If you haven't already read it reread Windswept House. Malachi Martin tried to reveal the corruption back then. And he was savagely vilified.
Brian, We, at RCF, knew about "Uncle Ted" and even wrote articles about him . He has a beach house where he would take seminarians. It seems that the DC diocese always has a pervert as their leader. Fr Malachi Martin told me that in ecclesiastical circles Cardinal Donald Wuerl is know as "Donna" Wuerl. Maybe that is why PF likes him so much.
Isn't this horrifying? I just mentioned M. Martin in another post. Saw it all and told as much as he could and paid dearly. Satan has had the Church by the throat for most of the 20th century and now two decades into the 21st century. I am sick at heart. Sick! If the salt lose its savor... These prelates have no fear of God or millstones.
Isn't this horrifying? I just mentioned M. Martin in another post. Saw it all and told as much as he could and paid dearly. Satan has had the Church by the throat for most of the 20th century and now two decades into the 21st century. I am sick at heart. Sick! If the salt lose its savor... These prelates have no fear of God or millstones.
Yes I find it remarkable. No fear of God, no fear of hell whatsoever. Bad enough to go to hell, but to go to hell as a Catholic Cardinal ..well.. you would be down in the seventh circle with Judas , right beside Satan himself. We tend to be truly shocked by such things; the Italians seeing the Curia and others at first had tended to be much less shocked. Dante. for instance. describes prelates, including Popes in hell and no one raised an eyebrow.
Y And now we know that Father Martin is vindicated, when he wrote Windswept House, he was writing not a work of fiction in its true sense, where the matter spoken about was a work of the imagination. Fr. Martin had another word for this, " faction", using real historical events or persons, then fictionalizing it.
A great saint--maybe you know who...I forget--said that hell is paved with the skulls of Bishops. Dante knew well the corruption in the Church in his day. He was not too kind to Boniface VIII who he placed in hell while he was still alive!
Matthew 13 24 Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 "But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away. 26 "But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also. 27 "The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?' 28 "And he said to them, 'An enemy has done this!' The slaves said to him, 'Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?' 29 "But he said, 'No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 'Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.""' 36 Then He left the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him and said, "Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field." 37 And He said, "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, 38 and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one; 39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels. 40 "So just as the tares are gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the age. 41 "The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness, 42 and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 "Then The righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear. I am reading an historical novel about England during the time of Henry VIII and following, The Time before You Die. It focuses on the suppression of the monasteries, the struggle of disillusioned monks, and the failed attempt to restore the Church during the reign of Mary Tudor (whom the Church of England nicknamed Bloody Mary). It is a century of immense confusion and sin, power struggles and intense persecution. But Christ's justice and mercy will yet prevail. This latest latest news brings to the fore once more in our own day, a can of worms which grieves, demoralizes, and refuses to go away. The Church appears to have more tares than wheat, and here I am dealing with the tares in my own heart. And so I return again to one of my favorite OT passages. I am like the little bird of insignificance described by Therese who can't soar with the eagles. But I shall continue to entrust myself and the Church to the Two Hearts! Ans also all of you! Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, "I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit in order to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite... 20 But the wicked are like the tossing sea, for it cannot be quiet, And its waters toss up refuse and mud. 21 "There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."
I knew you would have an inspirational post which puts things in perspective I feel better already Thank you
He'll only be here for two days but the circus will drag on for a week. I'm sticking with my original plan to get out because I couldn't bear the hypocrisy of it all, not even for the chance to hear Bishop Schneider.
A smooth operator. Here's the full speech he gave at Villanova about the election of Pope Francis. Of course he feigned surprise that Cardinal Bergoglio was a contender. The audience loved it. Funny how people who talk most about the poor seem most comfortable in the company of the not so poor.
I have not come across a bad Sensus Fidelium video yet, and I know I’ve listened to up into the hundreds count at this point. They have saved me spiritually so many times, put there by Our Lady, of course. She gets all the credit, as Fr Wolfe likes to say
Yes it reminds me of Mother Angelica and Fulton Sheen I could listen to them all day. Which reminds me I'll have to get back to listening to Mother Angelica again. There is one thing Sensum Fidelium speakers tend to lack and which Michael Voris lacks totally and that is a sense of humour and the light touch.
Yes, perhaps Padraig. However these are very serious, dark times. I’m not quite sure how one could have a sense of humor or the light touch on profaning the Eucharist by giving it to open adulterers and Protestants
Padraig, The only person I can think of who at times can have a light touch while presenting some of the Church's news (and the world's news) in these very serious, dark times, is Raymond Arroyo. Here are the last two full episodes of World Over,
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...guilt-at-trial-for-child-pornography-10461722 Ex-Vatican diplomat admits guilt at trial for child pornography 23 Jun 2018 04:55AM VATICAN CITY: A Catholic priest who worked as a diplomat at the Vatican's embassy in Washington admitted at the start of his trial on Friday that he had possessed child pornography while based in the United States. Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, who was arrested in the Vatican in April after he had been recalled, told the court he had developed a "morbid" desire after he arrived in the United States to take up the diplomatic post in 2016. "It was never part of my priestly life before," he told the court, adding that he was unhappy at the embassy in Washington. In August 2017, the U.S. State Department notified the Holy See of a possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images by a member of the diplomatic corps of the Holy See accredited to Washington. A few weeks later, the United States requested that Capella's diplomatic immunity be waived to open the way for possible prosecution there, but the Vatican refused. After Capella was recalled to Rome, police in Windsor, Canada, said they had issued an arrest warrant for him on suspicion of possessing and distributing child pornography on the internet while visiting a church in Canada. The trial was adjourned until Saturday. (Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Catherine Evans)
