THE PITIFUL BLEATINGS OF AN EX-NUN

Humor Dept.

Too ridiculous to get terribly upset about.  But if you want a laugh or two you can read this:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/28/17959215-kentucky-woman-ordained-as-priest-by-dissident-roman-catholics?lite=

There's no fool like an old fool, I guess, but I wonder:  is this kind of Junior High school idiocy peculiar only to Americans?

FRANCE STICKS ITS HANDS INTO DUNG AND SMEARS IT IN THE CHURCH'S FACE

To no one's surprise, the swine faction in the French parliament has jumped headlong into the filth of queerdom and is now beginning already to smear it into the face of the Church and the good people of France.

They have "legalized" the unspeakable.  Of course an unjust law is no law at all, but judging how their goon squads and praetorian guard has been treating the demonstrators, including Catholic priests, they are going to fight to the death to uphold their lunacy.

We cannot comment on it at this time for this reason: we await the reaction of the Church, in France and in Rome.  Will it be conciliatory, cautious and nice, or will it thunder loud and clear in condemning this monstrous injustice?  When we hear anything decisive from the Church we will comment more fully.

St Joan of Arc sits quietly by herself just now, in tears we would imagine.  But her fighting spirit just might still rally the citizens of the eldest daughter of the Church who have just been shat upon.

ROME AND MOSCOW AND A HOLY ALLIANCE

The miraculous icon of Kazan

When Pope Benedict was on the throne of Peter, there did at one time seem to be some hope that one day soon Moscow and Rome might, at least in this instance, form a Holy Alliance.  The instance in question is the re-evangelisation of once Christian countries, suffering under a vicious secular onslaught.

In May of 2010 Sandro Magister wrote an article in which he was convinced that a much hoped for meeting was to become a reality, a meeting between Pope Benedict and Patriarch Kirill.  That article, which is an important read, can be found here

But that was three years ago, and now Benedict has abdicated.

I know nothing of our present Pontiff's views of such an Alliance.  There are a few encouraging indications here and there but we simply don't know yet how he will confront the need of ending, even with baby steps, a schism that has gone on too long. 

But I can write neither profoundly nor knowledgeably about the delicate matter here.  It is my hope to invite an author who does have knowledge of these matters to contribute a piece to The Eye Witness, and with any luck such a piece may appear here soon.

Nevertheless Magister's article linked above is most encouraging.  And the more the forces of evil - let us use the word - have their way with the world the more it will necessary to hope and pray for such a Holy Alliance.

We need them and they need us.

SAINT CARDINAL DOLAN SPEAKS

This is not fresh news; it is several months old.  But we were intrigued by remarks of this noted Prince of the Church and could not help commenting on it.  We wrote this several weeks after the interview, which dealt with the Cardinal's disastrous then-upcoming Al Smith Dinner invite but held back publishing it in the hope that His Eminence would see the seriousness of it all.  He hasn't as yet.

In a recent interview granted to John Allen of The National Catholic Reporter, flagship publication of the numbskull faction in Catholicism, we read the following exchange [editorial remarks in yellow:]

Question: On this question of dialoguing or engaging with this secular culture, how do you do that without giving scandal to the extra-sensitive [an amusing description of Catholics shocked by the Al Smith Dinner scandal] portion of your flock?
Dolan: You mean, how do you sit next to Barack Obama and Governor Romney?
Question: There are some people who would say you’re just wrong for doing that. How do you find that balance?
Dolan: There might be some people who would say that God the Father was misguided in sending his only begotten son to sinful humanity. Some might question the wisdom and prudence of the Incarnation, I don’t know. It seems to me that God the Father set a pretty good example of probably the best way to invite people to eternal salvation is to be in the midst of them, to be incarnate where they’re at [Come again?  "Incarnate where they're at" - which means...what, exactly?]. I don’t mean to be dismissive, because you do have to try to be sensitive to some of their feelings.
Question: People weren’t exactly sensitive to your feelings in the way they reacted.
Dolan: I don’t know if you noticed or not, but I’m pretty thick-skinned [Thick-headed might be a better way to put it.]!

So.  According to this interview, God is sending His beloved Cardinal to frolic with the persecutors of His Church.  The operative word in that sentence is "frolic".  I don't think anyone seriously imagines that His Eminence will be trying to do what God's only-begotten Son was doing when He met with sinners, namely: converting them.  If His Eminence stays true to form, it will be an evening of hilarity, tiresome jokes and perhaps an occasional mildly-serious reflection on the nebulous concept of "freedom" which, we are sure, His Eminence will not take too much time explaining.

Notice the smugness, the condescension.  "Some might question the Incarnation, I don't know" or "you do have to try to be sensitive to some of their feelings" or "I don't know if you noticed or not, but I'm pretty thick-skinned."

This is the man Rome has sent to govern the diocese of New York.

