"POPE, BISHOPS AND PRIESTS COMMIT THE UNFORGIVABLE SIN"

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"One could say we have gone from a sophisticated whitewash to an orchestrated changing of the guard. Let's see where Bishop Charles Drennan goes next."

'John and Marian (sic)' (not their real names) are getting worked up about Father Joe Grayland and his appointment as Parish Priest at the Palmerston North Cathedral. 


In a guest post, John and Marian say:

"In the wake of Bishop Charles Drennan's resignation and in the context of multiple scandals in the Church, one would think that ecclesial appointments would be vetted and cross-checked thoroughly.

So Cardinal Dew should know of the complaints made to the Apostolic Nuncio about Fr. Joe Grayland in 2018. These essentially revolved around his professed disbelief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and his oft-repeated expectation  that people stand for the Eucharistic Prayer (many know they are justified in continuing to kneel.)

         As far as we know, the Nuncio did not answer the plaints; we know Bishop Drennan upheld Fr. Joe Grayland and the Cardinal should be aware of this.

        To recall the core of the plaint : To refer to the consecrated bread by the term 'ocular'; to say that Jesus is received in 'form'; and to say that Jesus did not say those words (of consecration) and further, to hide his intent behind the use of another language (Te Reo Maori) at the Consecration - without confirming the meaning or propriety of the words he was using - amounts to denial of the key belief in the Real Presence; it also amounts to evasion, obfuscation and intimidation - from the pulpit !

          Yet this man is nevertheless appointed by the Cardinal as Parish Priest of the Cathedral in Palmerston North. Where does he go next? Vicar-General? Bishop?

         Examining the situation from Bishop Drennan's resignation onwards, one could say we have gone from a sophisticated whitewash to an orchestrated changing of the guard. Let's see where Bishop Drennan goes next ...

       The horror of it all can be summed up in the words 'betrayal of trust'. The horror deepens in seeing our Bishops, Cardinals and some priests betray the core tenet of our Eucharistic Faith which is: that Jesus is truly present, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in the consecrated species of bread and wine.

         A thought for our Cardinals and those of high-level responsibility: to deny a known truth is to sin against the Holy Spirit. To describe contestation of statements or deeds of the clergy as 'vitriol' or 'rigidity' (as Pope Francis does) when it is clearly founded on Sacred Tradition, is to multiplicate and compound that sin.

It seems to us that the Pope, and those bishops and priests who deny the truth, are interested only in protecting agenda, power, position and prestige, even at the risk of committing the unforgivable sin and thus causing deicide and potentially the eternal loss of many souls committed to their care."



Donna Te Amo says:

Te Reo is an official language of Aoteroa..Mass can be celebrated in many languages and is around the world. The fact that it has taken nz this long to embrace this beautiful language is the real travesty. Your comments Julie are offensive.

Bob Gill says:

Donna, I can’t see the comments related to Te Reo being offensive. They are made in response to the comments made by others on the blog, which generally highlight how the Church uses a lot of Te Reo when few Maori are present during church services (comments I have heard from others at Maori Masses I have attended). Te Reo is a beautiful language; nobody is disputing that.

I’d be impressed if the Church showed its concern about the few Maori actually attending specific Maori organised Masses and demonstrating that concern by making suggestions on how to increase attendance. It’s as if the Church is merely paying lip-service when having its priests utter that language at services.

Teresa Coles says:

How right you are Bob. I love the Maori singing and responses,but when you do not have many Maori in attendance at Mass it is unfair on the congregation...There is more Maori language being introduced now into our Mass and when you only have one Sunday Mass people are going to walk out the door and not come back..


Donna Te Amo says:

I doesn't matter whether Maori are present or not in terms of using the language. It's great we as a nation are embracing Te Reo Maori.

       

FOR NICE OLD CATHOLIC CODGERS EVERYWHERE, THE LOW-DOWN ON THE PELL RULING

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"That Court ruling on Cardinal Pell went right against all that our justice system is based on!"

