Wouldn’t it be great if we could get Cardinal O’Brien to sing.  C’mon Cardinal Gay, tell us who the movers and shakers are in the Catholic Church.  Would love to know who they are here in Canada.

Why cover the March for Life when you can film at the CBC studios and talk about ecumenism and ecology?

Glad we have our priorities straight.

Real national Church leadership on the question of abortion.  We can hardly believe it…because we never see it.

While mainstream Canadian media has repeatedly ignored the tens of thousands of pro-lifers who descend on Parliament Hill every May demanding justice for the unborn, an American television network has deemed the story too big to miss. For the first time in its 16-year history, the National March for Life will have round-the-clock live coverage of events from EWTN, the Eternal Word Television Network….(Source)

Where’s Salt+Light TV?  You know, I think I saw them cover it properly 5 years or so ago, but since then it’s been weak and cursory coverage, at best. 

I guess it’s all the Eucharistic Adoration Fundamentalists (14:02-17:01) at the March that gives them the spooks.  More about St. John’s Abbey here.

Ah well…nothing like becoming irrelevant by ignoring (and attacking) the biggest movement in the Church, and being known as such.

You bought it. You wear it.

The stench up there in the hierarchy must be getting really hard to take.

Put your hands together…

Angus, you’re getting old, man.

Got an email from the Archdiocese of Montreal regarding Fr. Gravel’s YouTube posting on their Facebook page.

It’s been yanked!

This is the future of liberal Catholicism. It’s best that its propagandists get use to the picture. It will be repeated often:

Catholic bloggers and Facebook posters:  

Crushing dissent…everywhere we see it. 

(The president of the internet must be furious.)

 I wonder if Fr. Gravel will sue the Archdiocese of Montreal for refusing him his “right” to spread his religion in the Church.

“[I]t is a good thing for the child to know that he has a father and a mother”; [it must be] “made clear that matrimony between a man and a woman is a specific and fundamental institution in the history of mankind. This does not prevent that other forms of union between two persons may be recognized“. – Fr. Lombardi

First + Piero Marini, now Fr. Lombardi.  Very sad.  The parsing of the moral law from the civil law is not a legitimate Catholic belief.  These two men are introducing a kind of dualism and a false secularism. As Cardinal Burke explains…

And statements, he said, are only one part of it. “It’s another thing to encourage people to actively manifest their desire that the moral law be respected,” he said. Even in a “pluralistic” society the moral law is universal and can and must be expressed in law, he explained.

Somebody in Rome had better issue some corrections soon and with a very heavy hand. 

I can tell you that if Catholic bloggers were in charge, things would get sorted very quickly.

I see that the Professionals are at it again in the Diocesan bureaucracy.

Fr. Raymond Gravel has been featured on the Montreal Archdiocese’s Facebook page where he gives a video “testimonial” of his faith, disses Benedict XVI and JPII, and puts the love-on for his fantasy ideas of +++Francis and Bl. John XXIII. (Not sure why he thinks what he thinks about +++Francis, but the reality of Pope Francis is quite different from what Fr. Gravel thinks about him.  The delusions of the 60s clings to any unfounded hope possible, I suppose.  It’s quite sad.   Does Fr. Gravel know about +++Francis upholding Benedict’s clamp-down on the LCWR?  I think the Left has gone a little bit too lulu on Pope Francis declining the Red shoes.  They think it gives them carte-blanche to believe that the Holy Father will bring in some liberal utopia.  Time will disappoint them, I have no doubt.)

Be sure to visit the Facebook page and let the Archdiocese of Montreal know that you are not pleased.

For the time being, I will assume that the hierarchy there (who are very solid) did not know about this.  But we’ll find out soon enough if they don’t pull this video from their Facebook page.

I find it all amusing how our hierarchy are generally all gaga to use the internet to spread the Gospel, but somehow controlling what is communicated with this technology is not that high on the priority list.  The inmates at the Archdiocese of Montreal should not have the run of the place, but that’s just my opinion.

