The scandal of being Roman Catholic.

Posted by Terry Nelson on Jun 21st, 2008

Remaining faithful.

Years ago, while considering the astonishing persecution of English Catholics, wherein a great many died as martyrs, I almost laughed to myself when I realized the simple reason for their brutal deaths was because they remained faithful to the Pope. 

I came to this realization in the early 1970’s, after Catholics - priests and laity alike - dissented from Humanae Vitae.  I turned to the English martyrs after I was repeatedly told adoration of the Blessed Sacrament was old fashioned, and that certain behaviors were no longer considered sinful.  You know, that whole liberal spiel.  I laughed because the very things being said to me were similar to those things that had been said to faithful Catholics in England and Wales after Henry VIII broke with Rome.

They could have said one thing and done another.

These people died simply because they were faithful to Rome, obedient to Christ’s Vicar, the Pope.  They were arrested, detained, tortured, and barbarously executed all because they would not recognize an unlawful marriage, or take the oath of supremacy, thus refusing to renounce their Roman Catholic faith. 

For many, simply being a Roman Catholic became a crime of treason against the State. 

St. Didacus of Alcala

Posted by Terry Nelson on May 19th, 2008

The patron saint of San Diego, California.

St. Didacus, A simple lay brother of the Alcantarine Franciscans.  He, like so many other saints, refused the sacrament of Holy Orders, claiming he was unworthy, just as our holy Father St. Francis refused ordination to the priesthood.  Yet men and women, who rebel against Church discipline, demand ordination for themselves, no matter if they are married men, gay (SSA) men, or women.  An obvious lack of humility, don’t you think?

Hoochimama!

Is Allah God?

Posted by Terry Nelson on Jan 8th, 2008

 

I always wonder about this.

 Why do Catholics insist Allah is synonymous with God?  Muslims don’t.

.- A senior government official in Malaysia has ordered a Catholic newspaper to drop the use of the word “Allah” in its Malay language section if it wants its publishing permit renewed, the Associated Press reports.

The Herald, published by Malaysia’s Catholic Church, has translated the word God as “Allah.”  Che Din Yusoff, a senior official at the Internal Security Ministry’s publications control unit, has said this usage is erroneous because “Allah” refers to the Muslim God.

“Christians cannot use the word Allah. It is only applicable to Muslims. Allah is only for the Muslim god. This is a design to confuse the Muslim people,” Che Din told the Associated Press. - CNA

[Photo: Evidently Allah wanted this woman stoned to death.]

No! No! No!

Posted by Terry Nelson on Oct 10th, 2007

 

Gay agenda and propaganda. 

My friend Paula sent me the link to the video of Archbishop Niederauer giving Communion to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence which took place last Sunday in San Francisco.  It appears he was set to deny Communion, but then one of the “Sisters” requested it, and the Archbishop obliged.  Ah!  “Reluctant compliance” again.

Anyway, I could not get the link to the video to work, but Cafeteria is Closed has it, along with a bit of commentary.  Off The Record  also has a very good post covering the event.  The entire debacle is extremely sad and a disgrace to the Archdiocese of San Francisco - expecially in light of the recent threats against the lives of high ranking members of the hierarchy for their opposition to the gay agenda.

Yet, even amongst staunch Catholic bloggers there is this odd concession to “Gay Catholics” dismissing the actions of a few radical queers as being non-representative of gay culture.  Bullshit!  If a sexually active gay Catholic, or anyone, sexually active or not, who applies the label “gay” to their Catholic identity, tells you they reject such behaviors, they are deluded.  In effect they are saying they reject all the GLBT rainbow crap they claim to support.  If you are pro GLBT you necessrily accept all the crap that goes with it.  When a gay person desires rights for themselves, they must respect the rights of others in the sub-culture - hence there is tacit approval.

“G” stands for Gay in GLBT.

Gerald writes:  ”To be sure, these nuts are not representative of gay Catholics. While being gay is not exactly a choice, running around like that is.”  I am not taking issue with Gerald in his statement, simply using it to demonstrate how many of us are taken in by gay propaganda on the road of tolerance and acceptance.

A Catholic man or woman may be same-sex attracted, experiencing their sexual orientation for persons of the same sex, but to call oneself “gay” and Catholic seems to me to be incompatable with Catholic teaching.  Gay is a poitical term, it is the “G” in GLBT.  To label oneself gay implies a person is either sexually active or accepts homosexual behavior as normative.  It implies an attachment to the homosexual sub-culture.  This goes for parents of homosexual children  who participate in organizations such as the Rainbow Sash movement.  (I’ve written about this before when I posted about “what homosexuals do“.)

Off The Record  author Diogenes makes the point so much clearer than I do:

A further point. If there existed in reality gays who were faithful Catholics — that is, if the expression “Gay Catholic” were not a contradiction in terms — it wouldn’t be the orthodox bloggers who were first and loudest to cry foul. Gays themselves — I mean the ostensibly responsible gays like James Alison and Sean Michael Winters — would pounce on Niederauer to demand he shut down MHR, banish its clergy, and toss out the twisted sisters with them. “Don’t you see,” they’d argue, “that this mock-jocular sacrilege and puerile exhibitionism plays right into the hands of our adversaries? That this is exactly the kind of sexually distorted rage that conservatives are always warning the Holy See about? That our claim to be mature, sober, and pious Catholics is blown out of the water by cross-dressing psychotics who can’t switch off their act long enough to take communion? Can’t you see that this harms our cause worse than anything the conservatives could say about us?” Well, the fact is that we haven’t heard such protests, and we won’t. And the reason is that the difference between the “presentable” gays and Sister Boom-Boom is one of tailoring rather than conviction. Skeptical? Find me a counter-example. - Diogenes 

A local “Gay Catholic” speaks out.

