Pro-Abort Mark Shriver Named As President Of DC Area Catholic School

Mark Shriver, the pro-abortion ex-politician, has been named as President of Don Bosco Christo Rey School in Takoma Park, MD.  This appointment was announced and presumably made by both the Archdiocese of Washington and the eastern province of the Salesians.  The Catholic Substandard article to which I linked reports that Cardinal Gregory slobbered his praises of Shriver, saying among other things that Shriver is "dedicated to serving...children".  Well, yes, provided that they have escaped the clutches of abortion.  Most glaring for its omission is any mention whatsoever for Shriver's facilitation of abortion while in the MD House of Delegates and the fact that he ran for US Congress on a solid pro-abortion ticket.

One wonders just what kind of education those poor students will get.  Will they be allowed to have a pro-life club that will actually be involved in the struggle to save babies from being murdered in their mothers' wombs?  Will they discuss politics through the prism of "social justice warriors"?  And what might happen, should those students stumble across the history of Shriver's pro-abortion activities?  By no means will true Catholic education flourish at that school with a pro-abort at the helm.  Cardinal Gregory knows that.  We can only presume that he doesn't care.  After all, Shriver is a dyed-in-the-wool progressive.  Whether he knows it or not, Shriver will serve to further the Great Reset and the New World Order.  He is in an excellent position to corrupt many Catholic young people to that demented way of thinking.

But wait!  The Catholic Substandard had more enthusiastic slobbering to do all over Shriver.  The latter wrote a book, you  see, called "10 Hidden Heroes".  The editor of the Standard, Mark Zimmerman, penned the book review himself.  Except for his own parents, Shriver seems rather coy about who these "heroes" are.  The website isn't much help, either.  However, are some of these truly stalwart people considered heroes in this book?

• The faithful Catholics who kneel to receive Holy Communion on the tongue while others (including the minister!) mock them?
• The parents standing up at school board meetings to protest critical race theory in the schools, sexually explicit reading materials being thrust on their children, the insipid mask mandates
• The good people who may lose their livelihoods because they won't be de facto cannibals in accepting the abortion-tainted vaccines
• The ever-growing number of parents homeschooling their children rather than turning them over to godless schools (some ostensibly Catholic)
• The Catholics who drive many miles each Sunday to attend a Traditional Latin Mass rather than the clown Mass at their own parishes
• The pro-life people who spend hours in front of abortion mills praying in reparation for the baby-slaughter and trying to extend true help to desparate mothers?

Sadly, I think we know the answer to that.  I strongly suspect the "heroes" in this book will all tow a politically correct line or not be considered as "heroes".

Anyway, if the Catholic Sub-standard were at all concerned with the mission of the Church, that is, to save souls, it would evince some concern for Shriver's soul and those belonging to the students that stand to be scandalized by the placing of a pro-abort in authority over Catholic students.  The Archdiocese of Washington has yet another reason for shame.

Cardinal Gregory Repeats Skullduggery Of 2004 USCCB Meeting

Two weeks ago, Archbishop Gomez, current USCCB president, announced his intentions to discuss whether or not pro-abortion politicians should be admitted to Holy Communion.  It was reported that Cardinal Ladaria, current head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, advised against it.  In fact, he advised that the body of bishops come to consensus - meaning that they would have to discuss the matter.  The whole business of Ladaria trying to squelch the topic appears to be a wild interpretation of what he actually said.  I regret that two weeks ago, I didn't catch onto their duplicity.  There is reason to believe that Ladaria issued that directive at the request of Cardinals Tobin and Cupich.  One could suspect that wasn't exactly what Tobin and Cupich wanted to hear.

Perhaps Tobin and Cupich took cues from Cardinal Gregory and MISTER McCarrick.  In 2004, during the USCCB meeting in Dallas, then-Cardinal Ratzinger, then head of the CDF, issued "Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion" and directed that it be read during that meeting.  Gregory and McCarrick conspired to conceal the real letter and issued a deliberate misrepresentation of that letter, implying that it was up to individual bishops to make those determinations in their own locales.

Now some progressive prelates, among them Cardinals Cupich and Gregory, are attempting to recreate the deception that Gregory himself perpetrated seventeen years ago..  They and sixty+ of their colleagues wrote a letter to Gomez with the intent of preventing such a conversation at their June meeting.   Gregory already said that he won't deny Biden Holy Communion.  It seems like Gregory in particular has an odd pattern of thumbing his nose at the CDF. 

We don't know who the 60+ other prelates are, who are trying to stonewall discussion about the denial of Holy Communion to proabortion politicians, outside of Gregory, Cupich and O'Connor.  We know who some aren't, besides the obvious exception of Gomez himself.  Bishop Paprocki has stated that this issue must be faced.  Archbishop Cordilione and Archbishop Aquila stated the same.

Truth be told, Canon 915 is crystal clear and really requires no "discussion", just obedience.  But I suppose they think that if they can stonewall "discussion", they can stonewall obedience.  Do they really think God will continue to be mocked like that?

Maryland - Where Butchers Continue To Get A Free Pass

Some of us were starting to think that the Maryland Board of Physicians was beginning to realize that it had a duty to the public to prevent quacks from masquerading as physicians.  We had seen some licenses at least suspended and mills closed because of unsafe conditions and even the deaths of some women.

