tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post255623542146319166..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: Bishop Morlino Involved In Another Crash On The Catholic Interstatecolkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-40106369342195611472011-02-05T22:15:50.874-07:002011-02-05T22:15:50.874-07:00The SJCP priests assigned to our parish have rippe...The SJCP priests assigned to our parish have ripped the soul out of our parish. Mass is an occasion of sadness and emptiness now. It is all about the gold trinkets and elaborate statuary that our church has been filled with -- without asking the parish. Money has evaporated and a once vibrant community of volunteers for parish activities is now doing duty in neighboring parishes and non-catholic churches. I blame the autocracy of Robt. Morlino for supporting AND encouraging an unchristian like mentality at church. Obey and pay seems to be the mantra today. I want my parish back!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-39148735845937519652010-11-08T12:04:54.319-07:002010-11-08T12:04:54.319-07:00Veronica, we're going through that right now. ...Veronica, we're going through that right now. The pastor installed in 2004, actually a peripheral friend of mine from teen years, has instituted the conservative push. Most of my friends and colleagues are gone, some floundering and others thriving in new found and hard won homes. We'd have left as well, but this is my youngest son's only society he's known. We've stayed the last two years in some pain, countering the crap and trying to reveal the ongoing love of Christ. <br /><br />Our school is dropping numbers drastically, now 145 kids in 9 grades. Can we merge the school with the parish two (TWO!) miles away? According to my inside source, the bishop says there will be no closings on his watch. I'll bet it's the same there, with the edict from above constraining those who do the actual work of the Lord. God tells the bishop what to say, the faithless disagree, and the faithful suffer by wallet to get to heaven. And on it all goes.<br /><br />So many of us tell the same story. I see it all the time. I don't really know how to respond yet, but I now know that my opposition must be specific and ongoing. We'll be leaving after 8th grade graduation and not a moment too soon, but where? Maybe just to feed hungry people. I don't know. I suppose I have a lot more compassion for those who flounder now, for those who raise questions instead of those who give knowing answers. And I may finally believe in the Beatitudes, wisdom beyond my imagination.mjcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-43874209640764784042010-11-08T09:52:07.496-07:002010-11-08T09:52:07.496-07:00As a child, I went through a number of schools - s...As a child, I went through a number of schools - some changes because of dad's military orders so our family moved and some of them because the school district I was in was growing and seemed to have trouble building enough new schools to keep up with the growing student population. I also had 1 year in a Catholic school which left me rather unimpressed with the quality of a Catholic school education. The changing of schools was a very normal, natural, POSITIVE thing for me. Just so you know a little of where I'm coming from before you read my next statement.<br /><br />I think if priest such as the ones described here were to come take over the parish, I'd be moving my children out of the Catholic school associated with it. And I'd be moving my daughters just a little bit faster. As in, the moment they are told they are no longer good enough to to volunteer to help serve Mass.<br /><br />With the money donations falling so hard and fast, I've got to wonder if the number of students has fallen was well due to parents deciding to move their children away. Does anyone know?<br />VeronicaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-934298524244820852010-11-06T13:44:25.147-06:002010-11-06T13:44:25.147-06:00"The financial crisis coincides with Madison ..."The financial crisis coincides with Madison Bishop Robert Morlino's decision in June to bring in three priests from the Society of Jesus Christ the Priest to lead the parish. The group is based in Spain and known for traditionalist liturgy and devotion to orthodox Catholic teaching."<br /><br />A Church such as this, that honors fascist and the bloody drama of authoritarian dictators, that shows hatred towards females in so many ways, that in its leadership role seeks not to teach the Good News of Jesus but teaches its own cranky old men news of scapegoating others and condemning them is a Church that deserves to die.<br /><br />I am evermore only disgusted by what I read from clerics such as Morlino, Burke and Benedict. I've expressed anger in many a commentary over the last two years and now all I can find to say is that I am just disgusted with them. I used to have remorse and grief for such souls, hope that they would reform their ways but now there is just disgust. I turn away from them no longer in anger but just shaking my head in horror and wiping off the dust of them. I certainly do not believe that these men hold any keys to salvation or heaven. If anything they hold the keys to despair and ruin of many lives and souls just as the pharisees did.<br /><br />It is really sad to witness these types taking over the Church. The mass Exodus has begun. Jesus leads the way out far from these mad clerics.