Have to say it's the best I've read so far on this hideousness. Wish we had a bishop like that in Ireland.
Sigh. if we have I certainly haven't noticed. You would think in the whole island of Ireland there would be bound to be one with a voice. But not a single one. Not one. Just cold dead silence. I ams ure their Bank Managers hear plenty from them though.
Because they are nearly all Freemasons and the ones who are not are terrified of the others. That info came from a top Freemason.
we have 2 bishops who spoke out after the referendum on the need for repentance and confession. They were laughed out of the park and no support was forthcoming from any other bishop. I have hope in these 2 bishops, Bishop Doran and Biship Phonsie Cullinane. I knew Bishop Phonsie when he was a priest in Limerick. He is devout and sincere. Nothing will happen until the Pope's visit is over. We might see something happening after that.
Dolores I dont post very often but I do think you bring a lot of common sense and good insights to the various discussions. The forum would be poorer without you so please reconsider.
Apparently it's 'clericalism' and not deviant homosexuality that causes predator priests to offend, that's according to Cupich (and since repeated by Pope Francis). Well, the answer at last! All sorted now, we just need more lay involvement and it won't happen again. I'll have what they're drinking, please, I'd like to escape reality too. Someone who was in trouble approached Bill Clinton for advice and (according to a close associate of the Clintons who claims) that Bill said, 'I have been disbarred and impeached and all I had to do was smile and deny, deny and deny again and the problems went away. Believe me, it works'. I think that our hierarchy are taking a leaf out of Bill's book of wisdom Certainly, Wuerl seems to have listened closely but, Deo Gratias, it doesn't seem to be working this time.
I just want to roll my eyes and gag. Obtuseness of a level seldom seen or deceit. Yes serve up a round of their elixir please. Or better yet let’s give them a shovel so their heads can go deeper in the sand!
Unfortunately good priests will have to pay for the bad priests, just caught this on FB: BYZANTINE CATHOLIC PRIEST ATTACKED (From the Parma Chancery) PRAYER REQUEST: Fr. Basil Hutsko was attacked and knocked unconscious this morning in the altar servers sacristy at his parish in Merrillville, Indiana after celebrating Liturgy. The attacker choked him and slammed his head to the ground. Fr. Basil lost consciousness. Before going unconscious Fr. Basil heard the attacker say, "This is for all the kids!" (reference to the clergy sex abuse coverage in the media.) All clergy are now targets and need to be vigilant. However it must also be clear that Fr. Hutsko was a random target. He is NOT guilty of any sex abuse. Fr. Hutsko is being examined in the hospital at this time. Thank you, Fr. Thomas J. Loya
Which, sadly, is exactly what many of us feared, and likely what the media wants. Ave Marias going up for Father Basil.
Abuse, mostly of young boys, occurs at every interface between adult men and children. It happens in schools, sports clubs, hospitals, other religions and every other organisation and institution that presents these circumstances. However, only the Catholic Church is singled out. The devil is using sex abuse of children, which all crime statistics demonstrate is primarily a homosexual predilection, not only to destroy souls and lives, but more specifically to target Christ's Church. It is becoming increasingly clear that the abusers control, and have for a long time, a significant portion of the Church. Despite the personal risk to their own positions caused by the continuing revelations, I perceive that they are reveling in the colossal damage this crisis is causing to the faith of many and to the reputation of the Church. Some have suggested, in good faith, that a solution might be married men taking on the priesthood. We should be very careful of such panicked reactions. A radical solution like this will inevitably lead to a clamour for more radical actions.
