The Bible is not equal to the Blessed Sacrament!!!

This is an interesting comment from this post of Bro.. Joe Yang.

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Let me also add that in the Christian view, the "Word became flesh" not that the "Word became a book." [this is a good one! hahaha!] And that this Word became flesh has a name -- our Lord Jesus Christ, who Himself would give to us His own Body and Blood under the appearances of bread and wine entrusted to His Church. So that is the reason why we HAVE TO ADORE the Blessed Sacrament!

As for the Gospel Book, note that the Lord never transformed into any paper or codex. Instead, He, the Word, taught and sent His Apostles and commanded them to "teach all that I have commanded." And because of this solemn duty imposed on them by the Lord Himself, they preached His teachings verbally, and would later on write down some of these teachings as a heritage for all the nations and to form part of the authentic deposit of what He taught, together with Sacred Tradition. The words in the Gospel Book themselves are not completely the words of the Lord. And this is no disrespect when we say that the Bible is the word of God in the words of men... We are not Muslims or whacko fundamentalists who believe that God literally dictated each and every word of the Bible. A random survey of any Gospel book would immediately show you that such and such a Gospel is written "according to Luke" or by Matthew, or by John... Yes, the teachings therein form part of the authentic deposit of the Faith given to us by the Lord, but don't mistake the Book itself as being literal words of God!

Which brings us to the point of the stupidities (I cannot find a stronger word!) in our Catholic Churches of equating the Bible with the Blessed Sacrament. Yes, ecumenical councils do enthrone the Scriptures during their sessions but NOT side by side with the physical and sacramental presence of the Lord in the Eucharist. The Bible is for us, like the Crucifix. We show profound respect to it, we venerate it as a MEDIUM through which some of the Lord's teachings have come down to us. BUT IT IS NOT GOD NOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF. So kudos to you for writing about this and exposing this in your blog. I hope to see more of this in the future so that Catholics would begin to question this stupidities in their churches.

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I can all point the blame to the LITURGISTS of the last decade or two.

Too much inculturation, conjuring the so-called "Spirit of Vatican II", to do whatever they want in the Holy Mass.

Since when is You equal to your picture or to your painting or to your selife?

When?

You as a person is You!  Your picture cannot be you.

It is just plain simple logic to use and you don't even have to be a Christian or a theologian at best to know that.

So why are the Kiko maniacs aka NeoCats putting the Book of the Gospels on top of the Tabernacle that contains Jesus Himself?  Any 4 grade kid who got solid Catholic catechism knows that!

But then!  Why?!  Why?! Why would you find this in the Jesuit School of Xavier Canlubang???

See that there?

The stained glass crucifix is in a position the same as that of the tabernacle....that little thing you see on the right side most of the sanctuary.

Ugly Modernist design, inspired by damnable Modernist theology!

They are Jesuits!  They are very intelligent men!  Brilliant theologians..and...and...and...

Oh...

They are Jesuits.

Bummer.

Jesuits not really as simple?

We have heard how Jesuits live their live simply with the poor especially here in the capital where they are known to spend their ministry at the Payatas dumpsite community.  In fact, students of that suspected modernist, liberal university in Katipunan spend their outreach at Payatas all to become "a man for others".  If you are a mad feminist ok, "a woman for others".

Isn't a wonder why a DPA  - GULP from Cgayan de Oro City saw not one but TWO Jesuits from that university spending their mornings at a brand new and luxurious hotel.

This DPA was there fora business meeting and when he was having his breakfast, these two celebrity Jesuits came walking in, with their friends, and had breakfast.

From how it looks, they weren't just having breakfast according to the GULP.  They were almost in their pajamas!  They were billeted at the hotel.

Why would they be billeted at this hotel when their own Jesuit university in the city is just a few kilometers away.  In fact, you can even take a nice stroll to the university and back to the hotel.

Imagine what the Jesus Nazareno who is just located in a nearby shrine would say to these two "fine" Jesuits.

Imagine what Pope Francis would tell these two young TV Jesuits?

Well, I am sure they wouldn't even care what we think.  Anyway, we all know that they would reason that their friends "paid" for the hotel, that they cannot say "No" to a simple request to stay with them at the hotel.

Let us ask another Jesuit, Pope Francis for his reaction.

Want to know who those Jesuits are?

One is a friend of TPC.  He threw a nutty fit when his adventures at an exclusive club resort were exposed here at the blog.  Did you hear that he went there and had a really good time welcoming the New Year while the entire country was calling for help for Yolanda victims?  And he has a ridiculously obnoxious smile.

And the other Jesuit?

Look for Kape't Pandasal at YouTube.  He is not there anymore though but in the past he used to be part of that program.

HAW is that possible?!?!?

Delicadeza anyone?

The Jesuit Pope calls for solidarity with the poor and especially for the people of Tacloban.

This priest is a Jesuit.  He may have a benefactor sponsor it for him, but my God, why put it on on your social media account?

