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1. Paul-Emile Leray

   6 months ago

   Very well done, both the video and the written article above. Courageous and strong. It is good to be a little crazy (in the good sense, a "fool for God") in a world of crazies to win over the true crazies. And? ENJOY it. What else is there to do? Life would be BORING without all these challenges. One way to win is to let the devil dance his dance OR to spin the record player faster and faster until you dizzy him up so much that he drops dead from his foolishness. Let the devil dance his dance, in some cases, as one Archbishop put it many years ago. (he was referring to scruples, most probably, but even if taken out of full context it still has its place with some expounding to preserve intellectual integrity) This does not mean to remain silent nor does it mean to fall into indifference or inaction. It simply means to see reality as it is. Then? Then, plan and act accordingly. In this case, the devils are dancing. Spin the record player and change the scripts and stages so that the mob goes into violent revolutions within for peaceful revolutions outwardly to demand new actors for new plays inside new theatres. How? A change of hearts: St. Paul. If men are to change, they must first change their hearts. True? True. NO political ideology or system or structure or legal system or bureaucracy or administration or organization can control the hearts, spirits, souls inside men. NONE. Which is why the old Shoguns of Japan once feared Christians, in part, because deep down they knew that true Christians bowed to NO MAN. Clear? Good. Obama is "future worm food", (ref; Jesuit writer and scholar) as are all of us. Human. Not God. Not Jesus. Not God Incarnate (Jesus). A man. Obama is a man. Period. Like them, like us, like you, like me, like every single human on the planet. BOW TO NO MAN, PERIOD; unless out of nothing but superficial courtesy and politeness and custom, like a well trained maniac and robotic dimwitted dumbed down politically correct braindead frightened out his wits imbecile with no capacity for independent rational critical thinking and objectivity. Do people still read the US constitution these days? What in the world are people doing putting politicians up on pedestals? In a democracy such as America's, you ought to be RIVETTING THEM MERCILESSLY. Rivet them (politicians) so their heads are steeple-headed, button-headed, countersunk, or coneheaded. But be sure to rivet. Enjoy it! Become a master in the lost art of rivetting, receive a journeyman ticket in the art of rivetting. A fine trade! One of the best. It's a great feeling turning ignorant politicians inside-out to see their hearts, spirits, souls, minds, overhauled on the lawn to then re-assemble them; even better when done publically as Jesus did with the Pharisees. I openly DESPISE the SOPHISTIC power and control hungry deceptive con artists! Are the people asleep? Washington ought to be frightened out of their wits that the Americans themselves don't overthrow the entire political system and governments, as some wise ones often did in Europe over centuries long in the his-story books. After all, as some great writers once put it, "revolutions often occur for good reasons". If I was a politician or judge or lawyer, I would be walking silently on egg-shells the WORLD over right about now. Use the internet, use technology, peacefully, to RIVET the living daylights out these manipulative fools! Sometimes when light doesn't enter the soul from the outside, one must place it inside the depths of the soul to then pull the pin from far away and have it ignite and blow up inside according to The Holy Spirit's timing and will. Only The Holy Spirit can give light, but we can assist Him in the process through prayer which takes place in many shapes and forms. Horses that are dehydrated still might not feel like drinking fresh water. Then what? Immerse them in water! (haha!) And if some of them drown, all the better! (might as well have a sense of humour given the state of the world) Sometimes a good teacher knows how to place the teachings inside the depths of the soul to then quickly plug all the holes in the ears, nostrils, and mouth for fear of anything leaking out! Carry at least 5 rubber plugs on you at all times, for the head. Bath-tub sized configurations are not necessary except for perhaps the mouth. How has that Freedom 55 golf club membership and roasted sunburned lobster dream beach image been working out for the baby boomers who are losing their retirement investment portfolios as I write this? What a great optimistic altitudinal platitudinal feeling it is, isn't it? Now, go and buy another self help book from some Hollywood maniac who knows everything about money and marketing and NOTHING about spirituality and helping who? YOU, the public. NO human, no system, no ideology, no government, no thing or material possession, can make anyone fully happy. Degrees of happiness may be increased or decreased from people and things. True happiness? Your best friend ought to be