Edit: who uses “divisive” anyway? Is there a non-gay way to use the word? I’ve never heard it uttered by anyone who wasn’t some kind of compromised individual. I’ve heard Arlen Specter say it, and lots of obviously aberrosexual clergy, or people like Steve Skojek. What does the word mean? Cambridge University Dictionary says:
used to describe something that causes great and sometimes unfriendly disagreement within a group of people
Well, Jesus did that. What’s so wrong about that? Ever get a feeling that these Bishops would have Christ murdered in a back alley someplace if they could?
His favorite “Saint” is Communist Archbishop Romero, so that actually says a lot.
Bishop Robert J. Brennan’s diocesan statement is as follows:
The Catholic Church proposes a beautiful, life-giving and liberating vision to the world based on the truths about the human person, human sexuality, marriage and the family. We proclaim with one breath the Splendor of Truth and the Joy of the Gospel. The fundamental truth is that every human person is created in the image and likeness of God and as such, must be treated with dignity and respect. While not everyone shares the Church’s vision, I hope we can all show that respect.
While Father Klee has been permitted to live in the rectory at St. John the Baptist, he is not assigned to the Parish of St. John the Baptist nor to the Parish of the Sacred Heart. He does not represent either of these parishes nor the diocese. Father Klee has shown a pattern of making communications to a broad audience on a variety of contemporary issues which are frankly dirvisive. While these communications seemingly present Catholic moral teaching, they are often offensive and disrespectful to the human dignity of persons.
Father Klee has been repeatedly warned about making these divisive communications and ordered to cease doing so. Further steps are being considered at this time.
There’s no word as to why Father Klee was “sidelined”, but maybe Father Klee’s Catholic witness during Gay Pride Month was too much for Brennan?
Here’s Father’s statement:
I write you in these closing days of the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ. We pray for the grace to truly respond to His lament so evident in our world today, namely, that the greatest outpouring of love on Good Friday goes largely ignored if not repudiated. Hence, let us make our lives an Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart even after June!
I really shouldn’t disclose details [of my current situation], although a wise and holy pastor counseled me shortly after my priestly ordination, ‘If you don’t fill in the blanks, the people will.’ Suffice it to say, please pray and make sacrifices for the following two intentions in addition to praying that I will be a truly holy priest – that’s all I want.
1) For a tremendous outpouring of graces upon the spiritual leadership of the Church, specifically upon bishops and priests, that they be empowered with the cardinal virtue of fortitude. That they implore the intercession of the martyrs lest they go from being potential victims of satan’s attacks to being actual instigators and accomplices like the Pharisees in Our Lord’s day. Please pray that they be freed from a subtle resignation to despair – specifically of falling into discouragement by believing the authentic Gospel of Christ and the teachings of the Catholic Faith are not the answer, but atheistic socialism is.
2) For men and women – and, increasingly, boys and girls as well – deluded by the false promises of the homosexualist agenda, and especially those in the active homosexual lifestyle, that they be given the grace to break free from the devil’s grasp. We pray they acquire the theological virtue of hope, becoming inspired to believe they can be freed from the sinful enslavement the practice of sodomy entails. We pray that many come to understand that the sacraments of the Eucharist and Confession are indispensable for receiving the necessary graces to resist grave sin.
Hapless Boomers Venerate NewSaint George Floyd and the Site of His Drug Induced NewMartyrdom Credit: Office of Gov. Walz
Edit: this pre-planned social engineering media project has brought out hilarious levels of preemptive groveling on the part of the clergy and the laity. Mexican Supreemacist, Bishop Mark Seitz, Archbishop Hebda, Mark Shea and Dale Ahlquist are going crazy to show their overlords just how much they fear them more than God almighty.
It is interesting to note that Minnesota's cancerous Hebda, despite being Coadjutor for Ex-Cardinal McCarrick in Newark, New Jersey and a personal secretary for Cardinal Donald Wuerl, this magic circle Bishop claims almost complete ignorance of what was going on with respect to predator Cardinals and senior clergy.
Let's also not forget that one of the Principal co-consecrators for his ordination was even the evil Cardinal who allegedly participated in a drug-fueled gay orgy, Cardinal Coccopalomerio.
Birds of a feather.
Speaking of gay, in an effort not to be outdone by the clergy, the grey eminences of the lay apostolic magisterium, Mark Shea and Dale Ahlquist were present at today's George Floyd memorial in a downtown Minneapolis Church. How Interfaith! (If you didn't think the Chesterton Society was a joke before...) No doubt this theological Laurel and Hardy team wanted to rush to take a knee, break a lance, so to speak, for this Marxist agenda. Let us pray that the natives don't detect their insincerity and respond with violence! Will Mark do irreparable violence to his knees as he kneels for the first time in decades?! Nature has a way of sorting these kinds of things out!