If you want to thank your benefactors, do it privately.

What's the purpose of putting it for the whole world to see?

Delicadeza, Father JBoy.  Pag-aralan ang ibig sabihin pag may time.

A lot of people have barely anything to eat, no roof over their heads, no clothes or any fabric to protect them from the cold.

PS:  The place is described as:  "Saint Tropez remains the favorite destination of high society, lovers of the sea and heritage enthusiasts. Known as a playground for the rich and Hollywood elite, St.Tropez is surrounded by white sandy beaches and enjoys a gorgeous sunny climate."

The island is an exclusive club in an island in Mauban, Quezon.

Exclusive...

Imagine the money.

Haaayy...

Delicadeza.

Hard to come by these days.

FYI.  Delicadeza in English is "sense of propriety"

Fr. JBoy Gonzalez, Happy New Year from the people of Tacloban City.

BREAKING NEWS: Media finds truth about Pope Francis!

You may stick in some comments about the Pope's "vague" off the cuff comments, which media uses to pursue their liberal anti-Catholic agenda.

But the fact of the matter is this:

1.  This pope is even more popular, media-wise than Blessed John Paul II, IMHO.

2.  Pope Francis is neither too traditional nor too liberal.  Why?  Both sides don't completely like and don't like him.

3.  Pope Francis is barely a year on Peter's Chair.  Pundits are still waiting what he has for the Church.

and the best part of all...

4. LIBERALS especially those advocating women ordination, gay marriage and the wayward Jesuits like Bernas and Tabora are losing their sanity.  :)


Call me Ultramontanist, because I am.  :)

I pledge obedience to Christ's Vicar on earth and to the bishops and priests in communion with him.

I highlighted that part because most of us forget about it.

Right?

Today is the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola

He famously said this to his Jesuits.

These two jokers had other things in mind.

Yup.

This pretty much sums it up!

You might want to read this.

Former Jesuit provincial leaving the order and the priesthood because...

...he can't stand what the Church teaches.

And he is 80 years old.

Here is the full text of his letter.

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June 2013

TO : Family, Relatives, and Friends, Colleagues and Partners in Ministry, CLC Members, Ignatian Associates, Project Mankind, Parishioners of St. John’s, St Benedict the Moor, Sacred Heart, Jesuit Classmates and Companions

FROM: Bert Thelen, S.J., June, 2013


Dearly Beloved,

May the Grace of Jesus Christ, the Love of God, and the Peace of the Holy Spirit be with you! I am writing to tell you about what may be the most important decision of my life since entering the Jesuits. With God’s help, at the behest of my religious superiors and the patient support and wise encouragement of my CLC group and closest friends, I have decided to leave ordained Jesuit ministry and return to the lay state, the priesthood of the faithful [alarm bells!  He does not call it the priesthood of Jesus Christ.  No.  His ordination came from the people, not from the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.]  bestowed on me by my Baptism nearly 80 years ago. [He is about to become an octogenarian to make this decision.] I do this with confidence and humility, clarity and wonder, gratitude and hope, joy and sorrow. No bitterness, no recrimination, no guilt, no regrets.  [As you read on later, it is anything but NO bitterness.]

It has been a wonderful journey, a surprising adventure, an exploration into the God Who dwells mysteriously in all of our hearts. I will always be deeply grateful to the Society of Jesus for the formation, education, companionship, and ministry it has provided, and to my family for their constant support. I can never thank God enough for the loving and loyal presence in my life of each and every one of you.

Why am I doing this? How did I reach this decision? I will try to tell you now. That is the purpose of this letter. For about 15 years now, as many of you have noticed, I have had a “Lover’s Quarrel” with the Catholic Church. I am a cradle Catholic and grew up as Catholic as anyone can, with Priests and even Bishops in our household, and 17 years of Catholic education at St. Monica’s Grade School, Milwaukee Messmer High School, and Marquette University. I took First Vows at Oshkosh in the Society of Jesus at age 25 and was ordained at Gesu Church to the priesthood ten years later in 1968. I have served the Church as a Jesuit priest in Milwaukee, Omaha, and Pine Ridge for 45 years, including 18 years on the Province Staff culminating in my being the Wisconsin Provincial for six years and attending the 34th General Congregation in Rome.

My last 14 years at Creighton and St. John’s have been the best years of my life. I have truly enjoyed and flourished serving as pastor of St. John’s. I cannot even put into words how graced and loved and supported I have been by the parishioners, parish staff, campus ministry, Ignatian Associates, and CLC members! It is you who have freed, inspired, and encouraged me to the New Life to which I am now saying a strong and joyful “Yes.” You have done this by challenging me to be my best self as a disciple of Jesus, to proclaim boldly His Gospel of Love, and to widen the horizons of my heart to embrace the One New World we are called to serve in partnership with each other and our Triune God. It is the Risen Christ Who beckons me now toward a more universal connection with the Cosmos, the infinitely large eco-system we are all part of, the abundance and vastness of what Jesus called “the Reign of God.”  [Obviously his fellow Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin influenced this.  He just got CHRISTIFIED!  Booya!]

