SILENT ON THE PARIS GAMES, SILENT ON THE SONS

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EIGHT DAYS after the outrageous blasphemy of the Olympic Games opening ceremony Jorge Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, finally got around to it. He said he was "saddened". "Saddened" - by arguably the most egregious offence against the Sacred Person of Jesus Christ in the Mass, EVER.

True Catholics were angry, rather than sad. Not to be angry in a right-ordered way at blasphemy, says St Thomas Aquinas, is a sin, because blasphemy offends God directly. Compared to blasphemy, every other sin is slight. But the truth we need to face is that the man the world calls pope is in fact not a Catholic. To be a Catholic you must believe EVERYTHING that the Church believes and teaches: Jorge Mario Bergoglio's heterodox views, even before his 'election' as pope in the conclave that never was, automatically exclude him from membership in the Mystical Body of Christ.


So who can be surprised that Bergoglio's Vatican 'recommended' the expulsion from the Christchurch Diocese of an orthodox, truly Catholic order of priests - the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists, FSSR)? The stated reason being that they performed unauthorised exorcisms, which the Sons deny; the real reason may be that they celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass, the Mass that made nearly every saint ever canonised and that Bergoglio abhors. Who can be surprised that it took eight days for Bergoglio to respond to the insult to the Mass at the Olympics? 

The Wilderness Oratory of St Joseph, blessed by Rt Rev Dom Hugh Gilbert O S B,  Bishop of Aberdeen Scotland, 2017: the Sons must leave it

But it may surprise some that it took an infidel (as a Muslim was termed before the post-Vatican II Age of Woke and false ecumenism) - Turkey's President President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - to prod Bergoglio into action. Erdoğan, an Islamist, told the supposed head of the Catholic Church how he should react to the Olympics' blasphemy: 

“)T)he immoral displays performed at a section of the opening of the Paris Olympic Games have caused outrage and provoked reactions.”

Erdoğan apparently argued that “religious and moral values have been ridiculed and that the honor of humanity has been trampled upon under the guise of freedom of expression and tolerance.”  https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2024/08/turkeys-erdogan-calls-pope-urges-joint-opposition-to-olympic-immoral-displays

                              

 

Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Oratory, Christchurch: the Sons must leave it

Nor should anyone be surprised that Palmerston North's +John Adams has not ruled out any possibility of FSSR refugees finding sanctuary in his diocese. Or that the modernist (as in heretical) Marist publication Cathnews should translate that putative conclusion to read, Bishop John Adams may welcome expelled Christchurch priests. Almost as good a headline as Pigs might fly.

"(+Adams) will seek advice if the Sons' (sic) ask to move to his diocese", is the guts of the story. The line, "He will also be considering recommendations from a Vatican investigation" should surely read that "he would also", etc. That is, if the Sons asked him. They haven't. Bishop Adams has quite enough to do without voyeuristically swotting up on the problems of a brother bishop. An informed guess would be that if he has any time to spare for the Christchurch Diocese, it will be spent on his knees at Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament in his own cathedral of Palmerston North.

"Adams supports the use of the Latin Rite, the same rite that the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer is controversially using."

The controversy concerns the alleged exorcisms, denied by the Sons, not the 'Latin Rite' (an esoteric term compared with 'Latin Mass', especially when employed for a readership like Cathnews').  

"Some of the Sons were spotted at Adams’ episcopal ordination in Palmerston North in 2023."

Cathnews' style of reportage owes something perhaps to Paddy Gower and his "Issues" - Paddy Gower and Michael Morrah, also of Newshub, being largely responsible for the media beat-up that drew Rome's anti-Latin Mass eyes to the Sons in the first place. (Let's note in passing that Newshub is no more and both Gower and Morrah are lapsed Catholics.)  

"Before becoming bishop of Palmerston North, Adams, also from Christchurch, regularly offered the old Latin Rite Mass in his Waimakariri parish."

If one had a nasty, suspicious turn of mind, one might think that Cathnews are trying to put Bishop Adams on the spot. One might think that in chasing up all New Zealand's bishops to ask if they'd offer to have the expelled Sons on their turf - when the Sons have said they won't consider that option until their legal action against Christchurch Bishop Gielen is concluded -  Cathnews is keen to shut all New Zealand's episcopal doors to the Sons. But who could suspect a Marist publication of such a lack of charity?  

Frs Michael Mary and Anthony Mary - now homeless

But the issue of the Sons' expulsion isn't a moral one so much as political. Without the 'transparency' included on the agenda for October's Synod of Bishops, without disclosure of the results of the Vatican's investigation, the faithful are left in the dark which as we all know is the domain of Satan. You can't get away, after all the Vatican's blather on transparency, with saying glibly as Cathnews does, that "the Vatican's findings are secret". Without diminishing its hierarchical order, the Church needs to build a greater culture of transparency and accountability. 

“[T]hese servants of a most merciful but sometimes severe God,” wrote the 19^th century polemicist, Edmond About, in his work On the Roman Question, “simultaneously abuse both mercy and justice.”

“[F]ull of indulgence for the indifferent, for their friends, and for themselves,” About wrote, “they treat with extreme rigor whoever has had the misfortune to become obnoxious to power,” and “more readily pardon the wretch who cuts a man’s throat, than the imprudent citizen who blames an abuse.

“If occasionally officials of a certain rank are punished,

... such as the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer in Christchurch ... 

"if even the law is put in force against them with unusual vigor, rest assured the public interest has no part in the business: The real springs of action are to be sought elsewhere.”

“Justice must not only be done, but must also be seen to be done”. In the case of the Sons and Daughters of the Most Holy Redeemer in Christchurch, the scandalised faithful and public who without disclosure of the Vatican's findings know only the allegations and rebuttals, and are left to draw their own conclusions. That is unjust, uncharitable and unkind.

"This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you" (Jn 15,12). 

And holy priests and religious are left without a home  - which faithful Catholics in the Palmerston North Diocese, especially in Hawke's Bay where the Traditional Latin Mass is offered only once a month, in a garage - would gladly offer, and be overjoyed to have their offer accepted.  

Pope St Sixtus II and Companions, Martyrs, pray for us

 

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