We regret that certain individuals and groups are using inaccurate media reports to push their own agendas."

Perhaps we need to give a little education to Bishop Bootkoski. A little history.

I agree with him and I regret that certain individuals and groups are pushing their own agenda.

The fact is, it is an "agenda" and Lloyd Marcus at The American Thinker states quite clearly:

"Homosexual activists attempt to humiliate and politically destroy anyone who dares even criticize their agenda.  Meanwhile, the MSM (mainstream media) casts us who believe marriage should remain between one man and one woman as the aggressors, as hate-filled villains." 

In Catholic Family News, John Vennari writes, 

“The Overhauling of Straight America” by Marshal E. Kirk and Hunter Madsen was expanded into the 1989 book, After the Ball, How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s. It is a blueprint of media and psychology manipulation for widespread public acceptance of homosexuality. One of Kirk and Madsen’s key strategies is to vilify their opponents: “We intend to make the anti-gays look so nasty that average Americans will want to disassociate themselves from such types.” 

In 1958, Willard Kleon Skousen a one-time FBI Special Agent, published The Naked Communist which highlighted the communist plan to take over America. These 45 points, most of which have already occurred, were read into the congressional record by Albert Herlong (D-FL). These particular ones stand out relating to this situation:

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

If one wishes to go back further, one need look no further than the The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita or one can always refer to Bella Dodd, a one-time leader in the American Communist Party brought back to the faith by the Grace of God and Venerable Fulton J. Sheen.

Indeed Bishop Bootkoski, there is an agenda and Catholics can only hope that you'll be enlightened to determine from whence it comes.

For more on my observations of the situation, please refer to those filed at:

http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/search/label/Patricia%20Januzzi

Michael Hichborn of The Lepanto Institute has written an open letter:

http://www.lepantoinstitute.org/uncategorized/an-open-letter-to-bishop-bootkoski/

We want our religion back!

And if you don't give it back we will take it back!

Who's on first?

Perusing this morning's post by Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness blog, I discovered this:

Richard Gaillardetz  Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College said the above in the September 25, 2013 issue of the National Catholic Reporter as highlighted below:

I'm confused.

On March 2, 2015, LifeSiteNews reported the following:

It seems then that Father Thomas J. Rosica has plagiarised Richard Gaillardetz.

In other news.

Pope Francis on the death penalty - opinions are not magisterial

Vatican Radio reports that Pope Francis said that "no crime ever deserves the death penalty."

He has also said in the past that a life sentence is like a "death sentence." Presumably, it would follow that Charles Manson and Paul Bernardo should be let out of prison.

The Pope has a personal opinion and in my opinion, he is wrong.

This is no more magisterial than if he were to say tomorrow that the moon is made of creamed cheese.

The danger here is that the establishment Catholic media and others will use this for political argument. This Pope continues to invade into areas that are out of his league, as his comments on economics and the soon to come the environment encyclical display. Frankly, it is Marxist rhetoric. I am not calling the Bishop of Rome a Marxist but his rhetoric on these issues are not founded in the doctrine of the Church as articulated in the Catechism and seem to come from a 1970's mentality of South American Jesuits imbued with their heretical internationalist and liberationist theologies.

The Pope is entitled to his personal opinions. The Pope is not entitled to state it in such a way that it can be interpreted as Magisterial. 

Vox.

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/03/20/pope_francis_no_crime_ever_deserves_the_death_penalty/1130871

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a5.htm

Legitimate defense

2263 The legitimate defense of persons and societies is not an exception to the prohibition against the murder of the innocent that constitutes intentional killing. "The act of self-defense can have a double effect: the preservation of one's own life; and the killing of the aggressor. . . . The one is intended, the other is not."65

2264 Love toward oneself remains a fundamental principle of morality. Therefore it is legitimate to insist on respect for one's own right to life. Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow:

If a man in self-defense uses more than necessary violence, it will be unlawful: whereas if he repels force with moderation, his defense will be lawful. . . . Nor is it necessary for salvation that a man omit the act of moderate self-defense to avoid killing the other man, since one is bound to take more care of one's own life than of another's.66

2265 Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others. The defense of the common good requires that an unjust aggressor be rendered unable to cause harm. For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility.

