Thursday, April 8, 2010
24% of Russians are for the Monarchy
In Belgorod (a regional centre in Middle Russia) at the end of March 2010 the Russian Imperial Union-Order organised a sociological research of public attitude to the monarchy and the Russian Imperial House. 180 people of different age and social status agreed to participate in the research.
13.4% of the participants are monarchists under their views. At the same time 69.5% are democrats and 10.5% are communists. 24.8% of the participants support the idea to restore monarchy in Russia. 50% of the supporters of the restoration are democrats under their political views, but they believe that the monarchy doesn’t contradict to democratic institutions.
52.4% of the participants have heard about existence and current social and charity activity of the Russian Imperial House, but only 25.8% of the participants know who is the current Head of the Russian Imperial House.
84.8% of the participants support the idea of the Russian Imperial House to return to Russia. 13% are sure that the Russian Imperial House would be the symbol of national unity. Only 2% are afraid of possible restitution of property to the Russian Imperial House (it is necessary to emphasize that the House always underlines that it is against the idea of restitution itself) and because of it are against the return of the Romanoff House.
Under the information of the Belgorod Department of the RIU-O
h/t: Russian Monarchist
To Monarchy Forum...
13.4% of the participants are monarchists under their views. At the same time 69.5% are democrats and 10.5% are communists. 24.8% of the participants support the idea to restore monarchy in Russia. 50% of the supporters of the restoration are democrats under their political views, but they believe that the monarchy doesn’t contradict to democratic institutions.
52.4% of the participants have heard about existence and current social and charity activity of the Russian Imperial House, but only 25.8% of the participants know who is the current Head of the Russian Imperial House.
84.8% of the participants support the idea of the Russian Imperial House to return to Russia. 13% are sure that the Russian Imperial House would be the symbol of national unity. Only 2% are afraid of possible restitution of property to the Russian Imperial House (it is necessary to emphasize that the House always underlines that it is against the idea of restitution itself) and because of it are against the return of the Romanoff House.
Under the information of the Belgorod Department of the RIU-O
h/t: Russian Monarchist
To Monarchy Forum...
What Neocatholics don't like You to Know: LA Episcopal Appointment
Back on Monday this week, New Advent reported that they had an "exclusive" report of Archbishop Gomez' appointment ot LA. That was false. We'd reported it on Sunday Morning, and a lot of people saw it in happy hours of the Easter Feast. It was a festive occasion.
Well, it's been a few days since we found out that the next Archbishop of Los Angeles was going to be Msgr Gomez, and it's been a few days since we made the announcement here in confirmation of American Papist's forewarning that an appointment would be named "some time at the end of February". It's alright that a few other groups made the claim to an "exclusive" coverage and didn't mention us -- but it would be nice if some of the Seminary faculty resign as they promised they would do if a "conservative" were assigned to LA. At any rate, those guys who claim they got the scoop are neocatholics anyway. They didn't even make mention of a report that Archbishop Gomez doesn't use Eucharistic Monsters. In our announcement, we made some mention of Cardinal Mahony's controversial attacks on Tradition and compared and contrasted that with the much milder and "Traditionalist friendly" incoming Archbishop Gomez. We also made mention of the fact that Cardinal Gomez doesn't complain about the vocations shortage, he does something about it, like get the women out of the sanctuary and get men into the Seminary. We later learned that he has more than 100 Seminarians according to Harlequin King who sings in the Cathedral Schola.
The other neocatholic folks might not have appreciated our mention of Cardinal Mahony's planned wreckovation of St. Barbara's Parish, which now may be put indefinitely on hold, we hope, now that there's a new Sheriff in LA.
Our neocatholic friends didn't mention these details in their reports. We don't blame them so much for stealing our scoop, but we blame them chiefly for not drawing attention to some very interesting highlights we mentioned above like the Bishop's love of Vocations and promotion of the same, and Cardinal Mahony's detestable wreckovation, or the fact that Archbishop Gomez, who is in Opus Dei, tries to control the Universities in his See, horrible we know.
Sure, Rocco wanted to talk about Cardinal Mahony's marching around with Cesar Chavez. To his credit, we didn't get the impression that Rocco thought that was a good thing or a bad thing. But Rocco didn't say that Cardinal Mahony had bad labor relations and that depriving a worker of his just wage isn't the only sin that cries to heaven for vengeance. He just reported it matter of factly and we're grateful for it, but no one mentioned the fact that this new conservative Archbishop has currently 100 plus seminarians in formation right now. That's the mark of Benedict there for you and we think it's great; hope you do too.
Finally, this news has been known to the seminarians since 3 years. Why no one bothered to tell us Cardinal Mahony was out three years ago is beyond me. It might have lame ducked him had we known, before the Motu Propio, that the grand dragon of Los Angeles was destined for a mercifully foreseeable retirement.
Anyhow, we reported this story before New Advent did. It's not a big deal, but it would have been much nicer had you neocatholics said something about the planned wreckovation and the awesome vocations record of our new LA Bishops.
Finally, we'll leave you with one of the commenters at America, complaining bitterly (perhaps too bitterly to be convincing) about the appointment:
Prepare for Tridentine 1962
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Apr. 06, 2010.
