Here is Thursday's episode of The World Over. Arroyo discusses the upcoming sin-nod with Edward Pentin and Damian Thompson. Other topics are discussed, such as the UK bishops' silence in the wake of that attempted forced abortion in England. Mention is made of a website created by the Society for Tradition, Family And Property. It is called panamazonsynodwatch.com. It may well be worth a visit from time to time.
All left-wing pundits and progressive bishops are going ballistic over the drowning deaths of a border-crasher and his little girl. Some have gone so far as to blame President Trump when, at most, the child had been on US soil for a few minutes. To be sure, their deaths were sad, but not both were victims. The child was - of her parents' stupidity and lawlessness.
Louis Verrichio of AKA Catholic has some thoughts on the whole scenario and the picture that has succeeded in causing rational thought in the left to be even more addled than usual. I invite you to take a look at it and to ponder the very existence of the photograph. How indeed did that photographer just happen to stumble on that sad scene? If indeed it was a coincidence (mighty far-fetched), wouldn't a responsible, truly caring response be to ascertain the condition of the two before snapping pictures? For all this person knew, maybe they were still able to be assisted.
If anyone lacked compassion and decency here, it was the left-wing media who probably positioned their corpses face-down in the water for cheap photo-ops. It is they who exploited and yes, victimized, the two dead people for the sake of their own insipid narratives. I'm sure that fact is not entirely lost on the progressive bishops, so the shame of that exploitation lies on their heads as well.
Both of these Maryland-based stories are from LifeSiteNews.
In the first, we see that the State of Maryland put a private Christian school, located in Baltimore, in its crosshairs. Because the school, Bethel Christian Academy, correctly teaches that God designed marriage to be between one biological man and one biological woman (see how I have to spell it out?), parents could no longer use school vouchers to send their children to that school. Mind you, the school makes no distinction among prospective students in terms of "gender identity". They simply teach God's truth. They are filing suit and are represented by Alliance Defending Freedom. What I failed to detect in the LifeSiteNews piece is any indication of support from the Catholic hierarchy, specifically from the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Why?
Let's now shift focus to St. Mary's County. In Lexington Park, there was a "drag queen story hour" occurring on the Feast of Corpus Christi. An intrepid group of Christians came to protest the sleaze session. It turns out that there were more Christians there than were attendees of the poof-production. Regrettably there was only one Catholic priest, and he hailed from Charles County. Why were no priests from St. Mary's County on hand?
It seems like those in the Maryland Catholic hierarchy are afraid of the gay cartel - or they are in cahoots with them. I would love to be proven incorrect. Please - if anyone hears of the bishops taking action regarding either of these situations, or that of dissident parishes participating in "pride" parades (that means you, Father Joseph Muth!), please advise in the com boxes.
We continue our agonizing and penitential slog through theInstrumentum Laboris of the upcoming debacle known as the Amazon Sin-nod. Last week I finished paragraph 13. Paragraph 14 lays out a bunch of hypothetical threats to the peoples of the Amazon. Read it and notice what is missing. Where are the threats to the eternal salvation of those people (and the rest of humanity for that matter)? The Church's primary mission is the eternal salvation of souls. So where is the concern about faulty catechesis? Where is the concern about false religions and idolatry? Oh, wait! According to paragraph 13, they are supposed to be "in relation to various spiritual forces"! So this papal plop promotes sins against the First Commandment? Moving along to paragraph 15, we see that it is considered a "threat" that the people might abandon ancient idolatries. My goodness! Was that the attitude of St Patrick when, at his preaching, the Irish ceased their druidic human sacrifices?
Please take a gander at this precious gem from paragraph 17:
"We are" what??!!? No, we are created in the image and likeness of God, with intellect and will. We are not just some hobgob of stuff from the material order. As far as this "cut the veins of our Mother Earth, that's a new one. The earth is not "our mother". It is, at best, silly to personify a planet. For the next several paragraphs one will read ad nauseum the most poetic bewailing of the supposed evils wrought by mankind against the environment. In other words, it's the quintessential envirowhacko screed.
The themes change a bit at paragraph 28. The Amazon is now in a "period of grace", you see! It's because of this "Synod of the Amazon"! There's going to be "a mutual dialog among all the people of God"! Let us thank that same God that they didn't see fit to include "the various spiritual forces" in the dialog!
According to paragraph 30, this dialog "aligns with a journey that began with the (surprise!) the Second Vatican Council"! Taa-daa! As all progressives know, Church history just didn't exist before the Second Vatican Council! Prior to that, it was all triumphalist rubbish! All the saints, doctors of the Church, worldwide preaching of the Gospel, Our Lord's mission for the Church - fudget about it already! Yes, I am being sarcastic, but I fear my interpretation of paragraph 30 is a tad too accurate for comfort.
I understand that last evening's Democrat candidates' debate was quite a farce. So tell me - which is the most banal of the two? This document or the debates? Please opine in the com-boxes!
Last week Archbishop Vigano revealed in an interview that while he was nuncio, he received numerous complaints regarding Msgr Walter Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC. He allegedly preyed upon male students of the Catholic University of America, where the Shrine is located. The LifeSiteNews article details Rossi's connections with now-disgraced Bishop Bransfield, as well as McCarrick and Wuerl.
Archbishop Vigano made reference to George Neumayr. The latter wrote that Rossi suggested group sex to young men who rewarded those who submitted to him and persecuted those who didn't. Several years ago, Rossi had Neumayr's name and face put on some sort of Shrine security notice and barred him from the premise. No reason was ever given. While that action is allowable at civil law, it isn't allowable at canon law.