My nice old codger from Dannevirke really had his dander up, this morning. And he was right on the button. 

Just to assure him that he is not alone (as it's easy for Catholics in places like Dannevirke and Waipukurau to feel), but actually in very good company, here are but a few of the criticisms of the Majority Appellate Judges and their Judgment on August 21 on the Pell Case. 

First up, a comment to the effect that in questioning the findings of our courts we are well within their rights (as Catholics are within their rights to question utterances of any pope which are not made ex cathedra):


“Respecting the integrity of a jury and court verdict means it is inappropriate to try to break the defendant out of prison; it does not mean that we cannot and should not question the findings of our courts.” (Mirko Bagaric).



“The Victorian Appeals Court’s 2-1 decision to reject Cardinal ­George Pell’s appeal raises serious questions about justice.” (Piers Ackerman)


“[T]o my mind, [there is] a ‘significant possibility’ that the applicant in this case may not have committed these offences.” (Mark Weinberg, the dissenting appellate Judge).


“There was no supporting evidence of any kind from any other witness. Indeed, there was no supporting evidence of any kind at all. These convictions were based upon the jury’s assessment of the complainant as a witness, and nothing more.” (Mark Weinberg).


“… the Appeal Court found the accuser to be a good witness, and even said he was truthful, which was not for it to say; but good but dishonest witnesses have deceived courts before, and will almost certainly do so again.”  (Anthony Daniels).


“Gross injustice”  (Michael Warren Davis).


“Besides, even if the two judges who upheld the conviction aren’t themselves anti-clericalists, what choice did they have? Cardinal Pell was convicted in the court of public opinion long ago. His life is already ruined. Why should they go down in history as the guys who let a child-molesting bishop off scot-free? Because it’s just? That’s a quaint notion, though not one you’ll find has much truck with the modern legal class.” (Michael Warren Davis).


“a shocking miscarriage of justice” (Chris Merritt).


“two of Victoria’s most senior judges utterly botched the Cardinal’s case” (Chris Merritt).



“the onus of proof has been reversed …the worst I have ever seen is The Queen v Pell.  It curdled my stomach” (Anthony Smith).


“Australian justice is now on trial” (George Weigel).


“this astonishing, indeed incomprehensible, decision calls into the gravest doubt the quality of justice in Australia” (George Weigel).


“The judges who concurred in a grotesque appellate decision confirming the result of a grotesque legal farce may or may not believe in a final judgment. But they certainly have other judgments to worry about. For they have confirmed that a once-admirable part of the Anglosphere known for independent thinking has become something quite ignoble, even sinister.”  (George Weigel).


“The evidence presented at both the trial and appellate levels established that he could not have committed the sexual assaults of which he was accused and, outrageously, convicted. Judge Weinberg, writing in dissent, was right about that.” (Robert George).


“Their credibility is now on the line.” (Andrew Bolt).


“A conscientious juror (or appellate judge sitting in review) must not conclude that a complainant is speaking truthfully until after he or she critically compares what that witness says to what the other witnesses say.” (Gerard Bradley).


“Catholic haters have just convicted an innocent Cardinal” (Julia Yost).


“As the dissenting appellate judge was to conclude, the sole accuser’s wholly uncorroborated testimony “contained discrepancies, displayed inadequacies and otherwise lacked probative value.” Oh, well.”  (Julia Yost).


“Since when do we convict people of crimes because their accusers sound earnest” (CC Pecknold).


“The justice system is now heavily invested in the conviction of Cardinal Pell” (Phil Lawler).


“… the majority judgment of Chief Justice Anne Ferguson and Appeal Court President Chris Maxwell erred by having so much faith in the credibility of the accuser that they reversed the accepted onus of proof required in a criminal trial.” (Keith Windschuttle).


“Now, if judges want to rest their faith in witnesses on an entirely subjective notion like “ring of truth” which, in the absence of hard evidence, can only exist in the eye of a beholder, then they should treat all witnesses equally.” (Keith Windschuttle).


