+CULLINANE AND +GRAYLAND SAY WE'RE NOT NICE

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Thanks to Pope Francis and our bishops, this guy thinks he can be a nun 

Father Joe Grayland, PP at Palmerston North Cathedral, has a burr under his saddle. So has Bishop Emeritus Peter Cullinane and funnily enough, it's the very same issue that's keeping them awake at night. 

In his homily today at Holy Spirit Cathedral Fr Grayland repeated the very same words he used the last time a certain easily-identified traditional Catholic attended Mass there, 18 months ago. He complained about individuals or groups "who are very aggressive towards Pope Francis".  

Our traditional Catholic makes the observation that in mistaking the trauma experienced in hearing heresy preached for aggression, Father Grayland betrays a somewhat deficient emotional IQ.

As PP at the cathedral Fr Grayland seems to be comfy with the chasuble, as it were, of its first bishop, +Peter Cullinane, who in the March NZ Catholic gets all upset about "attacks that are venomous ...

"Fellow Catholics", says the good bishop,"find themselves being vilified, subjected to name-calling and mockery, slandered by the misrepresentation of their intentions and their actions. ... Websites devoid of love don’t make the cut."

The trouble is, such Catholics and websites are not 'nice'. They don't belong to the Church of Nice. They seem to think they belong to something called the Church Militant, which fights the good fight with the help of the Church Triumphant - the blessed in heaven, like St Peter Damian who went into battle against clerical homosexuality. 

This great Doctor of the Church, whom Dante placed in one of the highest circles of Paradiso, stated that “If this absolutely ignominious and abominable vice (sodomy, which Fr Grayland calls 'lovemaking') "is not immediately stopped with an iron fist" he wrote, "the sword of Divine wrath will fall upon us, bringing ruin to many.” As it has.  

But in the latest edition of the Marist yellow press, Cathnews (which is all for sodomy), Fr Grayland goes all around the houses to coax us into believing the lie that the doctrine taught by the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church on this sin since time immemorial is incorrect. Because, you see, it's "exclusively heterosexual  ... binary ... outdated".

He doesn't own up to these views himself, of course. No, he attributes them to anonymous "critics" of the CDF's ban on same-sex blessings. He aligns himself with those blots on the Church escutcheon - priests (most audibly tweetybird Jesuit Fr James Martin) and bishops (specially German) who want sodomitic unions blessed by the Church. 

"On what basis," he asks, "can one say that their lovemaking is a 'grave depravity' and still bring them into union with Christ?" 

That's not only a non sequitur, Father, it's also vaulting ambition: only the Holy Spirit can bring them into union with Christ. But one's basis for stating their bestial behaviour is a 'grave depravity' is of course, Scriptural ("an abomination") and the magisterium of the Church. 

In passing one might also say that in wishing to save sodomites the suffering of rejection, Fr Grayland denies the power of the Cross, and who denies the Cross denies Christ. For those who have the stomach for it, the rest of Fr Grayland's high-IQ, low-EQ and even lower-SQ (Spiritual Quotient) can be found here: https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/04/12/understanding-blessing/?fbclid=IwAR161_KyJ0zuhojjOfMKWg7lHdn-dNdqzlHW4KAWhJEy0NcXj-55MPUlwSo

What Father Grayland mistakes as "aggression" against 'Pope Francis' or more accurately, Jorge Bergoglio, is truly a trauma, suffered by faithful Catholics at the sight of a latter-day epidemic of sodomy which - to quote St Peter Damian again - is “raging like a cruel beast within the sheepfold of Christ”. 

This is a cross which Christ does not will for us to bear, but is thrust upon our shoulders by the one ultimately responsible: the Vicar of Christ on earth (a title Bergoglio has, incidentally and significantly, rejected).

He's occupied the Chair of St Peter since 2013. He is ultimately responsible for the surreal situation in Belgium where a 46-year old Catholic man who identifies as female is pushing to gain entrance to a convent as a nun where he hopes to live the remainder of his life.

“Eefje” Spreuters told Radio 2 Antwerp, as reported by VRT.be, that “everywhere I register, the sisters are enthusiastic. But it is not allowed by the rules” for a man who believes himself to be female to enter the convent.

This man’s twisted desire to become a nun didn’t come out of nowhere and it can’t naively be attributed to pop-culture forces.

It stems from the very fertile environment our prelates have created for sexual confusion to flourish.

While the teaching of the Catholic Church on sexual matters is perfectly clear, our prelates are not.

Let’s drop the pretense of faithfulness to Church teaching once and for all: Catholic prelates have a soft spot in their heart for feminine men, masculine women, and sodomy.

The fish stinks from the head down

First and foremost, this male-nun daydream is a reflection of Pope Francis’ softness and jocularity on the topic of transgender men and women.

Last year, Pope Francis praised a nun in South America for opening a residence for ‘trans women’ — men who choose to identify as women — referring to the men as “girls.”

Sister Mónica Astorga Cremona, known locally in Argentina as the “Nun of the Trans,” had cut the ribbon on a new complex of apartments dedicated solely to housing men claiming to be women and their partners.

