Guilty US Bishops Sabotage Sheen's Beatification

Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen famously said that if anyone was to save the Church, it would be laity as opposed to clerics and religious.  The conduct of certain prelates, as they try to derail his beatification, only prove his point.  I'm a little late in reporting on this so I won't reinvent the wheel that others have made. I'll post now a vortex that summarizes the situation.



Now just in case you wonder what about Sheen's preaching that might rankle the USCCB, that is, Underhanded Syndicate of Corrupt Cowardly Bishops, this clip of one of the Archbishop's talks might provide a clue.  Pay particular attention around the 16:22 mark and following.  He likens the "social justice" thrust of the hierarchy to one of the three temptations that Satan posed to Jesus.



Or how about this one regarding "nice" people, such as the "Church of nice"?


You get the picture.

#DontBeMeanGiveBackSheen

The canonization process for Archbishop Fulton Sheen is at a point where his body needs to be moved back to his place of birth, but Cardinal Dolan is petulantly refusing to release it.  I've written about the many ways he has insulted and injured both the Faith and the Catholics entrusted to his care.

See this report from Church Militant TV about this mess.  In it is contact information.  If you are on Twitter, please go to @CardinalDolan and @NY_Arch to tweet the above hashtag to them.  Please spread the word.

Solemn High Mass For Easter In the Tridentine Rite

This Mass occurred in 1941 at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Chicago.  The clergy are of the Order of Servites (hence the cowls).  Then-Mgr. Fulton Sheen is narrating for the video.

Appeal To The Pope

A petition has been put online to beg the Holy Father to stand unambiguously for the Teaching of Jesus Christ in regards to marriage, family and sexuality.  It is the "Filial Appeal To His Holiness Pope Francis On The Future Of The Family".  Signatures are being collected in anticipation of the next Ordinary Synod On The Family.  So far over 55,000 haves signed.  Signers include:

• Cardinal Raymond Burke
• Bishop Athanasius Schneider
• Joe and Ann Scheidler
• Rick Santorum

I must say it is a very sad day when we must petition a Vicar of Christ to fulfill the mission that we should reasonably hope is already in the forefront of his mind.  Events of the past few months cause us to fear otherwise, the latest being the news that the Pope approved and ordered published the disgraceful interim report from last October's synod.  But it is what it is and we must speak out and yes, stand up to the progressive poison that pollutes the Vatican from the top on down.  In 1972 Venerable Fulton Sheen stated quite plainly that it is up to us, the laity, to save the church in spite of the clergy.

Please sign the petition and spread it to all your own contacts, asking them to do the same.

Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen On True Versus False Compassion

Venerable Sheen died in 1979; I don't know how old this clip is, but it is quite prophetic.  So many who are unthinking lemmings of the USCCB's "social justice" racket need to see this - just to see how  destructive and even damning is their constant shilling for governmental intervention.  Certainly we could recommend it for Cardinal Dolan, as his celebration of gays in the St Patrick's Day parade will only grease the skids as those poor souls careen towards eternal perdition.

Intelligent Words To Address The Pope's Very Unintelligent Remarks On Economic Redistribution

In response to the Pope's very irresponsible suggestion for "redistribution by the state" (see yesterday's post), two online articles have appeared that address fundamental flaws in His Holiness' economic thinking.

The first is by Craige McMillan and this appeared in World Net Daily.  Among other things, he pointed out that the United Nations, whom the Pope was addressing, have been known to skim taxpayer funds for themselves instead of disbursing it to the poor.  That was the crime of Zacchaeus and most of the Roman tax collectors.  They really were crooks.  Zacchaeus was announcing his repentance via a vow to make the reparation dictated by Old Testament law.  He echoed also the reply I left for "Papa Alex": that God requires private, personal charity from each of us.  We cannot designate any government to act as a surrogate on our behalf in the discharge of charitable duties.  It will not satisfy God's laws.  Moreover, when has government ever done anything of that sort effectively?

Father John Zuhlsdorf also weighed in; here's his thorough, line-by-line analysis of the papal address in question.  He asks his own questions.  I'll echo a few of them here.

• Do we all recall that a UN agency recently suggested that the Church was guilty of torture for promulgating its teaching against abortion? (That occurred to me, too, as I was reading it.)  Why is the Pope appealing to the UN for anything?
• The Pope, hailing from Argentina, comes from a country whose economy has been spiraling downward.  Why should we listen to anyone from Argentina regarding economic matters?
• Finally, "How about talking about something other than what has been shown time and again to be a disaster?"

Finally, let me point out that the Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen often linked the traitor Judas Iscariot with the "social justice" philosophy, going so far as to call Judas "the patron saint of social justice".  Here is a brief piece he wrote.  

Bella Dodd And The School Of Darkness

First, a disclaimer.  I don't subscribe to all the opinions of the producer of this video.  Most notably, the producer is simply incorrect to imply that the Novus Ordo Mass is illicit.  True, there are abuses of that Mass, but there were also abuses of the Tridentine as well.  To hold that Novus Ordo is illicit is simply not Catholic.  Let's not forget that Satan wants Catholics to depart from the One True Church, and he isn't too particular if they exit "stage left" or "stage right".

That said, what Ms. Dodd says deserves careful thought.  The homosexual and heretical pollution of the priesthood was deliberate and long in the making.  It didn't all happen in the 1960s; that's when the problem reared its ugly head and by that time its roots were well-established within the ranks of the clergy.  I also will now link to the School of Darkness, her autobiography that details both her entry and exit from the errors of Communism, with Servant of God Archbishop Fulton Sheen being instrumental in the latter.

Venerable Sheen On Contraception

This is a talk given by the Venerable Archbishop Sheen on the evils of contraception.  If the banner behind him is any indication, this was recorded in 1953.  That was twenty-three years after the Anglican's lamentable Lambeth Conference, when they let the camel's nose under their tent.  This talk occurred before Griswald v Connecticut.   Click here if you can't see embedded video.

The Demonic Today

The Venerable Fulton Sheen passed away in the late 1970s.  I believe he gave this talk long before then.  Listen to him here as he described the operation of the devil in the Church and the world.  At around the 20-minute mark, he draws a rather telling analogy to the temptation of Christ with the siren call of "social justice".  Click here if you can't see embedded video.

Catholics! Man Up And Wise Up!

This goes double for those of the Archdiocese of Washington who threw Father Marcel Guarnizo under the bus because he actually acted like a priest of God in preaching truth and repentance.  Click here if you cannot see embedded video.

A Tale Of Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Clck here if you can't see embedded video.



After watching this, can you just imagine what Bishop Sheen's reaction would have been if someone suggested that he let the quran be read in a Catholic church?  By the way - read what the Servant of God Fulton Sheen wrote about Islam and Mary.