“In short, the Ferguson-Maxwell judgment is one that bends over backwards to support the conclusion it is determined to reach, no matter how embarrassing the position its authors are left in.” (Keith Windschuttle)


“The enemies of Cardinal George Pell had that sort of resolve and that sort of luck. A DPP who kept indulging preposterous briefs of “evidence,” a Pell-hating police force now regarded as the most corrupt in the country, a public broadcaster with a years-simmering hatred of the Cardinal, a second jury of dupable vigilantes eager to convict the self-same but, by then, notorious George Pell and an appeals court which this morning raised preposterous hearsay to the level of DNA and CCTV.” (Currency Lad).


“This disease lies in erosion of the presumption of innocence; which is to say, of that fundamental common law principle that goes back to the Justinian code, expressed in the maxim Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat, which puts the burden of proof on the accuser not on the accused.” (Douglas Farrow).

“This power to set aside is indicative, if I may say so, of a new legal fundamentalism in which “the ring of truth” (par. 86 and 91) makes unnecessary close examination of the salient facts, even though detection of that ring by its very nature is a subjective process.” (Douglas Farrow),


"The majority was beguiled by the complainant, and there was an end to it.” (Douglas Farrow).


“This subjective turn represents something more than a peculiar weakness in the majority opinion. It is a sign of a growing disease of law, of a contest—a quite astonishing and destructive contest, as the Pell case illustrates—between what I am calling the presumption of authenticity and the far more fundamental presumption of innocence.” (Douglas Farrow).

There now, my nice old codger. Does that make you feel better? 

And are certain clerical faces turning a nice shade of red? If not, I can assure them that I'm embarrassed on their behalf, by the clergy's abandonment of a prince of the Church to an undeserved fate. And we haven't even started on Cardinal Pell's thoroughly 'Strine' interventions in financial shenanigans in the Vatican? 

But I take issue with Michael Warren Davis (a journalist writing for Catholic publications in Australia and the US), who says Cardinal Pell's life "is already ruined" because he's been convicted in the court of public opinion.

Who else was convicted in the court of public opinion? Our dear Lord Jesus Christ, whom the Jews tried to stone twice, who was hustled to the edge of a cliff in Nazareth to be thrown down, who was rejected by the crowd in favour of Barrabas, whipped, crowned with thorns, led to Calvary and crucified.

God the Father has honoured Cardinal Pell with a pale imitation of the suffering of His Divine Son, for the salvation of souls. 

It's my bet that the Cardinal, by his solitary confinement, by pulling weeds in the prison yard, offering all the shame and denigration, and the cold-shouldering of his brother priests, to win souls for Christ, is doing more for the Church than all the rest of the clergy - including ex-Cardinal McCarrick in his comfy monastery, feted no doubt and a bit of a star - put together.

EUTHANASIA VOTE: OUR MPS ARE 'AIRHEADS'. CHECK OUT THE NEW CONSERVATIVES

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"What a bunch of airheads we have in Parliament."

It was a burly bricklayer-turned-bus driver speaking, after what should have been Mass and Adoration yesterday morning but was cancelled because of a Mass of Anointing in the afternoon (and I mustn't be side-tracked on Masses of Anointing, more of that another time perhaps).

He meant, of course, the Parliamentary vote in favour of a referendum on abortion. "Well, we get the government we deserve," I said. 

“Euthanasia: the debate that will test the nation” has already tested our Members of Parliament, and found them wanting. Christopher Robin's donkey Eeyore comes to mind. "Pathetic. That's what it is. Pathetic."

The MPs passed the buck. They’re elected to govern and paid handsomely to do it but when it gets tough, they want the voters to do it for them. 

To add insult to injury, by voting for a referendum on the End of Life Choice Bill, they chose to spend a great deal more of the taxpayer’s money to let them off the hook of a conscience vote. David Seymour has the cheek to describe the antis as “well-oiled”. Seymour and Co are considerably better ‘oiled’ than volunteer pro-lifers.

