tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post8547754802574733018..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: A POWERFUL ARTICLE IN WHICH I AGREE WITH THIS PRIEST/PASTOR 99%!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-49004513198851441722019-06-29T10:22:01.328-04:002019-06-29T10:22:01.328-04:00He should. He’s fresh out of USAF Academy. He should. He’s fresh out of USAF Academy. rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661998350597126663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-32820959667035783882019-06-29T08:14:32.388-04:002019-06-29T08:14:32.388-04:00Sounds like my marine summer seminarian but his ho...Sounds like my marine summer seminarian but his hoping to have children are spiritual ones although he would make a great dad too.Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-84350664279070197102019-06-29T08:02:52.278-04:002019-06-29T08:02:52.278-04:00Carol, thank you! He is a good kid and very smart...Carol, thank you! He is a good kid and very smart and hard working. They are hopeful for children and he is very respectful, almost to a fault. The rest of family likes him, too. He is very welcome to our family. rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661998350597126663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-57023539057812604002019-06-28T21:30:28.032-04:002019-06-28T21:30:28.032-04:00rcg,
Congratulations on obtaining a new son-in-l...rcg, <br /><br />Congratulations on obtaining a new son-in-law! May the Lord richly bless the newly married couple!<br /><br />Carol H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02475843499648488542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-28824136725454033902019-06-28T09:24:44.100-04:002019-06-28T09:24:44.100-04:00How distinct was the Church and her laws before VI...How distinct was the Church and her laws before VII? Was there the same confusion and resentment towards, say, communion? My last daughter will be wedded tomorrow. She inserted the following in a short program for her guests from college: “If you have never attended a Catholic Mass please follow along! We hope you enjoy experiencing our ceremony. During the Eucharist you may come forward for a blessing but not the bread or wine.” I don’t expect to many objections. But we will see. rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661998350597126663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-60643374179092494012019-06-28T07:16:49.643-04:002019-06-28T07:16:49.643-04:00Daniel,
You are stuck in a time warp of the last ...Daniel,<br /><br />You are stuck in a time warp of the last 10 years. Catholics in the US have been leaving the Church in droves since the early 1960s LONG before there was a whiff of sexual scandal. CNN is fake news and if that's your source, you are in big trouble. Also, calling people "elderly misanthropic recluses" is "agist" and you are hearby banned from Lib World for committing one of its most egregious sins. You sound like someone who should be posting at the National Anti-Catholic Reporter.TJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-25177504240407720492019-06-28T06:33:05.309-04:002019-06-28T06:33:05.309-04:00“Leaving the faith” was the phraseology used by th...“Leaving the faith” was the phraseology used by the good reverend Peckham in Father McDonakd’s original post, John. As I said earlier, reading is fundamental. I younwish to snark about it, take it up with them. Have a nice weekend.Danielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-9978359107132021102019-06-28T03:08:00.374-04:002019-06-28T03:08:00.374-04:00There used to be a saying: 'Once a Catholic, a...There used to be a saying: 'Once a Catholic, always a Catholic.' Those who no longer attended Mass were referred to as 'lapsed', but there was no question of anyone 'leaving the Church', nor was there any mechanism whereby they could formally do so. Even on the rare occasions when a Catholic decided to 'convert' to (say) Anglicanism, all he had to do was to worship in his local Anglican church; an Anglican could not become a Catholic without undertaking instruction and being formally received.John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-39589329047759726752019-06-27T22:33:43.005-04:002019-06-27T22:33:43.005-04:00Dear friends, sorry I upset you so. But to clear t...Dear friends, sorry I upset you so. But to clear things up, I am not arguing, necessarily, saying that Catholics are leaving because of the abuse crisis. Neither is CNN. That is what former Catholics themselves are saying. That is a study conducted, as the article says, by two academics at the request of the Bishop of Trenton. Reading, as they say, is fundamental. The alternative to this approach, I suppose, is for a group of elderly misanthropic recluses to ask each other why people are leaving the church. The answer always seems to be “because everybody else is not as wise, as pure or as holy as yours truly.” Seems like a winning formula, guys. Stick with what works.Danielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-64618025365341394082019-06-27T21:48:38.362-04:002019-06-27T21:48:38.362-04:00Father McDonald, I appreciate your point that the ...Father McDonald, I appreciate your point that the "crisis has always been about questionable episcopal management of priests and allowing predators to have their way with minors and vulnerable adults, but keeping it quiet so as not to cause scandal."