I'm a Believer

Happy Easter everyone!

I am still a believer. I just don't go to church anymore.

I held out for a long time. I went to church every Sunday until I was sixty. Then I became like Sixty. And ND. I had enough of the hypocrisy. The church is all about it's own aggrandizement. The bishops are mostly all gays or gay friendly. They are only worried about money. Not the poor. The new Pope who is a servant of the Devil was the last straw. I couldn't continue giving them my support.

I still believe though. I miss the community of the Mass. However the current virus bullshit proved how ridicules believe in the Church has become. The bishops totally surrender to the government. They abandoned the believers.

I guess I grew up to become a Protestant.

So Happy Easter and let's celebrate the Passion and Resurrection of the Lord. 

Now excuse me while I go look for a snake.

Jesus wept.....the Devil's henchman strikes again.

 

 Once again Satan's henchman the false Pope Francis has signed an agreement to let the Chinese Communist government control the Catholic Church in China. The Vatican has signed on to extend the surrender of the Church to the filthy communists. The former Cardinal of Hong Kong Joseph Zen tells the truth about this evil evil man. From Breitbart: 

“With the protection of this agreement, the government forced the people from the underground to join the Patriotic Association… which is objectively schismatic,” Cardinal Joseph Zen told AFP this week, adding that the underground community has “practically disappeared” as a result.
In his ongoing criticism of the Vatican’s rapprochement with the CCP, Zen has insisted that Pope Francis is “naïve” in dealing with a country about which he knows little.
“The pope doesn’t know much about China. And he may have some sympathy for the Communists, because in South America, the Communists are good guys, they suffer for social justice,” Zen told the Catholic News Agency (CNA). “But not the [Chinese] Communists. They are persecutors.”

Will no one rid us of this troublesome Pope?

A President walks into a church......

The God Emperor of the Cherry Blossom Throne paid tribute to a power greater than himself by attending church in Las Vegas today He didn't wear a mask. He sat next to his aides. He threw money into the basket. Normal. The way most of America used to do.

Before the Kung Flu.

Democratic dictators in places like California, New York and Pennsylvania continue to defy the Constitution and prohibit people going to church. Getting married with their full family attending. Having a funeral with more than 10 people. 

Where are our religious leaders? Where are our bishops and Popes and Preachers standing up to Caesar as he places unbearable burdens on the believers? Why is ok to go to a Casino and not Church? Why is ok to go to Costco and not Church? Why does a racial arsonist like John Lewis or a murdering abortion lover like Ruth Bader Ginsberg can lie in state as thousands go to her funeral when you can't go to the wakes or funerals of your aunt or uncle?

When will the people stand up and say no more!

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Pope betrays Chinese Catholics...Spits in the face of the United States

 The evil henchman of the Devil known as Pope Francis has done it again. He has reaffirmed the corrupt deal that allows the Chinese communist government can name the bishops of the Holy Catholic Roman Church.

The Church has turned over the naming of bishops to the Chinese Communist Party. The party names people who will do their bidding not the holy men who opposed the government and did God's work. It is like letting the Nazi's name your rabbi. The evil Pope refuses to meet with an authetnic Chinese Catholic like Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen Se-kium who was appointed long before the Devil took over the Holy See.

"88-year-old Chinese cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun — who was refused a meeting by Pope Francis after arriving at the Vatican last week — pointed out that the deal had backfired on the Church, leaving important dioceses without a bishop or with the impending appointment of a bishop approved by the atheist Communist Party."

When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attempted to meet with the Pope he was refused a meeting. The Pope feels he can disregard the United States when he is in the pocket the Chinese Communists. How do we let this happen? How does the American Church support this truly evil man?

The Chinese Communists have changed the actual words of the Bible. The Pope gives them the right to control the Church and name the bishops and priests. 

Jesus wept.