Archives: Did Quito Prophecy Predict Church Crisis? August 19, 2018 by sd As we have previously noted, verification of the event is difficult due to the period of time and while we endeavor to learn more from authorities in South America and confirm what has already been reported, there are several other matters to cover besides what we have mentioned in the first two reports. It was on February 2, 1634 — nearly four centuries years ago — that a nun known as Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres was praying before the Blessed Sacrament when the perpetual lamp was suddenly and inexplicably extinguished. The chapel became dark except for a heavenly light, in which the Virgin appeared with what is claimed to have been a stirring prophecy. These are the details we are seeking to confirm. Could the prophecy have been so accurate? “The sanctuary lamp burning in front of the Prisoner of Love, which you saw go out, has many meanings,” said the Virgin, according to the translation in a history of apparitions, The Last Secret. Faith would be gradually extinguished in the twentieth century, the Virgin was said to have warned, until there was an almost total corruption of customs and rampant impurity. That’s how the “demon” would take control. Many hearts consecrated to God in the priestly and religious state would fall into lukewarmness, according to a booklet, “Our Lady of Good Success” — which synopsizes an earlier 18th-century rendition of the Quito events and thus lends credibility to aspects of this dramatic prophecy (although, as we have remarked, we do not share the ultra-traditionalist views of the author). The Quito revelation warned that the “demon” would persecute many priests and corrupt many others — causing them to “scandalize the Christian people” and bring great suffering upon pastors. There would be a great agitation of spirits. There would be rumblings. According to a booklet, the Virgin once dispelled the “infernal serpent” from persecuting Mother Mariana “with such a great roar that it caused the earth to tremble throughout the city and convent.” Such brings to mind recent articles we have carried on widespread reports of strange rumblings as spiritual war peaks in our own time and as we hear of Christians of all denominations who are inexplicably awakening at 3 a.m. and feeling the urge to pray. It was 3 a.m. on January 11, 1611, that nuns at Mother Mariana’s convent claimed to have witnessed a huge miracle as the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael appeared, along with Saint Francis, to help finish a statue Mary had told Mother Mariana to have built and processed into the convent. “At that moment the holy statue took on life and intoned with the celestial choir the Magnificat,” according to the “Our Lady of Good Success” book. When everything seemed lost, Mother Mariana said the Virgin prophesied, it would actually be the beginning of a “happy restoration.” “This will mark the arrival of my hour, when I, in a marvelous way, will dethrone the proud and cursed Satan, trampling him under my feet and fettering him in the infernal abyss,” said the Virgin of Good Success (“good success” because in the end she wins). [resources: books on Our Lady of Good Success and The Last Secret and Michael Brown retreats: Cincinnati and Connecticut] [Footnote: versions of the alleged prophecy include such things as: “Unhappy, the children of those times! Seldom will they receive the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation. As for the sacrament of Penance, they will confess only while attending Catholic schools, which the devil will do his utmost to destroy by means of persons in authority. “The same will occur with Holy Communion. Oh, how it hurts me to tell you that there will be many and enormous public and hidden sacrileges! “In those times, the sacrament of Extreme Unction will be largely ignored.… Many will die without receiving it, being thereby deprived of innumerable graces, consolation, and strength in the great leap from time to eternity. “The sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with the Church, will be thoroughly attacked and profaned. Masonry, then reigning, will implement iniquitous laws aimed at extinguishing this sacrament. They will make it easy for all to live in sin, thus multiplying the birth of illegitimate children without the Church’s blessing…. “Secular education will contribute to a scarcity of priestly and religious vocations.” “The holy sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed, and despised, for in this both the Church and God Himself are oppressed and reviled, since He is represented by His priests.”]
