I just listened to this. I have no words. I am off to Adoration this morning. I will Wait on the Lord.
Bella, I dithered a bit over whether I would post Fr. Palka's second blog because of its content. Then it occurred to me that there must be a reason this is all coming to light now. When all the regular media (including much of the Catholic media) are comfortably on board the lavender train, ordinary Catholics like us throughout the world have easy access to the internet now but a time is fast approaching when objecting to this infiltration of the Church will be judged as bigoted hate speech and banned from cyberspace. This problem isn't confined to the US. Cardinal McCarrick wasn't a stay-at-home Bishop. He travelled throughout the world bringing a lot of US charity dollars with him. We don't know how many people he may have recommended for jobs in seminaries and universities in poorer countries. We're all sinners but we're also our brother's keeper. Just has God has no hands but ours when it comes to feeding the poor or clothing the naked, He has no internet access but ours to support Fr. Palka and others speaking out against this. Remaining silent for our own peace of mind leaves them vulnerable to being marginalised, isolated and pushed out of the priesthood. The more the Hierarchy realise that ordinary Catholics around the world know what's been going on and won't accept a whitewash, the more likely they are to do something to root out this behaviour. Those of us who were fortunate enough to have been taught the true Faith have a duty to help pass it on intact to future generations. We need good, faithful priests and a faithful hierarchy because they are the people who decide what should or shouldn't be taught - effectively what Gospel message will be passed on. None of those Bishops will stand beside us on judgement day, but we could very well be asked whether we were silent onlookers as their evil and its legacy were being exposed and then swept back under the rug only to resurface in the not so distant future. The longer it goes on, the more victims there are and the more the Church is harmed every time it bubbles to the surface. God might expect an answer consisting of more than "I prayed and left the rest to You". Athough this post is addressed to you, it isn't meant as some kind of remonstration. Really, it's as much to remind myself that we may lack authority but God didn't leave us blind, deaf and dumb. I won't be posting links to any more of Fr. Palka's blogposts. Anyone on the forum who wants to keep track of it can click on the link in the opening post and then click on the month.
I hope Voris isn't holding his breath. Did you know that Cardinal McCarrick was a signatory to the infamous Land O' Lakes statement? He was President of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico at that time. I didn't know that until I read this piece published on the website of the Cardinal Newman Society: https://newmansociety.org/it-never-was-about-anything-else/ It's worth a read to give an idea of how everthing seems to have changed so much so quickly. This part is particularly relevant to what's happening now: In an interview with USA Today, from June 2002, speaking about the upcoming conference in Dallas, McCarrick tries to parry the whole question of homosexuality. When the interviewer brings it up, he engages in another petitio principii: for the real question is whether someone who has engaged in, and who feels a strong desire to engage again in, actions contrary to nature and to the division of the human race into male and female, suffers from a severe moral and psychological syndrome, one that would disqualify him from the priesthood or from any line of work that would put him in contact with boys and young men. So, responding to the suggestion that homosexual men not be admitted to the seminary, McCarrick makes the standard move, balancing homosexuality with heterosexuality: “You want someone who can live a chaste life; that is key for me. If somebody who would like to go into the seminary says, ‘All my life, I’ve tried to be chaste, I’m a heterosexual, and I have tried to be celibate, and I have proven that I can be,’ I think you say ‘Fine.’ If someone says to you, ‘All my life I’ve tried to be chaste, I have a homosexual orientation, but I’ve always tried to be chaste,’ I think you do that one case by case. Probably beginning in this next school year, the question of admission to seminaries will be discussed. It might be that the overwhelming weight of opinion will say that homosexuals should not be ever admitted to seminary. I’m not there yet. But if that’s what they tell me to do, then that’s what we’ll do. Certainly, I’m there if we say anyone who has been active in a gay life should not be admitted.” The Cardinal's response could be summed up in a single sentence: "Who am I to judge?". Incidentally, among the speakers and panelists at the World Meeting of Families will be: Cardinal Cupich Cardinal Tobin Cardinal Maradiaga Cardinal Farrell Cardinal O'Malley Cardinal Wuerl Rev. Fr. Martin, S.J. Bishop Barron will be there too, no doubt assuring everyone that he has a reasonable hope that Hell is empty and that Judas didn't suffer a fate worse than never having been born.