A little bird told me a couple of weeks ago who is funding Gravel’s suit against LifeSite.  If I told you, you might lose your heads…as well as your Faith.  Best to keep it quiet for now.  I’m sure it will be featured in a book to be written many years from now.   Will probably be a best-seller on how the Canadian Church and its organs sold the Unborn and Jesus down the river.

Update here.

I’m thinking more and more that the worse things get in the Church, the better.

It means less credibility for the hierarchy who are largely responsible for this mess, and that means less ability for them to keep on their destructive path.

We like to think that we can change things, but the brutal reality is that sometimes, we can’t.  And it’s only time and the biological solution that will fix it.

Hard truth, but truth it is.

I haven’t seen or heard anything that’s going to address our problems.   There’s been no true repentance in the Church by those who still need to repent from demonic things like the Winnipeg Statement. In fact, if you’re reading the headlines, it’s just getting worse.  More liberation theology.  Questioning clerical celibacy.  More support for dumbed-down liturgy.  Talk of women “deaconesses”.   Attacks against Benedict’s legacy. 

There’s nothing good in any of this.  And yet it just keeps piling up.

Pray for him. The jackals are circling.

Fr. Robert Barron’s opinion of it starting at 5:22.

I was never really attracted to Fr. Barron’s teaching in the past.

What he said about “the closet” has affirmed my “spidey” sense.

Coming out of the Closet and living an open homosexual lifestyle is not a good thing, Father – not for those persons inflicted with the homosexual tendency, not for children, and not for society in general.

I think you mispoke, Father Barron.  Perhaps you should clarify your meaning.  And while you’re at it, tell us your opinion of civil unions.

More courage from the Austrian Cardinal.

If this is not the great age of Apostasy, I don’t know what is.  Ask yourself why this civil union fraud is popular among the bishops and cardinals (even though many of them won’t say it).

There are two principal reasons:

1) They are homosexual.

2) They prefer not to offend over accepting the persecution that will come if they defend the Gospel.

That basically sums it up.   Any bishop or cardinal advancing civil unions is, in my books, ripe for consideration for option number 1.  In fact, they should be confronted and asked the question to their faces.

Sorry, but this is getting old.

Dear Bishops:  We all know what pro-abort, anti-real-marriage politicians “should not do” concerning the Eucharist.  There’s no point for you to tell us what our 6 years-olds can tell us concerning notorious public sinners not receiving Communion.

Please, for the love of all that is holy, stop it.  We’re not interested in the broken records which we’ve heard thousands of times.

We’re interested in WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT.

Is the Eucharist important enough for any of you to man-up and do what you were commissioned to do and defend Our Lord’s honour, and provide a teaching moment to even the poor, lost sinners who engage in this sacrilege?

I suppose this “solution” makes everyone happy.

I really don’t see why Jesus should be expelled and why the House of the Lord should be used for paganized, New Age purposes.

But not a word was spoken; the Church bells all were broken. And the three men, I admire most: Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, they caught the last train for the coast…

Nothing says the “New Evangelization” in the Archdiocese of Toronto like:  Get out Jesus and make room for Gaia and a pseudo liturgy.

Sorry, folks, the next Springtime in the Church looks like it’s gonna be Springtime, 2053.

More coverage here.

“… and the very beautiful and simple gesture of a father who desired to embrace those who were on the fringes of society; those who were not refined experts of liturgical rules.”

Again, this is unfortunate language.

The implication seems to be that rubrics are understandable by (and ultimately applicable only to) “refined experts of liturgical rules”. I disagree: many rubrics indeed reflect deep theological truths (and thus rubrics are often exercises in something more than legal positivism), but most rubrics are meant to be easily understandable by normal priests ministering in typical pastoral settings. It is a disservice to suggest that respect for Church law is primarily the concern of “refined experts” or that ecclesiastical law has little bearing on how believers should conduct their faith life. (Source)

You know, during the whole Kennedy funeral debacle, Fr. Rosica was taking a shot at pro-life activists because we dared to raise Canon 915 and its applicability to Pro-Abort politicians, claiming that we bloggers are not canon law experts and that we should not be offering our opinions that easily. Seems to me that Fr. Rosica shouldn’t be offering his opinion on canon law, either.  Based on Kennedy’s funeral and this little dust up, I think he’s a bit too loosey-goosy and needs to brush up on some basic rules of how the Church operates.  Not all of us are fans of Woodstock.