This past Sunday on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Neumayr attempted to attend Mass and participate in the Corpus Christi procession. He was spotted and ordered to leave. Church Militant tried to follow up with the Shrine staff. As a demonstration of what the Gay Mafia church really means by "transparency", the questions were stonewalled.
It's worth noting that now-disgraced Bishop Bransfield, embroiled in his own scandals, is a predecessor of Rossi's. Allegedly he's being investigated by Archbishop Lori. But Lori is a busy man - busy about the wrong things. He and many other left-wing prelates are actively trying to undermine President Trump's efforts to deport border crashers as we see from this piece on the Archdiocese of Baltimore's site.
Please take note of several details. First, through this "parish id program", we see that the archdiocese will be giving aid and comfort to those who are willfully flouting US immigration laws. Second, this Brooks woman is slandering the men and women of ICE, characterizing their efforts as "domestic terrorism". Because the ADB published her remarks with no disclaimer, we can logically assume that they partake in her guilt of slander. Father Lewandowski takes it a step further by blustering that ICE "has to go through me first". It must also be noted that Brooks is a member of BUILD (all in the blue shirts). A simple google search of them reveals that they are an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation, founded by Saul Alinsky himself.
So there you have it. Lori is dealing with Bransfield. He continues to let Father Joseph Muth and his gay-rights cronies run amok at St Matthew's Church (I believe they marched in the Baltimore Pride parade again). So now he's thumping his chest over illegals? Or is he just hankering after some of those Catholic Charity dollars?
Right now things are looking rather sordid in the leadership of both the Archdioceses of Washington and Baltimore. We will keep you abreast as you keep the church in your prayers.
I trust by now you've seen my first account (along with those of others) of the latest insults being wrought against the Faith and the salvation of souls vis-a-vis the plans for the Amazon sin-nod this coming October. Below I'll post a video on the analysis done by Raymond Arroyo and friends. Complicit Clergy rightly suggests a boycott of the Peter's Pence collection. We should contribute directly to truly worthwhile charities and not risk one cent of our hard-earned money being used to promote devil-worship. They state that the collection is June 30. However, for the Archdiocese of Washington, that collection will happen tomorrow. Instead of money, please jot a note explaining why a contribution to Peter's Pence cannot be considered "supporting the work of the Church" as stipulated in the Six Precepts of the Church.
The USCCB circus is over, but the undermining of Holy Mother Church is continuing apace. A rather huge insult to the Faith will occur at an Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in the Amazon this coming October. Rorate Caeli has obtained the full English version of the Instrumentum Laboris of this thing. If you click on that square with the arrow pointing to the upper right corner, you'll be able to download it to your machines.
I've seen analyses of the thing and you might wish to read them. But do read the document yourselves. So far I've gotten through 13 paragraphs and already I see that it is chock-full of heresies. In many cases, the problems are what is not said. For instance, paragraph 11 starts by saying "Jesus offers life to the full", but says exactly zero-zip-nada about eternal life. The lack of mention of eternity is an implicit instruction to deny its reality and to belittle the importance of preparing for said life. In paragraphs 12 & 13, we see blather about the "good life" being about relationships between a whole plethora of things in no particular order; included in that is God and "various spiritual forces". Of course God is not given primacy of place in this thing. One wonders just what the hell are these "various spiritual forces"? Hint! There is a reason why I used the word "hell"in that sentence! These two paragraphs are noting short of an ode to pantheism and possibly devil worship.
Let's take a look at one of the driving forces behind this document. He is Bishop Erwin Krautler, prelate of Xingu. He wrote a large part of this document. LifeSiteNews has some disturbing revelations regarding his most un-Catholic beliefs. One of them has to do with conversion. He said "no longer is the fastest possible formal conversion to Christianity by baptism at the center of the Church’s work for the Indians, but an inculturation that asks which traces God also left in the natural religions." That's odd. At the end of Matthew's Gospel, we see Jesus commanding His apostles to baptize. I see nothing about "inculteration". Perhaps he thinks Jesus' commands are archaic (I'm NOT being facetious). Well, one of these delightful indigenous traditions is infanticide. What does he say about that? He wouldn't punish the murders but favors "convincing the people, with pastoral patience, that the culturally prescribed death of a child is anachronistic and undercuts their own strategy of life." Pastoral patience! Just what kind of "pastoral patience" would he practice if he came across one such murder occurring? Maybe we don't want to go there! Of course he favors married priests, for which the document shills.
Cardinal Burke sees the dangers and warns us of the relaxation of the discipline of continence for priests of the Amazon. He points out that bishops of Germany will petition the pope for the abolition of that discipline in Germany if he grants it for Amazon clergy. By the way - who else noticed that this prelate of Xingu has a German name?
Getting back to the pantheism and occult, we see thm being positively lauded in paragraph 75, where it says, "the family is where one learns to live in harmony,..in dialogue with the spirits". The Church positively forbids the dangerous practice of communicating with spirits. This is tantamount to spiritual suicide.
I will close this post, but will follow up with others as I read it and as others comment on the document. I urge my readers to study this thing for themselves, to educate themselves regarding the bile that is emanating from the Vatican these days. Just bear in mind that this is not a document worthy of the Catholic Church, but a pantheistic, envirowhacko screed.
Of course be lifting Holy Mother Church in prayer during your Rosaries.