It makes me sick that Mahoney received a slap on the wrist. He was my local cardinal my whole life (literally - he was appointed cardinal of Los Angeles the month of my birth) up till he was forced to retire. He caused so many problems and made a reverent mass difficult to find. He encouraged the gay masses with rainbow flags on the altar, wasted millions on an ugly Masonic "cathedral", moved priests around the dioceses who were accused of sexual misconduct and paid out over $600 million to over 500 victims, covering it all up. It was a day of smiles and celebration when he was forced into retirement. After all that however he still voted in the March 2013 conclave (add his vote to the lavender mafia).
DM, Thank you for posting this. It sounds truly awful and I'm so sorry for all those who have had to deal with any of these things that I bolded from your post. We all had to deal with the fact that he was included in the last conclave which imho is a real hypocrisy.
I think they will amend this line of thought soon to say that Hell will be filled only with "rigid" Catholics. Everyone else gets a free pass.
Bravo! and I had added my own emphasis. Well said you two, great reminders. Make note of the news and move on with praying for our Shepherds and their flocks. I recently learned St John Vianney is the patron Saint of priests. Weell..PRAY FOR US AND OUR SHEPHERDS! Keep praying for the House to be completely purified no matter what that looks like or who is on that list. Pray for your own strength of faith and courage. Afterall, Mother's Immaculate Heart WILL triumph.
And the truth will set you free. This Father Palka is brave and bold, and he appears to have no fear and has the zeal of the Lord within him. Bravo Father for speaking out. I realize our time is bad, but the way this priest is describing it.... reminds me again exactly of the warnings of Our Lady of LaSalette "The priests, ministers of my Son, the priests, by their bad life, by their irreverences and their impiety in celebrating the holy mysteries, by love of money, love of honor and of pleasures, the priests have become cesspools of impurity." Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, please be merciful to me, a sinner.
Exactly. This is why I do not despair or lose hope.... if one will take the time to read the prophesies of the saints and mystics, one would realize we're simply living through the time prophesied. For some reason, each of us has been chosen by God to live through this right now - not in the 12th century, not in the 16th, but this one, the age that will see a worldwide chastisement and Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
I completely agree. This is the reason I also do not despair. I make note while lifting it up and offering WOW, and carry on. Regarding the blue - Dancin and singin to and for the Glories to come!! And praying for mercy.
"Dolours said: ↑ It always bothered me that if the majority of priests are good and true to their vocations, why don't they speak out? This priest's (Fr. Palka) blog post has helped me understand their silence. It might help others too. How would any of us cope if there were a file somewhere containing details of our every weakness or misdeed (sin)? I wouldn't last five minutes. It certainly reinforces the need for us to step up our prayers for our priests who give up everything to serve God by serving us. I'm not sure that "Church Critique" is the appropriate place for the thread, but I'm sure the moderators will move it if it would be better placed elsewhere. He promises a follow-up post on this topic next week. https://epiphanytampa.weebly.com/pastors-bulletin-article/why-dont-the-priests-blow-the-whistle For those who prefer not to click on external links, here is the text of the priest's blog post: From the Pastor: Why Don’t the Priests Blow the Whistle? One question that was asked after last week’s homily was, “Why don’t ‘good’ priests and ‘good’ bishops blow the whistle on the abusive priests and bishops?” Many people still don’t (I believe most priests still don’t) understand just how evil the active homosexual or homosexual activist (AH/HA from here on out) priests and bishops are. Not understanding the extent of their depravity and wrongly thinking that they are simply “normal” men who just struggle with their sexual desires and sometimes might fail to remain chaste but are really, truly repentant when it happens and strive to “confess my sins, do penance and amend my life, amen”, they cannot possibly grasp the hellish depths to which the AH/HA clergy will go to persecute, lambaste, punish, humiliate and blackmail anyone who stands in their way or threatens their way of life. Let me be clear. The AH/HA priests and bishops treat their sexual mortal sin as if it is a “good” and a God-given good at that (if they even believe in God, something of which I am very doubtful, at least in the Catholic understanding of Who God is). Nay, more than “a” good, they are convinced that it is “the” good. They will go to any, repeat, any length to force others to engage in it, to accept it, or to, at the very least, ignore it and pretend that it doesn’t exist or that it is not harmful enough to mention or try to eradicate. They do not struggle with their disordered sexual desires as so many others do but rather revel in them. With that as my premise, let me explain why few “good” priests