Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Fr. Gordon MacRae: Federal Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Habeas Corpus Appeal



By Ryan A. MacDonald

His 1994 trial has been called a perversion of justice.

I have the honor of assisting to maintain a page for wrongly imprisoned priest, Father Gordon MacRae, at the professional social network LinkedIn. I hope you will visit it. The page has well over 1,000 followers which is somewhat unusual for LinkedIn. Many are Catholic priests throughout the world. About once a month or so, however, I receive in my inbox a message from a Catholic reader with an inquiry. The question is often the same: “I’m hearing of this story for the first time. Why is this injustice not shouted from the rooftops?”

I’m not sure I have an answer to that question. On March 17, Saint Patrick’s Day, at 10 A.M., Chief Judge Joseph LaPlante is slated to hear oral arguments in the Habeas Corpus appeal filed on behalf of Father MacRae in U.S. District Court in Concord, NH. I do not know what to expect, and it may be some time before a decision is published as a result of this hearing.

I cannot help but recall a pointed quote from Dorothy Rabinowitz, who has published three major articles about the trial of Father MacRae in The Wall Street Journal:
“Those aware of the facts of this case find it hard to imagine that any court today would ignore the perversion of justice it represents.” (Dorothy Rabinowitz: “The Trials of Father MacRae,” wsj.com, May 10, 2013)
As with other such milestones in this case, the hearing itself may generate some notice from those who are not yet familiar with this travesty of justice. So I thought, at this juncture, that the best service I could perform in the interest of truth and justice would be to present something with the most basic information about this story.

You could effortlessly take part in this. I have composed below a few paragraphs about why Father Gordon MacRae is right now mid-way through his 21st year of unjust imprisonment. This is followed by a number of links that we feel best capture the truth of this case.

I therefore ask that readers of These Stone Walls will share a link to this post with everyone you can. If you share it with your contacts, and post it on Facebook and other social media, ask your connections to re-share it. If you do this, I am sure I will hear from many other Catholics, and others with an interest in justice, asking how this story ever eluded them.. (continued)


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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Unfaithful Bishops and Catholic Media



By Michael Voris

(ChurchMilitant.TV)  Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and exposed. I’m Michael Voris.

The Catholic Establishment Media cannot be trusted. They are in the pockets of the US bishops, many of whom have a strange view of the Church.

Case in point – the failure to report on the scandal caused by Cardinal Dolan, repeated scandals actually, but more on the media in a moment.

We can certainly thank Cardinal Dolan of New York for one thing – his wicked endorsement of active homosexuals being allowed to march under their sodomite banner in the St. Patrick’s Day parade has finally taken the mask off the loss of supernatural faith among various bishops and cardinals in the US hierarchy.

If you hear only one thing from this episode, it is this – various bishops and other leaders in the Church do not believe the Catholic faith. They do not possess supernatural faith.

This is clear by their actions, statements, silence in the face of assorted evils and willingness to so frequently change the topic from sexual immorality to social justice.

Their version of social justice is a scam, a fraud that diverts attention from the REAL evil in the Church these days – the sins of sexual impurity and their failure to address them.

They don’t address them because they don’t really care about them - and they don’t really care about them because they don’t really believe there are any supernatural consequences for them. If they DID believe that, then they certainly have a very odd way of demonstrating their fear for their flock and our eternal lives.

Quote evidently, they don’t believe souls got to hell for these sins because – at the end of the day – they don’t really believe that anyone goes to hell. That’s why they keep their mouths shut about sin, hell, and the need for confession. They don’t take it seriously.

They don’t believe hardly any souls – if actually any go to Hell – and that is THE hallmark of their lack of supernatural faith – it is the episcopal heresy of our day. It is a heresy of silence fueled by a lack of supernatural faith.

There is the report of a talk that Bishop Sheen was giving one day about Hell, when a lady in the front row piped up and said, “I don’t believe in hell”, and the Venerable bishop Sheen responded, “You will when you get there Madam.” Take copious notes here bishops – very careful notes – there is a Hell and souls go there. Check the scriptures.