Prepare for Tridentine 1962 rites in a few of your churches. And he does not EVER let women serve as Extra Ordinary Ministers in his masses ...even if it is in your own parish ! Your liturgies will be scrutinized and your music reviewed. It's all about the patriarch. He does not speak English well and seems sensitive that he doesn't. He sees the collection as his - your archbishops appeal amount will be doubled as the amount or even tripled as to the amount he wants. His focus is on seminary, seminary, seminary. He also likes to think that he controls the Universities during political times (ex. St. Mary's University was rented out by democrat H. Clinton as a speaking location, after it was held, he spoke out against it.). Do not give up, just keep on marching !
Btw, we support and encourage the idea of logging onto alien and non-Catholic forums like America and posting satirical things.
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Bozell Column: The Media's Vatican Coup
[newsbusters] Our secular liberal media elites are never more poisonously insincere than when they recommend that conservatives should move closer to liberals, for their own good. Witnessing the relentless media attacks on the Catholic Church, no member of the flock should assume that the agitators at Newsweek or the New York Times know best how to steer the faithful – or even believe they want to help the faithful. Much like Ted Turner, who called Catholics “losers,” his media colleagues see Catholics – and particularly Pope Benedict XVI – as loathsome political obstacles.
One can conclude from all the coverage of sexual-abuse charges that those charges aren’t really the primary point for the “truth” seekers. These leftist media elites have hijacked those heinous actions for a much broader goal. Theirs is a very political crusade, with the goal of sacking Pope Benedict and “reforming” the ancient church in their hipster image, one that celebrates gay bishop Eugene Robinson’s Episcopalian gospel of “tolerance” and “inclusion” and “pluralism.” That kind of church would pose zero threat to the global goals of the left. In that kind of church, there is no stained-glass ceiling to untrammeled abortion and unlimited “marriage” of everyone to everyone.
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2010/04/06/bozell-column-medias-vatican-coup
One can conclude from all the coverage of sexual-abuse charges that those charges aren’t really the primary point for the “truth” seekers. These leftist media elites have hijacked those heinous actions for a much broader goal. Theirs is a very political crusade, with the goal of sacking Pope Benedict and “reforming” the ancient church in their hipster image, one that celebrates gay bishop Eugene Robinson’s Episcopalian gospel of “tolerance” and “inclusion” and “pluralism.” That kind of church would pose zero threat to the global goals of the left. In that kind of church, there is no stained-glass ceiling to untrammeled abortion and unlimited “marriage” of everyone to everyone.
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2010/04/06/bozell-column-medias-vatican-coup
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Persecution of Christians in Palestine
http://www.christatthecheckpoint.com
http://www.pcpj.org/
http://www.kairospalestine.ps
http://www.bethlehemaffirmation.com/
Factsheet
Israeli Zionist Restrictions on Easter Celebrations in Occupied Jerusalem
“Christians all over the world can celebrate Easter, but for Christian Palestinians, the Israeli Zionist military occupation have made of everyday a good Friday (sad Friday in Arabic), and we are still waiting for our own resurrection as a free nation.” Fr. Firas Areedah, Jifna, Palestine.
Restrictions on the Freedom of Worship:
• Entry to Jerusalem for West Bank and Gaza Christians is always restricted. On the occasion of Easter, Palestinian Christians living outside of Jerusalem in the West Bank and Gaza are being required to apply for permits to access their holy sites in occupied East Jerusalem. It is estimated that of those, only 2000 – 3000 Palestinian Christians have received permits. Jews do not have to apply for permits to access their holy sites during their holy days nor in any other day.
• The permit system instated by Israel is in obvious violation of the ICPRR, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international covenants and treaties to which Israel is a signatory.
• Worshipers will be restricted by road blocks and check points around the West Bank and the Old City of Jerusalem.
• This year, buses going to Jerusalem from Ramallah and Bethlehem with worshipers planning to attend the Palm Sunday procession were stopped on the way by Israeli occupation forces (IOF). Many were unable to attend the historic procession.
Example: The Holy Family Scout Group, which belongs to the Roman Catholic Church in Ramallah, took four hours to reach occupied Jerusalem. They missed the procession from the Mount of Olives to the Old City. The drive, without checkpoints, would take about 20 minutes.
• During Jewish holidays, Palestinian areas are put under military closure.
• Palestinian Christians living in Jerusalem and the West Bank were denied entry to the Old City for the first two days of the holy week.
• Israeli Zionist military occupation police banned Palestinian Christians and scout groups from flying the Palestinian flag during the Palm Sunday procession.
• The heavy presence of Israeli Zionist Police and Military forces (around and in the Old City and surrounding the holy sites) disturbs the spiritual traditions of Easter.
• Every year Christians try to spiritually connect Bethlehem, the city were Jesus was born with city were the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus have taken place. This connection is made through the traditional Sunday Palm march, in which this year many Palestinians and foreign supporters were arrested on their way. The two spiritual centers for Christians are separated by a complex network of apartheid walls, checkpoints and apparatuses.
• Last year, Israel prevented Palestinian Christians from attending the Holy Fire Saturday in Jerusalem. This year the church has objected to a permit system that was instated in an effort to limit those who attend the Saint Jacob church to witness the lightening of the Holy Fire. So far, Palestinian Christians are uncertain about what kind of restrictions they will face this Easter weekend.