A rather prominent local gay activist who writes about the Catholic Church and gay issues, recently posted his thoughts on the Folsom Street Fair (see my post on that event)  and the denunciations by the Catholic League over the Miller Brewing Co.’s sponsorship of the event.  What is interesting in this man’s writings is that he often characterizes such events as aberrations in the gay sub-culture, as well as pointing to similar sexually deviant behavior amongst heterosexuals.  As if this makes it all okay.  Nevertheless, this is all part of the propaganda.  What follows is a snippet from his post, which I will not link to:

A diverse group of people - both straight and gay - participate in the Folsom Street Fair. What they share in common is a penchant for S&M. Regardless of what you may think of this type of sexual role play, the antics depicted by the Folsom Street Fair images are actually quite tame compared to what goes on at certain bars (gay and straight) every weekend around the country – not to mention other boozed-up and more public events like Spring Break on South Padre Island.

The bottom line is that gays don’t have a monopoly on certain types of behavior that objectify oneself and others. I mean, shows like Big Brother After Dark and Girls Gone Wild aren’t populated by gays. Yet what these forms of “entertainment” do have in common with events (such as the Folsom Street Fair) that do attract gays, is that they are sponsored by corporations. Is the Catholic League also going to go after these sponsors? Not likely. No, once again, it’s those “homosexuals” that are bringing about the decline of civilization as we know it. - Wild Reed

You see what I mean?  As sincere as this fellow may  be, there is a tendency to dismiss,  excuse or whitewash the aberrant behavior of some  homosexuals.  The “good ones” distance themselves from the “exaggerated” behaviors of the “few” in order to promote what is in effect  their common agenda.  As Diogenes stated, “it is a matter of tailoring, rather than conviction.”

Another example of “Reluctant Compliance”?

Posted by Terry Nelson on Oct 9th, 2007

 

The Connecticut Bishops have supplied us with a new term, “Reluctant Compliance”.

It appears this term works when a Bishop has to do what he’s gotta do.

Recently Archbishop Nierderhauer of San Francisco  distributed Communion to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at a gay Catholic parish in the Castro area of San Francisco.  I’m sure there is no Rainbow Sash Communion problems in that Archdiocese.  The entire story here.

Thanks to my friend Paula for the tip and the title of the post.  The photo shows two Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the Archbishop’s Mass.  Of course, the Archbishop may have mistaken them for real nuns.

Looks like this is a popular story - Roman Catholic Blog  has a post on it too.  Now can the s–t please hit the fan in the “American Catholic Church”? 

Persecution and Apostasy?

Posted by Terry Nelson on Oct 5th, 2007

 

Coming to a town near you?

One would really have to have their head in the sand not to recognize the wave of anti-Catholicism sweeping the planet.  Almost every day on The View, Whoopi  a former Catholic, brings up something Church related.  It is no secret she has nothing but contempt for the Pope, the Vatican, and Catholic moral teaching.  Today they were talking about the sacrament of penance.  Whoopi didn’t exactly attack it or anything, but she gets her digs in about religion.  Pop stars hate religion and they promote their hatred every chance they have a captive audience, which contributes to the lessening of respect for religious values  amongst people.  (Elton John is always shooting off his mouth on how religion should be banned, and of course Joni Mitchell  recently released an anti-Catholic CD.)

Politically correctness.

Secular society, which has abandoned the natural law  in favor of political correctness, is gradually putting the screws on those who uphold traditional moral values.  In Britain a firetruck load of firemen were recently fined and suspended for flashing their lights on four homosexual men engaged in illegal public sex acts.  In effect, the firemen, who committed no crime were charged with criminal activity while those engaged in illegal acts were excused.

Compromises with the State.

The recent decision of the Connecticut Bishops to allow the morning after pill in emergency room situations involving rape, has now been backed by the Catholic Health Association, according to the Connecticut Catholic Hospital spokesman, Barry Feldman.  The Bishops gave into pressure from the the State and gave the go ahead to implement the policy.  Pressure from the State resulted in a compromise of Catholic teaching and capitulation.  At least, that is what it looks like to me.

Under the Cardinal’s nose.

Then Fr. McBrien, writing for Tidings, the newspaper of the Los Angeles archdiocese - Cardinal Mohoney’s paper - tells Catholics they do not need to listen to the Pope, who approved the recent CDF document on the Catholic Church as the one true Church.  Huh?  This McBrien guy, along with those Dominicans in Holland  who are making up their own Mass, certainly are starting to sound a lot like apostates to me.

“In Portugal, the dogma of Faith will be preserved, etc….” - Our Lady, 1917

Reports have long been coming out of Fatima that the rector of the shrine, Luciano Guerra is not exactly the most orthodox Catholic, having allowed Hindu rituals  at the altar of the Capella of the Apparitions.  Today there is news that as the new auditorium style shrine Church is readied for the dedication on May 13, he intends to change the image of the Fatima shrine - he wants to forbid the “superstitious” pious practices of the Portuguese peasants, who walk to Fatima in pilgrimage, and finish the last hundred or so feet walking on their knees to the site of the apparitions.  Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to say Hindu ritual is superstitious and forbid that kind of stuff instead?

As persecution intensifies from without, is there really apostasy surfacing from within?  Maybe there is more to that 3rd Secret thing?  Naw, can’t be.

[Photo: Hindu ritual at Fatima shrine.  Source.]  

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