Penn State sends a message. US bishops, take notice.

Catholic Culture ^ | November 11, 2011 | Phil Lawler

[BlackElk]

Post of the month! Congrats!

[BlackElk]

Ben, you are dealing with an SSPXer. Do not feed him. The adherents of that schism come and go here. They are intense for a period of time and then evaporate. Only to have others return in their stead. Their purpose is to advertise the crackpot views of their founder the late Marcel LeFebvre who died excommunicated. B-XVI lifted the excommunications imposed by JP II on LeFebvre and his illicitly consecrated bishops Fellay, Holocaust denier and full-fledged crackpot Williamson, de Mallerais whose foul mothed attacks on JP II know no bounds and Gallerata who seems relatively mild by John Paul II as an apparent act of charity towards them but they reciprocate by presuming to instruct B-XVI as to how he must run the Church. If I understand correctly, the excommunicated Marcel LeFebvre's death put him beyond the ability to have his excommunication lifted. The SSPXers are maniacally enraged at JP II above all others because he declared SSPX a schism and excommunicated LeFebvre and the leadership.

Ignore them and they will fade away. They are not the first ecclesiastical revolutionaries to attack Holy Mother the Church and the popes and they won't be the last.

Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia!

Roma locuta, causa finita! God bless you and yours. Blessed John Paul, pray for us and for them.

[Antoninus]

The most egregious case I can think of Mahoney, who’s both retired (finally) and protected by the liberal media. You can guarantee that a bishop who was conservative — a Chaput or Bruskewitz — who could be painted as guilty of covering up child abuse would have been pilloried in the press by now. The press covers up for Mahoney and those like him because he’s a liberal like they are.

Bingo. There you have it.

The press only creates a cause celebré over this stuff when the target is someone they want to take out. Otherwise, they are complicit with the cover-up. THAT is what the homosexual predator scandal in the Catholic Church has taught me.

[Antoninus]

Penn State has a culture of intimidation against anyone who dares to question homosexuality.

That's not just at Penn State. That mentality has infected many if not most universities across the countries and has seeped down into the high schools and elementary schools as well.

[Antoninus]

Why am I not surprised when Catholic-hating Protestants line up with Catholic-hating left-wing Catholics to trash actual Catholics?

The real irony here is that the National (anti) Catholic Reporter has been pushing the bishops to defy the Pope and continue to allow homosexual priests for years. They have absolutely no credibility when it comes to this subject. If anything, they and their ilk enabled the abuse crisis.

[Alex Murphy]

Why am I not surprised when Catholic-hating Protestants line up with Catholic-hating left-wing Catholics to trash actual Catholics?

Phil Lawler and Catholic Culture are Catholic-hating left-wing Catholics?

[BenKenobi]

I’m a Latin-rite convert from Anglicanism. I don’t have much sympathy for the SSPX folks. Obedience is a virtue.

[BenKenobi]

Mahoney was bad, but Weakland was even worse. They are finally gone. Weakland was an appointee of Paul VI back in ‘77. Mahoney was consecrated in ‘75. Law was consecrated back in ‘73.

[BenKenobi]

Law, Weakland, Mahoney, et al, were elevated to bishops all prior to Pope John Paul’s papacy.

Again, look at the bishops that Pope John Paul elevated during his long pontificate. That the problem has been dealt with is evidence that Pope John Paul did not coddle the abuse.

He is a great pope. Really, he is and I was fortunate enough to make it under his pontificate.