NU-CHURCH HIPSTER CONFERENCE: REJOICE, YE LIBERAL CATHOLICS

"Vatican II: 50 Years On, The New Evangelization"

3-5 May 2012, Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario

Sponsored by the Canadian Forum on Theology and Education
As advertised at the New Catholic Times

PROBING THE THEOLOGICAL DEPTHS...

• "Prophets of the Earth and Universe"

• "What’s it all about Alfie? Curriculum in a Catholic school"

REFLECTIONS & REMINISCES ON LITURGICAL INNOVATIONS...

• "will address the legacy"

Okay, let's go in for the kill...

I. Don't know about the reader, but this writer always has enjoyed shooting fish in a barrel. Or would that be fishes in a barrel? Anyhow, the proliferation of heretics these days has topped off that barrel, so somebody has to do it. Perhaps some would deem this pleasure of mine perverse. Know, however, that perversion resides with those persons who, while claiming assent with Catholic doctrine, advocate notions manifestly inconsistent with it, as borne out with objective facts. According to my favourite dictionary, perverse means a "turning away from what is right or good... corrupt, incorrect, improper... obstinate in opposing what is right, reasonable, or accepted... wrongheaded... arising from or indicative of stubbornness".[1] Admittedly, this lowly compiler has the propensity for stubbornness and, yes, even to be an outlandish smartass. Yet identify any error regarding dogma in this blog and I will correct it, wholeheartedly submitting to the authority of the Church. For penance I'd even be willing to be Joy Behar's pool boy for a month.

II. So what specifically is the Canadian Forum on Theology and Education? Reportedly, it started as "high school forum" in 1979, recommencing anew in 2007. In essence, it's an annual get-together of lesser light heretics who actually think that the Vatican takes them seriously. If you check out the CFTE website and click the "contact" link, the listed address (in St. Catharines, Ontario) is the same as the headquarters for the New Catholic Times. NCT claims itself to be "the only online Pan-Canadian Catholic independent magazine". This, apparently, is a fancy way of saying it has a site on the internet. Given that NCT is probably the most radical of Canadian Catholic media outlets, and that the CTFE "forum" is advertised on the NCT website, it's rather pedestrian to forecast what the aforementioned boomerfest will entail. A little hindcasting shows that a past speaker was one Diarmuid O'Murchu who, as of 2006, was under investigation by the CDF.[2] He is author the book Quantum Theology (1997) and occasional blogger for the National Catholic Reporter. His latest blog post: "The new stage of psychic evolution".[3] O'Murchu's spiel is the usual Process Theology twaddle, disproven for decades now, by the likes of Monsignor Fulton Sheen, that is, in his earlier academic works. Nonetheless, to spare any potential suckers out there from blowing 400 smackers to party with the Nu-Church hipsters at the Atheneum Plastique, figured I'd give a kind of "heads up" overview as a public service.

III. So here we go... Some teasing at the CFTE website:

What does it mean to be Church today?... Theologians and bishops continue to recognize Vatican II as the most significant event in Catholic history in over 400 years... As an ecumenical council is the highest teaching authority in the Catholic Church.... The Second Vatican Council urged the Church to recognize itself in the achievements of society, such as human rights, democracy and religious pluralism. At the same time the Council urges us to resist the dark side of progress: individualism, instrumental thinking, the unregulated market system, and the neo-colonial exploitation of the Third World. Social solidarity is in decline, while indifference to the common good grows... Vatican Council II was a new way of thinking and a new way of being for the Church. It showed that the Church can and must be part of the world for which Jesus died.

Now this stuff is just fantastic. So much here. One could have a field day. Right now, however, I have not the energy to write a detailed analysis thereof. What can be said is that this is emblematic verbiage of the Nu-Church hipster demographic: mainly 60+ years in age, grey hair (if colouring not utilized), plaid apparel and a penchant for wanting to "get involved". You see, these types are increasingly becoming cognizant that time is running out, and the 50th anniversary of Vatican II is only a stark reminder of the clock ticking toward midnight. That gallery of V2 superstars are now reconsidering the victory they prefigured was theirs. The aggiornamento has steered off course, not within sight down range along the revolutionary horizon. Case in point is Pope Benedict: Summorum Pontificum, SSPX negotiations, et cetera. Forsooth, what can the Nu-Church hipsters do to reclaim that which was theirs? Well, they can have a "forum"...

IV. The CFTE forum is to be constituted of five sessions: (i) "Why the Council Matters", (ii) "the historical context, the personalities, issues, debates, and politics of the Council with some focus on the Canadian participants", including Remi "Enneagram" De Roo and his boyfriend Greg Baum, facilitator of the Winnipeg Statement, (iii) "on education, on the church, etc. - and the issues and challenges they have generated", (iv) "session will be panel-like in its format", (v) "will address the legacy, the future, the potentialities, the pitfalls, and the crises of SVC". The star speakers of the show are two. First, Michael Higgins: writer/columnist for the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and Commonweal, contributor to the CBC and TV Ontario... you get the idea. Second up is Jessica Taylor:

...PhD candidate in Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. She did her B.A (Theology) at St. Paul’s and M.A at Ottawa... During her time in Ottawa she facilitated Positive Space workshops for the University of Ottawa’s Center for Equity and Human Rights. Jessica brings to her presentations a commitment to social justice and feminist principles.

You get the idea. Ummm... ahhhh, don't forget the retreats and workshops. Here's a suite of "themes" to be addressed [TH2 comments in bolded square brackets]:

• Educating for Justice. [standard issue, zzzzzzzzzzz]

• The New Cosmology: The New Story. [admixture of religion and science, just like the pagans of old, confusion of natural with supernatural, no distinction between immanent and transcendent, blurring poles of dualisms into one, etc.]

• Using Stories and Games to Teach and Learn [hee hee hee hee, it's playtime kids]

• Catholic Education: It's how we do it not what we teach. [note how the manner of teaching as such, i.e. "how we do it", overrides the word, thought, "not what we teach", cf. Goethe's Faust: "In the beginning was the Deed", Marxist primacy on action, and so forth]

• Teilhard, Thomas Berry, Diarmuid O’Murchu, Rosemary Ruether, Miriam McGillis, Maureen Wild: Prophets of the Earth and Universe. [heretics, charlatans, a cornucopia of pantheism, feminism, nature worship, Gaia and so on]

• What's it all about Alfie? Curriculum in a Catholic school. [I have no bloody idea what this is all about]

Oh my, there will even be a "nutrition break" during the Friday morning session. Wonder if they'll be serving springwater spritzers and celery sticks with the Geritol? Sounds deeeeelicious. One other thing necessitating a note: nighttime entertainment for the Nu-Church hipsters is to be provided by Bollywood actor/dance superstar Jeetendra. He's got the moves...

