(HT - One Mad Mom)
Here we have the CEO of Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington outright saying that because he is a white person, he is a racist, and then links his alleged "racism" with the fact that he is white. Well, the automatic linkage of "racism" to Caucasian heritage is itself racist, so I will concede his own self-diagnosis. Then comes the theological pronouncement at the 2:30 mark, when he says "our Catholic faith tradition was built on the premise that a baby born in a manger in the middle east was a white baby". And to think that for over two thousand years, the Apostles, evangelists, Doctors of the Church, saints, etc got it all wrong, thinking that Jesus was God incarnate, without that toxic whiteness dawning on them even for an instant! Silly bumpkins, we are! How did western civilization ever survive without the sage wisdom of Rob McCann?
Then his states that "Catholic Charites supports Black Lives Matter" at the 5:00 mark. Please check out the video linked in the previous post, where a BLM founder acknowledges the Marxist underpinnings of the BLM. For that matter, check out BLM's own webpage.
I would think that not only Catholic Charities is supporting a Marxist, violence-spewing organization that is Black Lives Matter, but so is the rest of the vipers' den that is the USCCB. Watch the video below.
A note to Catholic Charities trolls: any thoughts you have towards taking down this embarrassment of a video are understandable, albeit dishonest. Don't bother, we've archived it, and any removal will only incriminate you further as conniving fools.
Showing posts with label progressives in the Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progressives in the Church. Show all posts
Friday, June 26, 2020
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Dreamer Advocates Are Dupes For Alinskyites And Blasphemers
From Catholic News Agency, we read that yesterday about 100 protesters - many of them religious - engaged in a "Catholic Day of Action with Dreamers" at the Russell Senate Office Building. Approximately 40 of them engaged in civil disobedience, prompting their arrests. According to the article, it was "an event planned by Catholic social advocacy groups". Really? And who might these be? Two of them are from the "usual gang of suspects". Reading on, we find that they are:
The blasphemy is obvious. There are more on that page, and some of those are worse than the one to the right.
That is the only link I saw to something entitled "Catholic Coalition". If the DC Catholic Coalition is not affiliated with this facebook one, please provide proof, along with members' names. I believe these are one and the same. Even if they aren't, the PICO and the FPL affiliations by themselves show that the leadership of this "dreamer" sit-in do not adhere to the True Faith. These squalid associations are typical of those who glom onto "seamless garbage" idiology. The Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen once quipped that Judas was the "patron saint of social justice". He was right and time again we see this played out. We faithful Catholics will continue to expose their lunacy.
- PICO - They are one of several "community organizing" rackets operating under the philosophy and methodology of Saul Alinsky. Much has been written about them; among their many harmful pet causes is - or was - the promotion of Obamacare.
- Faith in Public Life - a leftwing front organization funded by George Soros
- More progressive groups (many featured on this blog) are listed here and here.
The third is something called the DC Catholic Coalition. Since I hadn't heard of them before reading this article, I decided a search was in order so I googled the name. I came up with a facebook page belonging to something called "Catholic Coalition". The memes on the page of this ostensibly "Catholic" organization leave something to be desired - like basic morality, for one. Here is one, and I regret the offense to sensibilities. However, we need to see the mentality behind the leaders of this "Catholic Day of Action with Dreamers".
That is the only link I saw to something entitled "Catholic Coalition". If the DC Catholic Coalition is not affiliated with this facebook one, please provide proof, along with members' names. I believe these are one and the same. Even if they aren't, the PICO and the FPL affiliations by themselves show that the leadership of this "dreamer" sit-in do not adhere to the True Faith. These squalid associations are typical of those who glom onto "seamless garbage" idiology. The Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen once quipped that Judas was the "patron saint of social justice". He was right and time again we see this played out. We faithful Catholics will continue to expose their lunacy.
Friday, October 27, 2017
Muller And Sarah Raining On Progressives' Parades
A few days ago I highlighted some articles regarding the escalating animosity towards Cardinal Sarah, starting with the pope. Others were just released within the past few days - see here and here. Those promoting the evil rot within the Vatican lash out in anger against those prelates - like Sarah - who stand firm for the teachings of Christ. Their ire is even more inflamed because apparently Cardinal Sarah stands a decent chance of being the next pope. In the midst of all the attempts to bring him down, he remains unflappable because he serves Jesus Christ, not some worldly fads.
