State of the Catholic Church in the Philippines

This is a screenshot of an entry in FilipiKnow.net from a TPC reader.

This came from an article entitled 9 Philippine Icons and Traditions That May Disappear Soon.

In what could be something providential, this screenshot came into my mailbox just a few minutes after I posted this about the defenders of the Sampaloc Catholic church masquerade ball.

Which leads us to this point ladies and gentlemen...

A secular website hits it right on head when it identified the causes of our dying spirituality.

We pride ourselves to be the home country of one of the most "renowned" liturgist of the Catholic Church yet our Masses have become sources of entertainment, treated as if it were a game show or a theater play.

Our priests get ordained, receiving the special indelible mark on their soul to offer the Holy Sacrifice for the expiation of our sins, to forgive and absolve the sins of the penitent, to baptize and save the soul of an infant, to cast out demons in the name of Christ....but you see the most visible, the noisiest of them all, posing as if they were selling the latest fashion trend....or they think they defend the Church using gutter language, spewing curses left and right and claiming that they cannot be criticized for such a behavior because they are "alter Christus" (you'd find more sewage in his mouth than in the Pasig River, guaranteed!)....or someone who spends more than 45 minutes on his "homily" but is nothing but a hodge podge of made up stories (of fictitious people they met and talked to) or of jokes and songs you almost forgot you are in a Holy Mass and not in another episode of Vice Ganda's videoke stand-up comedy routine...or a priest who flaunts being in an exclusive club while the other part of the country is suffering from the wrath of a super typhoon...

We even have priests who openly support the homosexual agenda! (Watch out for a blog post about another priest who supports the gay agenda.  Tuwang-tuwa ang lola niyo sa SCOTUS decision on same sex "marriage".)

Narcissist priests!  That's what's killing the Church from within.

And add to that spineless bishops who can't even muster the strength to confront a university within his diocese who openly supported the RH Law which is in complete disobedience to the teachings of the Catholic Church.

But when you see this bishop, he chuckles like a Sesame Street character you'd think "Hmm!  Everything seems alright..."

For him it is alright, even if that university continues to lead Catholics away from the Faith from a society of priests and brothers founded to combat heresy.  Hey!  If you can't beat them join them no?

Retired Lingayen Dagupan Archbishop is right.  He said that if all the Catholics in the Philippines would come to Mass on Sundays, all the Mass schedules and all the churches wouldn't be able to accommodate all the faithful coming to worship.

We pride ourselves to be the only Catholic nation in Asia yet we cannot even bring our people into our churches every Sunday.

We pride ourselves to be the only Catholic nation in Asia yet we have allowed the passage of the Reproductive Health Law.

We pride ourselves to be the only Catholic nation in Asia yet we are riddled with corruption in and out of government.

Does it need a regular visit from the Pope to enliven our faith?

Even if the Pope would stay in the Philippines, do we even know if the Katipunan University will stop its relativistic, ok I'll say it, HERETIC teachings?

What does the Catholic Church in the Philippines need?

We need holy priests and it starts at the seminaries.

We need seminarians who are not educated under heretical schools like Maryhill, St. Vincent and all those schools identified by The Pinoy Catholic since 2009.

We need seminarians who want to be ordained not because of the status symbol or fringe benefits of the state of life, but because they want to save souls for Christ.  This means, to BAN these posers, these altar servers FOR LIFE who go around parish after parish, Mass after every Mass, school after school, who carry either a black cassock and surplice, or an alb, and claim to be Master of Ceremonies or instituted acolytes, selling holy cards or relics!  They are a danger to the Faith and they are out there to take advantage of people!

We, the people of God, must do this for ourselves.

We must remain vigilant and active at the same time.

Stop going to Masses of these narcissistic priests!  Stop supporting their causes and instead support priests who are loyal to the Church and to Tradition.

Stop liking or sharing whatever they share in social media.  You are fueling their narcissism.

Stop sending your children to these heretical universities who support Reproductive Health and the LGBT Agenda.  These talk about Tolerance and Acceptance only applies to them and not to those who disagree with them.  They do not tolerate faithful Catholics.  They do not accept Catholics who openly criticize their anti-Catholic agenda.  They silence people who do not agree with them, but are very warm and supportive of anyone who is against the Catholic Church.  Yes, that means you too Miriam College.

