The possible demotion of Card. Burke. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Fr. Z's Blog ^ | 09/16/14 | Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Law was a textbook case of Promoveatur ut amoveatur, "Let him be promoted so that he be removed." What is happening to Burke is just a good old fashioned exile, banishment and personal insult. This is a demotion, not a promotion.

[NKP_Vet]

And what will very soon happen to Cardinal Burke for upholding the faith? He’ll be joining other outcasts at Castle Black as a watcher on the wall. Never to be heard from again. Such is life for orthodox priests in the pontificate of the current pope.

[BlatherNaut]

O’Malley, of Kennedy canonization fame, is the one closest to the Pope, reportedly.

O'Malley is as corrupt as Wuerl and Dolan, but hides his rot more skillfully than they. He is allied with "progressives" and lavender mafiosos, and the goings-on in his archdiocese reflect his true agenda.

[BlatherNaut]

PRAYER TO ST JOSEPH AGAINST CORRUPTION AND THE POWERS OF DARKNESS

(Prescribed by Pope Leo XIII, for the month of October, after the recitation of the Rosary and the Litany of Our Lady, but it can be said fruitfully at any time after praying to Mary.)

Unto thee, O blessed Joseph, do we fly in our tribulation, and having implored the help of thy holy Spouse, we now also confidently seek thy protection. By that affection which united thee to the Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God, and by thy fatherly love for the Child Jesus, we humbly beg thee to look down with compassion upon the inheritance which Jesus Christ has purchased with His blood and in our need to help us by thy powerful intercession.

Do thou, O prudent Guardian of the Holy Family, watch over the chosen people of Jesus Christ. Keep us, O loving Father, safe from all error and corruption. O great protector, from thy place in Heaven, graciously help us in our contest against the powers of darkness. And. As of old thou didst rescue the Child Jesus from the danger of death, so now defend God’s Holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity. Extend to each one of us thy continual protection, that led on by thine example and strengthened by thine aid, we may live and die in holiness and obtain everlasting happiness in Heaven.
Amen.

http://prayers4reparation.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/prayer-to-st-joseph-against-corruption-and-the-powers-of-darkness/

[Arthur McGowan]

O’Malley said that Ted Kennedy “didn’t do all that he could have” to defend innocent human life.

O’Malley told a reporter, who asked him about Communion for pro-aborts, that it was essential that “the bishops not appear to be singling out one political party.” Translation: Being a Democrat gives you a license to commit sacrilege against the Blessed Sacrament.

Wuerl was blackmailed into silence by gay activists in Pittsburgh with photographs of him in gay bars.

[Arthur McGowan]

Law was chased out of Boston by the people, the press, and THE LAW. He was going to be hit with criminal and civil proceedings. If he had not fled the country, he’d be in jail today.

Unfortunately, the laity did not learn the lesson: You CAN drive bad bishops out. O’Malley, Dolan, and Wuerl are the worst, but there are only about a dozen bishops in the U.S. who don’t give Communion to pro-aborts. And that’s the main reason they hate Burke. At least, it’s the main publicly-known reason.

[NYer]

Satan is certainly busy in the Church. For those of is who are recent converts, it is nauseating, horrifying, grief-inducing, exhausting. I keep reminding myself that even if precisely this disgusting form of corruption was not what infected the Church in the past, there was always some attack, some evil, some great challenge to faith that believers had to deal with, either from without or from within; and there were weak or wicked popes in the past as well. These facts and attacks do not alter the fundamentals of the Faith, however, and we must cling to these.

Be not afraid!

The antichrist follows the Lord of this World and you can tell because all he cares about is this world.

Because his religion will be brotherhood of Man without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect. He will set up a counter church which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. . . .

Several years ago, someone posted a link to THIS web site. Recall the words of our Lord. The Church is Christ's bride (Ephesians 5:29) and has "no spot, wrinkle or blemish" (Ephesians 5:27). Christ also stated that the gates of Hell will not prevail against His Church (Matthew 16:18) so how can the Church commit error? Individual clergy may commit sins, even popes commit sins because in the Church there are both "weeds and wheat" (Matthew 13:30).

Pray for those attending the Synod.

[redgolum]

They made the same excuses for Stalin.

[Arthur McGowan]

Stalin received letters all the time from people in the Gulag, who were convinced that he could not possibly know about the horrors taking place. He had a lot of hearty laughs.

Just try talking about the forged “birth certificate” and “draft registration” with the wrong people.

I have been instructed by several friends not to talk about the Pope. (He simply MUST be a saint, like all other Popes.)

[redgolum]

The worship of whom ever is the Pope is never good.

Just wait till we see people on FR posting after the marriage conference next month. You may see poster do a complete flip.