2266 The efforts of the state to curb the spread of behavior harmful to people's rights and to the basic rules of civil society correspond to the requirement of safeguarding the common good. Legitimate public authority has the right and duty to inflict punishment proportionate to the gravity of the offense. Punishment has the primary aim of redressing the disorder introduced by the offense. When it is willingly accepted by the guilty party, it assumes the value of expiation. Punishment then, in addition to defending public order and protecting people's safety, has a medicinal purpose: as far as possible, it must contribute to the correction of the guilty party.67

2267 Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.

If, however, non-lethal means are sufficient to defend and protect people's safety from the aggressor, authority will limit itself to such means, as these are more in keeping with the concrete conditions of the common good and more in conformity to the dignity of the human person.

Today, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which the state has for effectively preventing crime, by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm - without definitely taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself - the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity "are very rare, if not practically nonexistent."68

Compromised Catholic Media

http://www.churchmilitant.tv/fullpreview/?vidID=ciax-2014-09-10&ssnID=&proID=
This program is from ChurchMilitant.TV

Who knew? Patricia Jannuzzi is a Powerhouse!!!

From National Review. 

No wonder they've tried to shut her down.

She's a crackerjack!

Here's her fundraising page.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415700/who-patricia-jannuzzi-maggie-gallagher

Watching S+L TV makes me ...

Salt + Light Media

21 mins · 

Happy ‪#‎InternationalDayOfHappiness‬! ‪#‎HappyDays‬ ‪#‎SNL‬ ‪#‎SLTV‬‪#‎FirstDayofSpring‬

In the combox ...

Homosexual activist says gay ‘marriage’ isn’t about equality, it’s about destroying marriage

With the continuing anti-family and anti-marriage agenda this is a good time to reexamine it from the perspective of those who undertake it. Notice at the one minute mark the nervous laugh after she says she has "three kids who have, um, five parents, more or less." It is her guilty conscience. Ms Gessen knows not only that the concept is absurd but that it is fundamentally against the natural and moral law.

After you read this, please consider making a donation to Patricia Jannuzzi, recently fired from Immaculata High School in New Jersey for stating the obvious. You might also consider making a comment on the page to challenge the haters that are lurking there. Below this reprint from LifeSiteNews is an advertisement out today to run on Sean Hannity about Patricia and the phone number for her bishop who has permitted this travesty of justice. It is from Michael Hitchborn of the Lepanto Institute which recently exposed the practices of CRS - Catholic Relief Services which are against Catholic teaching.

Can you Voxers get it over $25,000 by 12 noon EDT?

From LifeSiteNews, May 1, 2013.

May 1, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative pundits are saying that a homosexual activist exposed the hidden agenda behind homosexual “marriage” when she told an audience last year that the movement is not seeking equality but rather a total dismantling of the institution of marriage itself. 

Masha Gessen, a journalist and author who campaigns for homosexual 'rights', made the comments last May in Australia on a panel at the Sydney Writer’s Festival. She said:

It’s a no-brainer that (homosexual activists) should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. …(F)ighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. 

The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don’t think it should exist. And I don’t like taking part in creating fictions about my life. That’s sort of not what I had in mind when I came out thirty years ago. 

Providing her own life as an example for her advocacy to do away with marriage, Gessen described the complex family structure in which three children whom she parents live: one of them is adopted with her ex-partner, another - whom she birthed – has a biological father in Russia, and the third is the biological child of her current partner and Gessen’s brother. These three children have five adults in parenting roles, but not all five adults parent all three children.