I can sum up using the words of the Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen

We deserve the bishops, priests and religious that we have. Why? Because we tolerate the bad ones and do not support the good ones.

If we have so much good bishops and priests out there, why is this happening to the Philippines?

Miriam Santiago teaches us ALL about being devout Catholics

This is what she said to suspected pork barrel scam mastermind, Janet Napoles Lim during today's Senate hearing.

"Is it true that you are close to a certain Catholic congregation? Are you familiar with the Ten Commandments? Are you familiar with the commandment: You shall not steal? Are you familiar with the commandment: You should not tell a lie? And still, with the plunder case against you, you remain and consider yourself to be a devout Catholic?"

Now let's paraphrase that shall we and let us turn the tables against her.

"Is it true that you are close to a certain Catholic theology school, the MST? Are you familiar with the Catechism of the Catholic Church? Are you familiar Humanae Vitae? Are you familiar with the teachings about the Catholic Church against artificial contraception? And still, with theology degrees you keep on floundering, and by authoring the RH Law and publicly insulting the bishops and priests who uphold Catholic teaching you remain and consider yourself to be a devout Catholic?" 

 

Honestly, I just watched the Senate hearing to see her rant her head off trying to tell everyone who listened and watched how a genius she is.

And look at the irony of it all!

Call for Equality: For the nuns of St. Vincent School of Theology, Euntes, Maryhill School of Theology...

And all feminists who have a very bad relationship with a father figure...

I DARE YOU!

Call Satan a Woman!

Time for equality

Priest stands up for women and homosexuals, gets excommunicated

What?!?!

What happened???

I thought Pope Francis said...

Or so the media said.

Ha!

Look how happy he was to receive the news!


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Melbourne, Australia, Sep 25, 2013 / 02:06 am (CNA).- Pope Francis has ordered the excommunication of a Catholic priest in Australia who illicitly said Mass, taught that women should be ordained priests and advocated for “gay marriage.” [So the pope excommunicated someone who supported gay marriage huh?  What will the biased media say about this?  Hello Rappler!!!]

An Archdiocese of Melbourne spokesman said the Pope had ordered the excommunication of Father Greg Reynolds, who has also been dismissed from the clerical state, the Australian Associated Press reports.

Australian newspaper The Age reported that Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne said the excommunication was due to the priest’s public celebration of Mass without faculties to do so, and his preaching contrary to the teachings of the Church.  [Hey!  We have the same Brady Bunch here!  They teach at LST, MST, SVST, Euntes!]

The letter announcing the penalty, written in Latin, was dated May 31.  [I'm sure Mr. Reynolds did not understand a word written there.  He might have asked someone at ICEL to do it for him.  He definitely would not know any rad-trads out there, to translate it for him, no?]

Excommunication is a canonical penalty intended to warn and correct those who commit grave offenses against the Church. Priests who are excommunicated may not receive or celebrate the sacraments.  [I guess Mr. Reynolds does not believe in both the clerical state nor in excommunication, no?  Ha!]

Reynolds said he expected to be dismissed from the clerical state, but not excommunicated. He said he was told that Archbishop Hart did not apply for dismissal from the clerical state, but that someone else contacted the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.  [I bet it is a layman or laywomyn.  I respect his defense of womyn that is why I wrote it that way.  Ha!]

Reynolds had resigned as a parish priest in the Archdiocese of Melbourne in 2011. He founded a group called “Inclusive Catholics” the following year, and has indicated he will continue his work with the group.  [Now he is included!...in the list of excommunicated Catholics!]

In August 2012, a visitor to the group’s woman-led religious service reportedly fed “consecrated bread” to his dog. Media reports at the time were unclear whether the bread was in fact the Holy Eucharist, as the priest’s involvement in the service was minimal. However, the reports led Archbishop Hart to say such a sacrilege of the Blessed Sacrament would be an “abomination.”

