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Good morningm, deacon!

If you think that your Bishop Delaney of Fort Worth who brought his "old pal", a morally discredited lavender priest from Rhode Island, to run the diocesan Boy Scout program is "better than the rest," there has been a serious role reversal and you have become far more critical of AmChurch bishops than is Maximilian.

Maximilian: On the other hand, there are more than 1 or 2 exceptions who are far better than the rest. Our Bishop Thomas Doran, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Archbishop Eldon Curtiss of Omaha, Bishop Weigand of Sacramento, Archbishop Dolan in Milwaukee, Archbishop O'Malley in Boston, Arnhbishop Myers of Newark, his successor at Peoria, Bishop Burke of LaCrosse, the new bishop at Madison, the new bishop at Brooklyn, New York, Archbishop Rigali of Philadelphia come immediately to mind and there are others.

Archbishop Dolan? --you need to strike him off the list. The following is from Traditio.com:

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Novus Ordo Archbishop Presides at "Bikers Mess"

Biker Relaxes on His Hog during Novus Ordo "Bikers Mess"
Archbishop of Milwaukee "Presides" over Scandal

Just when you thought that the Novus Ordo couldn't sink any lower, particularly in the archdiocese of Milwaukee, we present for your revulsion the Novus Ordo "Bikers Mess."

Milwaukee is arguably the nadir of the Novus Ordo apparatus in the United States. Its recently retired archbishop Rembert Weakland was well known for teaching heresy. If it had anything to do with Roman Catholicism, he didn't want any part of it. Oh, of course, he always couched his comments in the pseudo-academic verbiage that always deceives the Novus Ordinarians. But then what lay behind his hatred of things Roman Catholic was exposed. He had been shacking up with a paramour and was paying him off for his silence allegedly with church money in a perversion of Robin Hood: rob the poor to give to the rich.

Even when all of this was exposed, John Paul II, who rivals the Bad Popes of the Renaissance in his collusion by silence in the gross immoralities of his cardinals, bishops, and priests, did not fire the Bad Thief, but was allegedly going to keep him on after his 75th year! In the end, this pope allowed him to retire quietly. No censure, no dismissal, no public penance -- just silent collusion in a Novus Ordo system so rotten that a former federal prosecutor and attorney general dubbed it "no better than the Cosa Nostra." And Archbishop Lefebvre was "excommunicated"? Give me a break!

Well, now the pope had a chance to do his own penance and appoint an exemplary archbishop to replace Weakland the Weak. And whom does he find? One Timothy M. Dolan. Now this is not the first time that Dolan has been a party to scandal. As reported here previously from the Milwaukee Catholic Herald, Dolan stood by while a self-proclaimed priestess, Ginny Kiernan Dahlbert, was allowed to "preside" at a prayer service at St. Matthias "Catholic" parish in Milwaukee on March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Now, on August 30, we find him "presiding" over an outdoor Novus Ordo Mess for hogs. According to the Milwaukee Catholic Herald, the diocese's periodical of record, church bells were replaced by the deafening roar of motorcycle engines. Instead of kneeling, the bikers reclined on their hogs. The dress of the day was "T-shirts and jeans, bandana head coverings, boots and lots and lots of black leather."

The place known as "Holy Hill" was certainly desecrated this day. Dolan chose personally to preside over one of those Novus Ordo "concelebration" messes, demonstrating that the cookie-and-grape-juice service is really a community hoopla. The archbishop was powerless to offer the service on his own, but needed the assistance of "10 concelebrating priests and 12 deacons who arrived at the altar for the Mass atop a wagon pulled by a large red tractor."

Among them, were two Novus Ordo presbyters on their personal hogs: Pres. John Schreiter, pastor of St. Bruno Parish in Dousman and Pres. Robert Stiefvater, director of the archdiocesan office for vocations. Is it any wonder that vocations are down? Any true Catholic would be scandalized to have anything to do with these people, let alone the Novus Ordo Counterfeit Church.

Nor were the hogs wanting for music. Gregorian chant? You've got to be kidding! No, a group known as the HOG choir "kept the theme of the day, with many dressed in black, white, orange and leather."

That any Catholic would have the temerity to be associated with the New Order in any way is unbelievable. Those of you traditional Catholics who keep writing me about how to defend the traditional Roman Catholic Faith, my answer is: "Don't!" You have nothing to defend. Put the Novus Ordinarians on the defensive. They can't possibly defend any of this as "Roman Catholic."

And to think that Dolan was being touted as one of the more prayerful and "orthodox" of the very few who could be found to pass muster for consideration. If this is the best that the American Novus Ordo can come up with, pity the other 299 dioceses that have the dregs of the episcopacy!