As most readers know, a traditional Catholic blogger, David Anthony Domet, who blogs at Vox Cantoris, has been threatened with a law suit by Vatican spokesman Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB, for daring to author posts calling attention to the priest’s actual words and deeds.
In addition to his work for the Holy See, Fr. Rosica is the founder and CEO of Salt + Light Television, a Canada-based network dedicated to building the church-of-man that emerged over and against the Church of Christ following the Second Vatican Council.
Those unfamiliar with Rosica’s heterodox orientation can learn everything they need to know by viewing his 2012 interview of uber-heretic Gregory Baum (available below), wherein he gushed with praise for the notorious dissenter like a twelve year old school girl at a backstage encounter with Justin Bieber.
(For more information on Gregory Baum, please see this essay written by Monsignor Vincent Foy.)
Ironically, Fr. Rosica is a member of the Basilian Fathers, the spokesman of which, Fr. Timothy Scott, recently made news by issuing a Tweet suggesting that His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke should “STFU.”
It is unclear just how commonplace such undignified behavior is among the Basilians at large, but in any case, Fr. Rosica is more than doing his part not to be outdone in classlessness.
In a letter to Mr. Domet, Fr. Rosica’s attorney, Nina Perfetto, quoted a total of nine statements made on Vox Cantoris that allegedly caused damage to her client’s “reputation, work and service to the church [sic].”
She also claimed that the posts have “had direct ramifications on Salt + Light;” a clever move that suggests that Fr. Rosica, should he in fact choose to further embarrass himself by pursuing legal action, will use the network’s assets to financially destroy Domet, an ordinary family man who appears guilty of no more egregious a crime than thinking and behaving like a Catholic.
In all of this, I can’t help but think of Our Blessed Lord’s words spoken during the Sermon on the Mount, and just how short Fr. Rosica is falling in modeling them:
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you. (Mt 5:10-12)
It doesn’t take an awful lot of research into the positions held by the personalities involved in this case to discern which one is playing the part of the persecutor and who is filling the role of the prophet.
Even so, let’s just say for the sake of argument that Fr. Rosica, a powerful cleric with international connections, really is being wrongly portrayed by Domet.
In other words, let’s assume that the collared Canadian media mogul truly has no other agenda than to uphold the immutable doctrines of our Holy Catholic Faith.
How does his threat to sue a blogging member of the flock over perceived insults serve to reflect his pure intentions?
It doesn’t; in fact, it tells a contrary tale.
Threatening Domet with legal action is so entirely out of step with the behavior of a cleric laboring for the Lord’s sake that it provides strong circumstantial evidence (to continue the legalistic theme) that the priestly plaintiff is anything but a righteous victim.
Interestingly enough, the very next verses in the Sermon on the Mount are those that lent Fr. Rosica’s network its name:
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men. You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. (Mt 5:13-14)
Can anyone even imagine an example of “savorless salt” more poignant than a priest called to act as a liaison with media members, in the name of the Church, who threatens to sue those writers with whom he disagrees?
If nothing else, Fr. Rosica has managed to shine a light on the simple fact that he deserves to be “cast out;” i.e., he has shown himself to be unqualified for his current position in the Holy See Press Office.
Unless, of course, the powers-that-be, in the lead-up to Synod 2015, are keen on the idea of intimidating Catholic journalists who have the audacity to hold the sacred hierarchy accountable for their duty to safeguard the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine.
We’ll keep a close eye on this story to see precisely where it is headed.
In the meantime, please join me in keeping David Domet and his family in your prayers.
Dear Louie,
We certainly will join in the prayers for this man and his family, and encourage all readers to pray daily for every other Faithful Catholic online, and elsewhere in the world. Our Lady of Fatima predicted that if her requests were not heeded, we would suffer persecutions and the good would be martyred.
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Reading the posts in question- which made use of published materials as the basis of the opinions expressed- makes it impossible for us to see this legal action as anything BUT a clear attempt to intimidate ALL traditional bloggers into silence about the ongoing attempt by modernists to demolish the Church.
Dear Lord Jesus, Our Lady of the Rosary, and St. Joseph, hear our prayers for the protection of the Church and all believers, especially those who defend God’s Holy Church and all the Truths it teaches, from Satan’s attacks and those who aid him in any way. Amen.
Once upon a time someone had told me that if I wanted to serve the Church in some way I ought to look into helping Catholic media. So Salt & Light Television happened to be one of the largest around here and I noted that they were looking for volunteers to fill any positions. So I applied.
I figured it would help to tell a Catholic organization how Catholics I was and I’d mentioned that I was heavy into apologetics, science, defending Creation and Biblical Inerrancy. Defending the traditional teachings of the Church etc. Silly me…
I continually received no responses, despite Salt & Light heavily advertising that they were looking for volunteers. I even called them a couple times, they’d asked me who I was, then went to check something, then returned and but told they’d get back to me or some excuse that the person in charge of that wasn’t there. But nothing occurred. Maybe indeed they were just too busy and swamped with stuff… but given this was just to fill any volunteer positions they were asking for, it just struck me as odd.
Anyway, with everything we’ve been learning about Salt+Light over the course of the years and now with Fr. R’s recent despicable actions and his open heretical statements, it was probably all for the best that I never got involved with them.
Dear Johnno,
Gloria t.v. reported today:
“Blacklisted Cardinals”: According to Sandro Magister the times are hard for cardinals who are seen as “dissenters” with respect to the liberal guidelines of Pope Francis. Magister mentions the ultra-Bergoglian portal “Vatican Insider” which bashed three orthodox Cardinals in the span of a few days.
– Feb. 14 it attacked Cardinal Burke for lèse-majesté toward the pope.