V. Let's return to the New Catholic Times, specifically it's head honcho Ted Schmidt. If any of you Catholic Canucks haven't before heard of this character, it's about time you did. He's got a long history of activism, one of those careerists that does the circuit around the country, polluting minds with "workshops" on social justice and allied subjects. At the website with the http "renewedpriesthood.org", or at the publisher Seraphim Editions, you will find his book Journeys to the Heart of Catholicism. Go to the sites, read reviews (note reviewer names, affiliations) and it's a rather simple exercise to understand what's going on. Catholic Insight calls Schmidt a "dissenting gadfly".[4] Here's an example of Ted in action at a Toronto Star column last year:

The central teaching of Vatican II was a radical paradigm shift from hierarchy to communion. A new root metaphor - People of God - now defined the church as an absolutely egalitarian people, a communion, a discipleship of equals. Baptism, not holy orders, was the central sacrament. The Spirit was given not to a tiny clerical and celibate elite but to all the baptized.[5]

Okay, he's a Protestant or a Conciliarist or a follower of Schillebeekx's idea of the "Democratic Rule of the Church"[6] or whatever. Next:

Poll after poll, however, indicates that Catholics are ignoring head office. Demands to end mandatory celibacy, advance women in every church role available to men, a new sexual ethic, etc. have only increased.[7]

Okay, Teddy wants married priests, further feminization in the Church and a free reign of polymorphic sexual activity. What else do we have here?:

In his 26 years as pope [John Paul II], no priest was made bishop who did not follow the hard Roman line on the role of women, birth control and abortion... In the 45 years since the dust was blown off an antiquated institution, lay people, particularly in strong democratic countries, took to the new reforms with gusto. This would radically change under the authoritarian John Paul II and his German enforcer, Josef Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.[8]

Okay, Teddy wants women priests, contraception, is a pope basher and, obviously, takes a pro-abortion stance. Evidence for the latter comes from the NCT website itself. On July 5, 2010 it posted an article by Daniel McGuire of Marquette University, also "president of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics". The paper is entitled "Hierarchy, Sex and Power - a primer on educating bishops". It was originally printed in Conscience,[9] a periodical published by Catholics for Choice.

VI. So, then: Does the abovementioned qualify for manifest heresy? The editorial board at the Catholic Register doesn't think so...

VII. We could, I guess, let Schmidt the fossilizing Modernist criminal whine and cry all he wants. The biological solution looms and such V2 remnants are now well aware of the disinterested and dreaded march of time. Hence the undercurrent of desperation in his Toronto Star commentary. Thing is, Schmidt and his ilk always have readily available venues to spew their heretical nonsense, they populate (however sporadically) various influential positions within the Church's structure and, most notably, it does not take many of these enemies within the Catholic Church to effectuate changes for the worse. If this paltry number of heretics and apostates want change hard enough... if they have the will and wherewithal, they will get what they want, they will get their desired revolution, pending God's permission or any interdiction He deems necessary. As the late Primate of Poland Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński spoke: "Certain historical developments are willed by the Lord of History, and they shall take place. Many other developments, mostly minor, that same Lord is willing".[10] In this context, it's disheartening that a significantly larger number of Catholics in Canada, silently attentive to the infection within, have yet to rise up in a substantial way, to overwhelm the Modernist blowhards. No need to be intimidated by these geriatrics. If a real challenge was posed against the Modernists, you would be surprised at how quickly they would cower. It's the "sleeping giant" scenario, you know. And there isn't even a need to use "shock and awe" tactics, as is done in this space.

VIII. In light of this situation, TH2 now asks himself this question: Why did the editor at the Catholic Register recently publish a column by the radical Ted Schmidt?[11] Opinion commentary at CR, "Canada's Catholic News Source", is supposed to be more reputable than the antinomian tripe dished out at NCT, yes? But Ted Schmidt?! Heck, even Bentley and his latte leftism was tolerable, though he seems to have disappeared. Schmidt's piece was a typical liberal routine in selectively extracting quotes from papal encyclicals to justify a vulgar socialism. Standard fare with the Nu-Church hipsters. Thus we can disregard that noise for now. Instead, let us focus: "Why?", I asked myself again. I pondered. I ruminated. I cogitated. I ate a cheese sandwich and thunk some more. Still, no solution to the conundrum. So, then, tell us, Mr. O'Leary: Why did you publish an article by a pope-bashing, pro-abort, antinomian Catholic and demonstrated radical? Eh, hotshot? Certainly, you must know these facts. Tell us what you know about the world. I'm interested. Come on, Mr. Publisher/Editor, tell us. I'm very interested. Justify it.

IX. But the story doesn't end there. It's that unspoken, ongoing ruse that's been in effect for weeks, for months, for years, for decades. For example, last November reporter Shiela Nonato wrote a puff piece on the apostate Mary Jo Leddy, her views on "a more just society" and so forth. Let it be known that Leddy, along with excommunicated priest Greg Baum, founded the now defunct Marxist Catholic New Times, of which Schmidt was also an editor (not to be confused with the online NCT). This former habitless hussy abandoned the Sisters of Sion because - get this - "vocation is about where the heart is".[12] Golly gee, how charming. Was that a reference to Wesley's "religion of the heart"? Or, perchance, a throwback to the pietism of Jakob Spener's Pia desideria? But why, Miss Nonato, do you feed us this crap? Purpose please? Then there's associate editor Michael Swan. I can remember as far back as the 1990s when this individual was maligning persons or subject matter with any tinge of orthodoxy, let alone his current skewed reporting. Last month: "Cremation, green burials becoming more popular". Not even going to comment on that one. The situation was the same when Joseph Sinasac was CR editor some years back. Now he's Publishing Director at Novalis, Canada's main Catholic publisher. Here's an extract from the current issuance of "From the Publisher" at the Novalis website: "Exciting New Books... As always, best-selling spiritual writer Joan Chittister plays a major role in our line-up. You'll love Happiness, the beloved Benedictine nun's reflection on its true meaning". Chittister is a notorious heresiarchess. Look her up... the obscenities circling around inside my skull right now. What is really disturbing here is the nonchalant way all this stuff is dished out, as if there's nothing wrong or inconsistent with Catholic doctrine.

