Bishops, REPENT: Vortex

It is hardly necessary to add anything to MV’s comments in this Vortex episode ("Blindness About Obama", August 23). I don’t think I’ve ever seen him so blunt and forceful in his comments; and I agree wholeheartedly with everything he has said.

Nonetheless, since I seem always to have something to add…I will! Here are some excerpts and my comments; the Vortex and full script are below.

MV takes as his starting point the recent announcement of Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, RI, that he was jumping the Democrat ship and switching his registration to Republican. MV adds:

The 65-year-old bishop who has been a registered democrat since 1969 says the big moment of awareness came for him when he saw the 2012 Democratic Convention and its insistence of promoting the culture of death.

While all faithful Catholics should be happy about His Excellency’s self-described “aha moment”, this should also be a HUGE indicator of just how deeply flawed things are in the Church these days. How could it possibly take SO LONG for a Catholic bishop to see the evil that the Democrats have foisted on America?

Indeed! MV is quick to note that he’s not giving the Republican Party a pass, either, because that party is also far down the slippery slope with regard to moral issues. But it is ludicrous that, according to a number of bishops who have spoken on the subject, “Obama [has] enjoyed at least 50-50 support among the US Bishops, and some said he enjoyed majority support”.

Now let me share with you what MV thinks of Obama and the Democratic Party (and I cannot agree with him more!):

It has been clear since this megalomaniac appeared on the stage of an earlier Democratic Convention out of nowhere that he is an agent of Hell. And if you think that is over the top language… actually, it’s quite tame when you look at his record.

From the slaughter of millions of pre-born innocents, to the advancement of sodomy, to the continued destruction of the family through his social and economic policies, to his almost casual race-baiting and class war agitating, and so forth, this man does the will of Satan at every turn. And so does his party. And enough already with the tired old line – well, they care for the poor. They care for the poor like Hell! Their social justice garbage and pretended war on poverty has been and is nothing more than a giant wealth re-distribution program aimed at creating an enormous underclass that they throw a few crumbs from the table to so they can get their votes every election cycle.

They have wrecked the schools, planted Planned Parenthood in their neighborhoods, backed any and all thoughts, fads and philosophies that decry any reverence or thought of God, appointed judges who dismantle whatever natural law reasoning actually was present in the founding documents and directly caused the deaths of tens of millions of Americans who were never given a chance to see daylight.

This has been their game plan and action since Lyndon Johnson and his so-called Great Society back in the 1960s. And what do we have – death, destruction, marginalizing and mockery of religion and a society rushing headlong into Hell.

And it took until the 2012 Convention for a Catholic Bishop to see this??!?!

Amen. And MV asks:

 

So here is a serious question – how on earth can a bishop who supports this agent of Satan be trusted to ensure that the Faith is being faithfully transmitted?

Simple answer…they can’t. And we have seen that they can’t. There are plenty of examples out there – some in the news, some just anecdotal – of bishops failing in their teaching office. (Yes, there are examples of bishops who do teach the faith, but they are few and far between.) MV lays it on the line for the unfaithful bishops:

You liberal bishops have helped create this culture of death directly, by the work of your own hands. Don’t think that the blood of those babies, of those souls that fall into Hell because of their evil sexual practices, will not weigh in the scales against you on your judgment day.

You are successors of the Apostles – not political operatives for an evil agenda that sounds nice and sugary on the surface, but is evil to its core on the inside.

You need to repent – all of you liberal bishops. You liberal bishops who stamp on tradition in the Church, who let the rot of horrible catechesis flourish in your own diocese, who let abuse after abuse remain unchecked in parishes under your care.

MV doesn’t stop there; he lists the sins of these bishops in no uncertain terms, and you, dear reader, need to either watch the video or read the script to get the full effect of what he is saying. I have bolded that section in the script below. Many bishops have blood on their hands, and for the sake of their own souls they need to repent. And they need to repent publicly, because their sins are public.

MV concludes:

You have abdicated your role as shepherd and let the wolves ransack the flock.

In all the sincerity it is possible to muster, with the deepest charity for your souls, you need to repent publicly. You need to say much more than “I switched parties”. You need to do much more than simply say, “We were gun shy when it came to talking about sexual morality,” as Cardinal Dolan told the Wall Street Journal last year.

You need to say, “I have been unfaithful”. And then you need to open your eyes and see the destruction of the faith that YOU have brought about, and you need to spend your remaining days trying to amends.

And we, the faithful, need to pray for these men.

But along with the prayers, I think it is high time that more people stand up, actually point a finger at offending bishops, and say, “You are responsible.”

Now, of course, I hear plenty of people object to “pointing fingers”; they say that “when you point your finger, there are several fingers pointing back at you”, etc. Well, I am not a bishop! I do not have the responsibilities of a bishop, and will not be held accountable by God in the same way. I am not responsible for souls in the same way a bishop is. I believe it is better to point a finger and say, “Repent!”, than to turn a blind eye to the transgressions of our shepherds. Where is the charity in agreeing with the wrong teaching of a bishop?

Rod Pead, in his powerful talk on “The Sword of Unity”, said

Look, we are kidding ourselves if we think we do well to commend what looks like duplicity in our leaders. Episcopal salvation is, to say the very least, problematic. "Many priests are lost and few bishops are saved," said St. John Chrysostom, himself a bishop. After his mother congratulated him on his appointment as Bishop of Mantua, St. Pius X told her: "Mother, you do not realise what it means to be a bishop. I shall lose my soul if I neglect my duty." So we have to stop pandering to duplicitous Shepherds and start fearing - for them, since they appear to have lost all fear of God themselves, and fearing for our complicity in their negligence.

