A Little Halloween Fright

I don't know who created this, but it's great! Let us pray that this does not portray our reality for the next four years.

We Laity Must Hold The Clergy's Feet To The Fire.

 Randall Terry, with the assistance of other pro-life people, put out the following video to implore the US bishops to actually act like bishops during this election and warn people that a vote for Joe Biden is formal and material cooperation with the mortal sins that he has promised to commit in office, implicating us all.  Please watch it, especially to learn actions that we can take in this last week before Election Day.

At the 18:12 mark, we hear a suggestion that is easily implemented from your home.  Make a video of yourself addressing your bishop, then upload that video to the social pages of your diocese.  I did so a few days ago - made a video of myself addressing Archbishop Gregory.  I then put it on the archdiocese's facebook and twitter pages.  It took only a matter of minutes.  Many of us can do the same.  Let's get going.

It also should go without saying that we must be praying our Rosaries daily.

Archbishop Gregory Gets His Red Hat! Who's Surprised? Not me!

 In 2004, at the US bishops' meeting in Denver, Bishop Gregory, in his capacity as president of the USCCB, colluded with then-Cardinal McCarrick to withhold from their brother bishops a directive from then-Cardinal Ratzinger regarding Holy Communion.  See here and here.  That delay led the other bishops to believe that Canon 915 need not be applied to pro-abortion politicians.

At his first "Theology on Tap" session upon assuming the DC see, Archbishop Gregory has no bones about singing the praises of Fortunate Families, a dissident, gay-pandering organization.  Apparently he hobnobbed with them quite a bit during his time in Atlanta.

In June, when all the mayhem was erupting over the killing of George Floyd, Archbishop Gregory acted the part of the pompous, race-baiting ass.  He ordered his priests to join him in a protest prayer service on behalf of Floyd.  Then, when President Trump kept a long-standing commitment to visit the St John Paul II National Shrine, Gregory waxed indignant that Trump acted to restrain the rioters and arsonists.  Gregory called Trump's visit to the Shrine "reprehensible" although he himself had been invited to join earlier but politely declined.

These are just a few examples of how Archbishop Gregory has been toting water for his progressive higher-ups, including the ones in the Vatican.  They have displayed their approval in their just-announced plans to make him a cardinal next month.  

Ladies and gentlemen, we knew this was coming.  He was brought into DC specifically to do damage-control for his two predecessors as well as further the progressive agenda along.  He is simply getting a reward AND his appointment is just one more step in the pope's efforts to stack the College of Cardinals with those who will be likely to vote for a progressive to succeed him.  Their gain is the church's loss.

See below for more background on this soon-to-be prince of the Church.

Please Join Baltimore Parents October 31 To Protect Children From Transgender Insanity - POSTPONED

Important Note:  The event described below has been postponed.  The new date is yet to be determined.  I will advise when I learn it.

Recall how the Archdiocese of Baltimore's Assistant School Superintendent moved to have the faculty of the School of the Incarnation in Gambrills use masculine pronouns at the behest of a very confused little girl who is pretending to be a boy.  See here, and then here and here for my attempts to discuss this matter with various officials.

Next week, Saturday Oct 31, a group of concerned Catholic parents will conduct a Prayer Walk, Rosary and Mass for the protection of the children in the archdiocesan school system from the politically correct nonsense being foisted on them.  We will gather at 7:45 a.m. in front of the chancery offices at 320 Cathedral Street in Baltimore. We will then pray the Rosary as we process around the Assumption Basilica and will finish at 10:00 a.m. with Mass.  Parking instructions, and leaders whom to contact, can be found in the flyer below.

Please come and spread the word to others as well.  It is up to us the laity to protect our children and our Church from the wolves within its power structures.

The Pictures On The Doors At Our Lady Of Lourdes - Their Disgusting Roots

Two months ago, I reported on seeing blasphemous pictures of Jesus Christ on the doors of Our Lady of Lourdes in Bethesda, MD.  I haven't been there in a while, but I believe they still remain on the doors, despite good Catholics asking Father for their removal.