Jesus. NO human, given original sin, given the fallen nature of man, given many things, ought to be fully trusted all the time and no human ought to be burdened with the expectation of making another fully happy all the time. How selfish to expect another human to "make you happy". What a pile of SAPS, our modern cultures have become. Emoters, opiners, whiners, and weak emotionally low EQ (often high IQ) SAPS. Entitlement mentalities. Get lost. I am SICK of many people, even many Catholics. (whining crying weak kneed egotistical maniacs, some of them) I hope more priests, such as this apparent fine one in the video, continue to rise with calm yet firm focus while remaining rooted in The One. Turning politicians inside-out and outside-in and back and forth and making them dance like the PUPPETS they are, is what? Fun! I openly, in WRITING, despise them. I LOVE reading the newspapers and obituraries of politicians. (even though their short biographical accounts are often disastrous to the eyes) Make them dance for most will say, do, and practically jump to any tune (even country music crying about lost cattle and broken down farms and the neighbor's calf having been roasted on the barbed wire electric fence) if it means staying in power and maintaining control on YOUR taxes. Fools look up to them. Take them seriously, in the sense of how much damage they can do. If they were saints and geniuses, unless there are a bunch of St. Thomas More types inside there, let me just say this to finish by quoting Einstein, paraphrased: he didn't think he had the people skills to be a politician. Most of them just like giving speeches at BBQs and attending rodeos and sports stadium gatherings, etc. Give them a crowd to crow to and they are often happy. They'll practically say anything for power or their reputations, so as a democracy simply put the words in their mouths and write the scripts for them. After they are dead, if the scripts were accurate then they'll be thanking you from heaven since their names might just be seen in a good light inside the his-story books instead of laughed at everytime a his-story book gets opened up. (a subjective interpretation of events written by subjective emotionally filled his-story-ians often close to events and further subjectively interpreted by subjective readers since readers are also what? Human, therefore flawed.) Look at the Cadaver Synod. For the rest of time and as long as mankind exists, the world will laugh at that episode in his-story. Placing a dead corpse on trial? That takes the cake and all the candles on top. And having another person answer for the dead corpse on trial, that was what? Tragic comedy as its finest hour. Even Shakespeare or Blaise Pascal couldn't possibly have dreamt up anything as ridiculous as that. There is one potentiality that could have been better. Formosus could have remained dead while on trial. Then, the other Pope questionning could also have been dead. And, instead of someone answering for Formosus the same person could have been answering for both the Pope on the trial chair plus the Pope doing the questionning and persecuting. That would have been an even better tragic comedy. But Formosus will have to do. That is as good as it got. I must be satisfied with this, for anything more than what happened would risk having me die from laughter and a heart attack. And the only light Hitler ever saw was when he finally shot himself! Too bad he didn't do it sooner! Over 10,000,000 innocents might have been saved. And what is King Henry the VIIIth, another blood thirsty half witted maniac doing these days from wherever he is? And how about the "let them eat cake" lady in France, another egotistical maniac! Confessions are great. And so are what? FUNERALS! I love them. It makes me realize with great humility where I too will end up one day. Inside the wooden box, toes upwards with my eyelids hopefully closed and let nobody forget to close my mouth unless sticking a bouquet of flowers inside there. (just a little comedy to keep people on their toes!) Why don't some characters (the good ones) be placed facing the onlookers while inside the coffins, while the bad characters be placed facing downwards in shame with their backs to the public while inside the casket during the funeral? Just an idea. It doesn't cost anything to put it forth. And put ice on the bottom and on top of the bad characters and fill the entire coffin with ice before sending it to the hearse! And let the grave be filled with ice too before the two scoops of raisin bran and buckets of gravel get dropped on it. It'll be the last time some feel "cool and hip" before roasting on the coals of hell! What is hell and where is it? Exactly where is it located? If anyone out there has the answer, let me know. I can't find it on the atlas or with my limited perception of the universe. Where is hell? Some of it is inside people. Some of it is right here right now. Degrees of heaven and hell and purgatory and elements of it are possibly right here right now. A fore-taste, in potential part, possibly in the speculative