Awful Feminist Blog Post

http://twitchy.com/2014/01/25/i-look-down-on-young-women-with-husbands-and-kids-feminist-pens-worst-blog-post-ever/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

Half a Million in Washington and Now in California

No Media Coverage! About 50K in San Francisco.

Walk For Life ‏@m

@frfrankpavone with #WalkForLife helping to stop the Media #BlackOut @KCBSNews @abc7newsBayArea @KTVU pic.twitter.com/6vyDz0IudM

A reminder from a good tweeter

Great Silence ‏@hambisela

A little drop of simple obedience is worth a million times more than a whole vase of the choicest contemplation. St.Mary Magdalene de Pazzi

Pray for Bangui

http://www.france24.com/fr/20140125-centrafrique-rca-bangui-violences-musulmans-seleka-balaka-pk5-represailles/

Great Show

http://www.churchmilitant.tv/fullpreview/?vidID=micd-2014-01-22

Voris is spot on. Contraception is THE problem in the Pro-Life movement.

Mic'd Up "LIVE from the March for Life 2014"

The more I talk with and listen to the leaders of the Pro-Life movement in America, and listen to the leaders of the Pro-Life Movement in Great Britain, and knowing myself the huge fall-out of Birthright and Right to Life years ago, I know that until the issue of the contraceptive mentality is dealt with in the society, we shall not win the pro-life issues.

First of all, if Catholics are contracepting, they are in mortal sin and not in grace and cannot be leaders in the Pro-Life movement. If these same people are not contracepting but think it is ok for our Protestant brethren, they are also in disobedience.

Second, if they will not stop legistlation which passes out of supports contraception, these same leaders are contributing to the anti-life culture of death.

Third, they are encouraging cancer and birth defects, promiscuity and fornication.

Fourth, they have not faced that in order to be a person working against evil in the world, they must leave entirely the path to evil.

Fifth, clergy who support these ideas are endangering their own souls.

Sixth, these situations weaken the Church, period.

I am not hopeful of the Pro-Life movements until those in power repent of supporting contraception and change their tactics

Lies about Ireland

A wise priest told me that the loss of Catholicism in Ireland started over 70 years ago. He was the first priest to be honest about the fact that the pro-abortion, pro-contraception Catholics are not post-Vatican II.

The problem came with the great influence of socialism and Marxism in the new Republican government. The problem as came in with very poor catechesis and the bad seminary training years ago.

The fact is, said this wise priest, that people never moved from a childhood religion to an adult appropriation of the Faith.

This priest said that the scandals were not the cause of the falling off, but the lack of Faith which preceded these.

The weak clergy is part of the lavender mafia. The sexual sins of the clergy and the people, including the acceptance of fornication, divorce, and contraception caused the present weakness.

Do not kid yourselves. Countries, nations take awhile to fall-one thing can cause the final tumble, but the problem is old, very old.

No one in the government who voted for abortion is being denied Communion.

Thank you, Father, for clarifying this issue.

See the labels.

Pray for the Ukraine

http://t.co/LhC3uagCcKpic.twitter.com/5RVx6NjUAS

Hmm, I wonder what they talked about.....? Ah, the French!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/francois-hollande/10594841/Francois-Hollande-to-meet-Pope-Francis.html

http://www.france24.com/en/breaking/20140125-hollande-confirms-separation-partner-trierweiler-afp-reports/?ns_campaign=breaking_news&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=reseaux_sociaux&ns_fee=0&ns_linkname=breaking_20140125_hollande_confirms_separation_partner_trierweiler_afp

37 Million Dollars and Ruined Lives

I am, frankly, tired of hearing that the sexual abuses cases are a result of Vatican II. This is simply not true. As a member of a family where four children were sexually abused in the 1930s and 1940s over years by a single priest who has access to hundreds of children, I can assure you this problem is old.

I am also tired of people asking me why my son did not join this diocese.

I am also grieved that some dioceses are still accepting homosexually inclined men into the seminaries, which I know of personally.

The sub-culture is strong and Michael Voris, Michael S. Rose, and others are not exaggerating.

Pray for your Church.


