A 2012 Trend? Bishops to silence dissent busters?

Archdiocese of Detroit asks Michael Voris to stop using the name ‘Catholic’ | LifeSiteNews.com.

ARE THE BISHOPS ON A CAMPAIGN TO SILENCE DISSENT BUSTERS?

Is the *hit going to hit the fan in 2012?  Are dissent busters going to rise up in large numbers in 2012?  And do you wonder whether Father Frank Pavone has been bumped off?  How about Father Euteneuer?

Micael Voris

• Archdiocese of Detroit has called on someone to stop using the name ‘Catholic’ – but it’s not someone who is fighting against the morals or faith of the Catholic Church at all.  It is in fact an individual who has devoted the last several years to vigorously defending and promoting authentic Catholic principles – Michael Voris, known best for his hosting of The Vortex on the website RealCatholicTV.com.

For a list of dissent organizations, look in the far right column of the website.

Your editor.

Red Nun Stalking Hollywood Scandalizes Catholics

Pro-Life Action of Oregon News – 11/16/11

The celebrity “nun” Helen Prejean just can’t say ‘no’ to her Hollywood “family.”

  Susan Sarandon as a witch.

 

 

 

 

Actress Susan Sarandon, raised a Catholic and who shacked up with actor Tim Robbins for 21 years, invited Helen Prejean to “officiate” at Sarandon’s daughter’s wedding.

Will Hollywood ever get over ‘Dead Man Walking’?  Will the idolization of a Catholic nun ever end?

• ‘The ceremony included a twist on classic vows – “We re-worked them to create something more personal,” says [bride] Amurri – and was officiated by Sister Helen Prejean, about whom the movie Dead Man Walking was made, starring Sarandon.’  
• “She’s an old family friend,” says a guest. “It just made sense for them to have her do it.”

See what I mean?

Sarandon’s daughter, Eva Amurri has posed in Playboy and Maxim.  She stars as a stripper in Californication.

Story in ‘People’ and Here.  Los Angeles Times blog. 

Sarandon is a well-known supporter of Planned Parenthood, sworn enemy of the Catholic Church and the Body of Christ.  In 2008, Sarandon was an honorary chair at Planned Parenthood affiliates (p. 15).

Robbins directed Sarandon in ‘Dead Man Walking,‘ a controversial account of two death row inmates befriended by Prejean, both guilty of heinous crimes and sentenced to death.  Prejean was the first female spiritual adviser of male death row inmates.  Critics like myself who have done the research, conclude the book on which the film is based is a work of fiction.

The true account can be found in these books:

• Dead Family Walking:  The Bourque Family Story of Dead Man Walking
  
• Victims of Dead Man Walking by Detective Vernardo
  
• Loss of Faith:  the forgotten victims of Dead Man Walking

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Our Recap:  Catholic nun is a “family friend” with
a Playboy model
whose famous mother is
radically pro-abortion.

We look forward to the day when her bishop reins her in for her fame and finances.  Did you know she receives royalties from her book and the film and the opera?  Did you know she doesn’t have a Mother Superior?  Catholics must be wondering why she is allowed so much freedom!

Fr. Frank Pavone is still in isolation for his fame and finances.  At the Bishop’s conference, Rachel’s Vineyard packets were distributed to all the bishops.  No mention of Fr. Frank’s great work.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have Mercy on Us.

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http://prolifeactionoforegon.org is our sister site.

Sr. Helen Prejean Dossier Page

Today we announce a new page, the Sr. Helen Prejean Dossier.

This Dossier Exposes her OBSESSION with GUILTY MURDERERS; DEFIANCE against traditional Catholic teaching;  BLINDNESS to the ABORTION holocaust; her connections with the NEW AGE FEMINISTS NUN MOVEMENTS and DISSENTING ORGANIZATIONS; and the ACLU.

“Sister Prejean is a Community Organizer” — profile from her book “Dead Man Walking.”

 

October 2011

Sister Prejean is coming to spend a week in Oregon, speaking and selling her books.

Her visit is being promoted by the Archdiocese of Portland.  The archbishop writes, “Elimination of the death penalty is a goal of our Respect Life Program.”

We look forward to the day when her bishop reins her in and scrutinizes her fame and finances.

Your editor.

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A Google search resulted in 29,700 images of Sr. Prejean.

FEBRUARY 2011 photo:

Sr. Prejean in Denver

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MARCH 2011 photo:

Sr. Prejean in Kansas

Disobedient Catholic Protest Included ‘Sacred Dancing’

Mocking the Holy Mass

Catholic Feminist Agitators’ Protest Included “Sacred Dancing” In an unsettling show of disobedience on a holy day, Portland area Catholic protesters mocked the Mass in the Park Blocks on Sunday, September 26.

Here we list the news coverage from around the Internet.

“We’ve Had Enough:  Portland Catholic Women To Skip Mass Over the Treatment of Women  (pdf) .” The Oregonian Sep. 25, 2010.