Why does this “YES” to embrace the call of our cosmic inter-connectedness mean saying “NO” to ordained ministry? My answer is simple but true. All mystical traditions, as well as modern science, teach us that we humans cannot be fully ourselves without being in communion with all that exists. Lasting justice for Earth and all her inhabitants is only possible within this sacred communion of being. We need conversion – conversion from the prevailing consciousness that views reality in terms of separateness, dualism, and even hierarchy, to a new awareness of ourselves as inter-dependent partners , sharing in one Earth-Human community. [His going for the jugular here!]  In plainer words, we need to end the world view that structures reality into higher and lower, superior and inferior, dominant and subordinate, which puts God over Humanity, [the pagans know better.  Even atheists know better that there is a hierarchy of things in the universe.] humans over the rest of the world, men over women, the ordained over the laity. As Jesus commanded so succinctly, “Don’t Lord it over anyone … serve one another in love.” As an institution, the Church is not even close to that idea; its leadership works through domination, control, and punishment. [I think he skipped the page where Jesus said "I give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.  Whatever you declare bound in heaven..."  That pretty much talks a lot about leadership with control, no?  And he does even recall what St. Paul wrote about the qualifications of a bishop, presbyter and deacon.  That sounds like hierarchy to me, noh?  So what kind of church is this man talking about?  I blogged about this a couple of times.  He is of the same mold as the other liberals who want same sex marriage, contraception, laicization and the likes.  Not surprising though, considering he is a Jesuit.  Ha!  Or was.  Ha!]  So, following my call to serve this One World [New World Order!  Illuminati!  Ha!]  requires me to stop benefiting from the privilege, security, and prestige ordination has given me. I am doing this primarily out of the necessity and consequence of my new call, but, secondarily, as a protest against the social injustices and sinful exclusions perpetrated by a patriarchal church that refuses to consider ordination for women and marriage for same- sex couples.  [In reality, what he cannot accept is what Christ Himself did not allow.  Christ will never ever accept homosexual acts nor homosexuals living together like they are husband and wife, when in fact they are both husband, and both wife.  Christ did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it. (cf. Mt. 5:17)]

I have become convinced that the Catholic Church will never give up its clerical privilege until and unless we priests (and bishops) willingly step down from our pedestals. Doing this would also put me in solidarity with my friend, Roy Bourgeois, my fellow Jesuit, Fr. Bill Brennan, the late Bernard Cooke, and many other men who have been “de-frocked” by the reigning hierarchy. [And he thinks it will ever change.  Dude!  2,000 years.  Count it!]  It will also support the religious and lay women, former Catholics, and gay and lesbian couples marginalized by our church. I want to stand with and for them. I am, if you will, choosing to de-frock myself in order to serve God more faithfully, truly, and universally.  [Whoever the god he has in mind though...]

But why leave the Jesuits? Make no mistake about it: the Society of Jesus shares in and benefits from this patriarchal and clerical way of proceeding. [THEY DO?!?!?!  Wow!]  We still regard ourselves as the shepherds and those to whom and with whom we minister as sheep. I discovered this painfully when the Society of Jesus decided against having Associate members. We are not prepared for co-membership or even, it seems at times, for collaboration, though we pay lip service to it. “Father knows best” remains the hallmark of our way of proceeding. I can no longer, in conscience, do that. But I still honor and love my fellow Jesuits who work from that model of power over. It is still where we all are as a company, a Society, a community of vowed religious in the Roman Catholic church.  Leaving behind that companionship is not easy for me, but it is the right thing for me to do at this time in my life. When I went through a formal discernment process with my CLC group, one member whose brilliance and integrity I have always admired and whose love and loyalty to the Jesuits is beyond question, said of my decision, “You cannot NOT do this!” He had recognized God’s call in me.  [Well...did he follow you?]

A few other considerations may help clarify my path. The Church is in transition – actually in exile. In the Biblical tradition, the Egyptian, Assyrian and Babylonian captivities led to great religious reforms and the creation of renewed covenants. Think of Moses, Jeremiah, and Isaiah. I think a similar reform is happening in our Catholic faith (as well as other traditions). [Wha?!?  Moses, Jeremiah and Isaiah were all preparing for the arrival of the promised Messiah.  That is the religious reform they were all waiting.  What in the world is this guy looking for?  A female pope?  Not afr fetched!  Hey!  They have it in the Episcopalian Church!]  We have come through far-reaching, earth-shaking evolutionary changes, and a new (Universal) Church as well as a new (One) World is emerging. [He is reading too much comic books or Dan Brown novels for sure.]  My decision is a baby step in that Great Emergence, a step God is asking me to take.