As mentioned before, Cardinal Muller preceded Cardinal Sarah in being fodder for progressive vultures within the Church. Now that Muller is outside the Vatican, he does seem to be speaking more freely in defense of the Church. Yesterday he openly rebuked the secretary general of the Italian Episcopal Conference for stating that the protestant rebellion was a "work of the Holy Spirit". Of course that statement by Bishop Galantino is bald-faced blasphemy, for in making that statement, he claimed that the Third Person of the Trinity committed mortal sin. Recall that Cardinal Muller was basically ejected from his position by the pope. The silver lining in that cloud is that the pope no longer has any threat to hold over Muller's head so the latter probably senses little reason to tip-toe on eggshells. He has found his voice again.
Please pray for our prelates, especially that the faithful ones hold firm.
As mentioned before, Cardinal Muller preceded Cardinal Sarah in being fodder for progressive vultures within the Church. Now that Muller is outside the Vatican, he does seem to be speaking more freely in defense of the Church. Yesterday he openly rebuked the secretary general of the Italian Episcopal Conference for stating that the protestant rebellion was a "work of the Holy Spirit". Of course that statement by Bishop Galantino is bald-faced blasphemy, for in making that statement, he claimed that the Third Person of the Trinity committed mortal sin. Recall that Cardinal Muller was basically ejected from his position by the pope. The silver lining in that cloud is that the pope no longer has any threat to hold over Muller's head so the latter probably senses little reason to tip-toe on eggshells. He has found his voice again.
Please pray for our prelates, especially that the faithful ones hold firm.
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
New Pro Life Movement = Seamless Garment Regurgitation
Michael Hichborn, formerly of American Life League, runs a
site called Lepantoinstitute.org. It is a well-run site that is quite
informative and faithful to Catholic teaching. Recently he ran an article
regarding the attempts by John Carr to insinuate himself into the pro-life
movement. Recall that while he was at the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops, Carr oversaw the office that was in charge of the Catholic
Campaign for Human Development. He did absolutely nothing to address the
scandals regarding that collection.
The main focus of this article is not John Carr. We are looking at the attempts of others to couple the pro-life movement with the now-discredited “seamless garment” theory that was championed by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. In his article, Hichborn made mention of a series of articles found in the summer edition of Human Life Review. Here is the site for your perusal Many of the authors understand the perils of the seamless garment theory under its many disguises. Among them, Ann Hendershott, Kevin Williamson and Kristin Hawkins see the danger of diluting our focus on ending baby-killing. On the other hand, there are people like Aimee Murphy, director of Rehumanize International. I previously did some research on this group and found them to be at serious variance with Catholic moral teaching. Their “new media coordinator” supports homosexual conduct and may herself be embroiled in that sin. Murphy herself evinced racism as she supported the violent “Black Lives Matter” on her facebook page.
But the seamless garment poses an even greater threat to the authentic pro-life cause than mere dilution. In many, if not most, cases, its adherents ascribe to “seamless garment” tenets moral authority that belongs only to those matters to which the Church has placed special emphasis: abortion, contraception, euthanasia, homosexual conduct, abuse of embryos. Even worse, some “seamless garment” adherents will go so far as to transgress against the Church’s teachings on the aforementioned intrinsic evils in order to promote the progressive positions on lesser matters (such as immigration or capital punishment). We’ll now expound on these threats.
Some of the articles made mention of a group that dubs itself the “The New Pro-life Movement” – rather pretentious, that! Its site is thenewprolifemovement.com . Right on its homepage we see a problem. John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe was a highly-respected pro-life leader approximately 25 years ago. He helped spearhead the clinic rescue aspect of the movement. Recently, some seamless garment pet causes – in his case, amnesty for illegal immigrants – clouded his perspective to the extent that he supported the unapologetically pro-abortion Hillary Clinton during the last presidential election. I won’t go into the evils of that or this article would take up the entire magazine. Look at the “contributors” page. One of the other contributors is Rebecca Bratten Weiss. Rather than go into another lengthy explanation, I refer you to this piece by LifeSiteNews.