Medium Rare Jokes

A bus full of Nuns falls of a cliff and they all die. They arrive at the gates of heaven and meet St. Peter. St. Peter says to them "Sisters, welcome to Heaven. In a moment I will let you all though the pearly gates, but before I may do that, I must ask each of you a single question. Please form a single-file line." And they do so. St. Peter turns to the first Nun in the line and asks her "Sister, have you ever touched a penis?" The Sister Responds "Well... there was this one time... that I kinda sorta... touched one with the tip of my pinky finger..." St. Peter says "Alright Sister, now dip the tip of your pinky finger in the Holy Water, and you may be admitted." and she did so. St. Peter now turns to the second nun and says "Sister, have you ever touched a penis?" "Well.... There was this one time... that I held one for a moment..." "Alright Sister, now just wash your hands in the Holy Water, and you may be admitted" and she does so. Now at this, there is a noise, a jostling in the line. It seems that one nun is trying to cut in front of another! St. Peter sees this and asks the Nun "Sister Susan, what is this? There is no rush!" Sister Susan responds "Well if I'm going to have to gargle this stuff, I'd rather do it before Sister Mary sticks her ass in it!"

The Jig is Up

Nineteen prominent theologians have published a letter in which they accuse the Pope of heresy. From the Catholic News Agency:

Vatican City, May 1, 2019 / 11:35 am (CNA).- A group of nineteen Catholics, including some prominent academics, have published an open letter to the bishops of the world accusing Pope Francis of heresy.

The letter, made public on April 30, was dated “Easter week” and signed by 19 individuals, including Fr. Aiden Nichols OP, an internationally recognized theologian and author. The 15-page letter begins by asking the bishops of the world to take some action against the pope.

“We are addressing this letter to you for two reasons: first to accuse Pope Francis of the canonical delict of heresy, and second, to request that you take the steps necessary to deal with the grave situation of a [sic] heretical pope.”

The letter lists seven specific areas of Church teaching where the signatories believe the pope has “through his words and actions, publicly and pertinaciously” demonstrated his belief in “propositions that contradict divine law.”

The complaints focus on supposed teachings of the pope concerning sexuality and morality which they claim run contrary to the Church’s magisterium. The letter highlights what the signatories believe to be problematic passages from the pope’s 2016 post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia, especially concerning Catholics in irregular marital situations.

Among specific heretical beliefs the letter accuses the pope of holding is the position that a Catholic can, with full knowledge of divine law, violate that law and not be in a state of grave sin.

The letter also references a number of bishops, cardinals, and priests whom the authors claim are themselves heretical and the pope either appointed or allowed to remain in office, as further proof of the Holy Father’s “heresy.”

I have been talking about the fact that this Pope is illegitimate and has done much to try to destroy the Church from within for years. From his promotion of homosexual perverts to be cardinals.... to his acceptance of politicians who promote abortion...... to his surrender to the Chinese government to let them control the Chucch in China....to his attacks on fundamental precepts of the church this Anti-Pope has been the tool of Satan. There are many other members of the Church who are aware of the danger and who are speaking out. I can only pray that the situation will change sooner rather than later.

The Church will endure. However we are under an almost unprecedented attack from Muslims, atheists and other bitter enemies of Jesus Christ. We do not have a leader. We need someone to step forward. 

Reap as ye will sow

The Diocese of Brooklyn named more that 100 priests who were sex abusers. Most of them are dead or defrocked. Some still are in the priest hood. 100 priests. In an area as small as Brooklyn.

I personally knew ten of them. From them being in my parish or running into them at my high school or various weddings of my extended family where I was in the wedding party.

It is hard to talk about how I really feel about this.

When the Shepard's feed the Sheep to the Wolves

The saga of the Catholic School boys from Covington has continued with various appearances on The Today Show and other venues. But one thing hasn't changed. The failure of the Catholic Church to protect and defend their students. Their customers if you will.

An excellent post was put on American Thinker a couple of days ago by Monica Showalter

The Real Pope...In Exile....still hale and hearty at 90.....the anti-pope continues to destroy the unity of the faithful

Pope Benedict at Age 90 ‘Full of Gratitude’ to God

Breitbart News by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.18 Apr 2017

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, who turned 90 years old on Easter Sunday, gave a rare birthday speech inside the Vatican expressing his thanksgiving to God for the gift of life.