Upon hearing the news, the Pope responded, according to the nun, “Dear Mónica, God who did not go to the seminary or study theology will repay you abundantly. I pray for you and your girls.”

Again, the Supreme Pontiff, according to the nun, referred to the males, reported to be between 40 and 70 years old, as “girls.”

Pro-LGBT Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin SJ was delighted with the Pope’s congratulatory words to Sister Monica Cremona, saying in a tweet: “Wow. Pope Francis sends his support for a Catholic sister in Argentina who ministers to transsexual women.”In 2016, Pope Francis referred to a woman who had undergone a sex-change operation as a “man,” and also referred to her as having “married” another woman and admitted to receiving them in the Vatican.

Referring to the post-trans surgery woman, the Pope said, “He got married.”

“He that was ‘her’ but is he,” explained Pope Francis, multiplying the confusion of his already confounding words.

“The bishops are to blame”

But it’s not just Pope Francis. This Belgian man’s plight is also a reflection on the sexual confusion perpetrated by many European and U.S. bishops. 

Over the last few years I’ve covered several United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) general assemblies. These are not men prepared to lead the Church and do battle with Satanic forces; USCCB meetings are quilting conventions, coffee klatsches. With just a few exceptions these are soft academics, ill prepared to inspire men to be men of God.“Our Church is fast becoming an institution devoid of men; a patriarchy devoid of patriarchs — true fathers,” wrote Leila Marie Lawler and Leila Miller in a scathing rebuke of Catholic men in general and our bishops and priests in particular.

The faithful who want to worship as God commands are weary. We thought the bishops’ complicity in sex abuse, finally exposed in the Summer of Shame of 2018, was the watershed moment. We were wrong. The situation is not better today. It is worse. And as before, the bishops are to blame, this time by inappropriately imposing obedience (often through their subordinates, not directly) on purely prudential matters.

Regarding the hierarchy’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic:

[O]ur hierarchy ran in panic at the first hint of danger, and then added a new form of abuse, for which (with few exceptions) they have neither apologized nor repented. We now have dioceses resuming Mass in the U.S. for the most part (not all!), but most with bizarre and arbitrary restrictions still in place, and the threat of taking it all away again still hanging over us.

Even in New Zealand, so far removed from any threat of a pandemic (of a seasonal flu from which 99% recover) Cardinal John Dew still refuses his faithful their right to Communion on the tongue and holy water fonts are still empty. 

Most troubling of all is the strangely naïve and imprudent cooperation with the state to pressure or require the faithful to accept the COVID-19 jab. Using their moral authority to persuade the doubtful, our clergy seem to see no danger looming as those who choose not to accept the vaccines will be relegated to a lower stratum in the new caste system — or outright banished. A soft dictatorship based on medical status is upon us, and our bishops are enthusiastically welcoming it. 

Yup. Same here. They're all singing from the same song sheet. So who's putting it out there?

“A priest recently said of the U.S. bishops, that, with very few exceptions, we could not find a more effeminate group of men if we tried,” reported Lawler and Miller. 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/male-nuns-blame-pope-francis-and-our-effeminate-prelature?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com&utm_campaign=5a83de1cdc-Daily%2520Headlines%2520-%2520U.S._COPY_1012&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_12387f0e3e-5a83de1cdc-402364845

Yup. Same here.  

As a counterpoint to the picture of the sadly subverted individual we began with, here is that of St. Gemma Galgani (1878-1903), who became known for the sublime visions and revelations granted to her by God. She was Italian and lived in the city of Lucca.

She belonged to the Third Order of the Passionists. The Third Order is an association of lay people in which even married persons could participate without entering the religious state. Its members do not live in a religious house, but in the world, where they try to live an edifying and pious life.Her physiognomy is impressive. It is impressive for the harmony of her features and for the profundity of reflection that she expresses. We see that there is something in her gaze that is directed toward a very high point, upwards. Her thoughts are not of this earth. In her face there is something celestial.

The loftiness and angelic purity of her figure is remarkable. These qualities are noticeable by the way she holds her head, stately yet in entirely unpretentious way.

She does not wear any adornment. Her hair is fairly arranged, but without too much care. Although she is very clean, we do not notice anything that reveals the desire to embellish herself.

Her apparel is black and simple. However, St. Gemma reveals an extraordinary dignity that accompanies her virginal purity, which can be noticed in something impalpable that shines in her skin. We would say that her skin – as well as her gaze – has a luminous quality. This gaze reveals a complete uprightness. It is the gaze of a mystic absorbed by what she sees, and in it we can catch a glimpse of what she sees.

Her physiognomy also manifests the virtue of fortitude. She wants what she does because the Faith orders her to want it! And what does she want? It is to serve God, Our Lady and the Catholic Church. She follows this course despite all obstacles. And her decision is unbreakable!

She is a physical representation of the Strong Woman described in Holy Scriptures whose worth is priceless. It is worthwhile to go to the furthest ends of the universe to find her, as if she were a precious jewel.