Why did Cardinal Dolan allow St. Francis of Assisi to conduct their "pre-pride mass" while sending a faithful priest packing? Why did Cardinal Wuerl have Father Guarnizo ousted from the Archdiocese of Washington while apologizing to lesbians who didn't have their mortal sin validated at St. John Neumann Church? The list of questions could go on and on. Please watch.
Showing posts with label St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Vortex Expose On St. Francis Of Assisi In NYC - What Will Cardinal Dolan Do???
I believe we already know the answer to the above question. Regular readers of this blog will recognize this sodomite enclave as I have mentioned it in writing about Holy Innocents Parish and Father Wylie.
Cardinal Dolan will look the other way and let the gay-enablers at St Francis do as they please. He either doesn't care or finds himself in sympathy with the sin of sodomy. Otherwise, he'd act. Whatever else we can say of his abysmal treatment of Father Wylie, Dolan acted with resolve and alacrity; he can move when he wants to! He doesn't care to do so here. Just think - Dolan was a past president of the USCCB.
Cardinal Dolan will look the other way and let the gay-enablers at St Francis do as they please. He either doesn't care or finds himself in sympathy with the sin of sodomy. Otherwise, he'd act. Whatever else we can say of his abysmal treatment of Father Wylie, Dolan acted with resolve and alacrity; he can move when he wants to! He doesn't care to do so here. Just think - Dolan was a past president of the USCCB.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
By His Draconian Treatment Of Father Justin Wylie, Has Cardinal Dolan Shown His True Colors?
The question is rhetorical because the answer is obvious. Other sites and blogs have been abuzz about this matter. Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, is preparing yet another bloodbath of parish closures in the near future. Among them is Holy Innocents Church that is a fairly vibrant parish - certainly so in comparison with other NYC parishes. It also features Mass in the Extraordinary Form.
Father Justin Wylie, a priest of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg, South Africa was on assignment to New York City as he worked for the Holy See at the United Nations. He was a popular priest at Holy Innocents and greatly championed the Mass in the Extraordinary Form. On May 18th, his sermon included an exhortation for the Archdiocese of New York to send sympathetic priests to shepherd those who had devotion to the Extraordinary Form. For that, not only were his faculties in the Archdiocese of New York revoked, but the Dolan crew saw fit to complain to the Holy See and to the Archdiocese of Johannesburg. I suspect that if Father Wylie had been incardinated in the Archdiocese of New York, he might have found himself laicized.
Renew America, in addition to linking to Father Wylie's sermon, mentions that the Archdiocese plans to have Holy Innocents subsumed into St Francis of Assisi parish. Notice what's on the main page of St Francis of Assisi's website; they are touting their (drums and trumpets, please!) PRE-PRIDE MASS! It doesn't take much imagination to surmise that this is not much more than a pep rally for the Gay Pride orgy that will occur in NYC soon thereafter. The parish has a "gay and lesbian ministry". Odd - I cannot seem to locate their pro-life ministry!
So Cardinal Dolan thinks that Holy Innocent Church should be absorbed into that progressive hornets' nest known as St Francis of Assisi Church? Perhaps this plan sheds some light on the question asked in this post's title.
The Vortex has weighed in on this matter. Voris reminds all of another gay-infested NYC church, St. Francis Xavier, with the obvious approval of Cardinal Dolan. He thinks that many don't remember the incident shown in his clip of St. Francis Xavier. I do for I posted that video when the news of the incident broke. Why is a healthy Church like Holy Innocents being shuttered, while heresy-infested parishes like St Francis of Assisi and St Francis Xavier allowed to remain, and in their current states? Again, a rhetorical question.
Father Justin Wylie, a priest of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg, South Africa was on assignment to New York City as he worked for the Holy See at the United Nations. He was a popular priest at Holy Innocents and greatly championed the Mass in the Extraordinary Form. On May 18th, his sermon included an exhortation for the Archdiocese of New York to send sympathetic priests to shepherd those who had devotion to the Extraordinary Form. For that, not only were his faculties in the Archdiocese of New York revoked, but the Dolan crew saw fit to complain to the Holy See and to the Archdiocese of Johannesburg. I suspect that if Father Wylie had been incardinated in the Archdiocese of New York, he might have found himself laicized.