-Feb. 16 it reported – insider-knowledge on moves to limit the powers of Cardinal Pell.
-Feb. 19 it gave great emphasis to the sarcasm of a Chinese priest who attacked Cardinal Joseph Zen.
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Bottom line: You’re in excellent company. Keep up the good work. 🙂 🙂
Dear all,
We are engaged in a battle with Satan, obviously. ‘Rorate”‘s latest post addresses the same problem: SAMPLE QUOTE:
“The Church of the last decades has functioned, or rather malfunctioned, by actually anchoring herself to a will to be the friend of Caesar. …She has shown herself to be aggressive and unsparing in her repression and negation of every legitimate opinion that has the intent of reaffirming the doctrinal and moral truths. The result is to silence those whose intent is to defend her and to give free reign to those whose intent is to destroy her. This methodology is highly praised and is put into practice from the very top down to the parish church.”
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-next-synod-is-battle-between-christ.html
Please delete the above comment – it contains inaccurate info. Sorry, TWN
God bless you, Johnno. I think we all know why they didn’t want you. I’ve had similar experiences with heretical (probably apostate) Church organisations. Being Prolife (and, at the time, very actively so) was a huge black mark against me for a Jesuit apostolate that I was barred from joining. I’ve many more examples. I’m sure most true Catholics have experienced similar rejection, exclusion, dismissal and persecution from people in powerful positions in Church organisations, who are enemies of the Faith and the moral life. Prayers for Fr Rosica. At this stage, if Catholics are holding to the true unchanging Faith and moral law, they are being persecuted. I know of no one who stands up for the Faith, and against evil, who has not been made to suffer for it.
I’m thinking that if the lawsuit goes forward we trads would gladly set up a Go-Fund-Me account for Mr. Domet. Our Lord would multiply the money in the blink of an eye:+) Thank you for defending a devout Catholic man, Louie:+) God bless~
I hope the site of The Remnant Newspaper has not been hacked too. I can’t get into it.
The Novus Ordo Institution now, famously, rejects the pure in heart.
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http://www.restorationradionetwork.org/season-iii-true-restoration-flagship-xxxvii-confessions-of-a-novus-ordo-seminarian/
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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/was-pope-francis-warning-against-bishops-ordaining-traditionalist-seminaria
God bless you Louie, and all those soldiers of Christ who wade through the machinations of these modernist-mess-merchants so we don’t drown in it.
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“Going they went and wept, casting their seeds. But coming they shall come with joyfulness, carrying their sheaves.” You will be rewarded.
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Will this Rosica thing be like the FFI? The initiation of a new practice in the Novus Ordo schism against the final hints of Truth still lingering at the borders of Babylon? Torture those left over Traditionalist Religious into becoming modernists within seminaries, and now torture layman in a similar manner?
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RE: the video of the old man in tan – the ‘rare creature, a periti of VII’, the rarer they become the better. ‘Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue…In the future the Church will relate itself to the outside/r through dialogue…(man in tan quoting Montini)’ According to the ‘periti’, ‘life, joy and energy are not the fruits of orthodoxy or unanimity…or doctrines [of the Church] removed from the scriptures(read ‘unscriptural).’ (Doctrines of the Church that are unscriptural?!) Protestants rejoice! Poor ‘sad Orthodox’! the Orwellian-rubbish-speak of the modernist antichrist is easy to spot. How perverse and what a lie to call Catholicism/orthodoxy ‘sad’ – to say so denies/rejects two millennia of the wisdom, beauty and joy and solemn awe in art, music, and worship (and lets not forget the Universities, hospitals; and the Martyrs who gave up their lives to offer people this Truth – an unparralleld gift to the ungrateful world and ungrateful men in tan).
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You are a periti and so am I – on the world – we know all of us know just how sad the world that rejects Truth is.
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Top quote from the man in tan: ‘There is a hermeneutic of discontinuity that [we the periti] have made [into] a hermeneutic of continuity.’
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All revolutionaries have to establish a tyranny, an execution (bloody) of what preceded them and a ‘disappearing’ of the voice and even visual presence of the ‘past’ as if it didn’t exist or at least never mattered (unless, of course, it’s the individual revolutionary’s own ‘past’, then offf coursss it matters).
PS. For the man in tan. Here is an example of an authentic hermeneutic of continuity: “And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we have believed and have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.” Here is an example of discontinuity made continuity by experts in ‘continuity’: “And Simon…of God.” After all, the stuff in between just got in the way of Simon and God, didn’t it?
Soul refreshment: the Prophet Isaiah speaks
of God’s promises to come, in Christ, our Lord:
51:(1) “Give ear to Me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord.. “I, Myself will comfort you.. “I have put My words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the shadow of My hand..Thus saith thy Sovereign, the Lord, and thy God, Who will fight for His people.
–52: Strength, O Sion, put on the garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the city of The Holy One;..(5) ..They that rule over them, treat them unjustly, saith the Lord, and My Name is continually blasphemed all the day long. Therefore My people shall know My Name in that day, for I Myself that spoke, behold, I am here.
“..all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God…the Lord will go before you and the God of Israel will gather you together.
–(54) “Oh poor little one, tossed with tempest, without all comfort, behold, I will lay thy stones in order, and will lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper; and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.
–All thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children. And thou shalt be founded in justice.. –(17) No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn.
— This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justices with Me, saith the Lord.”
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Thanks be to God. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis, peccatoribus.
Dear All,
A bit of an update on the David Domet situation, since Rosica has now said he won’t be suing him…. At the following link provided by S. Armaticus:
http://theeye-witness.blogspot.com/2015/03/when-peter-sued-paulor-david-domet-vs.html