Our elation was premature.  I suppose we momentarily forgot that most of the Annapolis legislature - and our "katholyc" governor - are beholden to pro-abortion moneybags and sugar-daddies.  Operation Rescue learned that the suspensions of two abortionists associated with Stephen Brigham have been lifted.  Iris Dominy is one of the two.  She was implicated in the death of Maria Santiago at Brigham's Baltimore facility.  On August 29th that suspension was lifted.  She is still prohibited from performing any procedure requiring the use of sedation.  If that stipulation still holds, then there is still valid concern for her overall competency.  So why was her license not permanently stripped?

I suspect the Board has had the "riot act" read to it by powers-that-be in Annapolis.  It's quite revealing to go to their websites and see how many sport endorsements from NARAL, NOW, Planned Parenthood, etc.  And yes, ladies and gentlemen, the 2014 elections are just a year away.  For those of you who are not from Maryland, all state and local officials are up for election every four years (during the times that there are no presidential races).  They cannot afford to offend their pro-abortion campaign contributors, so they will indeed do all they can to make Maryland a proverbial "mecca for murder".

Mother Teresa At The 1994 Prayer Breakfast

I remember watching the video of this.  The Clintons and the Gores were in attendance.  When Mother Teresa pronounced her words (at the 14:37 mark), "I think the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion," they stared in stoney silence.  No wonder, as she told them - straightforward - that they were advocating not only the murders of babies, but the destruction of any basis for peace and justice.  Would that the bishops and clergy of today had the clarity and fortitude of this woman (some do, but their numbers are way too few at this time).  Click here if you cannot see embedded video.

CCHD Head Campaigned For Pro-Abortion Political Candidate

That's right.  Creative Minority Report tells us that during the 2008 election cycle, Ralph McCloud, while working in his capacity as CCHD director, worked as campaign treasurer for Texan Wendy Davis.  The public record is here.  Ms Davis was endorsed by Planned Parenthood.  Unfortunately, Davis defeated her pro-life opponent.  Therefore we can conclude that Ralph McCloud worked directly against a candidate who would have helped unborn children and worked for someone who would facilitate their murder.

That campaign itself ran afoul of some ethics guidelines.  Planned Parenthood of North Texas was fined several thousand dollars for not reporting just how much money they gave to Davis' campaign.  Please study the CMR post carefully.

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development touts itself as an organization that works to empower the disenfranchised.  McCloud has made clear the lie that is the CCHD motto.

Here's a very interesting, and telling aside.  As you read the comments, note the one about the USCCB logo encompassing the logo for gnosticism.  I went to the wikipedia site, and sure enough, the resemblance between the two logos is quite uncanny.  That is not an accident!

One more time - let's scrap the CCHD and the entire USCCB!  Get the filthy rot out of the Church!

This Easter Mass - Take Wisdom on Windshields with You!

As you know, Easter and Christmas are the only two times a year that many Catholics attend Mass.  A goodly percentage of them are woefully ignorant of Church teaching in many, many areas.  These areas may well include matters such as restoring God's order to public life and the primacy of life issues when making electoral/political decisions.  Some of this confusion may be manifest by bumper strips on cars that indicate support of pro-abortion politicians.  What can you do about that?  More than what you may have thought until now.

We developed a tool last year called - Wisdom on Windshields . If you see such a car as described above, you can just deposit one of these on the car's windshield.  That way, you don't have to worry about looking for the owner or being late for Mass yourself.  You can download it here and have it handy on your own computer. Print it out and always carry a supply with you to Church, as you'll never know when an opportunity will arise to educate an ignorant fellow Catholic.  In doing so, you will have performed several of the Spiritual Works of Mercy.

Cardinal O'Malley, It's Called "Canon 915"!

Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston recently told Lifesite News regarding the denial of Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians, ""Well, I think that the only way that that solution [denying communion] should be invoked is if there were a large catechesis or if it was universal for the whole church. You can’t have people doing things in one parish and another, you would only divide the Church hopelessly."  He then goes on to call for a change in Canon Law and/or a papal directive.

Let's restate the obvious.  Canon 915 is universal for the whole church.  It's actually quite simple, and I'll now quote it in its entirety.  "Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion."  That's it!  The underlined part is what pertains to the discussion about pro-abortion politicians.  Pro-abortion politicians "are not to be admitted to holy communion."  Who does the admitting?  It's the minister of Holy Communion, be they ordinary or extraordinary.  Canon 915 thus speaks to the minister of Holy Communion, not the would-be recipient of Holy Communion.  Read it.  It's spoken in the passive voice, but the meaning is crystal clear to those who have the intellectual honesty not to try to obfuscate its clear meaning.

The cardinal states that "you can't have people doing things in one parish and another.."  That's true enough.  The real solution, though, is to have all parishes and dioceses conform with Canon Law as it exists.  What makes the Cardinal think that they'll obey a new Canon law or new papal directive when they disobey the already-existing Canon Laws?

As far as papal directives go, the Vatican tried to extend such guidance in 2004 with then-Cardinal Ratzinger's (now the Holy Father) "Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion: General Principles".  The Vatican had intended it to be made known to all the bishops at their meeting in Dallas in 2004.  However, Cardinal McCarrick, who headed the USSCB's task force on the matter of Holy Communion, only made the briefest of reference to it.  Archbishop Burke said later that he was disappointed not to know of the full content of Cardinal Ratzinger's directive during the meeting.  Both Archbishop Burke and Cardinal Arinze have, from their Vatican posts, made clear that the minister of Holy Communion may not give It to pro-abortion politicians.  Cardinals O'Malley and McCarrick, what is so difficult to comprehend about that?