Renew America, in addition to linking to Father Wylie's sermon, mentions that the Archdiocese plans to have Holy Innocents subsumed into St Francis of Assisi parish. Notice what's on the main page of St Francis of Assisi's website; they are touting their (drums and trumpets, please!) PRE-PRIDE MASS! It doesn't take much imagination to surmise that this is not much more than a pep rally for the Gay Pride orgy that will occur in NYC soon thereafter. The parish has a "gay and lesbian ministry". Odd - I cannot seem to locate their pro-life ministry!
So Cardinal Dolan thinks that Holy Innocent Church should be absorbed into that progressive hornets' nest known as St Francis of Assisi Church? Perhaps this plan sheds some light on the question asked in this post's title.
The Vortex has weighed in on this matter. Voris reminds all of another gay-infested NYC church, St. Francis Xavier, with the obvious approval of Cardinal Dolan. He thinks that many don't remember the incident shown in his clip of St. Francis Xavier. I do for I posted that video when the news of the incident broke. Why is a healthy Church like Holy Innocents being shuttered, while heresy-infested parishes like St Francis of Assisi and St Francis Xavier allowed to remain, and in their current states? Again, a rhetorical question.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
The Pax Christi Event At St Francis Of Assisi This Evening
If you attended that event in Derwood Maryland and are visiting this site, no doubt you are doing so because this was left on your car. The only difference between this online version and the paper flyer is that the hyperlinks are indeed "clickable". I strongly urge you to study those links. Please note that two of them are links to Pax Christi's own site. The evidence of Pax Christi's dissent from Christ's teachings don't get any more "first-hand" than that!
I contend that any debatable benefit that you might have gleaned from this evening's event is far outweighed by the harm wrought by lending Pax Christi your audience and a moral credibility that it simply doesn't deserve. I've no doubt that many people are genuinely unaware of Pax Christi's desire to undermine Church teaching in fundamental matters of faith and morals. For any new awareness that has come about, I am thankful.
I contend that any debatable benefit that you might have gleaned from this evening's event is far outweighed by the harm wrought by lending Pax Christi your audience and a moral credibility that it simply doesn't deserve. I've no doubt that many people are genuinely unaware of Pax Christi's desire to undermine Church teaching in fundamental matters of faith and morals. For any new awareness that has come about, I am thankful.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Pax Christi - Wolf In Sheep's Clothing Coming To Montgomery County Parish
Here is more key data on Pax Christi USA, the spiritual predator that is being granted admittance to St Francis of Assisi Church in Derwood MD this coming Wednesday.
My Catholic Media Coalition colleague Stephanie Block wrote an article on Pax Christi USA in her newsletter Los Pequenos. I link to the archive here; you'll need to go to page 14 of the pdf. As usual, Stephanie has done thorough research. For the rest of this piece I'll refer to Pax Christi USA as "PCUSA".
PCUSA is also linked to many dissident organizations. From the program of their recent national conference we see that they allowed New Ways Ministry to be a vendor at their conference. New Ways Ministry is solely dedicated to advancing the acceptance of sexual perversion by the Catholic Church. Its founders have been censured by the DC bishops throughout the years (being headquartered in Prince George's County MD, within the Archdiocese of Washington). To further document Pax Christi's own embrace of perversion, please review this page of photos from that same conference; about halfway down the page you'll see their slide projection stating quite openly that "if PC-USA is to remain relevant and on the frontier as a Catholic movement of peace-making with justice, it must intentionally welcome people of all gender identities and sexual orientations."
