Good news!

This morning my doorbell rang, and when I answered it, I saw a well dressed man holding a pamphlet. Right away, I knew he was a JW. They seldom come to my door, but I am always pleased when they do. I welcome the opportunity to defend the Catholic faith to someone who is trapped in a false religion.

Paramedicgirl: Hello. What do you have there?

Mr. JW: It's a pamphlet inviting you to a convention in Abbotsford.

Paramedicgirl: Oh, it must be a Jehovah's Witness convention?

Mr JW: Yes. Would you like to come and hear the good news?

Paramedicgirl: I am a Catholic, and I happen to know quite a bit about your religion. I would love to have a discussion with you on hell, the Holy Ghost, and who Jesus really is. Why is it that you believe Jesus is really St. Michael the Archangel, and how did you come to believe that Jesus died on a torture stake instead of a cross?

Mr JW: I used to be a Catholic you know. Did you know there are 6,000 converts to the Jehovah's Witness faith every week?

Paramedicgirl: That's a lot of prayers I will have to say for their conversion then. Did you know that the JW's prey on Catholics who are weak in their faith? You must have had a weak Catholic upbringing to fall for this false religion.

Mr JW: (angry) I came here to tell you the good news of Jehovah's Kingdom.

Paramedicgirl: Mr JW, you are trapped in a false religion, and I will pray for your conversion, that you will not go to the hell you don't believe in. I will pray for your eternal salvation and for your soul. Oh, I know you don't believe you have a soul, and that you will merely fall asleep when you die, but at the moment of your death, Jesus will judge your soul. Yes, Jesus will judge you, not St. Michael the Archangel.

Mr JW: (clearly angry now, almost shouting, and taking back the pamphlet he offered me) I have good news for you! What good news do you have for me?

Paramedicgirl: My good news is that the Catholic faith is the one true faith and in order to be saved, you must leave the beliefs of your false religion. Would you like to come to Mass with me on Sunday?

And there the conversation ended. It was a good morning!

She sold her soul for a fairytale

From my inbox...

Would you renounce your Catholic faith to become a princess? Autumn Kelly did. And her Catholic mother approves:

“I think attitudes to things like that have changed,” she said. “Autumn is a very serious and intelligent young woman. She may be young, but she knows the world. And he’s a great guy. Isn’t that what counts?”

Uh, no, Mrs Kelly. What counts is eternal salvation.

(Kings and queens in England have to be Protestant in order to ascend to the throne, ever since the Act of Settlement of 1701)

Kathy Griffin's false idol

KATHY GRIFFIN ''I'm looking at that statue right now and I just...I carry it everywhere. I take it to the bathroom'."

From Kathy Griffin's interview with Entertainment Weekly, following her Emmy win:

And when you did win, you pointedly did not thank Jesus in your acceptance speech, right?
Here's what I said exactly: ''A lot of people get up here and thank Jesus for helping them win this award, but I have to say nobody has been less helpful in getting me to this moment than Jesus. I don't know what I ever did to him, I just think he doesn't like me that much, and if he had his way, Caesar Milan would be holding this statue right now, but he's not and I am! So I guess all I can really say is, 'Suck it, Jesus! This statue is my God now!'''

How'd the crowd react when you said that?
They actually laughed! So that's been so great about the D-List show. It's so great that people know, like, I'm actually kidding. So it was great to not get booed off the stage and have people throw burning crosses at me. I don't think you can bring a burning cross to the Emmys. It was like, ''Oh good, they're finally getting that I'm just kidding.''

Defending the faith to a dissenter

Winnipeg Catholic, over at the Reformed Catholic blog, has taken it upon himself to call a bunch of traditional Catholic bloggers schismatics. By his logic, if you are traditional, you must be SSPX. If you have never been to his blog, be warned. He is a self-confessed liberal dissenter, and upholds heretical viewpoints like gay monogamous sex, supports gay marriage, and condones the use of condoms to limit the earths' population, which he considers a great evil. He doesn't understand the tradition of devotion to the Mother of God, and classifies her as just another saint. He explains that spending 20 minutes a day meditating on the prayers of the Marian Rosary is detrimental to Jesus, and he promotes the praying of a non-Marian, Christ centered rosary.

The list goes on, but go explore for yourself, and be sure to check out the comments section under the post I linked to.

(Edit) I see Winnipeg Catholic has deleted many of the comments from the traditional Catholics who are defending the true Catholic faith.

Another edit: September 13 - Well, what do you know? Now it appears he has deleted his blog. At least now unsuspecting souls will be spared his heresy.

Hate Mail

Once in a while I get some nasty comments on a post I have written. But this comment was for a You Tube video that I posted on the Closing Mass of the Mahoney Conference. If you haven't seen it, it shows liturgical dancers strutting their stuff at the end of Mass. I thought about publishing the comment, but since that is such an old post, no one would ever see it. I didn't want to deprive the anonymous commenter from discussion or debate about his/her heretical views, so I decided to make a post out of the comment. Here it is:

No offense but thats just pathetic. Why do you feel the need to bash people who want to freely praise their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. What a beautiful idea, to praise and honor God through the wonderful artform of dance. God gave us our bodies just as He gave us our voices...both should be used to praise Him! I don't see dance as any less legitimate than singing. Whoever posted this video was being completely ignorant and closed minded.