Get all the details here.

Can’t you feel the earth cooling?

We’re on our own, folks.  Don’t look for any correction or change.  We’re the remnant. Best to saddle up and head for the hills.

Dear Father,

st.leos@bellnet.ca

Thank you for your courage in attempting to awaken the sense of sin in your flock and call them back to repentance.

It’s unfortunate that you do not have the support from the Archdiocese’s new “Auxillary“.

It’s not surprising, however, since this caring and sharing approach from the Archdiocese has blessed us with the Gay Jackboot in our schools.

Pay no mind to the chattering classes who get paid to shuffle away sin and ensure that no one is disturbed.  It’s the New Gospel.

Carry on, Father.

Regards in the Lord,

John Pacheco

Sun’s take.

There’s now two laws in this country:  one for the Gays and one for Catholics.

“There is no more mileage in this issue for the Catholic Church,” the editorial continued, “and the sensible course would be to put it on the back burner with the heat turned low – to make peace with the gay world and move on.” (Source)

And you wonder why these kind of fraudulent “Catholic” publications continue to exist.  Here’s a hint:

Just before the cardinal’s latest statement, a follow-up piece in last weekend’s Observer – the Sunday edition of the liberal Guardian – provided more details about the four men who came forward, one of whom said that while he “never wanted to ‘out’ Keith just for being gay… he has hurt others, probably worse, than he affected me. And that only became clear a few weeks ago.” (Source)

If something doesn’t look right and something doesn’t really make sense why it continues not to look right, don’t always assume the best intentions.

Former Bishop Lahey was also a “champion” of marriage too…just like Cardinal “Keith” was.

I have a few suspicions on who I think is Gay in the Canadian hierarchy too, but I can’t say anything unless I have hard proof.

I hope I never get that hard proof, because I’d hate to break it to you all that all that glitters is not gold.

Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland has confessed to some unspecified sexual misconduct. Without mentioning the accusations against him, he said:

However, I wish to take this opportunity to admit that there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal. (Source)

“As a cardinal” would seem to imply misconduct since 2003, when he was elevated to the rank of cardinal by JPII. That would be pretty recent. And now the cardinal has retired and expects to live quietly outside “the public life of the Catholic Church,” as he put it.

It mustn’t end this way.

For starters, as anybody can see, he remains very much in the public life of the Catholic Church, making daily headlines. The public won’t let it go (nor should they) until the matter is fully investigated and justice is brought upon him.

Sun News is reporting that Cardinal Marc Ouellet may have played a role in forcing him to resign. A spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Quebec said this:

“The fact that Cardinal Ouellet and his team were able to verify the allegations and to get one of the most important Catholic Church figures in Britain to resign, and in less than three months, is considered a masterful tour de force by some observers,” she said. (Source)

That may be a tour de force by Vatican standards, but it’s not good enough. Nor should it be the final word. A full inquiry must be held.

More generally, the Vatican needs to develop a better “exit strategy” for wonky clerics, not just sexual predators but also dissenters. Until this is solved, the problems in the Church will never end. I don’t believe the biological solution will be effective because the dissenters currently in the Church keep promoting their buddies to high positions, thus perpetuating the “mafia” that others have uncovered. It could take a century or more if we rely solely on the biological solution.

What we really need is a better mechanism whereby the Vatican can yank wonky clerics even if they’re being promoted by other wonky clerics. The pope should be able to fire a guy like Fr. Raymond Gravel even if his bishop seeks to protect him (take down the bishop too).  This is long overdue. Unless the new pope gets this done, we’ll be spinning our wheels and the media will continue to feast on our misery, like shooting fish in a barrel. So much hinges on this, since the new evangelization is also being stunted by the scandalous image of the Church. We have to start from the beginning. And soon.