End of the world…

Louie,

Faithful Catholics sometimes feel like everything is falling apart. Well, to some extent it is, and I know why.

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  1. That was really good Louie! Sometimes all there is left to do is laugh at the absurdity. Thanks for this!

  3. Louie, you are absolutely right! “It is the end of the world as we know it” and anyone with any degree of “Catholic” sense should know why. The Traditional Catholics who have remained faithful to the Church, as Christ established It, have helped to preserve the True Catholic Church. Now it is up to the Novus Ordo Catholics to wake up. I fear there are many who know something is wrong, but like Michael Voris, will not face reality and “step up to the plate”.
    Louie, you certainly do have a great sense of humor. However, in this video, I sense a great deal of sadness (for very, very good reasons!) God bless you!

  4. God bless and protect you. The truth speakers are always persecuted. Those who refuse to speak out against evil thus acquiescing to it (and by their failure to do their duty, assisting it) save their own skins (at least for now) and turn their backs on the truth speaker as he is being persecuted.

  5. Dear Louie,
    Thanks, for all that work–you’re a riot!. How many hours did you have to practice to get all those words to come out right? Or was it 20 -takes?
    ___
    Here’s our little contribution to the smile-fest 🙂
    3 little Bible-Riddles Second line of each = answer(backwards)

    —What kind of man was Boaz before he married?
    (sselhtuR)
    —Who was the greatest female financier in the Bible?
    (tehporp elttil a tuo werd dna eliN eht fo knab eht ot nwod tnew ehS .rethguad s’haorahP)
    —Who was the greatest male financier in the Bible?
    (noitadiuqil ni saw esle enoyreve elihw kcots sih gnitaolf saw eH .haoN)
    God Bless us all. 🙂

  6. Ha ha ha! That was great, quite clever, made me laugh. Such heaviness lately, and you lightened it up well!

  9. Hilarious! I already like the song, and I love your version! It makes me think your kids must be the same age as mine, or else you have equally bad taste in music… 😉

  10. Truly a video for the ages. That grainy draped purple background lends an appropriately penitential air. Feeling rather like I did in the aftermath of 911 and also trying to fathom the pain of our good shepherds like Pope Benedict, Cardinals Burke, Pell and Mueller and Archbishops Leonard and Cordelione.

  11. Excellent, Louie.
    INDIGNUS FAMULUS,
    I have low vision and use the speak selection feature on my iPad. It reads my high-lighted text and it did a pretty good job with your riddles.

  12. Next target of Francis’s ” reign of terror.. ahem I mean mercy”.
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    Bishop Mario Oliveri, 70 diocese of Albenga-Imperia.
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    Link here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/11183773/Pope-Francis-to-investigate-playboy-priests-who-posed-naked-online-in-scandal-hit-disocese.html
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    Nick Squire, Rome correspondent of the DT writes:
    “The bishop himself is not accused of any wrongdoing, but is reported to have been overly-charitable in recruiting “black sheep” priests with distinctly chequered pasts, including trainee priests expelled from seminaries for misconduct.”
    +
    But I suspect the real reason is as follows:
    “When asked about the investigation, Bishop Oliveri, a fervent traditionalist who once celebrated a three-hour Mass in Latin, told La Repubblica newspaper: “I don’t want to talk about it. This is not the right time.”
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    And there you have it. Those darned traditionalist with their 3 hour masses, and no accusations of wrongdoing strike again, 🙂
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    But in the mean time, we have Collegeville, the pedophile enabler adn cover uper Danneel appointed by Francis himself to the Synod and Msgr “gets caught in an elevator with a rent boy” Ricca still at the IOC and running Santa Marta hostel. But let’s not mention that. Shhhh.
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  13. More info about Bishop Mario Oliveri.
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    Link here:http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2014/10/will-traditional-diocese-of-albenga.html
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    EF quotes:
    ” The diocese of Albenga-Imperia is characterized under Bishop Oliveri, among other things, by a growing number of seminarians. Since the diocese is friendly to tradition and the direction of the training of priests is designed in this sense, priestly vocations are attracted from other diocese in search of a Catholic seminary. The diocese of Albenga-Imperia, which includes only ten percent of the Catholics of Liguria, has more seminarians than the whole rest of Liguria.”
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    Note* Notice the pattern. Booming seminary, attracting seminarians from other diocese.
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    “Bishop Oliveri made the headlines because he celebrated Mass in the Immemorial Rite in the Co-Cathedral of Imperia in 2008 on the occasion of perpetual vows of seven Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. This created considerable media interest because he was the world’s first bishop, who celebrated a public Pontifical Mass according to the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum from the episcopal throne.”
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    Note* Celebrating according to SP. How could he? 😉
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    “By the end of 2013, all three branches were closed by Commissioner Volpi in the diocese of Albenga-Imperia. Messa in Latino spoke then of “retaliation” because the bishop “had dared to defend the Franciscans of the Immaculate.”
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    Got to break a few eggs to make the perfect modernist omlet. 😉