In August 2012 the fight over the HHS mandate was getting underway as various dioceses and Catholic organizations filed their suits in court. A naive person might have believed that Pax Christi might have stood for religious freedom, respect for conscience, etc. Well, think again! When the Diocese of Erie (PA) filed its suit, four of the so-called "Catholic social justice" groups filed friend-of-the-court briefs siding with the Obama regime! Two of them were Pax Christi (Pittsburgh area) and Call to Action. Their reasoning? They themselves dissent from Church teaching on contraception - pure and simple.
As the astute reader of this blog and others may have noticed, many of these progressive groups can be intertwined in lots of coalitions. Pax Christi and Call to Action are both to be found in something called "Catholic Organizations for Renewal". While the latter does not have a national website, some sites do exist and can be quite informative. Take, for instance, this site in which its congratulations to Pope Francis on his selection as Pontiff is seen. The various organizations - including Pax Christi - voice their "hopes" for Francis's pontificate. Those "hopes" include "women's ordination", gay "rights" and unrestricted abortion.
My Catholic Media Coalition colleague Stephanie Block wrote an article on Pax Christi USA in her newsletter Los Pequenos. I link to the archive here; you'll need to go to page 14 of the pdf. As usual, Stephanie has done thorough research. For the rest of this piece I'll refer to Pax Christi USA as "PCUSA".
PCUSA is also linked to many dissident organizations. From the program of their recent national conference we see that they allowed New Ways Ministry to be a vendor at their conference. New Ways Ministry is solely dedicated to advancing the acceptance of sexual perversion by the Catholic Church. Its founders have been censured by the DC bishops throughout the years (being headquartered in Prince George's County MD, within the Archdiocese of Washington). To further document Pax Christi's own embrace of perversion, please review this page of photos from that same conference; about halfway down the page you'll see their slide projection stating quite openly that "if PC-USA is to remain relevant and on the frontier as a Catholic movement of peace-making with justice, it must intentionally welcome people of all gender identities and sexual orientations."
In August 2012 the fight over the HHS mandate was getting underway as various dioceses and Catholic organizations filed their suits in court. A naive person might have believed that Pax Christi might have stood for religious freedom, respect for conscience, etc. Well, think again! When the Diocese of Erie (PA) filed its suit, four of the so-called "Catholic social justice" groups filed friend-of-the-court briefs siding with the Obama regime! Two of them were Pax Christi (Pittsburgh area) and Call to Action. Their reasoning? They themselves dissent from Church teaching on contraception - pure and simple.
As the astute reader of this blog and others may have noticed, many of these progressive groups can be intertwined in lots of coalitions. Pax Christi and Call to Action are both to be found in something called "Catholic Organizations for Renewal". While the latter does not have a national website, some sites do exist and can be quite informative. Take, for instance, this site in which its congratulations to Pope Francis on his selection as Pontiff is seen. The various organizations - including Pax Christi - voice their "hopes" for Francis's pontificate. Those "hopes" include "women's ordination", gay "rights" and unrestricted abortion.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Amnesty For Illegal Aliens Makes For Strange Bedfellows In Catholic Circles.
Let's take a look at Pax Christi. We haven't done so in a while but in Montgomery County MD behooves us to do so. They put on a nice pacifist front and they claim to be Catholic, but underneath that nice sanctimonious image they project lies an organization that is at odds with the Church on several key matters of faith and morals.
Over the years Pax Christi has cropped up like kudzu. See some basic information here. I won't rehash everything, but will highlight some key points.
- Two of its former presidents, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and Bishop Gambino Zavala. Both these prelates were forced to resign. No, I don't mean just resign from Pax Christi; I mean resign from their posts as bishops, both for grievous causes.
- Three years ago, I blogged on the American Catholic Council, an organization thoroughly steeped in the heresy of Americanism. At that time the ACC linked to member organizations, including Pax Christi. Well, bust my britches, that link has disappeared! Why, oh why, do you think that happened? Hmmm!
- Discover the Networks has much information about Pax Christi and its sordid networks.