Posted by Anonymous to Salve Regina at August 12, 2007 9:47:00 PM MDT


Anonymous hails from Plymouth, New Hampshire and entered my blog through a Facebook page, which interestingly enough denounces liturgical dance, (yes, anon, I have sitemeter). I guess anon missed my follow up post called Cardinal Arinze on Liturgical Dance, where the good Cardinal states:

There has never been a document from our Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments saying that dance is approved in the Mass...So all those that want to entertain us -- after Mass, let us go to the parish hall and then you can dance. And then we clap. But when we come to Mass we don't come to clap. We don't come to watch people, to admire people. We want to adore God, to thank Him, to ask Him pardon for our sins, and to ask Him for what we need.

Need I say more?

Anti Catholic Law

Did you know that British royalty can marry a Hindu, Muslim, Jew or any other faith without having to renounce their succession to the throne? But if they marry a Catholic, either the heir to the throne has to renounce their right to inherit the throne, or the fiance must renounce their Catholic faith.

British royalty have been barred from becoming Catholics and from marrying one for over three hundred years now, by the 1701 Act of Settlement.

It's easy to see the discrimination against Catholics here, but of equal concern is the hope for salvation for those who refuse to become Catholic to save their souls.

Hey Sister Chittister!

If women could be priests, then

This is art?

Homosexuals mocked the Pope in Italy, calling it art when they included a controversial sculpture of the Vicar of Christ dressed in a blond bob wig wearing nothing but a stole, a pair of panties and thigh-high stockings and bearing the title of "Miss Kitty."

Protests and the threat of lawsuits from the Catholic Anti-Defamation League were successful in removing the sculpture and delaying the opening of the art show. The catalogues had to be reprinted to remove the offending picture of the sculpture, but a high ranking cultural official from Milan did purchase the offending piece. Now, does anyone have a sledgehammer?

Just like magic!

From EWTN questions and answers - How did this priest ever get ordained?

Consecrated Host Question from Matt on 5/25/2007:

The priest at our parish just explained that if we truly have faith that we as lay people can change the host at Mass into the blessed sacrament. I never realized this before. Why do priests need to be ordained then as I'm sure our priest have faith? Can you explain this to me?

Answer by Fr. Robert J. Levis on 5/25/2007: Matt, I would not say this ever. It might be an illustration of small and tiny faith which can move mountains, which Jesus said. Fr. Bob Levis

I appreciate the way Father Levis gives the priest the benefit of the doubt here, but how is this heresy allowed to be propagated from the sanctuary? Would his consecrations even be valid? It makes me wonder what is happening in our seminaries. Was his professor a theologian or a magician?

Protecting children from religion?

If the United Nations has their way with this one, religious education of children will be mandated as child abuse. My bet is that Canada will be the first country to implement it as law.

Too much dialogue, not enough conversion

You know ecumenism and interreligious dialogue have gone too far when heretics are dancing to their god in Vatican palaces for cardinals. Oh well, at least it didn't take place in a Catholic church in front of the Tabernacle.

Still though, can't we just go back to converting the heretics?

Hopefully NOT Coming to a Catholic Parish Near You, But You Never Know!

Is this a picture of people at a bank hold up? No. Are they at some kind of a rally? Nope. Give up? They are Episcopalians in Framingham, Massachusetts, at a U2 rock concert. No wait, they are at a U2charist service! Just because they were waving their arms frantically in the air and gyrating their bodies to the beat of popular songs like "Pride," One," "Sunday Bloody Sunday," and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," doesn't mean it can't happen in the realm and confines of a traditional Church worship service does it? Sadly, the answer is yes.

It's all about bringing social justice to the community, and what better way to do it than to incorporate it into the Sunday liturgy by designing a worship service around a rock concert? They even remove some of the pews to make room for dancing, creating a "mosh pit." After all, they want people to be able to cut loose and dance. The U2 songs take the place of hymns, and the goal is to raise money for social justice in third world countries.

The brainstorm of Rev. Dr. Paige Blair, a U2 fan who began designing a service around U2 music because she liked it, is growing in popularity. Blair says it seems natural to her to want worshipers to connect with the band's music and bring attention to her church's work.

Thank God that He is not really present in their "U2charist" is all I can say, and in the words of my friend Manfred who sent this to me:
"Let's hope that neither the Canadian nor US bishops think this is a cool idea worth considering!"

Without God

Here's an interesting video called "The Day They Kicked God Out of Schools"about the absence of God in our schools today and the repercussions that society has invited upon ourselves by turning our backs on God. We reap what we sow.

Working For the Loss of Souls

Have you seen Planned Parenthood's new commercial called "Amen to Safe Sex?" I don't watch TV, but I saw it on You Tube. It is nothing more than perversion, depicting angels in a scene that subverts Christianity. It's very offensive, consider yourself warned!

