WHO NEEDS PRIESTS? LET'S HAVE 'LAY LEADERS'!

Our own Cardinal John Dew is one of  four highly placed prelates on the cover of  NZ Catholic for September 9. Their faces speak volumes. They are not happy men.

They were photographed in Ireland where on August 26, according to NZ Catholic, the Pope had 'solemnly asked forgiveness for the thousands of cases of sexual and physical abuse perpetrated by Catholics … acknowledging the failures of bishops, superiors, priests and others … to protect children from the "repugnant crimes" of physical and sexual abuse'.

The very next day, the bomb of Archbishop Vigano's 11-page testimony blew up in these clerical faces, and it was all about homosexuality.

Let's call a spade a spade. The obvious problem in the Church isn't sex abuse at all, it's rampant homosexuality, practised and promoted as a means to pervert the priesthood, putting roman collars on wolves in order to destroy the Church's moral authority and scatter the faithful.

And this homosexual culture - which is diametrically opposed to Catholic culture - is working pretty well: look at the dive in Mass counts even here in New Zealand, where the mysterium iniquitatis (the mystery of evil) has been deployed in a far more subtle way than for example, in Pennsylvania, US. Look at the scarcity of priests.

Lack of priests, of course, follows lack of the Mass  as surely as night follows day - and make no mistake, it's the Eucharist which the mysterium iniquitatis means to take down.

But fear not, people! Cardinal John has the answer. The answer is not more priests to celebrate the Mass, but lay leaders! They will 'exercise many functions that normally would normally would be the responsibility of a parish priest'. And not just in New Zealand, but Australia and Ireland as well, because that's where the Cardinal has been pushing his barrow in recent weeks.

And these lay leaders will have impressive qualifications, theologically based qualifications from the Catholic Institute (TCI) - again, according to that pillar of the Church (because it's owned by Auckland's Bishop Pat Dunn), NZ Catholic.

It's been suggested to me that there was always A Strategy for dealing with a crisis like the stand-off between the Pope and the Archbishop. And it makes sense, doesn't it, because someone like Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former Nuncio to the US, was bound to blow the whistle sooner or later.

The ground work for such a strategy, in New Zealand at least, would have been laid long ago, when our hierarchy - effete and PC to the nth degree, misunderstanding and/or subverting Vatican II's call for "active participation" - called for a cadre of 'lay leaders', and we heard cries from here and there for women priests, and married priests.

Cardinal Dew himself is reported in the Irish Times as saying, when asked if ordaining women of allowing priests to marry might help address the shortage of priests in Ireland, that it was "hard to say … it's clearly something that the Pope decides … there are a lot of people around who want that … it's a possibility." 

Really? I thought priests renounced marriage for 'the sake of the kingdom of heaven' (Mt 19,12). But I must say Cardinal Dew is doing well as understudy for Pope Francis. 

It's entirely credible that this is part of A Plan to destroy the Catholic Church from within originating with the 1100 'young, attractive' Communists in clerical collars who, Bella Dodd testified after her 'reversion' to the Church by Bishop Fulton Sheen, infiltrated the Church in the 30s and 40s and were rapidly promoted to positions of authority.

They were put there by the Party to weaken the Church's stand against Communism. Dodds told Alice von Hildebrand that 12 years before Vat II, four of them were cardinals. Go figure.

But we don't need the Party now. Instead we have well-intentioned, well-qualified lay people who in taking the place of priests in so many ways - especially leading 'Liturgies of the Word with Holy Communion' will have us asking, well who needs priests?

But don't pay any attention to moi. I'm just part of what the mainstream media characterize as a right-wing conspiracy to unseat Pope Francis. I'm probably homophobic to boot.

Remember, the mainstream media are largely run by the ladies of the liberal left, whom some might call 'fag hags'. They love Pope Francis because he's so kind to homosexuals. So kind he invited the disgraced Cardinal Daneels of Belgium, who was recorded in 2010 telling a young man to shut up about being abused by a bishop, to take part in his Synod on the Family.

Kindness is catching. Three years later Daneels lobbied (against all the rules) for Cardinal Bergoglio to be elected Pope, and then was invited by the new Pope Francis to stand with him on the balcony and wave at the crowds.

How kind is that?