Category: Controversies

Fr. Paul Mankowski on CatholicCulture.org.

Here’s a snippet:

The housewife who complained that Father skipped the Creed at mass and the housewife who complained that Father groped her son had remarkably similar experiences of:

• being made to feel that they themselves were somehow in the wrong;
• that they had impugned the honor of virtuous men;
• that their complaints were an unwelcome interruption of more important business; — that the true situation was fully known to the chancery and completely under control;
• that the wider and more complete knowledge of higher ecclesiastics justified their apparent inaction;
• that to criticize the curate was to criticize the pastor was to criticize the regional vicar was to criticize the bishop;
• that to publicize one’s dissatisfaction was to give scandal and
  would positively harm discreet efforts at remedying the ills;
• that one’s duty was to keep silence and trust that those officially charged with the pertinent responsibilities would execute them in their own time;
• that delayed correction of problems was sometimes necessary for the universal good of the Church.

Nobles and knaves

Knave: N.J. Gov. James McGreevey, for heralding his gayness to hide his crookedness.

And one from Thomas Sowell:

Pitting power vs. knowledge

What is liberalism all about? Regardless of whether the particular issue is race, agriculture, housing or a thousand other things, liberalism is about the government telling people what to do in their lives and work.
Most liberals who are for ordering other people around know as little as Teresa Heinz Kerry. But they don’t have to know.
It has been said knowledge is power but, politically, power trumps knowledge.

In case you missed my scoop last week on the painting of the ex-priest in the apse of his last Catholic parish in Washington, DC. That’s right, I drove over to St. Teresa of Avila in Anacostia to get the photos. Just for all of you, our faithful readers.

He’s suspected of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from area churches.
The people of God can be very forgiving, but not when it comes to money. I’m sure someone is looking for a millstone of sufficient size to tied around the man’s neck.