‘Gathering calls for women’s equality in the Church.’ Catholic Sentinel Sep. 28, 2010.  Includes Archbishop Vlazny’s response.

‘Mass Defection:  why local Catholics are skipping morning services this morning.’ Willamette Week Sep. 22, 2010. Includes comment by Archdiocese spokesman Bud Bunce who says,  “it’s unlikely the priests backing the demonstration will face discipline.” Marylee King, a 64-year-old parishioner at Resurrection Parish in Tualatin, counters that it’s important for her to get together with hundreds of sister Catholics unhappy about church leadership.  ‘I’m fed up with inequality and injustice by the church hierarchy,’ King says.‘”

St. Francis parishioner “Jane Rickenbaugh practices sacred dance for Sunday’s public protest of the Vatican’s treatment of women.”  Source .

Many, many photos at their site www.onespiritonecall.org .   The Sentinel did not publish a photo of the dancing at least not online.  Probably because its divisive, insulting and embarrassing!

The Skanner – ‘Statement for Equality, Catholic Women Stay Home from Church’ .

Their YouTube Video begins (4 minutes) with New Age dancing and singing.  In the video, a group identifies themselves from St. Clare’s;  St. Andrew’s is the other church who put this on.

Goddess Dancers at Protest

Portland Catholic “women’s equality” protest 9-26-10

Feminist Goddess Dancer

Goddess dancer Jane Rickenbaugh, a St. Francis parishioner.

Abuse of minors not just a Catholic problem!

• One Spirit-Once Call — The National Survivor Advocates Coalition in the US said it was taking the stance “because the boycott is rooted in a response to the sexual abuse scandal and justice for women”. —- See full article http://www.onespiritonecall.org/osoc-in-the-news

These dissenting organizations and extreme fringe groups base their relevance on the sexual abuse scandal, i.e., women priestesses will solve the problem of homosexual predators.  We totally disagree.  They are using the scandal as an excuse to unleash their Ungodly Rage against Church teaching.  We wish to point out that recently a Baptist Bishop of an Atlanta mega church stands accused of sexual abuse.  Also, there are more cases of sexual predators in our public schools than in Mother Church. Educator Misconduct Report by Carol Shakeshaft in pdf concludes that one in 10 children is sexually abused in school.”

• A list of organizations in the International movement for women’s ordination is at We Are The Church.
  

We look forward to the day when these feminist agitators, who are in a perpetual state of “revolution” attacking the Church, will find another institution to attack.

It is our view that the Vatican needs to ban dissenting publications like the ‘National Catholic Reporter’ which foment calls for women’s ordination.  I’ve known of an entire parish (St. Clare’s) that read the paper exclusively.  These dissenters need to be encouraged to leave the Catholic Church and join the Episcopalians where they’d feel more comfortable.

Bud Bunce, Communications Director
Archdiocese of Portland
503-233-8323
bbunce@archdpdx.org

False Ecumenism: Catholic Bishop Blesses Labyrinth

Never mind that a labyrinth is pagan.  That this “hybrid” church exists is an example of what orthodox Catholic Michael Davis termed “False Ecumenism.” His talk of that same title is available as a download at Keep The Faith.  Vatican II permits non-Catholics to receive Holy Communion in a Catholic Church only on rare occasions when a non-Catholic cannot find a church of his denomination.  This is not a “rare” occasion. Fidelity and Action.

Labyrinth at Catholic-Lutheran Hybrid Church, Mission of the Atonement – MoTA

Photo album updated . . .

• Photos of the labyrinth are on MoTA’s Facebook Photo Album page.

‘Mission of the Atonement Church Reveals Spiritual Labyrinth’–article

The Beaverton Valley Times, Apr 15, 2010

Mission of the Atonement Church in Beaverton will dedicate and celebrate the grand opening of its new labyrinth on May 2 at noon.  All are welcome to join the festivities.

A brief ceremony will include blessings by Bishop Kenneth Steiner of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland and Bishop Dave Brauer-Rieke of the Oregon Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. The ceremony will be followed by music, food, games and labyrinth walking.

• Mission of the Atonement is a community of Lutherans and Roman Catholics worshiping together. It is an inclusive, welcoming church.

The Mission of the Atonement labyrinth design is similar to the labyrinth of Chartres Cathedral in France and has been created by volunteers from the faith community. This outdoor labyrinth is open to all people as a non-denominational, cross-cultural gift for all who seek peace.

The labyrinth is an ancient pattern found in many cultures around the world. Labyrinth designs have been found on pottery, tablets and tiles dating as far back as 4,000 years. Native American, Celtic, Greek and other cultures have all used various labyrinth designs as part of their spiritual practice. In recent years there has been a world-wide renewal of interest in this ancient tool for meditation and prayer.