Finally, Mexican Supreemacist, Bishop Seitz is being honored by Bergoglio for kneeling, but not to the Eucharist or the Holy Name, which gets you fired, but to show his solidarity to a Marxist agenda, as we said. This pope approves heartily!
Give us Barabas say the Bishops and the self-appointed lay authorites! Give us Saint George Floyd!
Denver Newsroom, Jun 2, 2020 / 05:38 pm MT (CNA).- Minnesota clergy, including Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul-Minneapolis, participated in a silent walking protest Tuesday afternoon to the spot where George Floyd died in police custody last week, stopping to pray at the memorial that had been set up for him.
Hundreds of local leaders from Christian denominations and other religious traditions were present for the prayerful event.
“While many faiths were represented, there was great unity as we prayed for justice and peace,” Archbishop Hebda said in a tweet Tuesday.
And:
[Catholic Spittle] It’s called “taking a knee,” and many professional athletes around the country have made the gesture publicly to protest police brutality.
Lately, even police officers showing solidarity have kneeled around the country before those protesting the May 25 killing of George Floyd, who died after being filmed pinned to the ground with a knee to his neck, constrained by a police officer in Minneapolis.
Until June 1, no Catholic bishop had publicly participated in the gesture but that day, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, became the first. Surrounded by priests from his diocese who also kneeled with him and holding a “Black Lives Matter” sign, he put both knees on the grass at El Paso’s Memorial Park, where a protest had taken place a day earlier and closed his eyes.
Cardinal Marto on his first visit to Fatima since the re-introduction of public services.
(Lisbon) After the beginning of the pilgrimage season due to the Corona, Masses were not allowed to take place. Pentecost Sunday also saw the faithful return to the churches in Portugal.For Cardinal Antonio Marto, this was an occasion for a hard scolding of the faith and reproach for those who still want Communion on the tongue.
The government had indicated the possibility of an early opening to allow the visit to the sanctuary, which is so important for the country.However, the Church declined, most notably Antonio Marto, Bishop of Leiria-Fatima and vice-chair of the Portuguese Bishops' Conference.Pope Francis had raised him to the rank of cardinal as the first pastor of this diocese.On the 12th / 13thIn May, the traditional start of the pilgrimage season in the Shrine of St. Mary in Fatima could not take place .On the 103rd anniversary of the first appearance of Mary on May 13, 1917, the Marian Shrine was ghostly empty.Thus the morning mist enveloped the valley in gloom.
On May 31, Pentecost, public services were allowed again throughout Portugal.Cardinal Marto gave an interview to the Jesuit order on this occasion.In it he defended the directive by the episcopal conference, which he also implemented in his diocese, to allow only [sacrilegious] hand Communion.
Calvinist Hand Communion as a Measure Against Communion on the Tongue
The Portuguese Bishops' Conference received permission from Rome on October 10, 1975 to dispense in the Novus Ordo of the traditional [Catholic] form of receiving Communion.Since then, believers in Portugal have been able [forced] to receive hand Communion.The introduction was made with the express reference:
"This form of Communion must not be imposed on believers because they have to choose how they want to receive the Eucharist."
Communion according to Catholic tradition is still widespread in the Atlantic country.Some Church groups bump into it and see it as a "backwardness" to be rejected.There is more to the form of receiving Communion, including the understanding of the Eucharist and the Church.In 2000, the Liturgical Office of the Bishops' Conference published a misleading note on the third edition of the Editio Typica desMissale Romanum.It corresponds to a progressive reading, but not the historical truth.It asserted that "the custom of communicating on the knees" and "exclusively in the mouth" was "absolutely alien to the Church" of the first nine centuries and could not be based on a divine, apostolic, or early Christian origin.
As recently confirmed by the well-known liturgist Don Nicola Bux, a personal friend of Benedict XVI, the exact opposite is true. Oral Communion goes back directly to the Last Supper and corresponds to the form in which Jesus Christ himself gave Communion to the apostles.
It is no coincidence that in 2000 the staff member of the Liturgical Office of the Portuguese Bishops' Conference described the new way of receiving Communion as a "real paradigm" that the Second Vatican Council wanted to "promote" through the liturgical reform.According to the words of John XXIII, the author said that the liturgy had to "return to the simple and very deep forms of the Church of the Apostles and Martyrs" and to take them up.
