Forces of Dissent Prepare Attack on Benedict XVI

TCRNews ^ | 4/26/05 | TCRNews

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Fr. Robert Carr, Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston, sends us the following: "We have been alerted here that there is a move to make an assault on the Church in the US and an attempt to bring down Pope Benedict XVI in Rome through propaganda.

 

The Rainbow Sash Movement has called for protests in churches throughout the United States in favor of Gay rights and against Pope Benedict.

http://www.rainbowsashmovement.com/New_Web_Site_12_18_04/Stories/RSM_Pentecost_2005.htm

 

Meanwhile Voice of the Faithful, another movement against the Church is using the case of Fr. Marcial Maciel the founder of the Legionaires of Christ who is accused of molesting seminarians, to go after Pope Benedict XVI.

 

http://www.votf.org/Rome/letter.html

 

The Voice of the Faithful was founded with the support of Marshall Ganz, a man seeking to overthrow the Catholic Church. In fact, here you can see a letter by one of his students who is now working for Voice of the Faithful. The woman Aimee Carevich makes it clear here that the goal of the oganization is to stage a kind of a coup.

http://www.votf.org/vineyard/July04/national.html#aimee

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I am not surprised to see this coming. I am surprised that they think they can actually win with these tactics.

[Argus]

If a bunch of gay protesters entered my parish church, half the congregation would probably join them, sorry to say.

Of course, that might finally fire up the other half and the fence sitters, which would be a plus if it happened.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I think we are being called to be clear about which side of the fence we are on.

If they tried that in my parish, they would be very disappointed.

[WKB]

I thought he was #16

[davidjquackenbush]

Don't worry, they're too late: Benedict XIV died in 1758.

[pro610]

They can,t win,their only reward is Hell!
We need to pray for protection of the Church and cast these Satanic people away!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

My bad. Dyslexic Fingers.

Admin Moderator, could we get the title corrected to XVI instead of XIV?

[B Knotts]

LOL

What are they going to do, recall him?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Rub my bad typing in, why don't ya? (numbers are my nemesis, which is why I did history and not Geology, I suspect!)

[lightman]

Spiritual directors speak of a cycle of consolation followed by desolation.

Christendom has enjoyed great consolation through the magnificent liturgies of the past month and through even MSM paying some attention to doctrine.

It should be no surprise that the phase of desolation will soon be at hand.

This Lutheran recalls Fr. Luther's phrase "where the Lord builds a church, the devil sets up a chapel."

[ArrogantBustard]

Rainbow Sash Movement has called for protests

Rule One:

[redgolum]

Yep.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

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[marshmallow]

This is good.

The sooner the de facto schism within the Church becomes open and formal, the better for all.

Drop all pretense, ambiguity and double speak and openly declare your opposition to the Vicar of Christ and the Church united to him. Form your own parishes, and ministries depart from ours and leave them alone.

Goodbye to all the shirtlifters, Marxists, womyn activists and witches, functional agnostics and liturgical improvisors.

Some bishops will doubtless go with them, which will be a bonus.

Benedict XVI may not be with us for a long time but he'll be here for a good time. They've picked on the wrong man to get aggressive with.

[AnAmericanMother]

I was getting ready to rib you a little, but somebody beat me to it.

So I'll just post his picture . . .

Benedict XIV

[ArrogantBustard]

R1

[Thorin]

>>>>>>>>>This is good. The sooner the de facto schism within the Church becomes open and formal, the better for all.

Agreed.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Exactly...too subtle for me today....

[N. Theknow]

And Benedict will pay them no attention.

In a word, it will be a....Benedict-shun.

[american colleen]

I don't think this will go anywhere ... but it does cause dissention and bad feelings - makes good press though.

VOTF is dead in Boston (where it was founded and where it should therefore be the strongest) except in a few of the wealthy white nice community parishes. Been to a few of their meetings - typical disaffected grey heads.

Rainbow Sash people are just agitators who hurt their own cause. They have made a joke of themselves.