sense exists right here right now. And what are those lively taste buds telling us? Is there one toe already in heaven, purgatory, or hell? God given free will and proper understanding and implementation thereof can increase degrees of elements of heaven right here right now on planet earth. What is so difficult about this to understand? It is simple. The blueprint is already there for us. Good! We don't even have to design the blueprint. Simply, living it. Doing it. Being Christian and Catholic. Living it out. Living it in, first. In-out, out-in, in-out; a little like a game of inner tennis inside our own souls. I have another dangerous fun idea. What about a stick of dynamite placed inside the mouth of a politician who did not lead properly, with a fuse burning as the eulogy is being read, with everyone rushing to bury him or her to then have it explode underground just after the lawn has been placed on top of the burial spot? If that doesn't please some, then lengthen the fuse to have it blow up long after the sandwiches and coffee session and mourning period are over with at the hall. Here's another dangerous idea. How about a graveyard with 2 sections? One, for the wise and humble of heart and spirit. Another section for the fools and arrogant and ignorant. Why place people together in terms of families or genetic groupings? Why not in terms of WISDOM as properly defined? Just playing with ideas, after all they are what? Free! And many of them are dangerous, which explains in part why ideologies don't work. Ideologies? Well, now I have to build a house filled with cats and mice. And according to my plans, it will be a happily ever after story....after all the mice have been eaten! Natural laws. Obey them, or risk turning red in the face while our own eulogies are being read. Some of them might be so shocking if the TRUTH were told, that it might bring back some to life right on the spot! When will unemployment in Spain and Greece reach 30%? And the leaders are enlightened? Please. Don't insult all of our intelligence, we mere poor saps and citizens. Didn't most of those bright lights go to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, the London School of Economics, La Sorbonne, Oxford, Cambridge? Oh my, what geniuses they produce! For anyone unaware of this, Shakespeare was a theologian first, a philosopher second, a writer third, and a dramatist fourth. In that order. Period. And most PHD academics at universities who teach Shakespeare are not aware of this fact. No wonder most of our students are clueless, the teachers themselves are nuts. It's nobody's fault, since the teachers of the teachers were likely nuts and insane and ignorant as well. And round and round the world spins, on the 23.5 degree axis on which it spins. How is everyone's voyage through space and time going? Having fun? Enjoy it, because one day you'll be dead. Don't like this fact? Don't blame me. I am only human. Take the issue up with God. I, for one, am super happy I am simply a mere human (all it is and all it is not) for I sleep like a rock in peace while resting in the arms of Jesus after a wise man and friend told me in writing to "rest in the arms of Jesus". How comforting. I don't feel safe politicians are apparently running many things "of" this world, the more of them there are the less safe I feel! Less is more. The more dependent one becomes on Jesus the less dependent one becomes on people, things, and things "of this world". Often (usually) empty illusions, the things "of this world". And baby-boomers? Your ideologies were often nuts and your kids are often more clueless, which is in part why I hate teaching at present. The monster parents are more stupid than their children! There you have it, IN WRITING. No, all your kids are not saints and let them do something BEFORE classifying all of them as geniuses and mystics in your entitlement mentality unionized bureaucratic ideological "no child left behind" programs. No child left behind? If they don't do their homework, they'll be left behind no matter how much spoon feeding you give them and how many motivational stupid cassettes you plug into their tiny peanut brains! The less I have to teach in the future, the better. The kids are often great, just kids. The parents? Kids with bigger bodies and less hair and more fat and a few more wrinkles, in most cases. Sometimes a little tiny teaspoon of vinegar goes well with a larger spoon of honey to attract flies and keep them nice and aligned and disciplined. Only honey? It risks attracting so many flies that the honey-giver might just drown in fly droppings! St. Francis de Sales didn't tell us that part, did he! I am not about to drown in the droppings of flies and know from experience that sometimes a barrelful of vinegar stuns the flies into appreciating the honey more whenever they get it. Keep a barrel of honey in one hand, but with a jar of salted vinegar in the other in the event the flies try beating the honey giver over the head with the honey barrel before flying away after having eaten all the honey!
   Paul-Emile Leray