That's enough information for now - certainly enough to understand why the flyer below, inserted in yesterday's parish bulletin, caught my eye.
Let's ponder the subject matter of the flyer. It regards immigration: illegal immigration to be precise. Now let's think for a minute. No Catholic in their right mind has any problem with immigration per se. Most of us are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. So why the perceived need for all this "discussion"? Ladies and gentlemen, in a very circuitous fashion these progressives are trying to get us to acquiesce to blanket amnesty for those who imperiously break our laws. Of course they dare not say so openly, lest their disingenuous thought-reform gambits be laid bare for all to see.
I've been blogging a bit about this misguided effort to reward those who disobey our laws; see a montage of these posts here. Please notice the June 22 post, where I quote Section 2241 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Catechism states that host nations should welcome immigrants to the extent that they are able. Who determines that "extent"? This question alone makes plain that the debate regarding the immigration matter falls within the realm of prudential judgment. That is to say that good Catholics can have legitimate differences of opinions regarding the various facets of the immigration question. There is no one "Catholic position" on this matter. Moreover, Pope Benedict XVI reiterated that national bishops' conferences have no inherent authority per canon law. For the USCCB to state that there is a "Catholic position" here is flat out presumptuous, if not downright deceitful.
That section of the Catechism states quite plainly that the immigrants have a duty to abide by the laws of their host countries and to recognize their "duties to their countries of adoption". In other words, they should expect no consideration above and beyond that experienced by other citizens. Some in the "immigrant rights" movement have trouble with the concept of "equal justice". One such individual might be Salvador G. Sarmiento, one of the speakers; at least he demonstrated such trouble in a situation regarding his wife's traffic violations.
One hazard of the bishops flirting with pet causes of progressives is that they engage in unseemly partnerships with organizations that are at clear variance with Church teachings, sometimes to the point of dissent and disobedience. In this flyer we see (yet again) another incongruous alliance, this time with Pax Christi. It's quite likely that Pax Christi won't trot out their gripes with the Magisterium at St. Francis' on Oct 30th. However, in this partnership, the Church is lending to Pax Christi - as an organization - credibility that it just doesn't deserve.
It is this alliance with Pax Christi that renders the upcoming "discussion" utterly unacceptable. I am exploring the feasibility of a picket of this event. I will keep you posted.
I've been blogging a bit about this misguided effort to reward those who disobey our laws; see a montage of these posts here. Please notice the June 22 post, where I quote Section 2241 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Catechism states that host nations should welcome immigrants to the extent that they are able. Who determines that "extent"? This question alone makes plain that the debate regarding the immigration matter falls within the realm of prudential judgment. That is to say that good Catholics can have legitimate differences of opinions regarding the various facets of the immigration question. There is no one "Catholic position" on this matter. Moreover, Pope Benedict XVI reiterated that national bishops' conferences have no inherent authority per canon law. For the USCCB to state that there is a "Catholic position" here is flat out presumptuous, if not downright deceitful.
That section of the Catechism states quite plainly that the immigrants have a duty to abide by the laws of their host countries and to recognize their "duties to their countries of adoption". In other words, they should expect no consideration above and beyond that experienced by other citizens. Some in the "immigrant rights" movement have trouble with the concept of "equal justice". One such individual might be Salvador G. Sarmiento, one of the speakers; at least he demonstrated such trouble in a situation regarding his wife's traffic violations.
One hazard of the bishops flirting with pet causes of progressives is that they engage in unseemly partnerships with organizations that are at clear variance with Church teachings, sometimes to the point of dissent and disobedience. In this flyer we see (yet again) another incongruous alliance, this time with Pax Christi. It's quite likely that Pax Christi won't trot out their gripes with the Magisterium at St. Francis' on Oct 30th. However, in this partnership, the Church is lending to Pax Christi - as an organization - credibility that it just doesn't deserve.
It is this alliance with Pax Christi that renders the upcoming "discussion" utterly unacceptable. I am exploring the feasibility of a picket of this event. I will keep you posted.
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