Father Scanlon gets it right again. Why can’t good priests like him be the advisers to the Pope. The Holy Father needs to be surrounded by the right people… not dissenters.
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Stuck Between the Rock & a Hard Place
Posted on October 6, 2017 by Father Joe
Who are we going to punish? I worry about this as a priest in reference to the distribution of Holy Communion, absolution in the sacrament of Penance and in terms of preaching a faith message from the Scriptures that might immediately be interpreted as “hate speech.” Passivity and toleration is not enough to appease certain people… it is being demanded that conventional Christians become advocates for sinful behavior. If a priest gives the sacraments to anyone, no matter what their views and lifestyle, then does he not become an accomplice in their sin? Would he forfeit his own immortal soul for causing scandal and violating conscience, the commandments and his sacred duty? For the sake of accompaniment, can a bishop or even pope force a priest to say or do something that he views as sinful and wrong?
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We Should Not Ignore or Redefine Monsters
Posted on October 5, 2017 by Father Joe
The Vatican and the Church must also be mindful of the Monsters!
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The Passing of Heffner & Pornography
Posted on October 4, 2017 by Father Joe
A corrective to any and all who would render an apologia for the late Hefner and the society he helped to create…
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The Future of Television?
Posted on October 3, 2017 by Father Joe
Cable TV was a cool idea when it first came about. But the channels multiplied, creativity and quality collapsed, and prices soared! Television as we knew it is coming to an end.
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All of Us will Face Judgment
Posted on October 2, 2017 by Father Joe
The judgment belongs with God. “We reap what we sow.”
The priest writes: “Is Hugh Hefner in hell? I hope not. If St Faustina’s vision is correct I hope he saw true love and said ‘I’m sorry. I accept your love. Let me go now and serve my time and be purified.'”
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A Need for Proper Perspective
Posted on October 1, 2017 by Father Joe
Football players and owners are being hailed as heroes after that disgrace this past weekend. But here is a story about a real hero. Sergeant William H. Carney received the nation’s highest honor during the Civil War for rescuing the American flag and carrying it reverently in the midst of impossible odds while being shot multiple times by the enemy. His act of “defiance” while an entire Confederate battalion mowed down his fellow Union soldiers consisted in not letting the flag touch the ground – this, even after being wounded in the head.
“As the color-bearer became disabled I threw away my gun and seized the colors [the flag],” his account of the Battle of Fort Wagner states. “When we finally reached [my regiment] the men cheered me and the flag. My reply was, ‘Boys, I only did my duty; the old flag never touched the ground!’”
Taking bullets for the flag, rather than a knee, Sergeant William H. Carney, was the first black man to win the Congressional Medal of Honor for refusing to allow the flag to touch the ground.
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What Does the Future Hold?
Posted on September 30, 2017 by Father Joe
Some are arguing that this is an effort to brush aside or marginalize the Theology of the Body and other orthodox teachings of St. Pope John Paul II so as to impose the revisionism of Amoris Laetitia. Is this so?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pontifical-appointee-supports-communion-for-remarried-divorcees
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Matters are Heating Up in Rome
Posted on September 29, 2017 by Father Joe
Bishop René Henry Gracida, Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, has asked that his name be added to the Filial Correction. The document asserts that ‘Amoris Laetitia’ is promoting heretical propositions, particularly about marriage and the reception of the sacraments. He views the current situation as akin to the historical Arian controversy. This is a bad situation all around.
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/vatican-remains-silent-on-filial-correction
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The Pope is Servant, Not Master
Posted on September 28, 2017 by Father Joe
Bishop Schneider states:
“We should bear in mind, that the Pope is the first servant in the Church (servus servorum). He is the first who has to obey in an exemplary manner all the truths of the unchanging and constant Magisterium, because he is only an administrator, and not an owner, of the Catholic truths, which he has received from all his predecessors.”
“The bishops are not employees of the Pope, but Divinely constituted colleagues of the Pope, although jurisdictionally subordinated to him, yet still colleagues and brothers. When the Pope is himself tolerating a wide dissemination of obvious errors of faith and of grave abuses of the sacraments (like the admittance of unrepentant adulterers to the sacraments), the bishops should not behave themselves like servile employees wrapping themselves in silence.”
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