One of those good Catholics directed me to a blog where Christianity is mocked in general.  The particular post in question is https://thehardtimes.net/blog/not-a-good-sign-jesus-is-back-and-hes-wearing-a-face-mask/     You can read this piece for yourself and understand the mocking, sneering tone of it.  You will also notice that the picture of the "masked Jesus" is the exact same one that is on the doors of the OLOL church.  Coincidence?  I think not!

Please notice the date of that post: March 6, 2020.  Now bear in mind when Msgr Filardi left Lourdes and Father Walsh arrived there; that transfer was effective July 8, 2020, per the Catholic Standard.  In plain English, that post and picture were on the internet well before Father Walsh's arrival.  It is within the realm of probabilities that Father Walsh obtained that blasphemous picture from the hardtimes post, and if so, he had to have known the utter disrespect that Dan Rice (author of the post) has for Our Lord.

The rest of that hardtimes site is pure trash.  If such sites are the inspiration for "priestly humor" and probably the thinking of some priests in general, the people whom they pastor are being cheated of the pastoral care that is their right as Catholics.

Pope Francis Formally Cooperates With The Mortal Sin Of Homosexual Perversions

His remarks were made in a documentary on his life that released earlier today, according to Catholic News Agency.  He is calling for the legalization of gay "civil unions".  Some key quotes from it are:

• "Homosexuals have a right to be part of the family.  They're children of God and have a right to a family.  Nobody should be thrown out, or made miserable because of it."
• "What we have to create is a civil union law.  That way they are legally covered. I stood up for that."

There is so much error in these two statements.  For the sake of those who still insist on wearing rose-colored glasses with regards to ever-increasingly foul utterances pouring forth from this pope, I will elaborate, again in bullet-style.

• Yes, they have the right to a family, just as we all do.  Such a family is based on one biologically-born man and one biologically-born woman united in Christian matrimony.  That union is life-long, exclusive, and open to the transmission of life.  Anything other than that is a mockery of a true family.  No one, gay or straight, has the right to engage in any caricatures of the same.  To do so is a mortal sin.
• A civil union law in this context will only have the effect of facilitating the mortal sin of homosexual relationships.  If a question regards medical care or inheritance rights, there are other legal avenues for that.  There is absolutely no excuse to commit sacrilege against the Sacrament of Matrimony.
• What is not being touched on, at least explicitly, is the topic of adoption rights.  If anyone has a right to a family, an authentic family according to God's laws that is, it would be the innocent children.  Will their rights to an authentic family be disregarded to satisfy the whims of sodomites and their partners?

We must also recall, as we read this news, that he has had a pattern of hobnobbing with perverted people without calling them to repentance, as is his duty as Vicar of Christ.  Five years ago he held a private audience with a "transgender man", that is, a woman pretending to be a man, with her accomplice.  When the pope visited the US five years ago, he held an audience with a former student of his, now gay, along with his accomplice.  I recall these incidents to the readers' memories, for that is context in which today's news must be seen.

There are some who opine that because the pope is obviously facilitating the mortal sin of homosexual conduct, then he himself is gay.  I believe that to be an unfounded leap in logic.  However, when one cooperates with the mortal sin of another, he/she does share in the guilt of that other's sin.  Catholic moral theology recognizes nine ways in which one can cooperate in another's sin and thus incur guilt.

Below is commentary from Taylor Marshall.  He starts by saying that today is a "sad day in the history of the Catholic Church".  I must agree.  If you needed yet another reason to stay faithful to your daily Rosaries, hopefully this will more than suffice.

Archbishop Vigano And Bishop Schneider Take A Dim View Of Fruitti Patooti

There is no need to reinvent the wheel, namely the interviews that LifeSiteNews had with these two courageous prelates who have been speaking the truth about the bilge that has been slopping forth from the Vatican these past several years.  Please take the time to read these two summaries, and the embedded videos in this post and this one.  Any precursory glance through the Fruitti Patootie tome will bear out the words of these men: that there is no supernatural faith underlying this piece.  Indeed, it is an apologetic for a secular new world order, long envisioned by the masons.  To paraphrase Archbishop Vigano, Fruitti Patootie "represents..the emptiness of a withered heart of a blind man deprived of supernatural sight.

No Wonder Progressives Rail Against The Death Penalty!

