Author: Steve

New links for some old and new blogs.

We’ve added links for Minute Particulars and a new blog by Francis Mooney called Xavier+. The links are alphabetized as well, which shows our ongoing commitment to providing the best experience possible for our readers. Actally, it shows I have an IQ of more than 60 and I that learned something in elementary school….

Crosses as a fashion statement?

I thought a bit more about the Vatican’s statement on celebs wearing fancy crucifixes as jewelry. In all the news clips and photos I saw they don’t appear to be wearing crucifixes, but rather crosses without the corpus of our Lord. Are they protestants perhaps? It takes me back to what St. Francis of Assisi said about the empty cross. He called it “the cross of the bad thief.”

The ghastly flower of Archbishop Weakland’s deceipt is in full bloom.

Who are the victims? Rod Dreher says they are the Catholics in Milwaukee. This from NRO today:

Here’s a tiny portion of what the Free Man of Milwaukee has meant for the Church in his city: He directed Catholic schools there to teach kids how to use condoms as part of AIDS education, and approved a graphic sex-education program for parochial-school kids that taught “there is no right and wrong” on the issues of abortion, contraception and premarital sex. He has advocated for gay rights and women’s ordination, bitterly criticized Pope John Paul II, denounced pro-lifers as “fundamentalist,” and declared that one could be both pro-choice and a Catholic in good standing.
A local church riven with heresy and anti-Roman dissent, a bare, ruined cathedral, demoralized priests, and a scandalized flock: This, tragically, is the legacy of Rembert Weakland.

And I said: Hear, you leaders of Jacob, rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not your duty to know what is right, you who hate what is good, and love evil? You who tear their skin from them, and their flesh from their bones! They eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from them, and break their bones. They chop them in pieces like flesh in a kettle, and like meat in a caldron. When they cry to the LORD, he shall not answer them; Rather shall he hide his face from them at that time, because of the evil they have done. MICAH 3: 1-4