Posted on 04/07/2014 12:42:14 PM PDT by markomalley
You probably saw my post Sister explains the situation. Spittle-flecked nutty, bullying, intimidation ensue.
Sr. Jane Laurel, OP, gave a talk at a Catholic High School. Hell broke loose.
If you want to sample her talks, go HERE. Her talk at the High School was “Masculinity & Femininity: Difference & Gift”. Presentations with that title are on that website. Listen to a few. At the High School, Sister included comments about homosexuality, divorce and single parents. Some people lost their minds. Read more here.
I suspect that what happened, to build this up into such a thing, is that parents heard vague reports – I say vague because teens are such great sources of accuracy in reporting – about her remarks from their politically-correctly conditioned children and, stung in conscience, got out the pitchforks and torches.
The nutty built up into grand mal nutty in the form of the increasingly inevitable “town hall” meeting.
Am I entirely off base here? Did Sister actually say things that were so outrageous, so unacceptable, so lacking in truth and in charity, that the resulting furor was appropriate, proportionate and justified? Really? Go listen to some of her talks using that link, above. Does it seem likely?
Now I read that Sister is going to have a sabbatical. HERE
It looks as if Alinsky’s Rules were at work here. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. … Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Look. This is just the starting line for some observations.
It seems to me that this sad episode is one of many which reveal the building in our midst of a mob mentality akin to that which drove the Salem Witch Trials. If you speak in public now with any clarity about the Church’s teachings on sexuality, marriage, etc., or avert to conclusions which rational people reach about the same derived from the Natural Law, you will be met with fury. “I saw Lizzie Procter speaking with the devil!” Well… bad example, since most of the people who will join the snarling pack likely don’t believe in the devil.
There is a new and twisted “normal” coalescing. This new “normal”, violating the dictates of reason, will prompt the more aggressive and ideologically driven to impose iron norms, which, when violated, will spark vicious attacks from the now easily manipulated mob.
Watching episode in Charlotte build, I had the image of one of those mobs protests a G8 meeting. In these mobs there are professional instigators, anarchists and so forth, who are dedicated to getting the crowd of the curious, the young, the dumb, the enthusiastic, etc., whipped up into a frenzy. Then, as the frenzy rises, someone pitches a garbage can through a shop window and the havoc begins.
What is happening in our society that accepts so readily the hounding to ruin of the head of some business because he says that he supports true, natural marriage and does not endorse homosexual unions?
Surely there is something of a mob mentality building, and swiftly. The speed is driven by the new phenomenon of social media arriving in your hand 24/7. It is also driven by the erosion of the ability of many to reason (thanks to decades of poor education) and incessant mass media exaltation of self-satisfaction and base carnality, which also switches off higher functions.
But there is also something of the demonic in this present movement.
Some of you readers will remember back in the 50′s and 60′s the benign anti-littering campaigns. “Don’t be a litter bug!” It was really bad to be a “litter bug”. Remember the TV ads with the weeping Indian looking at garbage along the roadside? YOU made that Indian cry when you threw your bubblegum wrapper on the ground. It was even patriotic not to litter. ”Keep America Beautiful!” It took a while for the campaign to get real traction, a couple decades, but, given the tools of communication at the time it was pretty successful. It was big in schools. I’m sure that kids turned their homes into re-education camps once teachers in schools were daily pounding on their empty-skulls heads about “pollution”. That campaign was probably also an outgrowth of the early ecology movement and neo-Malthusian efforts, but, hey, cleaner streets and roads were good.
Gramsci got it right: get control of the schools and, over time, you’ll control everything else. Have an agenda? Focus on school curricula and teachers. Extirpate anyone who doesn’t conform. Silence any discordant voice.
The campaign that we are seeing now, however, anything but benign. It is brush fire fast and there is in it something of the demonic.
A couple of the comments left on his site were interesting:
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Father, thank you for covering this. It seems that the story is really picking up steam and as the Church Militant we must not let it be perverted.