X. Be it the Register's publishing of Schmidt or Novalis' dissemination of books by Chittister and Baum, there is a malevolence at play here, hushed, where weasels work behind the scenes. A secret gateway is opened, permitting radicals to enter and thus corrupt souls. An analogy would be like malware or a virus program that covertly runs in your computer's background. For instance, you open up the latest issue of the Catholic Register and read a text from one of B16's general audiences or an absorbing column by Peter Stockland. But then you start to notice little things: the inclusion of those always questionable CNS reports, the bombardment of reports on whatever form of "justice", "human rights" and "climate change", the editorial slant toward Statism, the emphasis on NGO work for the poor over and above spiritual works of mercy, an approving book review of that author who has that just perfect left-liberal tilt. Not too much. Not too little. Do you ever notice these little things? I do - and it pisses me off. Then there was Sinasac's recent appearance on Salt + Light TV, talking about all the wonderful books Novalis has to offer. Buy why, TH2 queries again, didn't Apostasy Joe mention the many books by Joan Chittister sold by Novalis? Is she not, as he recently wrote, a "best-selling spiritual writer"? Does she not play "a major role in our line-up"? Then why not mention The Blueberry Muffin on Canada's "Channel of Hope"? An excellent venue for advertising to a wide audience, yes? Big bucks to be had, yes? What's there to hide?

XI. Does the reader see what's happening? It's a confluence of truth and error, of good with evil, without identifying real distinctions between them and, therefore, stealthily affirming error and evil. C.S. Lewis: "...then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies' plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger".[13] It all happens little by little, week after week, a phrase here and a sentence there, report after report, book upon book, and the purveyors of this subcutaneous malignancy, leaving things unsaid, quietly hope that nobody will excavate into the subsurface, take notice of the contagion and then challenge them. When have they ever been challenged? Do they actually believe themselves accountable? So it's the subtlety. That's the poison - and it must be pinpointed and called out for what it is. Which leads to these further questions: Who the hell are these people? Why do they permit and facilitate heresy? Do they even know that they're doing the devil's handiwork? If not, why are they even allowed to wield such positions in Catholic publishing? Do they actually think any Canadian Catholic with a modicum of orthodoxy doesn't understand what's going on here? This must stop. Accordingly, the virus has be purged, the stables need cleaning, this ideational sewage must be flushed out. The time for diplomacy and dilly dallying with enemies of the Church is over.


NOTES / REFERENCES

1. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (Toronto: Thomas Allen & Son Limited, 1977), p. 856.

2. "Priest's Australian lectures cancelled over CDF investigation", CathNews, June 30, 2006. See also "Critiquing Diarmuid O'Murchu's 'New World Order'", Catholic Online, April 16, 2006. Authors not indicated.

3. D. O'Murchu, "The new stage of psychic evolution", National Catholic Reporter, April 29, 2011.

4. D. Dooley, "Pre-history of Humanae vitae", Catholic Insight, vol. VI, no. 7, July/August 1998. For more of Schmidt's antics (e.g. promotion of homosexuality, attack on priestly celibacy) see: CI Staff, "Promoting Spong", Catholic Insight, vol. 11, no. 6, June 2003; and A. de Valk, "The anti-Catholic New Times", Catholic Insight, vol. VIII, no. 4, April 2005.

5. T. Schmidt, "The Roman Catholic Tragedy", Toronto Star, April 4, 2010.

6. cf. E. Schillebeekx, Church, The Human Story of God (New York: Crossroads Publishing Company, 1990), pp. 190, 228.

7. T. Schmidt, op. cit.

8. Ibid.

9. D.C. Maguire, "Hierarchy, Sex and Power: A Primer on Educating Bishops", Conscience, vol. XXXI, no. 1, pp. 18-23.

10. Quoted in M. Martin, The Keys of This Blood (New York: Touchstone Books, 1990).

11. T. Schmidt, "Justice, equity and a living wage", Catholic Register, November 15, 2011.

12. Quoted in D. Gibeau, "Mary Jo Leddy leaves Sisters of Sion after 30 years", National Catholic Reporter, May 6, 1994.

13. C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (London: The Bodley Head, 1967), p. 96.

NU-CHURCH HIPSTER CONFERENCE: REJOICE, YE LIBERAL CATHOLICS

BALLS !

I. I've been monitoring the current canonization process of one recently deceased Asian massage parlour aficionado Jack Layton and, consequently, I'm now at the point of considering that, perhaps, Paris Hilton is the greatest explicator of Aquinas since Cajetan composed his commentaries on the Summa Theologica. I've also been monitoring some "official" reactions to the near-concurrent death of Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic and, frankly, I'm now desperately in need of a gin martini - three olives, dry and a little dirty. That's right, Catholic Canucks, time now for some contrasting and comparisons. Omission is my name and pretense is the game... We ride!

II. With regard to Blessed John Gilbert Layton of Toronto-Danforth, the secular press and its allied cultural-political elites have collectively adorned themselves with a black dress like the mamas from the old country. They are in mourning. You could see that coming from 20 parsecs away. But the degree of wailing and post hoc adulation for someone who was at best a third-rate politician and at worst a spotlight-craving opportunist has gone completely over the top. Unprecedented. And a state funeral?!? What this whole spectacle does show is that our secular press are a bunch of religious fanatics. The vacuum of their godlessness has simply been filled with substituting religiosities to which Layton's immanentist hopes can be fulfilled: redemption of the natural world by "saving the climate", feminist liberation with abortion, government-ordained "social justice", or whatever else their newly appointed secular saint extolled. This religion construction really is pathetic, analogous to the way Auguste Comte attempted fashion his "religion of humanity". Old story. New characters. Let alone that Layton was a enemy of Catholicism. Well, let's not because apparently there are Catholics who think he was not.

