Take a guess, are these the one and same Martha and Mary Henry Ford chapels, pre-Catholic and post-Catholic? Or are they in different towns? Inquiring minds want to know and can we restore our chapel with Ford Foundation monies???????? My inquiring mind has to know!
There is a huge controversy at the Amazon Synod and it's all about following the money. It turns out that a large group from the South American Church is receiving monies from the far left leaning Ford Foundation.
Well, believe it or not, there may be money from the Ford Foundation for St. Anne Church in the periphery of Savannah's shadow, Richmond Hill in no small way, founded by Henry Ford himself, to restore the exterior of our Martha/Mary Chapel. It was built by none other than Henry Ford himself as a nondenominational Protestant chapel completed in 1938. He named it after his mother and mother-in-law, Martha and Mary, not the saints.
Please tell me I can receive this mammon and like the pagan fertility goddess Pope Francis venerated, I too can venerate the Ford Foundation's money for the upkeep of our now Catholic Martha and Mary Chapel. Can't I just sprinkle corrupt money with Holy Water and purify it???????
What's a pastor in a parish starving for money to do?????
There is a huge controversy at the Amazon Synod and it's all about following the money. It turns out that a large group from the South American Church is receiving monies from the far left leaning Ford Foundation.
Well, believe it or not, there may be money from the Ford Foundation for St. Anne Church in the periphery of Savannah's shadow, Richmond Hill in no small way, founded by Henry Ford himself, to restore the exterior of our Martha/Mary Chapel. It was built by none other than Henry Ford himself as a nondenominational Protestant chapel completed in 1938. He named it after his mother and mother-in-law, Martha and Mary, not the saints.
Please tell me I can receive this mammon and like the pagan fertility goddess Pope Francis venerated, I too can venerate the Ford Foundation's money for the upkeep of our now Catholic Martha and Mary Chapel. Can't I just sprinkle corrupt money with Holy Water and purify it???????
What's a pastor in a parish starving for money to do?????
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I hope this was an irony inspired rhetorical question (I am a bit sarcasm challenged), but don't take the money Father; it will only provide a veneer of respectability for their organization and compromise the message of yours.
Make ye friends of the children of mammon.
I have admired Henry Ford (1863-1947) and the simple cars he produced all of my life. He said controversial things and had some very controversial opinions (though not atypical of many of his generation) and, like all of us, he was a fault-ridden human being.
That being said, despite what some might say about his methods of operating a business, he built some truly great cars with ingenious designs (and production methods). I have read a lot about Henry Ford over the years and, based on what I know, I do not think he would approve of most of what the Ford Foundation does with the wealth he amassed through his automobile business. I have no doubt, though, that he would approve of the Foundation providing funds to maintain a church building he had built. The money that funded the Foundation was not ill-gotten--not blood money like the money that Planned Parenthood, for example, might offer.
Ford's mass production of cars had the effect of transforming our society from the agrarian society in which Henry Ford was raised. If you read about him, he was simply a man who loved machines and believed they could improve the lives of people, especially farmers. He had an ideal of an agrarian society with simple, inexpensive cars (he couldn't fathom why people should want anything more than a Model T). He even experimented with small sub-factories in rural areas where farmers could make extra money in the off-season by working for him. In short, he wanted a traditional, Christian agrarian society but with the convenience of his simple cars and tractors.
I think it is a sad irony that the Ford Foundation has long since been hijacked into a history of supporting many evil liberal causes and working to further transform our society into something that I am sure Mr. Ford would find totally unacceptable.
According to the website, "Conservapedia": "The Ford family has not been involved with the foundation since 1976 when Henry Ford II left the board of trustees in 1977. He wrote in his resignation letter: 'the foundation is a creature of capitalism, a statement that, I'm sure, would be shocking to many professional staff people in the field of philanthropy. It is hard to discern recognition of this fact in anything the foundation does. It is even more difficult to find an understanding of this in many of the institutions, particularly the universities, that are the beneficiaries of the foundation's grant programs'".
Further research shows Henry Ford III coming on the board of trustees in February, 2019.
Henry Ford funded and disseminated the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a viciously anti-Semitic publication.
Mr. Ford was all about transforming society into something he found totally acceptable; thst is, a world without Jews.
If Henry Ford were alive today he would disavow the left-wing loons who are running the foundation that bears his name.
As a Catholic, I disavow the left-wing loons who are running the Catholic Church today into the ground at the upper levels. However, my 32 year old pastor, who celebrates the EF, seems unaffected by the evil permeating the upper ranks. So Christ will be with us, notwithstanding the betrayal of the Faith at its highest levels.
Anonymous at 8:37,
I alluded to what you have referred to as a part of Mr. Ford's "very controversial opinions" and as one of his faults. No doubt, he was far from perfect--as we all are. It is ironic that the man who Ford chose to design his company's factories and dealership buildings was Jewish--the architect Albert Kahn.
Now, if only car designers would return to a Henry Ford mentality when designing cars and trucks with the highest priority being on simple designs that are easily maintained and repaired by the owner and on low cost. Further down the list would be creature comfort, safety etc.
A@8:37 pm: No doubt that Ford harbored hatred for some Jews as southerners of that period did for some blacks. Let's speak about Germany and its government. Do we boycott Germany because of Hitler and how the Germans seem to follow him blindly?
I don't know much about today's Ford Motor Company, but I suspect it is not the same as it was in the 1930's just as Germany isn't the same way as it was in the 1930's thanks be to God.
As it concerns the Ford Foundation today, is it wrong to take money from them and use it for good despite the fact that some of their money is used to fund pro-choice causes and abortion?
Just think of your own bank accounts and interest you accrue. Often banks make investments in morally questionable corporations. Are you going to take your money out of 401 Ks and savings accounts and the stock market and return any dirty money to whence it came? If so, may I suggest you give it to St. Anne's?
Father McDonald,
This is off topic but I think you will find this article on the Amazon Synod very interesting. You many know the history of this:
https://spectator.org/from-the-pact-of-the-catacombs-to-the-amazon-synod/
So far I see no evidence in this discussion for the assertion that the Ford Fojndation is “left wing,” apart from the fact that they finance small church buildings. Does this make any sense?
The Ford Foundation funds "reproductive rights" groups pretty frequently.
yes, and "reproductive rights" is usually code for abortion "rights"---a left wing cause . .
In lefty world, abortion (killing the unborn) is "healthcare!"
More Democrat evil (and insanity) on display:
Fox News Flash top headlines for Oct. 21
City employees in San Francisco are now forbidden to take work trips or do business with companies in 22 states that have “restrictive abortion laws.”
Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Vallie Brown announced the measure last week.
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