Church Militant, Father Perrone and Opus Bono

Bewildered. 

When I first saw the AP report about Opus Bono, I thought the good folks at Church Militant would be hurt to hear these reports about Fr. Perrone whom they'd defended time and time again. 

AP: "For 25 years, the Rev. Eduard Perrone presided there. Inside the church, commonly known as Assumption Grotto, glossy Opus Bono brochures tout the pastor’s role as the group’s co-founder and spiritual lifeblood. Stern and imposing, the 70-year-old Perrone is a staunch conservative; he refused to marry couples, for example, if he thought the bride’s dress was too revealing.
Earlier this month, his parishioners were shocked when Perrone was removed from ministry after a church review board decided there was a “semblance of truth” to allegations that he abused a child decades ago. Perrone told the AP that he “never would have done such a thing.”

In the years before Perrone helped start Opus Bono, he and Assumption Grotto took in at least two priests who had been accused of sexual misconduct at dioceses in other states. One of them later admitted to molesting as many as 50 children in the 1980s and ’90s, according to court documents in Texas. In 1999, Perrone welcomed the other priest — a West African clergyman named Komlan Dem Houndjame — to come work at Assumption Grotto. Two years later, Detroit Archdiocese officials say, they asked Houndjame to return to his home country, Togo, after learning of accusations of sexual misconduct against him in Detroit and at an earlier posting in Florida.

Instead he went to a treatment facility in St. Louis.
In 2002, Detroit police charged him with sexually assaulting a member of Assumption Grotto’s choir.
The 48-year-old parishioner who accused Houndjame of rape said Perrone’s response was to protect the church, testifying in court that he told her, “Just walk by him and ignore him.”
Perrone responded to the charges against Houndjame by asking the congregation to support the priest in his time of crisis. Joe Maher was among those who were moved by Perrone’s plea for help."

I, in good faith to CM, assumed CM knew nothing of Perrone's involvement as they have written articles on Opus Bono over the years here in 2018 and here in 2019 without mentioning Perrone's involvement- particularly that Perrone is one for the founders of Opus Bono, at all. Either they didn't know or they hid that fact. I sincerely hope they did not know.

At this point, I honestly thought they would be feeling a terrible betrayal by a priest they trusted, believed in and supported. I know how betrayal feels, and it sucks. 

But Church Militant doesn't appear to feel betrayed at all. Instead they are continuing to defend Fr. Perrone. 

Perhaps this is all so unbelievable to them that they are in complete denial and refuse to even entertain the possibility that any of this could be true about Perrone. We've all been there when we hear something unpleasant about someone we care about and trust, our first instinct is "No way!". We don't want to believe someone we trust and look up to could be something other than what we believe them to be. (flashbacks of Fr. John Corapi for me) 

Or maybe CM knows something we don't. That is a very good possibility because they have said time and again that they get information that they cannot publicly share. 

Having just listened to Father Perrone talk about his involvement with Opus Bono (41:55 mark) on the recording mentioned in the AP article, he doesn't sound to me to be "kept in the dark" about all that Opus Bono was doing, though he admits that by 2013 (the time of this recording) he is less involved than when he first help found Opus Bono. 

But then there are the tweets...

Read Mary Rose Maher's story here.

And then we are right back to the archdiocese removing Perrone for "a credible allegation of abuse of a minor".

This leaves me completely bewildered by CM's response in light of their quick decree of "guilty" in the Father McLucas case- declaring him a "sexual predator" and attacking the SSPX for "defending a sexual predator", which I talked about in my last blog post. 

After seeing the AP report, I had honestly planned on writing an entirely different blog post. A post about not kicking Church Militant when they were down or gloating (thinking this betrayal would be a knife in the back). But CM is not down, they are still riding their steeds on the battlefield like knights defending Perrone to the end it seems. 

Again, I am bewildered by this response after reading for so many years Church Militants amazing news reports exposing clergy abuse everywhere in the Church. They never held back...until now, or so it seems.

