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For more than 2,000 years the Catholic Church has officially taught and practiced what Jesus Christ instituted in Sacred Scriptures when He washed the feet of his male Apostles- he had no female Apostles. [We don't see Jesus washing his Mother Mary's feet, only the Apostle's feet - that should tell Francis something, but apparently it does not.] Now Pope Francis (who has since becoming pope disregarded the law of the Church) has decided to change the Roman Missal so that each Holy Thursday in Catholic parishes around the world priests and their deacons will now imitate Pope Francis rather than Jesus Christ by washing the feet of women. Ahhh...progress! I bet Nancy Pelosi's toes are wiggling in expectation already!
Quote from Pope Francis: “After careful consideration, I have decided to make a change to the Roman Missal. I therefore decree that the section according to which those persons chosen for the washing of the feet must be men or boys, so that from now on the Pastors of the Church may choose the participants in the rite from among all the members of the People of God. I also recommend that an adequate explanation of the rite itself be provided to those who are chosen.”
Has a pope uttered a more damaging question in all the history of the Church? Perhaps. But not in my lifetime. Fr. Ronald Victor, no stranger to controversy in the Catholic Church (here and here) has jumped on the Pope Francis bandwagon using "who am I to judge?" as the means to give Holy Communion to gay "married" couples in his parish. He's also offered to privately bless gay unions/"marriages" if gay couples wish it. Last summer, Fr. Victor's gay nephew was "married" by a protestant minister (much to Fr. Victor's dismay and anger over not being able to officiate the "marriage" himself inside a Catholic parish).
In the Christmas issue of the Naples Daily News newspaper, Fr. Victor's gay nephew and his gay "spouse" were featured in a ridiculous article entitled "How a married gay Catholic Couple live their faith".
In case I need to point out the obvious here, they are NOT "living their faith" at all because the Catholic Faith calls homosexuals to CHASTITY and refuses gay couples the Sacrament of Marriage because there is no such thing as a gay "marriage". It simply does NOT exist in the Catholic faith. The ridiculous article gets more ridiculous with the heretical priest boldly proclaiming his heretical beliefs about gay marriage and giving Holy Communion to "married" gay couples, afterwhich he then uses Pope Francis' own words as proof he's allowed to hold such heretical beliefs.
article quote: [Father] Ron Victor said he was moved by the wedding ceremony, and at the same time, "a little angry and a little disappointed that we couldn't do it in a church where I could have officiated." He said he believes many priests would be open to blessing same-sex unions, although "they can't be real public with that." Ron Victor said he's comfortable being public with it now. Through his priesthood, he said he has tried to practice what Pope Francis so poignantly and pointedly captured with his famous observation about gay Catholics. The priest said he doesn't know the transgressions or every sin of all who present themselves for Communion. "As long as they're seeking God, who am I to judge," said the priest, citing the pope's memorable expression.
With scandalizing priests like this leading people into Hell and away from God, I was not surprised at all by the position the family of the gay man took when they stated if the choice is faith vs family, they will choose family.
article quote: "The church calls gay sex "intrinsically disordered" because it cannot result in procreation. Yet Ron Victor said the caring, monogamous relationship between his nephew and Molina-Duarte "reflects God's love." "While it's not necessarily life-giving in a biological way," said the priest, "it's life-giving in other ways." Other members of the couple's families agree. Lennie Victor, Bryan's father and Ron's sibling, said he's never heard his brother the priest "tell people how they should behave or what they should believe." "If the church makes you choose between your family and your faith," said Lennie Victor, of him and his wife Maureen, "I guess we voted for family."
In other words "Man or God?" and they have chosen mere men over God Almighty in Heaven. And they still have the cojones to call themselves Catholic. Let's be clear here, they have just chosen eternal hell with their own free will and they seem quite pleased with it. What an utter and complete failure Fr. Victor is. His duty as a priest is to bring people to our Lord for eternal salvation, what Fr. Victor has helped in doing is lead people away from Jesus Christ and point them in the direction of eternal hell. The ignorance is certainly not limited to the Victor family. The gay "spouse" Molina-Duarte's mother, a CATHOLIC volunteer worker here in Connecticut has apparently been honored by the Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut.