Let’s look at its “organizations we support” page. We see listed “Obria Medical Clinics”. Going to that site, we see their page on abortion. While they don’t speak glowingly of abortion, they think that it could be “the right choice” for someone. What??? They seem to be fine with contraception. Another supported organization is “All Our Lives”. Not only is it “informed” by the “consistent life ethic”, but also “the reproductive justice movement”. They advocate for gay rights.
This “new pro-life movement” organization is not unique in having serious moral problems. We’ve always known that those enamored with the “seamless garment” have flirted either with mortal sins themselves or have allied themselves with others embroiled in those sins. An example of that was brought to my attention during the controversies over DACA. A friend of mine, perhaps in an attempt to justify amnesty for Illegal aliens, posted an article about a priest in Georgia, Fr. Rey Pineda, who is himself an illegal alien. To bring his “plight” to national attention, he relayed his story to Senator Dick Durbin, who then took it to the Senate floor last November. Of course Durbin did this while advocating for illegal amnesty. Dick Durbin’s name recently came up during Senate judicial hearings, when he and Senator Dianne Feinstein grilled judicial nominee Amy Coney Barrett regarding her Catholic faith, mocking her in the process. So on the one hand, Dick Durbin (a “Catholic” who has always been pro-abortion) takes up Fr. Pineda’s case for his own end, but on the other hand he openly takes aim at a judicial nominee for living out her Catholic faith. Pineda, a priest, lent moral credibility to a politician who displays anti-Catholic bigotry in order to facilitate his own sinful disregard for his host nation’s laws. This is just another instance of moral compromise when Catholics get entangled in the seamless garment embrace of progressive causes.
The gains that the pro-life movement has made in recent years have been due in large measure to the movement’s laser-like focus on defending innocent life and the sanctity of marriage. We are soon coming up on the centennial anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun that culminated Our Lady of Fatima’s appearances to the three children. During these apparitions, she warned the children that the leading cause of souls going to hell was sins of the flesh. Let us focus on eradicating these sins and not allow other matters disguising themselves as “social justice issues” to distract us and even seduce us to sin.
The main focus of this article is not John Carr. We are looking at the attempts of others to couple the pro-life movement with the now-discredited “seamless garment” theory that was championed by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. In his article, Hichborn made mention of a series of articles found in the summer edition of Human Life Review. Here is the site for your perusal Many of the authors understand the perils of the seamless garment theory under its many disguises. Among them, Ann Hendershott, Kevin Williamson and Kristin Hawkins see the danger of diluting our focus on ending baby-killing. On the other hand, there are people like Aimee Murphy, director of Rehumanize International. I previously did some research on this group and found them to be at serious variance with Catholic moral teaching. Their “new media coordinator” supports homosexual conduct and may herself be embroiled in that sin. Murphy herself evinced racism as she supported the violent “Black Lives Matter” on her facebook page.
But the seamless garment poses an even greater threat to the authentic pro-life cause than mere dilution. In many, if not most, cases, its adherents ascribe to “seamless garment” tenets moral authority that belongs only to those matters to which the Church has placed special emphasis: abortion, contraception, euthanasia, homosexual conduct, abuse of embryos. Even worse, some “seamless garment” adherents will go so far as to transgress against the Church’s teachings on the aforementioned intrinsic evils in order to promote the progressive positions on lesser matters (such as immigration or capital punishment). We’ll now expound on these threats.
Some of the articles made mention of a group that dubs itself the “The New Pro-life Movement” – rather pretentious, that! Its site is thenewprolifemovement.com . Right on its homepage we see a problem. John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe was a highly-respected pro-life leader approximately 25 years ago. He helped spearhead the clinic rescue aspect of the movement. Recently, some seamless garment pet causes – in his case, amnesty for illegal immigrants – clouded his perspective to the extent that he supported the unapologetically pro-abortion Hillary Clinton during the last presidential election. I won’t go into the evils of that or this article would take up the entire magazine. Look at the “contributors” page. One of the other contributors is Rebecca Bratten Weiss. Rather than go into another lengthy explanation, I refer you to this piece by LifeSiteNews.
