Once I lamented the fact that so many Catholics in the Archdiocese of Washington seem to think that the Catholic Standard is the only publication that they need to understand the Church's teachings on various topics. The Standard, like other publications of the nation's dioceses, is the official mouthpiece of the DC chancery. I had noticed that the Standard was always presenting a rosy portrait of the bishops, never divulging any of the bishops' deviance from Church teaching or just plain decency. Lately, though, the bishops and the Standard no longer bother to put lipstick on that pig, as they parade their warped priorities in their newsprint and website. The same goes for the USCCB website - well, almost!
On the USCCB site, Auxiliary Bishop Roy Campbell had published therein a few days ago a piece that he dubbed "DEI Means God". Of course the "dei" refers to the leftwing mantra of "diversity, equality, inclusion". "Dei" is also the Latin word for God. Campbell committed sacrilege by equating the Holy Name of God with a leftist screed. I suppose it didn't take the USCCB long to realize that they stepped in the proverbial doo-doo by publishing Campbell's piece so they yanked it down. But once something is on the internet, it never quite disappears - thanks to Complicit Clergy. I humbly suggest to Bishop Campbell that he reacquaint himself with the Second Commandment: thou shalt not take the name of the Lord they God in vain.
So that's the Second Commandment being violated. On page 9 of the Sept 11th issue of the Standard, Bishop Evelio Menjivar commits sins against the Eighth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor. His screed article is entitled "Siempre Adelante - Ten Years Since Pope Francis' Visit To Washington". I couldn't find it on the Standard's web page, but I was not too surprised to see it at the Not-At-All Catholic Reporter's site.
The targets of his angst are the enforcement of our nation's border laws and the arrests and deportation of those in the country illegally. The key word is "illegally", a word that Menjivar and others of his ilk insist on disregarding. Hence his sin against the Eighth Commandment. His deliberate obfuscation of that qualifier renders laughable any pretense that he makes in trying to assume a moral high ground in this discussion.
His second gripe is against the clearing out of the tent enclaves set up by various homeless people, enclaves rife with drugs and violent behavior. Menjivar doesn't appreciate the troops in the city. I suppose they appear to be too mean to him. Does it register with him that we have had several days now of not one murder in what used to be known as the Murder Capital of the World? Oh, I hope to see those troops in Baltimore soon.
Speaking of Menjivar and his shilling for all kinds of border-crashers, he took part in a roundtable hosted by Georgetown University (who else?). The gabfest was called "Deportations and Assault on Human Dignity". As you look at that page, notice that with Menjivar is Sister Norma Pimentel, the executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. How about that? Do we all recall how we discovered that various Texas offices of Catholic Charities were receiving Federal grants totaling in the billions for "refugee resettlement" and maybe a little human trafficking thrown in there? It also appears that Catholic Charities counsels border-crashers how to evade ICE; see for yourselves. So maybe that roundtable is more aptly entitled "Deportations and Emptying of Catholic Charities Bank Accounts".
Getting back to the bishops, we see on the Lepanto Institute where the USCCB is partnering with the AUSCP (Association of US Catholic Priests) to consult on the USCCB's Laity document. If anything, the bishops should be quashing the AUSCP, owing to its various heresies. Last June the AUSCP had their annual meeting. During that meeting, priests unabashedly proclaimed that their ongoing habits of self-abuse were gifts from God. So besides glorying in their mortal sins of perverse sexual conduct, they blasphemed God outright. In that last link is a recording of that conversation. The AUSCP has yet to issue any kind of moral clarification.
Speaking of lack of statements, the USCCB and majority of the US bishops, with the happy exception of Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington (VA) have not uttered one peep in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder. They haven't even tried to exploit the situation to try to disarm law-abiding citizens! Now why is that? Is it because the violent tendencies of the left-wing were on stark display? Is it because we see how sexual perversion often leads to murderous violence on the part of the perverts? All of these are true, by the way. Or is it because Kirk spoke against the border-crashing that Trump is finally taking under control? After all, the bishops' celebration of Catholic Migration Week is soon upon us, and nothing can be allowed to sully that - right?
Now that this blog and others have called the bishops out on their disregard for Kirk's death, expect them to issue mealy-mouth statements that are only meant to cover their derrieres. Take them with copious grains of salt.
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