Israeli Zionist Colony Activity in the Christian Quarter is changing the Face of the Old City:
Along the Via Dolorosa, the path on which Christians believe Jesus was taken from captivity to the cross, there are the 14 ‘Stations of the Cross’. Colony activity is prominent at most of those Stations:
o At Station 1: There is colony activity at the exit from the tunnels under the Old City.
o At Station 3: A colony building – the house of former Israeli terrorist Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, which was confiscated from the Palestinian Christian Francis Tams.
o At Station 5: A heavily protected colony located over Christian Palestinian homes and shops has changed the landscape of the station, where it is believed by Christians that Jesus fell the first time on his way to the crucifixion.
o At Station 9: Colony located over the Souq (market) going to Al Aqsa compound, visible from the Coptic neighborhood.
o At Stations 11, 12, 13 and 14 (Holy Sepulcher): The Moristan colony, known by Palestinians as Saint John. This property confiscation led to the forced eviction and cleansing of an estimated 44 Christian Palestinian families. Zionist Colonists have also taken over a Christian Monastery located in front of the Holy Sepulcher.
o There have been reports of hundreds of attacks by heavily armed Jewish religious colonists against Christian pastors, bishops, and nuns from all denominations, as well as Christian Palestinian civilians, in the Old City of Jerusalem.
o Zionist Colony activity in the Christian Quarter in the old city of Jerusalem has increased lately, aiming to change the identity of the place. Examples: Work nearby the Jaffa Gate, threats to close the Petra and Empire hotels within the Old City.
The number of Palestinian Christians in 1948 was more than 20% out of the total population, since then it has declined to 10% in 1967 and 2% today. This decline has been attributed to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948, the occupation and the continuous harassment and humiliation of the Palestinian people in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem.
For information, please contact:
Nadia Awad, GMC, 00972 54 534 9671
Xavier Abu Eid, NSU, 00970 598 950 300
Father Firas Areedah (available for interviews) 00970 599 325 957
Yusef Daher, Jerusalem Inter-Church Centre 00972 50 554 5179
http://www.christatthecheckpoint.com
http://www.pcpj.org/
http://www.kairospalestine.ps
http://www.bethlehemaffirmation.com/
http://www.pcpj.org/
http://www.kairospalestine.ps
http://www.bethlehemaffirmation.com/
Factsheet
Israeli Zionist Restrictions on Easter Celebrations in Occupied Jerusalem
“Christians all over the world can celebrate Easter, but for Christian Palestinians, the Israeli Zionist military occupation have made of everyday a good Friday (sad Friday in Arabic), and we are still waiting for our own resurrection as a free nation.” Fr. Firas Areedah, Jifna, Palestine.
Restrictions on the Freedom of Worship:
• Entry to Jerusalem for West Bank and Gaza Christians is always restricted. On the occasion of Easter, Palestinian Christians living outside of Jerusalem in the West Bank and Gaza are being required to apply for permits to access their holy sites in occupied East Jerusalem. It is estimated that of those, only 2000 – 3000 Palestinian Christians have received permits. Jews do not have to apply for permits to access their holy sites during their holy days nor in any other day.
• The permit system instated by Israel is in obvious violation of the ICPRR, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international covenants and treaties to which Israel is a signatory.
• Worshipers will be restricted by road blocks and check points around the West Bank and the Old City of Jerusalem.
• This year, buses going to Jerusalem from Ramallah and Bethlehem with worshipers planning to attend the Palm Sunday procession were stopped on the way by Israeli occupation forces (IOF). Many were unable to attend the historic procession.
Example: The Holy Family Scout Group, which belongs to the Roman Catholic Church in Ramallah, took four hours to reach occupied Jerusalem. They missed the procession from the Mount of Olives to the Old City. The drive, without checkpoints, would take about 20 minutes.
• During Jewish holidays, Palestinian areas are put under military closure.
• Palestinian Christians living in Jerusalem and the West Bank were denied entry to the Old City for the first two days of the holy week.
• Israeli Zionist military occupation police banned Palestinian Christians and scout groups from flying the Palestinian flag during the Palm Sunday procession.
• The heavy presence of Israeli Zionist Police and Military forces (around and in the Old City and surrounding the holy sites) disturbs the spiritual traditions of Easter.
• Every year Christians try to spiritually connect Bethlehem, the city were Jesus was born with city were the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus have taken place. This connection is made through the traditional Sunday Palm march, in which this year many Palestinians and foreign supporters were arrested on their way. The two spiritual centers for Christians are separated by a complex network of apartheid walls, checkpoints and apparatuses.
• Last year, Israel prevented Palestinian Christians from attending the Holy Fire Saturday in Jerusalem. This year the church has objected to a permit system that was instated in an effort to limit those who attend the Saint Jacob church to witness the lightening of the Holy Fire. So far, Palestinian Christians are uncertain about what kind of restrictions they will face this Easter weekend.
