Amoralis Lamentia Oozing Through The Archdiocese Of Washington

Long-time readers of this blog will recall the key roles that Pope Francis gave to Cardinal Wuerl during the two synods that were the cover for culminated in Amoralis Lamentia (see here and here).  Therefore it is no surprise that the Cardinal is singing the dubious praises of AL, giving great cause for concern for the over-emphasis on the role of subjective "conscience".

In the online version of the Catholic Standard, an article was released today dealing with a letter that the Cardinal sent to archdiocesan priests regarding Amoralis Lamentia.  As you read it, note the incorrect exaltation of subjective conscience.  Basically what he says is that all priests can do is remind their parishioners of what the Church teaches, but at the end of the day each person will do what he/or she wants based on their "conscience".  Completely lacking is any mention of the fact that if these "consciences" run counter to the Teachings of Jesus Christ, then any acquiescence to these "consciences" (in a saner time, they were called "temptations to sin") would be sinful - perhaps mortally sinful.

Note this quote from the Standard: "Our task as pastors of souls is to provide the guidance that we hope will lead the person to more fully grasp the teaching and make a right judgment,” the cardinal wrote. Noting the catechism’s teaching on forming and following one’s conscience, he added that priests “are called to walk with the faithful so that they might grasp, understand and make their own the teaching of the Church… But the person, not the priest, makes the final personal conscientious judgment.”

Do you notice how there's no mention of any remedy when these "final personal judgments" lead to mortal sin?  Please note that if a person continues in an action that he/she knows goes counter to the Teachings of Jesus in matters of marriage and sexuality, they already know it's a grave matter and they most likely have deliberated on it.  I believe those are the elements of mortal sin.  Remedy most certainly is needed in those cases for these people imperil their own souls and those of others (including their accomplices in adultery).

The article ends with a thinly-disguised dig at the four cardinals who issued their dubia.  It's not too surprising that Wuerl might do that since he most likely had some hand in the proceedings of the sin-nods, if not the crafting of Amoralis Lamentia itself.  However, not all share his opinion.  Last month Msgr Charles Pope of the Archdiocese of Washington wrote a piece that appears in the National Catholic Register.  In that piece the Msgr stated his support of the dubia and restated clear teaching that de facto adulterers cannot be admitted to Holy Communion, "consciences" notwithstanding.

Faithful Catholics, Msgr Pope is quite correct.  Precisely because he's correct and is a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, we need to lift him up in prayer and to make plain to the DC chancery that our eyes are open, lest he be subject to retribution, much like Father Guarnizo was five years ago when he withheld Holy Communion from a practicing lesbian.  I've also written before about the harassment being inflicted on the Knights of Malta.  Today things there took an ugly turn as we learned that the pope demanded the resignation of the Knight's Grand Master, Fra Matthew Festing.  All Festing did was what was required of him in dismissing the condom-dealing official.  Might Msgr Pope suffer similar vindictiveness?  We must watch and pray.

Cardinal Burke On "The Francis Effect" And Church-Government Relations

Two days ago, Raymond Arroyo had the opportunity to interview Raymond Cardinal Burke when the latter was at EWTN.  The video is below, with the interview beginning at the 9:00 mark.  At 20:30 His Eminence touches upon the Apostolic Exhortation that has been the topic of much conversation and debate.  He points out that the Holy Father stated in the beginning that he never intended those remarks to be part of the teaching Magisterium.  At 22:55 discussion of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass commences.  He mentions (at 24:33) that the Holy Father gave a smack-down to a bishop who voiced disdain for the allowance of the Tridentine Mass.  He also mentioned that when he celebrates the Extraordinary Form, there are many young people with children in attendance.

They then start, at 27:10, to discuss the merging of the Vatican Embassy with the Italian Embassy: in other words, the closing of the Vatican Embassy.  Listen particularly at 28:29; when questioned about the impression that Obama is snubbing the Church, His Eminence replies that "I have to say that given the way the present administration treats the Catholic Church in general, that wouldn't surprise me too much.  I mean, this whole disaster on conscience rights and so forth ... the idea that yes you can have freedom of religion but it's now reduced to freedom of worship, you can do what you want within the four walls of your church but beyond that what you believe in the depth of your heart has no importance to the government of the United States of America which is an absolute contradiction of the founding principles of this nation.."

God bless Cardinal Burke for speaking truth to power.  Pray for more bishops and priests like him.

Gay-Nazis At Department Of Justice

The Liberty Council obtained a copy of a Department of Justice pamphlet entitled "LGBT Inclusion at Work: Seven Habits of Highly Effective Managers".  It's quite a hoot, paid for by our tax dollars.  World Net Daily has an excellent piece on this latest attempt to coerce speech and yes, thought.  Why?  They are being ordered - ordered! - to positively affirm immoral behavior.  It is not enough for these tyrants to merely silence good people.  They seek to force actions and words from them that violate their consciences.  Bear in mind that this is a governmental agency - not some private company that is merely implementing the beliefs of its owners.  We the people are paying to have good managers bullied into compliance with perversion.

