by Thomas A. Droleskey
Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, Timothy Michael Dolan, Willard Mitt Romney
(One can see former George Hebert Walker Bush media consultant and the current President of the Fox News Channel, Roger Ailes, seated in the row behind this unholy trio, situated between Dolan and Romney in this display of utterly offensive naturalism)
Although the spotlight has not been shining too much lately on Timothy Michael "Cardinal" Dolan, the conciliar "archbishop" of New York, he gets his share of face time on American television.
Remember, Timothy Michael Dolan is glib.
Timothy Michael Dolan loves to gab.
Timothy Michael Dolan loves to press the flesh.
Timothy Michael Dolan loves to go to synagogues and mosques and reaffirm those who deny the Sacred Divinity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Timothy Michael Dolan loves to go to places such as the headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith to express his "admiration" for the "work" that they do, which work, of course, includes promoting the agenda of baby-killing and perversity in American courts of love.
Timothy Michael Dolan loves to show how terribly concerned he is about the feelings and emotions of others.
Timothy Michael Dolan may not have become the universal public face of apostasy on March 13, 2013. He still has enough "star power," however to be in demand on national television newscasts even though he is no longer the president of the so-called United States Conference of "Catholic Bishops."
What can one expect when Timothy Michael Dolan goes on any kind of television program, whether locally in New York or nationally?
Results such as those to be found in an interview with David Gregory, the host of the National Broadcasting Company television network's Meet the Press, which had its golden years during the tenure of original host Ned Brooks and his successor, the program's co-creator and original panelist, Lawrence E. Spivak, that aired yesterday, Sunday, December 1, 2013, the first Sunday of Advent, interspersed, you understand, with a few little comments along the way:
DAVID GREGORY:
Your Eminence, welcome to Meet the Press.
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Thank you, David. Good to be with you.
DAVID GREGORY:
And happy holidays.
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Blessed Thanksgiving. You bet. (Dec. 1: Timothy Dolan, Meet the Press- Transcripts.)
Comment Number One:
David Gregory uttered the egregiously politically correct "Happy Holidays" and Timothy Michael Dolan wishes him a "Blessed Thanksgiving," adding, "You bet."
Since when did the national celebration of the national holiday of Judeo-Masonic religious indifferentism and political correctness become a "blessed" occasion? What about wishing poor Mr. Gregory a "Blessed Advent"?
Remember, however, this is what Timothy Michael Dolan said just before the national holiday of Judeo-Masonic religious indifferentism and political correctness back in 2010:
Thanksgiving is a time of the year when people are open to the Lord, and
we don't think about ourselves. We're grateful to God. We're conscious
that somebody, some call him or her, whatever you want, somebody beyond
us is in charge, and we are immensely grateful. (Is 'Superman' Catholic? For my commentary on this at the time, please see Whatever You Want. For a commentary on the national holiday of political correctness, please see John Calvin Could Not Be Happier.)
Yes, Timothy Michael Dolan continues to celebrate the religious indifferentism that is at heart of the false, naturalistic, Protestant and Judeo-Masonic principles undergirding the founding of the United States of America by men who had founding hatred for Christ the King that made the election of penultimate statists, collectivists, moral relativists and quasi-authoritarian redistributionists such as Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro inevitable.
Back to the interview, thank you very much for the applause:
DAVID GREGORY:
Thank you very much. Lots to talk about, I want to talk about faith. Talk about some politics. But let's start with the church.
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
You're on.
DAVID GREGORY:
And what a remarkable year it's been with Pope Francis and the Pope France effect. His humanity is something that's touched people the world over, not just Catholics, and has made him an Internet sensation among other things. How do you describe this Francis effect on the church and as I say on humanity more broadly?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Well, all I know David, is I thank God for it. That's for sure. And I see it every day. I can't walk down the streets of New York, which I do a lot, without people stopping me. And they'll say, "Cardinal, I'm not even a Catholic, I'm not even a believer. But I love Pope Francis, and thanks a lot for voting for him."
Because they love him. You put your finger on it I think when you spoke about the humanity. His simplicity, his sincerity, his genuineness, his humility. We as Catholics believe God came to us through the person, through the humanity of his son Jesus. And I think Jesus' coming to us as Catholics, and again to the world through the humanity, the simplicity, the sincerity, of Pope Francis. (Dec. 1: Timothy Dolan, Meet the Press- Transcripts.)
Comment Number Two:
Of course non-Catholics are in love with the man they believe to be "Pope Francis."
Why wouldn't they be?
Jorge Mario Bergoglio has heretically and blasphemously claimed that God has never revoked the Old Covenant and that the celebration of the Mohammedan "holiday" called Ramadan would be a source of "grace" for adherents of this false religions. Indeed, the Argentine apostate has even said that atheists can save their souls.
Why wouldn't non-Catholics love the man they believe to be "Pope Francis"?
As to Dolan's contention that Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is coming "again to the world through the humanity, the simplicity, the sincerity, of Pope Francis" is blasphemous beyond words. Our Lord does not "come to us" through the words and actions of a man who denies the Catholic Faith and who reaffirms adherents of false religions in their nonexistent ability to "contribute" to the building of a "better world" as they serve God.
To the next segment of the Meet the Press interview:
DAVID GREGORY:
He's not making any doctrinal changes.
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Nope. Uh-uh (NEGATIVE).
DAVID GREGORY:
Church doctrine remains the same. By have described it as a change of tone.
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
I would say a change of tone, a change of strategy. Right, a pope by
his nature can't make doctrinal changes. In fact, his sacred
responsibility is to protect the integrity of the faith and to pass it
on. He can make a lot of changes in the way, the style, the manner in
which it's presented. You know the best analogy of that? John XXIII, who
by the way, the Italians are saying Pope Francis reminds them of John
XXIII. He was the pope from '58 to '63. He said, "Look, we've got the
gift of faith. That gift can't change. But it can sure be gift wrapped
in a better way to make it more appealing, to make it more radiant. (Dec. 1: Timothy Dolan, Meet the Press- Transcripts.)
Comment Number Three:
The problem, "Cardinal" Dolan, is not with the "style" in which the "message" that has been communicated in the past fifty-five years by the counterfeit church of conciliarism, it is with the "message" itself.
Attempting to accommodate "the world" with a "change in tone" that includes teaching propositions condemned and anathematized by the authority of the Catholic Church is the path to chaos and confusion in and of its very nature. This is what the schismatic and heretical Anglican sect has been attempting to do since its founding by King Henry VIII in 1534 as he began to shed the blood of over 72,000 Catholics between then and the time of his death in 1547 who did not accept his "novus ordo," "new order," which included a new ecclesiology, a new liturgy, including new rites of priestly "ordination" and episcopal "consecration, and a subordination of the religious authority to the primacy of the civil state. The results of this "change in tone" has led this heretical and schismatic sect to the point of extinction.