Consider this. Being a Lay Catholic has sometimes been caricatured as “Pray, pay, and obey.” [Never heard that told to me.  Maybe he was the one saying that.]  Of course, that is a caricature, an exaggeration, a jibe. But it does point to a real problem. [An exaggeration points to a real problem.  Now that is an oxymoron for you!] Recently, the hierarchical church mandated the so-called revision of the Roman Missal without consulting the People of God. [And the hierarchy is not part of the People of God.  Maybe we can ask Joe the Plumber how to run the country's health care policy.  Yeah, any simpleton can decide on anything there is under the sun.  Maybe he can ask Jane the Ballet Dancer to perform his next medical check up because anyone calling themselves People of God can do that, like translating Latin into modern English.]  It was both a foolish and a self-serving effort to increase the authority of Ordained men, damaging and even in some ways taking away the “Pray” part of “Pray, pay, and obey.” [How in the world did "And with your spirit" increased the power of the ordained.  He must have felt it...  Did you Fr. Jojo, Fr. Bob, Fr. Z???]  No wonder more and more Catholics are worshipping elsewhere, [because the Mass is boring???  We need more dance moves?  We need to ask people to clap more often at Mass?]  and some enlightened priests feel compromised in their roles. [Compromised?  How in the world will this priest feel if the priests were asked to celebrate Mass, Novus Ordo, ad orientem?  Oh my!  He might hang himself for praying to God with the people facing the same direction rather than looking and smiling at each other from across the table, er...altar.]  I, for one, feel that this so-called renewal , though licit, is not valid.  [Licit but not valid.  Did this guy come from a sedevacantist group or from those Facebook groups of Google Theologians and Liturgists?] It is not pleasing to God, and I feel compromised in trying to do it.  [And same sex marriage for him is PLEASING to God.  Wow!  He totally did not read in theology school the writings of a man named Paul....But it is also in the Old Testament, no?  Sodom and Gomorrah?  Does he know what sodomy is and how it is....never mind. Ugh!]

Now, consider this. All of this liturgical, ecclesial, and religious change is located in and strongly influenced by what both science and spirituality have revealed as happening to our world, our planet, our universe. [Wow!  He consulted the stars!  Madam Auring!!!!]  The very earth we are rooted and grounded in, as well as the air we breathe and the water we drink, are being damaged and destroyed even beyond (some say) our capacity to survive. [How in the world is that connected to the Roman Missal???] And, as Fr. John Surette, S.J., has so wisely observed, “Injustice for the human and destruction of Earth’s ecosystem are not two separate injustices. They are one.” Biocide is even more devastating than genocide, because it also kills future inhabitants of our precious Earth.  [And he never even wailed for the countless unborn humans continuously being massacred by their mothers in the womb in the name of choice and progress, no?  And he cries for the polluted air and the dirty river.  Is this what they teach at Theology schools nowadays?  Oh yeah, sorry I forgot.  Booyah Euntes!!!  Oh Shanti!!!]

[Euntes performing their signature song and dance version of the Gloria for the New Church...Who are the people in your neighborhood...in your neighborhood...]

It is time. It is time to abandon our refusal to see that our very environment is central to the survival and well being of ALL earthlings. [You just have a new pagan shaman right in front  of you folks.] It is time for the Church to turn her attention from saving face to saving the earth, from saving souls to saving the planet. [Because the eternal salvation of your soul is nothing is you don't have an earth with clean air and water to live at.  Yeah makes sense.  Makes perfectly idiotic sense!]  It is time to focus on the sacred bond that exists between us and the earth. [Booyah Euntes!  Oh Shanti!!!]  It is time to join the Cosmic Christ [I told you!  He was CHRISTIFIED!  Booyah de Chardin!  Oh Shanti!!!] in the Great Work of mending, repairing, nurturing, and protecting our evolving creation. It is time for a new vision of a universal Church whose all-inclusive justice and unconditional love, an expression of Christ consciousness and the work of the Holy Spirit, empowers ALL and can lead to a future that preserves the true right to life of all of God’s creatures. This includes future generations who will bless us for allowing them to live, evolve, and flourish. Can’t you hear them crying out, “I want to live, I want to grow, I want to be, I want to know?”  [And Christ said "Go out into the world and preach the Gospel to every nation.  Tell them to dump their wastes properly and use lead free gasoline and....Oh no.  Wrong version of the Gospel.]

In light of all this, how can I not respond to the call both Isaiah and Jesus heard, the call of our Baptism? “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me and sent me to bring Good News to the oppressed.” All creation will be freed, and all people will know the freedom and glory of the Children of God. Yes, Lord, I will go. Please send me.

[Oh my God!  Look at that poor tree!  It is hurting!  Look at the barbed wires!  It is oppressed!  We need a savior for that tree!  I wish Isaiah were here to show us how...

Tatadadaaaaaa!!!!

It's a bird, it's a plane...it's.. Oh my!  It's Super Bert!]