You may not have noticed, but it has been almost a week since news broke of the decision by Cardinal Dolan (one leader who appears lacking in the supernatural faith department based on his continued, non-stop causing of scandal to the faithful) and his decision about gays in the parade.

Almost entire week. In this week, we have been paying very close attention to the internet sites of the Catholic Establishment Media – EWTN, Catholic News Agency, Zenit, Catholic Answers, the Catholic page on Patheos, and a host of others. The only place we could find anything about this evil was at the National Catholic Register’s bloggers’ page where Pat Archbold from Creative Minority Report wrote a brilliant piece.

There isn’t one word, not one OFFICIAL word covering this story of Cardinal Dolan applauding the inclusion of people in a parade .. dedicated to the memory of one of the Church’s greatest saints .. who celebrate their mortal sin and indentify themselves accordingly. To add insult to his sin of scandal, Dolan has agreed to lead the parade as Grand Marshal. Disgusting.

Disgusting as well is the hypocrisy of the sites and media sources of the Catholic world who hold themselves out as reliable sources of news and information in the Catholic world. This proves the case once and for all – they are NOT reliable sources. They are every bit as bad as the secular media who spin and distort and keep THEIR mouths shut about evils in the secular world. The Catholic Establishment Media is bought and sold, owned lock stock and barrel by the Establishment Church and various bishops like Charles Chaput who set the agenda and determine what can be talked about and what can’t.

They possess as much journalistic integrity as many of the bishops possess supernatural faith – which is to say – painfully little. If they had integrity, they could not have ignored the most sensational story to hit the Catholic world in months – in fact, since Dolan said on national TV, “Bravo” about gay would be NFL linebacker Michael Sam’s coming out as gay. Can you imagine one of the apostles saying bravo to mortal sin?

That little incident, by the way, earning Dolan the unflattering nickname of “Cardinal Bravo”.

There is simply no rationale for any of these internet supposed-news outlets to ignore the most talked about story on the Catholic internet in months. No rationale that is – except they are controlled by the very bishops and powers that they would need to expose in any reporting – so that aint gonna happen.

Bottom line then – they cannot be trusted. None of them. This story about Dolan and the gays in the St. Patrick’s Day parade made SECULAR news for gosh sake. We here at Church Militant.TV produced a Special report that had a reach of close to 100,000 on our Church Militant.TV Facebook page alone.

Add in all the other faithful Catholic websites and blogs willing to talk about this and there is simply no excuse at all, under any circumstances that the Catholic Establishment Media can offer for ducking on this story – except their masters don’t want it covered.

We are indeed in strange times in the Church my fellow Catholics. For decades now, as this crisis of faith has unfolded in the hierarchy, various Catholics have simply been left in the dark about it, and contributing to that darkness are other Catholics in a position to help do something about it. They have not. So other Catholics must rise up and do something.

GOD Love You,

I’m Michael Voris

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Monday, September 8, 2014

Wicked Bishops


By Michael Voris

Hello, everyone, and welcome to The Vortex, where lies and falsehoods are trapped and exposed. I’m Michael Voris.

When a Catholic bishop who is given care of souls does just the opposite, then he is a wicked bishop.

What New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has done in welcoming gays officially into the parade celebrating one of the most revered saints in the Church is purely diabolical. That’s right, Your Eminence, someone has got to say it to you flat out—you are in the grip of the devil.

You continue to be a non-stop source of scandal for the faithful, both in what you do and in what you fail to do.

You have in this case given your blessing to an organized group of souls publicly celebrating their sodomy in a parade that celebrates the sanctity of a man who converted a nation away from paganism.

What you are doing is evil, and if you can’t see that, then you are blind.

You give your approval to sin—public approval to mortal sin from a Churchman. You have done this before, but never on so grand a scale. You give active homosexuality a free pass in your archdiocese.