Indeed, a former Anglican "archbishop" of Canterbury, layman George Carey, has said that his heretical and schismatic "church" is dying. His solution to "save" it?
More changes in the false Anglican liturgy that will attract people to a "church" that can "relate" to them. In other words, the Anglicans are in the final stages of the death sentence that Henry VIII signed when had Parliament rubber stamp his Act of Supremacy in 1534.
The counterfeit church of conciliarism is already in the intermediate stages of death as pews empty, as priests and presbyters die off and as schools and convents are closed.
The case of the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary in Camden, New Jersey, is just another indication of the death sentence that the cardinals who "elected" Angelo Roncalli as "Pope" John XXIII on October 28, 1958, the Feast of Saint Jude, signed:
A Camden convent where cloistered nuns have served God for more than 100 years will soon close its doors.
The
Monastery of the Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary will host a
farewell ceremony Dec. 9. A formal announcement is expected Monday.
Peter
Feuerherd, spokesman for the Camden Diocese, confirmed the closure
Friday. He said the decline in the numbers of worshipping nuns
ultimately led to the decision.
In the 1970s, the convent boasted 20 nuns who lived a life dedicated
to God and alternated shifts saying the rosary 24 hours a day. By the
turn of the century, the chapter was down to seven sisters. Feuerherd
estimated there are now three or four nuns, but he was out of the
office and unable to provide specifics.
“The
diocese is always interested in keeping alive the vision of
contemplative life,” he said. “We realize the lack of vocations to the
monastic life made it impossible for this community to continue as is in
Camden.”
The remaining nuns are expected to move to a similar Dominican community in Elmira, N.Y.
The
spokesman added that a small community formed around the nuns regularly
attended Mass at the building’s chapel, but he noted it was not a
formal parish.
“The sisters are very good friends of ours,” said Virginia Wacker, 64, of Mount Ephraim after learning of the closing.
Wacker
and her husband, Donald, married in the monastery in September 1999.
She attended Mass there once a month with fellow members of the Third
Order of Saint Dominic.
“I am sad to see them go,” Wacker said
Camden Bishop Dennis Sullivan is expected to take part in the final Mass.
It’s unclear what will happen to the property at Haddon and Euclid avenues, which is owned by the Dominican order.
Many
of the nuns who served their lives at the monastery were also buried on
its grounds. In 1998, the nuns agreed to an interview with the
Courier-Post in the hopes of sparking interest in potential new
recruits.
“A lot
of girls think of it, but they’re shy and don’t know how to say anything
about it,” Sister Mary Joseph Anne told the paper. (Dominican Convent Forced to Close.)
Some "renewal," Timmy. I suppose that is why your predecessor, Edward "Cardinal" Egan, and you have had to close or merge so many parishes and schools in the Archdiocese of New York.
The problem, Mr. Dolan, is with the conciliar "message" of "reform" (new ecclesiology, new liturgy, new teaching on the nature of dogmatic truth, false ecumenism, inter-religious "prayer" and "dialogue," religious liberty, "separation of Church and State," new "interpretations" of Sacred Scripture, new rites of presbyteral installation and "episcopal" consecration) that is just as fatal to belief as that program of reform undertaken by the likes of Martin Luther, John Calvin, Henry VII and John Wesley themselves.
What is purported by the conciliarists to be Catholic doctrine has changed in the past fifty-five years, and it is continuing to change even more under Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Timothy Michael Dolan's protestations to the contrary notwithstanding:
Once again, my friends (oh, by the way, there was a Donations page update eighteen days ago that most of you seemed to have forgotten is rather important to the continuation of this work--just a minor little hint, you see), back to the transcript of the Meet the Press interview:
DAVID GREGORY:
Does it get more confusing though if you do that?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
It could. But I think one of the appeals of Francis is he said, "We
can't be afraid to take some risks. We've got to dare. If we're just
timid, if we're afraid, if we're sticking in the sacristy and afraid to
go out and engage people and meet people and take some chances in
presenting the faith, we're going to shrivel up and die."
DAVID GREGORY:
But he said, "We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion,
gay marriage, and the use of contraceptive methods." He talked about
there being too much obsession within the church about talking about
those issues. You have said there's nobody to the right of you on some
of these doctrinal issues. Is that a problem for you, that he believes
that?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
That he would say that?
DAVID GREGORY:
Yeah, that he says that?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
No, not at all. I gave him a standing ovation when he said that.
Because most of the time I say, "I don't know if it's so much the church
is obsessed with that, it's the world that's obsessed with those
things." They're always asking us about it. I look at myself, David, in
my almost 37 years as a priest, rare would be the times that I preached
about those issues.
So Francis is right. He's saying, "First things first. First let's
talk about God, about his mercy, about his love, about his forgiveness,
about his invitation, about his embrace, about his promise of life
eternal through his son Jesus. You talk about that, and then morals,
doctrine, that will fall into place." (Dec. 1: Timothy Dolan, Meet the Press- Transcripts.)
Comment Number Four:
The lords of the counterfeit church of conciliarism have wrought nothing but endless confusion and disarray in the past fifty-five years as they have talked about "mercy" and "forgiveness" and have offered the hope of eternal life to those in public life who support the sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance.
Although Timothy Michael Dolan does not realize it, his self-admission that he has rarely preached about contraception, abortion and the granting of a "marriage" license to those engaged in acts of unnatural vice and perversity against the Sixth and Ninth Commandments is what has helped to produce large-scale acceptance of these evils by most Catholics in the United States of America.
There is a hierarchy of evils, starting with sins against the First, Second and Third Commandments, each of which has been violated by the conciliar revolutionaries such as Timothy Michael Dolan and his current boss, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, with an ostentatious boldness that would make even the Arians themselves blush with shame.
Sins against men, including those that cry out to Heaven for vengeance such as the chemical and surgical assassination of innocent preborn children in their mothers' wombs and the sin of Sodom, although below those committed against the Most Blessed Trinity in the hierarchy of evils, pose a grave threat to the eternal and temporal welfare of men and the fate of entire nations and the world itself.
