Posted on 03/12/2014 9:51:39 AM PDT by Repent and Believe
Really, what more is there to say? Anyone with a brain knew years ago that Timothy Dolan was a craven, politicking imbecile. Presiding at the “gay” Mass at St. Francis Xavier parish in Manhattan and CHEERING the unrepentant sodomite club introduced at said Mass – yeah – that was a SUBTLE CLUE. Inviting antichrist forerunner Obama to the Al Smith dinner and slapping his back while wearing a perpetual ****-eating grin the whole time was another SUBTLE CLUE. But now, ol’ Tracksuit Timmy has officially jumped the shark, and let’s not sugarcoat this, Pope Francis Bergoglio is driving the tow boat. From this morning’s pre-recorded appearance on Meet the Press:
Michael Sam, from your home state, the football player, revealed that he was gay, first in the NFL,” David Gregory said. “And you saw the celebration from the president, the first lady, and they were saying what a courageous step that was. How did you view it?”
“Good for him,” Dolan replied. “I would have no sense of judgment on him. God bless ya. I don’t think, look, the same Bible that tells us, that teaches us, well about the virtues of chastity and the virtue of fidelity and marriage also tells us not to judge people. So I would say, ‘Bravo.’”
“Bravo” to sodomy. Bravo to one man jamming his erect penis into the feces-laden descending colon of another man, and then using the descending colon as the point of masturbatory friction. ”Bravo” to one of the four sins that cry out to heaven for God’s vengeance. ”Bravo” to self-loathing. ”Bravo” to using another human being as a mere masturbatory vector. ”Bravo” to a sin so heinous, so foul, so disgusting that Our Blessed Lord Himself told St. Catherine of Siena that it makes Him NAUSEOUS and that even the demons withdraw from it because it is so sick and twisted that their angelic natures – demonic as they are – cannot stand to look upon it or be near it. ”Bravo” to that. ”Bravo” to mortal sin, which if never repented of WILL CONDEMN A PERSON TO ETERNAL DAMNATION. ”Bravo” to that, says Dolan, who couldn’t give any less of a shit about this Michael Sam kid, and is perfectly willing to not only watch this poor kid go to hell, but will even relish in Michael Sam’s sin in order to leverage his (Dolan’s) own personal worldly popularity. There simply aren’t words. The craven connivance is beyond description.
And WHY does Dolan finally feel free to show the callous indifference to not just human souls but also to the Sacred Heart of Our Blessed Lord that it is crystal clear he has felt for a long time? Why is does Dolan now feel fully liberated to ratify sodomy and increase his own worldly popularity by his complete indifference to sin, manifested in this sick permissiveness of objective evil? Because Pope Francis has thrown open the barn door. Dolan – like the Advocate magazine and every other tool and mouthpiece for satan on the planet – quotes Pope Francis Bergoglio specifically: Who am I to judge?
Besides a priest and bishop charged with the spiritual well-being of his flock? Besides a rational human being?
Does Dolan really believe that we are called by God to make absolutely NO moral judgements whatsoever about human behavior? Really? So we can’t judge murder? We can’t judge rape? We can’t judge theft? ”Judge not lest ye be judged” is God Almighty abolishing the very notion of sin and demanding total anarchy? REALLY?
The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgment. The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be supplanted. Psalm 36: 30-31
But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. But the spiritual man judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man. 1 Corinthians 2: 14-15
(Footnote: The sensual man: The sensual man is either he who is taken up with sensual pleasures, with carnal and worldly affections; or he who measureth divine mysteries by natural reason, sense, and human wisdom only. Now such a man has little or no notion of the things of God.)
But beyond that obvious imbecility, Dolan has now taken it a step further – he HAS in fact JUDGED the sin of sodomy, and has JUDGED it positively. ”Bravo” means “good”. ”Good for him” means GOOD. FOR. HIM. But Dolan isn’t smart enough to recognize the internal contradiction in saying “Bravo” - which is the Italian word for “good” in the sense of “well done” – and in literally the same breath saying “Who am I to judge?” You just DID judge, you jackass.
For the sodomites, and ultimately their father satan, mere toleration was never, ever the goal. The goal is full ratification and publicly-stated approval, followed by the outlawing of non-ratification and/or non-participation. Dolan has now explicitly and undeniably ratified sodomy with the words “Bravo” and “Good for him.” And why did he do it? Because he saw the wild mainstream popularity of Pope Francis and he wants in on it too. Let’s quit dancing around the reality of the situation. Pope Francis is popular for one reason and one reason only: his moral laxity, permissiveness, moral relativism and compulsive downplaying of the gravity of sin. Duh.
We are clearly now in the extreme end-stages of this culture. It is now “illegal” to not participate in the cult of child sacrifice, and it is likewise also almost completely illegal to not participate in or service the cult of sodomy – and jackasses like Dolan will be in position, squarely behind the people, continuing to place his foot firmly in the smalls of their backs and pushing them straight into hell, quoting Pope Francis Bergoglio all the way. The staggering, unquantifiable damage that Pope Francis Bergoglio has done and continues to do is utterly unprecedented. Pope Francis’ litany of active statements of permissiveness makes the mere silence of Paul VI seem like “the good old days”. Heck, at least Paul VI had Humanae Vitae. Er, or should that be “at most”? Either way, the poop well and truly does roll downhill.
