Posted on 02/19/2015 7:50:08 PM PST by BlatherNaut
Edit: We thought being called a dissenter would be a badge of honor?
It looks like Father Volpi is attempting to do the same. The blogger received a threatening letter insisting that he remove blog posts covering the Synod on the Family. How can you sue someone who says things about you that you've said about yourself?
This blogger sounds absolutely terrified.
Here's a portion of an article in response to Father Rosica's call for more civility in the blogosphere back in 2011 in support of the evil Father Gravel, a Pro-Abort, aberrosexual, Canadian priest then suing Life Site News, also had all kinds of nasty things to say about faithful bloggers. Maybe this aberrosexual enabling, Ted Kennedy supporting priest may have bitten off more than he could chew?
[Life Site News] It is in good keeping with Christian charity to seek out and to emphasize the legitimate good that others, including our opponents, may have performed. But how strange it is that the Salt & Light CEO reserves no such kind words for LSN. Surely it is a curious form of “civility” that would rather take the side of one of Canada’s most prominent self-professed “pro-choice” priests in a potentially crippling lawsuit against a pro-life, pro-family news service that has done nothing but report what that priest has said and done during his highly public career.
The open secret is that much of the talk about “civility” we hear nowadays is too often only a ploy to silence, dismiss, and ultimately condemn those with whom one happens to disagree. We saw this clearly in 2009, when Fr. Rosica chastised many pro-life and Catholic leaders for the position they took on the grandiose Catholic funeral given to Senator Ted Kennedy.
There was, of course, plenty of room for legitimate disagreement on the issue. However, in almost the same breath that Fr. Rosica lamented the loss of “civility, charity, mercy and politeness,” he labeled those who had criticized the public funeral for the late pro-abortion senator as “not agents of life, but of division, destruction, hatred, vitriol, judgment and violence,” and described them “as little children bullying one another around in schoolyards - casting stones, calling names, and wreaking havoc in the Church.”
Here's where Rosica lauded dissenter and ex-priest Gregory Baum [PDF Lifesite]:
TORONTO, 22 October, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Liberal Catholic press-people have recently touted a man some call Canada’s leading dissenter since the 1960s - former Catholic priest Gregory Baum - because of his role as an expert, or peritus, to the Canadian bishops at Vatican II. Baum, an advocate of homosexual ‘marriage’ and sex outside of marriage and contraception, was lauded by Fr. Thomas Rosica of Salt and Light TV, Michael Swan of the Catholic Register and also given free reign in the pages of the Scarboro Foreign Missions magazine.
Rosica objects to the term "intrinsically disordered".
Does The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains “expressions or terminology that are offensive or that ordinary people cannot grasp”? So implied Thomas Rosica, CSB, at his lecture on the Synod of the Family broadcast on Salt and Light TV, this past Tuesday, 19, 2015. Apparently the use of “intrinsically disordered” in reference to homosexuality, is an, “expression[s] or terminology that are offensive…”. Fr. Rosica claimed that the Synod did not try to change the teaching of the Church on homosexuality. (For a moment, were we being told that the mid-term relatio was a myth?). He said that the Catechism was not being undermined. But, he then informed the sparse audience that this same relatio contained: “new language that is respectful of people, and avoids expressions or terminology that are offensive or that ordinary people cannot grasp.
What does this have to do with the Vatican?
From what I can find, Fr. Rosica is with the Holy See Press Office.
Utterly incredible.
From Mary Ann Kreitzer, Catholic Media Coalition:
http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2015/02/unbelievable-fr-thomas-rosica-threatens.html
Yikes! Homosexuals, dissidents, pro-abortion politicians all get a pass from the “we can’t judge” crowd, but faithful Catholics reporting public acts and statements are threatened with lawsuits?
What the heck is going on?
Does the pope know this is what one of his high ranking spokesmen is doing? Where is the openness and transparency so emphasized by the pope?
Spread this far and wide. It’s time to lift the rock and expose the slimy little critters before they can run for cover. I’m adding the Canadian blogger, David Domet and his blog, Vox Cantoris, to my blog list. And I left a message of support on his Facebook page. Why don’t you do the same? You can post at the Vox Cantoris Facebook page.
You can also leave a message at the Vatican. The email address for the Vatican Press Office is [...]. Here’s what I wrote:
To Our Holy Father:
I am very concerned to hear that Fr. Thomas Rosica has threatened a lawsuit against Canadian Catholic blogger David Demet for reporting public statements Father has made with which he disagrees. You, Holy Father, have encouraged Catholic laity to “make a mess” and have said everything is open for discussion. To then have a high level Vatican adviser threaten a faithful Catholic for doing the very thing you have encouraged laity to do is shocking and despicable. Please stop this travesty and assure Mr. Demet that the threats by Fr. Rosica will not be pursued.
May God give you strength for your difficult mission of guiding the Church in these times.
Sincerely,
Mary Ann Kreitzer, President
Catholic Media Coalition
Let’s all pray for this faithful Catholic layman and for pharisees at the Vatican like Fr. Rosica.
http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2015/02/unbelievable-fr-thomas-rosica-threatens.html
This is a good way of losing Catholics to other Christian sects. The Vatican should not be bothering bloggers. I think Francis said that decent is of the devil.
No, a wolf suing the sheep.
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