When it was 2016; It was a Very Bad Year (for the Church)

What will happen to the flock in 2017?

LifeSiteNews has a rundown of some of the major scandals emanating from the Vatican in 2016. What a list! I'm taking it to adoration to pray over before Jesus. How it must pain Him to see a successor of Peter contradicting His words. And how Our Blessed Mother must grieve to see a man who serves in persona christi distort the faith of our fathers and confuse the flock.

How are we to respond? In times of confusion and crisis Catholics must cling to the doctrine promulgated by Holy Mother Church for two millennia. Let me suggest a good starting place.

From the Remnant: The Fraud of Feminism and their Hate-on for Kellyanne Conway

Kellyanne Conway: Feminism's Nightmare

She's a mom, a Catholic, and a daily Communicant AND she's a top adviser to President Donald Trump. Let's hear it for this amazing woman because you sure won't hear it from the feminists who hate religion especially the Catholic Church and hate women who refuse to deny their femininity and their motherhood. If you want to be loved by the feminists you need to be a champion of child-killing and preferably a lesbian.

Catholics in Tudor England: A Detective Story

Faithful Catholic queen, Catherine of Aragon

I've mentioned before that I belong to a small book club that alternates between reading a Shakespeare play and reading papal encyclicals. Right now our group is studying Cymbeline, one of the last plays written by the bard (during the Jacobean Period) and, in my opinion, one of the most obviously Catholic.

Perhaps with Elizabeth and her virulently anti-Catholic henchmen (Cecil, Topcliffe, Waslsingham, etc.) all dead and a baptized Catholic on the throne, although raised Protestant, Shakespeare felt he could be be more openly Cathoic in his plays. And there are many, many indications of his Catholicism in the lines and events of Cymbeline.

The play is set in the first century when Caesar Augustus was Emperor so we immediately have a reminder of Christ and the Church. The plot itself involves a disputed marriage between the king's daughter, Imogen, and a commoner, Posthumus, who is banished and takes up residence in Rome.

A New Year, A New Project

I've never run ads on my site because Google selects ads according to website content. I knew if I ran their ads, I'd likely see my site linked to abortion mills and Planned Parenthood. So, no ads.

But a few weeks ago I ran into a Catholic ad site that only posts Catholic material. I decided to try it to help pay for the Les Femmes website and the print newsletter. Most of those on the mailing list (priests and others in my diocese) receive the newsletter gratis. A handful of generous donors support the free issues, but since I rarely remove anyone from the non-diocesan mailing list (unless someone requests removal or I haven't heard from them in years) many others receive their issues free as well. Every now and then I get a letter from a reader thanking me for keeping them on the list even though they haven't donated before. Since the Blessed Mother provides enough to pay for the printing and mailing costs I continue that practice.

Happy New Year: Prepare for the 100th Anniversary of Fatima

How will you prepare for the 100th anniversary of Fatima? Will you resolve this year to pray the rosary every day as Mary asked? How about making the five first Saturdays in reparation for sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary? Can you make a small sacrifice every day in order to remind yourself that Christ died on the cross to save you from your sins? There are so many "little ways" as St. Therese reminds us to please the Lord. How many little gifts do we fail to give the Lord because we are looking for the big ones?

Guest Post: The Heretics among Us

Mary, Theotokos, Mother of God

Contemporary Nestorian Heretic Exhorts His Flock:

“Mary is Not the Mother of God”

By Randy Engel

Introduction

Down under, and I mean “really down under,” in the Australian Diocese of Wollongong in New South Wales, a Roman Catholic priest by the name of Father Rick McCann, pastor of St. Joseph the Worker Church in Oakdale, has resurrected the fifth century Christological heresy known as Nestorianism.

In his parish bulletin for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, “Fr. Rick” offered a new rendition of the Hail Mary which not only disavows the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Mother of God, but also strikes out at two of the cornerstones of Catholic doctrine – the Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation. Father McCann also added a notation defending his heretical views:

Guest Post: Is Putin a Charlatan?

Has David Martin got it right? Is Putin the Christian hero so many paint him as or is he a subversive Gramski commie using any means to attack the West including pretending to support a return to moral values? For more insight on this Russian leader read this. People are not always what they seem. 

Obama's Sanctions Against Russia a False Flag

Who is the real Vladimir Putin?

By David Martin

The news is abuzz with commentary over Obama's move to impose sanctions against Russia in response to its supposed cyber-attack in the 2016 election which marred Hillary's reputation and contributed greatly to Donald Trump's victory.

The problem is that Obama has not imposed any sanctions against Russia. It's a false flag. This is being done to solidify the fake news that Russia aided Trump's victory by "hacking" the DNC—something they never did—so that America will protest Trump's inauguration. 

Homosexual Public School Teacher and Partner Molested Young Students

Homosexual teacher Aric Babbitt (right) and his "husband,"
Matthew Deyo, molested eight underage boys before killing
 themselves after the "vacation of a lifetime." 

Did you see any national headlines about this pair? Did it spark any on-going investigation by the Boston Globe or any other major newspaper about the problem of public school teacher/molesters? Where are the day after day, blow by blow description of the stories of teachers like Aric Babbitt with detailed descriptions of their victims? Where is the "Teacher Accountability" website describing the cover-ups by administrators, school boards, and teacher unions? Where's the SNAT website, Survivors Network of those Abused by Teachers?

Meditation on the Feast of the Holy Family

The Holy Family by Esteban Murillo

I love Friday morning Mass because it's the day the pastor of our little mission church comes to preach and his homilies are always insightful.  This morning, being the Feast of the Holy Family, he preached on personal and family virtues.  His homily began with a hat tip to Thomas Aquinas who in his Summa, after speaking about creation, wrote, not about sin, but about virtue.

Father said most of us work on eliminating sin in our lives which is good, but too often we focus so much on sin that we forget about virtue. And if we do, we are like the man in the parable whose house is swept clean, but then the devil returns with seven more who are worse than himself.

On Gender, Inclusive Pronouns, and the Language Cops

Tracking the pronoun offenders!

My, my...the gender police are working hard to transform language in order to make sure we are all culturally sensitive and don't offend any of the differently gendered, or is that "alt-gendered"? All the lesbian, gay, intersex, gender-fluid, genderqueer, intersex, cisgender, agender, and other odd folk must not be alienated or made to feel...well...odd. And so we have language gymnastics in order to develop an inclusive vocabulary that makes everyone feel at home in the loony bin. He and she personal pronouns must be replaced. Many have already done that using the grammatically incorrect "they" to stand in for "he or she" which, unfortunately, doesn't consider those who want to be "its".