  14. … and this. The Benedictines get whacked by the Lord of Mercy.
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    “Vatican announces reorganisation of Montecassino Abbey”
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    Link here: http://www.news.va/en/news/vatican-announces-reorganisation-of-montecassino-a
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    Quote:
    “The Vatican on Thursday announced a significant reorganisation of the principle monastery of the Benedictine Order, located at Montecassino in Italy’s Lazio region. A large part of the land, including 53 parishes with 37 priests and 50 women religious, which have been under the jurisdiction of the Abbey will be transferred to the local diocese of Sora-Cassino-Aquino-Pontecorvo. At the same time Pope Francis also appointed Abbot Donato Ogliari, O.S.B., as the new abbot of Montecassino.”
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    Looks like another monastery, to quote Bergoglio, “whose mission is coming to and end but don’t want to relinquish their real estate”. 🙂
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    PS Wonder if there were any traditionalists “hiding under the Benedictine’s beds”. 😉

  15. For present and future reference: Bruno Forte. 🙂
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    Link: http://pblosser.blogspot.com/2014/10/archbishop-bruno-forte.html
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    Quote:
    “Just a few surprising highlights: he is a brilliant and widely-read scholar, he is multi-lingual, he is slippery as an eel, he has a book in English, Face to Face with Jesus: Reflections for a Disciple, with a Foreword by none other than Scott Hahn; he was an associate of Karl Rahner, Von Balthasar, Walter Kasper, and Josef Ratzinger in Tübingen; he was a protege of Kasper and the future Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, Carlo Maria Martini.”
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    The above is just a teaser.
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    But will there be an investigation for corruption perpetrated against the bishops Secret Synod by a cabal of fanatical radicals? Inquiring minds want to know. 🙂

  18. For those puzzled as to how such judas could ever make it to the top or at least be discliplined/corrected in some way, instead operate in total impunity for decades…

    it’s really simple.

    Even before the dreaded (possibly invalid) election of John XXIII the secret cabal started infiltrating the Seminaries, aided by progressive elements already inside the Church.

    Once there were enough of them, they started (by the law of big numbers alone) to climb the ecclesiastical cursus honorum.

    Not only that, but the inflitrators in position of power (any power, be it Seminary Teachers, Bishops, Arch., Card.) did everything they could to favour their fellow degenerates in their career.

    Fast forward to today: the majority of seminaries are run by homos, discriminating against normal candidates, clergy is largely made up by THEM, Cardinalate idem.

    And those that ain’t are shunned and boycotted in one way or another, with more to come for sure.

    It’s akin to a cancer.

  19. And yes, there were marxist elements (possibly from KGB itself) very active in the Eastern European dioceses (but not unheard of in the west too, remember Communist Parties have been very strong in mainland europe till the late 80s).
    But also masonic ones, and jewish-controlled ones.
    It is debatable if homos were ever an organised movement or they were simply co-opted by external forces by means of alliance or blackmail.