“The five parents break down into two groups of three,” she said. “And really, I would like to live in a legal system that is capable of reflecting that reality, and I don’t think that’s compatible with the institution of marriage.” 

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1,000,000 Catholics don't matter

Nope. 

They just don't matter.

Not to John Allen.

One might wonder why any of this matters to the Vatican. The Society of St. Pius X claims a global following of around 1 million, which, if true, would represent .01 percent of the full Catholic population of 1.2 billion. Investing resources in trying to lure such a relative footnote back might seem disproportionate.

Not to others whom we hoped would be more pastoral towards them.

From: Thomas Rosica [mailto:rosica@saltandlighttv.org]
Sent: March 24, 2011 2:53 PM
To: david.domet@xxxxx.com
Subject: For your VOX!
Source URL: http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/april-may-be-cruel-month-relations-traditionalists
More news for you and your VOX. May the Lord grant you the peace you are seeking this Lent. No
guarantees you will find it this side of the Resurrection but keep seeking.
Fr. Rosica

April may be cruel month for relations with traditionalists
By John L Allen Jr
Created Mar 24, 2011
For anyone hoping that longstanding ruptures between Rome and the traditionalist wing of the
Catholic church are on the brink of swift resolution, it may turn out that April is indeed the cruelest
month.
Sometime in early April, ...

http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/april-may-be-cruel-month-relations-traditionalists

Indeed. Quite the email. Quite the report from John L. Allen, Jr.

Do these 1,000,000 plus Catholics matter?. As many have stated, they are a greater portion of the Church than Allen lets on. There may be 1.5 billion Catholics in the world but when you look at Europe and the Americas how many actually practice their faith.

If they are schismatics, which I content that they are not, then do they not matter? There is sure a lot of ecumenical outreach for heretics and interfaith outreach with those who deny Christ but precious little for these, our own brothers and sisters.

I am sorry for Bishop Williamson. I have great respect and sympathy for the bishops, priests and religious of the Society of St. Pius X and I understand the desires of those who worship at their chapels. I believe that one day Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre will be declared at least a Servant of God by the Church if not made Venerable. Who are we to say that the Holy Spirit was not acting through him to preserve the traditional Mass?

Father Zuhlsdorf and Father Hunwicke have some thoughts worth pondering.

As for Allen and company, they know and we know something. They have no progeny. There time is short, very short. They are working feverishly because they know it but they will not succeed.

They will fail.

This won't last much longer.

All we have to do is hold fast to the faith.

They want to debase the truth. It is an attack on Christ and His Sacrifice. It is an attack on the Eucharist!

What is behind the attempt by Kasper, Marx, Tagle and and the others who are attempting to change doctrine through pastoral practice and a talk of "mercy" as if it is something never practiced in two thousand years?

It is about sacrilege and debasing the Holy Eucharist. It is about denying that the Mass is the Sacrifice of Calvary and debasing it to be the reenactment of the Last Supper rather than a re-presentation of that Sacrifice. If the Eucharist is just a meal, who are we to judge or restrict by law those who want to come? If they want to come, they must do as all of us. Repent of your sins with a firm purpose of amendment. Period. It is that simple. Are any of us truly worthy? Of course not, that is why we pray the Centurion's prayer three times, or once if we're more worthy as in the modernist rite. When we pray, "only say the word" the word is said in the confessional when the priest says, "Ego absolve te!"  There is the healing. There is the mercy. 

The Ordinary Form of the Mass, the Novus Ordo Missae is a sacrificial offering, assuming the form, matter and intent is there on the part of the priest. Sometimes, it is illicit even if it is valid. More than often, it is a "banal" product as then Cardinal Ratzinger called it. It is not possible that it can convert and convict in the same way as the the traditional form for its prayers are deficient and its celebration often not sufficient. The Mass according to the latest books by St. John XXIII was nearly eliminated. It was banished by those modernists who were out to undermine the faith and are now at their zenith. This form of the Mass more fully expressed the Catholic faith and the Sacrifice and there is no denying it. It is as straight forward as 2 + 2 = 4 and those who say otherwise want you to believe that it really equals 5. 