Diocese of Davenport
List of Credible Allegations Against Priests, Brothers and Lay Employees
as of November 2, 2012 1 of 4
Earliest Claimed Abuse
Name
Year of Death
Parish Assignments (other assignments not listed)
Dates
Year of Ordin-ation
Comments
early
Francis Bass
St. Mary, Clinton
1948-1957
1948
Accused of sexual
1950's
St. Joseph, Davenport
1957-1956
abuse of 18 male minors
St. Mary, Eddyville
1966-1967
St. Joseph, East Pleasant Plain
1967-1973
Sacred Heart, Newton
1973-1978
St. Patrick, Iowa City
1978-1981
St. Patrick, Delmar
1981-1992
St. Anne Welton
1984-1992
1948
Herman Bongers
1971
St. Mary, Keokuk
1939-1941
1939
Accused of sexual
St. Joseph, Fort Madison
1941-1943
abuse of 5 male minors
St. Paul, Davenport
1943-1945
St. Bridget, Victor
1962-1965
1963
Bernard Brugman
1965
St. Joeseph, Davenport
1943-1946
1943
Accused of sexual
St. Joseph, Montrose
1950-1951
abuse of 1 male minor
St. Patrick, Charlotte
1963-1965
St. Patrick, Villa Nova
1963-1965
Assumption, Charlotte
1963-1965
early
Sylvester Conrad
2003
St. Patrick, Ottumwa
1952-1958
1952
Accused of sexual
1960's
Our Lady of Lourdes, Bettendorf
1958-1967
abuse of 1 female minor
St. Mary, Weller
1967-1996
St. Peter, Lovilia
1977-1997
1945
Orville DeCoursey
1964
St. Mary, West Point
1931-1932
1931
Accused of sexual
St. Patrick, Charlotte
1937-1938
abuse of 4 male minors
St. Patrick, Villa Nova
1937-1938
Our Lady of Lourdes, Keswick
1938-1948
St. Joseph, What Cheer
1938-1949
St. Mary, Fairfield
1948-1964
1983
Paul Deyo
St. Mary, Clinton
1976-1978
1976
Accused of sexual
St. Mary, Davenport
1988-1991
abuse of 3 male minors
St. Patrick, Iowa City
1991-1992
St. Peter, Cosgrove
1996-1997
St. Mary, Oxford
1996-1997
St. Wenceslaus, Iowa City
1997-2000
1981
Daniel Emrich
"Franciscan Brothers of Christ the King" (lay group)
Accused by 1 male minor
1957
Thomas Feeney
1981
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport
1953-1968
1937
Accused of sexual
St. Anthony, Davenport
1968-1981
abuse of 15 male minors
1955
Fidelis Forrester
unk
St. John, Burlington
1955-1956
unk
Accused of sexual
St. John, Burlington
1961-1963
abuse of 3 male minors
1961
Theodore Geerts
2006
St. Joseph, Fort Madison
1946-1947
1946
Accused of sexual
St. Patrick, Clinton
1947-1962
abuse of 3 male minors
St. Boniface, Farmington
1962-1969
St. Mary, String Prairie
1962-1969
St. Mary, Dodgeville
1969-1969
Diocese of Davenport
List of Credible Allegations Against Priests, Brothers and Lay Employees
as of November 2, 2012 2 of 4
Earliest
Claimed
Abuse
Name Year
of
Death
Parish Assignments
(other assignments not listed)
Dates Year
of
Ordination
Comments
1942 Thomas Hackett 1951 Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport 1943-1943 1943 Accused of sexual
St. Joseph, DeWitt 1943-1945 abuse of 3 male minors
Sacred Heart, Fort Madison 1945-1946
1949 Joseph Hines 1992 St. Wenceslaus, Iowa City 1945-1951 1945
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport 1951-1961
Ss. Mary & Joseph, Sugar Creek 1961-1967
St. Joseph, Columbus Junction 1967-1970
St. Mary, Lone Tree 1967-1970
Sacred Heart, Fort Madison 1970-1981
St. Mary, Tipton 1981-1989
1953 James Janssen St. Bridget, Victor 1948-1948 1948 Accused of sexual
St. Paul, Burlington 1948-1950 abuse of 36 male minors
St. Irenaeus, Clinton 1950-1953
St. Joseph, East Pleasant Plain 1953-1953
Sacred Heart, Newton 1953-1956
St. Michael, Holbrook 1958-1958
St. Patrick, Delmar 1959-1959
St. Mary, Davenport 1959-1961
St. Joseph, Fort Madison 1961-1967