The unnamed author, who was identified as "an employee of the National Liturgical Service," spread the usual progressive narrative, which, however, which corresponds to the formation of legends in key points.This applies to the historical reference, the claim that hand Communion was the original form of receiving Communion of “the apostles and martyrs” and the liturgical reform was an implementation of the Second Vatican Council.In contrast, the statement of a "real paradigm" hits the mark.
"Jesus Didn't Say: Open Your Mouth"
Cardinal Marto follows this line when he is outraged in the interview that believers insist Communion on the tongue.He dismissed this attitude with the words:
“Jesus said, 'Take and eat'.He didn't say 'open your mouth'. ”
The interview was given by the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima on May 29 to the Ponto de Viragem podcast of the Jesuit Order.The cardinal's outrage was sparked by a petition sent by 500 Portuguese priests and faithful to the Episcopal Conference and the Holy See.In it, they request that the ban on Communion on the tongue be lifted.The compulsory hand Communion "seriously undermines the norms of the Catholic Church and the reverence for the Blessed Sacrament," the petition states.The signatories refer to epidemics in the 20th century and H1N1 in 2009/2010, some of which were many times more dramatic and deadly, but which in no way led to a change in the form of receiving Communion.In the course of the H1N1 epidemic, the so-called "swine flu", the responsible Roman Congregation confirmed on several inquiries from different parts of the world that oral Communion should not be denied to any believer.
Critics therefore see the ban on oral Communion of bishops' conferences worldwide as a concerted action that is exploiting the corona virus as an excuse to eliminate the actual form of receiving Communion and making the form of hand Communion, which has only been tolerated since 1969, compulsory.
Accordingly, the criticism of the Portuguese signatories is directed against the Corona measures of the bishops, which are criticized not only in Portugal as disproportionate and excessive.
Cardinal Marto downplayed the relevance of the petition in the interview.The number of signatories is "not very significant".At the same time, he expressed regret that there are so many believers who "question the faith of the bishops".
Text: Giuseppe Nardi Image: Santuário de Fátima (screenshot) Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com AMDG
Don Leonardo Ricotta, the deposed pastor of Sant'Agata di Villabate (Archdiocese of Palermo)
Edit: you might remember him calling upon us to reject the Virus Mass.
(Rome) Constantly new arbitrary and even sacrilegious measures by bishops, which are enacted to curb the spread of Coronavirus, are incomprehensible and cause absurd reactions to the point of horror missae and dramatic interventions such as the removal of a pastor in the Archdiocese of Palermo shows.
Many priests are outraged, some refuse to do so without publicly announcing it, but at the risk of being denounced by the faithful.This also happens because the irresponsible extent of the scaremongering, as it was carried out by politicians, government advisers and the media, can trigger irrational reactions among anxious people and can cloud common sense in some. Since May 18th, public worship has been allowed in Italy again, if only under strict conditions enacted by the Italian government and the Italian Bishops' Conference on May 7th.Yesterday, May 24th, the first Sunday services were held after twelve weeks.The requirements imposed on the priests include wearing a face mask and disposable gloves when giving communion.
A priest who expressed his outrage loudly and clearly has now become the victim of punitive measures by his bishop, a bonified Bergoglian.The serious incident occurred in the Archdiocese of Palermo in Sicily.
Germany is three times more affected by Corona than Sicily
While some areas of northern Italy were severely affected by the corona virus, the situation in southern Italy and on the islands remained surprisingly relaxed.In Sicily, with its five and a half million inhabitants, 20 percent fewer people were tested corona-positive than in tiny Luxembourg, which has only a tenth of its inhabitants.
The numbers are to be questioned overall.The completely unusual and constantly widespread total number of corona positives at some point is ultimately irrelevant, since 90 percent of those affected show no or at least no noteworthy symptoms, but above all there is no risk from those who have recovered.So what would count are the fatalities, but they are even more dubious, as new cases of vertiginous counting confirm.A number of credible indications suggest that since the first corona death in Europe, that was the Italian Adriano Trevisan, who died on February 21, as many corona deaths as possible should be "produced", mostly afterwards by a corresponding note on the death certificate and through the reports to the central corona detection points.Why doctors, including pathologists, are involved is one of the many open corona questions.It is reasonable to assume that these are economic interests, whether direct or indirect.
It should also be mentioned that almost three months after his death it turned out that Adriano Trevisan is not a corona-dead person at all, but has succumbed to serious preexisting illnesses.The Padua public prosecutor's office had forced the autopsy.Trevisan, who became the fan of unprecedented fear-mongering across Europe, now symbolizes the doubtfulness of the way the Corona dead have been counted and, overall, the government's Corona measure.This also includes the fact that although he was reported to be the first Corona dead across Europe, the correction of this false report based on the autopsy results is being kept secret.
