tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post8782382110359064173..comments2024-03-28T12:59:52.914-04:00Comments on southern orders: FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY!!!!!!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-15085418704121395362017-03-14T11:21:41.334-04:002017-03-14T11:21:41.334-04:00Henry,
That nun and priest were engaged in evil. ...Henry,<br /><br />That nun and priest were engaged in evil. I suspect they abandoned the Church after they committed sacrilegeTJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-9942768433844282442017-03-14T08:52:59.028-04:002017-03-14T08:52:59.028-04:00"There was something in his face. In the way ...<b>"There was something in his face. In the way he stared down at the gathered crowd. There was something…wrong about his eyes. What I saw — what I thought I saw — was something other, looking out through that unreadable mask. Something triumphant, haughty, contemptuous, leering out at long last from atop the pinnacle of a long and hard-fought battle. It was incredibly strange."</b><br />http://www.onepeterfive.com/four-years-later-reflections-unprecedented-pontificate/<br /><br />I remember the awful feeling that came upon me--in his very first moments on the balcony--that I recalled the very same look in the eyes of the priest and a nun back in the 1960s as they gleefully watched the (literal) jack-hammering of the altar, communion rail, and statues in our beautiful old parish church, as tearful parishioners stood by helplessly. That same helpless feeling and foreboding, about what's being done to Holy Mother Church, is back with us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-6541809488679971792017-03-13T22:03:33.385-04:002017-03-13T22:03:33.385-04:00Mark Thomas,
It would appear that Pope Francis is...Mark Thomas,<br /><br />It would appear that Pope Francis is not holy because he is dissenting from St. John Paul II, get it?TJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-11464740595050107272017-03-13T15:06:30.129-04:002017-03-13T15:06:30.129-04:00Once upon a time, prior to the Catholic right-wing...Once upon a time, prior to the Catholic right-wing's complete collapse into sick, sinful, and vicious commentary in regard to the Vicar of Christ, Pope Francis, one encountered the following rational report:<br /><br />http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/06/truth-be-told-pope-francis-more-often.html<br /><br />Rorate Caeli blog, June 3, 2014 A.D., during which New Catholic praised Pope Francis as a Traditional Catholic Pope in regard to the Church's Social Teaching:<br /><br />Posted by New Catholic at 6/03/2014 08:45:00 PM <br /><br />"Very few indeed have been making the case, a case that is true, that the positions stated by Pope Francis on economic and social matters are much closer to the Traditional Catholic position on the economy and the State than not. <br /><br />"Indeed, it can be said unhesitatingly that this is one area in which the Pope will find mostly allies in Traditional Catholics. <br /><br />"They know by heart, also as victims of injustice (including within the Church), that the doctrine of the Church regarding people, society and economic relations, and individuals faced with government, is one which privileges "justice" as its foundational aspect."<br /><br />"We would like to reinforce what we posted just a few days ago: social concerns, in theory and in practice, cannot be left by Traditionalists as an unoccupied field to the ecclesiastical "leftwing", to the unbelieving liberals. <br /><br />"By criticizing the current Pope when he indeed defends positions kept by his predecessors on Social Doctrine (admittedly, Pope Francis often fills such defense with unexpected idiosyncrasies, but not essential deviations), "Conservatives" bring themselves to an untenable position.<br /><br />"The traditional Catholic Social Doctrine is ours, it is wholly traditional, and it is our responsibility to defend it, to put it into practice in our communities (including with specific actions for the benefit of the most derelict in society), and also to defend His Holiness in those cases in which he makes its defense in the current economic environment."<br /><br />Pax.<br /><br />Mark Thomas<br /><br /><br />"...whoever is holy cannot dissent from the Pope." <br /><br />— Pope Saint Pius X, 1912 A.D.Mark Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-62604874243144331522017-03-13T15:04:51.957-04:002017-03-13T15:04:51.957-04:00Ironically, since the Council, instead of the Chur...Ironically, since the Council, instead of the Church influencing the World, the World has influenced the Church, to the Church's detriment.TJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-68174802832218239452017-03-13T14:34:29.787-04:002017-03-13T14:34:29.787-04:00Carlton,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Wh...Carlton,<br /><br />Thank you for sharing your thoughts. While racism is obviously a chosen ideology, I think many forms of race prejudice are really unintended, and can be overcome once they are brought to the attention of the one holding them. What do you think? Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-49093878194925458392017-03-13T13:20:44.607-04:002017-03-13T13:20:44.607-04:00I do not see conspiracy nor a Pope who is concious...I do not see conspiracy nor a Pope who is conciously pursuing the dictates of organized outside forces. <br /><br />I see the secular world is on a self destructive binge inspired by the Devil (even as the Pope calls it). Many in the Church have also been a victim of his inspitration. But I do not see organizations directing it. What I see is individuals responding to a malevolent force urging modernity to dehumanize cultures, to reject the Deity and all revealed Truth. <br /><br />Malachi Martin in Windswept house also described an organized program much like what the conspiracy theorist side describes today. But his novel was/is science fiction. Today, we see diverse forces seeking power to dominate peoples. They employ technologies, ideologies, and awful weapons to achieve their objectives. For centuries the most important countervailing force to the Devil's machinations was the Gospel of Christ. Weakened by divisions and ideologies the Catholic Church at the present time is unable to act effectively. Other Christian communities are similarly suffering from uncertainty and unable to respond to Jesus' call to teach all Nations.