The "best wedding" she's ever been to is a mortal sin ridden protestant heretical event? Seriously? The only thing I can say to that is she is yet another google-eyed Catholic ignoramus caught by the spell of Pope Francis' deadly words. After all mortal sin is deadly. And homosexual relationships are mortal sin according to Christ and His Holy Catholic Church, regardless of any off the cuff remarks a pope makes.
It gets worse. When the Archdiocese was asked if Archbishop Vigneron could comment on two gay men getting "married" and a priest wishing to bless their union, "Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron said through a spokesman that he couldn't comment for this story without knowing more specifics about the men." Really? An Archbishop of Christ's Holy Catholic Church needs "more specifics" than "two gay men getting married" to make a comment? He couldn't even grunt out a quote from the catechism on the subject? His mind had a brain fart? Does this happen often? Or just when the subject of homosexuality comes up? If that weren't all bad enough, the ripple effect continues. On January 2, Naples Daily News paper printed this:
Timothy MacGeorge, Bonita Springs Catholicism and LGBT "Thank you for publishing the story "How a married gay Catholic couple live their faith" (on Christmas weekend, no less) and sharing it with a broader readership. Many of us more intimately aware of the intersection between Catholicism and LGBT life already know that the church, like the world in which we live, is coming (albeit slowly) to recognize that the love between God's gay and lesbian children is neither better nor worse than the love between straight persons. God's creation is more expansive and more inclusive than any one person can imagine. When I was ordained a priest more than 25 years ago, gay and lesbian Catholics were still very much closeted and out of sight. Today, and with all due respect to seminary Professor Janet Smith (the theologian quoted in the article), I have every confidence that once the church and her leaders actually grapple directly with the incomplete theology underpinning the church's teaching on human sexuality, they will see that there is room within that theology to recognize that the love shared by gay and lesbian couples is just as sacred and divinely blessed as that of other couples." [end quote]
Where are the true and official teachings of the Church? Where are the priests who will actually teach them to the sheep? With false heretical shepherds surrounding the sheep on every side leading them to hell with false teachings WHO will bring them the truth? The Gospel is not being preached to these people and no one in the Church seems to care. Not even the current pope. God have mercy on His people and send us true shepherds to guide and lead us to Christ and eternal salvation. We've been led by demons for far too long. In Christ, Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner
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Boy, you just never know what you're going to get when you sit down with family to watch a G-rated Christmas cartoon. I see a cartoon reindeer, some snow and Santa waving and think the family and I are in for a holiday treat of cuteness. Taking a break from all the horrible news to just enjoy a cute Christmas cartoon movie. The movie I watched with my teen+ kids this weekend was no Frosty the Snowman. Had my children been young I would have been upset to sit them down to watch it thinking I was getting a cute family friendly G-rated movie. That is not what the movie "The Flight Before Christmas" delivered. I had never heard of this movie before, so I had no idea what it was about- I was just going by the cute cover image. Looks cute right? As the saying goes, looks can be deceiving. I am still rather shocked by the basis of the story. And while I was watching it, I wondered how some parents dealt with the story line, so after the movie my oldest daughter looked up some reviews for me on Amazon. More on those later... The story is about Niko, a little reindeer boy who doesn't have a father in his life. The reason he doesn't have a father in his life is because his mother had a one night stand (honest, its in the movie), got knocked up by one of Santa's reindeer (she never got his name so she can't even tell her son the name of his father) and had little Niko the following spring unknown to the reindeer she had sex with. Here is the scene of little Niko hearing his mother tell the story of how he was conceived when one of Santa's "Flying Forces" reindeer "took her for a spin" one day resulting in her pregnancy - no really watch the video clip she really says that:
Nice kids Christmas story eh? There's more. Niko wants to fly to prove to other little reindeer (who are teasing him) that his father really is one of Santa's "Flying Forces" reindeer -you see the flying gene gets passed from father to son, so if little Niko can fly he can prove his father is one of Santa's flying reindeer. After putting the herd in danger from vicious wolves, little Niko decides its time to find his father. A little flying squirrel has been a step father to little Niko his whole life, but Niko doesn't want a step father, he wants his biological father, so off Niko goes on an adventure to find his biological father. The step-father squirrel goes with him and along the way, they meet up with Wilma the weasel. They flee numerous times from a pack of horrible wolves who want to eat them.