Why, despite the small number of cases, Sicily has more than twice as many corona deaths as Luxembourg, namely 268, is one of the numerous corona puzzles that seem less to do with the corona virus and more to do with forces that work under the Corona pretext to take you for a ride.All in all (the paradox in the paradox?) There were 9.2 percent fewer deaths in the province of Palermo, which is specifically concerned, according to the Italian statistics office and the National Health Institute ISS in the first third of 2020 (January 1 to April 30) than last year - despite Covid-19.
The situation in Sicily is always relaxed, after all, the lowest level of Corona warnings in Italy applies to the island.To establish a relationship: According to WHO figures, the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria were three times more affected by the Corona virus than the Mediterranean island.
Don Leonardo Ricotta celebrates Mass ad orientem.In his sermon of May 18th, he explained the priest's finger position as soon as they touch the body of Christ.
The pastor's indignation over latex gloves
However, the Italian Bishops' Conference prescribed uniform provisions for the whole of Italy, the same for acute areas as for hardly affected areas.The priest Leonardo Ricotta, pastor of Sant'Agata in Villabate in the Archdiocese of Palermo, was dismissed on May 21.The city of 20,000 inhabitants is nine kilometers from the Archbishop's Palace.The reason: The pastor refused to handle the body of Christ with disposable gloves and said so out loud.
The archbishopric's press office published a statement on this, which does not disclose the facts and begins with a defense of its own actions.Rumors are false that the priest has been dismissed by the archbishop.Don Ricotta himself has given up his office.The Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum by Pope Benedict XVI.causes the priest to celebrate Holy Mass in the traditional Rite, which he has been doing on three working days since then.He also celebrated the parish service ad orientem in the Novus Ordo.
At best, what the matter is about can be guessed from the archiepiscopal statement. The point of contention is presented as follows:
"The practice of distributing hand Communion is in conformity with the norms issued by the ecclesiastical Magisterium, to which every Catholic Christian owes religious obedience and that of the intellect."
Reference is made to the instruction of Redemptionis Sacramentum of the Roman Congregation of Worship in 2004. Paragraph 92 states accordingly: If a believer in a country in which the Bishops' Conference has allowed hand communion with confirmation of the Holy See wishes it, he should give him Communion be distributed like this.The instruction is the preliminary conclusion of a long process by which the misuse of the distribution of Communion by Rome, which was supported by Dutch and then German bishops, was subsequently recognized.The Italian Bishops' Conference issued a dispensation for hand Communion in 1989.In the Catholic countries, oral Communion is still widespread today.The bishops' Corona measures are the most radical global intervention against Communion on the tongue and for hand Communion since Pope Paul VI.1969 buckled before German blackmail and gave the bishops' conferences the opportunity to allow hand Communion as an exception.
Don Leonardo Ricotta, with holy anger, took a stand against the decree to pick up and offer the body of Christ with disposable gloves.He criticized such a practice as "Eucharistic butchery".
Ideal dispensing of Communion donation according to TV2000, television station of the Italian Bishops' Conference: priests and believers with face masks, latex gloves and hand communion
Topsy-Turvy World in Reversed Roles
The well-known liturgist Don Nicola Bux also criticized the instructions of the bishops as "paradoxical", because if it were to be liturgical, it would have to be exactly the opposite.In the traditional rite, as it was celebrated until 1965/1970, the bishops wear gloves because their anointed hands should be clean so that they can touch the Eucharistic Lord with their bare hands.They are discarded from the offertory, to the ambo and the communio.With the Novus Ordo the gloves were discarded as obsolete, but now the bishops want to reintroduce them in a somewhat weird way, but upside down. Don Bux has assigned touching the body of Christ with disposable gloves as if He were a leper, and the episcopal compulsion that compelled this behavior on all priests to the area of the sacrileges.
Don Ricotta is not the only priest in Sicily to be appalled.However, he said it clearly and announced that he would only celebrate Holy Mass in the traditional rite that would not tolerate such a compulsory prescription.The archdiocese reacted and disclosed the archbishop's understanding of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass:
“The Eucharist exclusively with the Roman Rite as an extraordinary form according to the Missale Romanum by John XXIII.from 1962, which was introduced by the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, established in 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI.would exclude that portion of God's people from participating in the Mass, in as much as the promulgated form of Paul VI's Missal currently used, who might be allowed active participation. This would seriously affect the rights and freedom of a large number of believers. ”
In conclusion, it is as succinct as it is contradictory:
“Personal beliefs, presented by individuals as authentic teaching, cannot be forced on believers.It is up to the bishop in the diocese to 'establish standards for the liturgy to which everyone is bound', 'to preserve the unity of the Church as a whole' and 'to promote the common order of the whole Church' (Congregation for Worship , Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum, No. 176–177).“
Coercion can obviously be applied, but only in one direction, away from tradition.
