Catholic Knights Presents a Living Irony

In Episode 8 of Catholic Knights Presents “Living Our Faith with Archbishop Dolan”, the good Archbishop interviewed Father Bryan Massingale on what “we can continue to learn from the teaching and writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”

I just have to wonder if anyone else sees the irony of this……..Here we have the Archbishop doing all he can to resurrect the Church in Southeastern Wisconsin by starting this TV series and a major fundraising campaign interviewing a priest who believes his role in the Church is to help it to die.

What was interesting about the interview was that just as they started talking about the differences between the Catholic view of a just war and Dr King’s view of war, the Archbishop stopped the conversation and asked Father Massingale if he would be willing to come back once his book on Martin Luther King is published. I was told by someone at the Archdiocese that the interview was very insightful. I really was not all that impressed with the interview as most of it covered what it seems to me any well-educated American would already know.

A more interesting discussion would have been if the Archbishop and Father Massingale had addressed the following views that Father Massingale goes around the country spreading. See the following:

“Massingale’s views appeared to be based on the assumptions that: 1) Jesus and his Church are imperfect and not authoritative, and 2) the Church and the Bible are of purely human origin. Criticizing the Church as unjust, Massingale said this is to be expected, since the Church’s founder was not enlightened himself. Illustrating his point about Jesus being unjust: “Jesus said, ‘Slaves, obey your masters.’” When an audience member pointed out that St. Paul had made that particular statement, Massingale replied that Paul said many other inappropriate things as well, unjust to women and others.”

One wonders if this type of discussion will ever occur………my guess is that it will not but that the dissent that continues to exist among members of the Milwaukee presbyterate will continue to be the very large elephant in the room that is ignored. And one has to wonder if the Archbishop’s efforts to breathe life into the Church in Milwaukee will ever be successful until this issue is addressed appropriately.

Bravo to Archbishop Burke!

Leave it to Archbishop Burke of St. Louis to make it very clear what the Church teaches on matters dealing with the Ordination of women. Evidently two women will be “ordained” priests at a Jewish Synagogue in St. Louis on Sunday. After ordination they will celebrate liturgies at a Unitarian Church across the street from the Synagogue where their ordination ceremony will take place this Sunday. Archbishop Burke has warned the ladies that their actions will lead to being excommunicated from the Church. Thanks again Archbishop Burke for taking a clear stand in this matter.

Searching for Spiritual Fatherhood Among The Episcopacy

Thanks for the Apology……but will you take the next step? 

I applaud the Archbishop of San Francisco, His Excellency George Niederauer, for apologizing for giving communion to two homosexual men dressed in mock religious garb.  However, will he do what it takes to make Most Holy Redeemer parish a truly Catholic presence in the homosexual community of San Francisco?  I hope so.  Read more about it here.

Thank you for standing up for Truth

I want to say thank you to His Excellency, Bishop Robert J. McManus, Bishop of the Diocese of Worchester, MA, for his excellent leadership and expression of Spiritual Fatherhood for speaking out against the Planned Parenthood and NARAL workshops being promoted at a supposedly “Catholic” college known as The College of the Holy Cross.  Read the Bishops Statement here.

Another thank you goes out to the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, who has written a book combating what he calls ”The Donald Duck Heresy”……We need more Spiritual Fathers like him.

Thanks to His Excellency, Michael Sheridan, Bishop of Colorado Springs for speaking out against the use of Plan B in Catholic Hospitals…….Maybe he should call his brother Bishops in CT and give them some catechesis……oh wait, I think they actually call that “fraternal correction”…..

And, of course, thank you to His Excellency Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis who as usual is standing up to the culture of death and defending the Catholic faith.  It seems we have a true Spiritual Father in the Episcopacy with him….