Ss. Mary & Joseph, Sugar Creek 1967-1979
St. Mary, Bryant 1972-1979
St. Anthony, Davenport 1979-1980
Ss. Philip & James, Grand Mound 1980-1990
1956 Raymond Kalter 1977 St. Alphonsus, Davenport 1958-1962 1930 Accused of sexual
abuse of 3 male minors
1960 John Kennedy 1989 St. Wenceslaus, Iowa City 1936-1936 1936 Accused of sexual
Immaculate Conception, Petersville 1951-1957 abuse of 2 male and
Assumption, Charlotte 1957-1963 1 female minors
St. Patrick, Charlotte 1957-1963
St. Patrick, Villa Nova 1957-1963
Petersville, Immaculate Conception 1957-1963
St. Patrick, Brooklyn 1963-1968
St. Mary, Wilton 1968-1974
1954 William Kerrigan 1988 St. Mary of the Visitation, Ottumwa 1941-1941 1941 Accused by 1 female
minor
St. Mary, Eddyville 1953-1955
1960's Placidus Kieffer 1984 St. John, Burlington 1963-1969 unk Accused of sexual
abuse of 2 male minors
Early James Lawrence 2008 St. Thomas More, Iowa City 1961-1961 1961 Accused by 1 female
1960s St. Anthony, Knoxville 1961-1966 minor
St. Mary, Eddyville 1971-1972
Sacred Heart, Ft. Madison 1972-1973
St. Irenaeus, Clinton 1973-1984
St. Mary, Bryant 1979-1983
St. Mary, Oxford 1984-1987
St. Mary, Davenport 1987-1993
St. Joseph, Davenport 1987-1995
Diocese of Davenport
List of Credible Allegations Against Priests, Brothers and Lay Employees
as of November 2, 2012 3 of 4
Earliest Claimed Abuse
Name
Year of Death
Parish Assignments (other assignments not listed)
Dates
Year of Ordin-ation
Comments
1988
James Leu
Holy Family, Davenport
1971-1977
1971
Accused of sexual
Sacred Heart, Newton
1977-1978
abuse of 2 male minors
Our Lady of Victory, Davenport
1978-1985
St. Mary, Lone Tree
1985-1988
St. Mary, Nichols
1988-1988
1986
Frank Martinez
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport
1982-1984
1982
Accused of sexual
Sacred Heart, Lost Nation
1984-1985
abuse of 1 male minor
St. James, Toronto
1984-1985
St. Peter, Buffalo
1985-1986
St. Joseph, Bauer
1986-1987
Sacred Heart, Melcher
1986-1987
1943
Carl Meinberg
1975
St. Mary, Iowa City
1940-1967
1914
Accused of sexual abuse of 4 male minors
1973
Walter Phipps
2010
Our Lady of Lourdes School, Bettendorf
early 1970s
not ord-ained
Accused of sexual abuse of 1 male minor
1977
Mark Quillen
"Franciscan Brothers of Christ the King" (lay group)
?
Accused of sexual abuse of 1 male minor and 1 male adult
1958
Donald Redmond
unk
St. John, Burlington
1958-1963
unk
Accused of sexual
St. John, Burlington
1965-1967
abuse of 5 male minors
St. John, Burlington
1974-1984
1977
Bro Francis Skube
"Franciscan Brothers of Christ the King" (lay group)
NA
Accused of sexual abuse of 1 male minor and 1 male adult
1963
Eugene Smith
Ss. Mary & Matthias, Muscatine
1958-1959
1958
St. Mary, Clinton
1959-1959
Ss. Peter & Paul, Clear Creek
1959-1959
St. Mary, Ottumwa
1959-1961
St Mary, Keokuk
1961-1966
St. Anthony, Knoxville
1966-1967
Sacred Heart, Newton
1967-1967
St. Patrick, Burlington
1967-1969
1958
Lawrence Soens
St. Paul, Burlington
1950-1952
1950
St. Bridget, Victor
1954-1958
St. Bridget, Nolan Settlement
1961-1961
St. Patrick, Charlotte; Villa Nova
1975-1978
Assumption, Charlotte
1975-1978
St. Mary, Clinton
1978-1983
Accused by 1 female minor
Accused by 31 male minors
Diocese of Davenport
List of Credible Allegations Against Priests, Brothers and Lay Employees
as of November 2, 2012 3 of 4
Earliest Claimed Abuse
Name
Year of Death
Parish Assignments (other assignments not listed)
Dates
Year of Ordin-ation
Comments
1988
James Leu
Holy Family, Davenport
1971-1977