 A few days ago I put up a post containing Taylor Marshall's commentary about the perversion that a priest committed atop the altar of his parish church, in effect desecrating it with his gross sacrilege.  Taylor mentions that the altar is symbolic of Christ Himself; that is why there are five crosses carved into each Catholic altar.  He noted that in more sane and reverent times, such deliberate desecration and sacrilege would have garnered the death penalty for the perpetrator.

He said this in passing, and I was prepared to let it remain a lesser point.  However, this is NOT the first time that a Catholic altar was desecrated - not so much with sexual perversion as with rank idolatry.  I remind you of this outrage, right after the pachamama idols were tossed in the Tiber.  This detailed what happened during the closing Mass of that climate-change gabfest during which the pachamamas desecrated the Vatican gardens and several Catholic churhes before being hurled into the Tiber.  As you watch the video of the Mass, take notice of how many times the camera zooms onto that plant.  Then the plant is placed on the altar in direct disobedience to the GIRM.  Take note particularly from 55:38 to 56:20.  Recall from the previous paragraph that any Catholic altar is representative of Christ Himself - and that defilements of said altars at one time were punished via the death penalty.

I'm going to link now to an article in Catholic World Report, where the author directs three questions to opponents of the death penalty.  These questions, in my opinion, reduce to shreds any attempt to vilify the death penalty.  But have you noticed that among death penalty opponents are all proponents of abortion, gay perversions along with heretics and those who blaspheme and commit vile sacriledge?  One might ask why, but I think the answer to that is quite obvious; they know that in a saner time, they themselves would be eligible for capital punishment.  Let us pray that these people come quickly to repentance.

Time Is Running Out. Eek. Eek.

 That is what the pope told some of his fellow envirowhackos last week.  This happened at a TEDx Countdown on Climate Change.  The conference happened virtually so at least the attendants didn't make flaming hypocrites of themselves by flying in on their gas-guzzling private jets to kvetch about climate change, carbon footprint, yada-yada.

The bunch convened to present "cutting-edge science" and (are you ready for this?) "moments of wonder and inspiration".  This eminently-qualified cadre of (ahem!) experts include such luminaries as (from the Standard article) "scientists, climate activists, actors, singers, poets, politicians and comedians" (Emphasis mine).  Excluse me, but just what in hades do entertainers know about real science?  Have any of the Hollywood wonks ever worked a real job in their lives?  Why on earth should anyone listen to entertainers more than they would the grocery store clerk or the trash man?

At any rate, we are supposed to "act urgently" and to "rethink many things about the economy" because time is running out, you see?  This is nothing more than a cheap ploy for socialism.  

If the pope were really concerned that "time is running out", might he not put some emphasis on getting people to convert to the One True Faith, leaving behind all manners of sin - especially those mortal sins against life and God's plan for sexuality and family life? That's where he should be spending the bulk of his energies, not on this progressive, one-world-order nonsense.

Sacrilege And Idolatry From Within The Catholic Hierarchy

Last week I wrote of the serious sex scandals that came to light in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.  I suspect they are related and that they are just two tips of a massive iceberg that lurks in that area.  Below I will post commentary from Taylor Marshall. But now, please be advised of another scandal, this from within Vatican City itself.

Vatican City is its own sovereign country.  Therefore it mints its own coinage. It recently released a 10-euro coin depicting a "mother earth" pagan idol on it.  I link to Church Militant's piece on it.  Mind you, this is where the Vicar of Christ is housed, along with the Church's central government.  One would expect its coinage to be, well, Catholic, with images of Our Lord or maybe the Blessed Mother or other saints.  But a pagan "earth worship" idol?  Since the pope is the head of state of Vatican City, we must surmise that this travesty was minted at his direction.  When I heard that, I immediately thought of the account in Matthew 22, when Jesus is showed the Roman coin and He said "render to Caesar what is Caesar and to God what is God's."  Was this an ever-so-sly way of saying that allegiances in the Vatican are shifting?

So how are the New Orleans and the Vatican City situations related?  Quite simply, we are seeing actions taken by clergy of all levels, including the pope, taking what is sacred to God and literally turning them over to demons.  Both of these episodes are simply two occurrences of this profanation of our Holy Religion.  The "fruity patuiti" tome is yet another.  Within a day or two, more will be said on that.  Now for Marshall's commentary.