    It doesn’t matter who was what, they all work(ed) in unison to destroy the Church. They have been hugely successfull so far.

    Can you imagine today’s world if the Church was unscathed?
    It would look very different, because She has always been their only real enemy and had the numbers, the funds, and the Divine mission and protection.

  20. Too good Louie. Loved the Secret Synod pic as well. I don’t laugh easily so you have done very well. Same with James and the Losing My Religion comment.

    I appreciate the commentary here. God Bless All.

  21. That was so good! I’d love to see this go viral. And I second the suggestion of JamesTheLesser to do a followup with “Losing My Religion”. Thanks, Louie.

  23. Maybe you and Laurence England of That the Bones They Have Crushed May Thrill could do a duet??!!

  24. Dear Ruby,
    Amazing, a machine that can detect and read things backwards!? (Sorry the result was just those silly “groaners”) 🙂
    Maybe science will take this technology a step further and develop a machine that that can interpret modernist-speak and spin. Can you envision it?
    Pope Francis says something like what he said to the Atheists’ who asked if they can go to heaven, too: “Just do good, and I’ll meet you there”, and the machine will translate it to:
    “Why not, I’M expecting to get there, and I spend my days preaching against poverty and too much adherence to Dogma, just like you guys do”

  25. May I humbly ask why my comment was never approved by moderation a few articles back?
    Maybe Fr. Villa due to his publishings is persona non grata here at Harvesting the Fruit?

    Thank you.

  27. Dear Berto,
    This diabolical corruption you outlined here, echoes the warning in Matthew 24: 15: — “When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand.”
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    and ST. JUDE : ..”contend earnestly for the faith- once delivered to the saints. [4] For certain men are secretly entered in, who were written of long ago unto this judgment, ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness, and denying the only sovereign Ruler, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
    ___
    and ST. PETER :
    [1] .. there shall be among you lying teachers, who shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. ..–and their perdition slumbereth not. 12] ..these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption, Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: .. Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls, having their heart exercised with covetousness, children of malediction: Leaving the right way they have gone astray..
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    and what Jesus said: ” [Matthew…24] there shall arise false Christs and false prophets.. to deceive, if possible, even the elect. [25] Behold I have told it to you, beforehand. ..[33] ..when you shall see all these things, know ye that it is nigh, even at the doors. 35] Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass. …[37] as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. [39].. they knew not till the flood came, and took them all away; so also shall the coming of the Son of man be. [42] Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come. [44].. be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come. ..There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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    We’ve all been well forewarned, haven’t we…..

  29. I loved the vid too, Mr. V. It was the end of the world as I knew it in 1958 though, quite frankly.

  30. Dear Berto,
    Don’t know if this is the problem in your particular case, but -We’ve had that “moderation” heading pop up a number of times when we had more than two links in a comment. Once we removed the http heading from the excess links, the comments were published immediately.

  31. Dear deMaria,
    You share that view with many others, including apparently “Mundabor”:
    “I do not indulge in doctrinal experimentations whatsoever. What my grandmothers would have considered questionable doctrine, I do not write. What I think I can’t express or explain well, I don’t. My view of the world is stuck in the year 1958, and proudly so. I hope it stays that way. Whilst I am certainly rigid in my interpretation of Catholic tradition, I do not think there is any other way that really works.”
    [from his comments regarding his surprise at reaching 2 million page views]

