Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Scholars Dissect Ridley Scott's 2005 Crusader Film for Historical Accuracy
For the past two Monday's, Jay Steven Robert's 'Real Crusades History' youtube channel has been painstakingly treating 'Kingdom of Heaven'.
The verdict, so far is
1) The film is well shot and the costumes/clothing and ambience are accurate.
2) The theme of the movie, its blaring message, is demonstrably wrong, i.e. that the only noble Crusaders there were, were ones who shared modern-day agnosticism and cynicism and religious pluralism, (in other words, the 'good guys' believed and disbelieved whatever it was Ridley Scott believed and disbelieved at the time he directed the film).
3) btw, beheading the corpses of suicides as punishment for the next world unforgivable sin was not practiced. This desecration of the hero's wife's corpse--by a Catholic priest-- at the beginning of the film features highly in the film's story line.
The verdict, so far is
1) The film is well shot and the costumes/clothing and ambience are accurate.
2) The theme of the movie, its blaring message, is demonstrably wrong, i.e. that the only noble Crusaders there were, were ones who shared modern-day agnosticism and cynicism and religious pluralism, (in other words, the 'good guys' believed and disbelieved whatever it was Ridley Scott believed and disbelieved at the time he directed the film).
3) btw, beheading the corpses of suicides as punishment for the next world unforgivable sin was not practiced. This desecration of the hero's wife's corpse--by a Catholic priest-- at the beginning of the film features highly in the film's story line.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Lavender Wrath
Some of positions taken lately by outspoken lesbians and homosexuals against same-sex marriage/adoption/IVF,etc, robertlopez and dolce+gabanna and salopards, are very brave!!!--I say brave because Lopez and Dolce /Gabanna have and will most definitely suffer withering economic and emotional attacks from the 'lavender community'.
And, speaking of withering attacks, I recently spoke with a woman whose story would fit right in with the stories that Robert Lopez has been documenting on his website. The story of the dark, flip-side of coming-out-of -the-closet
the story goes....
She and her husband were married in the Church, had two boys and were active in the Church and even themselves trained altar servers. Then, after twenty some years together, with boys in jr high and high school, the husband announced that he was leaving her for a man. The husband and his boyfriend both have highly paid civil service jobs, but nevertheless that affluence did not cause him to give his wife a generous split.... he instead implemented a bridge-burning tactic and, among other things....
1. accused her of having sexual relations with their sons
2. accused their former marriage counselor of having sexual relations with his daughters
The above did cost the parties involved considerable legal fees, not to mention permanent bruising to their reputations and their psyches.
It is all quite wild! Elton John's screaming threats against Dolce and Gabanna, the group-think-Mafia's trashing of Robert Lopez, this husband's character assassination of both his wife and someone who was trying to help him....
With the 'lavender community's' demonstrated penchant for organization and group-think and calumny and take-no-prisoners tactics, it all makes me wonder about our large population of homosexual Catholic clergy and really if they had nothing to do with Pope Benedict's abdication and Pope Francis' elevation.
And, speaking of withering attacks, I recently spoke with a woman whose story would fit right in with the stories that Robert Lopez has been documenting on his website. The story of the dark, flip-side of coming-out-of -the-closet
the story goes....
She and her husband were married in the Church, had two boys and were active in the Church and even themselves trained altar servers. Then, after twenty some years together, with boys in jr high and high school, the husband announced that he was leaving her for a man. The husband and his boyfriend both have highly paid civil service jobs, but nevertheless that affluence did not cause him to give his wife a generous split.... he instead implemented a bridge-burning tactic and, among other things....
1. accused her of having sexual relations with their sons
2. accused their former marriage counselor of having sexual relations with his daughters
The above did cost the parties involved considerable legal fees, not to mention permanent bruising to their reputations and their psyches.
It is all quite wild! Elton John's screaming threats against Dolce and Gabanna, the group-think-Mafia's trashing of Robert Lopez, this husband's character assassination of both his wife and someone who was trying to help him....
With the 'lavender community's' demonstrated penchant for organization and group-think and calumny and take-no-prisoners tactics, it all makes me wonder about our large population of homosexual Catholic clergy and really if they had nothing to do with Pope Benedict's abdication and Pope Francis' elevation.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Crescat Blog's Katrina Fernandez denied Communion on the tongue at her Gramma's funeral
Friends :-( you can read about it here....abbey-roads version . She and Terry Nelson, of Abbey-roads blog, are doing a great job of exposing this incident, along with this same parish's denial of last rites to her grandmother---because the same priest had farmed out this duty to lay people.
I'm afraid cases of clericalism, pastors who like to lord it over their ignorant sheep, are on the rise
Voris' cases and mine
I don't think either Katrina nor Terry would chalk this up to one more manifestation of the 'Francis effect', but I am kind of feeling that it is.
I'm afraid cases of clericalism, pastors who like to lord it over their ignorant sheep, are on the rise
Voris' cases and mine
I don't think either Katrina nor Terry would chalk this up to one more manifestation of the 'Francis effect', but I am kind of feeling that it is.
Monday, March 2, 2015
The Francis Effect in Argentina
Friends, as a follow-up to my Sunday post regarding the 'Morlino' effect in the Madison Wisconsin Diocese, I did a little research to see what kind of statistical effects Pope Francis had on his native Argentina during his tenure as its chief prelate there. He was selected by Pope St. John Paul II to be Archbishop of Buenos Aires beginning in 1998, and picked as Cardinal in 2001. I use the term 'Argentina's chief prelate' because there are currently only three voting cardinals in Argentina and as the Archbishop and Cardinal of Buenos Aires, Francis was head of the Capital's diocese.