III. First up is Ted Schmidt at New Catholic Times. His piece is entitled "The Gospel Layton". An extract:

Catholics have been late to understand Layton's gospel orientation... Jack Layton stood as a justice beacon for many Catholics. When so many bishops had forgotten that the cry of the victim was the cry of God, the leader of the NDP mercifully was present to keep the vision of the Galilean alive in the public realm. In this regard believers owe him a great debt.[1]

Second up is the CEO of the Salt and Light Media Foundation:

I always found him to be a kind gentleman in his dealings with others. He listened attentively to others, especially those who had differing opinions, and showed much respect for people.[2]

Third up is CCCB President Bishop Pierre Morissette:

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops joins all Canadians in offering condolences and sympathy to the family, friends and political colleagues of the late Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Jack Layton, who died earlier today. He was a dedicated politician who served his country with devotion and generosity, was concerned for the common good, and gave a wonderful example of courage and hope, especially during recent months when struggling against cancer. May he rest in peace, and may Our Lord comfort all those in mourning.[3]

Now I read this stuff and think "Okay, the man just died and some acknowledgement must be given since he was a relatively influential public figure". Yet here was someone that advocated views in direct opposition to Catholic teaching - not quietly in private, but in the public square as a prominent power player for all to witness. A secular humanist worldview where State intrusion and control are preponderant. Pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, pro-sodomy, anti-family. These were celebrated, flaunted, worked to put into policy, however circuitously. Accordingly, measured responses from Catholic representatives would be the expectation. But is this occurrent in abovementioned quotations? If you have answered affirmatively, then perhaps this video might be watched, likely more amenable to your sensibilities.

IV. You see, Catholics are known for making distinctions and they love to do so. There is always the "but" in this context. For example, "we pray for the soul of" so and so yet there is no absolute guarantee that so and so is now in Heaven. We do not know the disposition of a soul. To claim otherwise is an infringement upon Divine Justice. And, yes, there is no absolute assurance that Hitler, Stalin and Mao are in Hell. Otherwise it would be an anthropomorphic restriction on Divine Mercy. Granted, there are situations so complex and nuanced - theological, moral, sociological or whatever - that distinctions are difficult to make. This is why there are canonists to resolve such issues. But you need not be a distinction monger to apprehend the division, the crevasse (not distinction) between what "Smiling Jack" endorsed and what the Magisterium teaches. No grey shades there.

V. It took Fr. Alphonse de Valk just two sentences to override the muddled-headed blather quoted above and make this evident: "As a Toronto City Councillor, Layton stood among the crowd who mocked and physically abused pro-life activists who peacefully witnessed to the dignity of all human life before Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary in October 1988. He urged the police to arrest the pro-lifers and complained that they had not already done so before he got there".[4] Is this the "kind gentleman in his dealings with others", as Salt+Light's CEO said? Is this the "wonderful example of courage and hope", as +Morissette said? Is this "the vision of the Galilean alive in the public realm", as Teddy said? Well, the crew at NCT are enchanted by Marx. So any misdeed committed by Layton the NDPer is overshadowed by his public persona and political philosophy. Marx, you might recall, never stepped into a factory. He also kept an 8 year old girl as a servant and mistress. Facts which the luvvies on the Left avoid mentioning.

VI. The same principle of omission is at work here. Despite the fact Layton's entire political life warred against what it is to be Catholic in Canadian society, despite the fact that recent revelations showed him to have less than a stellar personal/moral life, the "official" Catholic responses quoted above assert that he was a model citizen working for the common good and, unlike all human beings, had no real flaws that should make Catholics pause. For you see - or rather don't see - the hidden message conveyed to Catholics is a silent one: it really doesn't matter if a life lived is antithetical to Church teaching. Heck, if you're married and yet still satiate your hankering for Asian cupcakes, that's okay with us. Ancient Chinese secret, huh.

VII. More interesting than the responses to Layton's death was the "official" response to the death of His Eminence, Cardinal Ambrozic. Thus spake the Star Chamber:

His Eminence Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic, Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto, died on August 26, 2011, after a lengthy illness. He was 81 years old. The late Cardinal was a priest for 56 years and Bishop for 35 years. He served as the ninth Archbishop of Toronto, from 1990 to 2006. He was made Cardinal by Pope John Paul II at the Consistory of February 21, 1998... [5]

It continues with biographical details and provides links to the Archdiocese of Toronto website, to another biography and the telegram of condolence from Pope Benedict. One aspect is missing, however. No specific words of condolence or prayers are offered by the CCCB itself for the Cardinal. A subsequent posting gives notice that +Ambrozic's funeral was to be broadcast on Salt+Light TV, with this little advertisement:

An award-winning digital network that offers a variety of programs, event coverage, documentaries and other hope-filled content, Salt + Light TV is produced and operated by Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation, a charitable organization in Canada devoted to spreading the light of Christ to the world through television, documentaries, radio, Internet and other forms of social communication.[6]

Sheesh. You'd think that tooting one's horn on the death of a prominent Cardinal would be inappropriate. Where's the respect, people? Why the self-promotion? Viewership lapsing?

VIII. But let's get back to the CCCB's glaring omission of prayers/condolence for the Cardinal. For Layton, The Star Chamber sayeth "May he rest in peace, and may Our Lord comfort all those in mourning". Last July Archbishop Spence died, wherein the CCCB site reads: "It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the Most Rev. Francis John Spence".[7] These personalizing specificities are nowhere to be found for the Cardinal. Instead the Bishops perform some linguistic acrobatics, redirecting readers elsewhere, to extraneous sources: "Pontiff Mourns Cardinal Ambrozic" and "Additional information on Cardinal Ambrozic is available at..." (TH2 italics).

IX. Now why would les garçons du nord do this? Because there is a history of animosity between the CCCB and the Cardinal. +Spence was former CCCB president and Layton's left-wing politics certainly aligns itself with Star Chamber sensibilities, so of course special words there will be. His Eminence, however, was no kowtower and diplomacy was scant when it came to manifest dissent. Case in point was the March for Women 2000, whose stance included pro-abortion and pro-lesbianism. Participants included the Catholic Women's League and Canadian Religious Conference. Support came from - wait for it - Development and Peace, an arm of the CCCB. In response, +Ambrozic cut $15000 in D+P funding as a sign to shape up or ship out. The controversy was uncovered by LifeSite News, to which he was a donor. Reacting to +Ambrozic's action, the CCCB and D+P issued a public letter reiterating their support for the march.[8]

X. So there you have it: praise and prayerful concern for the popular politician Jack Layton, whose life was devoted to an immanentist secular utopia, while disregarding his words and actions at stark variance with Catholic teaching - CONTRA - a mere acknowledgement by the CCCB (likely reluctantly done) of Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic, a loyal son of the Church, orthodox, stridently pro-life, whose words and actions were directed to the transcendent hope of Heaven. Accordingly, let's end on a pleasant note: "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".[9]


NOTES / REFERENCES

1. T. Schmidt, "The Gospel Layton", New Catholic Times, August 5, 2011. The date stamp for this article is apparently incorrect. Layton died on August 22.