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Sweet Jesus, please do absolutely whatever it takes – WHATEVER IT TAKES – to make this stop. We know we deserve not only this, but so much worse. We know it will hurt – badly. But we know that you have and will provide us with the tools and strength we need to weather the storm. We have the Church, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and You Yourself in the Eucharist. We have Your Mother as our mother and advocate, and her Most Holy Rosary to keep us focused and mindful of Your life, death and resurrection every day, as well as all of your Holy Saints and Angels. But please, for the sake of your Sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us, and on the whole world. Show us Your Mercy by showing us Your Justice. PLEASE MAKE THIS STOP.
But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh. And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. Matthew 18: 6-10
I’ve been thinking the same. Great minds...
Thank God for grace to refute such wresting of Scripture. (2Pt. 3:16)
And maybe you have seen this new grievous thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3132801/posts
Actually, I happened to know that priest and he was not a “notorious womanizer”. The press was looking for anything to get at O’Connor (because of his opposition to abortion and gays) and they found enough to use with the monsignor. He was a good looking, charming man, but he knew the limits and he was also extremely orthodox. I think he was more careless than anything else, because he didn’t believe that people would interpret his perfectly open behavior as anything other than innocent. More fool he - I know another priest to whom the same thing happened. In his case, after he had been removed and nearly destroyed by the bishop, it turned out that the woman who had accused him of sexual impropriety had claimed this of virtually every man she had ever met, practically down to the bagger at the grocery store.
I think O’Connor’s heart was broken by the terrible Covenant House affair. I still remember when he called Fr. Bruce Ritter in and asked him about it and then came out and proclaimed that Ritter had said he was innocent and that a priest would never lie. The next day the tapes came out, and of course, Bruce Ritter then said, ooops, sorry, I did lie.
To Cdl O’Connor, being a priest was enormously important and he really did have a hard time believing that a priest would lie. I’m sure he called in all the gay priests, asked them, they said no, and he just accepted it.
He may not have been a good manager - he left a lot of churches open that Dolan is now closing, but that’s because O’Connor felt that bringing the sacraments and the Church to the people was important, even if it wasn’t financially sound. And he was the one who got the schools initiative rolling.
And he opposed the City of NY and made them back down, and I haven’t seen anybody with his guts since then.
Would I have said what Cardinal Dolan said? No. I probably would have said, “Hey, I wish Mike well as an athlete and as a human being. I believe that part of what he does off the field is sinful, but I don’t hate him for that, we’re all sinners in one way or another, I just hope and pray he turns from it. But, David, Mike Sam is coming out to thunderous applause from the sports media, the news media in general and what passes for the cool crowd in modern society. And the media and modern society being what they are, he had no good reason to expect anything else. Courageous? Really?”
Given the opportunity, would I have urged the cardinal to reply like that? Sure. And believe me, there are prelates out there who need my advice on this sort of thing more desperately than Cardinal Dolan. (Looking right at you, Cardinal Mahony.) Discussing them in the language that Ann and others do, on the other hand, is not of interest to me. Not just because I’m a noob, but because I wouldn’t even talk about them like that if I were remaining Protestant. If I really had the urge to, I’d drop out of RCIA and put my application in at The Tract Publisher Whose Works Shall Not Be Posted On FR, which happens to be here in the Inland Empire, and try to get paid for it.
>> “Bravo” to sodomy. Bravo to one man jamming...
So being “gay” isn’t about tap dancing in the rain?
Not unlike the display of dismembered fetuses, I think it also makes sense to describe the behavior the states are forcing the citizens to service, sanction, and support.
I’m Baptist, and I miss Benedict XVI!
What FR needs is an alert mechanism so that every time a specific poster has something of import to say, I could immediately drop what I am doing to read it.
Try to stay humble, but you are at the top of my list now. You should be writing for “First Things”.
St. Michael the Archangel is the Original “Braveheart”...
Love the picture. Thanks for posting it!
Have a blessed Easter Vigil. You’ll be in my prayers.
“...they should be somewhat alarming....”
Only to those who NEED to be alarmed... :^)
I kinda think of this way - it’s good to have him on my side...
Great pic! It just became my desktop background. Thanks!!!
Also: Please tell MR. Don-o that “Manger Dawg Hale” says “Woof!” He’ll know.
Thank you for your list of examples of appropriate use of “colorful language” in the very word of God. Miss Barnhardt remains within those guidelines in her piece.
Also, as you pointed out, Saint Paul teaching us that “homosexuals will not inherit the Kingdom of God” certainly illustrates how one must point out others’ sin and that is not being judgmental when done in love and without worldly vengeance. In fact there is an Old Testament passage that says that if we fail to point out our brothers’ sin, we stand condemned. Two of the seven “Spiritual Works of Mercy” found in the Catechism are very related here: to “instruct the ignorant” and to “admonish the sinner”. (To do so, then, is not being judgmental!)
“So the mechanics of getting out from under the “render to Caesar “ requirement is rather difficult.”
No, not at all - “... Render to God what is God’s.” If tax-paid government funding is used to promote immorality (as the citizen discerns), then ...
See FR mail
The posted article concerns the disreputable Cardinal Archbishop of New York, yet your several comments are off-topic; paying/not paying taxes. Taxes may be thought of as debt imposed by society or the state, and for the imposition there should be a corresponding benefit. If the benefit is weighted toward a self-serving political elite, then there is a problem.
Perhaps you're unaware of former Senator, former Governor, campaign bundler for Obama, Jon Corzine, who stole billions of client funds and is walking around a free man. Doesn't that bother you?
Daffy, see my FR mail.
To all:
I want to express my sincere apologies for making offtopic comments; I will not make any more such posts in this thread.
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