The Catholic Church requires priests to have faculties, or the approval of Church authorities, to licitly celebrate Mass. Catholic teaching is that women cannot be ordained priests for ecclesial reasons, because Christ did not grant the Church authority to do so.  [No.  The theologians at St. Vincent and Maryhill are vehemently against this Patriarchal, invented dogma!  These teaching were concocted by a sexist bunch of old guys who continue to dominate the world and subdue the sacred feminine!  They are the cause of much injustice and evil in this world.  This subjugation of the feminine is the real work of the devil!  Not sin!  There is no such thing as sin!  There is no such thing as hell!  The real hell is when injustice is continuously done upon poor, helpless womyn who continue to be hidden in the dark shadows of the Institutional Church.  These Womyn who are continually treated as second class citizens!..............No, that's not me talking.  That's what I learned from my theology professors.]

Several individuals who have participated in the simulated “ordination” of women have been excommunicated.

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I invite theologians of St. Vincent School of Theology and Euntes in Zamboanga to shed their pretenses and openly declare their support for women's ordination and homosexual unions if they really have the balls to fight for what they think is God's will for women and homosexuals in the Church!

Go ahead.

We dare you!

Fr. Pilario, this one's for you!

PS:  I bet you.  The media will not publish this news.  Because we should not focus on too much petty issues, right?

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...

What Fr. Geny Diwa and the modernist theologians at Maryhill are thinking right now

They miss the Age of Aquarius...

They hoped to update the Church...

Instead...

The Church updated them.

And here's the latest update!

When was the last time you had this much ordination to the transitional diaconate?

A usual ordination at the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest

While in the Archdiocese of Manila...

Ok....nuff said.

Radical Feminism doesn't deserve understanding

Radical Feminists and the LGBT Movement preach Tolerance and Acceptance by being intolerant and disrespectful of other people's rights and beliefs.

Tolerance.

Sadly, this is the kind of "tolerance" modernist theological schools preach, like MST, SVST, Euntes.

When do we get an Apostolic Visitation, huh?

In case you did not know

There is such a thing as Creation of Mass....

Hold Mass before the sun rises, so you can thank the sun for coming out...

Feel the dew on the grass with your bare feet...

Be one with nature and feel the Spirit communicating with you...

Isn't that wonderful?

Uhm...Father!

Uhm...Sister!

Christ is in the Mass....why would I need to do all your rubbish?

Are you teaching me to be a Catholic Wiccan or Wiccan Catholic?

Or is there a difference between the two?

Duh!

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Many thanks to Euntes of Zamboanga for continuously contributing a lot of liturgical abuse photos from their own backyard!

Keep it coming!

Pontifical Low Mass at the Ateneo

Just when you think nothing "Catholic" would come out of the Ateneo, ;) the Ateneo Latin Mass Society under the spiritual direction of the highly-respected liturgist, Fr. Tim Ofrasio, SJ, organized a Pontifical Low Mass at the Oratory of Saint Ignatius, Loyola House of Studies, Ateneo de Manila University.

No less than Novaliches Bishop Antonio Tobias celebrated the Mass. Why? Maybe because the bishop who has direct jurisdiction over Ateneo STILL REFUSES to celebrate the TLM publicly and even publicly rebuke Ateneo and MST for their continuing public defiance of Church teaching???

PROBABLY!!!!!!!!

Anywho...

Thank God we have Bishop Tobias to celebrate this form of the Mass publicly in the university that is slowly becoming more anti-Catholic than ever before.

From the looks of it, more Ateneans who are loyal to the Church are taking a bolder step to stop the stupidity that some Jesuits are either teaching (oh, come on! Admit it!) or are rather trying to turn a blind eye to all the shenanigans that goes in there.

Here are some photos from the Mass

Hopefully we can see a Pontifical High Mass in the Katipunan Pyramid ehrm...Church of the Gesu. :D

Why the living is called "Church Militant"

We continue to fight for our salvation!

We defend ourselves from the attacks of the lies of Satan and his minions!

We continue to teach, preach and witness to the teachings of Christ which Peter and his Successor, the Vicar of Christ on Earth, the Pope, together with the bishops, priests, deacons and religious who are in communion with him who teach the same Faith we all received from the Apostles.

That is why we care called CHURCH MILITANT.