As noted in Forty Years Of Emboldening, Appeasing And Enabling Killers, part one, Forty Years of Emboldening, Appeasing, and Enabling Killers, part two and Forty Years of Emboldening, Appeasing, and Enabling Killers, part three eleven months ago now, the conciliar revolutionaries in the United States
of America, logical heirs in their own right to their Americanist
forefathers in the Catholic Church, have enabled the statists at almost
every turn because they are alleged to be "for the poor." This has
permitted the acceptance of evil to grow at first by increments and
then, as is the case before our very eyes at present, in avalanche of
epic proportions that is, yes, completely unstoppable by means merely
naturalistic and that constitutes God's just chastisement on the United
States of America for its crimes at home and abroad that were committed
as a direct result of the false nature of its founding principles,
ignoring as they did the Social Reign of Christ the King as it must be
exercised by the Catholic Church.
We are suffering the consequences of conciliarism's of the embrace of "separation of Church and state" whose first and most vocal exponent was Martin Luther and that was heralded with prophetic boldness by an Americanist archbishop, John Ireland, despite the fact that the reigning pope at the time, Pope Leo XIII, condemned such a separation even as embodied in the Constitution of the United States of America. Consider what Ireland said in this regard:
The Church recognizes as her own sphere faith and
morals. She possesses and claims no mission in civil and political
matters. The State appropriates to itself civil and political matters
and assumes no authority in the domain of truth and morals. There is no
room for conflict between Church and State; both move in separate and
distinct spheres.
If the Church encroaches on the sphere of the State
we should bid her be away; if the State enters into the sanctuaries of
conscience, the proper empire of the Church, the appeal is to God, and
the State is ordered to hold off its hands. There is not an American who
will not say, "Better obey God than man," and this is all that
Catholics ever would be permitted to say by the Catholic Church.
Separation of Church and State, as we have
it in America, Church and State revolving freely in their respective
spheres. Catholics fall behind none of their fellow-citizens in admiring
it and demanding its continuance.
The Catholic Church wishes no aid from the State in
the preaching of her Gospel. She rests her cause on its truth and
beauty. But liberty from the State she wishes and clamors for, as a
sacred and inalienable right; liberty in its fullest gifts under the
common law of the land; liberty which other associations are entitled to
and receive.
Yes, we claim liberty in our religious belief and observance and in the enjoyment of all our rights of citizenship.
I am a Catholic, I am a priest ad a bishop, but I
am an American citizen, and I must be debarred from no rights or
privileges accorded to other citizens, because I am a Catholic, or
because I carry upon me the insignia of my priesthood. I can hold office
and I can do work educational and charitable for the State, although I
am Catholic and a priest, no one in the name of liberty shall debar me.
Separation of Church and State! Most
assuredly. The State must not aid in the propagation of the faith of a
Church, but she must not impede and hamper the Church in her work and
close her out from the necessary opportunities to do it.
Separation of Church and State! Most assuredly again. But let there not
be in the working out of this separation wild and extreme measures,
which would tend to make society godless and destroy in it all moral
life and supernatural hopes. Often under the cover of separation of
Church and State, infidelity and impiety are stealthily advancing their
cause.
My words betray
no fear for the future. Americans are a people of sincere religious
convictions and of profound common sense, and they well know how to keep
the Church and State separate, and yet give liberty its full sway, and
guard religion and morals. (Archbishop John Ireland, "America
and the Catholic Church," From a Sermon delivered on April 19, 1896,
upon the occasion of the consecration of the Right Reverend Bishop
O'Gorman. Full text found in The Voice of the Church,
a book published by the Bishops of the United States of America in
1899, pp. 129-130.)
Perhaps it would be good once again to compare John Ireland's belief that the State
must not aid in the propagation of "the faith of the Church" to the
teaching of the Catholic Church as expressed succinctly by Pope Saint
Pius X in Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906:
Separation of Church and State! Most
assuredly. The State must not aid in the propagation of the faith of a
Church, but she must not impede and hamper the Church in her work and
close her out from the necessary opportunities to do it.
Separation of Church and State! Most assuredly again. But let there not
be in the working out of this separation wild and extreme measures,
which would tend to make society godless and destroy in it all moral
life and supernatural hopes. Often under the cover of separation of
Church and State, infidelity and impiety are stealthily advancing their
cause. (John Ireland, 1896.)
That the State must be separated from the
Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error. Based, as
it is, on the principle that the State must not recognize any religious
cult, it is in the first place guilty of a great injustice to God; for
the Creator of man is also the Founder of human societies, and preserves
their existence as He preserves our own. We owe Him, therefore, not
only a private cult, but a public and social worship to honor Him.
Besides, this thesis is an obvious negation of the supernatural order.
It limits the action of the State to the pursuit of public prosperity
during this life only, which is but the proximate object of political
societies; and it occupies itself in no fashion (on the plea that this
is foreign to it) with their ultimate object which is man's eternal
happiness after this short life shall have run its course. But as the
present order of things is temporary and subordinated to the conquest of
man's supreme and absolute welfare, it follows that the civil power
must not only place no obstacle in the way of this conquest, but must
aid us in effecting it. The same thesis also upsets the order
providentially established by God in the world, which demands a
harmonious agreement between the two societies. Both of them, the civil
and the religious society, although each exercises in its own sphere its
authority over them. It follows necessarily that there are many things
belonging to them in common in which both societies must have relations
with one another. Remove the agreement between Church and State, and the
result will be that from these common matters will spring the seeds of
disputes which will become acute on both sides; it will become more
difficult to see where the truth lies, and great confusion is certain to
arise. Finally, this thesis inflicts great injury on society itself,
for it cannot either prosper or last long when due place is not left for
religion, which is the supreme rule and the sovereign mistress in all
questions touching the rights and the duties of men. Hence the Roman
Pontiffs have never ceased, as circumstances required, to refute and
condemn the doctrine of the separation of Church and State. Our
illustrious predecessor, Leo XIII, especially, has frequently and
magnificently expounded Catholic teaching on the relations which should
subsist between the two societies. "Between them," he says, "there must
necessarily be a suitable union, which may not improperly be compared
with that existing between body and soul.-"Quaedam intercedat necesse
est ordinata colligatio (inter illas) quae quidem conjunctioni non
immerito comparatur, per quam anima et corpus in homine copulantur." He
proceeds: "Human societies cannot, without becoming criminal, act as if
God did not exist or refuse to concern themselves with religion, as
though it were something foreign to them, or of no purpose to them....
As for the Church, which has God Himself for its author, to exclude her
from the active life of the nation, from the laws, the education of the
young, the family, is to commit a great and pernicious error. --
"Civitates non possunt, citra scellus, gerere se tamquam si Deus omnino
non esset, aut curam religionis velut alienam nihilque profuturam
abjicere.... Ecclesiam vero, quam Deus ipse constituit, ab actione vitae
excludere, a legibus, ab institutione adolescentium, a societate
domestica, magnus et perniciousus est error." (Pope Saint Pius X, Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906.)