They are at the height of their power now and they will come crashing down.

For your spiritual edification.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZurFnbV_2U&t=1338

"A Meditation on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass"  

By Michael Sestak

August 2014

Some days back, a viewer on YouTube forwarded a kind request, asking me to produce a film showcasing the beauty and richness of the Latin Mass. I started the project, but never imagined where it would lead.

I worked on the video each day after work from 7pm - 3am for five consecutive nights. It was a draining experience. But I am satisfied with the end result.

PURPOSE

"A Meditation on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass" is not meant to be a mere inspirational drama, but a heartfelt prayer, a Catholic meditation.

It should be viewed as such: Focused. Silent. Penitent.

My sincere hope is that you will grow in your love for God, and your Faith will be strengthened.

SYMBOLISM

After previewing the movie for my family, they expressed concern about some of the symbolism, particularly the scene of the Kiss of Judas and the priest kissing the altar. Please know that I based everything on ancient Catholic teaching. For example:

"When the priest kisses the altar, he is kissing Christ, *faithfully,* in contradiction to the kiss of betrayal by Judas." In a sense, the priest is making atonement for the betrayal of Judas.

"The priest reading the Introit represents Christ being falsely accused by Annas and blasphemed."

"The priest going to the middle of the altar and saying the Kyrie Eleison represents Christ being brought to Caiphas and these three times denied by Peter."

"The priest saying the 'Dominus vobiscum' represents Christ looking at Peter and converting him."

"The priest saying the 'Orate Fratres' represents Christ being shown by Pilate to the people with the words 'Ecce Homo.'"

"The priest praying in a low voice represents Christ being mocked and spit upon."

"The priest blessing the bread and wine represents Christ being nailed to the cross."

"The priest elevating the host represents Christ being raised on the cross."

"The priest goes to the Epistle side and prays signifying how Jesus was led before Pilate and falsely accused."

"The priest goes to the Gospel-side, where he reads the Gospel, signifying how Christ was sent from Pilate to Herod, and was mocked and derided by the latter."

"The priest goes from the Gospel side again to the middle of the altar - this signifies how Jesus was sent back from Herod to Pilate."

"The priest uncovers the chalice, recalling how Christ was stripped for the scourging."

"The priest offers bread and wine, signifying how Jesus was bound to the pillar and scourged."

"The priest washes his hands, signifying how Pilate declared Jesus innocent by washing his hands."

"The priest covers the chalice after the Offertory recalling how Jesus was crowned with thorns."

"The priest breaking and separating the host represents Christ giving up His spirit."

Taken from "The Catholic Church Alone: The One True Church of Christ" by the Catholic Education Company, New York, page 551. The book has been out of print for many decades; used copies sell for about $200.00 or more, but can be read freely on Google Books.

FINAL THOUGHTS by Fulton J. Sheen

Too many of us end our lives, but few of us see them finished. A sinful life may end, but a sinful life is never a finished life.

Our Lord finished His work, but we have not finished ours. He pointed the way we must follow. He laid down the Cross at the finish, but we must take it up. He finished Redemption in His physical Body, but we have not finished it in His Mystical Body.

He has finished the Sacrifice of Calvary; we must finish the Mass.

Polish Bishops throw down the gauntlet to Synod manipulators: "People living in non-sacramental union deprive themselves of the possibility of receiving Holy Communion."

Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel; Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester; Thomas de Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham; Henry, Earl of Derby (later Henry IV); and Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick, throw down their gauntlets and demand Richard II to let them prove by arms the justice for their rebellion

With his heritage and knowledge of the Polish language, Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness has been monitoring the news from Poland. 

The Polish Bishops have concluded their annual plenary. The story is now being picked up by Voice of the Family, LifeSiteNews and PewSitter showing the importance of the matter - the outright rejection of Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried.