Let’s look at its “organizations we support” page. We see listed “Obria Medical Clinics”. Going to that site, we see their page on abortion. While they don’t speak glowingly of abortion, they think that it could be “the right choice” for someone. What??? They seem to be fine with contraception. Another supported organization is “All Our Lives”. Not only is it “informed” by the “consistent life ethic”, but also “the reproductive justice movement”. They advocate for gay rights.
This “new pro-life movement” organization is not unique in having serious moral problems. We’ve always known that those enamored with the “seamless garment” have flirted either with mortal sins themselves or have allied themselves with others embroiled in those sins. An example of that was brought to my attention during the controversies over DACA. A friend of mine, perhaps in an attempt to justify amnesty for Illegal aliens, posted an article about a priest in Georgia, Fr. Rey Pineda, who is himself an illegal alien. To bring his “plight” to national attention, he relayed his story to Senator Dick Durbin, who then took it to the Senate floor last November. Of course Durbin did this while advocating for illegal amnesty. Dick Durbin’s name recently came up during Senate judicial hearings, when he and Senator Dianne Feinstein grilled judicial nominee Amy Coney Barrett regarding her Catholic faith, mocking her in the process. So on the one hand, Dick Durbin (a “Catholic” who has always been pro-abortion) takes up Fr. Pineda’s case for his own end, but on the other hand he openly takes aim at a judicial nominee for living out her Catholic faith. Pineda, a priest, lent moral credibility to a politician who displays anti-Catholic bigotry in order to facilitate his own sinful disregard for his host nation’s laws. This is just another instance of moral compromise when Catholics get entangled in the seamless garment embrace of progressive causes.
The gains that the pro-life movement has made in recent years have been due in large measure to the movement’s laser-like focus on defending innocent life and the sanctity of marriage. We are soon coming up on the centennial anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun that culminated Our Lady of Fatima’s appearances to the three children. During these apparitions, she warned the children that the leading cause of souls going to hell was sins of the flesh. Let us focus on eradicating these sins and not allow other matters disguising themselves as “social justice issues” to distract us and even seduce us to sin.
Thursday, June 25, 2015
The Rot Inside The Church That Paved The Way For Laudato Si
An organization called America's Survival interviewed Michael Hichborn shortly before Laudato Si was officially released. He revealed quite a few details on how pervasive the progressive rot is inside the Vatican - all the way to the top. Of course he touches upon the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and all the other corruption that make up the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Take note especially of how John Carr, former director of "social justice" at the USCCB, tried to bribe Hichborn into silence about all that he uncovered.
Towards the end, Hichborn noted that CCHD is still corrupt and that we should not contribute. I agree. On that note, I've a word for the Archdiocese of Washington. Most dioceses hold their CCHD collections in November. For several years now, the ADW has held its collection in August; this year it'll be during the Aug 8-9 weekend. Moreover, they've tried to disguise it by stating that it's the "Catholic Communications and Human Development" collection. Drop not one red penny into that. I'll have more on this later. Now the video.
Towards the end, Hichborn noted that CCHD is still corrupt and that we should not contribute. I agree. On that note, I've a word for the Archdiocese of Washington. Most dioceses hold their CCHD collections in November. For several years now, the ADW has held its collection in August; this year it'll be during the Aug 8-9 weekend. Moreover, they've tried to disguise it by stating that it's the "Catholic Communications and Human Development" collection. Drop not one red penny into that. I'll have more on this later. Now the video.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Progressive Social Justice Crowd - Pharisees?
In LifeSiteNews, Michael O'Brien makes some interesting and relevant points in his article touching upon "new phariseeism". He makes the case that none of us can claim any righteousness on our own, and that the Pharisees were experts on substituting their own customs for authentic Mosaic law. They then adhered to the former while trashing the latter.
He draws the analogy between that tendency and the tendency of the "social justice" crowd to minimize the importance of matters pertaining to life and sexual morality, substituting their own progressive causes. And heaven help the poor pro-life person who looks askance upon Obamacare or the Dream Act. I could regale one and all of the hissies that have been lobbed in my direction by these new Pharisees when I won't jump on their bandwagons. I am tempted sometimes not to point out the questionable alliances in which they embroil themselves in search of their progressive utopias. Not to worry, though, as I usually succeed in conquering those temptations to the chagrin of some.