Israeli Zionist Colony Activity in the Christian Quarter is changing the Face of the Old City:
Along the Via Dolorosa, the path on which Christians believe Jesus was taken from captivity to the cross, there are the 14 ‘Stations of the Cross’. Colony activity is prominent at most of those Stations:
o At Station 1: There is colony activity at the exit from the tunnels under the Old City.
o At Station 3: A colony building – the house of former Israeli terrorist Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, which was confiscated from the Palestinian Christian Francis Tams.
o At Station 5: A heavily protected colony located over Christian Palestinian homes and shops has changed the landscape of the station, where it is believed by Christians that Jesus fell the first time on his way to the crucifixion.
o At Station 9: Colony located over the Souq (market) going to Al Aqsa compound, visible from the Coptic neighborhood.
o At Stations 11, 12, 13 and 14 (Holy Sepulcher): The Moristan colony, known by Palestinians as Saint John. This property confiscation led to the forced eviction and cleansing of an estimated 44 Christian Palestinian families. Zionist Colonists have also taken over a Christian Monastery located in front of the Holy Sepulcher.
o There have been reports of hundreds of attacks by heavily armed Jewish religious colonists against Christian pastors, bishops, and nuns from all denominations, as well as Christian Palestinian civilians, in the Old City of Jerusalem.
o Zionist Colony activity in the Christian Quarter in the old city of Jerusalem has increased lately, aiming to change the identity of the place. Examples: Work nearby the Jaffa Gate, threats to close the Petra and Empire hotels within the Old City.
The number of Palestinian Christians in 1948 was more than 20% out of the total population, since then it has declined to 10% in 1967 and 2% today. This decline has been attributed to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948, the occupation and the continuous harassment and humiliation of the Palestinian people in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem.
For information, please contact:
Nadia Awad, GMC, 00972 54 534 9671
Xavier Abu Eid, NSU, 00970 598 950 300
Father Firas Areedah (available for interviews) 00970 599 325 957
Yusef Daher, Jerusalem Inter-Church Centre 00972 50 554 5179
http://www.christatthecheckpoint.com
http://www.pcpj.org/
http://www.kairospalestine.ps
http://www.bethlehemaffirmation.com/
Saudi Court Postpones Execution of Levantine Sorcerer
Lebanese Sorcerer condemned to death by Saudi Court will be post-postponed for now.
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Until he was arrested in 2008 while on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, Ali Sabat was the host of a satellite television program in which he promised to give “advice and predictions about the future,” to callers from around the Arab world to his studio in Beirut, as Britain’s Channel 4 News explained in a report on his case on Thursday. (That report, embedded above, includes scenes from Mr. Sabat’s show and of his televised confession which was broadcast in Saudi Arabia.)
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Accused Indian Priest Returned to USA to Face Charges
More authority is needed. May I recommend restoring the Papal States and perhaps arming the Papacy with Nuclear Weapons?
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Gomez holds both conservative and progressive views - latimes.com
The various antediluvian reptiles who inhabit the halls of the major propaganda organs in the United States have been reeling from the effects of new technology on their media as circulations have dropped almost 10% in the last 6 months in all major papers.
Arguably, there are advances, perhaps unforseen by Marx, which are undermining their nearly unquestioned authority and unshakeable faith in irreligion, central command economies and the essential goodness of government.
Post-modern man can now make his own news and the horse and buggy of the Los Angeles Times is quickly losing pace with the instantaneous reach of the common man and his computer.
Gomez holds both conservative and progressive views - latimes.com
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Arguably, there are advances, perhaps unforseen by Marx, which are undermining their nearly unquestioned authority and unshakeable faith in irreligion, central command economies and the essential goodness of government.
Post-modern man can now make his own news and the horse and buggy of the Los Angeles Times is quickly losing pace with the instantaneous reach of the common man and his computer.
Gomez holds both conservative and progressive views - latimes.com
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Legal Eagles or Opportunistic Buzzards?
Dante's Inferno contains a place just outside of Hell for Opportunists, men who avoided life's choices between good and evil and earned the contempt of both Hell and heaven. A conventional definition of the term, however, presents us with a more active declaration of evil in that opportunists are unprincipled people, often politicians, who pursue goals without respect to principle, without respect to good or evil. Indeed, St. Thomas Aquinas once said that "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
What can be said of Communists is that they make use of witting or unwitting soft-hearted and soft-headed men who believe that they are serving the greater good by working with them.
The American Civil Liberties Union, to which Jeff Anderson belongs, has long made a Crusade of its own attacking the appearance of Religion in public life wherever it can be found, and makes common cause in defense of perniciousness in society, while attacking the aemeliorating balm of Religion. They rather make a virtue of a vice and will trample every principle to defend the deliterious and crush the Church with calumnies, but insisting,conveniently, that there is no good or evil and that religion is solely at best a personal choice, at worst a severe debilitating delusion barring one (and perhaps one's surrounding society) from mental health, which should, therefore, not be shown any preferential treatement by the government or its representatives. Beneath all the rhetoric of neutrality and fairness ACLU maintains, it is never the less an organization poised with deliberate hostility and malice towards religion and particularly the Catholic Church.
Unfortunately, you won't read about this in the LA Times.
If ever there was justification for unleashing the law's hounds of hell, complicity in harming a child is it. Few are sympathizing with the church hierarchy who looked the other way from the pedophilia and pederasty in their midst. But it is the faithful who are being asked to pay millions for the sins of the fathers, and innocent children who must bear the scars. [Again, failure to put the blame where it belongs] So INSIGHT recently found two of the most active advocates to square off in separate interviews on the issue of the more than 200 sexual-abuse lawsuits targeting the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
The legal fallout from the sexual-abuse scandals currently threatening Catholic archdioceses around the country soon may be large enough to bankrupt them. And the frenzy shows little sign of abating--next in the crosshairs as these scandals grow, say critics, will be the Protestant churches.