The civil state has a positive obligation to
recognize the true Faith as its officials seek to foster the common
temporal good in of man's last end, the possession of the glory of the
Beatific Vision of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost
for all eternity in Heaven. Civil leaders have an obligation to seek the
common temporal good in accord with the binding precepts Divine
Positive Law and the Natural Law as they have been entrusted by Christ
the King to His Catholic Church for their eternal safekeeping and
infallible explication. Holy Mother Church has the right from Christ the
King Himself to interpose herself with civil leaders when they propose
to do things--or have in fact done things--that are grievously harmful
to the good of souls.
The evils about which Timothy Michael Dolan, an enabler of perverted clergymen, said he has rarely preached about from the pulpit are the result of the very false premises of the anti-Incarnational civil state of Modernity wrought by the Protestant Revolution and the rise of the panoply of disparate yet interrelated forces of naturalism that can be termed collectively as Judeo-Masonry.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio's approach to these evils, which Dolan says he applauds, equates supposed government assistance to the poor and to those who have entered a country illegally certainly creates confusion in the minds of Catholics while further assuaging the likes of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi, et al, that all is well between God and them as they are for the "poor" and for the "undocumented" while they promote evils under cover of the civil law that cry out to Heaven for vengeance.
To the next segment of the Meet the Press interview:
DAVID GREGORY:
But some of the moral debates, this is where there are debates. This is where there is tension.
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Sure.
DAVID GREGORY:
What is the natural evolution of a change in tone, a change in the
packaging of this pope to actual change in church policy on some of
these matters?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Yeah, I don't know if that's too new, though. You know, I would say
since the time of Jesus Christ, there's always been tension, difficulty,
conflict in the application of the teaching. I mean, I look at my
Jewish neighbors, they have the Torah. Now there's the law pretty clear.
The application is always going to bring some debate and conversation.
We Catholics, we Christians had the eight beatitudes. We got the
Sermon on the Mount. The application, that's where the rubber hits the
road. That's where there's always going to be some conversation and a
little bit of disagreement. (Dec. 1: Timothy Dolan, Meet the Press- Transcripts.)
Comment Number Five:
Judaism, Mr. Dolan, is a false religion, one that is rife with different factions (different strains of Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism) over the applicability of The Torah to contemporary life.
Catholicism is the true religion, which of its nature is the only unifying force of men that exists in the world. The Catholic Church speaks with clarity and certainty. Catholic teaching does not give rise to confusion or ambiguity in the minds of those who accept the truth that she alone is the divinely founded and infallibly guided explicator of all that is contained in the Sacred Deposit of Faith, including the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law.
Although this requires a lot of work, it is a little easier to deal with the likes of Timothy Dolan, who is but a buffoonish Americanist, than it is to have to plough one's way through Jorge Mario Bergoglio's Evangelii Gaudium. And it is thus that we return to the transcript of the Meet the Press interview:
DAVID GREGORY:
So what is his effect on American politics, for instance, on some of
these issues, be it abortion or gay marriage? What is the impact?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
On politicians or on Catholics here?
DAVID GREGORY:
Well, on the public debates, on the political debates in this country around these issues?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Well, I would tell you this, for us as I would say for committed
Catholics, and thanks be to God, there's a lot of them, I love them, I'm
grateful for them this Thanksgiving weekend, they would say what Pope
Francis has done is reminded us of the latitude of Catholic beliefs and
Catholic principles. Those who would try to closet us maybe and just
what you might call below-the-belt issues, where that be gay marriage or
abortion or contraception or divorce, whatever.
And those are important. No doubt about it. The church's teaching on
that is unwavering. But that's not it. What Pope Francis has said, the
way we forgive, the way we help the poor, the way we help the immigrant,
the way we reach out to the sick and to the refugee and to the
forgotten, those at the side of the road. That is as strong and as
cogent a moral imperative as anything else. (Dec. 1: Timothy Dolan, Meet the Press- Transcripts.)
Comment Number Six:
The master of imprecision, slang, vulgarity and informal discussions of First and Last Things, Timothy Michael Dolan, resorted to his "whatever"
mode once again to speak of "below-the-belt" issues, which in and of itself minimizes their importance to right ordering within the souls of men and hence the right ordering among men in civil society.
Wide "latitude of Catholic beliefs or Catholic principles?
Admitting that there can be legitimate attitude in the application of truths in various circumstances, such as Holy Mother Church's prudent guidance, outlined by Pope Leo XIII in Libertas Praestantissimum, June 20, 1888, offered to Catholics living in the context of modern civil state to make use of the "liberties," such as they are these days, afforded to them by the civil law to defend the Faith and to work against grave social evils, and on matters of policy (such as the size, the scope and power of government, military strategy and defense spending, diplomacy, immigration law, etc.), there can never be "wide latitude" about Catholic beliefs and principles. These are unchanging, immutable.
Consider the teaching of the Catholic Church concerning Timothy Michael Dolan's "wide latitude:"
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For the doctrine of the faith which God has revealed is put forward
- not as some philosophical discovery capable of being perfected by human intelligence,
- but as a divine deposit committed to the spouse of Christ to be faithfully protected and infallibly promulgated.
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Hence, too, that meaning of the
sacred dogmas is ever to be maintained which has once been declared by
holy mother church, and there must never be any abandonment of this
sense under the pretext or in the name of a more profound understanding.
God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever be in opposition to truth.
The appearance of this kind of specious contradiction is chiefly due to the fact that either: the
dogmas of faith are not understood and explained in accordance with the
mind of the church, or unsound views are mistaken for the conclusions
of reason.
Therefore we define that every assertion contrary to the truth of enlightened faith is totally false. . . .
3. If anyone says that it is possible that
at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be
assigned to the dogmas propounded by the church which is different from
that which the church has understood and understands: let him be
anathema.
And so in the performance of our supreme pastoral
office, we beseech for the love of Jesus Christ and we command, by the
authority of him who is also our God and saviour, all faithful
Christians, especially those in authority or who have the duty of
teaching, that they contribute their zeal and labour to the warding off
and elimination of these errors from the church and to the spreading of
the light of the pure faith.
But since it is not enough to avoid the
contamination of heresy unless those errors are carefully shunned which
approach it in greater or less degree, we warn all of their duty to
observe the constitutions and decrees in which such wrong opinions,
though not expressly mentioned in this document, have been banned and
forbidden by this holy see. (Pope Pius IX, Vatican Council, Session III,
Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, Chapter 4, On Faith and
Reason, April 24, 1870, Session III.)