MP Carmel Sepuloni says, self-righteously, “I won’t tell anyone what I think they should do”. When enacting any legislation, isn’t that exactly what MPs are paid to do?

Minister of Injustice Andrew Little is expecting 'a barrage of misinformation', so he's organizing a Ministry of Justice ‘unit’ which has more than “a bit of a smell of the Thought Police”, as NZ Herald columnist Claire Trevett opines; it stinks to high heaven of Goebbels’ and Hitler’s principles of propaganda. "The chances it will be a reasonably ugly election are reasonably high," says Little, who in voting for assisted suicide has done his very best to ensure exactly that.

I'm forced to conclude that the reason for our MPs' decision is a lack of conscience. We need men and women in Parliament who have a conscience which is well-informed, and the courage to live by that conscience. To that end I believe we should investigate the new political party, New Conservatives, whose policies at a cursory reading - which is all I've had time for, so far - are thoroughly Christian.

"New Conservatives," said 'im indoors. "That's Colin Craig's outfit." Which elicited a howl of protest from a correspondent who I've been known to refer to as my Angry Old Man (in the nicest possible way, of course). And my A O M was quite right, as he has a way of being - as does 'im indoors; he was just momentarily panicking at the thought of his wife voting anything but National (although I haven't in the last two elections, registering a 'no vote' instead).

New Conservatives have at best estimate around 1000 - 1500 members, plenty to get them registered for the election, 35 electorates covered with the usual paraphernalia, committees, candidates etc, concentrated around Canterbury (leader Leighton Baker) and Auckland (deputy leader Elliot Ikilei).  

Ikiliei is an inveterate Twitter Twit who was temporarily locked out of his account for tweeting "trans women are men with dysphoria/disorder, to be treated with compassion and tolerance" - which gives you a glimpse into New Conservatives' philosophy.

Don't feel upset or left out if you've never heard of this crowd. It was my A O M who told me about the New Conservatives. He reckons the media won't give them as much as a column inch, and that's almost enough to persuade me to sign up already. 

Check them out: https://www.newconservative.org.nz/

STAND FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE

not what you will tolerate.

The New Conservative Party. 

WORDS FOR FATHER GRAYLAND, NEW PARISH PRIEST AT PN CATHEDRAL

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"I desire that priests be a living model of My image and that all propagate devotion to My Heart."

It's not a coincidence - nothing is 'coincidence'; everything is ruled by Divine Providence - that "a parishioner of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit", Palmerston North, today draws attention to these words of Our Lord, discovered in 1931, to Blessed Maria Rafols-Bruna of Zaragoza, Spain. 

Because today Cardinal John Dew announced, in the hiatus created by the unseemly departure of Bishop Charles Drennan, the appointment of Monsignor Brian Walsh as Vicar-General with Diocesan responsibilities as Local Administrator, and Father Joseph Grayland as Parish Priest of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, as well as continuing in his current placement at Our Lady of Lourdes, Palmerston North.

That would seem a big ask, an onerous task, for Fr Grayland, but one glance at his CV would reassure those living on the natural plane that he will be up to it. Those more accustomed to surveying the local scene through the lens of the supernatural, however, will see these words of Our Lord as a timely reminder not just to Mons Walsh and Father Grayland, but to all the priests of the Diocese, sheep without a shepherd as they and all of us are. 

In 1815 Mother Maria (now Blessed Maria Rafols-Bruna) wrote concerning her visions at the urgent insistence of Our Blessed Lord, in the hope that many, after reading what He told her, would turn from their evil ways, and have recourse to His Merciful Heart.

So forgotten would be the Word of God in the days to come, Jesus told her, that men would even scandalize and pervert innocent children, and endeavor to obliterate His Blessed Name from their memory.

Our Lord told Mother Rafols that there is one thing that hurts His Sacred Heart still more, and that is to be forgotten, offended and despised by souls consecrated to Him. 