My last comment on this is to remind us all that the wolves in sheep's clothing (predator priests) are very good at deceiving the faithful. They live among us, they befriend us, they earn our trust all the while devouring the flock from within and working to destroy the Church anyway they can. 

God bless and help us all to see the wolves among the shepherds. 


In Christ, 

Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner 


Sources: 

https://www.apnews.com/abe2da0da2f648ad89dde483a92d3f19 

https://connecticutcatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2019/07/church-militant-asks-me-to-tell-them.html 

https://twitter.com/maryrosemaher

https://www.maryrosemaher.com/about-me

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/questions-remain-in-catholic-charity-reorganization 

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/opus-bono-sacerdotii-raising-money-for-priest-charged-with-gay-sex-assault 

I don't believe you Pope Francis

You know the old saying "Actions speak louder than words"? That is something that has been proven time and time again. People can say anything, but what they actually do...their actions, show you if they really mean it or not. A persons actions show their true character. 

This is why Christ said "You will know them by their fruits"

Matthew 7:15-20 (NRSVCE) 
A Tree and Its Fruit15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will know them by their fruits."

Pope Francis put out a statement today (months after he was made aware of the PA report of sexual abuse) that really says nothing. 

Quote in part: “If one member suffers, all suffer together with it” (1 Cor 12:26).  These words of Saint Paul forcefully echo in my heart as I acknowledge once more the suffering endured by many minors due to sexual abuse, the abuse of power and the abuse of conscience perpetrated by a significant number of clerics and consecrated persons.  Crimes that inflict deep wounds of pain and powerlessness, primarily among the victims, but also in their family members and in the larger community of believers and nonbelievers alike.  Looking back to the past, no effort to beg pardon and to seek to repair the harm done will ever be sufficient.  Looking ahead to the future, no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening, but also to prevent the possibility of their being covered up and perpetuated.  The pain of the victims and their families is also our pain, and so it is urgent that we once more reaffirm our commitment to ensure the protection of minors and of vulnerable adults."

I don't believe our current pope. He has routinely supported clergy whom the laity have reported as abusive and/or Bishops sheltering abusive clergy. Recall Chile. 

"The day they bring me proof against Bishop Barros, I'll speak out," Francis said. "There is not one shred of proof against him. It's slander."

He has since seen the error of his statement, but he learned nothing from it. 

We have a serious homosexual priest problem in the Church and until the Pope sees that, nothing will change. 

Bishop Robert Morlino's open letter: 