And funny how some Filipino Jesuits and theologians at Maryhill School of Theology scoff at this term. Why? Because just like the quack theologian who faked her title Miriam Defensor Santiago said "Vatican II changed all of that!"

Oh, let's call them for what they are.

MODERNISTS!

Ateneo, MST and Bishop Ongtioco

You might as well have read all that there was a group of Ateneo professors, who even though they said they do not speak for the Ateneo, they still used the name of the University in signing a declaration of support to the RH Bill which seeks to force government to add more money to the purchase of abortifacients.

The CBCP president, Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma, rightfully reminded that Catholic schools who continue to defy Catholic teaching, can be sanctioned and lose their title of being a Catholic university.

Now here is the response of the Ateneo president

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Ateneo de Manila University

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

20 August 2012

Memo to: The University Community

Subject: HB 4244

Together with our leaders in the Catholic Church, the Ateneo de Manila University does not support the passage of House Bill 4244 (The Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population and Development Bill). [Off to a strong start!] As many of these leaders have pointed out, the present form of the proposed bill contains provisions that could be construed to threaten constitutional rights [religious freedom?  not spelled out in this letter but I guess he mean by that.]  as well as to weaken commonly shared human and spiritual values.

Now that the period for amendments is about to begin, I enjoin all in the Ateneo community to continue in-depth study of the present bill, and to support amendments to remove provisions that could be ambiguous or inimical from a legal, moral or religious perspective.  [sounds like Fr. Bernas wrote this line, eh?]

In connection with this, I call attention to the 192 members of our faculty who have grappled [grappled?!?  did they grapple?  most of those who signed already were calling for it!]  with the underlying issues in the context of Catholic social teaching, and who have spoken in their own voice in support of the bill. [A clear defiance of the the Catholic Church's teaching!] Though the University must differ from their position for the reasons stated above, I appreciate their social compassion and intellectual efforts, and urge them to continue in their discernment of the common good.  [Discernment?!?  What the?  The professors already made up their mind!  What discernment are you talking about?]   As there is a spectrum of views on this ethical and public policy issue, I ask all those who are engaged in the Christian formation of our students to ensure that the Catholic position on this matter continues to be taught in our classes, as we have always done.  [How?  Can these professors be trusted?  Some of them are sociologist, others are philosophers and worse others are theologians?!  How can you trust them to teach the Catholic position on this matter when they have publicly dissented against Catholic teaching?  This is absurd!]

Should the bill with whatever amendments be passed, we should neither hesitate to bring to the judiciary whatever legal questions we may have nor cease to be vigilant in ensuring that no coercion takes place in implementation.   [WE?  As in the Ateneo community would do that? Do we have this commitment from them?  I seriously doubt it.]

If there is no easy answer to the concerns that the proposed bill raises or no facile unanimity among divergent views, this only proves the complexity, depth, and sensitivity of these concerns. Nevertheless, Catholic tradition has always taught that reason and faith are not enemies but allies in the service of God’s truth. From this tradition, we can draw strength and compassion in our often tortuous journey as persons in community toward the greater glory of God and the service of God’s people.

Jose Ramon T Villarin SJ
President

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Fr. Villarin did not even reprimanded the professors who have placed the Ateneo and the Jesuit community in a very precarious position.  Now the CBCP is looking into this whole mess!

To put it straight, this letter is a simple tap on the hand!  UTTERLY USELESS, FORCELESS!

Classic Jesuit ambiguity.  For all I care, the Jesuits really were the ones who taught these professors to dissent!

They are supposed to be the defenders of the Church, now look at what they are doing!  It is happening in almost all Jesuit universities worldwide!  Dissent is being taught by the Jesuits!

And quite eerily, Bishop Ongtioco is dead silent on this issue!

Ateneo and the dissenter factory, Maryhill School of Theology are all within his diocese!  And he has done little to nothing at all to address the dissent that has long been brewing in these schools!

WAKE UP BISHOP ONGTIOCO!!!!

And they went out to crucify him...

St. Vincent School of Theology Chapel

Crucified without a cross?

It is called crucifixion because you nail the condemned person to a cross until he dies.

So where is the cross?

Are these people so blood-thirsty they just nailed HIM to a wall?