Women Seek Ordination Outside the Catholic Church

Women are leaving the Catholic Church in order to become priests in other denominations, according to this story from California Catholic Daily. To me, that's the same as leaving the Catholic Church because you don't agree with such teachings as living together before marriage, abortion, and homosexuality. When your will becomes more important than God's will, are you really doing God's work?

Twenty-five years ago, Donohoe joined the Episcopal Church because it has, since 1977, allowed women to be ordained. Even as an Episcopalian, she, a television producer, was not interested in ordination. But her “call” became more apparent. “It was a call I could no longer refuse,” she told the Tribune. She was ordained in November 2005. “I asked God to drop the two-by-four, and she did. Being able to help people celebrate their most holy and sacred moments within the ritual of the church is very much what I felt called to do by God and by people.”

The number of female clergy in the U.S. is steadily growing. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau counted 53,000 female clergy nationwide. They make up 15 percent of the clergy in San Mateo County, according to the Tribune.

Some have said a disproportionate number of Protestant female clergy are made up of former Catholics. Do they leave because the Catholic Church forbids women’s ordination? Examining this question, Paul Perl, writing in the Dec. 22, 2005 edition of the journal Sociology of Religion, said, based on the statistics (and the latest were from 1994), it is impossible to judge why, but a significantly larger percentage of female than male converts from the Catholic Church entered the Protestant ministry -- 5.1% as opposed to 2.5 percent.

If the pull to get ordained is stronger for a woman that it is to remain a faithful Catholic, true to the Magisterium of the Church, I have to wonder: Where is the pull coming from?

Liturgical Dancing at its Worst

Whatever happened to adoration being a silent conversation with God? In no way can I see this being pleasing to God, but it sure seems to make the laity happy. Unfortunately, that seems to be the predominant ingredient these days.

Thanks to Maureen for sending me the link.

Hans Kung on Benedict XVI

Whoever would of thought that Joseph Ratzinger, now beloved Pope Benedict XVI, used to be friends with Hans Kung, dissident and heretic extraordinaire?

According to this article, they were friends before Hans Kung totally flipped his lid and started espousing the heretical teachings that got him stripped of his license to teach as a Roman Catholic theologian. Kung complains that Ratzinger got more and more conservative, embracing medieval ideas like the rejection of relativism, upholding rules on priestly celibacy and no communion for divorced Catholics, while calling for more Latin in the Mass and even Gregorian chants.

In contrast, Kung says, we should be asking: "What would Jesus do if he were Pope? I can't believe He would forbid the (birth control) pill today, or the ordination of women."

Yup, I can easily see how they went their separate ways.

It's too bad, though that Kung remains a Catholic priest. Can you imagine how many souls he has filled with the poison that will drag them down to hell?

Betraying the Truth

I wonder how many Catholics don't realize that almost 39 years ago, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops betrayed the teachings of the Church on artificial contraception by refusing to accept the encyclical of Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae, which is widely considered the greatest charter of life and love over any other document in human history.

The document, Tragedy at Winnipeg, tells the story of dissent, and how a well-informed and well-formed conscience was considered by the CCCB to override the traditional teachings of the Church on artificial contraception.

Just because many Catholics may find it either extremely difficult or even impossible to follow all of the teachings of the encyclical, the CCCB does not want them to be considered excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. So they devised a statement to deal with the difficulties that contraception provided to the Catholic faithful.

The problematic text of paragraph 26 of the Winnipeg Statement reads:

"Counsellors may meet others who, accepting the teaching of the Holy Father, find that because of particular circumstances they are involved in what seems to them a clear conflict of duties, e.g., the reconciling of conjugal love and responsible parenthood with the education of children already born or with the health of the
mother. In accord with the accepted principles of moral theology, if these persons have tried sincerely, but without success to pursue a line of conduct in keeping with the given directives, they may be safely assured that, whoever chooses that course which seems right to him does so in good conscience.”

So even though we accept the teachings of the Holy Father, we are told by our bishops that in some circumstances, (with the aid of a well-formed conscience of course) we need not observe these teachings. In short, we are told that we can balance the right of a future child's life with proper education and lifestyle for those children already born.

The Church issued us a divine teaching on natural law with Humanae Vitae. It is deplorable that our bishops distorted divine moral theology, and still have not corrected their errors.

What will it take for them to reconsider their faulty logic and adhere to the teachings of the Church? How many misguided souls have gone down the path to hell through their leadership? How many lives have been lost through abortion and contraception?

What's Next?

When I was in Seattle this past weekend, I heard about a West Coast Catholic Church that has a crucifix like the one here. Apparently they call it "Christi." Has anyone ever seen this abomination in a Catholic Church?

Would St. Leo Approve?

Alarm bells go off in my head when I look at a parish website like this one. This couldn't be a Mass, could it, with a woman up there preaching to the congregation? And just what are those rocks doing in the middle of the floor? I noticed they don't teach catechism, but they are big on faith formation, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue.

Oh, well, at least they have a crucifix.