Because popular conservative blogger Taylor Marshall, who has a big Youtube following, became an SSPX, that left longtime Youtube cohost Timothy Gordon and CMilitant's Michael Voris betrayed. Taylor Marshall became disgusted because most of the Catholic Churches stopped giving the sacraments during the coronavirus crisis, and that's why he joined the schismatic SSPX
I can certainly understand his frustration. I was very dismayed by it all as well. Then Father gave a homily that spoke of things I had not considered very well. The sudden onset of it, the wide spread near panic with projected death tolls in the millions in the US and the need of the Bishops to adequately protect their parishes. I admit, I can not see the fault in their actions on deeper consideration. Our Bishops recently wrote to the Governor and put pressure on him to open up the Churches publicly again with reasonable measures of course in place. We have been very fortunate that we have had daily masses and daily rosaries streamed on YouTube which while certainly not ideal has been helpful. Also, our local parish has had daily exposition of the Eucharist and this too has been streamed on YouTube all day long with an open door policy for those still working or out in the neighborhood for shopping etc to stop by and pray. I will admit I have stolen away a few times expressly to go to the church and spend time in prayer there. Reconciliation has been available several days each week as well in a safe spot (the stairwell) in the church. There is a book which was recommended by Father for all of us to read by a priest who spent many years locked up in Soviet work camps and gulags during the persecutions of the clergy inside the USSR. It is titled With God in Russia and was written by Walter J Ciszek S.J. I would highly recommend it to anyone struggling in these times as he went through something 1000 times worse than what we are experiencing and found hope in the bleakest of situations outside his control. I won't go down the rabbit hole on the decision to attend the SSPX. That is a decision that Mr Marshall made and obviously felt was best for his family. I will pray for him and I do hope that he is at peace.
Yup, a lot of the SSPX members have a disdain for the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy and the Luminous Mystery of the Rosary because these were promoted by the RCC many years after the SSPX separated from the Church.
Carol, The spotlight presentation was hard to watch. And I don't understand why that would be so, because as Catholics we've been through this all before . I can only surmise it is because some deep part of me wanted to believe that those Catholic priests and bishops that give God so much Glory through celebrating traditional Latin Masses and through their sincere prayer and Love of God, would be the bastion of purity and not be able to sink in the mire of utter filth that many obviously have. I don't understand how any priest can be so depraved. Lord Have Mercy. Christ have Mercy Lord Have Mercy O Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have recourse to Thee.
I can certainly understand why josephite. It is much worse than the past due to the SSPX leadership abusing the love of the rite of the traditional mass and the loyalty of the parishioners to manipulate, cover up, and bury the crimes and victims of these men for he sake of the SSPX's name and reputation with virtually no consideration for the damage it causes the laity which is by far the biggest insult of all. I have to say this expose was incredibly damning. I don't see how the SSPX can hope to recover from this. As far as the depravity of men goes I believe that it is a sign of the times and the direct result of the worldwide spread and promulgation of pornography and non stop sexual desensitizing of our youth. Pornography alone accounts for the majority of the traffic on the internet at any given time. It desensitizes men and women to the humanity of others and objectifies people to the point that even knowing the harm that it causes society at large it rarely registers in the mind of the person viewing it in spite of the fact that it causes such an immense amount of pain and suffering to so so many people. It is the single largest cause of human trafficking, sexual abuse, drug addiction and alcoholism, destruction of families and the minds of so many of our young men and women these days merely because of the unlimited demand for it. I believe that it is what was spoken of both at Fatima and at Garabandal as one of the personal sins having such a damaging affect on others that will be revealed during the warning. The person who views it rarely if ever considers the cascading affect on others lives or their own personal responsibility for it as consumers. It is a literal all consuming plague. In Italy when the Coronavirus sent millions of people into self exile in their homes one of the largest porn websites on the internet gave away free premium memberships to all Italians. Instead of a public call to introspection and repentance they were instead gladly provided with unlimited pornography to keep their minds clouded. Why would Italy be singled out for something such as this... https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/europe/pornhub-italy-coronavirus-lockdown-scli-intl/index.html The company said its global sales in the first two months of the year were 50% ahead of forecast, which it attributed to more demand from Italy, Hong Kong, the United States, Canada and Japan in particular. "Many people and businesses are affected negatively by the virus and we saw it as a challenge for us as well," spokeswoman Johanna Rief said in a statement to CNN. "The numbers are therefore surprising." "With the prospect of long periods at home either alone or with your partner, people are exploring new ways to make the best of the time available," she added.
I remember that too. It was really diabolic, imagine a person committing a mortal sin of lust, and then that person was infected with the coronavirus and just dying without receiving confession because the priests were afraid to get infected. Also, nobody from the Church hierarchy condemned that or did not care releasing a statement against pornhub.
You have spoken my thoughts--i couldn't formulate what I was thinking but you have said it perfectly.