<br /><br />However, Father, the "crisis" to the majority of people within and without the Church is a crisis of tremendous proportion that concerns a priesthood filled supposedly with sexual predators who abuse children.<br /><br />Said folks believe the Catholic right-wing hype, as well as the secular left-wing hype, that the priesthood is packed with sexual predators/perverts.<br /><br />That is why, for decades, the popular culture's image of a priest is that of a pious fraud who abuses children sexually.<br /><br />Pax. <br /><br />Mark ThomasMark Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-11495078166734622232019-06-27T19:39:18.961-04:002019-06-27T19:39:18.961-04:00Anonymous,
Unlike fake news CNN cheerleading for ...Anonymous,<br /><br />Unlike fake news CNN cheerleading for the Abortion Party 24/7, Fox has commentators highly critical of President Trump: Mike Wallace, Sheppy Smith, and “Judge” Napolitano. Heck there are fake catholic bishops and priests who support the Abortion Party with impunityTJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-92110164358524186622019-06-27T17:47:39.793-04:002019-06-27T17:47:39.793-04:00The AUSCP is the Association of United States Cath...The AUSCP is the Association of United States Catholic Priests. I am not aware of several complaints stated here that a bishop is a member but I have read more than one story (including online stories by the organization itself) that several bishops have attended and spoken at its annual gatherings. One of these bishops is Cardinal Cupich.Joseph Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00036852763902493131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-21267434418937456992019-06-27T17:01:03.979-04:002019-06-27T17:01:03.979-04:00Who or what is AUSCP? And what is the bishop who b...Who or what is AUSCP? And what is the bishop who belongs to it (the unnamed one about which there are several complaints he is a part of it)?<br /><br />TJM says CNN is Fake News. OK, and FOX is just a mouthpiece for Trump. 2 sides of the same coin. But with 2020 coming along, I may be OK with FOX'S stance as so much is at stake----it is pretty clear that none of the Democrats running for president supports so much as a single restriction on abortion. Not one. Not on public funding, not on parental consent, not on late-term abortions. None. Zilch. Instead we hear about "reproductive justice." What?!?<br /><br />With regard to the Church's so-called "archaic views" on women, it should be noted the mainline Protestant denominations have been losing members for decades, even with such ordinations. Not like people are flocking to the Episcopal Church these days because there are women priests and bishops. Women already perform a lot of non-ordinated ministries in the Church, like lectors and Eucharistic ministers. There is of course no precedence for ordination of women priests in traditional Christianity (perhaps some dispute about ordination of deaconesses in the Eastern Orthodox Church---there is nothing in their canon law prohibiting that) and certainly not bishops either. Perhaps we need to squelch the impression that one has to be ordained to play a role in the Church, or that being part of the clergy is some sort of political thing as opposed to spiritual.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-75864117166949168362019-06-27T16:53:25.560-04:002019-06-27T16:53:25.560-04:00I wonder if churches with only the sanctuary, and ...I wonder if churches with only the sanctuary, and no room for pews or an audience have ever been built? So much of this progressive stuff is playing to an audience . It has nothing to do with prayer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-28056716133893972462019-06-27T16:06:57.159-04:002019-06-27T16:06:57.159-04:00The so-called "Trenton Report" sounds li...The so-called "Trenton Report" sounds like what some want which, is greatly opposed to what many need. ByzRushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11543580976814745615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-11194515905912091952019-06-27T15:49:01.660-04:002019-06-27T15:49:01.660-04:00JJ, just a guess here: A priest who often comment...JJ, just a guess here: A priest who often comments on this blog might be able to fill you in, if you ask nicely, when he returns from the conference...probably traveling back today or tomorrow. I doubt our blog host knows much about the current goings-on at the AUSCP, nor would he spend parish funds to attend.JDJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-57627577946883885412019-06-27T14:27:45.733-04:002019-06-27T14:27:45.733-04:00I wish Father McDonald would post one of the recen...I wish Father McDonald would post one of the recent articles shown by just what the AUSCP has been up to recently and which bishops (Cupich, for example) are showing up and speaking at their gatherings. Most lay Catholics probably don’t even know of the existence of this liberal priests’ network.Joseph Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00036852763902493131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-5487206984286999982019-06-27T14:04:14.295-04:002019-06-27T14:04:14.295-04:00Mark the crisis has always been about questionable...Mark the crisis has always been about questionable episcopal management of priests and allowing predators to have their way with minors and vulnerable adults, but keeping it quiet so as not to cause scandal.