"I brought one of the first cases in the U.S. against the Catholic Church involving child sexual molestation" Minnesota attorney Jeffrey Anderson of Reinhardt and Anderson tells INSIGHT. "Since that time [1983] I've handled over 1,000 cases of child sexual molestation by various religious organizations. Over 600 of them were Catholic clergy." [It has long been a tactic of Communists to back a cause that people unsympathetic to dialectical materialism can get behind.]
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A vast sex and money scandal threatens the Vatican. But, once again, Ratzinger emerges as the campaigner against 'filth'
Legionaires couldn't buy off Ratzinger. He saw through their mask of orthodoxy. h/t: young fogey
A vast sex and money scandal threatens the Vatican. But, once again, Ratzinger emerges as the campaigner against 'filth'
A vast sex and money scandal threatens the Vatican. But, once again, Ratzinger emerges as the campaigner against 'filth'
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Vatican Blasts Anti-Catholic Campaign
VATICAN CITY— The Vatican heatedly defended Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, claiming accusations that he helped cover up the actions of pedophile priests are part of an anti-Catholic "hate" campaign targeting the pope for his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.
Vatican Radio broadcast comments by two senior cardinals explaining "the motive for these attacks" on the pope and the Vatican newspaper chipped in with spirited comments from another top cardinal.
"The pope defends life and the family, based on marriage between a man and a woman, in a world in which powerful lobbies would like to impose a completely different" agenda, Spanish Cardinal Julian Herranz, head of the disciplinary commission for Holy See officials, said on the radio.
http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/9000/10882689/Vatican_blasts_anti-Catholic_hate_campaign
Vatican Radio broadcast comments by two senior cardinals explaining "the motive for these attacks" on the pope and the Vatican newspaper chipped in with spirited comments from another top cardinal.
"The pope defends life and the family, based on marriage between a man and a woman, in a world in which powerful lobbies would like to impose a completely different" agenda, Spanish Cardinal Julian Herranz, head of the disciplinary commission for Holy See officials, said on the radio.
http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/9000/10882689/Vatican_blasts_anti-Catholic_hate_campaign
The Gay Sex Abuse Coverup
April 5, 2010
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on two news stories released today by the Associated Press:
[Catholic League]One of the AP stories on priestly sexual abuse admits that "The overwhelming majority of the victims were adolescents. That means very few guilty priests were pedophiles, a term mental health professionals reserve for those who target pre-pubescent children." Fine. But then it says something which is positively remarkable: "Even though about 80 percent of victims were boys, the John Jay researchers and other experts on sex offenders say it does not mean the perpetrators were gay." So what would they be? Heterosexual?
The AP article relied on the extraordinary remark by Margaret Smith, a professor who worked on the John Jay study. She said that while Donohue "quoted the study's data correctly," I nonetheless "drew an unwarranted conclusion." What? That most of the molesters have been gay? Here is what she said: "The majority of the abusive acts were homosexual in nature. That participation in homosexual acts is not the same as sexual identity as a gay man." So if two men sodomize each other, no one really knows if this qualifies as gay sex. Now I must admit that when I was studying for my doctorate in sociology at NYU, they never taught me such logic.
Both AP stories say the reason why there were so many male victims is because the priests did not have access to girls as altar servers. Nonsense. There have been girl altar servers in some U.S. dioceses since 1983, and almost everywhere since 1994. The statistics actually show that the more priests have access to girls, the less likely it is for girls to be abused.
Here's the tally. As reported in 2004, between 1950 and 2002, 81 percent of the victims were male; in 2005, it stayed the same; in 2006, it dropped to 80 percent; in 2007, it climbed to 82 percent; in 2008, it jumped to 84 percent; and in 2009, it stayed at 84 percent.
In other words, even though priests have less access to males, homosexual priests are molesting them at a higher rate. It's time to end the gay cover-up once and for all.
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Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on two news stories released today by the Associated Press:
[Catholic League]One of the AP stories on priestly sexual abuse admits that "The overwhelming majority of the victims were adolescents. That means very few guilty priests were pedophiles, a term mental health professionals reserve for those who target pre-pubescent children." Fine. But then it says something which is positively remarkable: "Even though about 80 percent of victims were boys, the John Jay researchers and other experts on sex offenders say it does not mean the perpetrators were gay." So what would they be? Heterosexual?
The AP article relied on the extraordinary remark by Margaret Smith, a professor who worked on the John Jay study. She said that while Donohue "quoted the study's data correctly," I nonetheless "drew an unwarranted conclusion." What? That most of the molesters have been gay? Here is what she said: "The majority of the abusive acts were homosexual in nature. That participation in homosexual acts is not the same as sexual identity as a gay man." So if two men sodomize each other, no one really knows if this qualifies as gay sex. Now I must admit that when I was studying for my doctorate in sociology at NYU, they never taught me such logic.
Both AP stories say the reason why there were so many male victims is because the priests did not have access to girls as altar servers. Nonsense. There have been girl altar servers in some U.S. dioceses since 1983, and almost everywhere since 1994. The statistics actually show that the more priests have access to girls, the less likely it is for girls to be abused.