It seems that some "illegal immigration" devotees have taken to fasting for their cause. According to Catholic Culture, the first bunch ended their fast with public recognition from not only Cardinal McCarrick, but "usual suspects" such as Nancy Pelosi, Al Sharpton, Tom Perez. The list of organizations sounds like a "who's who" if dissenters. But Cardinal McCarrick glories in his squalid associations. I have picketed at least four of these throughout the years. I wonder how many of these would fast for the end of abortion? Wait! What am I thinking? Are not Pelosi and Sharpton two of the biggest proponents of child-murder? So why does a Prince of the Church associate himself with these modern pharisees? Do we really need to ask that question (owing to obvious answer)?
He draws the analogy between that tendency and the tendency of the "social justice" crowd to minimize the importance of matters pertaining to life and sexual morality, substituting their own progressive causes. And heaven help the poor pro-life person who looks askance upon Obamacare or the Dream Act. I could regale one and all of the hissies that have been lobbed in my direction by these new Pharisees when I won't jump on their bandwagons. I am tempted sometimes not to point out the questionable alliances in which they embroil themselves in search of their progressive utopias. Not to worry, though, as I usually succeed in conquering those temptations to the chagrin of some.
It seems that some "illegal immigration" devotees have taken to fasting for their cause. According to Catholic Culture, the first bunch ended their fast with public recognition from not only Cardinal McCarrick, but "usual suspects" such as Nancy Pelosi, Al Sharpton, Tom Perez. The list of organizations sounds like a "who's who" if dissenters. But Cardinal McCarrick glories in his squalid associations. I have picketed at least four of these throughout the years. I wonder how many of these would fast for the end of abortion? Wait! What am I thinking? Are not Pelosi and Sharpton two of the biggest proponents of child-murder? So why does a Prince of the Church associate himself with these modern pharisees? Do we really need to ask that question (owing to obvious answer)?
Monday, November 4, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
The Pax Christi Event At St Francis Of Assisi This Evening
If you attended that event in Derwood Maryland and are visiting this site, no doubt you are doing so because this was left on your car. The only difference between this online version and the paper flyer is that the hyperlinks are indeed "clickable". I strongly urge you to study those links. Please note that two of them are links to Pax Christi's own site. The evidence of Pax Christi's dissent from Christ's teachings don't get any more "first-hand" than that!
I contend that any debatable benefit that you might have gleaned from this evening's event is far outweighed by the harm wrought by lending Pax Christi your audience and a moral credibility that it simply doesn't deserve. I've no doubt that many people are genuinely unaware of Pax Christi's desire to undermine Church teaching in fundamental matters of faith and morals. For any new awareness that has come about, I am thankful.
I contend that any debatable benefit that you might have gleaned from this evening's event is far outweighed by the harm wrought by lending Pax Christi your audience and a moral credibility that it simply doesn't deserve. I've no doubt that many people are genuinely unaware of Pax Christi's desire to undermine Church teaching in fundamental matters of faith and morals. For any new awareness that has come about, I am thankful.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Australian Diocese Bans 40 Days For Life
Apparently the bishop thinks that 40 Days for Life isn't in accord with the Church - but some envirowhacko "climate change" racket is. What??!?!?
Here are pertinent links mentioned in the Vortex:
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Vortex Addresses Infestation Within Church
Somehow I missed this last month but it's still quite relevant. Here is the link to the article to which Voris alludes.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
The Noxious Legacies Of Bernardin And Mahony
Today's Vortex delves into the wreckage foisted on the Church by these two prelates. Now Cardinal Bernardin has gone to his eternal reward (whatever that might be) and Cardinal Mahony recently had his wings clipped. Still we must deal with the aftermath of their reigns of terror and dissent. Let us pray that Cardinal Mahony respond to the grace of repentance.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Change Agents - Part 2
About six weeks ago I linked to the first installment of a four-part series on Alinskyan organizing and how it has infiltrated the Church. It is a rather thorough work put together by my friend and Catholic Media Coalition colleague Stephanie Block. I now link to the second installment. It's a pdf that can be downloaded. Enjoy!
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