BEING PASTORAL OR JUST BEING SILLY? THE CARDINAL ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK HAS SOME SPLAINING TO DO!

BOMBSHELL UPDATE: Below this post and added to it is Pope Francis' morning homily about acknowledging sin before Christ and allowing Him to transform us. He than speaks of corruption in the Church and this is clearly in reference to New York and other Churches (dioceses, parishes, institutions, etc) as I would "infer" it from the Holy Father's words today:

"So, the Pope said: “the privileged place for an encounter with Christ are our sins. If a Christian is incapable of seeing his sins and his salvation in the blood of Christ, he has only gone half-way. He is a tepid Christian. 

And the Pope pointed to those decadent Churches, decadent parishes, decadent institutions where most certainly Christians have never really met Christ or else they have forgotten that encounter."
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Original post: Of course in New York this means "chaste and gay, repenting from all sin" thus not offending believing and practicing Catholics, correct?

The Saint Patrick's Day Parade Committee in New York has capitulated to political correctness and the dictatorship of the media and its MAGISTERIUM, not to mention the mega bucks in lost revenue and prestige in the eyes of the world by failing to obey corporate sponsors who would boycott the New York Parade if the parade committee did not acquiesce in obedience to their magisterial demands. Folks, we are talking mega bucks. When Guiness Beer pulled out of sponsoring the parade last year (Irish, mega bucks) this was a wake-up call to what corporate excommunication means.

It seems to me that Pope Francis despises the control that money and corporations and its corruption has on the Church in general and Catholics in particular. We know this concerning the Vatican Bank and its corruption over the past decades which all hinges on the money trail. 

When Pope Francis speaks of a poor Church that serves the poor, I think he has this kind of corruption in mind. We know his disdain already for corrupt capitalism and what has happened in New York with the parade committee and Cardinal Dolan's endorsement of their bow to the secular, monied corporate world calling the moral shots now, that this is very much at the heart of Pope Francis' concern about unbridled, corrupt capitalism and its corrupting influence on the Church and her cardinals.

Keep in mind that the Saint Patrick's Day Parade honors a Catholic saint but is not a Catholic organization as such, but the Grand Marshall is always someone of Irish dissent and I presume always Catholic. This year it is Cardinal Dolan. Wouldn't it have been better for His Eminence simply to say, "I withdraw the from the honor of being named the Grand Marshall and I'll simply attend the parade and bless the new Grand Marshall but I will not endorse the politicization of sexual immorality in any form in any parade associated with a Catholic saint?"

In Dublin, Georgia, 40 miles south of Macon, there is a great festival lasting more than a week honoring Saint Patrick. But it is anything but Catholic and those who organize it in this predominantly Southern Baptist town would be clueless of the Catholicity of St. Patrick not to mention that he was a Catholic Bishop. The Red Neck games there were recently canceled. Honey boo-boo exploited by the media moguls and their magisterium built upon the almighty dollar and revenues from their shows is filmed not far from Dublin, GA.

While we can't leave the sexual revolution of the 1960's primarily at the feet of the entertainment media moguls of the 1960's, we can certainly say they helped to promote the immorality of that period that has spiraled out of control and led to the pornographic nature of television and entertainment today. No one protests that NBC's Comcast and other cable outlets provide hardcore pornography to subscribers. No one complains that the internet does the same thing and free of charge. (When I did an image search for "gay banners" for my photo above, it is unbelievable what images show up on the internet even with an innocent search!)   Thus we have a new sexual revolution associated with not only heterosexuality and its influence even on pre-teens but now with unbridled homosexuality in all its glory.

The entertainment media is the new Magisterium and evidently even in New York it is superior to the Cardinal Archbishop.  Even His Eminence bows before it and kisses its anatomy. The reason the parade will allow a gay banner (gays have always marched in the parade without flouting their sexuality) is that Guiness Beer withdrew its endorsement and money for the parade and NBC was going to do the same thing and not telecast it in New York. So the almighty dollar, the very thing that Pope Francis rails against, trumps Judeo-Christian morality. It is here that Cardinal Dolan could have taken a stand and failed to do so. But who am I to judge? Faced with the loss of money, prestige and being telecast by a media giant in New York, the parade committee capitulated to the demands of the media, political interests and the fear of losing money as did Cardinal Dolan who also feared losing friends at NBC, such as Matt Lauer of the Today Show and other friends in high places in the media. Keep in mind, NBC/Comcast makes so much money and has so much power, even over the Church, that it can afford to pay Cardinal Dolan's friend Matt Lauer, a television anchor and celebrity, $20 Million a year and fly him by helicopter from his mansion and plantation in the Hamptons to work in Manhattan every day although he also owns an expensive Manhattan apartment near the NBC studios where he toils in the sweat shop there.

Of course it seems like no big deal that a group of homosexuals who have united as a club under the NBC umbrella will be allowed to march in this year's parade except for the fact that they will have a banner in front of them describing their Gay Alliance.

Is it possible that those who are adulterers will one day be able to do the same thing? How about fornicators? I have friends who are homosexual, who are fornicators and some are adulterers. I love them all. But they know that as a priest I don't and will never endorse sins that evolve from the various temptations my friends experience given their sexual orientation. Chastity is still the order of the day for Catholics.

So if they march under an "adulterer's orientation" banner or a "fornicator's orientation" banner should the Church proudly embrace them and their orientation as well as their sins against God and nature? What about a "heterosexual orientation" or a "equal but separate" banner? And by these banners the alliances are promoting a lifestyle free of guilty or accountability before God and His Holy Church!

You see where this could go except for political correctness and the Magisterium of the Media forbidding it.Forget about the Church's Magisterium in New York. It has moved over for a greater one.

POPE FRANCIS' BOMBSHELL HOMILY THIS MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4TH!:

Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday reflected on the transforming grace of God’s Word and invited Christians to recognize their sins and let themselves be transformed by their encounter with Christ.

The Pope was addressing the faithful gathered for morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta.

During his homily, Pope Francis reflected on the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians which reads: “If anyone among you considers himself wise in this age, let him become a fool, so as to become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God”.

Paul – he said – is telling us that it is the power of God’s Word that brings about a true change of heart, that has the strength  to change the world, giving us hope, giving us life.

He pointed out that this power is not to be found in human knowledge or in man’s intelligence. “Become fools” – Francis exhorted – don’t search for security in your knowledge or in the knowledge of the world”.

And the Pope said that although Paul had studied with the most knowledgeable teachers of his time, he never boasted of his knowledge. In a “scandalous” way – Francis said – he boasted of his sins and of his encounter with Christ and the crucifix, because that encounter between his sins and the blood of Christ is the only salvific encounter there is. And when we forget that encounter – the Pope said – we lose the power of Christ’s strength and we speak of the things of God with a human language, And  this – he said – is useless.

Pope Francis also recalled the Gospel story of Peter and the miraculous catch of fish during which Peter said to Jesus: “Go away from me Lord for I am a sinful man”. In this moment of meeting between his sins and Christ, the Pope said Peter finds salvation.

So, the Pope said: “the privileged place for an encounter with Christ are our sins. If a Christian is incapable of seeing his sins and his salvation in the blood of Christ, he has only gone half-way. He is a tepid Christian. 

And the Pope pointed to those decadent Churches, decadent parishes, decadent institutions where most certainly Christians have never really met Christ or else they have forgotten that encounter.

Pope Francis concluded his homily inviting the faithful to ask themselves whether they are capable of telling the Lord they are sinners; whether they really believe  the Lord has given them a new life; whether they trust in Christ. Because – he said – a Christian can be boastful of two things: of his sins and of Christ on the cross.