2. Quoted in D. Gyapong, "Jack Layton's spiritual side revealed during battle with cancer", Catholic Register, August 23, 2011.

3. CCCB, " Statement following the death of the Leader of the Opposition", August 22, 2011.

4. A. de Valk, "Leader of the New Democratic Party, Jack Layton, dead", Catholic Insight, August 25, 2011.

5. CCCB, "Death of His Eminence Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic, Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto", August 26, 2011.

6. CCCB, " Salt + Light TV broadcasts funeral Mass for the late Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic", August 30, 2011.

7. CCCB, "Death of the Most Reverend Francis John Spence, Archbishop Emeritus of Kingston, Ontario", July 29, 2011.

8. Cf. "Cardinal Ambrozic reacts to funding of abortion supporting march", LifeSite News, May 15, 2000; "Canadian bishops' organization contradicts Vatican policy", LifeSite News, May 18, 2000; J.H. Western, "Cardinal Ambrozic 1930-2011: a LifeSite News donor, and a complex relationship", LifeSite News, August 26, 2011.

9. Matthew 18:6.

BALLS !

CANADIAN CATHOLIC MSM HIGHLIGHTS / NO. 2

An ongoing analysis of subtle and/or blatant heresy/apostasy advocated by the Canadian Catholic Mainstream Media

Today's Lesson: The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite (Ecclesiastes 1:15).

DISSEMINARE DISSENSIO AD NAUSEUM. Novalis Publishers, an internal enemy of the Roman Catholic Church, is all geared up for its autumn publishing season. In his Fall 2010 Letter, Publishing Director Joseph Sinasac seems very excited about this season's line-up: "Once again, Joan Chittister, the best-selling American Catholic author, has provided Novalis with her latest wisdom with God's Tender Mercies, on the sustenance to be found in an attitude of forgiveness."[1] Hooray for heresy! Three cheers for womyn priests! Let's hear it for pansexual pantheism! Joanie's back with a vengeance and Novalis must be making pretty good coin from her tracts as they churn out lots of her stuff. I wonder what Fr. Paul Marx, founder of Human Life International, would think? Oh, here's one thing he said about the blueberry muffin: "Sister Joan Chittister is a wicked woman, to say nothing of a wicked nun... this wild nun... has been doing her dirty work for quite some time."[2] So thank you, Apostasy Joe, for all that you do. Keep on truckin', buddy. Note to Canadian Catholics: Did you hear about Novalis' new motto?: "Screwing you since Vatican II".

YE OLDE CATHLYC TYMES. What's going on at the New Catholic Times these days? There is always something fascinating happening over there at its website, despite hardly any responses in the com boxes. Yet I thought they were a major outfit, representing a large contingency of Canadian Catholics? What gives? Usually, no original articles. Just regurgitations from other radicalist sources. Why is that? Guess when your view of society is disproved innumerable times and becomes outdated and boring that pamphleteering duties need be relegated to others more innovative at repeating old errors with new labels. Labour Day has just come and gone and, goodness gracious, did that nostalgia for the good ole days of mayhem and Marxism brim to the surface. Let's see... an article [LINK] from haereticus extraordinarius Fr. Richard McBrien, wherein we read at the outset: "I keep hoping that one of these years the U.S. Catholic Bishops will issue a Labor Day statement that focuses on the church’s responsibility to practice what it preaches and teaches about social justice and human rights."[3] What? Social justice has not been the dominant forces in the last 40+ years? What a funny guy. Another article is by Ralph Nader, all-around-leftist-activist-do-gooder, that false messiah for the worker, now fading into the sunset. [LINK] Read this self-congratulatory extract: "One day I was at BWI airport and went to the crowded men's room. As I entered, the elderly cleaning man erupted in frustration. 'I'm sick of this job,' he shouted to no one in particular. 'Hour after hour I clean up, come back, see the crap, clean up some more. It never ends,' he wailed. The men who were wiping, flushing, washing, drying and zipping were stunned and silently shuffled out, as if he wasn’t there. I thanked him for his work and candor, calmed him down and gave him a gratuity. The others looked at me blankly as if I was dealing with a ghost they never see as a human being."[4] A kind gesture, to be sure. But where did Nader head off to afterward? The next protest rally? A TV interview? Book signing? All talk, never getting the hands dirty on a regularized or routine basis. Chesterton: "They love ordinary people from afar and talk about them often. But nearness to the people and their beliefs frightens them and confuses them".

WESTERN CRAPLIC REPORTER. Arrrrrrrggg. What say ye maytees? At the Western Catholic Reporter Glen Argan is troubled. He is upset over "the public face of Christianity" in light of vampire novelist Anne Rice, who recently "quit" Catholicism because it is "anti-gay... anti-feminist... anti-artificial birth control... anti-Democrat... anti-secular humanism... anti-science... anti-life". Let alone Rice's standard dilettante bromides, Argan seems to think that the Church compelled Annie to jump ship. He also sympathizes with her. Arrrrrrrggg, he's a sensitive guy. She is absolutely right and 2000 years of Catholic teaching and tradition, consistent and unwavering, is wrong. The Church has made some bad public relations decisions lately, he laments: "The recent classic example of failure in this area - though not the only one - was the decision to lift the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops, blithely unaware that one of them was a Holocaust denier."[5] Of course, the anti-Semitism of Richard Williamson (the person referred) does not form the central node of Argan's grievance. Arrrrrrrggg, this is a diversion. Rather, it is the fact that Pope Benedict lifted the excommunication on the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and, therefore, Argan is well cognizant of the Church's gradual return to orthodoxy and reverent liturgy after decades of abuse by the now graying hippies. Arrrrrrrggg, does this poor fellow seem fearful. If this horrendous trend continues, no longer will Argan be entirely comfortable with, for example, writing puff pieces on Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, as he did last July 26.[6] Johnson, for the record, is a well known heretic, advocating one-world government, goddess worship, womyn's ordination and the feminization the Holy Trinity.[7] According to Argan, "the God of love is on the side of the poor and oppressed". Ah, yes, the Marxist class warfare thing. Does this mean that my upper middle class friend who drives a Ferrari is going to Hell? Anyhow, thank you Glen for approving of Johnson and her struggle against the evils of "masculine language" and, even more so, for exemplifying the feminization of man in modern society. Send him to the plank, maytees! Feed Glen Arrrrrgan to the fishies. Arrrrrrrggg...