Individual Catholics must look to the Bishops of Poland in addition to those whom we already know as being faithful to Our Lord Jesus Christ and the teachings of His Church. 

Here is their statement which flies in complete contradiction to the modernists who would seek to approve sacrilege. 

The original communique can be found at the Polish Episcopal Conference website. 

In view of the upcoming Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in Rome, the bishops have undertaken a reflection on marriage and family. This reflection demonstrated the importance of the family from the perspective of philosophical, theological and legal issues.

Identified once again was the indispensable importance of the sacrament of marriage, and the family for the growth of Christian life within the Church.

Emphasized was the need to promote the pastoral care of families, to strengthen the faithful in understanding and the implementation of sacramental marriage, as understood as a sacred and indissoluble union between a woman and a man.

The teaching and the tradition of the Church shows that people living in non-sacramental union deprive themselves of the possibility of receiving Holy Communion.

Pastoral care must be provided for those living in such unions so that they may be able to keep the faith and continue in the community of the Church. Pastoral care of those in non-sacramental unions should also take account of children, who have the right to participate fully in the life and mission of the Church.

Our sister in Christ, Patricia Jannuzzi, needs us!

To my Voxers and fellow Bloggers,

If you have not heard by now of Patricia Jannuzzi, let me tell you.

She is a Catholic teacher removed from her position teaching at Immaculata High School in Somerville, New Jersey for personal comments made about the sanctity of marriage. She is not at retirement age and has been devastated financially by this. Our good friend Barona, at Witness for Church and Pope in Toronto, wrote about her situation.

Where is her bishop?

Where are the pastors?

Where are the Catholics that did this injustice? 

Patricia's friends have taken out a petition to show support for her. It can be found at:

https://www.change.org/p/immaculata-high-school-somerville-nj-support-patti-jannuzzi

Let us show our Catholic sister and mother that we care for her, love her and will pray for her during this difficult time when even Hollywood celebrities are overcome with evil and mock her.

"Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you for my name's sake, for your reward will be great in heaven." May these words of Our Blessed Lord be a great comfort to Patricia and her family.

As someone who was touched by your kindness and generosity of prayers, words and promises of funds recently when threatened with an unjust lawsuit by a prominent media cleric, Holy See consultant and spokesman and adviser to Pope Francis, it behooves me to do this for my sister -- our sister Patricia on this her name sake day of St. Patrick. You offered me funds should they have been necessary. Thankfully they were not. Those funds are necessary now along with your prayers for our Catholic sister.

You know what to do.

http://www.youcaring.com/family-fundraiser/patricia-jannuzzi-catholic-educator-needs-your-help-/322057

And to all you out there whose guilty consciences cause you to continue to flame outrage at this woman and her family by expressing how "appalled" you are in the combox at that fundraising site above, why don't you come here and give a real man a try with your screaming. The combox is open, come on; let's have a go. Or are you afraid to confront a real man rather than a line on a computer. Cowards, all of you.

God bless you.

Vox 

After teaching Catholic Theology for 31 years at Immaculata High School, Somerville, NJ, our mother, Patricia Jannuzzi, was removed from teaching for stating on Facebook:

“We need healthy families with a mother and a father for the sake of the children and humanity.”

Our family is about to lose our health benefits.  Our mother has recently and successfully battled breast cancer without missing a single day of teaching, except for the day of her operation.  Health benefits are important to our family.    

In addition, we have home, insurance, automobile and many other family expenses including educational expenses for two teenage sons.  (One in college, one in high school.)

Our mother is 57, and hoped to teach until retirement at 65.  Due to the overwhelming attacks in the media on her statement of Catholic belief, we do not believe she will be able to find another teaching position.  Her salary & benefits total: 75,500 a year.  Given her age, we are hoping to raise 7 ½ years of salary & benefits as our goal to protect our family.  But for now we are raising 100,000 to cover salary and health benefits moving forward.

