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The parade in NYC should end. They’ve opened it up to other groups so that those groups can promote their agenda. It’s now a general parade.
Besides, St Patricks Day has become a carnival complete with mardi gras beads and paddywackery.
Msgr. Pope’s article made sense to me.
Dolan is a buffoon. But he is a big nasty vindictive buffoon. Don't be surprised if this is the end of Msgr. Pope's blogging on the archdiocesan website.
More and more people in the church - and I do not limit this to Catholicism - are going to have to choose between this sex-laden, abortion-touting secularist culture, and traditional Christian. In some cases, they are being FORCED to choose, as when government demands Christian cooperation in sinful activities. It only remains to be seen how far this will go, whether actual persecution will be confined to the margins, or will become full-blown, aggressive, and widespread.
You mean it’s not to chug green beer and act like a total idiot? Who knew??
It’s up on lifesitenews-
http://www.lifesitenews.com/pulse/its-time-to-end-new-yorks-st.-pats-parade-and-the-al-smith-dinner
The time for happy-clappy, lighthearted engagement of our culture may be nearing an end. Sometimes it takes a while to understand that what used to work no longer works. Let me get more specific.
Decades ago the “Al Smith Dinner” was a time for Republicans and Democrats to bury the hatchet (even if only temporarily) and come together to raise money for the poor and to emphasize what unites us rather than what divides us. But in the old days the death of 50 million infants was not what divided us. We were divided about lesser things such as how much of the budget should go to defense and how much to social spending. Reasonable men might differ over that.
But now we are being asked to raise toasts and to enjoy a night of frivolity with those who think it is acceptable to abort children by the millions each year, with those who think anal sex is to be celebrated as an expression of love and that LGBTQIA… (I=intersexual, A= Asexual) is actually a form of sanity to which we should tip our hat, and with those who stand four-square against us over religious liberty.
Now the St. Patrick’s Parade is becoming of parade of disorder, chaos, and fake unity. Let’s be honest: St. Patrick’s Day nationally has become a disgraceful display of drunkenness and foolishness in the middle of Lent that more often embarrasses the memory of Patrick than honors it.
In New York City in particular, the “parade” is devolving into a farcical and hateful ridicule of the faith that St. Patrick preached.
It’s time to cancel the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and the Al Smith Dinner and all the other “Catholic” traditions that have been hijacked by the world. Better for Catholics to enter their churches and get down on their knees on St. Patrick’s Day to pray in reparation for the foolishness, and to pray for this confused world to return to its senses. Let’s do adoration and pray the rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet unceasingly for this poor old world.
But don’t go to the parade; stay away from the Al Smith Dinner and all that “old school” stuff that hangs on in a darkened world. And as for St Patrick’s Day, it’s time to stop wearin’ the green and instead take up the purple of Lent and mean it. Enough of the celebration of stupidity, frivolity, and drunkenness that St Paddy’s day has become. We need penance now, not foolishness. We don’t need parades and dinner with people who scoff at our teachings, insist we compromise, use us for publicity, and make money off of us. We’re being played for (and are?) fools.
End the St Patrick’s parade. End the Al Smith Dinner and all other such compromised events. Enough now, back to Church! Wear the purple of Lent and if there is going to be a procession, let it be Eucharistic and penitential for the sins of this age.
For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!
How say you?
Looks like Dolan is in the same mold as Cardinal Mahony. These guys yearn to be loved by the media. Catholics need to call up the chancery and make their displeasure known.
Incredible. I thought it was a great article and I have quoted it several times.
Wuerl (rhymes with girl) was certainly not going to like it, but I’m surprised he went this far.
Not many things shock me these days, including the St. Patrick’s Day parade including gay groups, but this pretty much did. I looked at first to make sure it was real. To me, an evangelical Christian, this says that liberalism must have a very strong hold on the leadership.
Msgr. Pope posted a reply in the comments of his latest post. Here it is
Msgr. Charles Pope says:
September 4, 2014 at 9:30 pm
Bless you all for your prayers and encouragement. I hope you will understand if I cannot continue to post your comments on the parade article here. I will read them but cannot post them, I will send you an e-mail gratitude.
I ask your charity and understanding for the Archdiocese of Washington which has always generously sponsored this blog and been supportive of our conversations.
I also hope you will understand if I cannot explain why it was removed.
I am a loyal son of the Church and I love my Archdiocese.
Prayers up for Father Pope.