LEST WE CATHOLICS FORGET: DEIR YASSIN

For those who have forgotten and those who've never heard about it, The Eye Witness recommends this article by historian Ramzy Baroud:

http://original.antiwar.com/ramzy-baroud/2013/04/17/deir-yassin-beit-daras-and-the-buried-history-of-massacres/

We call our readers attention to these things because recent decades have shown that even Catholics, even those in the hierarchy, who once had a healthy skepticism about world events, have begun to follow only a single party line.  There are Catholic news outlets, websites and blogs who don't wish to know about these things either from a contempt for the facts of history or as a reaction to a well-known and ancient fear.  When this subject is brought up on some Catholic blogs, for example, the commenter is either censored, blacklisted or libelled by the blog administrators.  Another example of the disarray that a once united Faith finds itself in in 2013.

Some Catholics that I know have told me about this massacre, "So what?"  There in two words you see the triumph of propaganda over the Catholic Faith.  There are those Christians out there who could care less about the death of innocent Muslims.  To them I would point out the fact that in the photo shown above there are Christian corpses, Catholic and Orthodox, in that pile of death.

We therefore encourage our fellow Catholics, who once all held the same unshakable Faith, to ponder these words in the article linked above.

Sixty five years ago this atrocity was carried out.  In a somewhat "modified" way, it is still going on as we write. 

Would that some bloggers would try to understand that there are always two sides to every story.

Would that Cardinals Kasper and Koch remember Dier Yassin, too.

THE OTHER BOMBS

I thank The Big Pulpit- Byzantine Edition for linking to this plea, tragic in its desperation, and pitiful in its expectation that some world leaders might listen.  They wont.

https://melkite.org/patriarchate/appeal-to-world-leaders-from-patriarch-gregorios-iii

They wont because most of them, particularly America and Israel, want to see Syria crushed, its Christian population murdered or decimated, its Muslim population enraged with more justifiable hatred, a country in collapse.  The arrogant pipsqueak Michael Ledeen once famously called this evil "creative destruction", the annihilation of ancient civilizations to make way for those more to the liking of the Usual Suspects.

I am glad Pope Francis finally said something about this.  Would to God that he would go to Syria himself; it would be one papal journey that this writer could actually applaud.   Another vital part of the cradle of civilization is being decimated, much of it financed by US dollars.  We Americans sit here and pay our taxes, knowing that some of that money (indeed the majority of it) goes to bomb innocent people and destroy civilizations, either directly by drone or our own bombers, or by the proxies we train, coordinate and finance.  It is sickening.  Many more of those dollars go to murder our own children in the womb, and fuel a juggernaut of unnatural vice.

Yesterday the Hypocrite-in-Chief condemned the Boston bombing.  I wouldn't even listen to that monster.  I could not care in the slightest what he said, nor will I be panicked by a news media happy with this incident for a million reasons (one of them being to keep the ghoulish Gosnell case out of the papers), nor will I accept at face value anything Washington says about the Boston incident.  It was horrible and one can only weep at the evils it has wrought.  It could have hit this writer much closer to home than it has; I have a son attending school not far from there.  These poor, innocent people, bombed for God knows what reason.

But a bomb is a bomb, whether it explodes in Boston or Damascus.  The perpetrators in both cases should be brought to justice.  Whoever caused the carnage in Boston will no doubt be caught and punished.  But those who are causing carnage in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. will probably not be punished.  They will be re-elected to office, perhaps with the help of Cardinals Dolan and Wuerl.

A grabbing of our rosaries for the killed and injured in Boston would be well in order, as would some rosaries for the innocents being murdered by our drones, our bombs and our money, in Syria and elsewhere. 

Patriarch Gregorios has set a good example, pleading for sanity in a world that has taken leave of its senses.  May Our Lady, Help of Christians, preserve and protect these people.  And us.

A MOST BEAUTIFUL KYRIE

One of the most heart-rendingly beautiful settings of the Kyrie is that which was composed by Flor Peeters (1903-1986) in his lovely Mass in Honor of St Joseph.

It implores Our Lord to have mercy on us.  Musically, it begs Him to have mercy on us.  This exquisite piece, composed rather recently (in 1950), was written to adorn the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in that pure form which was taken away from the Church in the late 1960s.  It was that Mass that inspired Peeters to compose what he did; it was that Mass that inspired numerous other brilliant musicians.

In recent years in Milwaukee I was privileged to attend the traditional, ancient Rite Mass which has musical accompaniment by the Palestrina Choir under the leadership of Lawrence Stich.  Maestro Stich had his choir sing the Peeters Mass often.  The Peeters Kyrie, and Stich's conducting of it, was art of the highest order.

Here is a rendition of this gorgeous Kyrie.

http://youtu.be/bGlXD8rWWZY

That is what Heaven-centered Catholic liturgy is all about.