And that is why I am leaving Jesuit priesthood. Since first vows I have always thought and hoped and prayed that I would live and die in this least Society of Jesus. But now, something unexpected! A real surprise! I HAVE lived and died in the Society of Jesus, but, now, nearly 80, I have been raised to new life. I am born again – into a much larger world, a much newer creation. [Alive! Alive! Alive forever more!] I have greatly benefited from the spiritual freedom given in and by the Society of Jesus. I feel no longer chained, limited, bound, by the shackles of a judicial, institutional, clerical, hierarchical system. As St. Paul once reminded the early Christians, “It is for freedom that you have been set free.” And as St. Peter, the first Pope, learned when he said to Jesus, “You know that I love you,” love is all about surrender and servanthood.  [And he forgot about the bondage being told by the prophets to the freedom that Christ actually set us free... Liberation Theology sprinkled with a lot of EcoSpirituality.  What do you get?  Euntes!  Booyah!  Oh Shanti!]

Thank you for your attention to this self presentation. [Oh God!  Is this guy related in anyway to Convicted KSP Queen Carlita Celdran???]  I am grateful that you have followed me in the journey described here, and I am sorry for whatever sadness, disappointment, or hurt this may have caused you. [Honestly, I feel different...] But what I have written here is my truth, and I can’t not do it! If you want to discuss this with me, ask questions, or give me feedback, I welcome your response, either by letter, e-mail or phone.
( 402-305-2665 ). Please pray for me, as I do for all of you, the beloved of my heart and soul.

Yours in the Risen Christ, Bert Thelen


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Right after Vatican II, everyone jumped at the democracy bandwagon in the Church.  Even if Vatican II did not mandate it, everyone started dissing their congregation's Constitution and Rules, some of them written personally by their holy founders.  Most dissed their religious habit to make them "one with the people".  Most even changed the names of the one managing the whole group.  They don't want to be called "superior" because it connotes power and domination.  So they changed it to "minister general" or "servant coordinator" or any other politically correct word that would not convey a sense of authority and lording it over.  But the truth of the matter suddenly dawned on these hippie congregations.  After each congregation had their fair share of headaches and rouge members, they had to stomp their foot and say "this is where the buck stops." and then started flexing their muscles.  The followers who were so sold out to the whole democracy and equality things started wondering "Why is he becoming the ugly patriarch we dumped after Vatican II?"  Whether you like or not, even in big multinational corporation, even in a family, the basic unit of society, it will be the CEO or even the mother or the father who will say "enough is enough.  This is what we will do and all will follow.  No questions.  Nuff said.

From amidst this drama, I say...

THANK YOU.

Thank God he decided to leave than to stay in the ministry and in the Church and continuously tear Her up apart with his heresy.

Anymore jesuits and dissenting cleric and religious out there want to follow him and join his One World Church?

Yeah, you two.  I'll sponsor your ticket.

And a final word from your ultra-montanist Founder, defender of the Catholic Faith par excellence, obedient son of the Catholic Church, scourge of heretical Protestants...

Holy See declares Morning-After Pill an attack on the unborn!

Hey!

Miriam Defensor Santiago!

Fr. Joel Tabora!

Fr. Joaquin Bernas!

MST Theologians!

Ateneo "professors" when some are mere clerks!

Are you reading this???

From Zenit.

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The so-called Morning After Pill, often called “emergency contraception” by the medical establishment, is not a “life-saving commodity,” the head of the Holy See delegation told the 66th World Health Assembly in Geneva this week. Such drugs are in reality “a direct attack” on the life of the unborn child.  [Guess the arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator will still beg to disagree!]

In his address, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski responded to the World Health Organization’s Resolution EB132.R4, which urges member states to improve the quality, supply, and use of 13 “life-saving commodities.”  [it kills the unborn by a woman who is not needing a life saving commodity!  The woman just had sex and does not even intend to have a baby!  Sheesh!]

The list includes “emergency contraception.”

Archbishop Zimowski said the Holy See “strongly agrees with the need to achieve further reductions in the loss of life and prevention of illness through increased access to inexpensive interventions” but insisted that they must all be “respectful of the life and dignity of all mothers and children at all stages of life, from conception to natural death.”  [conception to natural death.  always remember that!]

While some of the WHO’s recommendations, he said, “are truly life-saving, that of ‘emergency contraception’ can hardly be labeled as such since it is well known that, when conception already has occurred, certain substances used in ‘emergency contraception’ produce an abortifacient effect.”  [ And yet the arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator will still beg to disagree!]

“For my delegation, it is totally unacceptable to refer to a medical product that constitutes a direct attack on the life of the child in utero as a ‘life-saving commodity’ and, much worse, to encourage ‘increasing use of such substances in all parts of the world,’” he said.

Patrick Buckley, the international affairs officer of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, commented that the intervention was well placed.

The World Health Assembly is the annual general meeting of the World Health Organization and is discussing universal health coverage, women and children’s health, and monitoring the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals, [which I call Millenial DEATH Goals!] all of which have relevance to the issue of abortion and artificial contraception.