Here's the tally. As reported in 2004, between 1950 and 2002, 81 percent of the victims were male; in 2005, it stayed the same; in 2006, it dropped to 80 percent; in 2007, it climbed to 82 percent; in 2008, it jumped to 84 percent; and in 2009, it stayed at 84 percent.
In other words, even though priests have less access to males, homosexual priests are molesting them at a higher rate. It's time to end the gay cover-up once and for all.
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Buchanan: Anti-Catholicism and the Times
"Now we learn the sickening news that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, nicknamed 'God's Rotweiler,' when he was the church's enforcer on matters of faith and sin, ignored repeated warnings and looked away in the case of the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy, a Wisconsin priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys."
In Goodstein's piece, Weakland is a prelate who acted too slowly. The controversy over his clouded departure from the Milwaukee archdiocese is mentioned and passed over at the bottom of the story. It belonged higher.
For Weakland was a homosexual who confessed in a 1980 letter he was in "deep love" with a male paramour who shook down the archbishop for $450,000 in church funds as hush money to keep his lover's mouth shut about their squalid affair.
According to Rod Dreher, Weakland moved Father William Effinger, who would die in prison, from parish to parish, knowing Effinger was a serial pederast.
When one of Effinger's victims sued the archdiocese but lost because of a statute of limitations, Weakland counter-sued and extracted $4,000 from the victim of his predator priest.
Pat Buchanan responds to Abuse Crisis...
In Goodstein's piece, Weakland is a prelate who acted too slowly. The controversy over his clouded departure from the Milwaukee archdiocese is mentioned and passed over at the bottom of the story. It belonged higher.
For Weakland was a homosexual who confessed in a 1980 letter he was in "deep love" with a male paramour who shook down the archbishop for $450,000 in church funds as hush money to keep his lover's mouth shut about their squalid affair.
According to Rod Dreher, Weakland moved Father William Effinger, who would die in prison, from parish to parish, knowing Effinger was a serial pederast.
When one of Effinger's victims sued the archdiocese but lost because of a statute of limitations, Weakland counter-sued and extracted $4,000 from the victim of his predator priest.
Pat Buchanan responds to Abuse Crisis...
St. Stephens is a Parish in Transition: Catholic Tradition Reborn
Many of the members of this troubled inner city parish have left it for the suburbia of protestantism. It's part of an overall transformation going on in the Church where things that haven't worked seem to be getting replaced by things that have always worked, but were ill-used and discarded, like the High Altar that once graced this lovely Neo-Gothic edifice in the midst of post-modern decay and housed Minneapolis' finest and most Catholic families.
Father Williams won't deny it, he's definitely running behind, but Latinos are now making up the difference both in numbers and fervour, where the dwindling Irish and English descendants have mostly left. But Father Williams isn't exactly deterred by this, he's looking for a High Altar. You might think this bodes well for tradition and we'd like to think it does; for Father has trained in the Immemorial Mass of all ages, but says he likes to say the Mass according to the New Rite, however, he's a big fan of JRR Tolkien and has no doubt read Tolkien's thoughts on the matter.
In any event, the Immemorial Mass isn't a preference, nor should it be a cause for division, Father Williams has a very kindly demeanor and suffers fools gladly. He is even liked by his visible opponents who've left the Church to found their own social-justice community nearby. Not to be too naive, but there's hope in this as there is hope in the Catholic Faith, that no matter how terrible things seem, there is a game at play we only dimly understand but will be filled with Joy one day to see it in its fullness when we persevere in the truth.
Father Joseph Williams came to St. Stephen’s in April. “Some people said I was hand-picked by the bishops to dismantle the church. If I was, they didn’t tell me about it.”
By JON TEVLIN, Star Tribune
Father Joseph Williams came "from the farm to the hood" less than a year ago, to a congregation in a spiritual crisis and a neighborhood riddled with poverty and crime. He is only 34, but as he sits in a low-ceilinged office in the basement of St. Stephen's Catholic Church, it seems like the weight of the 110-year-old structure, and the centuries-old institution itself, sit squarely on his shoulders.
When Williams arrived in April, there were 350 families at the church, maybe more. On a recent Sunday, during the only remaining mass in English, coughs echoed off the empty pews as a couple of dozen people mumbled through the service.
That's it, he said.
The rest have fled, or just given up.
Williams, under the direction of a new pope and new archbishop, has steered one of the country's most liberal churches in a more orthodox direction. No more services in the "egalitarian" school gym. No more laity saying mass or celebrating the eucharist. No more prayers to "our father and mother in heaven."
The collection plate is down 90 percent. This spring, the priest who not long ago led a congregation in an idyllic small town, will tell the charter school known for a peace-and-justice curriculum that it must go because the church needs more rent.
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Upon the Negligence of Pastors
The following reflections are part of an e-mail we received from an annonymous Catholic who has thought long and deeply about the subject and the link he sent from a John Vennari article from 2002:
Clerical Scandals and the
"Negligence of the Pastors"
by John Vennari
Note: In light of the recent Church scandals in the news, this article published in 2002 is of even greater relevance.
It is hard to imagine a more distasteful subject than pedophilia and homosexuality in the Roman Catholic priesthood. It is even more disturbing to consider that homosexuals successfully targeted the Catholic Church for infiltration.