OBAMA REALIST...FROM THE LEFT

It is always instructive, and fascinating, when a left-leaning writer can see through the snake-like veneer of our Imperial Highness.  Sometimes, honest leftists see more clearly than blinkered rightists.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2295-dead-enough-the-reality-of-the-qlesser-evilq.html

In the linked article above Chris Floyd, a man of liberal bent, sees very clearly what kind of man is at the helm of our country (though I might argue with Mr Floyd if Obama really is at the helm).  Floyd's views in this case are more valuable than your average Obama-despiser because he approaches his subject from a different worldview.  I am glad he wrote this piece.  He wrote it in November, after the Obamunists won another election thanks to the help of the financial oligarchs, Hollywood, stupid Democrats, homosexual child molesters and Cardinal Dolan.

In the above article, Floyd takes a deep and terrible look into the actions of our ruling elite.  It is not for the faint of heart.  But we at The Eye Witness encourage you to read it.

THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE DECLARES A CHICKEN TO BE AN ASS

That much vaunted chronicler of all things true blue, The American Conservative magazine, has just declared a chicken to be an ass (at least many of its columnists have).

(Because it takes one to know one??)

That publication, in the person of a number of its columnists, has come out in favor of allowing two homosexually disturbed people to - get this - "marry" each other.   Yes.  A chicken is really an ass and the Mad Hatter makes perfect logical sense.  And they think ducks can fly backwards, too.  That is what passes for Conservatism now.  Is it any wonder why people have become increasingly fed up with those who claim to be conservative and who are nothing of the kind?  Or why they are now starting to believe that our Two Party system is comprised of Extreme Liberals and Conservative Liberals?

Over at the Chronicles website Tom Piatak points out the utter hypocrisy of this magazine.  What he says is very sound.

The whole "Conservative" or "Republican" charade has finally come to an end.  These people will sell their own Grandmothers into White Slavery rather than get a disapproving stare from sexual miscreants.  The number of those people still expecting any kind of substantial change under the Republicans is at last shrinking.  After decades of being stilleto-ed in the back by these gangsters with regard to abortion, personal freedoms, taxes and whatnot people are finally getting the picture that the Republicans are not and never have been our friends let alone the saviors of America.

It's quite amusing to see the lineup of "big name" conservatives all displaying their suicidal insanity.   Jim Jones must have trained them with his green KoolAid.  That list includes war-mongers like Dick Cheney, addled former first ladies like Laura Bush and bad movie directors like Clint Eastwood.  Not to mention the usual assortment of Congressclowns.  They are out there Stumping for Sodomy.  Too bad Lewis Carroll isn't still alive; what fun he'd have writing about this dismal crew. 

Pitiful, really.

At least we are beginning to see that the trust we placed in Republicans, or professional Conservatives for that matter, was misplaced.  It always was.  They are not the solution; they are the problem.  I cannot think of a single Conservative who has not betrayed the voters who sent him to office.  Even the celebrated Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin, has been backtracking faster than a speeding locomotive.  He has suddenly forgotten about all those spending cuts the over-taxed people of his state were expecting and has suddenly remembered lots of projects that suddenly require money from the public purse.  But he is just typical of the rest.  The American Conservative suits these politicians well.  It is not surprising at all that they have lost their marbles like nearly every other pundit on earth that talks about this sordid business.  We even have Catholic bloggers trying to find common ground on this issue.

Some Catholics even want to debate the topic.  Debate?  There is nothing to debate.  Debating with madmen about lunacy is not this writer's idea of spending productive time.

Some Saint, I forget which, (Catherine of Sienna?) has stated that buggery is so disgusting that even the devils look away in revulsion.

We now have a ringside seat at the beginnings of what is very much starting to look like an authentic persecution.  Brace yourself, and arm yourself with the weapons that Holy Church supplies: prayer, the Sacraments and mortification. 

And don't bother subscribing to The American Conservative.

UPDATE:

[St Catherine of Sienna:

They [the homosexuals] not only fail from resisting the weakness [of fallen human nature] .... but they do even worse when they commit the cursed sin against nature. Like the blind and stupid, having dimmed the light of their understanding, they do not recognize the disease and misery in which they find themselves. For this not only causes Me nausea, but is disgusting even to the devils themselves whom these depraved creatures have chosen as their lords.
For Me this sin against nature is so abominable that for it alone five cities were destroyed by virtue of the judgment of My Divine Justice, which could no longer bear their iniquity ....
It is disgusting to the devils not because evil displeases them or because they find pleasure in good, but rather because their nature is angelic and flees upon seeing such a repulsive sin being committed. For while certainly it is the devil that first strikes the sinner with the poisoned arrow of concupiscence, nonetheless when a man actually carries out such a sinful act, the devil goes away.

Food for thought.]