Over the years on this blog I have offered some commentary on Pope Francis and his bizarre, scandalous and increasingly diabolical pontificate. Of late, I have tried to keep it light, trying to offer some comic relief on the papacy arranged meticulously in a conference room in Hell. Later still, I stopped blogging, mostly due to time constraints, domestic and work commitments. Before I stopped blogging, I was confident enough in my own limited knowledge of the Church to offer some insights into what I thought had gone wrong in the time since 13 March 2013.
Reasons for the catastrophe I offered over the time were varied, from the election of a 'mad Pope' to the election of an apostate Bishop to the Papacy, to someone who was elected Pope but who resisted the Truth and simply taught his own beliefs instead. Who hasn't thought, 'Oh, he's a Jesuit, what could anyone expect?' Did I say these things explicitly? Some yes, others I expect not, because with this situat…
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His arranger thought the composition was unfinished.
'I feel it should be a BIG song,' the arranger kept saying while Simon demurred, 'No, No, it's a SMALL song.'
After a bit of encouragement Simon finally wrote the song's BIG second half.
The moral is: Sometimes an artist can be wrong about his own work.
Christianity is a far bigger song than the James Martins of this world will ever know.
Martin seeks the approval of the media far more than the unsearchable riches of Christ.
If Pope Francis wants clear Catholic teaching on marriage and sexual morality then he must publicly rebuke James Martin in clear and unambiguous language.
Another, but less understood, problem with homosexual priests and pedophilia, is that innocent priests have been caught up in this. Because of 'easy payouts' by the Church, claims have been made against innocent priests in the United States, some of whom have been subsequently imprisoned.
One such priest is Fr. Gordon MacRae, imprisoned now for over 2 decades. Through friends, he posted the following comment on an oped by James Martin's ( I just cannot address Martin as Father),in the Wall Street Journal. Fr. MacRae, also added some commentary around his comment, when he sent his posted comment to me. Here it is...Father Gordon MacRae says:
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I published the comment below on an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal by Fr James Martin entitled, "The Missing Link in Sex Abuse Reform" (May 25, 2018). My comment was rejected by the WSJ monitors and then accepted and posted upon appeal. Fr Martin's bio at the end of the op-ed identifies him as author of his latest book, Building a Bridge. Here is my comment:
"Were Sigmund Freud alive today, he might find very curious the mental gymnastics that Catholic leaders of the left go through to shield homosexual priests from being connected to The Scandal. It isa monument to the power of reaction formation that an entire institution would prefer the term pedophile scandal to homosexual scandal even when the facts say otherwise. With this piece, Father Martin is not building a bridge. He is blockading a harbor. This is why scant attention is paid to the rampant abuse of the Catholic sex abuse story."
My comment then links to my post, "Abused by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests."
Of interest, WSJ originally rejected the comment for its use of a forbidden term. I thought the offending term was "pedophile" but I was wrong. The comment was rejected for use of the term, "homosexual" which is no longer the politically correct preference of the LGBTQ community. On appeal, the WSJ editor published my comment and stated that he would remove "homosexual" from its algorithm list of rejected terminology.
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The link that Fr. MacRae refers to is this one: http://thesestonewalls.com/gordon-macrae/abused-survivors-network-abused-priests/