Quote in part: "For the Church, the crisis we face is not limited to the McCarrick affair, or the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, or anything else that may come. The deeper crisis that must be addressed is the license for sin to have a home in individuals at every level of the Church. There is a certain comfort level with sin that has come to pervade our teaching, our preaching, our decision making, and our very way of living.
If you’ll permit me, what the Church needs now is more hatred! As I have said previously, St. Thomas Aquinas said that hatred of wickedness actually belongs to the virtue of charity. As the Book of Proverbs says “My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness (Prov. 8:7).” It is an act of love to hate sin and to call others to turn away from sin.
There must be no room left, no refuge for sin — either within our own lives, or within the lives of our communities. To be a refuge for sinners (which we should be), the Church must be a place where sinners can turn to be reconciled. In this I speak of all sin. But to be clear, in the specific situations at hand, we are talking about deviant sexual — almost exclusively homosexual — acts by clerics. We’re also talking about homosexual propositions and abuses against seminarians and young priests by powerful priests, bishops, and cardinals. We are talking about acts and actions which are not only in violation of the sacred promises made by some, in short, sacrilege, but also are in violation of the natural moral law for all. To call it anything else would be deceitful and would only ignore the problem further. There has been a great deal of effort to keep separate acts which fall under the category of now-culturally-acceptable acts of homosexuality from the publically-deplorable acts of pedophilia. That is to say, until recently the problems of the Church have been painted purely as problems of pedophilia — this despite clear evidence to the contrary. It is time to be honest that the problems are both and they are more. To fall into the trap of parsing problems according to what society might find acceptable or unacceptable is ignoring the fact that the Church has never held ANY of it to be acceptable — neither the abuse of children, nor any use of one’s sexuality outside of the marital relationship, nor the sin of sodomy, nor the entering of clerics into intimate sexual relationships at all, nor the abuse and coercion by those with authority. In this last regard, special mention should be made of the most notorious and highest in ranking case, that being the allegations of former-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s (oft-rumored, now very public) sexual sins, predation, and abuse of power. The well-documented details of this case are disgraceful and seriously scandalous, as is any covering up of such appalling actions by other Church leaders who knew about it based on solid evidence. While recent credible accusations of child sexual abuse by Archbishop McCarrick have brought a whole slew of issues to light, long-ignored was the issue of abuse of his power for the sake of homosexual gratification. It is time to admit that there is a homosexual subculture within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreaking great devastation in the vineyard of the Lord. The Church’s teaching is clear that the homosexual inclination is not in itself sinful, but it is intrinsically disordered in a way that renders any man stably afflicted by it unfit to be a priest. And the decision to act upon this disordered inclination is a sin so grave that it cries out to heaven for vengeance, especially when it involves preying upon the young or the vulnerable. Such wickedness should be hated with a perfect hatred. Christian charity itself demands that we should hate wickedness just as we love goodness. But while hating the sin, we must never hate the sinner, who is called to conversion, penance, and renewed communion with Christ and His Church, through His inexhaustible mercy." 

Morlino finishes with: 

"More than anything else, we as a Church must cease our acceptance of sin and evil. We must cast out sin from our own lives and run toward holiness. We must refuse to be silent in the face of sin and evil in our families and communities and we must demand from our pastors — myself included — that they themselves are striving day in and day out for holiness. We must do this always with loving respect for individuals but with a clear understanding that true love can never exist without truth."

Well said Bishop Morlino! Let's hope your letter reaches Pope Francis. 

The homosexual problem isn't just those who have physically abused others. That is horrendous and horrifying beyond words. The problem goes even further. Priests who continually support homosexual relationships and other homosexual priests are a problem too- a problem no state attorney general is going to expose. The damage these clergy do, is mostly spiritual, leading people into eternal Hell by supporting homosexuals in sexual relationships (mortal sin). 

The Church needs to clean house not just of the predators who have sexually abused children and adults, but also the homosexual and pro-homosexual clergy who continually push the homosexual agenda and defy Church Teaching. 

Let's look at some of the pro-homosexual fruits Pope Francis has promoted and surrounded himself with and forced upon the laity. 

Father James Martin. 

Pope Francis appointed James Martin, S.J., as a consultor to the Vatican's Secretariat for Communications back in 2017. Martin openly supports gay marriage and says people should have "reverence" for homosexual love. 

Clearly this is in opposition to Catholic teaching which calls for all homosexuals to live chaste lives (as with all unmarried heterosexuals). 

Fr. Martin continually supports homosexual couples in their relationships, defying Church teaching over and over and over again. 

Fr. Martin supporting a lesbian couple. 

Fr. Martin celebrating gay marriage being legalized & calling it a "ProudCatholicMoment" despite Catholic Church which forbids homosexual relations and "marriage".

Fr.Martin promoting a book that celebrates homosexual 'marriages' and couples. 

Gay book promoted by Fr. Martin on social media.

Fr. Martin continually pushes the gay agenda and leads people away from Catholic Teachings. Not a peep from Pope Francis on any of this-and all of this is very well known. Martin has a large following on social media and his book "Building a Bridge" has the support of many inside the Church- including Bishops. See my review on Martin's book HERE.

He's not the only one. 

Fr. Thomas Rosica. 

Rosica has banned me from all his social media accounts 😊, guess he didn't like my post about him. 