I hope you can find it in your heart to help our family.  Any contribution is welcome.  God Bless!  Please forward this!

Links:

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2015/03/threatened-for-her-zeal-for-the-faith

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/could-pope-francis-teach-here-immaculata/

 http://theothermccain.com/2015/03/13/patricia-jannuzzi-is-right/

Cardinal Tagle: Please explain, I'm just a simple guy

You just can't make this stuff up.

The Filipino Cardinal said, “Every situation for those who are divorced and remarried is quite unique. To have a general rule might be counterproductive in the end. My position at the moment is to ask, ‘Can we take every case seriously and is there, in the tradition of the Church, paths towards addressing each case individually?’ This is one issue that I hope people will appreciate is not easy to say ‘no’ or to say ‘yes’ to. We cannot give one formula for all.”

The Cardinal, with all respect, needs to explain himself. At the bottom of this post is the full reprint of the article from the Catholic Herald on his talk; but for the time-being, let me explain.

It is really simple.

• Catholics who marry civilly or in a protestant service without the permission of the local Ordinary and witness by the Church's minister - a priest or deacon; are not married and they are living in a continual state of fornication and thus, mortal sin.

• Catholics who divorce and remarry civilly or in a protestant service (or Catholic if you live in Aurora, Ontario) without the benefit of a Decree of Nullity are living in a perpetual state of adultery and therefore, mortal sin.

• A Catholic who approaches Holy Communion in such a state will commit the sin of sacrilege which is also a mortal sin.

• A Catholic who, objectively speaking, dies in a state of mortal sin will go to Hell for all eternity and be cut off from God.

Those four points above make-up my understanding of Catholic teaching in this regard. Because I believe in the Truth as transmitted by Christ through two-thousand years of magisterial teaching, I feel it important to tell you what that teaching actually is; because it seems to me that someone is spinning here and it isn't me.

Am I wrong?

Or is the Cardinal?

As if the statements of Cardinal Tagle at the bottom of this post are not bad enough; another speaker at the conference was Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. 

So, who is Timothy Radcliffe, O.P.?

Oh my; this post is going to be a lot longer than I had intended.

Well, Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., was once interviewed by Father Thomas J. Rosica, CSB at Canada's Salt + Light Television, Our Catholic Channel of Hope. You will begin to get the picture on his theology by losing the twenty-two minutes and twenty-two seconds which you'll never get back from watching it. 

You can also find out about this wayward Dominican at Protect the Pope wherein you will find that this Dominican is a dissenter on the Church's teaching on a number of areas involving homosexual behaviour. Here we have a report on his appearance at the 2014 Divine Mercy Conference as reported by Protect the Pope and copied below in the event that something mysterious happens with that blog and we maintain the original bolding:

Let's take a little look, shall we?:

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A selection of Fr Radcliffe’s writings expressing dissent from the Church’s teaching:

Fr Radcliffe gave the following contribution to the Church of England ‘s review of homosexuality and gay marriage:

Fr Radcliffe OP expands the meaning of fertility to include gay sex

But not every marriage is fertile in this way. We must avoid having a mechanistic or simplistic understanding of fertility. Jesus speaks a fertile word: This is my body, given for you. He is God’s fertile word. And surely it is in the kind and healing words that we offer each other that we all share in fertility of that most intimate moment. When Jesus met Peter on the shore after Easter, he offers him a word that renews their relationship. Three times he asks him; ‘Do you love me more than these others?’ He allows him to undo his threefold denial. Sexual fertility cannot be separated from the exchange of words that heal, that recreate and set free.

How does all of this bear on the question of gay sexuality? We cannot begin with the question of whether it is permitted or forbidden! We must ask what it means, and how far it is Eucharistic. Certainly it can be generous, vulnerable, tender, mutual and non-violent. So in many ways, I would think that it can be expressive of Christ’s self-gift.

