Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Catholic Free Press buys into homosexual agitprop








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Paul Anthony Melanson said...

And small wonder that Joyce Rupp IS accepted - and heavily promoted - by the Diocese. She has "stretched herself beyond the safe world of heterosexuality.."

ShrewsburyCatholic said...

I have never really trusted the CFP. But then, the paper has carried columns by various dissidents such as Fr. McBrien and Fr. Pennington. Not to mention its support for the dissident Women's Commission.

Michael Cole said...

Paul, I am praying for you. Here in the United States many dioceses have been influenced by the homosexual movement. The same with many religious communities. Remember when Cardinal Arinze was heckled at Georgetown? He was labelled a "bigot" for defending the Church's teaching. You're in good company. The world accepts its own but faithful Catholics can expect to be shunned and excluded. And when we're not being ostracized, we're being accused of "hatred" and "intolerance." Before long anyone who kills us will be seen as doing a holy work.

Stewart said...


Ted Loiseau said...

Leon Podles warns that Christianity is becoming feminized and writes, "If the feminization of the Church continues, men will continue to seek their spiritual sustenance outside the churches, in false or inadequate religions, with highly damaging consequences for the church and society....The inner life of the Church will also be weakened. The Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers will become more and more incomprehensible, and will be rewritten or ignored. Central Christian doctrines, such as the Trinity and the Atonement, are under severe attack, and may vanish from the popular consciousness of Christians, to be replabed by a self-worship that cloaks itself in Christian language." (The Church Impotent).

Anonymous said...

My brother-in-law left the Church because he couldn't relate with all the effeminacy he was seeing in the Church. Not to mention the radical feminists and all their strange agendas; "inclusive language," "Mother Goddess," and all that other claptrap.

I'm not saying I think he was right to leave. There is no valid reason to leave the Church. I'm just saying he didn't feel comfortable with his experience of Church. Masculinity is being relegated to the fringe within the Church. This is happening even in many mainline Protestant churches. Why does the Worcester diocese have a "men's conference" once a year? Because masculinity has been moved out of the Church and into another venue. The rest of the year it's not welcome at the parish level.

At least that has been my experience. Not that anyone gives a damn.

Sanctus Belle said...

If you want to be a priest Paul - look into the IVE or Incarnate Word fathers. They have no limit on age and are an outstanding holy and orthodox order. My parish was given over to their care over a year ago and it is like a dream, an answer to many prayers. They will not turn you away and I believe all thier seminary is free (that is what I've heard, don't know that for fact) You would make a great and holy priest.

Anonymous said...

Paul, you say that you wrote the bishop of Worcester expressing an interest in the diocesan priesthood and received no reply. You are a resident of Manchester, New Hampshire. I do not know if you wrote the bishop there, but I do know that if you did, you would get a negative or no reply. I know of someone in New Hampshire who got a similar treatment. He concluded that he would have to try elsewhere and was fortunate that he had to go only as far as Springfield, Massachusetts.

Paul Anthony Melanson said...

Sanctus, thank you for that. I will contact them for more information. Anonymous, I am not entirely surprised that your friend (or acquaintance) has difficulty pursuing a vocation in Manchester. Orthodox candidates are routinely cast aside there as well. Sign of the times.

God bless you all. Thanks for your comments.

Ashley Pelletier said...

Paul, the prayer group in Mason really enjoyed your talk on the nature of dissent. And thanks for all the work you've done in Nashua New Hampshire as well.

You are in our prayers.

Marie Tremblay said...

It's really a shame that the "Catholic" Free Press has decided to publish an article utilizing such an emotionally-charged word which is employed as a semantic weapon to silence moral opposition to homosexuality. But it doesn't come entirely as a surprise. The Worcester diocese tolerates the Newman Center in Fitchburg whose website is linked to NACDLGM - a "Catholic" organization which openly dissents from the Church's teaching on homosexuality and which distributes "gay" porn. A diocese which is losing its way.

Follower of Pope Benedict XVI said...

I don't read it anymore. And I now forward my tithe to religious communities which are in union with Rome and do not promote such nonsense. I guess the CFP wants to cater to the radical homosexual community.

Paul Anthony Melanson said...

The "Catholic" Free Press does it again:

Once again this newspaper has failed the faithful of the Worcester Diocese.

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