Go here to read the story. Our poor seminarians, too often at the mercy of the obviously mentally deranged:
Clergy in the Archdiocese of Denver are divided over the handling of a controversial “blood oath” ceremony involving a vice rector and seminarians during a ski trip last year.
A group of seminarians studying at Denver’s St. John Vianney Theological Seminary were taken on the trip in January 2024 by then-vice rector of the seminary, Fr. John Nepil, during which they were woken in the middle of the night and invited individually to swear a “blood oath” in a ceremony involving a dagger and a man in a yeti costume.
The most alarming phrase in this bizarre tale is “Clergy in the Archdiocese of Denver are divided.” Paraphrasing Will Rogers, I belong to no organized religion, I’m a Catholic.
With “experts are divided” being a clickbait phrase for we found a couple of scientists who disagree, I’m hoping it’s the same here. But even two priests is too many.
“…….cast into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.”
This battle isn’t over and ALL Catholics need to be battle savvy.
Please pray for all of the Catholic Church.
For vocations to the priesthood and a removal of wolves who view these young men as prey.
Be gone Satan. Back to hell with you and yours.
Oh dear
I love Will Rogers.
Maybe these priests will get to heaven. Satanic priests before them have.
Blood oaths? God gave us blood not the yeti nor the yeti’s advocates.
Absolutely bizarre. And it’s in Denver, supposedly one of the above-the-median dioceses.
Fr. John Nepil needs to be removed as far as possible from the seminary. It might be good intentions behind it, but the lack of judgement? Yikes!!
Fr. Nepal should grow the heck up.
The priest and the man in the monkey suit were imprudent. But the seminarians were adults, too. They weren’t just kids.
Stupid, childish behavior on the part of grown men on a ski trip. How much courage does it take for a young man to say, “Forget about this foolishness. I’m going back to bed.”
Put aside the fact that the seminarians are being prepared for leadership in the Church. Simply consider the ordinary level of prudence and independence that a normal man in his twenties (or older) should have.
Almost every guy went along with this?
I would automatically assume that this to be sinister, regardless, and that it caused spiritual harm connected to the occult. And agree that an exorcist or the like be involved in reversing whatever shenanigans they did. Just incase. Who knows what the idiot in the costume intended by this idiotic act.
I encourage everyone to read the FULL ARTICLE.
(You may need to pray before you do.)
Key takeaways, for me, include:
* secretive one on one meeting with a supervisory man that you’re supposed to keep secret
* the email to the seminarians involved following investigation of this matter instructed them not to discuss the event *even among themselves*
* the ONE seminarians who refused to do this has been sent away from the seminary for a year, though it is claimed for unrelated causes
It is quite clear they have learned NOTHING from the abuse scandals.
What is woefully *unclear* is where I can send a son to be properly formed as a priest if he really does have a vocation. I find myself almost hoping he does not, though I ask to be content with His will.
I will say that the one ray of hope in this all is that the *seminarians* were the ones to call foul and not let it go. Maybe, just maybe, they will be allowed to become priests who don’t put up with evil in the name of “obedience”
I think if I had a million dollars and a bishop’s ear I would start a Retread Seminary and bring in all the seminarians who were given the boot by bad seminaries. There would be some who had deserved the boot, certainly, but I’m sure there has been much gold thrown out as dross by the blind rulers of bad seminaries.
“I think if I had a million dollars and a bishop’s ear I would start a Retread Seminary and bring in all the seminarians who were given the boot by bad seminaries. There would be some who had deserved the boot, certainly, but I’m sure there has been much gold thrown out as dross by the blind rulers of bad seminaries.” -TBO
Much gold thrown out as dross…yes.
It’s the end game for the bad actors.
I’m recalling Michael Rose’ accounts in his
piece, Goodbye Good Men.
The Lavender Mafia is sickening.
https://www.conservativebookclub.com/book/goodbye-good-men
*Multiple expletives deleted here*
The covenant that was sworn at Mt. Sinai between God and the Jews was a solemn blood covenant. Moses splashed blood on the altar and on the people. In blood covenants of that day an animal was sacrificed. The person swearing the oath would stand in a pool of the animal’s blood, swear the oath, and say that if they broke the covenant that what was done to the animal should be done to them.
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While Moses was up on the mountaintop receiving the instructions from God as to authentic worship, the people were busy holding what you could call the Golden Calf Synod. Building and worshiping the golden calf, violating their blood covenant. God was within His covenant rights when He offered to wipe out the Jewish people.
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To me the central crisis in the Church today is a crisis of covenant. The Church was founded on Christ’s New and Everlasting Covenant. The Eucharist is linked to this covenant by the words that Christ spoke during the Institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper. It is the living embodiment of this covenant. Holy Matrimony is based on a covenant sworn to by the exchanging of vows between the husband and the wife. Covenants are supposed to be permanent, involve the exchange of persons, and establish kinship bonds. This explains the marital, nuptial nature of Christ as Bridegroom and the Church as His Bride.
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In the hookup culture commitment is spurned. That some people only want to cohabitate with God and stay free to play the field. Acting like completely free agents.
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This is so bizarre. Is it true the one who wouldn’t was kicked out of seminary?
Mrs Opey-
Read the full article in the Pillar (the link is in Don’s post)
From what I read there, it was supposedly for unrelated reasons. Sadly, I have doubts on whether there were other reasons substantial enough to send that seminarian away for a year.
I pray God will send my son or me clear guidance if it comes time for him to choose a seminary.
This wasn’t a prank, it was a test for compliance.
CAG-
I think that is a definite possibility. It certainly seems all too plausible. The other entirely plausible idea is that they are so clueless that they really did think none of it was a big deal. I don’t know which one I’d prefer to be true…
Obedience and blind obedience are very different things. I wish the seminaries seemed interested in teaching THAT. Our broken Church will require priests who knows the difference.