FAIRY MESSENGER. The Prairie Messenger is endorsing a book by Fr. Andrew Murray Britz, OSB: Truth To Power: The Journalism of a Benedictine Monk. Do you think that fellow Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister's Foreward to this book yields a clue as to text's contents? Let's see: "This collection is an enduring part of the spiritual literature of our period". Oh my dear. The advertisment goes on to say: "Britz is known for his challenging editorials, weighing in on the concrete issues of our time: birth control, abortion, clergy abuse, sexism in the church, etc."[LINK] Hmmmm.... I wonder what all this means? Is Britz gonna get with the kidz? Truth to power, baby! Well, let's read a quote from one of Fr. Britiz's "challenging editorials": "Strange and, I think, dangerous changes are taking place in the ecumenical world."[8] Vexed about Pope Benedict's ordinariate offered to the Anglicans, are you? They seem to be crossing the Tiber is droves. I guess years of inutile liberal "dialogue" was a load of crap after all. It appears that all those decades of dissent were for nothing. Too bad. Enjoy your retirement.



A RON ROLHEISHER MOMENT. Do you ever notice that Fr. Ron Rolheiser... oops, he prefers not to formally present himself as a Catholic priest, a soul specially consecrated to Jesus Christ. I mean, rather, this: Do you ever notice that Fr. Ron Rolheiser, whose weekly column appears in 70 newspapers worldwide, approvingly quotes heretics, non-Catholics and leftist radicals on a regular basis? I do. Yes, he will quote the orthodox Catholic every once in a while, but the impression received is that their insights are really no better or superior than your run-of-the-mill dissenter. We are all the same. Difference means divisiveness, and we want none of that. This is his subtle heresy, whether done knowingly or not. After all, Rolheiser is a self-proclaimed "community-builder" (is like a community organizer?) and just wants everyone to get along. So maybe we should give him a break? But not today. Over the last few months he has, in his columns, favourably quoted from the following... First: Karl Rahner (1904-1984), progressivist Jesuit priest, "spirit" of Vatican II superstar, suit and tie kinda guy, had 22 year affair with German novelist Luise Rinser.[9] Second: the "mystical tradition of Islam". Seriously? Third: liberal Christian author Donald Miller, recently appointed to be on Barack Obama's "Task Force on Fatherhood and Healthy Families". Fourth: Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957), one-time admirer of Lenin, enchanted by Nietzsche, author of the not so Catholic friendly The Last Temptation (of Christ), made into a controversial film by Martin Scorsese (released 1988). In his latest column, entitled The Lesson of Loneliness, Rolheiser quotes from the anti-authoritarian/Dionysian Persian poet Hafez (ca. 1325-1390): "Don't surrender your loneliness / So quickly / Let it cut more deep / Let it ferment and season you."[10] Notice: wallow in sentimentality, give in to self pity and passivity, get lost in a mushy inwardist emotionalism, let your feelings fester. This has echoes of quietism, a heresy occurrent in 17th century Europe. Admittedly, yours truly is cold and indifferent in his analyses, yet no inference is here being made that emotions do not constitute part of the human condition. Still, with Rolheisher this self-remedial, self-annihilating emotionalism is made almost absolute, bordering on the pathetic. True love is an act of the will, which Catholic doctrine and the saints have always said. Emotions are ephemeral. So, then, here is our Ron Rolheiser Moment (from a December 2007 article): "Advent is about longing, about getting in touch with it, about heightening it, about letting it raise our psychic temperatures, about sizzling as damp, green logs inside the fires of intimacy, about intuiting the kingdom of God by seeing, through desire, what the world might look like if a Messiah were to come and, with us, establish justice, peace and unity on this earth". Endless gushing verbosity. Please make it stop.

CATHOLIC DISGORGISTER. John Bentley Mays at the Catholic Register argues that the Ground Zero mosque controversy is a direct consequence of racism: "The bitter controversy raging in the United States over the proposed mosque near New York’s World Trade Centre site has exposed a dark, durable stain on American public life. It’s racism of the old-fashioned, virulent kind, blurring distinctions, stereotyping the hated and feared 'Other', radically threatening the discipline and tolerance necessary to make a multicultural society work."[11] For my American readers, know that with Bentley (I like "Bentley", so let's call him Bentley) we have the typical elitist snob of the ruling intellectual class, at once spewing a vulgar anti-Americanism while extolling the so-called superior virtues of multiculturalism (he is American born, but lives up here). Pat Buchanan express Bentley's attitude more succinctly: "faculty-lounge obtuseness to the feelings of the people among whom they live."[12] Notice how the whole racism accusation immediately nullifies, in one swipe, all justified counterarguments to the mosque being built. Total silencing and vilification. According to a recent poll, 70% of Americans think the mosque should not be built. Based on Bentley's "logic", then, this means that 70% of Americans are racist. See the stupidity. What Bentley fails to understand is that - as my American friend Anita at V for Victory! pointed out - Islam is specifically a religion, not a race. But Bentley deceitfully attempts to equalize racism and religion. Racism, he writes, "always works by isolating and demonizing the 'Other', branding all as criminals for the crimes of the few, by taking indiscriminate revenge for those crimes on whole religious or ethnic communities". This is his escape hatch. Racism relates to the physical traits of a person. Religion relates to the theological beliefs of a person. The material versus the immaterial. Since, to Bentley, racism equals religious bigotry, he does not have to face head-on what Islam is as a religion. Like many on the Vulgar Left, he possesses not the testicular fortitude to deal with the objective facts of what Mohammedism is as a religion (i.e. theocratic, ideological) and thus sweeps those facts under the carpet of Political Correctness. Bentley continues: "Anyone who knows Muslims personally or Islam beyond what they hear on talk radio... is aware of the dangerous generalization embodied in this belief". Apparently, Bentley listens only to talk radio and never has read the Koran. Neither has he, it seems, read a book on the history of religions. But none of this matters to this little weasel. That Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam behind the mosque's development, does not condemn terrorism or Sharia is of no concern. That this Iman blames the US for the abomination committed on September 11, 2001 is of no relevance. That Bentley does not see in this controversy echoes of Mohammedan triumphalism at Cordoba, Spain betrays his utter historical ignorance. Fr. Raymond de Souza gets to the crux:

What kind of mosque and community centre will Cordoba House be? The sad reality is that throughout the Islamic world, especially in the Arab nations, Christian churches, schools and orphanages - where they are allowed to be built at all - often find mosques built next door, from which hostility and harassment issues forth.[13]

But the devastating broadside to Bentley and his latte-slurping confreres comes from the pen of Amir Taheri:

In fact, the proposed structure is known in Islamic history as a rabat - literally a connector. The first rabat appeared at the time of the Prophet. The Prophet imposed his rule on parts of Arabia through a series of ghazvas, or razzias (the origin of the English word "raid"). The ghazva was designed to terrorize the infidels, convince them that their civilization was doomed and force them to submit to Islamic rule... building a rabat close to Ground Zero would be in accordance with a tradition started by the Prophet. To all those who believe and hope that the 9/11 ghazva would lead to the destruction of the American "Great Satan," this would be of great symbolic value... The argument is that Cordoba, in southern Spain, was a city where followers of Islam, Christianity and Judaism lived together in peace and produced literature and philosophy. In fact, Cordoba's history is full of stories of oppression and massacre, prompted by religious fanaticism... A rabat in the heart of Manhattan would be of great symbolic value to those who want a high-profile, "in your face" projection of Islam in the infidel West.[14]

So much for multiculturalism. But, of course, the abovementioned means naught to this mal vivant. Deer looking in the headlights. Fantasy over factuality. Instead, Bentley will be at the salon sipping apple martinis with his tight-ass windbag friends at The Walrus, blathering over deconstructionist art and architecture. Have fun in the bubble, Bentley.


NOTES / REFERENCES

1. J. Sinasac, Fall 2010 Letter from the Publishing Director, Novalis Canada. LINK [UPDATE Sept. 24/10: link removed by Novalis. See link for book here]. See my analysis of Novalis here.

2. Letter from Fr. Paul Marx to Fr. Tom Euteneuer (August 20, 2007).

3. R. McBrien, "For Labor Day, church should embody social teachings", National Catholic Reporter, September 3, 2010. LINK

4. R. Nader, "Honoring Those Who Toil", Eurasia Review, September 3, 2010. LINK

5. G. Argan, "Author's opting out from Church gives a heads up", Western Catholic Reporter (editorial), September 6, 2010. LINK

6. G. Argan, "A feminist perception of the Spirit", Western Catholic Reporter, July 26, 2010. LINK

7. See, for example, T.M. Baklinkski, "Catholic University to Give Award to Goddess-Worshipping Theologian", LifeSite News, November 13, 2007. LINK

8. A.M. Britz, "Dangerous trends evident in Catholic ecumenism", Prairie Messenger (op-ed), April 28, 2010. LINK Read more about Fr. Britz the dime-a-dozen "social justice" heretic here.

9. This affair was chronicled in P. Schaeffer, "Karl Rahner's Secret 22-year Romance", National Catholic Reporter, December 19, 1997. LINK

10. The columns cited here include: "Love in a Time of Opposition" (July 25/10), "Ego, God, and Ministry" (August 1/10), "Editing Your Own Life" (August 15/10), "Spirituality and the Seasons of our Lives" (August 22/10), "The Lesson within Loneliness" (September 9/10) and "Advent Longing" December 2/07). These can be found in the archives at Rolheiser's website. LINK

11. J.B. Mays, "Racism at centre of 9/11 mosque dispute", Catholic Register, September 1, 2010. LINK

12. P.J. Buchanan, "Only Bigots Oppose the Mosque!", Human Events, August 24, 2010. LINK

13. R.J. de Souza, "Harassment and hostility, or healing and harmony?", National Post, September 9, 2010. LINK

14. A. Taheri, "Islam center's eerie echo of ancient terror", New York Post, September 10, 2010. LINK

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CANADIAN CATHOLIC MSM HIGHLIGHTS / NO. 1

An ongoing analysis of subtle and/or blatant heresy/apostasy advocated by the Canadian Catholic Mainstream Media

Today's Lesson: All we like sheep have gone astray, everyone has turned aside into his own way (Isaiah 53:6).

PAPAL POTSHOT. In a recent editorial at the cornball pastoral periodical Celebrate!, Bernadette Gasslein writes of the "of the widespread denial and hiding of the reality of sexual abuse of children and youth to save the Church’s institutional face."[1] She goes on to state: "To engage in this challenging work of reconciliation, we cannot demean either victim or offender. If any of us speaks of "ridding the Church of filth," we inevitably communicate that some person is filth - and both victims and offenders have been so demeaned. This is not the message of the Gospel or the Church’s social teaching" (TH2 emphasis). Gasslein is referring to the words of Pope Benedict who, upon his election to the papacy, promised to rid "filth" from the Church, meaning those religious who committed sexual abuses.[2] Right away three things are noticed: Firstly, why does Gasslein not explicitly indicate, by name, that it is Benedict XVI to whom she is making reference? The fact she does not speaks volumes. Secondly, she makes the standard dilettante error of confusing being with behaviour, i.e. ignorantly assuming that the ridding of filth means that the person as such is filth, inferring that the Pope is unaware of the distinction between the sin and sinner (e.g. "love the sinner, hate the sin"). It is safe to assume that His Holiness is more philosophically nuanced than, outfitted with theological equipment superior to, Ms. Gasslein. Thirdly, if Gasslein cannot deal with a specific and hard hitting word like "filth" to characterize the sexual abuse of (predominately) young boys by homosexual priests (ephebophilia)[3], then what other word should be used depict these abominations? Tune in to the next Oprah to find out. No surprise here with Gasslein's secret contempt. Recall: Celebrate! is published by the enemies at Novalis Publishers.

SIN OF OMISSION. "Of the 74 people named to the Order of Canada on Canada Day, only one of them has spent a lifetime explaining to the world how to be human".[4] So writes Michael Swan at The Catholic Register, referring to Sr. Simone Roach, who taught nursing at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Now the appointment to the Order of Canada has nowadays turned into a national joke. "Who doesn't have that award?", goes the righteous retort. Recipients are mainly on the politically correct Left. But what makes the report atrocious (within the context of Catholicism and balanced reporting) is that Mr. Swan completely omits the recent controversy regarding the naming of Henry Morgentaler to the Order of Canada in 2008. He was named thereto by that prissy, endistancing bureaucrat, Michaëlle Jean, the Governor General of Canada. Morgentaler is Canada's most notorious abortionist, operating Moloch mills throughout Canada. In response to his appointment, not a few have resigned from the Order, including Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte.[5] Not only is it despicable that Swan quietly leaves this salient issue aside, his article makes it as if Sr. Roach's appointment is something to be celebrated by Catholics, to be highly commended. The fact that Sr. Roach is welcoming the appointment also speaks to her character and submission to the spirit of the world. What makes it worse is Roach's nursing involvement, of that appertaining to human life/health, though evidently the life/health of unborn children is to her a bottom tier concern. It is also worth mentioning that Sr. Christine Leyser, IBVM, a habitless "social justice" nun, was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2009.[6] She gratefully accepted as well. The embedded image above shows this apostate smooching the CBC Fabianist Governor General, Michaëlle Jean. Sleep well, muffins.