Rosica, like Martin, supports homosexual couples despite Catholic teaching. 

Rosica: "What I experienced at Holy Redeemer Parish that week was a very powerful and moving week of prayer, dialogue and openness to the Word of God. If ever I felt to be a bridge-builder and healer, it was that week. I learned that Most Holy Redeemer Church is a vibrant parish community consisting of many retired, elderly people of Eastern European communities as well as their new neighbours who were members of the gay community of San Francisco. But not just the gay community, but practicing gay Catholics!" 

Most Holy Redeemer Church is disgustingly pro-gay couples/"marriage". These parishioners are being led away from Christ and salvation and toward eternal Hell.  

Church Militant on Fr. Rosica: 

Quote: "...[Rosica] misled reporters on an almost daily basis at the 2014 and 2015 Synods on the Family in Rome, injecting his own bias into the daily summaries on the private discussions of the bishops in the Synod Hall in the Vatican. On a very regular basis, he kept suggesting and implying that the bishops were being more accepting of homosexuality. The international secular media ran wild with the stories, which turned out to be flat out false.  We had discussions and dinners with bishops and others who were inside the hall and they each assured us that the topic barely came up if at all.
When he and I had a brief face to face in the press hall during the first synod, he told me that the Church no longer teaches that men and women who are having sex outside of marriage and die in that state go to Hell.
Within the past six months, Fr. Thomas Rosica was lecturing seminarians and responded to one of their questions about the purpose of ecumenism. And he responded, the purpose was to make Jews into better Jews and Muslims into better Muslims. Pressed further, he also said Catholics should not be seeing "potential converts in every non-Catholic." He openly laughed at the idea of trying to bring non-Catholics to the faith.
Why are we revisiting the issue of Fr. Rosica's theological failings? Because his hero — his term — former Fr. Gregory Baum, a Canadian priest, has now come out as an active homosexual who admits in his latest book that he kept his homosexuality a secret all these decades so he could be a part of changing the Church, teaching both at Vatican II and the time after the council."

These priests are just some of the wolves in the Church that more than likely won't show up in any attorney general report. Yet their damage to the laity continues.  

And Pope Francis continues to send them out among the sheep (both Martin and Rosica will be at the World Meeting of Families in Ireland this week). The Church has a homosexual priest problem and as long as Pope Francis denies this, the problems will continue. 

There are many others...including Bishops and Cardinals named in the PA report that are still in their positions (like Wuerl). Wolves. 

Predator priests must be removed at once and handed over to authorities for criminal prosecution. No more hiding them or moving them around to do more damage to innocents. Zero tolerance. 

Homosexual and pro-homosexual priests must be removed as well. The untold spiritual damage they do is costing people their eternal souls. This can't continue. 

Until I see Pope Francis purge the Church of ALL these wolves I simply don't believe him. 

Actions speak louder than words your Holiness, lets see some action! 



In Christ, 


Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner 



Sources: 

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2018-08/pope-francis-letter-people-of-god-sexual-abuse.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_(slang) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHpKah-Kx-A 

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/04/12/father-james-martin-appointed-pope-francis-vatican-department-communications 

https://www.dw.com/en/chile-pope-francis-questions-sex-abuse-victims-claims-against-bishop-juan-barros/a-42225721 

http://media-downloads.pacourts.us/InterimRedactedReportandResponses.pdf?cb=22148 

http://www.madisoncatholicherald.org/bishopsletters/7730-letter-scandal.html 

http://connecticutcatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2017/06/walking-across-fr-james-martins-lgbt.html  

What would you do?

