More USCCB Pandering To Illegal Immigrants

There is an excellent Catholic blog called, very simply, A Blog For Dallas Area Catholics.  Today I saw a post of their's that analyzed a most miserable statement put out by some hispanic bishops and posted on a USCCB blog.  They shamelessly released this statement yesterday in a disgusting attempt to exploit the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The Dallas blog does an excellent job of highlighting the logical and yes, moral flaws of the statement of those bishops.  Rather than reinvent the wheel, I invite you to read it for yourselves at his/her site.

You will notice that my blogging colleague laments that the bishops have in this statement a determination that they lack when it comes to speaking of matters of non-negotiable morality.  Indeed, one of the signers, Bishop Ochoa, has gone so far as to discipline one of his priests, Father Michael Rodriguez, precisely because the latter clearly proclaimed the Church's teachings regarding the gay lifestyle.  You can read my prior postings on Bishop Ochoa's misbehaviors here.

I join my colleague in thanking and congratulating His Excellency, Rene Gracida, Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, for not lending his name to that, uhhh, bovine manure.  Bishop Gracida has always been a voice for the truth, even when it seemed that he was the only bishop who spoke out.

Faithful Catholics In El Paso - Reclaiming Their Church

While they pray and petition Bishop Armando Ochoa for the reinstatement of Father Michael Rodriguez as pastor of San Juan Bautista Church, faithful Catholics in the Diocese of El Paso are working to counteract heretical teachings emanating from the Tepeyak Institute and its classes that lay teachers, etc are required to take in order to serve in various parish capacities.  As you watch the Vortex below, you'll hear how the attendees heard that "God is feminine", the hosts for the Eucharist should be made of indiginous foods.  Listen to the second person; what caused him to walk out of the class was when the teacher said "Mass is just for fellowship."  Now listen carefuly to the third person, Ms. Celeste Herget.  She relates how she was told that after death there is a "second chance", constituting a denial of the particular judgment.  Now from where did that clap-trap come?  It seems that it came from Bishop Ochoa himself - yes read this article penned by His Excellency!  We "go into overtime at the transition of death"?  This is a new one on me!

So please watch the Vortex - but scroll to the section underneath it, for I do have some observations about how this situation and Father Pavone's situation, are being portrayed in some Catholic blogs!  Click here if you cannot see embedded video.



First I'll say this right now.  While I could be incorrect, I think that Father Pavone is being railroaded.  Mark Crutcher's video set forth some issue quite nicely.  It is interesting to see some patterns in other Catholic blogs.  Some of them are piling on Father Pavone, calling him "prideful", "disobedient", and on and on.  Yet on these same blogs I can find no sign of concern or even interest regarding the situation in El Paso.  I find that to be - rather illuminating, to say the least!

Vortex On El Paso Situation

Today's Vortex focuses on the persecution of Father Michael Rodriguez for speaking up for the truth of marriage.  His bishop, more concerned with the church's tax-exempt status (or so he says) removed him from his parish and sent him 200 miles away.  This blog has mentioned the situation earlier. 

Click here if you can't see embedded video.

Father Rodriguez - Thrown Under The Bus

On August 4th, I reported about a priest, Father Rodriguez of El Paso Texas who wrote clearly about a Catholic's duty to oppose abortion.  Someone commented that he hoped his bishop wouldn't try to "silence" him.  Sadly and outrageously, this is precisely what is now happening to Father.

Bishop Armando Ochoa of El Paso has rebuked him publicly.  Read the bishop's column in the El Paso Times.   I'll pick apart the bishop's column just a little, because it is chock-full of moral equivalancy.  One plumb example is, "When we talk about abortion and homosexuality, we are talking about human beings dealing with all kinds of concerns and unresolved challenges."  When His Excellency "talks about human beings", is he thinking, even for one split second, about the tiniest of human beings whose overwhelming concern is whether they'll be allowed to draw the breath of life or be violently ripped to shreds in their mothers' wombs as they're aborted?  I suspect not, to be frank.