You are not fit to be a successor of the Apostles. You sully the bride of Christ with your wickedness.

You invite the most anti-Catholic man ever to hold the White House to a public dinner. Even after other bishops and cardinals made private appeals to you to rescind the invitation, you went ahead with it.

You go on national television and distort the Gospel of Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ with your horrible comments about gay football player Michael Sam, saying “Bravo” to his sodomy. What the hell is wrong with you?

What other conclusion can people who love the Church draw, other than you don’t.

To everyone who cares about the Church, looking in from the outside, it looks like you no longer believe the Catholic faith—because as you know, there is no such thing as a partial Catholic—you’re either all in or not.

But you and other wicked people in the Church have allowed an attitude to grow, an atmosphere to come to life, where people think they are free to pick and choose what they want.

Do you think you have any chance of escaping hell when you die if you don’t repent of all this before your death? Do you even believe in Hell?

You cavort with child-killing politicans, you give them shout-outs at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, you go on national television to an audience of millions and practically mock the idea of ever preaching against the sins of the flesh—the sins that the Mother of God revealed to the seers at Fatima most souls go to hell for.

And in the area of what you do NOT do—you do not support faithful Catholics who want some sanity in their parish community, free from all the modernist deformations you celebrate. Instead you threaten to close their parishes.

You do NOT make a clear definitive statement in support of Jesus Christ when standing with followers of the false religion of Islam. You confuse the faithful about the nature of Islam by your silence. You will not call it for what it is—a heresy, a false religion. Islam denies the divinity of Christ; it rejects the Holy Trinity. Muslims do not possess supernatural faith. And knowing all this, you publicly encouraged followers of this false religion to remain in it.

How dare you parade, now literally parade, around New York in the red robes of a bishop, meant to signify the death you would happily undergo to preserve the flock, when in reality, far from preserving them from death, you are actually bringing death to them. You need to repent publicly and swiftly. You need to admit the many sins and scandals you have caused and tell the world you were wrong. You need to lay aside your ego, your need to be praised by men, for the sake of your own soul and the souls of those whom you influence.

What you are doing is evil and wicked. You tear at tradition-minded Catholics and support and uphold sodomites. Do not think the punishment visited on you will not be of the most severe sort when you die, perhaps even before you die, if you do not change. You need the humility to publicly recognize your sin, admit it, repent of it, and resign your office now. And for the record—any other bishops in the United States who have lost their faith need to step aside as well for the same reasons.

The time has come—for an authentic Catholic Uprising!

GOD Love you.

I’m Michael Voris

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

Time to End the St. Patricks Parade and the Al Smith Dinners?

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(Archdiocese of Washington) The time for happy-clappy and light-hearted engagement of our culture may be nearing an end. Sometimes it takes a while t understand that what used to work no longer works. Let me get more specific.

Decades ago the “Al Smith Dinner” was a time for republicans and Democrats to lay aside the hatch and come together to raise money for the poor and to emphasize what unites us rather than what divides us. But in the old days the death of 50 million infants was not what divided us. We were dived about lesser things like how much o the budget should got to defense and to social spending. Reasonable men might differ over that.

But now we are being asked to raise toasts and to roast and to enjoy a night of frivolity with those who think it is okay to abort children by the millions each year, with those who think anal sex is to be celebrated as a form of love, and that.e LGBTQIA…etc (I=intersexual A= Asexual)  is actually a form of sanity to which we should tip our hat,  with those who stand four-square against us over religious liberty.

Now the St. Patrick’s Parade will become of parade of disorder, chaos and fake unity. Frankly, lets be honest, St. Patrick’s Day nationally has become a disgrace of drunkenness and foolishness in the middle of Lent that more often embarrasses the memory of Patrick than honors him.

Now it is about to become absurdity in NYC with the “parade” devolving into a farcical and hateful ridicule of the Faith St. Patrick preached.

