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Offline Zeitun

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The Absence of Rage
« on: July 25, 2016, 08:41:52 AM »
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  • In his book Sacrilege, author Leon Podles comments on the Hierarchy’s lack of rage over the clerical sɛҳuąƖ scandals and cover-ups by the Hierarchy:

    "Those who dealt with the Bishops have consistently remarked that Bishops have never expressed outrage or righteous anger, even at the most horrendous cases of abuse and sacrilege such as abusing boys after getting them drunk on consecrated wine." (1)

    Past victim Mark Serrano asks:
    Where is the indignation of Prelates?
    Mark Serrano, a victim of sɛҳuąƖ priest abuse, once confronted Bishop Frank Rodimer of Paterson, New Jersey, on the part he played in the clerical abuse. A friend of Bishop Rodimer, Fr. Peter Osinski took boys to bed at the Bishop's beach house while the Prelate slept in the next room.

    Serrano asked the Bishop, "Where is your moral indignation?" He answered: "Then I don't get it. What do you want?" Rodimer's answer brings to mind St. John's expression regarding the lukewarm: “I vomit thee out of my mouth” (Apoc. 3: 16).

    Podles continues: "What Serrano wanted Rodimer to do is to behave like a man with a heart outraged by the evil of the action. But Rodimer couldn't; his inability to feel outrage was a quality that helped make him a Bishop." (2)

    How could this "quality" infect the Princes of the Church?

    If one takes even a cursory glance at the progressivist mentality, he will see that it fits neatly with Podles' analysis that many of today’s Catholics "secretly suspect that Jesus was being un-Christian in his attitude to the Scribes and Pharisees when he was angry at them, that he was un-Christian when he drove the moneychangers out of the Temple or declared that millstones (not vacations in treatment centers) were the way to treat child abusers" (3).

    Indeed, in Atila Guimaraes' book In the Murky Waters of Vatican II, the author notes that the spirit of Vatican II and Progressivism is "tolerance towards the world." (4) Yet the spirit of the world is "wickedness" (Eph. 6:12). The deduction is clear. Bishops lost their ability to be enraged through the Progressivism of Vatican II.

    In his book gαy Priests, sociologist James G. Wolfe estimated that 48.5 % of priests and 55.1 % of seminarians were ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs. (5) Other estimates for "gαy" priests run as high as 60 %. (6) In the scandals exposed after the Boston débacle in 2002, it became known that the number of priests who abused pre-pubescent children was small. The bulk of the victims were young men. Thus the problem is not one of pedophilia, but ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity.

    The experts also agree that only a portion, perhaps a very small portion, of sɛҳuąƖ abuse is ever reported. One estimate about the number of abuser priests has them at between 5,000 and 10,000. (7)

    Currently there are about 46,000 priests in the U.S. (globally 400,000), so if we consider the fact that only "a very small portion" of the abusive priests and their victims is known, the high estimates listed above of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ priests may be acceptable. (8) Since the United States has 6% of the world's Catholics and 11% of the world's priests, Podles makes these calculations:

    "To arrive at estimates of abusers and victims in the universal Church (and there is no reason to think Americans are uniquely sinful), one must multiply the American figures to arrive at an estimate of perhaps 45,000 to 100,000 abusive priests since 1950 and anywhere from 100,000 to 2,000,000 victims. "(9)

    Enrique Rojas labels ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity a curable disorder

    Dr. Rojas: ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity is a moral disorder that can be cured
    In a previous article, I noted that progressivists find no problem with the Church adopting the world’s criteria to judge ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity (10). In 1973/1974, the American Psychiatric Association voted "to remove ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity from the category of mental disorder or illness. It is now simply another sɛҳuąƖ orientation” (11). Considering the open admission of ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs into the ranks of Holy Orders (12), simple inductive reasoning tells us that the progressivist churchmen agree with the American Psychiatric Association.

    But Dr. Enrique Rojas, an eminent psychiatrist, disagrees with this. His professional judgment led him to the conclusion that ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity is a moral disorder, and further, that it can be cured (13). With the evidence that ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity is endemic in the Catholic priesthood, it remains to be seen whether the Catholic Bishops, led by Benedict XVI, will admit the scandal, turmoil and crisis that this disorder has caused in the Catholic Church. And, admitting such, will they then send the disordered priests to be cured?

    St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John Chrysostom said, "He who is not angry, whereas he has cause to be, sins. For unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices, it fosters negligence, and incites not only the wicked but the good to do wrong." (14)

    Progressivism has neutralized Catholic leaders so that they no longer become angry over even the most egregious sins. Let us entreat St John Chrysostom and St. Thomas Aquinas to restore rage to the leaders of the Church. Let us refer these prayers to Our Lady of Good Success and Our Lady of Fatima, that this progressivist swampland of our day be drained, and in its place, buds may appear, the buds of the flower of the Reign of Mary.

    http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/a02z_009_Rage-Arnold.html


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    The Absence of Rage
    « Reply #1 on: July 25, 2016, 11:58:45 AM »
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  • St. John Chrysostom said:
    I do not speak rashly, but how I feel and think. I do not think that many priests are saved, but that those who perish are more numerous."