  32. Thank you for sharing your experience.
    It is probably an anti-spam automatic filter then..

  35. Francis ties to put the “SSPX” back play.
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    Another “friendly”… ahemm…. overture.
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    Fr.Z has the story:
    http://wdtprs.com/blog/2014/10/large-gesture-of-openness-toward-sspx/
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    Please read for your information.
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    However, I wouldn’t bet a dime on this dog and pony show.
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    But if was to advise Bishop Fellay about how to approach this above new opening, I would advise as follows:
    If
    1) Francis to reinstate Fr Manelli back at the head of the FFI
    2) Francis to reinstate bishop Livieres as the bishop of Ciudad del Este
    3) Francis to withdraw his henchman from bishop Finns diocese
    4) Francis to withdraw the latest henchman from bishop Olivieri’s diocese.
    5) Francis to defrock the new nut job in Chicago, the one who locks the Faithful out of church during Holy Week.
    6) Francis commence an investigation into the fraudulent Secret Synod.
    7) Publish the homo-mafia report that he received from pope Benedict.
    8) Remove the scandalous Msgr Ricca from the Santa Marta hotel and Vatican Bank,
    9) Give the FSSP and the Ecclesia Dei Commission their own bishops (25 years and still no bishop)….
    10) And finally, give Bishop Fellay the right to consecrate 10 new SSPX bishops immediately and one each subsequent year.
    .
    Anyways, that would be my starting point. Once the above issues resolved, then we can sit down and speak….. about VATICAN II. 🙂
    .
    Francis is the nicest and fluffiest pope evahhhhh. So he should have no problem with that. 😉

  39. And this. Why young people LOVE the Immemorial Mass of All Ages. 🙂
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    Link here: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2014/10/npr-story-on-youth-and-traditional.html#.VEqrXBa7ZKo
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    Quote:
    “The fascinating thing is the number of young people who discover the old liturgy and who fall in love with it,” he says. “There’s indeed a thirst for a return to one’s roots.”
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    Somehow I don’t think is has a whole lot to do with roots Father. 😉

  40. And of course, the Summorum Pontificum pilgramage…
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    Packed house….but what else did you expect. 🙂
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    NLM link:
    http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2014/10/populus-summorum-pontificum-vespers-at.html#.VEqsNRa7ZKo
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    RC Link:
    http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-follow-summorum-pontificum.html
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    You can crush us
    You can bruise us
    And, even shoot us
    But oh, the guns of Brixton…Tradition 😉
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    Mr. V. You should give the Guns of Brixton a go for your next video. 😉

  41. And speaking of the “last best hope” for the Bride of Christ…
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    SSPX website: Synod’s troubles continue
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    Link: http://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/synods-troubles-continue-5295
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    Quote:
    “The most candid admission comes from the President of the Canadian Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher, who writes unflinchingly on his blog:
    .
    In a way, what we did with family life is what the Second Vatican Council did for the liturgy and ecumenism: gave a green light to a style of ministry that is already emerging in the Church, assuring its theological foundations, and inviting the whole Church to do the same. Of course, those who did not like what Vatican II did for the liturgy and ecumenism must not like what this Synod did for family life….”
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    When you’ve lost the Canadians, you know Francis is in trouble. 🙂

  42. Dear de Maria:
    I know!
    And supposedly “all laws that don’t lead to Christ are obsolete”.
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    The SSPX have laws that lead them to Christ.
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    So you would think that Francis would say “who am I to judge?”
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    But he doesn’t.
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    It’s as if he had a hidden agenda.

  43. Quo Vadis Francesco?
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    Mundabor, at his best.
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    Link: http://mundabor.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/francis-next-move-and-the-catholic-d-day-a-reflection/
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    Mundabor bullet points:
    1. Resign and wheelchair off to Argentina.
    2. Adapt to the role as Pope, and say farewell to the Revolution
    3. Continue as now, but more guardedly and carefully.
    4. The Extreme Destroyer
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    Personally, I think it’s option 4. He’s going nuclear… in a Jesuitical sort of way. I think he thinks that “he’s got no time to lose”.
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    Best quotes:
    “Think of this: Francis has already been tested, and he has lost. Has he gone for the all-out confrontation? No. Are the Bishops and Cardinals stupid, that they do not know that he will seek a rematch, and revenge? No. Is he strong enough to brave them? Come on, he’s a Jesuit. He did not have the balls last week, will he grow a pair at (almost) Seventy Nine?”
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    Obviously, Munabor goes with option 3.
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    After reading this post, if I was Andrew Lloyd Weber, “Mundabor the Musical” would be premiering in the West End in one months time. 😉
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    It’s that good. 😉