Fourthly, I sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was
handed down to us from the apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the
same meaning and always in the same purport. Therefore, I entirely reject the
heretical' misrepresentation that dogmas evolve and change from one meaning to
another different from the one which the Church held previously. I also condemn
every error according to which, in place of the divine deposit which has been
given to the spouse of Christ to be carefully guarded by her, there is put a
philosophical figment or product of a human conscience that has gradually been
developed by human effort and will continue to develop indefinitely. Fifthly, I
hold with certainty and sincerely confess that faith is not a blind sentiment of
religion welling up from the depths of the subconscious under the impulse of the
heart and the motion of a will trained to morality; but faith is a genuine
assent of the intellect to truth received by hearing from an external source. By
this assent, because of the authority of the supremely truthful God, we believe
to be true that which has been revealed and attested to by a personal God, our
creator and lord.
Furthermore, with due reverence, I submit and adhere with my whole heart to
the condemnations, declarations, and all the prescripts contained in the
encyclical Pascendi and in the decree Lamentabili, especially
those concerning what is known as the history of dogmas. I also reject the error
of those who say that the faith held by the Church can contradict history, and
that Catholic dogmas, in the sense in which they are now understood, are
irreconcilable with a more realistic view of the origins of the Christian
religion. I also condemn and reject the opinion of those who say that a
well-educated Christian assumes a dual personality-that of a believer and at the
same time of a historian, as if it were permissible for a historian to hold
things that contradict the faith of the believer, or to establish premises
which, provided there be no direct denial of dogmas, would lead to the
conclusion that dogmas are either false or doubtful. Likewise, I reject that
method of judging and interpreting Sacred Scripture which, departing from the
tradition of the Church, the analogy of faith, and the norms of the Apostolic
See, embraces the misrepresentations of the rationalists and with no prudence or
restraint adopts textual criticism as the one and supreme norm. Furthermore, I
reject the opinion of those who hold that a professor lecturing or writing on a
historico-theological subject should first put aside any preconceived opinion
about the supernatural origin of Catholic tradition or about the divine promise
of help to preserve all revealed truth forever; and that they should then
interpret the writings of each of the Fathers solely by scientific principles,
excluding all sacred authority, and with the same liberty of judgment that is
common in the investigation of all ordinary historical documents.
Finally, I declare that I am completely opposed to the error of the
modernists who hold that there is nothing divine in sacred tradition; or what is
far worse, say that there is, but in a pantheistic sense, with the result that
there would remain nothing but this plain simple fact-one to be put on a par
with the ordinary facts of history-the fact, namely, that a group of men by
their own labor, skill, and talent have continued through subsequent ages a
school begun by Christ and his apostles. I firmly hold, then, and shall hold to
my dying breath the belief of the Fathers in the charism of truth, which
certainly is, was, and always will be in the succession of the episcopacy from
the apostles. The purpose of this is, then, not that dogma may be tailored
according to what seems better and more suited to the culture of each age;
rather, that the absolute and immutable truth preached by the apostles from the
beginning may never be believed to be different, may never be understood in any
other way.
I promise that I shall keep all these articles faithfully, entirely, and
sincerely, and guard them inviolate, in no way deviating from them in teaching
or in any way in word or in writing. Thus I promise, this I swear, so help me
God. (Pope Saint Pius X, The Oath Against Modernism, September 1, 1910.)
Timothy Michael Dolan does not understand or accept this. Everything is just a big "whatever" for him. It cannot be this way with a believing Catholic.
Yes, back to the David Gregory interview with Timothy Michael Dolan:
DAVID GREGORY:
All right. So let's talk about a couple of those moral imperatives.
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Sure.
DAVID GREGORY:
What about ObamaCare? You have voiced your displeasure with certain
aspects of it in terms of mandates for hospitals and so forth. What
about the overall goal of it? Do you think it will ultimately prevail?
Would you like it? Do you think it's important for the country that
universal health care insurance is available?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Yup. And I'm glad you allow me to make that distinction, David. We
bishops have been really kind of in a tough place because we're for
universal, comprehensive, life-affirming healthcare. We, the bishops of
the United States, can you believe it, in 1919 came out for more
affordable, more comprehensive, more universal healthcare. That's how
far back we go in this battle, okay?
So we're not Johnny-come-latelies. We've been asking for reform in
healthcare for a long time. So we were kind of an early supporter in
this. Where we started bristling and saying, "Uh-oh, first of all this
isn't comprehensive, because it's excluding the undocumented immigrant
and it's excluding the unborn baby," so we began to bristle at that.
And then secondly we said, "And wait a minute, we Catholics who are
kind of among the pros when it comes to providing healthcare, do it
because of our religious conviction, and because of the dictates of our
conscience. And now we're being asked to violate some of those."
So that's when we began to worry and draw back and say, "Mr.
President, please, you're really kind of pushing aside some of your
greatest supporters here. We want to be with you, we want to be strong.
And if you keep doing this, we're not going to be able to be one of your
cheerleaders." And that sadly is what happened. (Dec. 1: Timothy Dolan, Meet the Press- Transcripts.)
Comment Number Seven:
"We want to be with you."
Sure, let's get this straight.
Timothy Michael Dolan and most, although not quite all, of the conciliar "bishops" of the United States of America want Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro's monstrous statist takeover of the American healthcare industry that is in complete and total violation of the Natural Law principle of Subsidiarity to "succeed."
Timothy Michael Dolan and most of the conciliar "bishops" of the United States of America want those who have entered the United States of America illegally to receive full social benefits, including cradle-to-grave medical care, on the backs of American taxpayers, who are are already suffering from the statist, collectivist and redistributionist programs wrought by one naturalist regime after another, whether of the false opposite of the naturalist "right" or the false opposite of the naturalist "left."
Timothy Michael Dolan boldly proclaimed in his interview with David Gregory that Obama/Soetoro was "really pushing aside some of" his "greatest supporters."
That's a statement for you.
How can any man who believes himself to be a true bishop, no less a Prince of the Catholic Church, claim that he "wants to be with" Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, a man who has promoted the chemical and surgical execution of the innocent preborn with a ready abandon that has outstripped the pro-abortion William Jefferson Blythe Clinton and his own team of social engineers twenty years ago now?
How can any man who believes himself to be a true bishop, no less a Prince of the Catholic Church, claim that he "wants to be with" Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, a man who has been ruling unchecked by decrees that have been issued in full violation of the provisions found in the Constitution of the United States of America as he decides for himself which laws his administration will enforce and those that he wants to ignore, such as, leaving aside the issue of dealing with the illegal immigrants who are in the United States of America already (for a discussion of the issue of illegal immigration, please read Good Catholic Common Sense Must Prevail, part 1 and Good Catholic Common Sense Must Prevail, part 2), the laws governing the protection of the borders of this country?