Yet these are the issues we are forced to confront at the same time Fatima revisionists claim that the 1984 Consecration of the world fulfilled Our Lady’s request for the Consecration of Russia, and that we are now witnessing the triumph of the Immaculate Heart. If the current state of the Church is an indication of Her triumph, I shudder to think of what would be Her defeat.
Crisis Foretold
In 1981, Father Joaquin Alonso, who had many conversations with Sister Lucy, and who was the official Fatima archivist for sixteen years, said, "It is therefore completely probable that the text (of the Third Secret of Fatima) makes concrete references to the crisis of faith within the Church and to the negligence of the pastors themselves [and the] internal struggles in the very bosom of the Church and of grave pastoral negligence of the upper hierarchy."(1)
Today’s clerical scandals are not because of mandatory celibacy, nor are they because we do not have women priests, married priests, or because there are no laity in Church authority. Rather, they are the result of the "negligence of the pastors" that Father Alonso (pictured above) maintained to be the essence of the Third Secret of Fatima.
The scandals are also the result of what Sister Lucy called the "diabolical disorientation" afflicting "so many persons who occupy places of responsibility" in the Church.(2) As will be demonstrated, the upper hierarchy has been so negligent and disoriented that it presided over a massive influx of homosexuals into the Catholic priesthood and religious orders.
And homosexuality is the real issue.
Most of today’s clerical scandals are not
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Well, there is modernist clericalism and a clericalist mentality in the modernist Church. That doesn't explain entirely the molestation crisis. Some people have been suggesting that priests become pedophiles. It's the other way around. The question they need to be asking is why homosexual deviants become priests. Priestly celibacy is not what causes them to molest teenage or young adult males. Vatican II created a new lifestyle and atmosphere in the priesthood which enables and attracts homosexuals. Now, this is a VERY strange and very bizarre phenomenon in abnormal psychology.
I'm not sure that the answers are that clear. But I think it is similar to
why sexual deviants are attracted to professions like police officers, Physical
Education teachers, and sports coaches, Boy Scout leaders.
It gives them a certain power and authority over others.
I also think the perverted voyeurism that they experience in Confession gives a certain aggrandizement and thrill in sadistic power over others. It's a perverse and deviant way of evening the score with heterosexuals. (i.e., getting compromising information on others).
But this whole issue makes me feel nauseated and I have no desire to ever have to deal with the homosexuals and psychologically abnormal modernists in the modernist Church EVER again.
One would also have to reserve some role for the diabolical in this Church crisis. It's not completely caused by clericalism although that can be a part of it. It's why homosexuals have chosen to use the Church as a political arm (and for freeloading) that is the real issue. That's a very complex issue in the area of abnormal psychology.
There is a perversion of deviant, psychoneurotic voyeurism (via Confession) that attracts some homosexuals. One thing you will notice about homosexuals is that they love to gossip (almost like women following soap operas or tabloids). Someone with perverse, deviant, or abnormal sexual hangups will be attracted to Confession in an abnormal way (that a normal priest would not be).
It may also be because blackmail is a part of perverted sexual underworlds. For the sexual pervert, the priesthood is about power.
Entering the priesthood may also be a way to impress the parents. As this secures their support in a way that "coming out" would not (for religious families). Also, it's not that big of a step, as they have already been pretending to be normal in interactions with the parents and other straight Catholics.
So what's really involved? In becoming a priest they are handed the combination to the parish safe, control of the collection plate, etc. Seeing all of that money being collected has been something on their mind FOR YEARS...
The institutional Church has been naive about this problem.
Clerical Scandals and the
"Negligence of the Pastors"
by John Vennari
Note: In light of the recent Church scandals in the news, this article published in 2002 is of even greater relevance.
It is hard to imagine a more distasteful subject than pedophilia and homosexuality in the Roman Catholic priesthood. It is even more disturbing to consider that homosexuals successfully targeted the Catholic Church for infiltration.
Yet these are the issues we are forced to confront at the same time Fatima revisionists claim that the 1984 Consecration of the world fulfilled Our Lady’s request for the Consecration of Russia, and that we are now witnessing the triumph of the Immaculate Heart. If the current state of the Church is an indication of Her triumph, I shudder to think of what would be Her defeat.
Crisis Foretold
In 1981, Father Joaquin Alonso, who had many conversations with Sister Lucy, and who was the official Fatima archivist for sixteen years, said, "It is therefore completely probable that the text (of the Third Secret of Fatima) makes concrete references to the crisis of faith within the Church and to the negligence of the pastors themselves [and the] internal struggles in the very bosom of the Church and of grave pastoral negligence of the upper hierarchy."(1)
Today’s clerical scandals are not because of mandatory celibacy, nor are they because we do not have women priests, married priests, or because there are no laity in Church authority. Rather, they are the result of the "negligence of the pastors" that Father Alonso (pictured above) maintained to be the essence of the Third Secret of Fatima.
The scandals are also the result of what Sister Lucy called the "diabolical disorientation" afflicting "so many persons who occupy places of responsibility" in the Church.(2) As will be demonstrated, the upper hierarchy has been so negligent and disoriented that it presided over a massive influx of homosexuals into the Catholic priesthood and religious orders.
And homosexuality is the real issue.
Most of today’s clerical scandals are not
Read further...
Monday, April 5, 2010
It's Official: Los Angeles Gets Conservative Prelate
Update: As Rorate reports from Vatican Website, here, as we predicted this weekend that Vatican would declare him.