And Rod Pead was speaking 13 years ago! A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then, and a lot of evil has been done by bishop, whether by commission of omission.

Pray. Fast.

The script:

A few days ago, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence Rhode Island told a Rhode Island

TV station he was changing parties from Democrat to Republican.

The 65-year-old bishop who has been a registered democrat since 1969 says the big moment of awareness came for him when he saw the 2012 Democratic Convention and its insistence of promoting the culture of death.

While all faithful Catholics should be happy about His Excellency’s self-described “aha moment”, this should also be a HUGE indicator of just how deeply flawed things are in the Church these days.

How could it possibly take SO LONG for a Catholic bishop to see the evil that the Democrats have foisted on America?

And for the record – we know the Republican Party leadership in many ways, also supports many of these same evils, but just treads a little lighter because of the rank and file.

So this is no homage to the Republicans, but rather a serious questioning of what is in the minds of many American bishops.

It has been clear since this megalomaniac appeared on the stage of an earlier Democratic Convention out of nowhere that he is an agent of Hell. And if you think that is over the top language .. actually, it’s quite tame when you look at his record.

From the slaughter of millions of pre-born innocents, to the advancement of sodomy, to the continued destruction of the family through his social and economic policies, to his almost casual race-baiting and class war agitating, and so forth, this man does the will of Satan at every turn. And so does his party. And enough already with the tired old line – well, they care for the poor. They care for the poor like Hell! Their social justice garbage and pretended war on poverty has been and is nothing more than a giant wealth re-distribution program aimed at creating an enormous underclass that they throw a few crumbs from the table to so they can get their votes every election cycle.

They have wrecked the schools, planted Planned Parenthood in their neighborhoods, backed any and all thoughts, fads and philosophies that decry any reverence or thought of God, appointed judges who dismantle whatever natural law reasoning actually was present in the founding documents and directly caused the deaths of tens of millions of Americans who were never given a chance to see daylight.

This has been their game plan and action since Lyndon Johnson and his so-called Great

Society back in the 1960s. And what do we have – death, destruction, marginalizing and mockery of religion and a society rushing headlong into Hell.

And it took until the 2012 Convention for a Catholic Bishop to see this??!?!

In various interviews with a number of different bishops over the past few years, they

have each admitted that Obama enjoyed at least 50-50 support among the US Bishops

and some said he enjoyed majority support.

So here is a serious question – how on earth can a bishop who supports this agent of

Satan be trusted to ensure that the Faith is being faithfully transmitted? Seriously?

The great defense on the part of these liberal-minded bishops is: “Oh, the poor; oh, the poor… the death penalty, the death penalty”. Poverty and execution are not intrinsic evils – check the Catechism – but abortion, sodomy, euthanasia, contraception certainly are, and they are the backbone of the Democratic Party [platform], and have been for decades.

Yet, every election, we hear this liberal bishop pabulum conflating intrinsic evil with social ills as though they are the same. They will not take a stance against these things because they, in their minds, are locked in the halcyon days of the 1960s, and live in a pretend world of peace and joy and flower power.

For the liberal bishops who have contributed to such an undermining of the faith all these decades, there is much more here than coming to some dim awareness of the evil that has been staring you in the face all these years. There is a requirement to renounce your personal contribution to it – not bemoan some vague set of social circumstances that are complex and difficult to get your hands around.

You liberal bishops have helped create this culture of death directly, by the work of your own hands. Don’t think that the blood of those babies, of those souls that fall into Hell because of their evil sexual practices will not weigh in the scales against you on your judgment day.

You are successors of the Apostles – not political operatives for an evil agenda that sounds nice and sugary on the surface, but is evil to its core on the inside.

You need to repent – all of you liberal bishops. You liberal bishops who stamp on tradition in the Church, who let the rot of horrible catechesis flourish in your own diocese, who let abuse after abuse remain unchecked in parishes under your care.

You have supported a political system which has brought morality in this country to its knees and made a virtuous life the butt of jokes. Yes, you! Do you think you will escape responsibility for your deeds and their consequences – your sins of omission and commission – what you have done and what you have failed to do?

The truth of the Faith has been strangled on your watches with your complicity. You are shepherds appointed by GOD Almighty to souls to Christ, but you have led souls right into the arms of the enemy. You have compromised with evil – you covered up the rape of children and pled ignorance afterwards.

You have allowed hordes of homosexual men to become priests and then promoted them after ordination to influential positions on the Church where they could reign down their spiritual terror on the unsuspecting faithful.

You have not just allowed but encouraged a spirit of radical feminism to run wild in the

Church, in your own ranks and in the pews, universities, parishes, seminaries, houses of formation and so forth.

You have sat atop a near total destruction of the faith unprecedented in the history of the Church that it would have made Nero blush.

You have coddled murderers and sodomites and evil men of every sort. You have rolled out the red carpet for them in your cathedrals. You have delivered Holy Communion to them as surely as Judas handed over Our Blessed Lord.

You have abdicated your role as shepherd and let the wolves ransack the flock.

In all the sincerity it is possible to muster, with the deepest charity for your souls, you need to repent publicly. You need to say much more than “I switched parties”. You need to do much more than simply say, “We were gun shy when it came to talking about sexual morality,” as Cardinal Dolan told the Wall Street Journal last year.

You need to say, “I have been unfaithful”. And then you need to open your eyes and see the destruction of the faith that YOU have brought about and you need to spend your remaining days trying to amends.

GOD Love You,

I’m Michael Voris