“My heart is filled with gratitude for the 90 years that the good God has given me,” said Benedict, who retired as pope on Feb. 28, 2013, the first pontiff to do so in 600 years.

“There have also been trials and difficult times, but through it all He has always led me and pulled me through, so that I could continue on my path,” he said.

Prior to his election as Pope Benedict on April 19, 2005, Joseph Ratzinger enjoyed a brilliant career as university professor, bishop and author and has been acclaimed as one of the most eminent Catholic theologians of the late 20th century.

Saint John Paul II brought Ratzinger to Rome in November 1981 to serve as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a role he held for more than 20 years until the death of Pope John Paul in 2005.

Although a gentle, soft-spoken man in person, Ratzinger proved a faithful caretaker of Catholic doctrine, and was especially tough on so-called “Liberation Theology,” which attempted to re-read salvation history through the prism of the Marxist ideology of class struggle between social classes.

Vatican issues decree on Burials.

Vatican Issues Decree on Burial, Cremation, Just Before ‘Month of the Dead’

by Thomas D. Williams PHD Breibart News October 25, 2016

The Vatican has published new guidelines regarding Catholic burial and cremation just in time for Halloween and the beginning of November—the “month of the dead.”

While expressing a preference for Christian burial, the new Instruction makes allowances for those who wish to be cremated, but specifies that their mortal remains cannot be scattered in the air or at sea, preserved in mementos, kept in the home or divided up among family members.

The norms issued by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are meant to uphold the importance of the body in Christian theology and to avoid “every appearance of pantheism, naturalism or nihilism” that can be associated with the scattering of ashes, the document states.

Give me the Old Time Religion.......

So I spent all day yesterday at a religious observance. It was one of my favorite niece's confirmation and we had to trek out to Staten Island. It was an all day thing so I was off the grid. Away from the store and all the other day to day stuff we are always dealing with. No politics only religion.

Now it is always interesting to me to go to another Church in a different parish. I have been in this one  many times. St. Clare's is one of the bigger congregations on Staten Island.  In fact in New York City. Many of the families who went over the Guinea Gangplank to Staten Island are parishioners. All of my cousins go there. I have buried cousins out of it. It is sort of half  way between the old school churches in Brooklyn with statues of St Lucy with her eyeballs on a plate and the quasi-Protestant churches with the tambourines and the circle and squares on the wall instead of Jesus on the cross. It was packed as over a hundred and fifty people were getting confirmed by Bishop O'Hara of the New York Archdiocese. That was were I drifted off into reverie as candidate after candidate went up to be confirmed.

This is what happens!

New York Post December 13, 2015 by Eileen AJ Connelly and Mary Kay Liinge

The Bronx priest with a crucifix-ation on his S&M “master” was a holier-than-thou blowhard who denied sacraments to “unworthy” parishioners, railed against gays at baptism class, yelled at the faithful on the Communion line and conducted his own vindictive war on Christmas, say members of his flock.

The Rev. Peter Miqueli — whose resignation letter was read to congregants at the 5 p.m. Mass on Saturday at St. Frances de Chantal Church — “cares more about how his hair looks than anything else,” said ex-parishioner Victoria Vulcano.

Catherine Holmes said that when her 12-year-old daughter, Genevieve, was preparing for confirmation at St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church on Roosevelt Island, Miqueli questioned her standing as a Catholic because she was a single mom.

“He said he would see my daughter at Mass, but where was I,” she told The Post.

Miqueli claimed Genevieve missed too many religious education classes and denied her the sacrament, Holmes said.

Neither Holmes nor her daughter has practiced the faith since.

“He alienates just about everybody who comes in his path,” said Holmes, who had been a parishioner of the church for a decade.

He also refused to baptize babies, according to commenters on an online petition and protest pages calling for the cleric’s ouster.

One time, he allegedly refused simply because a family member was late.

“How dare he turn a newborn child away [from] the church?” wrote Richard Felice of The Bronx, who said his friend’s grandkid was denied.