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Good Shepherd no different than Fisher More.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • March 11, 2014 • Church Scandals

If traditionally-minded Catholics have it in their mind that this is what a Novus Ordo parish is like, it is no surprise that they seek refuge in the Extraordinary Form. It is no surprise they have the passion they do. This is the kind of — excuse me for being blunt—crap that bishops need to stamp down, immediately and clearly and with no apology. The bishop should investigate, and discipline Deacon Sandy Sites, and ensure that no more outrages and abuses occur at Good Shepherd.

Why Latin Mass Onlyists are destroying the Latin Mass.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • March 6, 2014 • Blind Guides & False Prophets; Church Scandals

What is happening in the Catholic Church is that the Latin Mass is becoming the province of a faction of spiteful, spitting lobbyists. The Latin Mass is becoming associated with those who view Vatican II as an invalid council and think that people who attend the Novus Ordo are lesser Catholics; who act as though the Latin Mass somehow makes them better and superior and more holy, and their halo more sure, perhaps even complete. That (not the Latin Mass itself) is the “danger to your soul” to which Bp. Olson referred.

In defense of Bishop Campbell’s firing of a lesbian teacher.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • April 26, 2013 • Church Scandals; In the News; LGBT Issues

There is no way to win an argument with a bully: A bully is not interested in being persuaded, and a bully is not interested in being right; a bully is interested in one thing — being a bully. In the present case, I am speaking about moralistic bullies for the patently wicked, abominable, Satanic evil of homosexuality. They are not interested in being just or righteous; they are interested in imposing their evil on society by rhetorical manipulation and legal threat, even if it means attempting to remove from others the freedom to say, “No, I will not support you in your evil.”

Leftist hysteria continues over Pope Francis & LCWR.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • April 17, 2013 • Church Scandals; Pope Francis

This one is too good to pass up. Over at the Daily Screech, someone named Barbie Latza Nadeau has posted this scribbled panic attack with the priceless title “New Pope, but No Nicer to Nuns.” The only good thing that can be said about it is that Ms. Nadeau is skilled at alliteration. In school, Rhetoric 101 may have been more her strong suit than Logic 101. Ms. Nadeau begins her article by setting the context for the outrage to come. (As she sees it.) For Pope Francis has “cast a positive light on a troubled Church.” (For liberals, the Church is always “troubled.”)

No hope and change for LCWR under Pope Francis.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • April 16, 2013 • Church Scandals

It seems to me self-evident that the very point of a religion is to advance claims about the Truth. Doctrine matters. Without that, you may be any number of things, but you’re not Catholic. And it is not good to have the laity in the pews confused about these points. That is why John Paul II was so at pains to point out the need for “allegiance of mind and heart” to what the Church has taught. That is particularly so for those in religious life. They are the face of the Church to the world. So I am not sure why the LCWR is “shocked” by the Doctrinal Assessment of the CDF.

Thoughts on Bishop Fellay and the ugliness of schism.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • January 11, 2013 • Church Scandals

It pains me to have to write this, because I had great hopes for the reunion of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) with Rome. I had hoped, from all that I had read, that Bishop Fellay was committed to achieving reconciliation, and was disappointed to learn that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) had decided to discontinue further negotations. And it is impossible to listen to Bp. Fellay’s latest talk of ninety-plus minutes and doubt that his love for the Church is sincere. However, I think that he has done irreparable harm to his Society’s chances for reconciliation.