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@JasonCalvi NEW: Cardinal Wuerl will not attend this year’s Red Mass, which is a Mass calling down the Holy Spirit on the Sunday before the new #SCOTUS term opens. #CatholicTwitter… 1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
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Politically, this is not a good sign for wuerl.
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Reasonable hypothesis.
Is that the mass that Catholic members of the Supreme Court of the USA attend?
It is held at the National Shrine.
It ain’t going to blow over!
All members of the court are invited, but in recent years, the incarnation of satan, the baby-murderer rbg has been too scared to attend lest it be vaporized by the proximity to the Divinity. Demons sotomayor and kagan also failed to show their evil faces.
Last year, the demon breyer risked destruction by showing up.
All members of the court are invited, but in recent years, the incarnation of satan, the baby-murderer rbg has been too scared to attend lest it be vaporized by the proximity to the Divinity. Demons sotomayor and kagan also failed to show their evil faces.
Last year, the demon breyer risked destruction by showing up.
It’s already beginning to fade.
Yes, unfortunately the history has been that this sort of strategy generally works.
There is a certain core of Catholics who will never leave the Church no matter WHAT they do. This has instilled senior clergy with confidence that they CAN get away with practically ANYTHING. As long as they retain a sizeable number of people who are willing to write the checks they’ll be OK with that. Those who can’t accept will have to move on because there is no way for lay people to force change in the Church.
The one caveat is if civil authorities begin prosecuting Priests and Bishops and actually putting some of them behind bars. But this would require an admission that homosexuality within the ranks of the Priesthood is the primary culprit.
In a culture where saying “boo” about gays gets you charged with a hate crime, I don’t look for this to happen.
You don't reform the Church by leaving it. That was Luther's gigantic mistake and a huge win for the Adversary. Reform MUST come from within. We, at this current moment, cannot discern what instrument God will use, how it will be done, or how long it will take....but we must have faith that it will be done exactly as Christ promised it would be.
The prosecutions will come. But they will focus on violations of law: actual sex abuse of minors, and the cover-up thereof. A few prosecutors may dabble in abuse of seminarians, but they will be careful, as too much of that would make us “peons” begin to question the legitimacy of the anti-Catholic agenda, and the homoagenda. Prosecutors will focus on only the most egregious cases.
They’ll give the homoarchy a financial haircut through fines and civil lawsuit settlements, send an abuser or two to jail, but the homoclerical demonocracy will excape largely unscathed. To pay off the State, the bishops will skim more from parish collection plates, lean on big donors some more, close a few more parishes (the coming increased declines in Mass attendance will have the positive effect, for the bishops, of providing more excuses to close parishes), a few more schools, a few more hospitals, etc.
But it’ll cost the homoclergy nothing personally. wuerl will still live on the top floor of 2200 California St, NW, in a 12,000 sq ft penthouse of a $43 million building. bergoglio will still live in a residence built to house 100+ cardinals. Neither will miss a meal, neither will be homeless, nor naked, nor thirsty.
Nor any of the rest of them.
The worse case situation would be that the Church will end up splitting up in half or go into “schism”mode. There was a period in which there were up to 3 popes.
When Luther left, it created a very bad split that we still feeling. Plus the churches that will come under attack will be the Evangelical churches.
Correction: we are still.
I see Breyer the next to step down.
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