How can any man who believes himself to be a true bishop, no less a Prince of the Catholic Church, claim that he "wants to be with" Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, a man who is stacking the Federal court system with one radical pro-abort, pro-perversity jurist after another?
How can any man who believes himself to be a true bishop, no less a Prince of the Catholic Church, claim that he "wants to be with" Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, a man whose administration has stonewalled investigations into the scandals of the Fast and Furious program, the cover-up of the terrorist attacks on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday, September 12, 2012, and the cover-up of the Internal Revenue Service's illegal investigation and harassment of his own political opponents, to say nothing of the Orwellian espionage on the citizens of the United States of America and world leaders themselves by the National Security Agency?
How can any man who believes himself to be a true bishop, no less a Prince of the Catholic Church, claim that he "wants to be with" Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, a man whose administration has sought to usurp more and more and the rights reserved to the states by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, including bringing lawsuits against the State of Arizona, whose Governor, Jan Brewer, convinced the Arizona state legislature to pass legislation to enable police officers to interrogate a person arrested for another offensive if they were citizens of this country, and bringing lawsuits against states whose legislatures have passed just laws designed to prevent voter fraud?
"We want to be with you"?
Well, doesn't that about say it all.
As I have noted on this site since it went live on February 20, 2004, and long before that in my classrooms, lectures, articles and other publications, including one book, the embrace of statism by the American conciliar "bishops" and their policy apparatchiks in chancery offices and the offices of what is called today the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (formerly the National Catholic War Council, National Catholic Welfare Conference, National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference) is just a continuation of the practices of the American bishops of a century ago, men who did the bidding of the anti-Catholic statist Thomas Woodrow Wilson at almost every turn.
The American bishops and their conciliar successors have supported the statist programs of the Freemason Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the social engineer Lyndon Baines Johnson and the moral relativist William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. They have enabled these men, both by sins of omission and commission. The American bishops of the past and their conciliar successors are thus very culpable for the rise of statism that is now being used against the institutions of what is thought to be the Catholic Church that has bankrupted the country, skyrocketed the national debt, placed a heavy burden on taxpayers, overregulated small businesses, most in the enforcement of various social evils, and robbed citizens of their legitimate liberties while forcing those opposed to social evils to face criminal jail time in some instances for doing so.
Without meaning to do so, Dolan himself proved this point when the support offered by those bishops in 1919 for "universal health care" even though the Catholic Church in the United States of America ran hospitals that were staffed by faithful religious sisters and physicians to provide excellent care for the indigent and for those who found themselves in unexpectedly difficult circumstances.
The Catholic Church does not "kind of " have some experience in health-care as it was she was made such care available free of charge in the Middle Ages as she established hospitals and other institutions of mercy. The fact that many of those hospitals have had to close or to merge with secular providers who support contraception, abortion and sterilization and who wink at euthanasia while starving and dehydrating patients deemed to be expendable and carving apart others who are said to be "brain dead" to harvest their vital body members is the result of conciliarism's embrace of Modernity and of the refusal of conciliar "bishops" and "priests" and presbyters to speak out against the prevailing evils of the day. It is precisely the accommodationism with the world begun by Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII that has led to the near-extinction of Catholic hospitals and the effective transformation of many of those that remain into instruments of death rather than healing.
We return now to the next-to-last segment of the Meet the Press interview:
DAVID GREGORY:
Are you disappointed on another debate, on immigration, that it
appears that Republicans in this case don't see a pathway any longer
toward getting this done?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
I am. And immigration would be one of those issues that shows that
those who tried to pigeonhole bishops, pastors, Catholics, are wrong.
Because now we're upset. On healthcare, we might be upset with the
Democrats, with the administration. On immigration, we're saying to the
House of Representative, which is dominated by the Republicans, "You
guys have got to get your act together." And this is the best chance
we've had in fair and just immigration reform. It's in your lap and it
doesn't seem to be going anywhere. And we're not going to let you off
the hook. So yeah, we're disappointed there as well.
DAVID GREGORY:
Let me touch on gay marriage. Here this week you had Illinois
becoming the 16th state, including D.C., to legalize same-sex marriage.
Regardless of the church teachings, do you think this is evolving in
such a way that it's ultimately going to be legal everywhere? Or do you
believe the opposite, that there will be a backlash and that it, well,
the status quo will be maintained?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
I think I'd be a Pollyanna to say that there doesn't seem to be kind
of a stampede to do this. I regret that. I wish that were not the case
for the states to be--
DAVID GREGORY:
But why do you think the church is losing the argument on it, in effect?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Well, I think maybe we've been out-marketed, sometimes. We've been
caricatured as being anti-gay. And as much as we'd say, "Wait a minute,
we're pro marriage, we're pro traditional marriage, we're not anti
anybody," I don't know. When you have forces like Hollywood, when you
have forces like politicians, when you have forces like some
opinion-molders that are behind it, it's a tough battle.
I do think to get back to your question though, David, you know, back
in 1973 with Roe v. Wade, everybody said, "This is a foregone
conclusion. In a couple years, this issue is going to go away. It's
going to be back-burnered." To this day, it remains probably the most
divisive issue in American politics. And as you look at some of the
changing attitudes, you say, "Wow, we're beginning to affect the young
with the pro-life message. So we're not going to give up on it.
DAVID GREGORY:
So you don't think the gay marriage debate is over, a settled question?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
I don't think it's over. No. I don't think it is. Uh-uh (NEGATIVE). (Dec. 1: Timothy Dolan, Meet the Press- Transcripts.)
Comment Number Eight:
Insofar as illegal immigration is concerned, Timothy Michael Dolan, the man who just spoke about the "wide latitude" that exists in the application of Catholic beliefs and practices, treats Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro's so-called "immigration reform" bill that comes with no assurances of increased border security and enforcement of existing laws as beyond debate. Dolan even went so far as to castigate Obama/Soetoro's ever hapless opponents in the organized crime family of the false opposite of the naturalist "right" for daring to oppose our reigning caesar's plans to "normalize" the status of illegal immigrants in order to place them on the rolls of the Democratic Party to insure that the organized crime family of the naturalist "left" is never able to lose power at the national level ever again. Some "latitude," Timmy. You are a self-contradicting hypocrite.
There is little that needs to be said on the issue of so-called "gay marriage" that has not said earlier in this commentary with reference to the surgical and chemical execution of innocent preborn children in their mothers' wombs.
