Here they are! Whatever happened to all that "dialogue" and "encountering" and "tolerance" and "accompanying" and "listening"? Does that only happen when the end purpose is to quash piety, weaken the Faith, compromise Christ's moral teachings? I guess so!
This was featured at the "Convolution of Catholic Leadership" that concluded in Orlando a few days ago. The Vortex below gives more details of the disgusting way in which faithful Catholics, operating with Catholic donation dollars (and perhaps we should all stop donating to the national collections), are treated by their feckless "leaders". By the way - the "somewhat well-known blogger" mentioned at the 5:05 mark is Brandon Vogt, employee of Bishop Robert Barron. The latter is the quasi-heretic who called Martin Luther a "mystic of grace" and who thinks there is "reasonable hope that no one is in hell": and yes, he spoke at this Orlando gab-fest.
As I write this, the USCCB is hosting in Orlando its so-called "Convocation of Catholic Leaders". Its ostensible purpose is to "assess the challenges and opportunities of our times". In other words, they know something is wrong with the Church but they don't want to admit that they are a large part of that "something", owing to:
their abandonment of their God-given mission to save souls by by preaching God's gospel, administering the Sacraments and proclaiming the Church's traditions on faith and morals
their connivance with progressives as the latter seek to spread their anti-God and anti-life bile throughout civilization in return for money and political favors
Therefore, ignoring the obvious, they are now gathering for a collective head-scratching gab-fest session where they will cluck about "social justice", "global warming", etc.
Michael Voris and Church Militant TV are at the same hotel in Orlando where the USCCB is squandering thousands of dollars now. They are simply trying to tell these leaders that the answers to their questions are really quite simple. Namely they are simply to obey the Traditions of the Church, that is, the teachings of Jesus Christ that have been handed down for these past two thousand years. Many of us have been stating that incessantly on our own sites over these past years.
Before they were squelched by USCCB personnel at the hotel, CM was distributing this flyer. The suggestions contained therein, if implemented, would go a long way towards restoring the spiritual life of the One True Church. That in turn would allow the Church to become a more effective channel of God's grace to this very broken world. I will say, though, this list is by no means all-inclusive.
A few days ago Michael Hichborn released the podcast below. From another angle he also reiterates that the solutions to the Church's various crises are really quite simple and they all mandate a return to the Traditions and Teachings of Our Lord. Because those teachings emanate from the Eternal God, they are immutable as He is immutable.
By now most people heard about today's shooting at a gay nightclub called the Pulse in Orlando Florida. Fifty people were killed and another fifty or so wounded. Local police killed the gunman, Omar Mateen, an American citizen born to Afghan parents. The FBI is investigating this as an act of domestic terrorism and stated that Mateen bragged about his ties to Islamic organizations. The Islamic State is claiming responsibility for the shootings.
Clash Daily investigated Mateen's voting patterns and discovered that he was a registered Democrat. I mention this only to showcase the foolishness of some ACLU lawyers who are immediately laying blame for this massacre on the GOP and the "Christian right". They accuse the latter of creating an "anti-queer climate" while conveniently ignoring the Koran's call for the execution of homosexuals.
Other progressives are making similarly politically correct noises in complete disregard of the Islamic terrorists who are bragging about their commission of this slaughter. Joy Reid of MSNBC is carping on gun control as she opines that the core issue is "how easy it is to get a gun". Earth to Joy! Earth to Joy! Might it be ever so possible that the Islamic State armed Mateen? There are indications that indeed a terrorist organization did direct the massacre.
Of course the Messiah Most Miserable got in on the act. In his own shilling against guns, he asked "if that's the kind of country we want to be". Well, if we don't want to be that "kind of country", we need to acknowledge the Islamic cancer for what it is - something that progressives are loathe to do. It's high time that the United States wakes up to this jihadic plague. How long will we ignore the obvious? For all their heinous faults, the jihadists are more honest than many in US leadership about the impetus behind these acts of terrorism.
We must also address this matter from another angle. As mentioned earlier, the attack took place at a gay hangout. It's therefore all too reasonable to surmise that many were engaging in mortal sins. Let us pray that at least some of those found the grace of perfect contrition before they died so that they could at least attain eternal salvation. Sodomy is one of the "sins that cries to heaven for vengeance". Of course the murders cannot be condoned, but did we see some of that vengeance today?
