Fr. Martin’s Guidance

As is the custom at America Magazine we have been advised that Fr. Martin SJ has a new book out: The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything, or what I like to describe as, The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything but Obedience. Not by accident does Fr. Martin treat as his subjects the lives of the Saints. The Saints are intended to provide cover for what can only be understood as homosexual activism and the promotion of the “gay culture”. Invoking the names of the Saints to provide cover for his dissent? I don’t know what could possibly be more morally reprehensible. Not by accident is Fr. Martin the “culture editor” at America Magazine. His mission is to shape the “culture” of the Church by way of indoctrinating the unsuspecting with views antithetical to the teachings of the Church. I am reminded of boys who throw firecrackers and then run lest they be caught. An example of this is his recent post about the lesbian couple whose child was denied admission to a parochial school in Colorado. He asks these questions:

“The parish and archdiocese are within their rights not to admit children from families that are “in open discord with Catholic teaching in areas of faith and morals.” So do the same rules apply to a child of parents who in similar discord? That is, the child of a single, divorced parent? To a child of divorced and remarried parents? To a child of a single, unmarried mother? To a child of a parent who commits adultery? To a child of a parent who uses birth control? To a child of a parent who steals from his company? To a child of a parent who fails to forgive his neighbor? To a child of a parent who fails to care for the poor? To a child of any parent who sins? They too would be in “open discord.”

Within short order of posting such a piece, the reader in inevitably drawn to a post regarding the Saints, in this case, we have a long post about his new book, accompanied by a picture of St. Ignatius. Most people do not seem on to the game. The mistake of hubris is always to assume that one is so clever that no one could possibly understand its modus operandi. It is the frequent error of common thieves. Unfortunately for the thief, not every one at the precinct is an intellectual cretin. Inarguably, Fr. Martin is charming, witty, engaging and most likable, but then, so too was Lucifer. This is precisely what renders him particularly dangerous. His dissent leads others into sin. He confirms others in their sin. Someone needs to call this by its name: scandal. And someone needs to rein him in.

Maria H. Byrd

James Martin, S. J. is a hell of sport

Sports fans are getting some advice from James Martin, S.J. .

The moral of Martin’s analogy?

The sport of seating yourself in the midst of souls trying to make their way to Heaven and disorienting them with falsehoods and lies should be less confrontational as they continue on with their game.

I posted the following comment:

Is it me, or is this post suggesting that false prophets bringing false teachings, thereby leading people into temptation and sin – and ultimately the loss of salvation – avoid booing those teaching the Catechism?

The only role of a priest is the salvation of the soul of people who cross his path. Yet, the blog posts on this blog repeatedly bait people away from salvation. You vascillate between acting like a disinterested observer and posting entries that twist the doctrine iinto the enemy of personal sexual freedom and killing unborn children (and sick and suffering people) at will.

Now, you post this to imply to those misleading souls should play nicely as they go about their business of pecking at the Body of Christ like vultures.

Are you serious?

Bloggers like Elizabeth Scalia are doing a terrible disservice to the souls being misled with false teachings when they ratify James Martin as somebody who is teaching the authentic faith. They’re also doing a terrible disservice to a priest who has lost his way.

It’s akin to being out in the public square characterizing your next door neighbor supplying pornography and crack pipes to teenagers as a virtuous youth minister and encouraging parents to drop their kids off at his house.

In fact, it’s worse. There is nothing that anyone could do to the body that comes anywhere near the evil of misguiding a soul.

This is the kind of charity you see in hell.

Gotta kick love for Christ up a few notches.

Francis X Looney, S.J.: Tamil Love III, to love God Body and Soul like Antal

“It is the month of Markali / the moon is full and the day auspicious. / Come to bathe / you precious girls, richly adorned / dear to Ayarpati, / land of abounding prosperity. / The son of Nandagopa / fierce with his sharp spear, / the youthful lion-cub of Yasoda / woman of matchless eyes, / dark-hued and lotus eyed / his face, is both the sun and the moon / that Narayana alone can give us the parai-drum. / Undertake this vow / And the whole world will rejoice. / el or empavay.”

Eat your heart out Divine Praises.

Who needs the Pieta and the generous deposit of Christian images to reflect upon when you have this…um..woman with the tail of a serpent.

Hello? Anyone home???

We are learning many things by reading these lovely, powerful songs, and have hard but frutiful discussions of how to read mystical poetry, how to learn from it critically, with a sense of historical and cultural difference, with a critical eye toward gender sterotypes — and yet with open hearts.

End of Life’s Persistent Dilemmas: It’s all Kill ’em when they’r sick at America Magazine

You know, there’s nothing like a group of Catholic lay people and priests who sell killing sick people.

Gives you that special feeling inside to know these people want to be the arbiters of who gets medical services.

Kevin Clarke writes:

“The stories suggest that, despite the bishop’s recent attempts to clarify this specific end-of-life question, Catholic families, their doctors and staff at Catholic institutions are going to continue to grapple with practically and lovingly interpreting church teaching when confronted personally by these difficult questions.”

Nothing new here.  Grappling with the commandments has been around since Adam and Eve.

It’s explicitlly been stated that withdrawing food and water from sick relatives violates the commandment against killing people.

A grapple is when you have access to the truth and you fight against it.   If at the end of our grapples, we violate Church teaching, it’s a mortal sin.   Mortal sins keep us out of heaven.

This is why Christ said that few will make it into Heaven.

Here’s some advice from a wise and counseled individual:

Let the wicked still act wickedly, and the filthy still be filthy. The righteous must still do right, and the holy still be holy.”

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“Behold, I am coming soon. I bring with me the recompense I will give to each according to his deeds.

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I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” ⁸

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Blessed are they who wash their robes so as to have the right to the tree of life and enter the city ⁹ through its gates.

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Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the unchaste, the murderers, the idol-worshipers, and all who love and practice deceit.

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“I, Jesus, sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the root and offspring of David, ¹⁰ the bright morning star.”

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The Spirit and the bride ¹¹ say, “Come.” Let the hearer say, “Come.” Let the one who thirsts come forward, and the one who wants it receive the gift of life-giving water.

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I warn everyone who hears the prophetic words in this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,

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and if anyone takes away from the words in this prophetic book, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city described in this book.

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¹² The one who gives this testimony says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!