People describe a labyrinth as a path of prayer or form of walking meditation. The labyrinth is not a maze. There are no tricks to it and no dead ends. It has a single circuitous path that winds into the center and the person walking it uses the same path to return so the entrance then becomes the exit. The path is in full view, which allows one to be quiet and focus internally.

Photos of the church’s labyrinth can be seen at www.motaspirit.org .   Stop in the church office for a cup of tea while you’re there. Office hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For more information, phone 503-646-1433 or e-mail info@motaspirit.org .

RELATED:

Charismatic Heresy:  Labyrinth – ‘The current “revival” of the labyrinth is a “spiritual device” and NOT grounded in Christian piety at all. Labyrinths for spiritual “exercises” are alien to Catholic teaching and Catholic spirituality.’

A ‘Catholic’ Social Justice Lobby?

NETWORK’s director Sister Simone Campbell gets in trouble for supporting Obama’s pro-abortion health care bill.

A ‘Catholic’ Social Justice Lobby? | National Catholic Register Exclusives | NCRegister.com

Network’s public letter of support for the Catholic Health Association provided additional political cover for the bill’s defenders, who argued that it preserved the status quo on federal funding of abortion.

A month later, the U.S. bishops and conference officials are still angry.

“In the past, we have worked with Network on immigration reform, and they attend some meetings of our coalition,” said Kevin Appleby, director of Migration Policy and Public Affairs at the bishops’ conference. “But working in a coalition requires trust. Network can’t have it both ways:  It can’t benefit from the bishops’ advocacy and then undercut them at a strategic moment.”

Appleby’s sense of betrayal was echoed by Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, R.I., who recently wrote Sister Carol Keehan, the Catholic Health Association president, to request that the CHA drop a Catholic hospital in his diocese from membership. Any “association with CHA is now embarrassing,” he said.

Catholic College Invites Bill Ayers

Updated with video October 23, 2010.

We located this video clip at USA Survival – Marxism in America.

“Listen [to me] with the possibility of being changed.”—-Bill Ayers

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“Social Justice” run amok.

Catholic News Agency reports that ’60′s radical Bill Ayers is scheduled to speak at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, CA near Berkeley on Jan. 28, 2009.  Ayers’ appearance is part of the college’s ‘Against The Grain’ series.

“Against the Grain” theme of the school’s innovative four-week session where students are challenged to think in new ways and explore social justice issues as part of the College’s Lasallian heritage.

Phyllis Schlafly says this about Ayers and education:

From his prestigious and safe university position, Ayers has been teaching teachers and students in rebellion against American capitalism and what he calls “imperialism” and “oppression.” The code words for the Ayers curriculum are “social justice,” a “transformative” vision, “critical pedagogy,” “liberation,” “capitalist injustices,” “critical race theory,” “queer theory,” and of course multiculturalism and feminism.

Contact

Michael McAlprin, Media Relations mdm5@stmarys-ca.edu 925-631-4222

St. Mary’s College

1928 Saint Mary’s Road
Moraga, CA 94556
(925) 631-4000

Grassroots Fight the ‘Freedom of Choice Act’

The U.S. Bishops have launched a grass roots Poster and Post Card Campaign.

1. Download the Posters here: http://www.usccb.org/prolife/media/

2. Download the Postcard Instructions here: http://www.nchla.org/datasource/idocuments/Instructions.pdf

Face to Face ‘Planned Parenthood & Sisters of the Road’

Correction to earlier version of this post. Due to the title of this cable program, your editor mistakenly assumed that the interviewer, Pam Carsten, was associated with Sisters of the Road.  She is not.  Therefore, there is no association with Planned Parenthood and Sisters of the Road.

Two Interviews are on this video.

Episode 35 ‘Face To Face’:

Interview #1:

Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette’s Marketing Director, Liz Delapoer, is interviewed by Portland Community Media producer and community organizer Pam Carsten.

Interview #2.  Sisters of the Road is interviewed.

more about “Face to Face ‘Planned Parenthood & Si…“, posted with vodpod

Portland Archdiocese and Sisters of the Road

NOVEMBER 15, 2008 (Portland, Ore)  The Portland Archdiocese’s CATHOLIC CAMPAIGN for HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (CCHD) held the annual TOBIN LECTURE at ALL SAINTS CHURCH.  The National Director of CCHD, Ralph McCloud, gave the keynote speech on poverty, ‘Hear the Cry of the Poor: Standing in Solidarity with the Poor in Our Community.’

THE UNBORN

Director McCloud said to listen to the voice of the unborn in his lecture.  He mentioned the unborn two or three times.

ELIMINATE POVERTY

Director McCloud says we are called to eliminate poverty. Sounds like Utopian Communism.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Among the facilitators and panelists at today’s event was SISTERS of the ROAD.

WHO IS “SISTERS OF THE ROAD?”

A social justice community organizing project influenced by, if not part of, the Catholic Worker Movement.

See also Sisters of the Road CAFE.

See also Catholic Worker Publication.