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In around 1995, I went to the Valley Beth Shalom ѕуηαgσgυє, Sherman Oaks (San Fernando Valley), when an event was advertized in the newspapers. Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis (d. 2014) had invited Roger Cardinal Mahony to the temple to have an interreligious ceremony. I figured going to Assisi II would be a lot more expensive so I went to this instead. It was very educational.
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During the ceremony, I saw Mahony and Schulweis standing silently behind 6 short, fat wax candles, each burning with a single flame.
Nobody had to explain what it meant when Mahony and Schulweis hugged each other with both arms as they stood there, staring at the burning candles.
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I just did a quick search to see if I could grab a photo of that historic meeting, but the entire Internet is devoid of any photos of Schulweis and Mahony together, apparently.
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You can have one or the other, but not both together. But I saw it with my own eyes. I wish I had taken a photograph.
Interesting. It must have been a herculean effort on your part to keep your lunch down, Neil.
I'm reminded of the recently deceased "theologian" (((Gregory Baum))) who, conveniently, "converted" to Catholicism, entered the priesthood, and worked his way "somehow" to a position of sufficient influence that he authored no less infamous a bunch of VII docuмents than
Nostra Aetate,
Dignitatis Humanae, and
Unitatis Redintegratio. That impressive trilogy being tucked under his belt, he promptly left the priesthood to live out his remaining years with his partner in sodomy, another former priest.
Let's state that again, as it is impossible to put too fine a point on this:
The Judas VII Council's docuмents on Jєωιѕн-Catholic relations, religious liberty, and ecuмenism were authored by a Jєωιѕн sodomite; a man known primarily - per his Wikipedia page - for his work in the fields of "h0Ɩ0cαųst theology" and "LGBT advocacy."
How much clearer does it need to be made for people? With all of the righteous indignation that the Michael Vorises and the Michael Matts out there are pouring out in the wake of this latest iteration of the ongoing sodomite clerical crisis, why is the most salient fact about it, the thing that puts the whole damned mess into its proper context, ever mentioned? Namely, that the sodomite conspiracy, the modernist crisis, the destruction of the liturgy, the widespread apostasy, ecuмenism, religious indifferentism, etc. are all part of the same damnable ball of wax cooked up by the very same (((culprits))) whom Our Lord clearly identified for us as being "of (their) father, the devil."
The answer to that "why" is likewise the same as it was in the beginning: "The doors were shut" (St. John xx:xix) and "no man spoke openly" (ibid. vii:xiii) for one and the same reason: "fear of the Jews."