(According to some reviews on Amazon, this wolf terrorized more than one child.)
Niko and friends overhear the black wolf's plan for his pack to eat all the flying reindeer to gain their power of flight for themselves and then to eat Santa, thus taking Santa's place on Christmas eve. The plan finishes with the wolves going home to home eating all the little children sleeping in their beds waiting for Christmas morning. Did I mention this was rated "G" for little children?? Niko and friends make it to where Santa and his reindeer live only to get in the way of the drunken reindeer (they drink a lot) making a trial flight. The "santa" falls out of the sleigh, plummets to the ground then bursts into flames. There is no indication that this is a stuffed or dummy Santa- so children everywhere (read the Amazon comments) were greatly disturbed to see Santa plummet to his death and go up in flames. This movie's holiday cheer continues with a lovely DNA song to finger who is Niko's father- all the reindeer admit to taking the ladies out for spins, but none of them will fess up to fathering Niko.
Nice song for the kids to learn and sing for Christmas eh? The reindeer all deny being Niko's father, breaking his heart. Then they decide to test him- by making him jump off their landing strip into oblivian. If he flies, one of the reindeer is lying and really did father Niko. If he plummets to his death the Flying Force are in the clear. The story goes on...blah, blah, blah, until Niko shows some spunk, believes he can fly and does. There is a battle against the wolves- all the adult drunken reindeer run for their lives leaving little Niko, the squirrel and the Wilma the weasel to fend for themselves. Zero moral fiber in these flying reindeer. Long story short, they do all manage to survive- even the evil wolves. Prancer fesses up to hooking up with Niko's mother and Santa talks to Niko thrilling him by giving him a place on the team to pull the sleigh. When Niko tries to talk to his father about coming home and seeing Niko's mother again so they can be a happy family together, Prancer stammers and makes excuses about being really busy with fly practice. The perfect Christmas cartoon version of a deadbeat father. Niko returns home and declares his real father (the squirrel) had been right there with him all along. The end. Now for the customer reviews on Amazon: The Maury Povich review:
The "hussy" review:
The kill and eat Santa review:
In Christ and sticking to the Charlie Brown Christmas movie,
Once an American citizen, Spinks now lives across the pond and is living in bliss with her free abortions and birth control. Yet Spinks can't seem to stop whining about how big and bad conservative lawmaker's in America are for their "fixation of legislating [her] vagina":
The "land of good and plenty" for Spinks, Planned Parenthood and others with no moral fiber is a place of dead babies, orgasms without pregnancy and stupid tax payers paying for their evil debauchery and butchery. Sounds like Hell to me. But to ignorant, immoral people this sounds wonderful. These are the "gimme, gimme, gimme" crowd who want everything for "free" never realizing nothing is for free. They may not pay in cash now (besides taxes) but what they do not realize is that they are paying with their eternal souls. Telling them this makes no difference to them, they are completely uneducated in the area of morals and sin. If you ask them to define morals you would probably get a blank stare. Doing the right thing instead of the easy thing is completely foreign to these people. If a pregnancy is inconvenient they simply pay someone to kill and remove the inconvenient pre-born human- or in this case, go to a butcher for free and allow them to rip the living child to shreds and remove him/her from their womb, so they can go on with their life. Free? Magical? This is a place of horror, created by a people with no moral fiber and souls so lost and corrupt they are blinded by their own evil. They want earthly pleasures and they don't want to have to ever pay the price for their sexual pleasures- they don't mind the living children in the womb paying the price though. Too bad these immoral people are too stupid to know they will pay the ultimate price for it. Justice will be served. In Christ, Julie @ Connecticut Catholic Corner Sources: http://fusion.net/story/242988/europe-free-birth-control-abortions/ https://twitter.com/PPact/status/676091765913464832