    I firmly believe that today there is scarcely one conciliar church "bishop" that is in a state of sanctifying grace. They are all in a perpetual state of mortal sin by the annulments they have granted (sanctioning adultery), the sodomites which they allow, ordain and promote, and much more.
    The Vatican II church - Assisting Souls to Hell Since 1962

    For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. Mat 24:24


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    « Reply #2 on: July 25, 2016, 01:16:08 PM »
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  • Contrary to the current worldly tolerance of such repulsive sin, St. Peter Damian, a cardinal who wrote extensively about the subject of sodomite unions, teaches that we must avoid the "cruel mercy" of staying silent in the face of evil, as we then would become the "murderer of another’s soul' by this silence or indifference to immorality.

    Quote from: St. Peter Damian
    Who am I to watch such a noxious crime spreading among those in holy orders and keeping silent, to dare to await the accounting of divine punishment as the murderer of another’s soul, and to begin to be made a debtor of that guilt of which I had been by no means the author?....

    For how am I loving my neighbor as myself, if I negligently allow the wound, by which I do not doubt him to be dying a cruel death, to fester in his soul? Seeing therefore the spiritual wounds, should I neglect to cure them by the surgery of words?”


     
    If anyone says that true and natural water is not necessary for baptism and thus twists into some metaphor the words of our Lord Jesus Christ" Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit" (Jn 3:5) let him be anathema.

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    « Reply #3 on: July 25, 2016, 03:18:22 PM »
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  • Hat Trick!

    Three posts in a row score goals.


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    « Reply #4 on: July 27, 2016, 12:20:38 AM »
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  • Pope St. Pius V deprived fαɢɢօt priests of their clerical duty and sentenced them to death.

    Pope St. Pius V's Constitution Horrendum illud scelus, August 30, 1568, in Bullarium Romanum, Rome: Typographia Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae, Mainardi, 1738, chap. 3, p. 33

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    That horrible crime, on account of which corrupt and obscene cities were destroyed by fire through divine condemnation, causes us most bitter sorrow and shocks our mind, impelling us to repress such a crime with the greatest possible zeal.

    Quite opportunely the Fifth Lateran Council [1512-1517] issued this decree: "Let any member of the clergy caught in that vice against nature, given that the wrath of God falls over the sons of perfidy, be removed from the clerical order or forced to do penance in a monastery" (chap. 4, X, V, 31).

    So that the contagion of such a grave offense may not advance with greater audacity by taking advantage of impunity, which is the greatest incitement to sin, and so as to more severely punish the clerics who are guilty of this nefarious crime and who are not frightened by the death of their souls, we determine that they should be handed over to the severity of the secular authority, which enforces civil law.

    Therefore, wishing to pursue with greater rigor than we have exerted since the beginning of our pontificate, we establish that any priest or member of the clergy, either secular or regular, who commits such an execrable crime, by force of the present law be deprived of every clerical privilege, of every post, dignity and ecclesiastical benefit, and having been degraded by an ecclesiastical judge, let him be immediately delivered to the secular authority to be put to death, as mandated by law as the fitting punishment for laymen who have sunk into this abyss.


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    « Reply #5 on: July 31, 2016, 03:37:48 PM »
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  • Thank you for this thread. I can barely stand to get online anymore, much less read "the news" (which I think is a narrative of Satan and not, in fact, "news"). I got on FB to do that messenger thing with my son, and saw what I'd normally call an heresy — Muslims at Catholic Mass ...for solidarity — last I heard we shouldn't be "in solidarity" with Moslems at all. Like maybe say "hi" and say a silent prayer for Conversion when you see them in public, as you would others I suppose, but I'm seriously curious where the RIGHTEOUS ANGER at this noxious "solidarity" IN "church" is.

    I'm not trying to condemn individual Moslems for these acts, as I suppose they could theoretically be Converted yet, though I can't see how with our dire lack of bishops and priests. In fact, I credit them with at least not pretending to have Converted at all, but I can't credit any who calls him/herself "Catholic" with desiring to be at Mass with ...heretics. The Catholics should know better! Why couldn't even ONE parishioner escort them OUT and say a pleaseant, "Thank you for being sorry about beheading people, but can you be sorry outside the building please?" (and more importantly afterwards, physically chasing off any so-called priest who allowed such "solidarity" WITH Moslems during MASS (even NO Mass). :mad:

    And look at THIS article from Al Jazeera!

    Indeed, where is the outrage?!
    Legem credendi, lex statuit supplicandi

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    « Reply #6 on: July 31, 2016, 04:43:47 PM »
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  •  :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

    On the thread "French Muslims"  the posters think the Muslims at Mass is a good thing.  I thought the description of this forum was for SSPX Resistance and other Traditional Catholics.  
    "Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered: and them that hate Him flee from before His Holy Face"  Psalm 67:2[/b]