Fr. Tom Collins: Where Have All the Shepherds Gone, Long Time Passing?

Les Femmes looking for faithful shepherds to encourage the flock.

Editor's comment: Fr. John Hardon, S.J., is one of the few proofs I to that "holy" and "Jesuit" put together don't always constitute an oxymoron. He often predicted that entire dioceses in the United States would disappear. I think that prophecy is imminent, hastened by the bishops' pathetic response to the Wuhan virus. 

How many churches will close as those denied Mass, who were borderline Catholics at best, never return along with their wallets? Hey, the bishops agreed with the government, by their silence and inaction, that Mass was less important than abortion businesses and liquor stores! Fr. Tom's criticism is spot on! May God give us more priests like him, Fr. James Altman, Fr. Richard Heilman, Fr. Robert Altier, and Fr. Mark Goring, and the SSPX who made so many efforts to bring Jesus Christ to the flock. There are others I'm sure who bless us by their preaching and witness. Feel free to name some in the comments section. I'm personally grateful for Fr. Tom who stops by periodically as he travels up and down Interstate 81. My husband and I are truly blessed by his friendship!

The Vicious Attack on President Trump by Church Leaders

It is rather sad to note how, over the past four years, a number of prominent Church leaders have viciously attacked Trump, as he:

• Refuses to say that our national heritage is intrinsically evil, even as he humbly admits that we have not been as faithful to our founding principles as we should have been;

• Promotes resilience and reconciliation, rather than resentment and retaliation;

• Promotes freedom of religion and the right to gather for worship;

• Asserts that, if governors legally declare liquor stores and gambling casinos to be providing “essential services”, they should also legally declare that churches are providing “essential services” by offering worship opportunities for their congregants;

• Stands courageously against vitriolic, slanderous unsubstantiated allegations against himself, his principles and his supporters;

• Decisively condemns a mob for burning a church across from the White House;

• Affirms the ultimate victory of God’s gracious goodness over the evils threatening our world;

• Opposes the vandalizing of monuments, churches and statues;

• Opposes mob vitriol, violence, vandalism, arson, assault and murder;

• Supports those courageously dedicated to law enforcement and public safety;

• Refuses to capitulate to the vitriolic demands of a mob, which are guided more by hysteria and histrionics than by actual historical facts;

• Honors and prays to Pope St. John Paul II;

• Opposes policies, which keep African-Americans trapped in neighborhoods infested with crime, drug and vermin;

• Promotes the right of minorities to get their children out of failing schools and into schools that promote solid education and character formation;

• Decisively attacks the evils of aborticide and infanticide;

• Decisively rejects both crony capitalism and parasitic socialism in order to promote the creative ingenuity of free enterprise;

• Supports legal protection for natural marriage;

• Refuses to continue in or initiate wars that do not protect our national security, but rather promote American jingoistic hegemony over other nations;

• Enforces laws and policies, which protect our national sovereignty and the integrity of our electoral processes;

• Refuses to be ashamed of humbly and publicly requesting prayers for our nation and its leaders; 

• Refuses to capitulate to the tyranny of political correctness and the amoral agenda of the New World Order; and

• Wages a decisive war against human trafficking and child sexual exploitation.

With such pastoral leaders as these, we will most likely witness quite a number of dioceses becoming merely titular sees by the end of this century. After all, these same bishops have, with little or no objections, conceded to the secularist assertion that we should consider the sacrifice of Jesus made present at each Mass as being “non-essential”.

This idea is further supported by Pope Francis. He apparently wants to promote a new kenosis theology (cf., Phil 2:7). According to this theology, the Church today is being called to empty herself of the “false security” of her doctrinal dogmatism and moral rigorism. Instead, she is to courageously step out in faith to embrace a new one-world religion ruled by the government of the New World Order and guided by its ever-evolving demands of political correctness. After all, is it not rather “arrogant” for Catholics to decisively assert that Jesus Christ is the only Way to eternal salvation?

And with so many of the Church’s hierarchy eagerly capitulating to the current demands of the secularist political correctness agenda, these same Church leaders should at least be honest enough to call the New Evangelization what it de facto is becoming – a New Capitulation to the demands of the world, the flesh and the devil.

God save us!

Fr. Thomas Collins
Hot Springs, VA