In all honesty, I think I would have smacked this priest if he did this to my kid. 😠

"A family were forced to wrestle their baby away from a French priest who was baptising him, after the clergyman lost his temper and violently smacked the boy across the face.
In a video of the incident, the Catholic priest can be seen blessing the boy while making the sign of the cross with his hand over the child’s body. The baby then begins to cry loudly, disrupting the ceremony.
The priest, speaking in French, can be heard saying the boy is having a “tantrum” and he needs water poured on his head to become a “little Christian.” He then mutters “calm down, calm down, you must calm down” while visibly bristling with frustration. Suddenly, he snaps and strikes the child across the face.
The person who was filming the baptism can be heard gasping. The priest, reluctant to let go, can then be seen grabbing the baby’s neck and body before putting his face and hand over the boy's face to muffle his cries."

I missed this story when it came out in June of this year. Just stumbled across it tonight and was shocked and sickened by it. 


In Christ, 

Julie 


Link:
https://www.newsweek.com/video-catholic-priest-caught-violently-slapping-baby-during-baptism-stop-it-989009

Baby drag queens featured at NYC gay pride parade

Tell me they don't all look mentally insane! 

To all the Catholics out there, please consider spending some extra time in the pews this Sunday praying for our nation. When Mass has ended, stay and pray. So many souls are being lost- especially the children. 

Sunday is the gay pride parade in NYC and the horrors that have been going on, especially this week in NYC leading up to this gay pride parade are just unthinkable. I won't show those images (they are readily available on assorted social media). Even the ones I am showing here are disturbing. 

Target the department store is a "proud" sponsor of "youth pride"... 

Part of "youth pride" is...I can't even believe I am saying this..."baby drag queens" and "drag kids" of all ages... 

This "mother" (and I can hardly use the term)...has corrupted this child. 

I first posted the now 10 year old boy Desmond's photo a few years back in my post "Gay Parades are Child Abuse". 

This child got the idea to dress in drag from watching a drag queen show on television when he was A TODDLER! What parent lets their child of any age watch such a show? 

Quote: "It's Pride Week in New York City, and abc7NY is featuring some of the social media stars in the LGBTQ community.
One of them is 10-year-old "Drag Kid" Desmond Napoles, who -- with the support of his family -- remains confident in himself while on a journey that is often fraught with fear. But not for this "amazing" young man.
Desmond is already an activist, advocate, model and fashion icon, and he's come a long way since he danced his way through the Village in the 2015 Pride March.
"Overnight, I was everywhere," he said.
Fast forward three years, and Desmond is still everywhere. DesmondIsAmazing has 65,000 Instagram followers, and he has appeared on talk shows and alongside his idol, RuPaul.
"When I saw the first episode of RuPaul's 'Drag Race' season 1, I saw these queens," he said. "And they were so amazing that I decided I would take my mom's clothes, shoes, towels, wrap them around myself to make pretend."

According to a Youtube video on "Fatherly", Desmond "came out of the closet" at the age of 3 (a bit later he says he was 2)- after watching "RuPaul's Drag Race" show. His father says Desmond entered kindergarten as an openly gay boy while admitting his child has been watching (subjected to) drag queen television shows since he was only a 2 year old toddler. Did it ever occur to these parents that such television shows would warp and influence their little boy? Perhaps they subjected their toddler to this show in the hopes of doing just that...creating a gay drag kid? Diabolical either way. 

Pray for Desmond to be released from the bonds of this evil. What chance did this child have with parents like his? They put evil in his path and then encouraged him to embrace it.  

And, don't listen to Father James Martin... 

...he can stuff a sock in it! This is child abuse and gay pride parades are evil. 

These people are disgusting and they are doing great evil, again I can't post some of the NYC gay pride events because they are simply too offensive and vile. 

Even the NYPD... 

Remember to pray for the Christian police who are forced to drive "gay pride" vehicles while trying to keep people safe. What a horror their jobs must be particularly every June. 

Keep the words of our Lord fresh in your mind when you think of the children attending pride parades...

The Church is failing these people...

...God help us from such parishes. 

