*Bishop Morlino of Madison has banned two "New Age" women religious from teaching and conducting workshops in his diocese. Great! Now, kick them out on their cans and tell them to get real jobs instead of living off contributions from poor, duped Catholics.
*SSPX Ordinations in Argentina.
*An outspoken, high profile Traditionalist is appointed as a judge in the Court of Appeals of the Vatican City State. Maybe I can score at least a janitor position then. Maybe I could be the first traditional Catholic commode scrubber for the Vatican library. What? You say they promised that to the Lutherans? Darn that ecumenism!
*Lining up the winners of the culture war that we lost.
*The Russian Orthodox Church backs the Russian government's bid to ban US adoption of Russian orphans. They are right, though. Adoption by Americans is probably the best way to thwart a child's Christian upbringing.
*Archbishop Nichols decides that there is indeed a limit to how much homo-sacrilege the faithful at one parish need endure, and turns over the church where it happened on a regular basis to the Cathanglics.
*For the love of God, please act your office, and/or your age!
Adoption by Americans, or adoption by Swedes. Pick your poison! Here in Sweden, even homeschooling is banned for all practical purposes...
ReplyDeleteI am not jumping for joy yet vis-a-vis Nichols. Unless I am misinfiormed, he has merely moved the "mass" to a different and larger church not too far away. Apparently the poof crowd is not terribly upset about the Nichols action; they're even given to a little crowing about moving to a bigger place where they can still have special "gatherings".
ReplyDeleteWe may need to take a wait and see attitude on this.
I thought that too, until I read the announcement more carefully. Nichols specifically says that the perverts may no longer organize Masses. As for the other events... well, I would imagine with the aged Jesuits hipsters lending their parish basement (probably already furnished with black lights and a disco ball), those activities will probably remain just as lurid and obscene as ever.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Werling. Consider creating a contest to help fund your admirable actions. Create a Death Pool of Popes with a $50.00 entry fee (you get to keep 1/2 of the action) and with which entry fee the participant gets to identify which Pope will not be raised to the altars.
ReplyDeleteNow, it is obvious that the 266th Pope, Our Holy Father, will be yet another car added to the Saint Train - after all, he too is a V2 Pope - but, then it gets interesting; will the 267th Pope be raised to the altars?
I mean once a certain momentum; once a certain promotion-to-sainthood papal praxis is established, it will be that much more difficult to halt the progressive inexorable and, apparently, ineluctable, inertia.
I would not want to bet that Pope 268 would be the one whose death would derail the process because by then it would have built-up such momentum and V2 velocity.
As an aside, I note that even the Brick By Brick Bund is constrained to contend with the putative saintliness of Pope Paul VI and the changing definition of Heroic Virtue ; but whatever Heroic Virtue means, we can be sure that it does not mean what it meant in the past - the, frankly, yucky and exclusivist/triumphalist past