<br /><br />We Catholics must pray and work to renew our Church from within. Benedict XVI and his collaborators waere on the right tract but negative forces inside the Church temporarily prevailed against them. The struggle is not lost and because it is Christ's Church it will overcome in the long run I have no doubt. All of us must reform and recommit to aid those among us who are willing and able to lead the struggle to reform of the reform. Do not go along to get along with relativists among us whos main objective is to gain the approval of secularists, the present Age. <br /><br />The present and future Popes have a tremendeous responsibility in this struggle. The current occupant of the Chair of Peter has elected a course to follow which by any reckoning is risky and controversial. He comforts many and he also scandalizes many by his words and actions. Right now he is not looking to be a martyr for the faith. I am praying that in time he would change his mind.<br />Anon-1<br /> <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-19824550081853579192017-03-13T11:25:05.636-04:002017-03-13T11:25:05.636-04:00When people don't want to be healed, as many r...When people don't want to be healed, as many racists don't, then no one, not pope, not president, not even the Son of God can effect that healing.<br /><br />People hold on to their racist ideas because they are irrationally afraid. Afraid their white daughter will marry a black man, afraid a black women will outperform them at work and get the promotion they want, afraid any black teenager walking down the street is preparing to "jump" them.<br /><br />Irrational fears, all, but very necessary if one wants to remain afraid. That fear, in their minds, justifies racism. So, they are trapped in Square One.Carltonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-15017851159513002572017-03-13T10:06:43.540-04:002017-03-13T10:06:43.540-04:00Pope Francis has not brought the "Spring"...Pope Francis has not brought the "Spring" the Church was hoping for, kind of like Obama did not heal the planet (nor heal racial relations). A lot of hype and adulation by the crazed lefties which has not panned out. When the Church needs a clear, unwavering voice more than ever, we now have confusion. Reminds me of the Paul VI pontificate, the worst pontificate of my lifetime.TJMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-60900309102173830892017-03-13T09:51:08.307-04:002017-03-13T09:51:08.307-04:00Rcg I agree!Rcg I agree!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-35006178898352167832017-03-13T09:39:52.423-04:002017-03-13T09:39:52.423-04:001P5 was very interesting and had some plausability...1P5 was very interesting and had some plausability. I don't think the drive by the American Progressive Movment to drive a wedege between American Catholics and the Church is only a theory. They openly want to have a grassroots push to have the American Bishops support contraception and abortion. They have the women religious in their pocket, now. <br /><br />But what was the leverage applied to push out Pope Benedict? It had to have been a combination of money and personal scandal of himself or someone he felt was important to the Church. It is still difficult to imagine what it could be. <br /><br />I see Pope Francis and President Obama in similar light. Neither were impressive visionaries or unique in their prior accomplishments but are able to present and support the ideas of others as worthy of support. <br /><br />Additionally, it seems odd that the Protests could be offered to Benedict by any single person or group. That implies a greater conspiracy or betrays this one as a fiction. rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131930849106490711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-48740864669501160302017-03-13T09:03:27.054-04:002017-03-13T09:03:27.054-04:00Anonymous,
Father McDonald has repeatedly stated ...Anonymous,<br /><br />Father McDonald has repeatedly stated his concerns about Pope Francis, while rightly maintaining due reverence for the chair of Peter, and charity towards the fallible human being who occupies it. This is not conspiracy, just Catholicism. May God bless you. Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-69080127750957683342017-03-13T08:59:48.380-04:002017-03-13T08:59:48.380-04:00Wow! You're a media magnet!
I thought he loo...Wow! You're a media magnet!<br /><br />I thought he looked like Pius XII when he stepped out on the balcony. <br /><br />On that day, I already knew a few things about him. I knew that he had a reputation for pastoral and liturgical simplicity, that he opposed the EF Mass and the Anglican Ordinariate, that he believed the people of the Falkland Islands should have no say in their future, and that he used public transportation. I only knew about all of this because I read an article discussing his opposition-to-opposing homosexual unions (he was opposed to homo-marriage, but favored homo-unions, as I recall). Rood Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816036539243214384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-89934485890764671552017-03-13T08:47:20.374-04:002017-03-13T08:47:20.374-04:00Father,
You can mock the "conspiracy theoris...Father,<br /><br />You can mock the "conspiracy theorists" as much as you like. But the fact is, as a priest, you are in service of the biggest conspiracy of all: The Devil conspired to destroy the souls of mankind and drag them down to Hell and Jesus beat the Devil by appearing to be defeated on the cross, but shedding His blood to save us. So why would we not think that the Devil continues to work through historic events to serve his conspiracy?<br /><br />You have been trying for four years to convince us that Pope Francis is something he is not. I have been careful not to badmouth him, but too many of his actions and contradictions speak for themself. <br /><br />Before you denounce any more of us as conspiracy theorists, think hard about the conspiracy you are a part of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com