This happened at my wife’s alma mater. The town meeting was full of those that were shouting very hateful words at our Bishop and the school Chaplin. Both of these men are very Holy indeed, These parents send their children to a Catholic school and show shock and disgust when a speaker speaks the truth about Mother Church’s teaching? How ignorant. If they don’t want to follow the teachings of our Church then they need to go to another private school.
I believe that more can be done to stand beside Sister Jane. My parish had 24 hours of Eucharistic Adoration for the reparation of sins committed by these parents and will be having a holy hour for the same cause this weekend.
May we keep Sister Jane, Bishop Jugis, and Father Kauth in our prayers.
Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us.
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CCHS is near, and populated by, parishioners of the massive mega-suburban parish of St. Matthew. For indication, “massive” “mega” and “suburban” should tell you all you need to know. I emailed the chancery at chancery@charlottediocese.org this morning to reiterate my support for Catholic Identity and the Catholic sexual ethic, and tell Bishop Jugis that my family was praying for him and Sister Dominic and the other good priests we know in the Charlotte Diocese.
Please so the same.
I can only recommend one thing: home school and pick SOLID (and tradition, IMO) well-regarded Catholic curriculum. You can pick your children’s friends, and your life must revolve around a well-chosen parish. If you don’t have any of this, find a way to get it. Even if you have to move and uproot yourself to do it. Is it more work? Yes.
The narrow path has a concrete application: real world choices on how you structure and live your day to day life, and those of the children you are commanded to raise properly.
The world, the flesh, and the Devil are encroaching more every day. If you don’t protect yourself, you too will run, for fear of the wolves.
From listening to the Sister’s talk, she is absolutely correct. All you have to do is do a Google Search on your computer about what God thinks about homosexuality. This makes you wonder what’s happening to this country? (it’s going to hell.)
But you can only run for so long. They are still going to come for you. We have friends that home school, and the hurdles put in place by the State and Fedgov are increasing. To the point where it will not be an option much longer.
We need to do a reverse Gramsci. It may have already started. It took Christianity 300 years to conquer Rome, it may take as long to reclaim the West.
In my opinion, this all could have blown over fairly quickly if the Diocese and school administration hadn’t panicked. I think they were shocked and let themselves be driven by, as Fr. Z pointed out, people with leftist “community organizing” experience. (I know some of the parties involved and could say more, but that would be indiscreet and possibly uncharitable. Very disedifying, though, the whole spectacle.)
I expect that there will be some long-term factions formed, up where the people have money, but that’s those people’s problem. Outside a few enclaves, I think most will never notice the situation, or will shrug and say, “Whatever, doesn’t affect me.”
I hope that at the Diocesan level, they’ve had a view of what they’re up against and will think things through more carefully in the future. The goal of forming the Catholic faithful, including youth, in Christian morality is still the right goal - a primary duty, in fact. This just wasn’t an effective way to go about it.
**But you can only run for so long.**
But with the grace of the Holy Spirit can we reverse this evil?
You probably saw my post Sister explains the situation. Spittle-flecked nutty, bullying, intimidation ensue.
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If you want to sample her talks, go HERE. Her talk at the High School was “Masculinity & Femininity: Difference & Gift”. Presentations with that title are on that website. Listen to a few. At the High School, Sister included comments about homosexuality, divorce and single parents. Some people lost their minds. Read more here.
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The nutty built up into grand mal nutty in the form of the increasingly inevitable “town hall” meeting.
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Now I read that Sister is going to have a sabbatical. HERE
Over 45 comments on the site too.
I don’t understand. What should’ve been done differently that would’ve been more effective?
If learning (or even conversion) is the goal, then this mandatory assembly of high school students was not the best tactic. (It certainly doesn't seem to have worked out well for Sister Jane.)
Yes, but the West may be lost.
It will take decades to regain control of some of the schools. Till that happens, the next generations will grow up lost.
But with the grace of the Holy Spirit can we reverse this evil?
...except that the ‘grace of the Holy Spirit’ covers a multitude of sins, so be careful what you wish for...the invocation of such ‘grace’ was instrumental in the Lavender Mafia’s incursion into numerous seminaries in the infamous wake of ‘rapport with the modern world’...
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