This University long ceased to be Catholic, and they have hosted raunchier trash than this. But, as a societal, ecclesial and educational marker, this is appalling.
SLU should be ashamed, but shame implies they know right from wrong.
Waiting for any decrees of excommunication or interdict, or even better, a statement expressing “disappointment”, from the hierarchy anywhere…. waiting……..
What will it take!!!? The people responsible for abandoning Christ and His Church must repent or else their punishment will be one that one shudders to contemplate.
I am tired of excuses.
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For the record, if Cdl Dolan were Catholic, his last acts before tendering his resignation would be to excommunicate anyone who attended this sacrilege. Anything short of this is to be an accessory, whether before or after the fact.
Hello everyone, I apologize for sparse posting. Work has been busy in the extreme. I wanted to write today with a mix of various items that have been rattling around my attic:
When I saw the picture and headline below over at Canon 212, written as only Frank Walker can write it, I spit my coffee all over my iPad:
Oh, the irony! It is literally staring you in the face. Yes, let us open our eyes to REALITY. Let us at least DESIRE to open our eyes to reality. Hello?! When will anyone in the hierarchy do this? Have I missed something?
2. When I look at the shutdown of the TLM in Austin, TX– one of the most well-established of the Diocesan efforts, along with the venerable Arlington, VA community– it just makes me sick. I asked my wife why they would put up with it, and not just go full St.-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet? You know, or maybe just take everyone with their priests and have Masses on the front steps, in the parking lot, or a private house for that matter? My wife, always more sensible, reminded me they very well may be taking steps to preserve the community. I hope so. We as Catholics have a right to this Mass and if our bishops overstep their authority it is not unlawful to defend our rights.
Don’t worry, though, I’m sure it will get worse before it gets better.
3. Of course, many have sensed that this is a Lent to be extra penitent. With the end of the world staring us in the face, I should think so. The struggle is to fast and make reparation while fulfilling our Lord’s admonition to not appear to fast. Not to be glum and brooding. Nobody benefits from a cranky fast-er, least of all the subject. One of the things I love about the Institute is its consistent, Salesian approach to these things. God bless it!
4. I wonder what is happening with His Eminence Cardinal Burke. Recall that surprise private audience with Bergoglio right around the time of the Tucho abomination. Since then, I haven’t heard much about his doings. NOT that he owes me an explanation, of course. Just curious.
5. When will it all end? When will Mary’s Immaculate Heart triumph? I suppose when we have been chastised enough for our lack of faith, hope, and charity.
6. Speaking of Frank Walker, I join him in being amazed that Rorate Caeli and its writers so thoroughly buy the Ukraine propaganda campaign emanating from both the Ukraine and the U.S. The masks are waaaaay off by now. It is the political equivalent of driving alone in your car with a mask on and syringes of deathvaxxx stuck in both arms.
7. If you are still looking for Lenten reading material, may I recommend Blessed Columba Marmion’s Christ in His Mysteries, in particular the chapters on the Lenten mysteries? Quite excellent.
I note with sadness the news, reported here, that American citizen and journalist Gonzalo Lira is dead. He reportedly died at age 55 in a Ukrainian prison, alter suffering God-knows-what treatment at the hands of the Zelensky cabal.
The gang running Biden, who bent over backwards to secure the release of allegedly female basketball player and convicted drug possessor Britney Griner, did not find it convenient to lift a finger to help Lira, guilty as he was for reporting the truth in Europe.
Your rulers let this man die. God rest his soul. In your charity, please say a prayer for his eternal repose.
I listened to many of his podcasts, reports, and interviews during the first part of the NATO-led aggression against the Russian speaking people of Eastern Ukraine, hoping to goad Russia into a war that would lead to its destruction. That didn’t work out so well, but the big lie must continue. In the empire of lies, truth is a crime.
And so Gonzalo Lira was killed.
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Apocalypse 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters:
17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. And they who inhabit the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom.
17:3 And he took me away in spirit into the desert. And I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
17:4 And the woman was clothed round about with purple and scarlet, and gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication.
17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery: Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the earth.
17:6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
I don’t think Orwell meant to write his 1984 as a warning. No, apparently, it’s an instruction manual. The photo above has the headline, you’ll have to check it out yourself because it is behind a semi-porous paywall.
The drone attacks surveillance is being planned by a private company, not city government. But what is causing an uproar in one neighborhood will be used without apology by the government in another neighborhood where, say, their political opponents reside. And perhaps where the police are not protecting people effectively due to attrition, political decision-making, cancel culture and incompetence.
Eat your bug mac and cheese, take your vaccines, and shut the heck up.
The verbal diarrhea of that creepo Fernandez has just been issued, from the formerly Holy Office, that in effect gives “official” “papal” sanction to “bless” sodomites who live in unrepentant sodomy. Read it only if you are interested in pure dreck.
The question in the post title is rhetorical. I wish it were not. But apparently nothing can be done by Bergoglio and his gang that any Cardinal is willing to do anything to stop.