Bishop Olmsted Takes Issue With Critics

As was to be expected, progressive elements who call themselves "Catholic" are having their typical snit-fits against His Excellency.  According to this FoxPhoenix article, "Catholics United says the bishop is too much of a hard-liner, out of touch with many Catholics -- and the Phoenix Diocese responded swiftly and sternly. Firing back, Bishop Olmsted said Catholics who do not agree with him are no longer Catholic themselves."

Amen, Bishop Olmsted!  When it comes to "Catholics United", he is spot-on correct about that bunch.  Go to their website to take a tour.  The first thing you'll notice is their defense of another aberrant group, the CCHD.  We have taken CCHD to task numerous times for their alliances with progressive and baby-murdering organizations.  For that, Catholics United calls us "opponents of social change".  Well, given the kind of "social change" for which this crowd pines, we'll wear that title as a badge of honor.

When examining an organization, it's always helpful to look at their key players.  So let's examine their director, Chris Korzen.  Wikipedia's article about him is most informative.  Now most people will know that Wikipedia itself tends to lean to the left, so the information contained therein cannot be so readily dismissed by the left-wingers.  He is linked with the Service Employees International Union.  You remember them from last spring, don't you?  They're the bunch that sent 500+ people to stampede all over a bank official's front yard.  Now Korzen claims fidelity to Catholic moral teaching in regard to abortion.  So why, oh why, does he write for RH Reality Check?

Co-founder James Salt has even less credible claim to allegiance to the Majesterium regarding abortion.  As mentioned before on this blog, he worked for rabidly pro-abortion Tiller-pal Kathleen Sebelius.

Again, thank you, Bishop Olmsted, for calling out another faux-catholyc bunch.

Thanks to Pewsitter for this alert.

Catholic Bloggers! Contest Time!!!

First, I'll provide some background for this proposed contest.

Remember the post about Catholics In Allliance For The Common Good?  Well, it turns out that Chris Korzen, formerly affiliated with CACG and current director of Catholics United, announced that the CU group is launching its own news organization.  Catholic News Agency has the full story.

Notice that he would not reveal how it will be financed; wanna bet that Soros will be helping in that regard?  He did say that one purpose of this organization will be "reporting on the activities of CNA and EWTN."  Sheesh!  Why bother with a whole new organization?  Why not just put up a one-page site that has the URLs to both CNA and ETWN?  I suppose they want to put their own special leftist flavor to it.  Such is their First Amendment right.   When asked about whether or not this organization will be used to elect Democrats in November, Korzen was rather cagey.  So what?  We already know the answer to that question now, don't we?

Of course, they'll have much news from the progressive catholycs to report, as things over in that sector are so vibrant, so relevant.  Behold!



On second thought, maybe they had better just stick with the Democrat politicking and the snooping!

The news of this watchfulness, however, leaves me feeling, well, INSULTED!!  Aren't we Catholic bloggers  troublesome enough to Korzen that they aren't snooping on us, and "reporting on our actvities"?  Golly-gee-whiz!!!  Doesn't that just hurt my poor widdle feel-bads?  Boo-hoo!  Sniffle!  Whine! Sob!  Waah!

Now that I've dried my tears, it's time to do something about that dismal state of affairs - hence, the contest to which I alluded at the beginning of this post.  Bloggers!  Let's see who will be the first amongst us to cause angst and consternation with Korzen and cabal.  We know how we can determine that now, don't we?  I haven't figured out a prize yet, but we can work on that later.  Have fun!