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To: magisterium
Even Cardinal Law threatened the Paulist Center with dire consequences if they didn't stop with the consecration of pizza and beer, Oreos and milk, etc. back in the '80s. He also read them the Riot Act about the invalid baptisms they were performing about 12-15 years ago, and forced them to find all interested parties and "redo" them.

I seem to have missed that altogether. (Was the Paulist Center advertising itself as actually "Catholic" then? Or as it now does, "a worship community in the Roman Catholic tradition" -- unless they've updated in the past year or so!)? And things are 20 years worse now in many ways.

You may, of course, be right. But no one ever called me an optimist . . . :(

66 posted on 04/04/2006 12:23:22 PM PDT by maryz
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To: maryz

Yeah, they've been notorious for a very long time. In my more masochistic younger days, I would go over there from time to time to see what they were up to. I've seen it all! Consecrating everything but the sidewalk outside as the "Eucharist"; having everyone "point and say" during the words of consecration; gross disrespect for the Eucharist even when they DID condescend to use valid matter; de facto "canonizations" for everyone from Oscar Romero (they even have an icon of "St. Oscar Romero in the back of the church, I kid you not!), to Marin Luther King; a priest (I guess!) dressed head-to-toe in a bunny suit for an Easter Mass; I could go on and on!

The baptism thing I alluded to involved using a non-Trinitarian form of baptism (Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier were invoked) even after first being warned to knock it off. Cardinal Law (of whom, obviously, I am not normally a fan) then ORDERED the Paulist Center to find every single one of the children and adults thus "baptized," and offer to have the rite redone. Some people took them up on the offer. Others, now aware of what happened as a serious problem, had the baptism redone elsewhere. But, doubtless, many were either too disgusted or too lax to bother further with it, seeing in the baptism just an excuse for a family get-together anyway. What about the souls of those involved? Outstanding!

The Paulist Center is the flagship moonbat church of our archdiocese, but many other parish ships sail proudly alongside under her flag. Would to God we had a hierarchy that took its spiritual responsibilities seriously with regard to such a fleet...


67 posted on 04/04/2006 12:41:57 PM PDT by magisterium
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