and bishops will openly challenge their brother priests and bishops when it comes to this particular sin. Next week, perhaps, I will take it a step further and write about why even priests who have left the active ministry (mostly to get married) cannot and will not come forward with what they know, with what quite often drove them out of ministry in the first place. As part of the application process to be accepted as a seminarian and throughout his entire formation process, a man is, and rightly so, asked to reveal an extensive amount of very personal information, including such things as his history of chastity or sexual activity, criminal activity (even if he was never caught or convicted), and his worst fears about where he might fail in living out his vows or promises (prayer, poverty, chastity, and obedience). His file grows thicker the longer he remains in the seminary and it continues to grow after ordination, and includes self-revealed and other-revealed (from formation directors, vocation directors, letters from parishioners, etc.) information regarding his struggles, mental issues, physical problems, and moral failings before, during and after formation, any perceived “hostility toward women” or “rigidity” or “uber Catholicism” or “hard preaching” and many more such things. That file never goes away, even when a man leaves “the system”, whether before or after ordination (this will be helpful to remember for next week’s column). This file is always meant to help him so that by working with his spiritual director he can improve in every aspect of his life, so that he can overcome fears and failings, so that he has a benchmark by which to gauge his improvements in holiness and competence. It is also meant to help his bishop and any of his future bishops understand the priest, to figure out where to place him on assignment or which assignment to keep him away from for his own good. But while a good seminary rector or bishop uses this intimate information wisely and well for the salvation of the soul of the man and those under his care, an AH/HA bishop uses it for evil purposes. How so? Let me give you a couple of completely made-up examples. Suppose a priest’s file reveals that as a teen he was sexually abused by an adult male. As a result of this formative abuse, he struggled with homosexual desires as an adolescent and into his early adulthood but always remained chaste. Once ordained as a priest he spoke out fervently against the acceptance and promotion and legalization of homosexual activity and other sexual sins. His AH/HA bishop, knowing his past, makes him the Boy Scout chaplain where he will be working closely with the bishop’s handpicked and openly active homosexual lay diocesan Scout leaders, hoping and even encouraging (vicariously, through his minions) him to finally fall to his boyhood abuse-induced homosexual desires and sexually abuse one or more of the Scouts. While a continual perpetuation of this sin is most greatly desired by the AH/HA bishop, even one “close call” is enough for a lifetime of blackmail. The AH/HA bishop will do the same with a formerly active (before his conversion to Catholicism, let us say) heterosexual priest who bucks the Lavender Mafia, though he would instead be assigned as chaplain of the girls’ High School or University for the same purposes, and “seducers” would be sent to tempt him. Think this is far fetched? Don’t be fooled. “So?” you might be thinking, ”What could the AH/HA bishop do with even a file full of blackmail information?” I will explain more about that next week and you will see why even the “ex” priests are not safe from such evil. With prayers for your holiness, Rev. Fr. Edwin Palka" Now this is truly a courageous effort blog! Thank you Dolours for posting this.
Yes. Truly. I am grateful parents are already with the Lord. It would be a terrible thing for them to witness.
I'm truly glad for you that you foresee your parents being upset by things. I have mixed feelings about the older generations. In part I blame them for being complicent in the whole mess that came out of v2. Just today my own grandfather (aged 82) was "upset" that the new priest announced that there will be no more clapping at Mass. In my experience it is the older generations that hate the Latin Mass, that hate tradition, and the young people that are keeping it alive and going - the very ones who never had it to begin with and had to "discover" our heritage for ourselves. I just don't agree with the whole "we were taught to obey blindly whatever the priest said" line. I'm sure there are some people who sadly thought that, but in my experience it's that generation that pushed the liberal nonsense in the Church and are STILL doing it.
Yes there is some truth to what you say. I see it and I ponder it. I long for the Latin Mass but I have no access to it. (Not without a long drive and I can’t always do that). Around here there is complacency and comfort and casualness. I think the “work” of the so called reformers has born very sad fruit and sadly it has also caused extremism on the part of many devout Catholics. We have a sedevacantist church in our area. The Latin Mass devotees have gone right out the door. I understand their frustration and anger but leaving the Church is not the answer. My parents were the WW II generation. Devout and serious about the faith. I count on their prayers.