It’s time to cancel the St. Patrick’s Parade, and the Al Smith Dinner and all other sorts of ‘catholic’ traditions that have been stolen by the world. Better for Catholics to enter their churches on their knees on St. Patrick’s day an pray in reparation for the foolishness to end for this confused world to return to its senses. Lets do adoration and pray unceasingly the rosary and divine mercy chaplet for this poor old world.

But don’t go to the parade and stay away from Al Smith Dinners and all that “old school” stuff that hangs on in a darkened world. Re. St Patrick’s day, it is time to stop wearing the green and take up the purple of Lent and mean it. Enough of the stupidity, frivolity and drunkenness that St Patty’s day has become, we need penance now, not foolishness and parades and dinner with people who scoff at our teachings, insist we compromise, use us for publicity  and make money off of us. We are being played and we for (and are?) fools.

End the St Patrick’s parade. End the Al Smith Dinner and all compromised events like them. Enough now, back to Church, wear the purple of Lent and if there is going to be a procession, let it be Eucharistic and penitential for the sins of this age.

For the sake of your sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!

How say you?

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Boycott Guinness, Sam Adams, Heineken - Catholic League

By Bill Donohue

(The Catholic League)  Bill Donohue is calling for a boycott of Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams:

Diageo, the parent company of Guinness, and Heineken, have pulled their sponsorship of New York’s St. Patrick’s Day parade; the Boston Beer Company, maker of Sam Adams, has withdrawn its sponsorship of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.

None of these companies believe in diversity. No gay person has ever been barred from marching in any St. Patrick’s Day parade, anymore than the parade bans pro-life Catholics or vegetarian Catholics; they simply cannot march under their own banner. The parade has one cause: honoring St. Patrick. Those who disagree do not have to march—that’s what diversity is all about.

The parade is quintessentially Catholic, beginning with a Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It is this Catholic element that angers those who are engaged in a bullying campaign against the St. Patrick’s Day parades. The bullies also have nothing but contempt for the constitutional rights of Irish Catholics.

In 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 9-0 decision that the First Amendment guarantees the right of private parade organizers to determine its own rules for marching. It is this liberty that the makers of Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams want to squash.

I have had my last Guinness and Sam Adams. Heineken was always slop, so there is no sacrifice there. I urge Catholics, and all those who believe in tolerance, diversity, and the First Amendment, to join with me in boycotting these brews.

To contact Guinness, email: press.office@diageo.com
To contact Heineken, email: pressoffice@heineken.com
To contact Sam Adams, email: jessica.paar@bostonbeer.com

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Friday, March 14, 2014

Sam Adams pulls sponsorship from St. Patrick's Day Parade Due to Exclusion of Gays

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Gays exclusion led to Boston Beer Company decision 

(WCVB) BOSTON — After its support of the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade led one Boston restaurant to boycott its brew, the Boston Beer Company – which manufactures Sam Adams – has pulled its sponsorship from Sunday's parade.

Club Café, in the South End, had announced it would not serve the company's beer because of the ongoing controversy over the exclusion of openly gay individuals from marching in the parade.

Boston Beer Company said that it is disappointed that an agreement could not be reached between the gay rights advocacy group MassEquality and parade organizers that would have allowed a group of gay veterans to march, despite pressure from Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Rep. Stephen Lynch.
"We share these sentiments with Mayor Walsh, Congressman Lynch and others and therefore we will not participate in this year's parade," the Boston Beer Company said in a statement.

"We were hopeful an agreement could be reached to allow everyone, regardless of orientation, to participate in this parade. However, given the current status of the negotiations, this may not be possible," the statement read.

A 1995 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council could include or exclude whichever groups it wanted.

"As a result of this (decision) we are again proud to serve Sam Adams and Boston Beer Company Products," Club Café said in a statement on its Facebook page.

The parade organizers' phone was not answered. The parade, one of the largest St. Patrick's Day parades in the nation, draws as many as 1 million spectators to South Boston.

UpdateThe Catholic League: Boycott Guinness, Sam Adams, Heineken

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