Speaking of private companies merely implementing their beliefs, that too has incurred the wrath of the gay-nazis.  In the state of Washington, a florist is being harassed because she won't facilitate a gay wedding.  In her case, she is not taking this sitting down.  With the assistance of Alliance Defending Freedom, she is counter-suing the state.  Here's hoping she wins.

A Homily That Hopefully Sounded From Pulpits All Over The USA

And I don't mean just Catholic pulpits either!  What Obama and Sebelius did last week was a slap in the face to us all - and of course to the babies.  This homily was delivered today at the 11:15 mass at St John Neumann Church in Gaithersburg MD.  You should be able to download it, if you wish.  You might want to do so and burn it to some cds and circulate it.  Click HERE.

Towards the end of Mass, a letter from Cardinal Wuerl was read along the same theme.  For the sake of those living outside the Archdiocese of Washington, I link to it HERE.

I understand that many bishops have issued similar letters.  I'd be happy to link to those if readers will send me the necessary information.  If others priests issued similar statements, I'd be happy to pubicize those as well.

This administration in the White House aspires to become a dictatorial monster.  We need to stop it with all the means available to us as American citizens.  This certainly includes the November elections.

Pelosi Whines About Catholics' "Conscience Thing"

I put up two posts last month, detailing Nancy Pelosi's pearls of wisdom.  She opined that we ladies would be dropping dead like flies hither and yon if conscience protections for doctors were enacted in law. He also expressed her abject horror at the thought of Planned Parenthood's tax funding being eliminated (probably because PP would then cut their support to her sorry political career).

Two days ago, she has graced us all with more verbal cow pies in an interview with the Washington Post.  After her snit-fit about Herman Cain referring to her as "Princess Pelosi", she said (among other things) that she would not have said anything different when she said that we'd all be croaking if conscience protections were passed.  After claimng to be a "devout Catholic" (except for minor matters such as her support of baby murder and perversion of marriage, etc), she complains that we have "this conscience thing".  Again, she just can't let go this canard of women dying - probably because she can't remove her feet from her mouth.

"This conscience thing"!!   Gee!!   I wonder if she has one of those??

But wait!  It gets worse!  And I do mean it!
One major point she made during her interview was that she intends to do to "child care" what she did to "health care".  What will it entail?  Well, she'll probably say that we'll have to pass the bill to see what little embedded gremlins emerge from it.  Language in that bill will probably include things like "mandatory", etc.  And of course there will be lots and lots of bureacracies and taxes.

Parents, beware!  Also understand that critical importance of the 2012 elections.  Besides dethroning the Messiah Most Miserable, we must also make sure "pope" Pelosi never becomes the House Speaker ever again!

Catholyc Feminazi: "Feel Guilty for NOT Aborting"

Yep!  You read that right - although if we think about it, we knew this was coming down the pike.

Elfrede Harth, at a "Women Deliver" conference in Washington DC last month, made that ludicrous statement.  Read more. 

She made other statements, some of which contradict each other - that is, if you understand some basic logic.  But what role does logic play in the pro-death, progressive mentality?  But I digress!  Here are her rather dubious oracles.

First, she spouts the rather-familiar complaint that the "Church suppresses freedom of conscience" for those who favor permissve attitudes towards child-murder.

Then she spouts the contradictory but equally nonsensical statement.  I'll pull this directly from the Lifesite News report.  Ultimately, said Harth, a woman has a right to abort because she "has a right to have a good life" and she does not have "the right to ruin it." "And if a pregnancy is going to ruin her life in any way, she has a right to get the abortion. She has the right. She has an obligation to protect her life from being ruined. ... Because you owe this respect to yourself because you're a child of God. You should feel guilty if you don't," she said. 

Do you see the contradiction?  Harth is saying that a pregnant woman doesn't have the "right to ruin her life."  But who gets to define for that hypothetical woman what constitutes "ruination of her life"?  Apparently Harth doesn't believe such a woman has a right to her freedom of conscience!  Harth is making clear that she is pro-death, and will do what she can to promote death as opposed to life.

We see this all the time at the abortuaries, with the deathscorts.  Their own consciences are so seared that they actaully want the women going in to have the abortions - no doubt to justify their actions and perhaps their own abortions.  They will always try to prevent us from approaching them, they will try to confiscate from the women information that we gave them (so much for alternatives, so so much for choice).  We've even seen them turn a blind eye from women who are obviously being dragged into the mills. 

Anyone who promotes abortion in any way, shape, fashion or form is living a lie.  The only way they can justify that lie is to perpetuate it in as many people as possible - whether those people want it or not!  That is being the push this past year to gag the pregnancy centers in Baltimore City and Montgomery County, and elsewhere in the country.