Funny how Evangelicals hate having a corpus for their crucifix...

....while these Modernist priests called Vincentians of SVST hate the cross.

For as St. Paul says:

"For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." (1Cor 1:18)

PS:

Have you noticed the altar?

Here is the close-up.

Looks like it either came from the workshop of the Green Lantern or is an overgrowth from the Fortress of Solitude

Anything but traditional!

I am pretty sure this was not consecrated.

The Vincentians don't care!

GULP Alert: EMHC.....Emergency!!!!

An Emergency Minister of Holy Communion!

Not an EXTRAORDINARY one.

Well, SVST does not care for Redemptionis Sacramentum, eh?

So they got any Jane from the pew and asked her to distribute Holy Communion.

Ain't she sooooo happy?

St. Vincent School of Theology might be in big trouble!

There is an "Eastern Catholic Church" here in the Philippines...

BUT!

This group is NOT IN ANYWAY connected to the Catholic Church, meaning it is NOT IN COMMUNION with the Bishop of Rome.  (Get that Noah?)

With that said...

They have claimed that they can trace their orders back to the Apostles.

Does Thuc and Milingo ring a bell?

Considering that these group is one of those bogus claimants to the their "Catholicity", (hello Mark Bunag!), would you even be surprised if you read one of these entries.

Mar Yokhannan Bar Thoma and Mar Shimun-Artemus Bar Tooma consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate: Mar Basillius Bar Thoma (Bishop Fredelito Bendal Palmes – Joven y Vargas) for the Eastern Catholic Church Metropolitan See of the Philippines and All Asia on December 28, 2007 at St. Vincent Theological Seminary, Tandang Sora, Quezon City.

Well, does St. Vincent care about heretics, schismatics?

Nah.

They are one!

You might say that the bogus "Easterners" just used the name of the school...

Nah.

Doubt that it is just using the name.  There is a higher probability that IT DID HAPPEN.

But they call the SSPX schismatics and heretics.

Would they let the SSPX hold a Solemn High Mass in their premises?

Nah!

Would turn them all Vincetians to dust.

Will the Bishop of Novaliches ever discipline these Vincentians?

Nah.

The monstrance containing the Blessed Lord was taken stolen from the Adoration Chapel of St. Peter's Church and NO Act of Reparation was even done.

I think Bishop Tobias does not know anything about this, nor does he ever plan of disciplining the dissent factory called SVST.

So...

Nah.

Move along.

Our bishops don't care about Catholic schools teaching heresy and dissent.

If I had a choice

And a gun we're pointed at my head...


I'd rather go to this...

bereft of liturgical vestments, in the middle of a war zone....

but overflowing with the sense of the Sacred!



Rather than this!

Weekly televised dance fest at SM Megamall chapel

and this!

Liturgical circus as being taught at Euntes, Zamboanga

New Archbishop of Davao, uhm.

Almost forgot about it!

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Vatican City, 11 February 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

Appointed Archbishop Romulo G. Valles of Zamboanga, Philippines, as metropolitan archbishop of Davao (area 2,443, population 1,477,000, Catholics 1,185,000, priests 157,religious 809), Philippines. He succeeds Archbishop Fernando R. Capalla, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.


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Some notes:

Archbishop Valles was a priest from the Diocese of Tagum along with the current Auxiliary of Davao, Bishop George Rimando.

Valles is chair of the CBCP Commission for Liturgy. He is a student of....

Our favorite liturgical murderer, dissent school, Euntes, is located in Zamboanga. Get now the drift.

He is only 60 years old so if we consider that, he may be archbishop of Davao for 15 more years.

Oh boy.  He is not TLM friendly.

Now Zamboanga is left without a bishop once again.

Look who is coming back!

Can professors at MST and St. Vincent School of Theology attend this?

All expense paid trip to Cebu just to sit there and listen to Michael Voris.

Woohoo!!!

How to make a church renovation

From the wonderful Canterbury Tales blog:

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Before

Typical church design from the hippies and graduates of Liturgy at MST, SVST, Euntes and Bukidnon


After

What is so bad about the last photo that the liberals had to destroy beautiful churches just to have a drag, senseless building that is too ugly for a church and would not also pass for an auditorium or meeting hall!