Earlier this year, abortion advocates used the three-day Global Maternal Health Conference in Tanzania to promote the idea of universal coverage for abortion as part of the MDGs.

Buckley said, “It is good to hear the Holy See speaking out boldly on this fundamental issue. Women are entitled to the truth - and the Catholic Church is serving the best interests of women, children and families worldwide, when it proclaims the truth fearlessly on abortion and abortifacient products in world assemblies.”  [Do you think that arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator serves the best interest of families and women?  Nah!  Both are attention hungry. period.]

In another intervention, Jeanne Head, R.N., National Right to Life vice-president for international affairs and UN representative said that women, especially in the developing world, “face numerous risks with abortion, legal or illegal.”

“Yet some in the international community have focused their resources primarily on legalizing abortion at the expense of women’s lives and health,” she said.

In a submission to the meeting, Scott Fischbach of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Global Outreach, said, “The evidence is overwhelming: Abortion is dangerous for women. Abortion is by its very nature a violent and damaging procedure.”  [Yet Risa "the Veteran Loser" Hontiveros, still pushes to legalize abortion here in the country.  Thank God for the constitutional ban!  By the way, is there a way to ban Veteran Losers in Senatorial Elections?]

Speaking for a coalition of international pro-life groups, Fischbach said, “We call upon the WHA to acknowledge that abortion needlessly puts women at serious risk, both physically and psychologically. We urge the World Health Assembly to adopt measures that protect women from abortion and improve women’s health care.”


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Do you think the arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator will think that pills are abortifacients?

Do you think the arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator will still think that pills promote abortion?

No.

They will still brandish their geniuses and their infallible consciences as the be-all and end-all to all debates.

If you have a screwed up conscience and a spaghetti wired brain like that arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator, then you have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting a REAL CATHOLIC answer from those two!

Not even a papal statement about this issue could sway those two.

Oh sorry.  I forgot, Your Holiness.  Those two disregarded you already.

Oh well.  Mandaluyong residents...sa looban!

SJs Bernas and Tabora should attend this conference!

The conference is about the rise of secularism and intolerance to religious freedom.

Society of Judas members Bernas and Tabora wrote heavily to defend pluralism in the country but never did they give an inch for the protection off religious freedom and liberty of Filipino Catholics.

Now you know why they are members of that Society.

All it takes is 30 pieces of silver.

Fr. Joel Tabora is WRONG!

This genius pseudo-Catholic says that Catholicism is losing members in the Philippines.

Just as how Archbishop Oscar Cruz said that Catholicism in the Philippines is growing...

Here comes a new report from the Vatican about the number of Catholics in the whole world.

Fr. Tabora....go collect your money from condom companies!

SJ now stands for Society of Judas Iscariot!  Hot all Jesuits are members

Tabora and Bernas are members.

Debunking the SWS Survey and Mr. Survey Joel Tabora, SJ

From the blog of Lingayen - Dagupan Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz, DD.

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 CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES CATHOLIC DIRECTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES STATISTICS

It is interesting that Malacañang and its surrogates wanted to find out about the standing of the Catholic Church in the Philippines as far as its membership is concerned. More fascinating however is that a survey agency as in fact contracted, commissioned, and paid for the purpose. But what is truly intriguing -- funny, hilarious, ridiculous -- is the supposedly expert and the professional conclusion incredibly arrived at. This: One of every 11 Catholics wants to change their religion, to affiliate themselves with non-catholic sects or the like, for one reason of another.

Just for the record in black and white, the CBCP publishes the thick annual Catholic Directory of the Philippines forwarding in black and white the particulars of every Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction from all of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Just for the record, among but some — and they are so many informational data found therein — the following concrete entries are specifically found therein:


YEAR 2010-2011:

a. TOTAL NO. OF POPULATION:
    88,887,382

b. TOTAL NO. OF CATHOLICS:
    70,407,588

c. TOTAL NO. OF PRIESTS:
    8,605

Note: Total number of Baptism: 1,216,077


YEAR 2012-2013:

a. TOTAL NO. OF POPULATION:
    96,871,813

b. TOTAL NO. CATHOLICS:
    76,167,880

c. TOTAL NO. OF PRIESTS:
    9,040

Note: Total number of Baptism: 1,369,145

SUBMITTED BY: O.V. CRUZ, JCD
Judicial Vicar

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The SWS does surveys.  They take sample sizes in key places in the country.

Several questions though:

1. Who ever thought that the SWS was doing this study all along?  SWS does not conduct a study without a client paying them to do.  It is hypocritical for them to say it is for free when in fact they have to pay their interviewers to do their jobs.  
2. Is the SWS also doing similar studies to other religions in the country, most especially those who have large memberships or whose churches are active in the political sphere like the INC?
3. Which do you think is more accurate?  A survey or an actual census that gives you not a partial look of the statistics but gives you the entire statistics.

