Edit: my Haitians Eat Cats post got taken down and the video that was posted with it was removed from YouTube.
AMDG
Looks like he’s blessing a gay couple here |
The oppressive, unhelpful, and unproductive political situation we are in offers us a failed binary: The libertarian right seeks to maximize individual autonomous self-actualization by restricting government intervention into people’s lives as much as possible, whereas the Marxist left demands maximal individual autonomous self-actualization by maximizing government intervention into people’s lives. But why not refuse to accept such an unworkable, binary system? Apparently Pope Francis and his goons favor the following alternative: a totalitarian, fascist, monarchical Caesaropapism that prevents self-actualization for as many people as possible precisely by its insistence on intervening where it’s not necessary or helpful (e.g., forbidding the TLM) and by refusing to intervene where necessary (e.g., to actually address the sex abuse crisis).
Make sense to me.Edit: how can he keep getting away with it??! We noticed him noticing that a Jewish leader can close down an Orthodox Communion.
Now he’s noticing other things. What?! Abraham wasn’t Talmudic?
AMDGAbraham was not Talmudic Jewish.
— Dr Taylor Marshall™️ (@TaylorRMarshall) August 3, 2024
He was/is a Christian. pic.twitter.com/u3NqCIzKyR
Edit: this priest appears to have been a furtive creeper for years in his ministry, according to an earlier report by Saint Paul Pioneer Press. Feminist S-Lib Jennifer Haselberger, who was once the Archbishop Nienstedt’s subaltern and advisor on canon law, and file clerk, got access to the Diocese files in 2008, and took her job as file clerk very seriously. She called on the diocese to remove problematic priests, like Lawrence Johnson, from ministry. I always thought it was ironic she had a picture of Oscar Wilde lovingly mounted on her office wall. She was later attacked as being a disgruntled former employee.
She and others noted that Father Johnson was reported numerous occasions for suspicious behavior around boys in his parish, taking them on holidays to Cancun, only the Archdiocese authorities didn’t see the behavior as problematic enough to sideline this man.
Did Father McDonaugh, who was once rector of the Archdiocese, look at Johnson’s computer for his investigation?
Whatever the case, this looks like another bad mark for the Archdiocese, which had this retired priest in ministry.
It could be that Johnson was helping the 32 year old man who choked him to death, but it’s also very possible that his past finally caught up with him.
[Star Tribune] Murder charges filed Friday allege a St. Paul man strangled a 76-year-old priest on the side of Interstate 94 Thursday while en route to a mental health evaluation with the suspect telling police voices told him to commit the act.
Ramsey County prosecutors charged Nathan Thomas Wondra, 32, of St. Paul with second-degree murder in the killing of the Rev. Lawrence Johnson. Authorities arrested Wondra moments after he said voices told him to strangle Johnson in order to “save humanity.”
Wondra appeared in court Friday and is scheduled for another hearing Monday. His bail is set at $2 million. State court records show no civil commitments for Wondra related to his mental health.
According to the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Johnson was ordained as a priest in 1975 and retired in 2009. He served at parishes throughout the metro, as well as southern Minnesota and most recently for seven years at Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Chaska.
In a message sent by Archbishop Bernard Hebda to priests and deacons, Hebda asked for prayers “for the repose of the soul of our brother, Father Larry Johnson.”
“Please know that you, and the soul of Father Johnson, are in my prayers as we learn more about what happened in the coming days and work through this very tragic and difficult situation together.”
AMDG