Was/Is There A Major Homosexual Network? August 20, 2018 by sd Let’s just be blatant about it: was there, and is there still, a homosexual network at the topmost level of American Catholicism, one that allowed the abuse crisis to all but overtake the many good bishops and priests out there? Did the network succeed in strategically installing certain gay-friendly bishops across North America? This is a dark, dark subject over which one should not obsess (we know Who wins in the end) but we must root it out and it goes to what the Pope said last week: that we must now seek out the full truth, whatever the truth is — which will help all those good priests — and future seminarians — out there. It’s difficult to see how such a formal conspiracy could work to such efficient effect, and the issue of abuse, as we’ll be hearing all week, when the Pope visits Ireland, is not confined to the U.S. But sometimes one does wonder about the idea of a truly nefarious “axis” of pederasty, one that may even have involved, in some instances, practices of the occult. We say this because two decades ago, we were contacted by a woman and her daughter who alleged that a very major U.S. cardinal, no longer alive, had abused the daughter when she was 11, in a horrendous way — forcing her into a sexual act that involved the Eucharist. We won’t go into further detail. As it is, we apologize for having to broach the aforementioned. At the time, we discounted it as “false-memory syndrome”: where people suddenly “recall” things in their deep past. This syndrome has implicated many people in all walks of life in very horrendous things, often very falsely (especially when it has to do with satanic ritual abuse, and just as there are priests who have been wrongly besmirched). But we come to learn, in revisiting this, that the girl, an adult woman when we spoke with her, passed several lie-detector tests and had consulted bestselling Catholic writer Malachi Martin, who incorporated her allegations into a book, Windswept House. She went by the nom de guerre of “Agnes.” And besides her own claim of abuse — which she said was conducted not just by the future cardinal, but also a future monsignor who was in an occultic-like group with the future cardinal. She claimed her dog was killed by them. She swore an affidavit. Location: Greenville, South Carolina. Year: 1957. A future monsignor ended up in a powerful spot in a diocese in that state, and the cardinal sprung from there to a very powerful national position, including with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. It sounds ludicrous, and possibly is. A future major cardinal, in such a hideous act? And yet one is made to wonder for a number of reasons. First: recently, a priest in Iowa was arrested with a trove of child pornography, some of it horribly sadistic. Police found e-mails and online “chats” in which this poor cleric spoke of descending to “Satan” and fantasized about harming children in his neighborhood and killing a girl’s dog. The diocese had his home exorcised. Two: Many years ago, visiting Greenville, a woman active in the Marian movement detailed the horrendous effect the abuse of a priest had had on her son. It was the first time we heard directly of abuse. The priest seemed to have free rein there. Three, the now-famous Pennsylvania grand jury report detailed abuse by priests that was just as horrendous, including use of a Crucifix and Holy Water during or after terrible sexual acts with children. It also showed a clear network of priests involved, and elements of sadism. The way the Crucifix was used made one wonder if a ritual, consciously or unconsciously, was enacted. Apologies again, but were some priests, bishops, and perhaps even a cardinal or two members of a satanic cult? That too seems — for the moment — a bridge too far. But it’s something the Vatican — which contends with its own so-called “Lavender Mafia” — must promptly investigate. Some believe that priests and lay people who were going to expose such have been harmed. While formal involvement in satanism seems sensationalistic, it is easy now to see, as we have stated for many years, that whether the conspiracy was at an earthly or spiritual level, the devil greatly infiltrated the Church, and it is also easy to see that there seemed to be a connection from Los Angeles through the Midwest to Chicago and the East Coast. + In 1982, a book called The Homosexual Network: Private Lives and Public Policy was published by Father Enrique Rueda, a Catholic priest then in the diocese of Rochester, New York. The book, as one professor points out, had 522 footnoted pages of text, with another 160 pages of appendices and indexes. “It not only analyzed the ideology of homosexuality, but it documented the spread of that ideology through religious organizations, including the Catholic Church, and traced the funding of it,” wrote Connie Marschner, at the time president of the Free Congress Foundation’s Center for Governance. + “In the book, Fr. Rueda detailed — with meticulous footnotes — what, already then, was the growing network of “support