The Cheapening And Commodification Of God's Children

In late autumn of 2022 in College Park Maryland, two women opened a late-term abortuary on Route 1, just across the street from the College Park campus of the University of Maryland.  The two gals are Diane Horvath, a long-time abortionist who was involved with a botched abortion at the now-closed Planned Parenthood facility in Silver Spring Maryland.  The other is Morgan Nuzzo, a certified nurse midwife.  Thanks to the abortion-adoring legislature in Annapolis, Nuzzo is authorized to kill babies, despite not being a physician.

Erstwhile Mayor of College Park

They are located within the bounds of the City of College Park.  So what kind of city government is down with nearly-full-term babies being butchered?  Well, I think we got a hint this past week.  The (ahem!) "recently resigned" mayor of College Park is Patrick Wojahn.  He has recently taken up residence behind bars, being held without bond as he faces multiple charges of child pornography: 40 counts of possession and 16 counts of distribution.  After his arrest, he resigned his mayoral office this past Wednesday, which I believe would be March 8.  Since he already served four terms as mayor, and several terms on the City Council prior to that, we may surmise that he was conducting his little porn business while governing the City of Collage Park.  In fact, Wikipedia states that his work email was used as a recovery email for the account on which child porn was found by investigators.

Wojahn is quite chummy with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whom he seems to hold as a mentor.  That shouldn't surprise anyone!  He received his law degree from Georgetown University.  I would opine that he neglected to pick up any Catholic morals from Georgetown, but recalled that there are probably no Catholic morals left at Georgetown anyway - but I digress!  He considers himself "married" to Dave Kolesar, a WTOP engineer.  I pray he too is being investigated.

So we see how a long-term mayor of College Park views children - as commodities to be abused and exploited.  Truly he is a kindred spirit to Horvath and Nuzzo of abortuary notoriety.  I understand that if Wojahn is convicted, that he may face 360 years in prison.  If that happens, I pray that it is without possibility of parole.  I only wish he'd take Horvath and Nuzzo with him.

Canadian Bishop Dabbling in Child Porn?

Bishop Raymond J Lahey of Antigonish, Nova Scotia has been charged by Ottawa police investigators with Possession and Importation of Child Pornography. When he was trying to re-enter Canada at the Ottawa Internationa Airport, officials of the Canadian Border Service Agency found suspicious graphics on his laptop. He has since submitted his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI, who subsequently accepted the resignation.

In the (likely) event that these charges are valid, Bishop Lahey has acted as the "hired hand who preys on the sheep" as opposed to the true shepherd, in the most gross violation of his episcopal ordination. I suspect this case is not as rare as I and many other might wish it to be. As we read books such as "Goodbye, Good Men" by Michael Rose and "Amchurch Comes Out" by Paul Likoudis, we get a glimpse as to how pervasive is sexual aberration within the Roman Catholic clergy.

The fall 2009 meeting of the US bishops will occur in Baltimore from November 16th through the 19th. I suspect this will be a hot "off-the-record" topic of discussion around many dinner tables and in small groups. I hope they take some warning.

Let us pray now for:

1. Bishop Lahey, that (if indeed guilty) he repent for these objectively mortal sins against his vows of celebacy
2. all clergy and religious whose spiritual eyes are similarly blinded
3. that the bishops, as a whole, will finally find a backbone to deal properly with these problems in their midst and stop being afraid to police their own
4. for the children who were victimized when the images on Bishop Lahey's computer were created, and for all such children who need bishops to protect them, not prey upon them
5. in thanksgiving for the Canadian Border Security Agency and their diligence (perhaps they'd like to work for our agencies on the Mexican borders?)