  44. Louie: this video of yours is a fiasco. The lirics are lousy and the music?? (is there any) deplorable. For the lirics you should contact Long Skirts, and may be you can contact Paul McCartney for composition and singing.
    Sincerely,
    Carmartibos

  45. Hear! Hear! As for the “overture, it would be stupid to be other than sceptical with the evil-doing at the Holy See at this time. Maybe, it’s a case of the wolf coaxing Little Red Riding Hood to come a little closer – “all the better to EAT you, my dear!!”

  46. Mr Verrechio is a musical maestro, a genius – it’s just not so obvious, it’s rather “nuanced” like the modern theology of the Church!!!

  47. Another secular confirmation of our research-[-linked by Mundabor]
    Revelations from Argentina’s past:
    — “Bergoglio’s recommendations for who should be made bishop were routinely overturned. Conservative enemies in the church were constantly reporting him to Rome behind his back.”
    — “one senior Jesuit wrote privately, on the eve of the papal election, that a Bergoglio papacy would be “a catastrophe” for the Church, concluding: “We have spent two decades trying to fix the chaos that the man left us.”
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    [GODS LAWS DON’T GET TOP PRIORITY IN PRACTICE]:
    — “In the ghettos of Argentina, a poor woman apologized to him that her son had stopped attending Mass. He asked,” “But is he a good kid?” “Oh, yes, Father Jorge,” she replied.”. “Well,” that’s what matters.” he said.
    —“Jerónimo José Podestá was a progressive Catholic bishop whose radical teachings in the 1960s .. [got him] drummed out of the episcopacy by Rome..Bergoglio visited the ostracised bishop on his deathbed and gave him the last rites. HE THEN INSURED THAT THE MAN’S WIDOW, Clelia Luro, AND HER CHILDREN WERE PROVIDED FOR – EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS A FEMINIST AS RADICAL AS WAS IMAGINABLE on the Catholic spectrum, WHO USED TO CELEBRATE MASS WITH HER HUSBAND. DESPITE THAT, BERGOGLIO CONTINUED TO PHONE HER EVERY SUNDAY UNTIL HER DEATH LAST YEAR.”
    —” He wants to change the way the church goes about making decisions, to turn it from a monarchy into a body in which pope, prelates, priests and people constitute a collegial communion.”
    —He got what he wanted.” “Pastoral conservatives have divided between the two sides. Yet the vote on welcoming gays failed by just two votes to get the two-third majority. —Change is clearly on the march. .. a final report.. was less welcoming to gays and the divorced than Francis wanted.”
    —Next Year’s Synod: “It will not be a straightforward business. Indeed it could get rather messy…. Pope Francis is, above all else, a family man.”
    http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/31/crisis-changed-pope-francis-279303.html