Jason, Thank you. Yes, I am aware of what Taylor Marshall stated recently about the SSPX and a little of what had followed since. I am not sure that you are trying to say that this report from Christine Niles is a matter of Michael Voris trying to get back at the SSPX but I will say that I don't believe that to be the case. I am not sure when Niles began her investigation about them but it appears that the SSPX inadvertently sent her emails that prove that this not just a couple of cases of abuse and one case is too much especially if it is not dealt with properly. I will also say that I do not really like the title that Niles used for the piece because I think that may go a step too far. Imho God is reminding us that no man or no institution is infallible. The thought that I had when I came across this horrible story last night was the message from Our Lady of Akita, specifically the line that I put in bold below: “As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day, recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests.” This line was ringing in my head when I went to sleep last night and since I woke up. I think that we should continue to pray the rosary. This story encouraged me to pray a full rosary before going to sleep last night. Pray for the SSPX, pray for Father Michel Rodrigue, pray for the Church, pray for the pope and pray for all of us. +
Yes Carol, we very well may be at or near that stage. "The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son." Especially with the possibility that the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum issued by Pope Benedict XVI may be under threat.
What do you think is the Sign left by my Son? Is it the Cross? the Eucharist? or the Sign in the Sky?
I just watched the CM video. The only thing I would like say is that it is not surprising to have abusers among the SSPX priests. As I've mentioned before on this forum, the Church was targeted and infiltrated by the Communists and Freemasons. "In her public affidavit Dodd stated, among other things, “In the late 1920s and 1930s, directives were sent from Moscow to all Communist Party organizations. In order to destroy the [Roman] Catholic Church from within, party members were to be planted in seminaries and within diocesan organizations... I, myself, put some 1,200 men in [Roman] Catholic seminaries.” Alice von Hildebrand confirmed that Dodd had publicly stated the same things to which she attested in her public affidavit. Dodd came to the venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, heartbroken and finally realizing the terrible irreparable harm she had done by faithfully and effectively following an order of Stalin, namely to recruit men distinguished by their complete lack of faith and moral virtue, and engage them to “infiltrate Catholic seminaries and religious orders.” Given her talents, her eloquence, her charisma, she was successful beyond all expectations. When her eyes were opened to what she had done, she was tortured by guilt that only God’s infinite mercy could assuage. Dodd's testimony — that infiltration of Catholic seminaries went back for many decades — sheds some light on the abominable priestly scandal that has plagued the Church in recent years. Horrified by what she had done so successfully, Bella Dodd told Archbishop Sheen that she wanted to enter the most severe penitential order in the Church to try, in some modest way, to pay her crushing debt. She was told by this venerable prelate that her mission was to remain in the world and open the eyes of blind U.S. citizens to the horror of Communism. She obeyed, and from the early 1950s until her death in 1969 she crisscrossed the country giving talks to shake her fellow citizens and open the Americans’ sleepy eyes to the horror of atheistic Communism. What we are witnessing today in the Church may very well be the horrifying harvest of this infiltration. Obviously “the agents” have made it their mission to admit more men devoid of morals and Christian faith into the seminaries for decades. Keep in mind that many cases of abuse took place already back in the 1960s. It seems that the abuse never was (and remains) a mere matter of priests giving in to temptation, but a comprehensive and pervasive attack on Christian morality and faith by a cunning and profoundly evil enemy. Alice von Hildebrand writes, in a piece published on Catholic News Agency’s website in 2016: The facts on infiltration are not meant to deny that some bishops, some heads of religious orders and some priests have not fallen into the very grave sin of either closing their eyes to the horrible sins committed by people under their authority, but to make us aware of the fact that a key factor hardly ever mentioned, or mentioned at all, is that many of the worst culprits were not Catholic priests who had fallen prey to “unbridled lust” but infiltrators who had obtained false baptismal certificates and were plainly agents of Communism and demoralization. (…) I heard from Bella Dodd that these evil men had even infiltrated the Vatican – for the Catholic Church is the arch enemy of Communism: and they know it." https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinio...y-no-accident-but-a-strategy-to-destroy-churc +
https://spiritdailyblog.com/news/in-buffalo-some-parishes-may-not-reopen-at-all In Buffalo, Some Parishes May Not Reopen At All April 27, 2020 by sd From the Buffalo News: In mid-March, the coronavirus crisis forced the Diocese of Buffalo to hold masses without congregations present. The Most. Rev. Edward Schafenberger, Albany’s bishop who is temporarily in charge of Buffalo’s diocese, says some parishes may never hold a public Mass again. Many parishes across the diocese have been holding mass via Facebook or Youtube over the past month. That means parishioners are unable to place money in the collection bins during mass. Scharfenberger was unable to provide specific information on parish finances across the diocese. But he provided estimates. “We’re estimating it’s about 30 percent or 40 percent of what we usually receive,” Scharfenberger said. “Some (parishes) may be receiving as much as 90 percent, some as little as 10 (percent).