To be fair, I did first find the Church's official statistics
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dbuea.html#stats
which say that from 1950 to the present the percentage of Catholics in the Buenos Aires diocese has increased from 89.5% to 91.6%. Indeed it does claim 91.6% for 8 of the 9 years prior to 2013. Such exact, level numbers do look and smell like fudge! The CIA factbook reports similar stats, but adds that only 20% of Argentinians are practicing Catholics. Again, how and where did this come from?
A much more believable article, believable because it states how and where it got its information, is a 2014 Pew research survey....
http://buenosairesherald.com/article/174694/the-changing-face-of-catholic-argentina-
If Pew is reliable, then the Francis effect is hardly something even Francis would want for the entire Catholic Church.
1. from 1970 to 2014 the percentage of self-identified Argentinian Catholics fell from 91% to 71%
2. of those that still identify as Catholic, Argentinian Catholics are among the most likely Latin American Catholics to favor abortion and same-sex marriage. e.g. the article found an overwhelming majority favor the latter by 52% to 40% opposed.
3. "Argentines ranked toward the bottom of the regional charts in terms of how important religion is in their lives, with only 43 percent saying it was very important."
4. "In terms of “religious commitment,” only 13 percent in Argentina said they had a “high” commitment, compared to 72 percent that qualified it as “medium.”
To be fair, I did first find the Church's official statistics
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dbuea.html#stats
which say that from 1950 to the present the percentage of Catholics in the Buenos Aires diocese has increased from 89.5% to 91.6%. Indeed it does claim 91.6% for 8 of the 9 years prior to 2013. Such exact, level numbers do look and smell like fudge! The CIA factbook reports similar stats, but adds that only 20% of Argentinians are practicing Catholics. Again, how and where did this come from?
A much more believable article, believable because it states how and where it got its information, is a 2014 Pew research survey....
http://buenosairesherald.com/article/174694/the-changing-face-of-catholic-argentina-
If Pew is reliable, then the Francis effect is hardly something even Francis would want for the entire Catholic Church.
1. from 1970 to 2014 the percentage of self-identified Argentinian Catholics fell from 91% to 71%
2. of those that still identify as Catholic, Argentinian Catholics are among the most likely Latin American Catholics to favor abortion and same-sex marriage. e.g. the article found an overwhelming majority favor the latter by 52% to 40% opposed.
3. "Argentines ranked toward the bottom of the regional charts in terms of how important religion is in their lives, with only 43 percent saying it was very important."
4. "In terms of “religious commitment,” only 13 percent in Argentina said they had a “high” commitment, compared to 72 percent that qualified it as “medium.”
Only Uruguay (35 percent) and Chile (15 percent) had a higher proportion of its population that had low religious commitment."
We must pray for the Holy Father that his past performance and his mindset and the mindset of his fellow Argentinian clerics that begat such a decline in his flock's Faith are not locked into the future of his pontificate.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Vocations up 550% in Kneeling Communion Diocese
Madison Wisconsin Bishop Morlino gave the message below a few years back, 2010 I think.
Father Z is reporting that under his Excellency's direction the number seminarians has exploded from 6 to 33!! (http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/03/d-madison-bp-morlino-and-the-surge-of-priestly-vocations/)
Perhaps there are several factors at work here.....but, if the Holy Father, Pope Francis, is serious about re-invigorating the Church, then I think it is time for his 'Mount Carmel' moment. I am referring to the famous contest where the Prophet Elijah invited King Ahab and everyone to witness a contest between him and his enemy clerics.(Who happen to be prophets for the false god, Ba'al).
It is time to reach a final judgement on the experiments of the past 50 years. Let him look hard at --what practices have promoted holiness and growth and evangelization and reverence and worship of Jesus Christ and SALVATION --- and what practices have not, and have even strangled faith and led little ones to have a lackadaisical attitude towards our Lord and have corrupted Christ's Teachings and driven the poor to leave the Catholic Church for other faiths. (as has happened undeniably in his Holiness' own native land)
Pope Francis must eventually decide what he hates less:
a) tradition minded Catholics, his so-called 'museum mummies'
or
b) empty Seminaries coupled with emptying churches
Time is short. He must overcome whatever prejudices he might have brought with him from Argentina and promote either option a or option b as his program for the Church
Father Z is reporting that under his Excellency's direction the number seminarians has exploded from 6 to 33!! (http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/03/d-madison-bp-morlino-and-the-surge-of-priestly-vocations/)
Perhaps there are several factors at work here.....but, if the Holy Father, Pope Francis, is serious about re-invigorating the Church, then I think it is time for his 'Mount Carmel' moment. I am referring to the famous contest where the Prophet Elijah invited King Ahab and everyone to witness a contest between him and his enemy clerics.(Who happen to be prophets for the false god, Ba'al).
It is time to reach a final judgement on the experiments of the past 50 years. Let him look hard at --what practices have promoted holiness and growth and evangelization and reverence and worship of Jesus Christ and SALVATION --- and what practices have not, and have even strangled faith and led little ones to have a lackadaisical attitude towards our Lord and have corrupted Christ's Teachings and driven the poor to leave the Catholic Church for other faiths. (as has happened undeniably in his Holiness' own native land)
Pope Francis must eventually decide what he hates less:
a) tradition minded Catholics, his so-called 'museum mummies'
or
b) empty Seminaries coupled with emptying churches
Time is short. He must overcome whatever prejudices he might have brought with him from Argentina and promote either option a or option b as his program for the Church
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