  49. Dear Fellow Catholics, please pray for both ARCHBISHOP MYERS OF N.J. -another hero of the Faith and his bellittler- a lapsed Catholic editor- TOM MORAN- who cheers for rebels against God, who helped him mother head for Hell, and reports what they want to hear most, with his “good” news that Pope Francis is replacing Myers with a “humble man” and pushing to change Church teachings:
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    “Pope Francis is..nudging the Catholic Church to soften its attitudes towards gays and divorcees. I only wish my mother were here to see it.”
    She married a divorced man 11 years after my father died, and according to church doctrine, that meant she could not receive communion. This was a mother of nine children who never missed Mass, and who was never more proud than when our family filled an entire pew at church. Communion was the heart of it, and if she were denied that it would have crushed her soul. But her local priest….knew that Rome was thousands of miles away, and I suspect he had a crystal clear idea of what Jesus might have done in his shoes..he told my mother, he would always be honored to break the rules and give her communion. It was his glorious little rebellion.
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    –“I once told that story to NEWARK ARCHBISHOP JOHN MEYER, and his reaction was swift and unequivocal: “That local priest was wrong.”
    This was during election season in 2012 when Myers issued a bulletin to all Catholics saying they had a moral obligation to base their votes on opposition to abortion and gay marriage, two topics that Jesus never mentioned. Myers went on to say that gay sex is a purely “selfish enjoyment” because it “lacks openness to the procreative meaning of human sexuality.”
    — “he personifies the pinched and scolding brand of Catholicism that drove people like me away from the church.”
    —“When I think of him casting moral judgments on my mom, it makes my head explode, I admit it.”
    —“Myers is on the way out, and will almost certainly be replaced by Bernard A. Hebda, the former bishop of Gaylord, Mich., who was sent by the Vatican to assist Myers – or perhaps watch over him. By all accounts, Hebda is a more humble sort. And given that he was sent here by Pope Francis, you can bet that he won’t be so resistant to change.”
    —The latest signal from the pope came in a preliminary [Synod]statement… It spoke of the “positive aspects of civil union and cohabitation” and the need for “courageous pastoral choices” to reflect the many varieties of relationships outside the traditional family structure. It called on pastors to treat divorced Catholics with respect while “avoiding any language or behavior that might make them feel discriminated against.”
    —Francis hasn’t changed the rules yet. Church doctrine still holds that my mother should have been denied communion, that Myers is right.
    But my guess is that will change. In the meantime, I can only pray that all American priests remember the geography. [i.e.Rome is thousands of miles away]
    http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/10/pope_francis_and_my_mothers_catholic_church_moran.html
    By Tom Moran | Star-Ledger Editorial Board
    Tom Moran may be reached at tmoran@starledger.com or (973) 392-5728.

  50. I love this song.

    Doesn’t John Vennari play guitar? Louie should get him together the next time there’s an opportunity, and maybe re-record this better…

    I’ll do the backup singing –

    “Caaaan weeee consecrate Russiaaa Nowwww…?”

  52. Dear Indignus:
    Thanks for the info.
    We need to keep scorecard of who Francis is removing.
    Please post any further information.
    Thanks in advance,
    S.A.

  53. OMT
    Any info that appears of this nature, it would be wise to send across to any of the contributors to the Rorate Caeli blog.
    I suggest sending it to New Catholic at newcatholic@gmail.
    A further suggestion is sending it to Dr. Joseph Shaw at the Latin Mass Society mailbox which is: info@lms.org.uk. He also has an excellent blog at lmschairman.org.
    ______
    PS With the latest move against the SSPX, it looks like we are nearing the final battle for the Catholic church. Information is our best weapon:. )

  55. It’s hard to beat Mundabor. Although Louie runs a close 2nd place. That was one of his best but really, they’re all spot on. His site is invaluable, and instructive, and funny!

  56. Dear Elizabeth and Indignus Famulus: to Indignus: No, I don’t miss the point, intended to make fun on an issue. But for such a burlesque it need not go the full length of 4 plus minutes in a repetitive and boring fashion; one minute would have sufficed. As to Elizabeth, I appreciate Louie and what he does for Traditional Catholicism, but sometimes such as this, he overdid it.
    Carmartibos

  57. Okey dokey then. At least it’s good to know that you were indeed pulling our collective legs. Enough said.

  58. Dear carbartibos,
    Go write on your chalkboard 20 times:
    “I will not be annoying”

  60. We posted this on the SSPX blog but it fits the topic better here:
    After Judy Brown wrote two books on the American Bishops errors, and was ignored by many of those she was trying to reach, SUDDENLY, the African Bishops’ strongly expressing their convictions have affected Cardinal Dolan’s entire view of the American Episcopacy? If this is true, it’s an answer to many years of prayer. But like the Michael Voris “turn- around” we’ll have to wait and see before jumping for joy.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlCVrC2C16Y

    p.s. Or is there a C.Dolan twin making videos?

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