LAMENTATION OVER DEFUNDING OF PRO-ABORTION GROUPS. In his "Journey to Justice" column in the Western Catholic Reporter Joe Gunn writes of "the chill emanating from Ottawa, which has frozen the good efforts of civil society groups across the land".[7] He is lamenting "the most egregious cut to international development groups". Cut as in the federal governments reduction of dollars to leftist NGOs and charities. He specifically laments cuts made to Amnesty International, OXFAM, KAIROS, Development & Peace and the women's group MATCH International (amongst others). But wait a second. Why is Gunny lamenting? All of these groups are known facilitators/promotors of abortion.[8] Abortion is murder and the Catholic Church has always forbidden it as a grave evil. Again, the question is this: Why is Gunny, who writes for a supposedly "Catholic" newspaper, lamenting over the loss of public funding to pro-abortion groups? The logical deduction is either he deems abortion to not be an evil or he simply does not care (which is the same as the former). As a "social justice" bureaucrat, the abortion issue would, of course, intrude upon his dream of a future Marxist utopia. Pathetic. Underhanded. Conniving.

NEW GERITOL TIMES. Those radical Marxist fossils at the New Catholic Times are at it again. This month they posted an article by Daniel C. Maguire from Marquette University, "president of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics". The article is entitled "Hierarchy, Sex and Power: A Primer on Educating Bishops", originally published by the Moloch worshipping, hellbound group "Catholics for Choice".[9] No surprise here, of course, but it would be nice if the staff at New Clapper Times would at least relax once in a while. Don't they nap anymore? They certainly deserve to do so after the last 40+ years of revolutionizing and pot smoking. Oh, lest we forget: the enemies at Novalis Publishers endorse their comrades at NCT. Click here and follow the arrows.

EDITOR PROVOCATION. At the Prairie Messenger the following (extract) Letter to the Editor was published: "On April 16, Rev. Hans Küng, the world famous theologian and Catholic priest, published a letter in The New York Times that challenged all Catholics, lay and clerical, to take a good hard look at what is happening to the Catholic Church. Since then, I have seen two references to the letter in the PM. One was a response from the Vatican. The other was a reference by a local person. But I have not seen his letter in full".[10] That the letter writer is a buffoon is clear. Yet what is interesting is the Editor's note thereafter: "The text of Rev. Hans Kung's open letter to the world's bishops (April 2010) can be found in the PM's online edition this week." Happily does the Editor plaster Küng's diatribe at the Prairie Messenger website, linked in from the home page.[11] The Editor (obviously a scoundrel) makes no mention of Küng being a manifest heretic; no mention that Küng denies Christ's divinity and that he negates papal infallibility (to say the least); no mention of the disproven allegations against the Pope (with facts), about whom Küng wrote: "the worldwide system of covering up cases of sexual crimes committed by clerics was engineered by the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Ratzinger". Note that the Editor's lack of commentary on, or qualifications of, Küng's letter is a standard tactic used to provoke and quietly insult orthodox Catholics. The Editor's escape hatch is that he just presented Küng's letter as such, neither praising or condemning it. Accordingly, he has a built-in defence that automatically disallows criticism, thus removing all responsibility away from himself with respect to his dissemination of heresy. Schmuck.


NOTES / REFERENCES

1. B. Gasslein, Healing the Body of Christ, Celebrate!, July/August 2010. LINK

2. See also a recent report, "Pope seen as leader ridding church of 'filth'", ZENIT, March 16, 2010. LINK

3. Studies show that 80+% of the abuse was committed by homosexuals. Cf. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The Nature and Scope of the Problem of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States, 2004 LINK See also P. Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis (London: Oxford University Press, 2001) and B. Donohue, "Catholic Church's issue is homosexuality, not pedophilia", The Washington Post, July 22, 2010. LINK

4. M. Swan, "Order of Canada recognizes nun's role in caring for humanity", The Catholic Register, July 8, 2010. LINK Subnote that Roach was nominated by Anglican priestess Maggie Myers.

5. See, for example, T.M. Baklinski, "Another Resignation from Order of Canada over Morgentaler Debacle", LifeSite News, April 20, 2010. LINK A good commentary on this matter comes from I. Hunter, "Ian Hunter on Henry Morgentaler's Order of Canada: A symbol of moral decay", National Post, July 2, 2008. LINK

6. Leysner belongs to the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM), Loretto Sisters, Canadian Province (Guelph, Ontario). Visit these habitless nuns at their website here and learn about social justice and other NGO crap. With links to Amnesty International, Development and Peace, the paganistic nature worshipping Earth Charter, the United Nations and other abortion facilitators.

7. J. Gunn, "Government silences voices of dissent, Charities, NGOs, suddenly find themselves cut off from federal funds", Western Catholic Reporter, July 19, 2010. LINK TH2 fisks Gunny here.

8. For the support/facilitation of abortion by Amnesty International: "Amnesty International Canada's consultations regarding sexual and reproductive rights - May 2007", Public Statement issued on June 14, 2007. LINK OXFAM: S Block, "Oxfam and Sojourners gang up to save the world", Spero News, July 21, 2009. LINK KAIROS: A. de Valk, "Catholics should stop funding KAIROS", Catholic Insight, January 2010, vol. XVIII, no. 1, p. 3. LINK MATCH International: P. Tuns, "Ottawa defunds feminist groups", The Interim, June 9, 2010. LINK For Development & Peace (an arm of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, CCCB) see the LifeSite News D&P-dedicated page here including the excellent investigations/analyses conducted at the SoCon or Bust blog here.

9. The editor at New Catholic Times republished it here. Original publication: D.C. Maguire, "Hierarchy, Sex and Power: A Primer on Educating Bishops", Conscience, vol. XXXI, no. 1, pp. 18-23. LINK

10. "Kung's open letter to bishops a significant contribution to discussion of difficult issues", Prairie Messenger, vol. 88, no. 7, July 14, 2010. LINK

11. Hans Küng's "open letter" can be found here at the Prairie Messenger. Originally entitled "Church in worst credibility crisis since Reformation, theologian tells bishops", The Irish Times, April 16, 2010.

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