We received the good news over the weekend, according to the good word of Maximilian Hanlon on Saturday afternoon. It was most welcome news that the conservative, Archbishop Gomez, was going to be the next Archbishop of Los Angeles.
Kevin Knight over at New Advent has a New Advent Exclusive up. It's a big picture of His Lordship with a link to the San Antonio Archdiocesan website.
The prodigious announcement of the new Archbishop of Los Angeles who will be Archbishop Gomez, could be made as soon as tomorrow according to Rocco at Whispers in the Loggia. There will be a press conference tomorrow at 10am at the Cathedral in San Antonio.
We hope that the change will take place before Cardinal wreckovates St. Charles Boromeo Cathedral.
It doesn't come as a surprise that Cardinal Mahony was a co-collaborator with radical Cesar Chavez back in the day. He certainly did that for show since he wasn't very kind to his own grave diggers back in the day, but perhaps it's best just to bask in the goodness of this moment now that it is known he is going and will be replaced by someone with a lot more integrity and fervor.
Austen Ivereigh: "The Crisis of Clericalism"
Austen Ivereigh whose girlfriend had an abortion while he was an undergraduate at Oxford (which he says he attempted to waylay) and who impregnated another woman with whom he was unmarried during his work as a PR Man for Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, insists that the Catholic Church has little capacity for self reform. One could wonder whether or not he was actually talking about himself, since his previous behavior indicates a strong sign of reluctance to reform, as he writes:
It wouldn't be for us to mention any of this about Mr. Ivereigh's poor moral character, except that he wanted to point out what he calls the Church's inabillity to reform itself, and his insistence that the scandal is a result of anything but what truly ails it, that it suffers from a "Clerical Culture". Perhaps a barb aimed at his former employer? But no, a man who could defend an organization as readily as he did while flaunting its moral teachings, is unlikely to find fault where it belongs. Like Noonan, Weigel and other ecclesiastical mouthpieces, either self-appointed or not, he struggles and fails in his own regard in his ability to self-reform, but he also fails in another regard, that he fails to appreciate the divine nature of the Institution he once defended and says he's continuing to defend by his written word.
It might be good that he feels enough sympathy to report the sufferings of the Church in the French Revolution and in the 20th Century at the hands of Revolutionaries of all kinds. He's wrong incidentally to underrate the persecution of the Church in Latin America in the 19th Century, but his condescending tone is reminiscent of other writers, wielding their pen and attempting to defend her with faint praise, while jumping on the bandwagon, either for motives of malice at their own personal moral failures and lack of integrity as Iveriegh does, or in terms of their deeper-seated philosophical impediments like Noonan and Weigel, who are so Hegelian, they will never be able to look beyond their poorly chosen allegiances to truly defend the Church; they will always be cynics who are too intelligent, really, for the "obscurantist" and "irreformable" leadership and culture of the Catholic Religion. Their barely concealed antagonism to the Catholic Faith nay see them in future, belonging to more palatable protestant sects.
Austen Ivereigh's, The Crisis of Clericalism....
h/t: wrigleys
Like all powerful institutions, the Church has little capacity to reform itself, but it can embrace purgation as an opportunity for change. As the crisis spreads from country to country, one after another the hierarchies will be bewildered by the onslaught and anger. Some will blame the media for its often crude and misleading reports, others will retreat more tightly into their bunkers, others will point out (correctly) that clerical abuse has nothing to do with celibacy or an all-male priesthood. Some will have the courage to recognise that it is, however, a consequence of a culture of clericalism which still prevails, an attitude that places concern for a priest's reputation above the welfare of a child, and a mindset that leads to dissident theologians being prosecuted more swiftly than abusers of children.
It wouldn't be for us to mention any of this about Mr. Ivereigh's poor moral character, except that he wanted to point out what he calls the Church's inabillity to reform itself, and his insistence that the scandal is a result of anything but what truly ails it, that it suffers from a "Clerical Culture". Perhaps a barb aimed at his former employer? But no, a man who could defend an organization as readily as he did while flaunting its moral teachings, is unlikely to find fault where it belongs. Like Noonan, Weigel and other ecclesiastical mouthpieces, either self-appointed or not, he struggles and fails in his own regard in his ability to self-reform, but he also fails in another regard, that he fails to appreciate the divine nature of the Institution he once defended and says he's continuing to defend by his written word.
It might be good that he feels enough sympathy to report the sufferings of the Church in the French Revolution and in the 20th Century at the hands of Revolutionaries of all kinds. He's wrong incidentally to underrate the persecution of the Church in Latin America in the 19th Century, but his condescending tone is reminiscent of other writers, wielding their pen and attempting to defend her with faint praise, while jumping on the bandwagon, either for motives of malice at their own personal moral failures and lack of integrity as Iveriegh does, or in terms of their deeper-seated philosophical impediments like Noonan and Weigel, who are so Hegelian, they will never be able to look beyond their poorly chosen allegiances to truly defend the Church; they will always be cynics who are too intelligent, really, for the "obscurantist" and "irreformable" leadership and culture of the Catholic Religion. Their barely concealed antagonism to the Catholic Faith nay see them in future, belonging to more palatable protestant sects.
Austen Ivereigh's, The Crisis of Clericalism....
h/t: wrigleys
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