Guess Mr. Survey Joel Tabora is one of those guys who'd rather look at the new survey results of SWS or Google his name for hits rather than grab a copy of the Catholic Directory of the Philippines, no?

By the way, that directory even lists the names of priests in every diocese and in every religious order or congregation.

Because the SWS does not know that.

Did you notice how many Catholics were added from 2010 to 2012?  6.5 million with baptisms that  totalled 2.5 million only.  Are the Catholics leaving the Church or other Filipinos of other denominations joining the Church?

What were you saying Fr. Tabora?  

Bad news for dissident Jesuits like "Frs." Bernas and Tabora

Keep on wishing!

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!

Makes me remember the two Jesuits all the time.  Ha!

What the Jesuits must be saying with the election of Pope Francis

The FSSP and the SSPX and CBCP and heads of state have sent in their message in relation to the election of Pope Francis, the first Jesuit Pope... BUT! Can't see anything from his Jesuit brothers. They must be thinking this... (of course, except Fr. Mitch and Fr. Tim...)

The only reaction I got is from an American Jesuit who said that his confreres in the Society "don't like him one bit."

Well, after the no-wearing of the choir dress for the pope, at least that is some comforting thing for you traddies out there, no?

PS:  Where are these loud-mouths when you need them to make some noise, huh?

I think the pro-RH lobbyists don't cover the expenses for the press release for the new Pope, who happens to be a Jesuit.

Team Patay poster: Affected ka Joel?

Before the elections, pro-RH supporters and lawmakers kept on insisting that there is no such things as a Catholic vote.  Then why oh why is the government now bothered by this campaign against the pro-RH lawmakers and open endorsement for pro-life lawmakers???

Separation of Church and State my foot!  Then sue us!  Bah-humbug!

And now lo and behold, the Jesuit priest who craves the attention like his constitutionalist brother Joaqui Bernas, is trying to hug the limelight by saying that the RH does not violate a Catholic's conscience.  But what is so obvious is that this supposedly learned man does not acknowledge the fact that a Catholic is being forced to use artificial contraception which violates the teachings of the Church!

What is so obvious with these pro-RH people is they made fun of the influence of the Catholic Church in this country that they kept on flaunting the results of the SWS survey that says majority are in favor of the RH Bill and that the influence of the Catholic Church among her flock is waning.

If that be the case, what are you afraid of?

If Tabora is Catholic and obedient to the Church, why does he keep on yakking his head off in support of the RH group and in public dissent to Church teaching?

And why is the CBCP or the Archbishop of Davao not doing anything about him?

"Oh, TPC, he talked to him in public."  Yeah, yeah, like I never heard that before.

Like what Bishop Ongtioco did to Fr. Bernas?  The talk was secret but what Bernas and Tabora have written is being copied and pasted over and over and over again by Catholics and non-Catholics who publicly oppose and ridicule the Church, her teachings and her clergy.

Sometimes, you wish you could just pick up the shepherd's staff and whack the heads of wayward sheep yourself, no?

But I am no bishop.  And I trust the Holy Spirit will make them answer for these...in due time.

Speaking of Jesuits....

Here is how a Filipino Jesuit looks like when he does Eucharistic adoration.

At least they still HAVE Eucharistic Adoration....but could they be properly dressed next time?

Goodbye to a great Jesuit!

Yes their numbers are dwindling....  :(

Rest in peace, dear Fr. James!

The Jesuit educated President of the Philippines

...because the Jesuits taught him to respect one's conscience and freedom of religion.  That is why he is forcing lawmakers to vote on a measure that runs contrary to their beliefs.

That is why he is using the pork barrel to pressure the lawmakers.

The Jesuits must be happy right now....except for one Jesuit I admire and I believe does not think like his brothers in Katipunan, Zamboanga and Davao.

We need more of this Jesuit

No, not this joker.

Especially after he finally admitted his support for the RH Bill, all masked under the pretenses of respect of each individual's right to choose.

Yeah, he defends an individual's right to choose as if it were Bible truth.  And did I say he is a stauch defender of the Constitution?

Well, how about him being a staunch defender of the Catholic faith, more particularly about Paul Vi's ordinary magisterial teaching about artificial contraception?

Yeah, he questions the infallibility of that one.

Well, when it comes to civil law, it is hook line and sinker for this one.  For Church law, he asks if its infallible.

Well, Duh!
Hmmm....as far as I can hear from the grapevine Mr. Constitutionalist was wondering why the religious brother from the Green University got a cabinet post while he is still stuck as emeritus at the Blue University.

Biological Solution soon!

This one I mean!

Knows who he is in the eyes of the Church and of the people.

Yup, that is Fr. Tim Ofrasio, SJ, one of the few Jesuits I admire like how I look up to other great Jesuits, like this one.

Nice eh?

The first one who I call Mr. Constitutionalist and who I know call Wacky Berns, does everything contrary to what his Society stands for, what St. Ignatius meant it to be.

Well...

I think they completely changed it.