"Oh, how much do I love My priests and how meagre is their cooperation with My love. I have called each one of them and I want My priests to be the salt of the earth, to be holy, and to come to my tabernacle which is forgotten by so many of them. 

"They forget that I love them with all My Heart, that I want to be present in all their actions. Tell them to visit my tabernacle  where I am waiting to teach and inspire them and to communicate my Spirit to them, so that they may bring to life many souls. 

"I want them to be very humble, poor and chaste."

Bob Gill says:


Perhaps an opportunity, then, for me to at last witness a Father Grayland Mass? But, for us oldies having to stand for one hour, would we be allowed to kneel sometimes just to ease the pain of standing? Just wondering.

CARDINAL PELL GETS HIS APPEAL!!!

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Cardinal George Pell is to have one last chance to overturn what thousands of faithful Catholics in Australasia believe to have been a wrongful conviction for sex abuse. 

Thanks be to God. And also to all the faithful Catholics who prayed, and the few who pursued his cause.  

"There did remain a reasonable doubt as to the existence of any opportunity for the offending to have occurred (emphasis mine)",  say the Cardinal's lawyers. They claimed the judges in Victoria's court of appeal were wrong to convict on the Cardinal's failure to prove innocence, instead of the prosecutors establishing proof that the sex abuse had occurred, as the law requires they must.

In the upcoming appeal, the cardinal's legal team will claim that those judges were wrong to decide that the jurors' belief in Pell's supposed victim's testimony was reasonable.

So NZ Marists can add the doubts of the High Court in Canberra to any 'doubts' it seems they themselves may have had, about the Cardinal's innocence.

More doubt emerges about Pell's abuse, reads the breathless headline a couple of days ago, in the latest from the Marist's organ in NZ, CathNews.

So were the Marists not convinced of Cardinal Pell's innocence? Did they really harbor doubts? Did they not read at least some of the 'evidence' against the Cardinal? 

Do they not know that the Victorian police launched a 'Get Pell' exercise two years before any 'evidence'-  from a thoroughly disreputable 'witness', a drug user - was 'discovered'?

Do the Marists not know about the vitriol reserved by Australian media for the Catholic Church in general and Cardinal Pell in particular?

Had they perhaps read with avidity Louise Milligan's awful book The Rise and Fall of Cardinal Pell, and believed her ? They certainly read it: in August this year CathNews published a teary-eyed story complete with glam photo on Milligan and her dedication to 'uncovering the truth with absolute care and forensic attention'. For example her inaccuracies theological and historical, ranging from St Kevin's uniforms to clerical titles.

Now 'two former employees of the Melbourne Cathedral School have come forward expressing doubts', says CathNews, through gritted teeth you might suppose, so grudging is the tone of the piece. 

'Expressing doubts' is putting it mildly. Two women who were on duty at the cathedral most Sunday mornings "know for a fact" that Pell's crime "could not have happened". To say that it happened without anyone seeing or hearing "is ridiculous".

These former employees of the Cathedral, unlike the sole 'witness' at the trial, are highly credible - they are, respectively, a former school principal and deputy school principal. 

"George (Pell)", they say, "is too smart to do something so stupid."

What's worrying about the Pell case is the apparent gullibility, not to mention the unfairness of believing one man's word against another's, of Catholic clergy and laity not just in Australia but in New Zealand. 

Courage of parish to address the challenge with the George Pell situation was listed among Helpful Aspects of Parish Life in a hand-out at Bendigo Cathedral in July. I was struck by the lack of
respect in referring to a prince of the Church as 'George Pell', almost as if he'd been defrocked. Were they saying they needed moral support to defend the Cardinal and explain his wrongful conviction to non-Catholics? Somehow I doubt it. 

Back here, at Sunday Mass Father assumed a hangdog expression and dismissed the whole subject instanter, as if it were too shameful to mention. It seemed like that incredible testimony (which had appeared almost word-for-word in Rolling Stone in 2011, in the description of an alleged assault against an American priest) had been swallowed by the Church hook, line and sinker. 