groups,” counseling referrals, newsletters, and organizations of homosexuals and pro-homosexuals in the churches of the United States, including the Catholic Church. + “The network was particularly effective within the Catholic Church: at one point in the late ’70s, a key staffer at the Office of Public Affairs and Information of the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was a leader of the Washington, D.C., homosexual movement as well as president of Dignity, the pressure group which seeks to force the Catholic Church to relate to homosexuals according to the tenets of the homosexual ideology.” + That much seems very credible. Indeed, all 168 dioceses have abuse cases — most of them isolated acts by men of the wrong inclination, as opposed to the result of enrollment in an actual cult. More than thirty bishops have faced accusations. It is an historic infiltration — actually, an invasion — and must be treated as such. Not just priests but so many in the hierarchy have been implicated that we even forget about them — the bishop who had to resign in Arizona, the archbishop of Milwaukee, the cardinal who covered up matters in Boston. + Most of it was done to protect the Church and their own diocese from scandal. It made matters worse — and allowed the possibility indeed of a gay and perhaps even occult underground that, however small, exerted influence. + In retrospect, a special look has to be taken at past luminaries such as Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago (whose funeral involved the Windy City Gay Chorus as well as a send-off by a Masonic lodge). Was he involved with them, or were they simply acknowledging his attempts to build bridges of understanding? + It’s difficult, walking the tightrope between legitimate exposé and paranoia. The devil also likes to falsely accuse. — and to make us focus on this. Let’s deal with it but as soon as we can, move on to what is truly crucial: our own individual spirituality. Beware false accusations! + In Chicago, it has been alleged, was a secret clerical “Boys Club” that according to one writer, “not only included homosexual assignations, but also ritualistic, occult worship and the sexual abuse of young boys garnered from low-income ethnic families.” + Such charges have to be fully investigated — by a committee of Catholic laity, reporting only to the Pope. Let it all hang out. But not by bloggers and commentators. + We win in the end — we know that. We also know we have tremendous priests — and seminarians — out there who are suffering greatly. We also know there have been false charges. In fact, only about half the abuse allegations in the U.S. have been substantiated, and though the numbers are fantastic — 300 priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses (not even including Philadelphia) — it was over a span of seven decades — seventy years. + The percent of abusers among clergy is about the same and perhaps less than many other professions (such as education). + But a thousand or more kids — in just one state? + And at least 17,000 nationwide. + Time to clean it all out, retire all homosexual clergy, absolutely forbid any further ordinations of men with such a proclivity, no matter how short of priests we may be, and move forward as that strong ship between the pillars of Faith, which will be desperately needed — for after this judgment of the Church comes the judgment on all of society. + –MHB + [Feedback (Mail, unedited): “It is troubling and sorrowful for me to watch what is unfolding in our beloved Church regarding homosexual/ pedophile religious. Wasn’t it Fulton Sheen that said if you scratch the surface of a homosexual, you will find a satanist?
Thanks for posting this article. Michael Brown tried very hard to do “on the one hand...but then maybe on the other hand...” I want to say C’mon Michael. Let your yes be yes and your no be no. What he describes with Agnes has been affirmed by more than just Malachi Martin. Fr Amorth referred to it. This satanic element is there. Horrifying but it is there. I suppose Mr Brown doesn’t want to “slander” anyone so he is walking a careful line but can anyone doubt something happened in the early 60’s to start the destruction of the Church. The smoke of Satan entered through these Cardinals and other prelates. Malachi Martin calls it “an enthronement if the Prince into this world into the Citadel of Christ” Did it happen? There is a lot of circumstantial evidence to indicate that it did—and we are living with the results now as it winds down to its terrible denouement. The Blessed Mother is coming. Who is she arising—fair as the moon and bright as the sun—more terrible than an army set in battle array. Let’s keep those Rosaries going!
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2018/08/cardinal-wuerls-resignation.html This article states that in accordance with Canon Law, Cardinal Donald Wuerl submitted his resignation to the Pope in November, 2015, upon turning 75, and the Pope has not accepted it yet. This article from Rorate Caeli from August 16, 2018, discusses the current ramifications of this. Hmmmm.