1971
Accused of sexual
Sacred Heart, Newton
1977-1978
abuse of 2 male minors
Our Lady of Victory, Davenport
1978-1985
St. Mary, Lone Tree
1985-1988
St. Mary, Nichols
1988-1988
1986
Frank Martinez
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport
1982-1984
1982
Accused of sexual
Sacred Heart, Lost Nation
1984-1985
abuse of 1 male minor
St. James, Toronto
1984-1985
St. Peter, Buffalo
1985-1986
St. Joseph, Bauer
1986-1987
Sacred Heart, Melcher
1986-1987
1943
Carl Meinberg
1975
St. Mary, Iowa City
1940-1967
1914
Accused of sexual abuse of 4 male minors
1973
Walter Phipps
2010
Our Lady of Lourdes School, Bettendorf
early 1970s
not ord-ained
Accused of sexual abuse of 1 male minor
1977
Mark Quillen
"Franciscan Brothers of Christ the King" (lay group)
?
Accused of sexual abuse of 1 male minor and 1 male adult
1958
Donald Redmond
unk
St. John, Burlington
1958-1963
unk
Accused of sexual
St. John, Burlington
1965-1967
abuse of 5 male minors
St. John, Burlington
1974-1984
1977
Bro Francis Skube
"Franciscan Brothers of Christ the King" (lay group)
NA
Accused of sexual abuse of 1 male minor and 1 male adult
1963
Eugene Smith
Ss. Mary & Matthias, Muscatine
1958-1959
1958
St. Mary, Clinton
1959-1959
Ss. Peter & Paul, Clear Creek
1959-1959
St. Mary, Ottumwa
1959-1961
St Mary, Keokuk
1961-1966
St. Anthony, Knoxville
1966-1967
Sacred Heart, Newton
1967-1967
St. Patrick, Burlington
1967-1969
1958
Lawrence Soens
St. Paul, Burlington
1950-1952
1950
St. Bridget, Victor
1954-1958
St. Bridget, Nolan Settlement
1961-1961
St. Patrick, Charlotte; Villa Nova
1975-1978
Assumption, Charlotte
1975-1978
St. Mary, Clinton
1978-
Diocese of Davenport
List of Credible Allegations Against Priests, Brothers and Lay Employees
as of November 2, 2012 4 of 4
Earliest Claimed Abuse
Name
Year of Death
Parish Assignments (other assignments not listed)
Dates
Year of Ordin-ation
Comments
1972
Gerald Stouvenel
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport
1972-1975
1972
Accused by 3 male
St. Mary, West Point
1977-1980
minors
St. Joseph, Montrose
1980-1981
St. James, St. Paul
1981-1983
St. Mary, West Point
1983-1991
Church of the Visitation, Camanche
1991-1994
St. Mary, West Burlington
1994-1999
St. Patrick, Burlington
1995-1999
St. Mary, Dodgeville
1995-2000
Ss. Mary & Patrick, W. Burlington
1999-2007
St. Mary, Dodgeville
2004-2007
St. Joseph, Montrose
2007-2007
Sacred Heart, Fort Madison
2007-2007
Ss. Mary & Joseph, Fort Madison
2007-2007
1950's
Louis Telegdy
1995
St. Francis, Mystic
1956-1961
1942
Accused of sexual abuse of 3 male minors
1969
Alphonse Wagner
1974
St. Anne, Welton
1965-1966
1944
Accused of sexual
St. Mary, Bryant
1966-1968
abuse of 2 male minors
St. Patrick, Charlotte
1968-1974
St. Patrick, Villa Nova
1968-1974
Assumption, Charlotte
1968-1974
1962
Richard Welsh
1971
St. Mary, Ottumwa
1952-1955
1952
Accused of sexual
St. Mary, Davenport
1955-1959
abuse of 6 male minors
St. Anthony, Davenport
1959-1966
St. Joseph, Columbus Junction
1970-1970
St. Mary, Lone Tree
1970-1970
St. Peter, Buffalo
1970-1971
1960
William Wiebler
2006
Ss. Peter & Paul, Clear Creek
1955-1957
1955
Accused of sexual
St. Mary, Clinton
1964-1967
abuse of 29 male minors
St. Mary, Iowa City
1967-1969
St. Mary, String Prairie
1969-1971
St. Boniface, Farmington
1969-1971
Our Lady of Lourdes, Bettendorf
1971-1980
St. Mary, Ottumwa
1980-1985
1954
Non-clergy
unk
St. Anthony School, Davenport
1954
NA
Accused by 1 female
maintenance
minor
worker, not
positively
identified

