Boycott The Catholic Relief Services Collection This Weekend

In most dioceses across the nation, the second collection at Masses on Sunday March 30 will benefit the Catholic Relief Services.  Locally, both the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Archdiocese of Washington will be collecting for the CRS.  The CRS is under the direct control of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

As you can see by my link, there have been multiple moral failings of the Catholic Relief Services, such as direct distributions of condoms, employing an openly "gay-married" man as a vice president, creating a "health network" in Africa that includes abortionists, etc.

Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) exposed the fact that CRS has been heavily funded by USAid.  Fortunately that is now drying up.  The CRS now needs to go away completely.  Please do NOT give them one red cent of your money this coming weekend.

Lepanto Institute has done much work in exposing the Catholic Relief Services.  Additionally, they have materials that you can place in the second collection when that basket is placed in front of your face.

Let's allow this faux-Catholic cabal to die its ignominious death.

Bad Music At Mass? It Isn't Just A Minor Annoyance

I've written about the lackluster dreck that is frequently sung at Novus Ordo Masses.  However, I had no idea, until I saw this, just how pervasive and inimical this problem really is.  I daresay that as we look at things closer, we will see how the serving up of musical inferiority is a tool of the Deep Church to deconstruct the Faith.  Recall that St Augustine said that "who sings, prays twice".  Thus the singing directly impacts our prayer.  Couple that with "lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivandi".  It is a problem to be taken seriously. 

Please watch this video.  The full report is here.

McElroy Off To An Inauspicious Start

Last Sunday a man posted on X that he walked out of Mass for the first time in his life, owing to the priest's screed against President Trump and Vice President Vance.  He went so far as to compare Trump to Satan during his homily. While he did his best to conceal the identity of the church, he left enough details to indicate that this slop happened at Holy Trinity Church, just south of Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Our newly-minted archbishop started off his tenure by plopping his own stinker regarding Trump's actions to slash governmental bloat and the flood of illegal immigrants into this country.  While he may not have been as brazen as that Jesuit priest, the fact that he is the local prelate renders his remarks all the more egregious.  From the Catholic Standard we read: "Cardinal McElroy said that when you label immigrants as criminals, “you dehumanize them, you say they’re the other, they’re not like us. And thus it is all right to treat them as lesser, as less human than us... Echoing the pope in decrying the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants now underway in the United States, Washington’s new archbishop said the idea “that we would go after them and in a mass, indiscriminate deportation, eject them from our country, would be a grave stain upon the United States in my view.”

Notice the deliberate obfuscation of the difference between immigrants coming legally and those coming illegally.  This is a common and rather old ruse that they use.  Of course McElroy and others know the difference.  Their attempts to muddy the waters in this matter can only be called deliberately dishonest.  We will not pretend that it is anything otherwise.

But try again he will.  We will be right there to rebuke the deception.

Gregory To McElroy - Same Plot, Different Cast - But There Is Much That You Can Do About It

The headline speaks about the installation of Cardinal Robert McElroy as Archbishop of Washington, succeeding Cardinal Gregory.  McElroy is just the latest in a string of progressive bishops that have been acting to deconstruct the One True Church.  In fact, the Church will never be totally defeated, but much havoc can, and is being, wreaked, to the harm and even damnation of many souls.

Rachel Mastrogiacomo was present at McElroy's installation, that took place at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.  Rachel was 23 years old when she was subjected to abuse, both sexual and satanic at the hands of Jacob Bertrand.  He was a priest at the time who has since been laicized.  McElroy played a large part in the cover-up of this sordid episode.  By the way, satanic ritual abuse is not uncommon among pervert priests, as evidenced by an open letter written to Pope Francis by Lisa Roer, another victim.  Be advised that Lisa goes into rather graphic detail about her ordeal.

Rachel had opportunity to confront McElroy as he processed out, despite the best efforts of the baby-sitter that the chancery assigned to her.

Note: This video came from the Facebook page of Michael Hichborn.  Also from the same page are pictures of Rachel and other concerned Catholics, protesting outside the Basilica.  They are standing at the Harewood Road driveway to the Shrine and around the corner to Michigan Avenue.  The parking lot is on the other side of Harewood so they got much visibility.  Here is a picture of the picket.

What Rachel did involved confronting the guy who was criminally responsible for so much pain and suffering that she endured.  Her example is not only to be admired, but emulated.  We faithful Catholics have a duty to confront this evil and not to allow the evildoers to be comfortable as they work to marginalize the Church.

God Bless Cardinal Muller And God Have Mercy On Cardinal Gregory

Cardinal Muller tells bishops to resist the destruction of the Latin Mass.  God bless this man for speaking out.  I regret, though, that some of the bishops are not so much timorous before Francis.  They are in full agreement and in league with Francis' obvious animosity towards the authentic teachings and traditions of the Church.  Many of these bishops implemented Traditionis Custodes with the utmost glee and alacrity.  I live in one such diocese - the Archdiocese of Washington, namely.  It is shepherded - until tomorrow - by Wilton Cardinal Gregory. Unless I am gravely mistaken, Robert Cardinal McElroy is cut from the same cloth as is Gregory.

Cardinal Gregory seems to have no problem with the codswallop featured below.

Granted, this wasn't an actual Mass.  However, before this "hip hop mess mass" premiered, Cardinal Gregory said Mass at an induction ceremony that honored the late Eunice and Sargent Shriver.  Guess what music was featured at that Mass?  Yep!  Hip-hop crap!  This article is unclear about whether or not any of this cast was performing the music.  I suppose we should be grateful that there was no break-dancing or moon-walking during the Mass.

So the reverence and dignity of the Traditional Latin Mass has to go, but this hip-hop drip-drop is just okee-dokee?