A Bishop For Our Times: Robert Grosseteste

Editor’s Note: Though Robert Grosseteste is not a canonized saint, he remains nevertheless another one of those “men for all seasons” whose saintly example is well worth familiarizing ourselves with during this terrible time of crisis in the Church. Robert resisted the pope in his day; in fact, he resisted him to his face, and yet by all accounts was a holy and saintly bishop. His case is yet another example from history of two important realities of which we Roman Catholics must remain ever aware: 1) that popes can and do abuse their office, give scandal and become guilty of evil acts that confuse the faithful and 2) that Catholics of sound mind and adequate formation are called to resist the unjust commands of such popes…that, indeed, they are required to disobey him if ordered by him to do that which is contrary to faith and holiness. It is, perhaps, no coincidence that interest in this heroic 12th century English bishop is once again on the rise.

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Bishop Edward Weisenburger (right) would like to canonically punish those who advocate the prosecution of illegal immigrants.

On June 13, Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston and Houston and head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, read aloud a statement at the USCCB spring meeting in which he denounced the immigration policies of United States President Donald Trump and Attorney General of the United States Jeff Sessions. Cardinal DiNardo was particularly exercised by Trump’s and Sessions’ policy of refusing asylum to those fleeing gang violence, and of prosecuting everyone who illegally enters the United States, a practice which could potentially separate children from their criminal parents.

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Father tackles the question of Donald Trump, and Supreme Court decisions in the true nature of freedom.

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November 2-4, 2018 in Pittsburgh, PA

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Pope to Purge What’s Left of Catholic Nuns

More evidence keeps pouring into my email inbox that the current administration of the Congregation for Religious[1] is planning on using the provisions of Cor orans to totally rewrite the nature of contemplative women’s religious life, particularly the “conservative” and traditional communities, in the name of the “New Paradigm” of VaticanTwoism. [Editor’s Note:"Cor Orans" (“Praying Heart”) is the title of an April 1, 2018 document that Implements instructions on how to apply Pope Francis’ 2016 Apostolic Constitution – “Vultum Dei Quaerere” (“Seek the Face of God”) addressed to Catholic women religious in contemplative communities. MJM]

As I have written many times elsewhere, the one uniform characteristic of the current pontificate is the purge. It is clear now that Jorge Bergoglio was elected by a group of 1960s progressives to bring about the final removal of the last elements within Catholicism that have resisted the Vatican II revolution. After 50 years of ambiguity, of the two implacably opposed “paradigms” living in an uneasy truce within the same institution, those few recalcitrants left who refused to accept the new liturgical forms, new theological “formulations,” the new disciplines are being forced either to conform or leave.

Be that guy!

Who else is tired of Gay Pride Month? While every business that’s not Chick-Fil-A falls all over themselves to celebrate the world’s most privileged lifestyle in America, I’m sitting here deleting email promotions for the new “gay-friendly” apps from Apple's App Store. There’s an app for that?

Cardinal McCarrick in 2008    (Photo: Jersey Journal)

 **The often repeated plea of clergy abuse victims who viewed their priest abuser as an alter Christus.

Moments after the news broke that the Archdiocese of New York found credible child sex abuse allegations against Cardinal Emeritus Theodore McCarrick of Washington, D.C., another shoe dropped.

Catholics would learn that the Church has settled with more victims of Fr. Ted McCarrick!

Cardinal Dolan (left) and Cardinal McCarrick (right)  (Photo: Reuters)

Surprise, Surprise! Cardinal Emeritus Theodore McCarrick of Washington, D.C. is removed from ministry based on a credible allegation of sexual abuse of a minor some 45 years ago.

Lady Justice is delayed, but not denied?

This case raises serious questions for clergy abuse victims.

(The Church Dedicates the Month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus)

Heart of Jesus, formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mother… (Litany of the Sacred Heart)

Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was descended from Adam “according to the flesh” (Rom. 1,3), because His Body formed by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Blessed Virgin was flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone. But the Holy Spirit did not merely form the Sacred Heart of Jesus; He also informed Him totally in the theological sense; “all the fullness of divinity”, of grace, of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit dwelt in the human Heart and Soul of Jesus from the first instant, because they did not belong to a human person, but to the Person of God’s only-begotten Son; Who, however, was truly man, because they did not belong to a human person, but to the Peron of God’s only-begotten Son; Who, however, was truly man, because human nature consists of a human body and a rational soul. We must never let go of the central truth that in Jesus there are two natures, but only one Person.

Where are the Catholic Children...

In the days before the Changes, nobody used words like liturgy or eucharist or reconciliation. It was Mass and Holy Communion and Confession. Simple, straightforward words. Everyone knew what they meant. We didn’t talk about rubrics, and most laypeople didn’t know about ambos and aspersoria and thuribles. That was the priest’s business. Like a doctor, he had his professional lexicon, and it was really not our concern. We just followed along, confident that we were being led to Heaven.

That’s what we talked about then, Heaven and Purgatory, and what we had to do to reach the one and shorten the other. We shuddered to think about Hell, and so we didn’t talk about it much either. We just set about working out our salvation with fear and trembling, like St. Paul told us to do. All for the love of Jesus, the Glory of God, and the Salvation of souls, we used to say.