On Darkness and Light

Speaking with some friends yesterday, I mentioned that the reason people either hate us or become testy around us is that when we either go to work, or even to family gatherings, we are like light bulbs walking into a dark room.

The darkness of souls sees the lightness in us and either recoils, or attacks.

We should expect this, and be loving and kind and, most importantly, detached.

It is not US that these people in darkness are attacking or recoiling from, but CHRIST in us.

In fact, we have within us from baptism, the Indwelling of the Holy Trinity.

Can you imagine a soul in the darkness of sin and death, (a soul in mortal sin is a dead soul), facing the light that soul has decided not to follow? And, Dear Reader, there you stand, enlightened by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The Light is the Light of Christ's salvation and grace, which too many in Darkness now hate, as these people have chosen the Darkness.

No more do they desire the Light, but either fear it, or hate it, or both. Some, therefore, want to destroy the Light, as it shows them their very souls.

Pray for those people.

Pray that they are open to the Light.

Take time and review

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae_en.html

Evangelium Vitae.

Perfection Again and The Virtues

Thanks to Wiki for Painting

Some readers have asked about how to develop the virtues. I have parsed out some of Garrigou-Lagrange's advice in the perfection series. One can also use the labels of virtues.

There is another author I can highly recommend, but his book is difficult to find. The book is The Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection, published at Seville, 1609 by Father Alphonsus Rodriguez. Those of you who were following me after my time in the monastery on Cobh will remember me mentioning him.

I only have access to Vol II at this time, which I am borrowing, but I highly recommend the three volumes which was written not only for clergy, but for the laity.

The beauty of Rodriguez' approach is his practicality. I hope you can find it. There is a kindle book for Vols. I and II, I think. Thanks to readers for the links.

Here is http://wallmell.webs.com/PracticeChristianReligiousPerfectionVol1.pdf

http://wallmell.webs.com/PracticeChristianReligiousPerfectionVol2.pdf

and here is http://wallmell.webs.com/PracticeChristianReligiousPerfectionVol3.pdf

Saints for Life

I have written the perfection series because too many Catholics are not only not preparing for heaven, but not building the Kingdom of God.

If we do not allow God to purge our senses and our spirit, we are merely building our own kingdoms.

We can work, and work, and work in the Church, and the labor could just be ashes.

Unless we set aside our own goals, and unless we are no longer sinning and working on getting rid of concupiscence, we are not building God's kingdom, as we would be too blocked up with ourselves, that the gifts and virtues could not flow through us to the world.

Think of this. God has given you His own life in sanctifying grace. He has given you virtues and gifts. But, none of these are operative unless you are purified.

None can work unless we are humble.

St. Bernard rightly states that in the old Good Friday liturgy, Jews, heretics, and pagans were prayed for, but not the excommunicated Catholics.

Why?

We have been given the greatest gift on earth-membership in the Catholic Church. When we choose sin which is excommunicable, we throw that gift away.

When we choose to live in mortal sin, we cannot enter heaven, nor serve God, until we repent.

When we choose venial sin, we habitually weaken the work of the Church.

When we do not allow God to purify us of the tendency to sin, when we refuse to enter into the purgation of the Dark Night of the Senses and the Spirit, we lose out on entering the great Illuminative State of power and light.

In the Illuminative State, Benedict founded his order, Dominic stopped Albigensianism, Ignatius heard the voice of God teach him the Exercises.

Lasting, creative fruit which is orthodox, and builds up the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church, is a sign of the Illuminative State.

Let it happen in your lives or such ministries as you think are "yours" will implode into a pile of dust.

The Pro-Life movement both in England and in the States needs more saints, needs us all to be saints, not merely good media spokespersons, or politicians, or counselors, but saints.

Be a saint for life.

The Death of the West

Yippee!

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