"A gay profession." That's what the New York Times is calling the Catholic priesthood.
Catholics in the US are furious with their bishops, who looked the other way while thousands of young people were perverted and abused by gay, predator priests, and now those bishops have come back from Rome with the clerical tail between the legs, because ope Francis has refused to investigate Archbishop Vigano's testimony against the evil Theodore McCarrick and his cabal of bishops and cardinals.
As Pope Francis is heavily implicated, were the bishops being just a teeny bit naïve, asking him to investigate himself? How useful would such an inquiry be? Anyway, without the Pope's consent, the US bishops can't do a thing.
Don't feel too sorry for them. They're way too late trying. The horse of homosexuality bolted from its stable in the hierarchy years ago and is now galloping gaily, you might say, all over the world - viz Father James Martin LGBTQSJ, fresh from proselytizing at the Synod ON THE FAMILY in Ireland and soon to trot up to Catholic youth at their synod next month.
This synod sounds like a jack-up. A best-selling papal biographer (of Pope John Paul II), George Weigel, says its 'Working Document' is "a 30,000+ brick … a bloated, tedious doorstop full of sociologese but woefully lacking in spiritual or theological insight."
Worse, "it has little to say about 'the faith' except to hint that its authors are embarrassed by Catholic teaching (which) challenges the world's fanatical commitment to the sexual revolution". And for the first time ever in a Vatican document, we see the loaded term LGBTQ.
EIGHT YOUNG PRIESTS IN THE STATES HAVE CHIMED IN. THIS WORKING DOCUMENT FOR THE SYNOD ON YOUTH, they say, FAILS TO COUNTERACT SEXUAL IMMORALITY.
THEY SAY WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE DESPERATELY NEED IS A PERSONAL, POWERFUL ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS CHRIST.
Which returns me to that diocesan priests' seminar in Christchurch, where a Canadian import, a Fr James Mallon, promoted another 'import', the Anglican Alpha Programme. Fr Mallon says that for 1600 years a 'mistranslation' had priests "doing sacraments, catechesis and more catechesis".
Fr Mallon may not realise how rarely priests in NZ 'do sacraments' - and does he realize the quality of our catechesis?
In New Zealand, how many still bother with the Sacrament of Reconciliation? The result of its neglect is, as Our Lady said years ago to the Marian Movement of Priests, "there is hardly a Mass today where there is not a sacrilegious Communion".
Who even realizes what that means? When we see one occurring, as we do on a regular basis, in one case with the knowledge and connivance of the priest, we can only pray for the communicant - and for the priest. As St John Vianney, patron of parish priests and the only parish priest ever canonized, has said: "go on, vile Judas, go to the holy table, go and give death to your God and your Saviour!"
As for catechesis, here in New Zealand we're told that "THE CHURCH IS DYING", and the only consolation offered to Catholics sitting by the deathbed of their Mother the Church, is some vague idea of 'Encounter with Jesus Christ'. How we do that is left to our imagination.
BUT THOSE YOUNG PRIESTS IN THE STATES SAY THAT AS WELL AS A PERSONAL, POWERFUL ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS CHRIST, YOUNG PEOPLE NEED A JOYFUL PROCLAMATION OF ORTHODOX CATHOLIC FAITH.
HERE IN NEW ZEALAND HOWEVER, OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ARE TOLD CATHOLICS DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE ANYTHING.
IS THAT OKAY WITH OUR BISHOPS? ARE THEY LIKELY TO LEARN FROM THEIR BROS IN THE US, AND STAND UP FOR THE FAITH NOW, BEFORE THE POPE HAS THEM OVER A BARREL TOO?
IS IT OKAY WITH NEW ZEALAND CATHOLICS? AND IF NOT, WHAT ARE NZ CATHOLICS GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
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