Statement by the archiocesan press office
The letter from a lawyer
Roberto De Petro, a lawyer from Palermo and a traditional Catholic, wrote Archbishop Corrado Lorefice on May 20th.Lorefice, the "most progressive" candidate that Pope Francis could find for the Diocese of the Primate of Sicily, was appointed in the fall of 2015.In it he describes the traditional Rite as "safest in Corona times".Above all, he draws attention to the "invalidity" and "illogicality" of the joint protocol between the government and the episcopal conference of May 7th on the re-admission of public worship.De Petro documents in a knowledgeable and detailed manner that the protocol and the associated legislative decree (No. 33/2020) are unconstitutional.This already results from the lack of an "exceptional emergency", which the constitution requires for such a type of provision.This plight does not exist in Sicily and has never existed during the entire Corona period.
The protocol mentioned was also null and void because the government had no jurisdiction over Catholic issues and the representatives of the bishops' conference had no jurisdiction, neither over the bishops nor over the priests, nor about the faithful.
“Every bishop is sovereign in his dioceswe, but he cannot change what is specified in the Missal sections that have legal force for the whole Church.The headings of the Missale do not provide for the use of gloves when celebrating the Eucharist."
The lawyer also addresses the question of liturgical gloves, called Chirothecae, as they are used in the traditional rite:
“In the traditional rite, the bishop removes the chirotecae before he approaches the altar for the sacrifice, which means that he can only touch the consecrated host with his bare hands.(…) Indeed, after the change, the priest holds the fingertips of the thumb and forefinger together until the end of communion before cleaning them in the chalice.”
This was to prevent even a crumb from being lost from the Lord's body.But this is exactly what can't be done with gloves, which is why they are removed in the traditional rite.
Therefore "the use of latex gloves is an aberration".The material is miserable and contradicts all liturgical provisions of the church.Above all, the gloves are simply thrown away afterwards.Corrupting the understanding of the Eucharist, whether intended or not, is devastating.
In a third point, the lawyer opposes the factual ban on oral Communion by forcing manual Communion.In contrast to hand Communion, oral Communion is the " much safer" form of receiving Communion.This has been confirmed by doctors specifically interviewed by the Portland diocese in the United States.
Finally, De Petro contradicts the references to Redemptionis Sacramentum and states that the provisions of the Bishops' Conference contradict and violate this instruction.In various parishes of the Archdiocese of Palermo, Communion kneeling and on the tongue was previously denied to believers.Archbishop Lorefice, although informed of this, did not respond to it.
De Petro calls on the archbishop to stop using the “humiliating” protocol and to promote the celebration of the traditional rite as a measure against the Coronavirus.
The archbishop's press office's statement the next day on Don Ricotta's case shows that Archbishop Lorefice is not considering implementing any of it.
"Padre Pio called this butchery"
Don Ricotta said on May 18:
“When my bishop tells me that I have to be a pastor somewhere that I don't like, I go and obey.But if he forces me to act against belief or step on the Consecrated Host, I cannot obey.Obedience applies to the lawful, not the unlawful, that is the great teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas.What you're doing here is an act of Eucharistic butchery.Father Pio called this butchery. "
Vaticanist Marco Tosatti commented on the Don Ricotta case:
"And lo and behold, Don Ricotta was dismissed without notice, and in the merciful Lorefice of Palermo, we wonder how much credibility can be given to the declaration of the diocese ..." when it says that the priest has voluntarily renounced his parish.
The Archdiocese of Palermo was previously the scene of a violent conflict between a diocesan priest and the archbishop.Don Alessandro Minutella , pastor of a suburban parish in the Sicilian capital, criticized Pope Francis' line.He was then given an ultimatum.When he did not respond in the desired form, he was suspended and effectively excommunicated.Don Ricotta is also a priest who speaks his mind even when it concerns the Pope - albeit more moderately than Don Minutella.You don't make friends with them in Bergoglian ordinaries, not even in a moderate tone.Whoever celebrates in the traditional Rite and is connected to tradition has to dress twice as warmly.
The Don Ricotta case shows how great and varied the damage that is currently being done, not by the corona virus, but by the corona measures.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi Image: Cooperatores Veritatis / Archdiocese of Palermo / TV2000 (screenshots)