I don't think I've read or heard a single appeal from anyone in the Church for prayers for 'Pell', now in solitary confinement but recently allowed out to weed the garden in a prison yard. Whatever happened to 'The Church Militant'? It seems we're now 'The Church Waving a Big White Flag'. Or 'The Church of Cowards'.

Was it gullibility, or were our liberal clergy and laity in the Church of Nice, like the Australian public, only too willing to believe fake evidence of sex abuse against a cardinal who is a ruthless financial manager, blunt, outspoken and orthodox? Or was it, more simply but more seriously, envy of a man with a superior intellect who, I suspect, did not suffer fools gladly?

Way back in 2003, at the episcopal consecrations of Fr Julian Porteous and Fr Anthony Fisher OP at St Mary's Cathedral Sydney, it was Archbishop George Pell who gave the homily.

Read these excerpts from his sermon and ask yourself, is it any wonder there were many clergy and hierarchy - and laity who are  too easily gulled by their leaders - who were only too ready to accept Cardinal Pell's conviction? 

Quoting Pope Gregory the Great: 

"A man who is caught up in the darkness of everyday life and blind to the light of contemplation should not be a bishop.

"A person who is not in good standing with God can make the situation worse through his intercession.

"The bishop will be assailed by a lust for pleasing people; by a desire to put a cushion under every elbow."

Archbishop Pell went on to quote Cardinal Avery Dulles:

"The Magisterium would forfeit all credibility if it taught only what people wanted to hear. The first and indispensable task is to bear witness to the deposit of faith."

To return to Archbishop Pell's own words:

"Incompetent leaders can cause damage more easily than good leaders can encourage growth."

We can only hope and pray that those who appoint the next bishop of the Diocese of Palmerston North have similarly Gospel-founded ideas and ideals. 

NOT A MEMORIAL MEAL BUT THE SACRIFICE OF CALVARY

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I write this for my two grandsons, who along with the rest of the congregation were told at Holy Mass this morning that the Mass is 'a memorial meal that we all celebrate together'.

Father was softening us up for the treats in store in January, when he goes on a well-earned holiday. Having 'dodged the bullet' for the 20 years that have elapsed since defeatist attitudes originated weekday 'Liturgies of the Word' in the parish, to 'get ready' for the priestless days to come, the parish now will implement them on certain Sundays. 

With 'Reflections' to match. They won't be 'preached , they'll be 'shared'. 

The Church of Nice has already fulfilled the scenario dreamed up by the Protestant reformers four hundred years ago without the average chap in the pews ever noticing, and now the hierarchy is pushing the goalposts to extremes utterly beyond the poor guy's comprehension.

In their very long-term plan to destroy the Mass, in the 1600s Bishop Cranmer and his cronies devised a 'Commemoration of the Lord's Supper'. And here's how the Mass was to be superseded:

• The Protestant 'memorial meal' was to be celebrated in the vernacular.
• The altar was replaced by a table.  
• The priest was replaced by a 'presider'.
• The 'presider' faced the people, not God. Abolition of the priest's ad orientem position was the Protestants' most important consideration. 
• Holy Communion was given under both kinds because, the Protestants said, every meal features both food and drink.
• Holy Communion was taken in the hand, in order to demonstrate that it was ordinary bread distributed by an ordinary man rather than a priest.
• The silence of the Catholic Mass was replaced by a 'dialogue'.
• The Introibo ad altare Dei (I will go to the altar of God) was abolished, to be replaced eventually with 'Good morning' and other pleasantries.
• Prayers emphasising the sacrificial nature of the Mass were abolished.

The upshot of it all is that now, in the 21st century, Catholics (the remnant who remain) feel much more at home at an Anglican or Presbyterian service than they would at the Traditional Latin Mass, (were they blessed enough to find one.)

Let us all speak out and declare to our children and grandchildren and to the reformers of the present day that Holy Mass is "in true reality the Sacrifice of Calvary" (Pope Paul VI). Jesus Christ offered Himself to His Father as our Redeemer on Calvary, and He does exactly the same at Mass - through a priest, not an ordinary person, and not and never a priestess. 

