Posted on 10/26/2016 3:41:41 PM PDT by ebb tide
On Thursday, October 20, 2016, three Catholic institutions, one in New York, and two in Boston, held fundraising galas which reveal, effectively, the current, debilitated state of American Catholicism, and mark yet another milestone in its spiritual and moral decline.
In all three venues, the sponsoring Catholic entity showcased public figures who promote the murder of pre-born children, the deformity of marriage, the normalization of sodomy, the corruption of minors with contraceptives, the imposition of gender ideology, the coercion of Catholic consciences in the matter of abortifacient coverage, and the legal punishment of Christians who refuse to service pseudo-marriage ceremonies. At all three events, these moral monsters were feted by Catholic elites, and greeted by a member of the College of Cardinals.
The Annual Dinner for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, sponsored by the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation—whose President is Cardinal Timothy Dolan—featured U. S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York), New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, television personality Katie Couric, and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who sat next to Cardinal Dolan. Clinton had just reaffirmed, the day before, her unsparing support for child murder, while her campaign is coping with charges of anti-Catholicism following a WikiLeaks revelation that a prominent Clinton supporter, in an email exchange with campaign chairman John Podesta, called Catholics “severely backwards.”
The Inaugural Franciscan Dinner, on behalf of Boston’s Saint Anthony’s Shrine, which is administered by the Franciscan Friars of the Holy Name Province, advertised as Honorary Co-Chairmen Massachusetts Governor Charles Baker and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh. Baker, who sought to purge pro-lifers from the Republican State Committee in March, signed into law, last July, legislation which would punish those who refuse to allow biological males to use womens’ bathroom and locker room facilities. Walsh, a NARAL Pro-Choice award recipient, was recently sued for making threats and shouting obscenities at a Catholic man who refused the mayor’s demand that homosexual groups be allowed to march in South Boston’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. Both Baker and Walsh march in Boston’s depraved “Pride Parade.” The Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, a Capuchin, also participated in the dinner.
The Let It Shine Gala for Regis College, which is administered by the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Boston, featured former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Thomas P. O’Neill III, Massachusetts Treasurer and Receiver-General Deb Goldberg, and Boston Herald Publisher—and longtime Margery Eagan paymaster—Patrick Purcell. The event’s “Special Guest” was Obama/Biden bundler Jack Connors, a former member of the Council of Finance of the Archdiocese of Boston, and a current Trustee of the Campaign for Catholic Schools. Cardinal O’Malley, in his second event of the evening, also attended.
Meanwhile, Jesuit administered Boston College is providing interns for Planned Parenthood, and Cardinal O’Malley, just days after appearing at the Walk for Life, had his photograph—once again—in The Pilot with the “Mayor of Choice” Marty Walsh.
Any lucid person can recognize that the corruption, culture of betrayal, servility to secular elites, subservience to the spirit of the times, practical indifference to the killing of the unborn, and obsequious deference to neo-pagan political power which afflicts the hierarchy, our Catholic institutions, and their parent religious orders, is now critical, pervasive and normative.
How can one understand that surgical abortion alone means the murder of over one and a quarter million American children every year, and then invite to the head table of a Catholic gathering, and be seen conducting amicable social intercourse with a politician like Hillary Clinton, who believes that this mass slaughter ought to be legal, unrestricted and publicly funded—and that religious beliefs opposed to this depravity need to be changed?
Saint Patrick, in his Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus, warns his flock against relations with those who have the blood of innocents on their hands: “…it is unlawful to flatter men like these, nor should you eat or drink in their company, neither should anyone feel any obligation to receive alms from such men…” Yet, this unlawfulness is, precisely, what our hierarchy, clergy and religious practice as a matter of routine.
It is incumbent upon faithful Catholics, particularly those in the pro-life and pro-family movements, to inform our spiritual leaders and Catholic institutions that their repeated, reckless and continuing scandals, in which they provide—contrary to their own explicit prohibitions—awards, platforms and honors to the enemies of the Faith, only serve to betray, undermine and trivialize our principles, which is, to say, Catholic moral teaching about the sanctity of life and the integrity of marriage. This is not acceptable. They need to be reminded that they serve Christ, not Caesar. Our bishops are successors to the Apostles, not courtiers to Henry VIII.
Secular society will never be persuaded of the truth of Catholic teaching about the protection of life or the character of marriage by Janus faced bishops, faithless friars or dissident nuns. The lives of the unborn will only be safe, and natural marriage will only be recovered, when the Catholic Church becomes serious about upholding, defending and vindicating Catholic morality in its own institutions and in its own leadership. The reform of the Church is indispensably necessary to the restoration of a civilized society.
I left the church years ago and really was thinking of going back.
Oh well...no matter.
It ONLY matters when the current pope make pronouncements and declarations in keeping with his progressive Marxist dogma. A liberal is a liberal uber alles.
Catholics by yuge margins vote for and support socialism and it’s death cult of murdering babies
Those of us Catholics that are traditional, weather what ever the devil throws at us...
We have been given Francis the talking pope, I believe, to separate those of us Catholics that are believers and those that are liberal thinkers...
I have been raised in the Catholic Religion, went to Catholic School, and have never doubted the Religion because God doesn’t want us to do that...we believe in Him and His teachings, Jesus and the Holy Spirit...and in order to walk with God again someday, we believe in the traditional style, the only teachings in my opinion...
Francis the talking pope is a false prophet...period...
God is separating the wheat from the chaff.
Jesus is still there and misses you.
The Bible has all the moral teaching that is needed.
Thank you...that is exactly what God is doing...
Thanks. I still believe and attend other churches. Was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools. Those schools made college (many degrees) easy.
I am saddened that the church seemed to leave me.
I’m curious: What is it that makes you say “the church left you”?
Wife was talking to a fellow Church member the other day - person had been attending a series of classes on the Old and New Testaments given at the Church by the priest - a few weeks ago in one of the meetings somehow the matter of abortion came up, and one of the long-time Church members, a Eucharistic minister no less, remarked that she was voting for Hillary Clinton because she was pro-life - other members of the group immediately jumped in saying that Hillary was pro-choice but the instigator kept insisting heatedly that Clinton was pro-life and finally got up and stormed out - she hasn’t returned since - people hear what they want to hear, but it doesn’t help when the leaders of the faith turn a blind eye to politicians who don’t abide with what the church teaches and fail to make their disagreement with the politicians’ policies clear to their congregation....
Herself pro-life?
How thunderingly, mind-crushingly stupid does one have to be to believe that?
Oh, please. This is complete and utter nonsense. These "spiritual leaders" and "Catholic institutions" don't need to be reminded of anything. They are not operating behind some kind of veil of ignorance here. These f#%&ers (and I use this term deliberately) are minions of Satan whose sole purpose is to undermine Catholic doctrine and moral teachings.
It's very telling that it took a nominally Presbyterian New York City real estate tycoon to expose the whole lot of them as a wretched hive of scum and villainy -- dropping a turd in their punch bowl in the process.
QFT.
Practicing Catholics know what we believe - it hasn’t changed. Don’t need anyone to make me “feel better” - prayer does that. Stay faithful.
That’s stupidity dense enough to bend light.
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