<br /><br />word verification is lutinutibutterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684946870144030594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-37546186991728352442010-11-06T09:20:05.154-06:002010-11-06T09:20:05.154-06:00Scripto the infrastructure and wealth are the reas...Scripto the infrastructure and wealth are the reasons I vacillate on jumping on the emergent church bandwagon, or staying connected and fighting the hierarchy.<br /><br />In many very real ways spiritual thinking is manifested in this reality. Leaving the wealth and infrastructure in the hands of the Vatican is giving up on half the battle, and maybe the most important half for this reality. The money and infrastructure fuels and diseminates their message. Which is why Opus Dei has placed themselves very prominently in both Catholic message making and the Vatican Bank.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-12578912283213599972010-11-06T08:20:42.524-06:002010-11-06T08:20:42.524-06:00Same old, same old. My great grandfather was one o...Same old, same old. My great grandfather was one of the early followers of the Lithuanian National Church. He may have even been one of the founders. They took their money and went away. I think they alsotried to take the property but were ultimately unsuccessful. I believe it involved an Irish bishop flexing his muscles and replacing a popular Lithuanian priest. Someday I'll post on it if I can ferret out the whole story. My only sources are so far are whispered family history and poor Sister Vytell, caught between nationalist pride and obedience to the Church.scriptohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899049404620738944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-67268076091690502092010-11-05T18:35:05.662-06:002010-11-05T18:35:05.662-06:00I can remember when I first moved back to Helena i...I can remember when I first moved back to Helena in 2001 and Morlino was the Bishop. First time I went to one of his Masses in the Cathedral I couldn't figure out whay the first six rows of pews were empty. It was pretty obvious why that was so when he got through censing the altar. Quite the cloud of incense wafted over everyone with the first pews there own little cloud bank.<br /><br />p2p that's a quite a quote from Morlino. It's a real nice piece of mental reservation. They must offer a class in that technique at the week long bishop school the Vatican holds for new bishops.<br /><br />Word verification is wider. Somehow I doubt we'll see the Catholic interstate get any wider.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-22932885734200774922010-11-05T16:12:26.516-06:002010-11-05T16:12:26.516-06:00No, Coolmom,it's not your parish; it's my ...No, Coolmom,it's not your parish; it's my parish of 37 years where I can no longer bear to attend liturgy!How many parishes are like this? Will God spare us for the sake of 50 parishes where God is still worshipped instead of priests, bishops and popes? For the sake of 20? For the sake of 10?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-39654645291531348972010-11-05T14:27:13.949-06:002010-11-05T14:27:13.949-06:00OMG! it sounds like our parish! Three new priest...OMG! it sounds like our parish! Three new priests. Commissions disbanded. Greeters are gone. Lay people in positions of authority are fired.Permission of pastor and his appointed council required before being allowed to become a eucharistic minister, or lector, sermons on how to get to heaven. Changes appear and are never explained. Parish office is a gated community. Collections are down by 40%, people are leaving in droves and there is no apparent interest or concern by priests or bishops.<br />Those of us in the outer darkness are finding that if we listen, the Lord still speaks. We can no longer look to our priests as mentors or spiritual guides, however. And the good priests we know are cowering in fear. Did they not receive the Spirit?coolmomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-66265009376371356532010-11-05T13:03:53.953-06:002010-11-05T13:03:53.953-06:00Ay, caramba!
I read on another blog that to greet...Ay, caramba!<br /><br />I read on another blog that to greet the Pope the LGBT community of Spain is organizing a sort of "kiss-in" if I can borrow language from the 60's. No protest signs, just kisses. Ironic in light of the fact that when Franco's fascists were in power nobody was allowed to kiss in public. Ahhhh, the good old days. Make public displays of affection illegal again. <br /><br />Morlino should not have anything to do with being a priest if he's ministering to the School of the Americas. On Wiki he is quoted by the Wisconsin State Journal as saying: <b><i>"I know for a fact there is no evidence to connect what the school teaches with any kind of atrocity".</i></b><br /><br />Well the circumstantial evidence is more than compelling that this is an evil organization judging by the graduates. See:<br /><br />http://www.impactpress.com/articles/aprmay99/soa4599.html <br /><br /><b><i>"School of the Americas graduates have been proven to be responsible for beatings, blackmail, extortion, torture, assassinations, rape, massacres, arbitrary executions, and genocide.<br /><br />In El Salvador, 48 of 69 members of the military who the UN Truth Commission report cited for human rights abuses were SOA graduates.21 The Commission also found that 10 of 12 officers responsible for the El Mozote massacre of 900 villagers were graduates of the School.22</i></b><br /><br />School the assassins shut down the Catholic school. <br /><br />Right.<br /><br />p2p<br /><br />Word: misionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com