December 10 Articles and Late-Afternoon Update on the Unraveling of the Laypopes Scandal
Absalom Times Two or More
I know. I know. Not another article about Saint Gertrude the Great Church. As I have been writing, stories such as this generate their own momentum. I do have other things to write about. Another article should appear on this site later today. Unfortunately, however, Father Anthony Cekada has written two new entries in his Quidlibet blog that require a response as he once again misrepresents the truth of the situation and minimizes the abuses that Father Markus Ramolla was seeking to end at Saint Gertrude the Great School. It would be good for Father Cekada and Bishop Dolan to accept the fact that there is another traditional venue in the greater Cincinnati area and get on with their own priestly work without making Father Ramolla their new favorite punching bag to replace Father William Jenkins and Immaculate Conception Church.
Well, the cowardly activities of Joseph Charles McKenzie, a very close friend of Bishop Daniel L. Dolan and Father Anthony Cekada, have unraveled. Far from being embarrassed by his cowardly, anonymous attacks upon a priest, Father Markus Ramolla, who was trying to protect the innocence and the purity of children at Saint Gertrude the Great School, and upon a innocent married woman, Mrs. Stephanie Johns, who was seeking to stop the vile abuses that had been indemnified time and again by Father Anthony Cekada, McKenzie claims a "victory" for his Laypopes site, which he has now linked to directly at his own http://www.cathinst.com.
This is a "victory" that exists only in the dark recesses of McKenzie's mind, blinded as it must be to the repulsive nature of his exercise in cowardly character assassination and his distortion and misrepresentation of events that he has not witnessed with his own eyes. Readers can be assured that McKenzie did not act without at least the approval, if not the actual participation, of Bishop Daniel L. Dolan and Father Anthony Cekada. It is clear as well that McKenzie is also a man going by the name of "Nick" on various chat rooms, including one started by Father Cekada himself (see http://www.cathinfo.com/index.php/topic/t/9660). This is the sort of "victory" that was proclaimed by then President George Walker Bush aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003:
Thank you all very much. Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. (Applause.) And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.
In this battle, we have fought for the cause of liberty, and for the peace of the world. Our nation and our coalition are proud of this accomplishment -- yet, it is you, the members of the United States military, who achieved it. Your courage, your willingness to face danger for your country and for each other, made this day possible. Because of you, our nation is more secure. Because of you, the tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free. (Applause.)
Operation Iraqi Freedom was carried out with a combination of precision and speed and boldness the enemy did not expect, and the world had not seen before. From distant bases or ships at sea, we sent planes and missiles that could destroy an enemy division, or strike a single bunker. Marines and soldiers charged to Baghdad across 350 miles of hostile ground, in one of the swiftest advances of heavy arms in history. You have shown the world the skill and the might of the American Armed Forces. (End of Major Combat in Iraq; see also Iraq: car bombs kill at least 101 people in Baghdad‎.)
As was the case with Bush and the Iraq War on May 1, 2003, Joseph Charles McKenzie's "victory" exists only in his own mind.
The only reason that the identity of the Laypopes site collaborators became an issue for me is to right the grave wrongs done to Father Markus Ramolla and Mrs. Stephanie Johns. I don't see how those still at Saint Gertrude the Great Church can complain about "hard-hitting" articles that point to facts and seek to refute misrepresentations of truth when most of them have been totally silent about the character assassinations on Laypopes and do not want to face the fact that Joseph Charles McKenzie is a very close friend of Bishop Dolan and Father Cekada. Is it just a coincidence that the Laypopes site referred to the "Wingate Hate Church" and that Father Cekada is now referring to "Wingate Group Hate" on his Quidlibet site? Do those still remaining at Saint Gertrude the Great Church want to say that the anonymous postings on Laypopes that had Bishop Dolan and Father Cekada's approval, if only by their silence if not by their actual participation and consent, is not a scandal in and of itself?
Joseph Charles McKenzie will have to live with his cowardice for the rest of of his life as he refuses even now to put his own name on the Laypopes page, giving himself just a bit of cover as a coward by simply posting it on his own website of his very much misnamed "Catholic Institute of Arts and Letters." 
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