Far from being "out-marketed," the counterfeit church of conciliarism has adopted the art, music, architecture and very language of the Homosexual Collective, whose agenda has been infused in Catholic seminaries and diffused from there into parishes, schools, religious education programs, universities, professional schools and every other aspect of life in this false church.
Conciliar "bishops" have recruited, promoted, enabled and protected clerical predators without admitting for one moment that is their unnatural, perverse inclinations that have lost untold numbers of souls to the true Faith, scandalized and demoralized millions of Catholics around the world and has cost over $2 billion to paid out to those victimized by these thugs and the chancery factotums and by their diocesan attorneys and attorneys for their insurance companies.
It is shameful, truly shameful for Timothy Michael Dolan, to adopt the language of "gay" to refer to those steeped in a sin that cries out to Heaven for vengeance is to legitimize a lobby that exists for one reason and one reasons alone: to silence all opposition to their agenda once and for all, going so far as to stigmatize with criminal sanctions those who dare to oppose them so that they, the members of this hideous collective, can better recruit for the future by corrupting those children who have not been corrupted already by the mainslime media and the efforts of educators in both public and conciliar schools.
As I noted just over five months ago now, the institutionalization of this evil is following the same path of baby-killing under cover of the civil law. Far from Timothy Michael Dolan's delusional contention that issue of abortion has not been "back-burnered," the reality is that the institutionalization of the Homosexual Collective's agenda is a fait accompli. It is Irreversible By Means Merely Human.
The reality facing us concerning the issue of "rights" for those who base their identities on attraction to, if not actual commission of, sins against nature has gone down the same trajectory as baby-killing under cover of the civil law. This is so because the conciliar "bishops," who have sought to oppose "baby-killing" in mostly, although not exclusively, secular terms, appealing to "human dignity" and "human rights," have, as mentioned before, refuse to penalize Catholics in public life who support this killing, something that has emboldened careerists in the Republican Party to ignore the issue altogether. Most people in the United States of America are concerned about economic issues, not about the slaughter of the innocent preborn and not about "gay marriage," which even most Catholics today come to believe is acceptable. Timothy Michael Dolan is absolutely delusional.
To the final segment of the Meet the Press interview:
DAVID GREGORY:
I want to conclude with this, because I think of Thanksgiving as I
think of the holidays generally as a wonderful opportunity to separate
from our lives and to think about gratitude. However, I don't have to
tell you how commercial these holidays become. And we think more about
recipes for the holiday. So let me ask you, Your Imminence. What do you
think is the right recipe, what's your recipe for expressing gratitude
that you'd like to share with people?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Sure. By the way, I'm not against recipes.
DAVID GREGORY:
Yes, no, neither am I.
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
I kind of like them myself. The right recipe is this. I think it
comes down to humility, which is the key both for the people of the
book. Jews and Christians would always say, "Humility is the key
virtue," in that when we recognize that without God we're nothing. With
God, everything is possible.
When we realize that everything we've got, every breath we take is an
unmerited gift from a lavishly-loving God, that prompts us literally to
fall to our knees and to say thank you. It also reminds us that we're
not the center of the universe. It's not about me. It's about Him and
it's about His people. That's gratitude, that's faith, that's humility.
That's thanksgiving.
DAVID GREGORY:
And there could be a round table, as we laugh about it often, but there can be family pain and dysfunction.
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
There can. Uh-huh (AFFIRM).
DAVID GREGORY:
But it's an opportunity again to separate and say, "Where's my perspective in my life"?
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
Isn't it a paradox, David, that every year, there's pain at
Thanksgiving? You think, "Oh my God, my family's dysfunctional." But you
wouldn't be anywhere else on Thanksgiving. You're already looking
forward to going back there. And that's the beauty of family and
community. (Dec. 1: Timothy Dolan, Meet the Press- Transcripts.)
What utter tripe.
There is pain on the national day celebrating the ethos of Protestantism and Judeo-Masonry in large measure because of the divisions that conciliarism has caused in the life of believing Catholics. This division is also the result of the very uncritical, enthusiastic embrace of "religious liberty" and "separation of Church and State" by Archbishop John Carroll that convinced American Catholics in the Nineteenth Century to view the Church through the lens of democracy rather than viewing the world through the eyes of the true Faith. Two of the important pillars of this needless division are Americanism and conciliarism, whose social teaching is premised upon the principles of Americanism condemned by Pope Leo XIII in Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus, November 1, 1900
Readers should carefully consider the prophetic words written by Monsignor Henri Delassus on the pernicious nature of Americanism and its pretense to seek reform everything about Catholicism in the whole world:
American Catholicism" is not, in the thought of is promoters, a
way of thinking and of practicing Catholicism solely in the contingent
and changing things that would be common to the United States, in
accordance with the particular conditions that are found on American
soil. If this had been so, we would not have believed it incumbent upon
us to be concerned with it.
No, their pretension is to speak to the entire universe: "The ear of the world is open to our thinking, if we know what to say to them,"
Msgr. [Bishop of Richmond, John] Keane had written to the Congress of
Brussels. And in fact they are speaking, and their word has not been
without echo upon each part of France. If, at least, they had
not put into the ear of the world anything other than what the Church
leaves to our free discussion; but, no, as we shall see, we shall come
to understand that their words are more or less imposed upon that which
belongs to the very fundamentals of the Catholic faith.
The Abbot Klein had said in the preface he gave to The Life of Fr. Hecker:
"His [Fr. Hecker's] unique and original work is to have shown the
profound harmonies joining the new state of the human spirit to the true
Christianity." "The American ideas that he recommended are, he knew, those which GOD wanted all civilized people of our time to be at home with ..."
"The times are solemn," Msgr. Ireland had said, in
his discourse, The Church and the Age. "At such an epoch of history ...
the desire to know is intense ... The ambition of the spirit,
fired up by the marvelous success in every field of human knowledge ...
The human heart lets itself go to the strangest ideals ... Something new! Such is the ordered word of humanity, and to renew all things is its firm resolution.
"The moment is opportune for men of talent and character among the children of the Church of God. Today the routine of old times is dead; today the ordinary means lead
to the decrepitude of the aged; the crisis demands something new,
something extraordinary; and it is upon this condition that the Church
shall record the greatest of victories in the greatest of historical
ages" (Discourse given in the Cathedral of Baltimore, October
18, 1893, on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Episcopal
consecration of Cardinal Gibbons.) (Monsignor Henri Delassus, Americanism and the Anti-Christian Conspiracy, available from Catholic Action Resource Center, pp. 9-10.)
This was a precise, concise summary of the whole false spirit of conciliarism that is embodied today by the likes of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Timothy Michael Dolan.
