Minnesota Professor Pledges to Desecrate Eucharist

Catholic League ^ | 7/10/2008 | n/a

[Pyro7480]

Paul Zachary Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota Morris, has pledged to desecrate the Eucharist. He is responding to what happened recently at the University of Central Florida when a student walked out of Mass with the Host, holding it hostage for several days. Myers was angry at the Catholic League for criticizing the student. His post can be accessed from his faculty page on the university’s website.

Here is an excerpt of his July 8 post, “It’s a Frackin’ Cracker!”:

“Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers?” Myers continued by saying, “if any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some, or even one, and mail it to me, I’ll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I won’t be tempted to hold it hostage (no, not even if I have a choice between returning the Eucharist and watching Bill Donohue kick the pope in the balls, which would apparently be a more humane act than desecrating a go*****ed cracker), but will instead treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the web.”

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:

“The Myers blog can be accessed from the university’s website. The university has a policy statement on this issue which says that the ‘Contents of all electronic pages must be consistent with University of Minnesota policies, local, state and federal laws.’ One of the school’s policies, ‘Code of Conduct,’ says that ‘When dealing with others,’ faculty et al. must be ‘respectful, fair and civil.’ Accordingly, we are contacting the President and the Board of Regents to see what they are going to do about this matter. Because the university is a state institution, we are also contacting the Minnesota legislature.

“It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ. We look to those who have oversight responsibility to act quickly and decisively.”

[ChurtleDawg]

do you ever take a break? seriously.

[GCC Catholic]

This is why the Catholic Church must end Communion in the hand

That would make this sort of nonsense harder to carry out.

In addition, this is why we need to reinstate Porters in the Latin Church.

[AnnaZ]

Apparently, except for the intentional desecration part, you agree with this jackass.

Oh, absolutely not. And he absolutely is a jackass.

I do not agree with catholic theology, but I would never condone such disrespect towards it. It's disgusting.

[ChurtleDawg]

seriously. Give it a rest ZC.

[tiki]

Does fury and self-pity have shame?

[Petronski]

Okay. My apologies insofar as I misstated your position.

[Rammer]

So let me guess....the Pope issued a fatwa calling for this guy’s death and there was rioting and suicide bombings among Christians around the world?

[trisham]

Maybe now you will understand what it feels like to have one's beliefs in a six day creation, the Flood, the Tower of Babel, or the ancients living nine hundred years made fun of.

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As someone else mentioned, it's not all about you.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Pervert? Sounds like seriously mentally ill.

People like this will get more than they bargained for in attacking the Catholic Church.

[AnnaZ]

I like you, I don't want to argue with you. We just focus on different aspects of John 6. Here is verse 64:

It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Have a blessed day!

[Oratam]

When I was 12 or 13, I bought a book on modern-day satanism that contained a story about a father who stole a consecrated host in the same manner as this Florida student leader to demonstrate to his children that it is not the Body of Christ as Catholics believe. To prove it he stabbed it with a knife repeatedly.

As his kids wept he comforted them by saying "They told it would bleed. But look. It doesn't bleed. It doesn't bleed!"

The next day I took that book out into the backyard and burned it.

[RobbyS]

The comparison is inexact. This like someone removing a Torah from a synagogue without permission. IAC, this is an example of existential rage, I think. Reminding me of an incident at the chapel at Landstuhl Hospital in the early 70s. There was a little side chapel where the Blessed Sacrament was kept and where morning mass was said. An outside door was left open 24/7 for peoplein the hospital to came to pray. Well, someone came in and pulled the chalice out of the tabernacle and pissed in it. Thereafter the door had to be locked at the same time as the main door of the chapel.

[trisham]

Does fury and self-pity have shame?

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I'm not sure I understand your point.

[Pyro7480]

I like you too, Anna. :) You have a blessed day as well!

[tiki]

I’m quite sure his ego is invincible.

[windsorknot]

There’s a lot Catholic haters on FreeRepublic. A couple of obsessive compulsive types who seem to sppend all of their free time hunting up and posting every anti-Catholic screed they can find. I pity them.

They are like the obsessed Captain Ahab, seeking to harpoon the Great White Whale.

[BunnySlippers]

I went to Catholic school from Kindergarten through the end of high school. I believe in evolution which was taught by the nuns.

Evolution is not the issue.

[BunnySlippers]

He is giving evolution a bad name. Evolution is taught in Catholic school.

[Petronski]

The animus between the radical evolutionists and the radical creationists is strong, even poisonous.