Posted on 01/25/2014 12:55:13 PM PST by ebb tide
A Jesuit parish priest who marched in a homosexual parade is now citing Pope Francis to protest the dismissal of an Eastside Catholic High School vice principal following his same-sex marriage, according to the priests Facebook site.
In December, The Cardinal Newman Society reported on the forced resignation of Vice Principal Mark Zmuda at a Catholic high school in the Archdiocese of Seattle.
Students at Eastside Catholic High School subsequently created a petition at Change.org, calling on the Catholic Church to end its opposition to same-sex marriage. The students are also reportedly planning a Z day nationwide protest on January 31 to support Zmuda and urge a change in Church teaching.
In light of the burgeoning protests, Father John Whitney, S.J., wrote in his piece entitled The Acts of the Orange and Blue Apostles that he believes Pope Francis would approve of the students protests and that they are an example that other Catholics should follow:
Over the last year, and especially as I have listened to Pope Francis speak of the need for uproar by religious, or call young people to make a mess in their dioceses. Like many, I have been refreshed and renewed not by some great doctrinal changes, but by the absence of fear expressed in the words of the Holy Father; by his trust in the workings of the Holy Spirit and his passion for courageous acts of faitheven acts that risk error or end in failure. For Francis, it seems, the timidity of tightly held borders, the safe-harbor of accepted opinion and doctrinal purity risks a greater sina greater loss to the Churchthan the dangerous paths of love and welcome. Ships may be safe within the harbor, but that is not what ships are for. Like the Church of Acts, Francis calls todays Church to a fearless proclamation of Christ and the Gospel, even though trying to understand such a proclamation may lead us to conflict and disruption.
In the last few weeks, the students of Eastside Catholic High School, and their companions from other schools in the area, have given us an example of the kind of passionate discernment, motivated by the Gospel, that characterizes an important dimension of Catholic educationand, indeed, should characterize our faith both in and out of school. Regardless of the particulars of this situation (and personnel issues may have complexities I do not know), these students have spoken up as products of Catholic education, as women and men motivated by the Spirit and by their own experience of grace. Though it is a painful time, their teachers and their parents should be proud of the Gospel spirit that has been planted in these young hearts. Likewise, we in the broader Church should be grateful for the mess these young people bring, and should listen with compassion and openness to the Spirit that moves within them. Their love, their gentleness, their quest to make of the Church the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people, demands more than the silence of authority; it demands communion and engagement with the Churchi.e., education, direction, dialoguesince their spirit is a sign of the Church and is life-blood for the Church. May we engage, with fearless love, at the side of our younger sisters and brothers; and may we trust in the God whose Church we are all becoming.
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Fr. Whitney defended his marching in the Seattle gay pride parade in his parish bulletin and invited parishioners to join him. In that bulletin, he compared the Churchs teaching to Old Testament dietary restrictions.
In a 2012 interview with NPR, he called the bishops position defending traditional marriage a denial of civil rights.
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"In effect, some of these 'bosses' have hatched against Jorge Mario Bergoglio the cruelest and most subtle deception since he was elected pope.
"They kept in the dark important information that, if he had known it before, would have kept him from appointing Monsignor Battista Ricca "prelate of the Institute for Works of Religion.
[Ricca] won Bergoglio's trust in another guise, initially as director of the residence on Via della Scrofa at which the archbishop of Buenos Aries stayed during his visits to Rome, and now also as director of the Domus Sanctæ Marthæ (!!) in which Francis has chosen to live as pope.
"Before the appointment, Francis had been shown, as is customary, the personal file on Ricca, in which he had not found anything unseemly. He had also heard from various personalities of the curia, and none of them had raised objections.
"Just one week after appointing the prelate, however, during the same days in which he was meeting with the apostolic nuncios who had come to Rome from all over the world, the pope became aware, from multiple sources, of some episodes from Ricca's past previously unknown to him and such as to bring serious harm to the pope himself and to his intention of reform.
Sadness over having been kept in the dark with regard to such grave matters, and the intention to remedy the appointment he had made, albeit not definitive but ad interim": these were the sentiments expressed by Pope Francis once he was aware of those matters.
From the rest of the L'Espresso article, it looks like this Ricca is a kingpin, a heavily-connected ringleader of the "Gay Lobby." Nauseating.
Watch and pray.
So should we ignore the published reports of this man's activities because we haven't observed his illicit behavior firsthand? Perhaps we should also give Bill Clinton the benefit of the doubt. Let's not set the standard for public figures so ridiculously high that we ignore multiple published reports out of misplaced scruples. This man's behavior is well-known, yet Pope Francis appointed him. What does that tell us about his judgement?
I agree the pope was probably tricked. But why has the Pope continued to retain Ricca in his current positions?
If you will look at my previous post (above) you'll see that L'Espresso puts forward evidence that Pope Francis was the victim of this man's network of lies --- the Holy Father was not negligent,nor acting on poor judgment, but rather betrayed by advisors who deceived him.
It's frightening: Pope Francis decided not to live in the previous Papal apartment because it was undoubtedly wired --- and he ends up at Domus Sanctae Marthae, "managed" by none other than Msgr. Ricca!
Again I say, frightening.
Ricca no doubt knows he's been outed (he reads Italian like everybody else) but the question is, how do you know the next guy in line isn't his secret ally?
I've even heard that Pope Francis might just close the IOR. Desperate times, desperate measures.
Watch and pray.
In 2006, Pope Benedict removed Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ from his position and ordered him to a life of prayer and penance. This order was due to Maciel’s past sexual sins, not ongoing ones.
Bishop of Rome, Francis, apparently has different plans for homos under his jurisdiction.
Watch and pray.
So why were you so quick to accuse me of slander and demanding not only my repentance, but restitution?
It’s obvious that the spirit of insanity and evil is abroad in the Church no less than before Benedict.
In fact, the reaction to Francis’s many imprudent statements makes clear how much hatred of Benedict there has been in the Church, just waiting to come out in the open.
And now he’s writing an encyclical on the environment! Who wants to bet that he’ll denounce the kleptocrats behind the Global Warming Hoax?
Or who wants to bet that it will be another gift to be exploited by the eugenicists and other fascists?
Obviously, when he was elected Pope, he was replaced by a double.
So true, Father! And did you catch this recent statement by Pope Francis:
God always forgives, we sometimes forgive, but when nature - creation - is mistreated, she never forgives.
"She" may not forgive, but she can be fooled; just like popes can be fooled.
I read that he stated that he didn't want to live there because he was afraid of being robbed...Apparently it was supposed to be funny...I thought it was...
Pope Francis says he has no wish to live in the apostolic apartments inhabited by previous pontiffs “for psychiatric reasons”.
“Why don’t I go to live in the Apostolic Palace? For psychiatric reasons!” Francis told students from Jesuit schools at the Vatican.
“I need to live with other people. I don’t think it would be good for me to live alone,” the 76-year-old Pope said.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/pope-francis-shuns-papal-house-for-psychiatric-reasons-377045
Yes, it's bad. The modernists whom Pope St. Pius X warned us about have managed to gain the upper hand. It's as though a different Church is forming before our very eyes. It's been going on for years, but now Pope Francis has brought it out into the open. He's one of their own.
oh, please....
I know several gays and none of them "looks the part"...what the hell does that mean????and the openly gay mayor is certainly welcome at communion because you have no idea of what actions he is involved in ......being gay is not a sin, an active homosexual relationship, of course, is.
Identifying a man as a homosexual is not exactly a rare bit of awareness, many of us can read people well enough to spot homosexuals.
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