Austrian Catholics threaten open dissent and heresy!

Wow!  MST and SVST would love to have this!

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VIENNA (Reuters) - Dissident Austrian Catholics announced lay people will start celebrating Mass when a priest is unavailable, a clear call to disobedience just as the country's bishops hold their autumn conference.

A manifesto adopted by dozens of activists at the weekend said lay people will preach, consecrate and distribute communion in priestless parishes, said Hans Peter Hurka, head of the group We Are Church.  [Favorite motto of these dissident theology schools in the Philippines!]

"Church law bans this. The question is, can Church law overrule the Bible? [Where is this in the Bible?  Where in the Bible does it say that the ordinary man and woman and not the Apostles consecrated bread?] We are of the opinion, based on findings from the Second Vatican Council, that this (ban) is not possible," he said Monday.  [See what kind of trouble we get for those who always use Vatican II as the MOTHER OF ALL COUNCILS?]

The Catholic Church only allows ordained priests to preside at Mass.  [Uhm, read the Bible?]

Hurka said dissidents had long planned the meeting but were happy it came just before a regular four-day session of the Catholic bishops' conference starting Monday.  [Dissidents were happy to spoil anyone's party, especially those of the bishops.]

He said he wanted bishops, led by Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, [Once touted as a papabile, you know, young, bright, eloquent, theologian....anyone else comes to mind?  Right, John Allen? Ha!]  to respond to the paper, the latest in a series of challenges by grass-roots Catholic reformers in Austria.  [Grass roots?  Heard that plenty of times in those dissident theology schools in the Philippines!]

"We basically expect this because the demands for reform are not especially new," he said. The bishops received a copy of the manifesto Saturday, he added.  [Especially if some of the bishops are whispering in the loggia, not openly in the nave, right Fr. A.?]

Bishops planned to discuss proposed initiatives and reforms that have been put forward, according to their website, although the main topic of the session was preparing for parish council elections due in March. [SEE!!!  They are even planning to discuss a thing that is

Schoenborn, a former student and close associate of Pope Benedict, has ruled out sweeping changes demanded by dissident priests led by his former deputy, Rev. Helmut Schueller. [oh.  But what would the bishops do in the face of open dissent?]

Tipped as a possible future pope, [ehhhh...] the cardinal has said he would not lead his diocese into breaking away from the Vatican by letting clergy flout Church rules after a group of priests issued a "Call to Disobedience" to try to press reform.  [but still, nothing was done for those who misbehave]

The group, which claims to represent about 10 percent of the Austrian clergy, has challenged Church teaching on taboo topics such as priestly celibacy and women's ordination.

The dissident priests, who have broad public backing in opinion polls, [like RH?  Ha!] also say they will break Church rules by giving communion to Protestants and remarried divorced Catholics.  [you break the law, there are consequences, right?  But what has our bishops done?]

Reformist Austrian Catholics have for decades challenged the conservative policies of Benedict and his predecessor John Paul, creating protest movements and advocating changes the Vatican refuses to make.

Catholic reform groups in Germany, Ireland and the United States have made similar demands.

A record 87,000 Austrians left the Church in 2010, many in reaction to sexual abuse scandals.  [What?! The preceding sentence is about Church reforms such as the discipline of the sacraments and celibacy and then this?!  See, I told you.  There is no such thing as objectivity.  Like that bull called "Walang kinikilingan..."  Piffle!]

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Ask other Christian denominations like the Anglicans, Orthodox, Lutherans, Presbyterians and even the Iglesia ni Cristo and the Evangelicals. They would not let just any Tom, Dick and Jane lead them in their prayers and offer whatever it is they want to offer.

What would you make of these Austrians now eh?

Sad to think that Austro-Hungarian Empire was once headed by a Catholic Monarch once addressed as Royal Apostolic Majesty.

And now you have this?

See what a wonderful world Modernism paints?

GULP Exam: Guess the liturgical color

Courtesy of the liturgical and theological shenanigan school called Euntes Mission Center in Zamboanga City.

I am banging my head thinking the liturgical color for this one.

And is that a Hindu or Buddhist pose?

Really banging my head.