Let us pray for the the Jesuits that they put to heart their fourth vow and be imitators of their revered founder.

Yeah, the prayer is for Mr. Constitutionalist.

Editorial about St. Pedro Calungsod

The Jesuits did not care to push for the canonization of Blessed San Vitores because Jesuits are expected to die for the Faith???? And they tons of Blesseds and Saints???

Or the Jesuits simply don't care about canonizations anymore?

Seriously, do we expect the Jesuits to die for the Faith today?

I read somewhere that this annoying Jesuit who smiles every morning, has high praises for his university's basketball win but in all truthfulness, is all for the RH Bill!

I think he'd rather die for a basketball championship rather than for the Faith, eh?

Seriously, aside from the usual high-praises and worship of Jesuits from a product of a Jesuit school, no harm intended for my Jesuit friends and friends who work or study in Jesuit institutions, this reflection of Teddy Locsin is nice...... surprisingly from a MASON like him.

Roman Catholic priest answers "Constitutionalist"

Yeah, that is how I will call him now.

Joaquin Bernas, SJ that is.

He ceased to be a Catholic priest for thinking that he can fool us with his legalese mumbo-jumbo on twisting statements to skirt the issue on Catholics and contraception.

Now here is one statement that debunks this constitutionalist out of his high rocking chair.

Shared via email from Fr. Charles Belmonte Lopez


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THE DISSENTER wrote…:
“Let me illustrate this through the teaching on contraception. The teaching of the Church on contraception is found in various documents. But Church teaching is not accepted by a vast number of people.”

I SAY: Being an “eminent constitutionalist” he should know that “acceptance by the people” is not a necessary requirement for the validity or lawfulness of a law; at least in Canon Law. Moreover, “Laws are authentically interpreted by the legislator” (CIC, 16), not by any Dick, Tom or Harry.

THE DISSENTER: “Persons who adhere to Humanae Vitae, etc. and act in the sphere of the relation of man to God are expected to plan their family according to the principles of the Church teaching.

I SHOULD ADD: Right so. These “persons” are officially called “christifideles” or simply, Catholics.

THE DISSENTER: “But these same persons should not be faulted if in the sphere of constitutional law they do not oppose a state plan that is not in accordance with Humanae Vitae, etc."

I SAY: I contemplate three possible motives for which they do not oppose a state plan that is not in accordance with their faith (using the legal resources they may have):

(a) They don’t oppose an evil law because they cannot do so, materially. Possible reasons: All the media are against them; the machinery of the State impedes them from intervening; they have no representation in the assembly, etc.

(b) They don’t oppose an evil law because they have two wills, instead of one, as all human beings have. We should not discard the possibility of aliens possessing two wills.

(c) They don’t oppose an evil law because of duplicity in their character. They are not fully determined in favor of Truth and Good; thus, they harbor in their hearts a certain love for truth and, at the same time, a personal inclination to evil not fully conquered (due to vanity, pride…, whatever).

THE DISSENTER: “Religious liberty in the constitutional plane does not simply mean freedom to choose what to believe but also freedom to act or not to act according to one’s belief.”

I SAY: I really don’t know, or care, what “liberty in the constitutional plane” implies.
But “liberty in the moral plane” –definitively and emphatically– does not mean what the Dissenter avers.

“To act according to one’s belief” is usually called “sincerity,” or “authenticity,” or “having personal responsibility and maturity,” or “being coherent with one’s faith.”

On the other hand, “Not to act according to one’s belief” is usually called “duplicity,” or “insincerity,” or “betrayal of one’s faith.”

Faith is not a “hat” that one can take off when one enters the Congress and then put on when one enters the church; that is, properly speaking, having a “double life”… nakakasuka.

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And here is a painting that best describes the attitude of Bernas

A message to Fr. Joaquin Bernas, SJ

Admit it Fr. Bernas.

That is what you have been trumpeting all along.

You keep on saying that a person cannot be coerced to follow a law when his rights are protected by the Constitution, isn't it?

Yes, we all know you are a Constitutionalist.  You had been telling us that since day 1.

Yes, we also know that you are dean emeritus of the Ateneo Law School.  You keep on telling us that.

You just told us that you support Humanae Vitae, which is the first time you ever wrote about.

Now when will you ever tell that the State cannot force a person to disobey his religious convictions?

When?

You did not write about it.

All you ever care about is to tell that Catholics cannot force others to follow their law.

Is that what the bishops are talking about when they oppose the RH Bill?

Did you even write why the bishops are against the RH Bill?  Did you even write about the teachings of the Church against contraception?

Check your works.  You write more for the protection of the Constitution rather than the Laws of the Church.

Yes, we know you are a lawyer, a constitutionalist.  We all know that.

What we do not know is that you are a Catholic Priest.  You cannot even prove that, other than insisting that you are a Jesuit priest!

You have been so ambiguous, we just want to forget to respect you that you are even a priest!

"`I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth." (Rev. 3:15-16)