<br /><br />The crisis is one of revealing this malfeasance accomplished for more than 50 years and naming clerics who abused--this is a mega crisis for the Church throughout the world.<br /><br />Worse yet is the complicity of bishops who also were abusers but got away with it for so long, i.e. McCarrick and the guy from West Virginia and others. This is a crisis Mark, pure and simple and the only way out of it is prayer and good works. Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-23216502661718423992019-06-27T13:47:45.671-04:002019-06-27T13:47:45.671-04:00"The 7 biggest reasons Catholics from Trenton..."The 7 biggest reasons Catholics from Trenton are leaving the church, according to the study:<br /><br />"1. The sex abuse crisis"<br /><br />There is not a "sex abuse crisis" within Holy Mother Church. The so-called "crisis" peaked at least 35 years ago. Prior to the mid-1980s, only a microscopic amount of priests had been accused of sexual abuse sins/crimes.<br /><br />It is true most certainly that since the Dallas Charter was initiated in 2002 A.D., rare has been the priest accused of sexual abuse.<br /><br />The so-called "crisis" in question does not exist.<br /><br />Pax<br /><br />Mark ThomasMark Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-42878472897566625522019-06-27T13:17:19.294-04:002019-06-27T13:17:19.294-04:00I fully agree with JJ. Let the purge begin!
I fully agree with JJ. Let the purge begin!<br />Carol H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02475843499648488542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-596999017803287082019-06-27T11:08:12.670-04:002019-06-27T11:08:12.670-04:00CNN is fake news. CNN is fake news. TJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-47928936106917356742019-06-27T09:31:16.603-04:002019-06-27T09:31:16.603-04:00Daniel reports people leave the church because of ...Daniel reports people leave the church because of sex abuse crisis. The he reports that people also leave because the Church discriminates agains homosexuals. Hello, homosexuals are the chief reason for the sex abuse crisis in the Church.<br /><br />"And of course the gay men with the most poisonous and toxic sexual priorities are the most committed and vocal — these are people who value their sexual practices and choices more, much more, than they value their own lives or the lives of their sexual partners." This is an opinion of a gay man. <br /><br />If the homosexual priests, bishops and cardinals feel this way the first order of business for the Church is to remove all homosexuals and their protectors from its ranks. If not done, in the current cultural climate, the institutional Church will be hopelessly corrupted (dead) in a short time if it is not so already.<br /><br />The gates of hell not prevailing does not have to mean that Rome is not already in the thrall of the Evil One.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-44590526377982214212019-06-27T08:51:01.076-04:002019-06-27T08:51:01.076-04:00Daniel,
The 7 “reasons” are fake, left-wing loon ...Daniel,<br /><br />The 7 “reasons” are fake, left-wing loon talking points, period. Father McDonald is spot on. Fyi, millions of American Catholics departed long before the sex scandals became public. This “journalist” must be so young that he forgot about Humanae VitaeTJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-63991965980142631472019-06-27T08:30:39.300-04:002019-06-27T08:30:39.300-04:00Daniel, you continue to make it abundantly clear t...Daniel, you continue to make it abundantly clear that you are a poster boy for this article. All that you say is correct in terms of perversion. Why was it tolerated so much in the post Vatican II Church, Why isn't there a fear of hell. Where is the belief in the devil. You want active homosexual lifestyles and marriage for them rather than God's teaching about chastity. Really? And just who isn't welcome into the Church and just who isn't called to repentance and a firm purpose of amendment? <br /><br />Who are you kidding Daniel. You are part of the problem not the solution. And yes who in the hell videotapes children, abuses them and thinks they can get away with it and be treated like royalty in a treatment facility. <br /><br />Where is the transcendent in all of this Daniel and in your ideologies that so many follow, the wide path to hell? Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-53684226589246230602019-06-27T07:51:34.499-04:002019-06-27T07:51:34.499-04:00Again, Father, you are projecting your own agenda ...Again, Father, you are projecting your own agenda instead of listening to what Catholics say. That is part of the problem. <br />We are Macy’s & you have to come to Macy’s because we have always been Macy’s. By the way, no gays or women or divorced people or liberals are welcome in Macy’s. Also, 10 percent of our staff will videotape children in the dressing rooms and cover it up & attack people who protest.<br />Gee, I wonder why business is off? I think it’s because our prices are too low.<br />Goodbye Macy’s.Danielnoreply@blogger.com