Yes, a fish rots from the head. The conciliar "popes" have been figures of Antichrist, men intent on reinventing the Faith and substituting in its place a synthetic one that has its own "new theology, "new liturgy," "new pastoral praxis," new music, new architecture, "new saints," new devotions and, perhaps most importantly of all, its own "new language" that is used to mask scandal with such soothing words as "dialogue" and "conversation" and "tolerance" and "compassion."
Catholicism is the one and only foundation of
personal and social order, making it necessary yet again to turn to
these words of Pope Saint Pius X, contained in Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910:
Here we have, founded by Catholics, an
inter-denominational association that is to work for the reform of
civilization, an undertaking which is above all religious in character; for
there is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true
moral civilization without the true religion: it is a proven truth, a
historical fact. (Pope Pius XI, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)
A generic attachment to
"religion" is of the essence of Judeo-Masonry, not Catholicism, and it is as a Freemason that Timothy Michael "Cardinal" Dolan spoke and "prayed" on Thursday evening, October 18, 2012, at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City.
What is "good enough" for the lords of conciliarism, including Joseph
Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and Timmy Dolan, makes relevant
once again this warning about Masonry and its ethos given us by Pope Leo
XIII in Custodi Di Quella Fede, December 8, 1892:
Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship
with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups.
Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity
should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly
promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under
the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the
craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the
revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of
God and the state without God. (Pope Leo XIII, Custodi Di Quella Fede, December 8, 1892.)
Far from listening to the sinner in order to "understand" him and to engage in a "dialogue" with him, Our Lord taught sinners to convert and he condemned those who were steadfast and proud in their sins:
[31] Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. [32] Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. [33] You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? [34] Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and
some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will
scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: [35] That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood
of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias,
whom you killed between the temple and the altar.
[36] Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. [37] Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them
that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy
children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou
wouldest not? [38] Behold, your house shall be left to you, desolate. [39] For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. (Matthew 23: 33-39.)
The "gospel" according to Timothy Michael Dolan's "whatever" exegesis is false. It is false to its rotten core. It is simply a regurgitation of mainstream Protestantism's reinvention and misrepresentation of the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity made Man by the power of God the Holy Ghost in the Virginal and Immaculate Womb of His Most Blessed Mother as "mushy, gushy" sentimentalist. He was nothing of the sort.
Indeed, Pope Saint Pius X described the true character of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as follows when condemning the heretical Sillonist view of Him that is at the very heart and soul and foundation of the "Second" Vatican Council and the "magisterium" of the conciliar popes:
Further, whilst Jesus was kind to sinners and to those who went
astray, He did not respect their false ideas, however sincere they might
have appeared. He loved them all, but He instructed them in order to
convert them and save them. Whilst He called to Himself in order to
comfort them, those who toiled and suffered, it was not to preach to
them the jealousy of a chimerical equality. Whilst He lifted up
the lowly, it was not to instill in them the sentiment of a dignity
independent from, and rebellious against, the duty of obedience. Whilst
His heart overflowed with gentleness for the souls of good-will, He
could also arm Himself with holy indignation against the profaners of
the House of God, against the wretched men who scandalized the little
ones, against the authorities who crush the people with the weight of
heavy burdens without putting out a hand to lift them. He was as strong
as he was gentle. He reproved, threatened, chastised, knowing, and
teaching us that fear is the beginning of wisdom, and that it is
sometimes proper for a man to cut off an offending limb to save his body.
Finally, He did not announce for future society the reign of an ideal
happiness from which suffering would be banished; but, by His lessons
and by His example, He traced the path of the happiness which is
possible on earth and of the perfect happiness in heaven: the royal way
of the Cross. These are teachings that it would be wrong to
apply only to one's personal life in order to win eternal salvation;
these are eminently social teachings, and they show in Our Lord Jesus
Christ something quite different from an inconsistent and impotent
humanitarianism. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)
You can believe in your false religion, Timothy Michael Dolan, as you have "joy" with men and women who are, objectively speaking, speeding on their pathways of eternal perdition, and give all of the scandal you want as your conception of the Divine Redeemer is heretical. It has nothing to do with Who He is. Your misrepresentation of Him to rationalize your own scandalous catering to human respect and your fealty to your false religion's apostate, condemned "world view" is blasphemous and also injurious to the good of souls and thus of the nation you claim to love.
For as horrible as the crimes committed by the likes of Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and other naturalists are, the crimes committed by the conciliar revolutionaries against the honor and glory of the Most Blessed Trinity that reaffirms non-Catholics in their false religions until the moment of their deaths and that has convinced Catholics to adopt a spirit of religious indifferentism as a matter of routine must be condemned as strongly and as unequivocally we seek to have absolutely no familiarity with the likes Timothy Michael Dolan or his past boss, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, and his present boss, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, while we pray fervently for their conversion back to the true Faith from which they have defected.
We must beg Our Lady to ask us to be faithful to this simple statement of Catholic truth by Pope Saint Pius X that has never been uttered by any conciliar "pope" or by any of conciliar "bishops":
This, nevertheless, is what they want to do with
human society; they dream of changing its natural and traditional
foundations; they dream of a Future City built on different principles,
and they dare to proclaim these more fruitful and more beneficial than
the principles upon which the present Christian City rests.
No, Venerable Brethren, We must repeat with the
utmost energy in these times of social and intellectual anarchy when
everyone takes it upon himself to teach as a teacher and lawmaker - the
City cannot be built otherwise than as God has built it; society cannot
be setup unless the Church lays the foundations and supervises the
work; no, civilization is not something yet to be found, nor is the New
City to be built on hazy notions; it has been in existence and still is:
it is Christian civilization, it is the Catholic City. It has only to be set up and restored continually against the unremitting attacks of insane dreamers, rebels and miscreants. omnia instaurare in Christo. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)
Conscious of our need to make reparation for our sins as the consecrated slaves of Christ the King through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, may the Rosaries we pray each day to console the good God in this time of apostasy and betrayal help to plant a few seeds for the Triumph of the same Immaculate Heart of Mary when a true pope fulfills her Fatima Peace Plan consecrates Russia, thus ceasing the spread of the errors we see so manifest before us today, with all of the world's bishops to this very heart out of which the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was formed and with which it beats as one, spending time also, if this is at all possible in this era of sacramental barrenness, before Our King's Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament as did the saint whose feast we celebrate today, Saint John Cantius.
Vivat Christus Rex!
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us
Saint Joseph, pray for us
Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us
Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.
Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.
Saint James the Greater, pray for us.
Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us
Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us
Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us
Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.
Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.
Saint Bibiana, pray for us.
Blessed Edmund Campion, S.J., pray for us.
