Steve Skojec has sadly lost his faith, but the Catholic heirarchy often seems to be the living embodiment of this law of the late Robert Conquest:
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
My revulsion and contempt for most bishops is almost off scale. It is best I don’t think about them.
Wow, Is this really happening?
such idiocy(!)… i hope for their sake it’s just that… but then how were these men appointed and why are they not disciplined?
the only men disciplined are those who say no to craziness?
Our Lady
of
broken
Promises
is
in
pieces after her Bishop dishonors the feast of the Sacred Heart.
I hope the bishop has time to put the pieces back together.
David, they were appointed because of their views. EVERY bishop appointment under Leo has been this way.
The “Bishop” of this news item was appointed by Prevost under Francis.
I questioned his appointment at the time it occured. His installation occured after Francis’s death but before Leo was elected.
At the installation ceremony they announced that they didn’t have the Apostolic Letter or Bull of Appointment to read, as required, because Francis had died. That letter is the official decree issued by the Pope assigning a priest or existing bishop to lead a specific diocese. He didn’t have one.
So, by who’s Authority was he appointed?
The unique purpose of the Bishop is “to build up in communion the one and only Body of Christ until it reaches full maturity.”4 The identity and mission of the Church is communion. Bishops are guardians and servants of communion. What one does follows from what one is. By virtue of his consecration and in a sacramental way, the Bishop is the embodiment of Christ and the Gospel message. He is a symbol of the unity of Christ and the Church. Acting “in persona Christi,” Bishops are a sign, voice, and means of salvation; they carry out—in visible form—the role of Christ as teacher, priest, and shepherd.
Bishops are called above all to proclaim the person of Christ and bear a special witness to him. Consecrated “for the salvation of the entire world,”5
~Taken from an excerpt of Catholic Culture.
Of Weisenburger one should expect the worst.
I sold a home last year in Warren, MI seeing the once lovely middle-class auto worker suburb being the next chess piece to fall. A mosque moved in two blocks away, and rapidly very aggressive adherents began buying up all the nearby properties, paying cash. Very interesting.
A house next door that one mosque goer bought for cash was a tear-down in my opinion. I asked the newcomer buyer about it. He said, no problem, he had people at the city who will permit it after he did some cosmetic fix up. He said he owns about 20 houses, and apparently rents to “his own.” The city permit dept does whatever he wants. (Wish I had that access.)
The good archbishop meanwhile thinks everything is “respect, fraternity, and kindness.” Wonderful.
**…aggressive adherents began buying up all the nearby properties, paying cash. Very interesting.**
Probably our tax dollars via fraud.
Learing Centers have a lot of clout.
No surprises here. I first learned in a hard way about the incompetence of our bishops* in the early 90’s as an impressionable lad. What we see now is just the next level manifestation of multiple generations of company men.
*Collectively – I will grant some individual bishops can slip through and away from this designation accidentally.
Oh, I don’t think they hate people like me. They just regard us as inconsequential and do not care about any concerns or discontents we may have. If we irritate them by being obtrusive, they despise us. The term ‘racist’ thrown about by politicians, figures in the legal profession, figures in the teaching apparat, figures in the social work and mental health trade means only one thing: the object of the epithet is a low status person as far as the utterer is concerned. Clergymen are no different in this regard.
Keeping Steve in mind, and his family.
“What we see now is just the next level manifestation of multiple generations of company men.”
Josh, I think you’ve nailed it. Most of it, anyway. And now that the V2 Company Men with the red hats have, in effect, elected Cardinal Bernardin to the papacy, we begin to see the practical results of the Modernist revolution. This phase is already making the attempt to replace the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with a communal pot luck supper seem insignificant by comparison.
I wonder when they will come for the Eastern Rites? Probably soon, I would guess.
The Muslims may well express “respect, fraternity and kindness” to the bishop.
After all, the bishop:
* opened a place of worship for them, instead of closing one
* has not chastised them collectively for the bad behavior of individuals
* does not repeatedly ask them to prove or promise that they are not child molesters
* has not repeatedly asked them for money to do what is (at best) marginally in keeping with their beliefs
Why *wouldn’t* a bishop get a better welcome from Muslims than Catholics? A bishop comes to Catholics to chastise and take. A bishop comes to other religions to suck up and offer church property at attractive rates.
Yes, we are called by Christ to love the bishops, and to pray for them. But I politely decline to approve, enable, or like them.
(Apologies to those bishops who are the exception that prove this generality. However, they are few, know who they are, and almost certainly agree with my assessment of their brother bishops.)
Yes, this is the same Archbishop Weisenburger who, weeks after arriving at Detroit, shut down all parish TLMs. It seems that was a first order of business for His Excellency.
Not long after, he purged Sacred Heart Major Seminary of three well-regarded, orthodox professors— Canonist Edward Peters, Ralph Martin, and Eduardo Echeverria. All three were fired without a reason given. All three had published critiques of the ambiguities in several of Francis’ pronouncements, especially Amoris Laetitia. The three men appear to have been purged not for any moral scandal or heterodoxy, but for being insufficiently on-board with Francis and Leo’s New, Synodal Project.
The Holy Catholic Church is in the middle of its own crucifixion. Don’t be surprised who is wielding the whips and and driving in the spikes.
She will be resurrected but not until the chastisement is over.
Yes….keep praying for our enemies.
For they know not what they are doing… And if they do know, all the more prayers are needed, for their souls were created by the very same creator who made yours. The suffering servant died on a cross for all of us. The good, the bad and the extremely bad. Your offering might just save a soul from hell.
I am questioning whether the warmth he felt was from above or some nether place. As far as approval of those in the pews, they do have the final weapon that allows them to shout “STOP” on the rush to the cliff; the power of the purse.
@ Philip N: Philip, from where does that photo of a broken statue of the Bl. Virgin originate?
im so sorry that I can’t find the source Steve.
Five twenty one this morning is when i posted it.
I recall that it was from Iraq.
I haven’t found the site that I took it from yet.