At the risk of repeating myself and boring you all to bits, we do not attend Mass primarily to 'say thank you'. We attend Mass to:

• Adore the Holy Trinity
• To thank God for His goodness
• To make reparation to God for the sins committed against the Divine Majestu.
• To receive all the help we need to make it to Heaven.
  
  On Calvary, Jesus died to redeem the fallen human race. In the Mass, Jesus bestows on us all the blessings He won for us in His unimaginable suffering on the Cross. On Calvary He poured out His blood for us; if we do not bathe in that Blood in the Mass we will never be purified and can never enter Heaven.
  
  Does anyone else smell a large rat in these preparations for 'Liturgies of the Word', or as Father prefers to call them, 'paraliturgies' - a mysterious word meaning forms of worship that lie outside the liturgy and in some cases contradict it (you can say that again).For one thing, 'a memorial meal' can surely be put on by any lay person. You just 'commission' them. And for another, to remove the sacrificial aspect of the Mass, the unbloody re-presentation of the Sacrifice of Calvary, removes huge roadblocks along the way to the Glorious Day of the new World Church, just as the worship of pagan idols, passed off as 'inculturation', in the Vatican has done. 

OUR IRISH ROOTS ARE SHOWING:DEMANDS TO END 'FORCED CELIBACY'

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"Why is the church (sic) facing this priest shortage?" The question is asked by an aggrieved Irish priest, and solemnly reported in the Marists' CathNews NZ.

Ah ... wait on … It's a tough question ... Let me think ...

For starters, how about Masonic scheming and infiltration of the Church, for 200 years? And Communist infiltration of the priesthood since the 1920s? 

Above all, the deliberate suppression by many bishops of the traditional (Tridentine) Latin Mass and its  supplanting by the Novus Ordo - whose creator, Annibale Bugnini, named as a Mason on the infamous 'Pecorelli List' admitted in his memoirs he'd asked for the TLM to be officially and explicitly abrogated in word and deed. (Bugnini's request was fittingly denied by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1974 as "an odious act in the face of liturgical tradition".) 

The culmination of all the foregoing is to be seen in the flowering of mass apostasy in the Church, symbolized by the Vatican bowing and scraping to a pagan idol, Pachamama or  'mother earth', and apologising all over the place for its removal from a Catholic church by a young man acting in the tradition of St Benedict at Montecassino, breaking idols in a pagan temple.

And yet the spokesman for Ireland's Association of Catholic Priests, Fr Tim Hazelwood - who's apparently only just got around to the mournful exercise of counting priestly heads with which the hierarchy in NZ has belaboured the laity for years (as if somehow it's our fault - which of course it is, but not nearly so much ours as theirs) and with dreadful predictability he advocates for aggravating the process which has resulted in "not enough male celibate vocations to keep our parishes alive".

I've got enough Oirish in me to say that we all know not to ask an Irishman for the way to the next village, let alone the way out of the mess the Church in Ireland has arrived at, with a resounding 'yes' in favour of one of the world's most liberal abortion laws, and now an Irish bishop beginning a process for ordaining women priests, after a 'listening process' (shudder, shudder) he initiated in his diocese.

Doesn't it all sound so familiar? The NZ Church's Irish roots are showing, as evidenced by the Marists' CathNews showcasing the ACP - who represent only a third of Ireland's diocesan clergy - with their demands for an end to 'forced celibacy'.  

CathNews' sad story of Fr Tim Hazelwood ends thus: 'The warnings for the Catholic Church in Ireland come at a time when hopes have been raised for the future of the Church following the just-finished Amazon synod.

Last week, in a landmark vote by the Vatican, bishops recommended the Pope gives permission for married men in Brazil to become priests.'

It's perhaps as well that my revered first cousin, that holy priest, Brian Quin SM, RIP, is no longer subscribing to CathNewsNZ. 

He'd find apostasy depressing reading.