We can also see how it can be expressive of mutual fidelity, a covenantal relationship in which two people bind themselves to each other for ever. But the proposed legislation for ‘gay marriage’ imply that it is not understood to be inherently unitive, a becoming one flesh. [...]

And what about fertility? I have suggested that one should not stick to a crude, mechanistic understanding of fertility. Biological fertility is inseparable from the fertility of our mutual tenderness and compassion. And so that might seem to remove one objection to gay marriage. I am not entirely convinced, since it seems to me that our tradition is incarnational, the word becoming bodily flesh. And some heterosexual relationships may be accidentally infertile in this sense, but homosexual ones are intrinsically so.

Sexual ethics is about what our acts say. And I have the impression that we are not very sure of what gay sexual acts signify. Maybe we need to ask gay Christians who have been living in committed relationships for years. I suspect that sex will turn out to be rather unimportant.’

Fr Radcliffe on Holy Communion for Catholics who are divorced and re-married:

I would conclude with two profound hopes. That a way will be found to welcome divorced and remarried people back to communion. And, most important, that women will be given real authority and voice in the church. The pope expresses his desire that this may happen, but what concrete form can it take? He believes that the ordination of women to the ministerial priesthood is not possible, but decision-making in the church has become ever more closely linked to ordination in recent years. Can that bond be loosened? Let us hope that women may be ordained to the diaconate and so have a place in preaching at the Eucharist. What other ways can authority be shared?’

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The Catholic Herald has a collection of articles about Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. You will have not difficulty finding out more by doing some searching.

The next explanation that His Eminence needs to give is this:

Why Eminence did you appear on the same program with a Preacher who holds and teaches such heterodoxy and; 

Did you correct him?

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Cardinal Tagle:  There is no "formula for all" on Communion for the divorced or the re-married.

Cardinal Tagle was speaking at the Flame 2 Youth Congress earlier this month

The Archbishop of Manila has said that there is no all encompassing answer to the question of Communion for the divorced and remarried. Speaking to the Catholic Herald at the Flame 2 Youth Congress earlier this month, Cardinal Luis Tagle, said it was not a question of simply saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’, but that every case should be judged individually.

He said: “Every situation for those who are divorced and remarried is quite unique. To have a general rule might be counterproductive in the end. My position at the moment is to ask, ‘Can we take every case seriously and is there, in the tradition of the Church, paths towards addressing each case individually?’ This is one issue that I hope people will appreciate is not easy to say ‘no’ or to say ‘yes’ to. We cannot give one formula for all.”

Speaking about the upcoming extraordinary synod, Cardinal Tagle said: “The questions asked were an invitation for people to really examine their conscience. For example, in your parish if you are aware that something is happening are you just aware? Or have you already started doing something? There’s the question of the youth, the elderly, and in the case of the Philippines, families that are separated by migration because of jobs. We know what is happening and we know about the negative effects. But what are we doing? Are we just talking about it?

“We must remember that this is an international gathering so people are coming from different contexts. It is the same gospel and the same truth, but you cannot avoid people thinking: ‘How do I present this teaching to my people?’. No single country, diocese or parish can exhaust all possible responses, so it will be a learning moment where the diversity could help all of us.”

Cardinal Tagle spoke of the need to experience Christ for evangelisation: “An evangeliser must first be evangelized. For how can I share the person of Jesus Christ with others if I have not experienced Him myself?”

The Flame 2 Youth Congress attended by approximately 8,000 young Catholics. Surrounded by young people who had gathered for the country’s largest national Catholic youth event at the SSE Wembley Arena, Cardinal Tagle said: “Where there is mercy there is joy. I am only a cardinal and a bishop because of the mercy of God and the kindness of other people.”

The event included prayers incorporating dance and reflection, and ended with exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament led by Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/03/17/cardinal-tagle-there-is-no-formula-for-all-on-communion-for-the-divorced-and-re-married/