In Christ, 


Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner 



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Sources: 

Desmond's story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w5X4aD6mo8

http://abc7ny.com/entertainment/10-year-old-drag-kids-mom-love-your-child-unconditionally/3638371/

https://twitter.com/NYCPride 

https://twitter.com/ABC7NY/status/1010183202948907015

My 2014 post on gay pride parades (WARNING GRAPHIC) http://connecticutcatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2014/01/banning-children-from-gay-pride-parades.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w5X4aD6mo8 

https://twitter.com/JamesMartinSJ/status/1002901862268448768

When the circus freak-show becomes our world reality

These are some humdingers in my opinion.  

Let's start with the mess D.C. has just subjected our police officers to. I'm sure the police officers will love this one when debating whether or not to frisk a suspect. 

Male police officer: I think they look like a female, you frisk them.

Female police officer: But it has a beard! You frisk them. 

Male police officer: Calling all units, we need a gender fluid officer to frisk our I-don't-know-what-the-hell-I-am suspect! 

Quote: (CNN)Nic Sakurai was among the first people outside the Benning Road Department of Motor Vehicle office in Washington on Tuesday morning at 7:15.
Sakurai had created a Facebook event and invited others to join the historic day: They would become the first people in the United States to choose X as their gender marker instead of male or female on driver's licenses and identification cards.The X signifies gender neutral, the preferred designation for people like Sakurai who don't identify as male or female.They may use different words to describe how they identify, such as gender nonconforming, gender fluid, gender nonbinary or agender, as Sakurai prefers. Whatever the case, "male" and "female" and "he" and "she" don't fit how they see themselves."I don't feel that sense of gender as something that is part of my core innate experience," said Sakurai, who uses the pronoun "they.""I'm glad to finally have an ID that actually matches who I am."

I love these liberal nut-jobs who deny DNA, tossing proven science out the window for "I don't feel that sense of gender as something that is part of my core innate experience." 

What the hell is a "core innate experience" any way? 

Just wait till a male police officer frisks a female who looks like a guy and has 'no gender marked on her license' and then see how fast the courts fill up with sexual assault charges and discrimination because our poor police officers can't tell who's what any more, even with an ID! 

Our nation is full of mental midgets.

Full article at: CNN. 

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Let's not forget the Canadians... 

Quote: "An eight-month old Canadian baby has been issued a health card without a gender marker, in what could be the first case in the world.Parent Kori Doty - a non-binary transgender person who identifies as neither male nor female - aims to allow the child to discover their own gender.The health card has been issued with a "U" in the space for "sex", which could be for "undetermined" or "unassigned".Kori Doty is fighting to omit the gender from the birth certificate.The parent gave birth to Searyl Atli in November at a friend's home in British Columbia. Kori Doty, who prefers to use the pronoun they, argues that a visual inspection at birth is unable to determine what gender that person will have or identify with later in life.They want to keep Searyl's sex off all official records."I'm raising Searyl in in such a way that until they have the sense of self and command of vocabulary to tell me who they are, I'm recognising them as a baby and trying to give them all the love and support to be the most whole person that they can be outside of the restrictions that come with the boy box and the girl box," the parent was quoted by CBC as saying." [clipped]

Full article: BBCNews

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RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA! 

Something else to blame the Russian's for...nesting dolls. The I-don't-know-what-the-hell-I-am crowd have developed "Sam" the nesting doll to help confuse children into not knowing the difference between male and female- and totally rejecting the scientific proof (DNA) that tells them exactly what gender they are.

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And more idiots... no library is safe any more. 

Full story for this idiocy can be found at ChurchPop. 

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What month of June is complete without priests celebrating gay pride? 

And of course, our infamous heretical priest...

What the hell is wrong with parents who twist the minds of their innocent children into a mass of chaotic confusion that will leave them with a lifetime need of therapy? In my opinion, this is all child abuse. 

God help us and save the innocents! 

In Christ, 

Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner 

links: 

https://churchpop.com/2017/07/02/boston-library-has-anti-catholic-drag-queens-read-to-children-for-pride-month/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40480386

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/27/health/washington-gender-neutral-drivers-license/index.html