2. Debbie

   6 months ago

   As a Catholic that is Pro-Life and believes that marriage is between one man and one woman I am finding that those with similar beliefs in my parish are becoming fewer and fewer. There are so many in my parish at attend Mass weekly, and are very loving, giving, active members in my community, and they are Pro-Choice/Contraception and/or support same sex marriage.
   
   Out of frustration, me and others in my parish have been distancing ourselves from our parish for some time. While some may take us to task and criticize that we are not loving our neighbor as ourselves, and our actions are not healthy. For me at least I do understand this: The same message I hear every week at Mass is the same message heard by those that hold opposing beliefs on the church teachings. I cannot change their hearts and minds just like they cannot change mine. Therefore, I have found more peace in giving my time, money and talent to those that hold the same beliefs as mine.
   
   Our Bishops and Priests have their hands full, I'm not sure how we arrive at unity within the church? Especially when there is not unity among our Bishops and Priests, there are those support abortion, use of contraception, and same sex marriage, just as there are those that do not. These are beliefs, and are held as the truth, because these beliefs were developed through the teachings of our church.
   
   I do believe that the Holy Spirit will continue to lead us and we will continue to grow strong, for some of us that will develop outside of our home parish.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

3. Tom McGuire

   6 months ago

   Why do you assume that those who did not choose to vote for Romney-Ryan are in favor of mass killing of innocent babies? If we want to build ecclesial communion the true effective witness of Christ among us, we must find a way to dialogue with people of different political views. Judgment of the person is for God, judgment of actions is for humans to struggle with. If Catholics are serious about the Good News of Jesus Christ for all citizens of the world, the need for dialogue with those who differ in their understanding of the most basic moral principles is a necessity.

4. Kathy Welhouse

   6 months ago

   This was a very well written article, and gives me hope for America. Thank you.

5. John

   6 months ago

   Great and very informative article.. We have a lot of work to do as christians. First, do not call yourself catholuic (christian) just because you had your head washed in baptism. Christianity is more and more than that. To call yourself practicing catholic, youi Must hee3d the words of Jesus Christ and His Church. God Bless America and nmay God be the center of our lives.

6. mike robertson

   6 months ago

   Wonderful article, Father. Bless you.
   
   Catholic democrats must be held accountable for accepting an evil platform in exchange for an arrogant claim to have a monopoly on compassion. How? By claiming that leading us and our children into a Greek-like economic collapse brought about by an endless, unsustainable array of "social justice" programs. The only way Catholic democrats are correct is that they are making us all equal-that is, all equally poor and miserable.
   
   We must also not be afraid to acknowledge that, although only God knows our hearts, we have not been afraid to call others evil-David Duke, members of the Klan, George Wallace (when he was a segregationist), the former South African apartheid-era leaders, etc. Therefore, I am not ashamed to add the present occupant of the White House to that list. He favors infanticide even after the baby survives the attempt to kill her in her mom's womb. He claims that he is right and God is wrong as to what constitutes Holy Matrimony and he is presently threatening the Church and her institutions with his "healthcare" mandates, etc.
   
   Lastly, we can all make the error of worshiping false gods. Too many Christians have made a false god out of race-voting for an evil platform because a candidate's father was born in a certain place.
   
   So, Catholic democrats, continue voting for an evil platform. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

7. Cab

   6 months ago

   Here's the thing to understand. People need to understand why Catholics voted for Obama despite his obvious anti-life stance. If you are a Black Catholic you see the republicans as taking stanses against them personally and thus racist. My evidence? Just look at the redistricting games republicans play just to get 3 white districts to one black district. Or voting in Black districts had less booths the whites in states with Repuclican governors. This list goes on. If you are a Latino American you see the republicans taking hard stances against them personally. Just look at Arizona law, right or wrong. Just look at Mitt Romeney's position of "self deportation" and his willingness to send children of illegals who have grown up American for more than 5 years and speak English back to Mexico to go where? If you are a women you see the republicans say rape if not an exception to use a morning after pill and they should accept the child asGod's will. I mean these folks didn't see Mitt Romney. They also saw the meaness of people like Trump and Limbaugh.

8. Dr.A.Celestine Raj Manohar M.D.,

   6 months ago

   In an election, one wins and the other has to lose! If we strongly believe that it is God who makes and unmakes leaders and rulers, we need not feel scared about the aftermath of the elections. we must pray that God should bring about a change of heart in those in authority and many things will take care of themselves. why to worry about the morrow when today has enough of its own? let's hope goodness and righteousness triumphs ultimately and God's plans will succeed no matter how human history changes!this calls for Christians to stay unified in the Lord and to pray with a renewed spirit and fervor from the heart so that the days to come may not be as scary as they seem to be!

9. abey

   6 months ago

   Two thousand years since Christ died & resurrected, it is not past the time for hope to give way to the Faith since hope is not for an ever but Faith is.

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