The county and the town were named for a Colonel Mason Maycomb, a man whose misplaced self-confidence and overweening willfulness brought confusion and confoundment to all who rode with him in the Creek …More
The county and the town were named for a Colonel Mason Maycomb, a man whose misplaced self-confidence and overweening willfulness brought confusion and confoundment to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars. The text comes from a novel I am reading. Immediately, I was struck how it seems to pertain to a certain resident of the Vatican.
Accusations ByMAIREAD MCARDLE September 10, 2018 4:15 PM Top advisers to Pope Francis said on Monday that the Vatican is preparing an official response to accusations that the pope helped cover up an …More
Accusations ByMAIREAD MCARDLE September 10, 2018 4:15 PM Top advisers to Pope Francis said on Monday that the Vatican is preparing an official response to accusations that the pope helped cover up an American cardinal’s sexual misconduct. The statement from the “C-9,” the nine cardinals who advise Francis on Church matters, came on the first day of a three-day meeting with the pope, one of several throughout the year. The Holy See’s planned response will address accusations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò — former Vatican ambassador to the United States — that Pope Francis covered up sexual abuse by now-disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Viganò roiled the Church with his bombshell statement last month that he’d warned Francis in 2013 about McCarrick, a former archbishop of Washington, D.C., who had for years been dogged by rumors of sexual abuse of both minors and seminarians. More than two dozen other current and former Vatican officials also covered up for McCarrick, Viganò …More
Let me guess the contents of the response: Blah blah blah . . . Merely rumors . . . blah blah blah . . . Mercy . . . blah blah blah . . . Everyone was …More
Let me guess the contents of the response: Blah blah blah . . . Merely rumors . . . blah blah blah . . . Mercy . . . blah blah blah . . . Everyone was doing it . . . blah blah blah . . . Obviously,it is a vendetta by Vigano' because he was fired . . . blah blah blah . . . Conspiracy by those opposing reform . . . blah blah blah . . . McQueerick is no longer a Cardinal and is awaiting trial . . . blah blah blah . . . It must be kept in mind that the head of the C-9 is the corrupt Maradiaga, a nobody from nowhere, who wants to save his own arse.
With all the talk about Cardinal McCarrick's pajama parties for young priests and seminarians, I thought it best to include something on a great priest.
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Obituary for Father John C. REINKEMEYER at Livingston Funeral Home
Father John C. REINKEMEYER June 20, 1921 - March 15, 2012 Father John C. Reinkemeyer, 90, died Thursday, March 15, 2012. Fr. Reinkemeyer …
This morning after mass a lady from Wichita and I were talking about Fr Reinkemeyer--she said he was her all time favorite priest. Maybe mine too. Fr …More
This morning after mass a lady from Wichita and I were talking about Fr Reinkemeyer--she said he was her all time favorite priest. Maybe mine too. Fr R was a character. Drove a motorcycle all winter. Slept on the floor. Was given the poorest parish in Wichita, and so he had a 7:00pm Sunday mass that attracted people with some money. His homilies were usually sprinkled with quotes from the Fathers. The Church needed a new roof, and he put on a new one. Very funny, with direct, sometimes salty language. A legend in the Wichita diocese
@God's Cowboy. The two men's orders most affected have been the Jesuits and the Christian Brothers. Once Latin was dropped as a seminary requirement, …More
@God's Cowboy. The two men's orders most affected have been the Jesuits and the Christian Brothers. Once Latin was dropped as a seminary requirement, vocations to the CB's almost stopped. The number of SJ's in formation in 1985 was about 10% of what it was in 1964. I agree that almost very order was affected, but some didn't shrink that much and have how shown an uptick. The West Coast Dominican Province came close to maintaining numbers even during the worst years after Vat II. The Dominican Province in the East of the US has been loaded with vocations for at least 10 years. Ditto for the Dominicans in Toulouse. The Jesuits, however, keep shrinking, much as the US religious orders of women. One exception, however, is the Nashville Dominicans, who have been doing well for some time--and produced the Dominican Sisters of Mary in Michigian. The Trappists in the US have been shrinking for some time. And most of the Benedictine monasteries have declined in numbers, some more drastically than …More
We could probably see the same kind of decline in almost every religious order. Some of them declined years ago, so today's numbers wouldn't tell the …More
We could probably see the same kind of decline in almost every religious order. Some of them declined years ago, so today's numbers wouldn't tell the whole story.
1. First, note that the question is not whether there is anyone in hell. It is de fide that certain angels are there. Traditionally, the text from John's Apocalypse (12:4--its tail swept a third of the …More
1. First, note that the question is not whether there is anyone in hell. It is de fide that certain angels are there. Traditionally, the text from John's Apocalypse (12:4--its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky) has been interpreted as referring to the angels who became demons. 2. It is certain from Scripture that Christ refers to humans being there. And the tradition among the Fathers is that Judas the traitor is there. 3. The point that Pope Francis was making is: 1) God wants the salvation of all men (de fide, and 2) Anyone who goes to hell goes because he wants to go there, being fooled by the wiles of demons. *** Unfortunately, there are critics who confuse their own zealous emotionalism with any of St Augustine's three wisdoms and look for the splinter in the eye of of others. They have very little to offer except their own vitriol.
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