The school is compelled by the teachings of the Catholic Church to pull out. According to the Principal, Brother Thomas Dalton, 'Catholics are forbidden to sponsor or even participate in an event which openly promotes unnatural and immoral behavior. The Church will never accept nor condone same sex marriage and the homosexual life style.'
For 25 years the school has participated in the parade dedicated to Saint Patrick and believes that to have a float with his representation leading a group openly promoting and proud of its homosexual identity would draw down the ire of this great patron of the Boston Archdiocese. 'Saint Patrick stands with Saint Paul in condemning the sin of sodomy,' stated Brother Dalton. 'The name of Saint Patrick should be dropped from the parade as he would have nothing to do with the likes of it today.'
The director of the Band, Br. Peter Bracket stated, 'All the Band members and their parents—although greatly disappointed in not being able to march—are fully supportive of the School’s decision. We have to remain loyal to Church teachings which states in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, promulgated by Saint John Paul II, that ‘homosexual acts are acts of grave depravity’ and ‘are intrinsically disordered…Under no circumstances can they be approved.’ (#2357)'
Brother Peter Bracket is right. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in its document entitled Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons, warns that even where homosexual unions have been legalized, "clear and emphatic opposition is a duty." (No. 5). This important document stresses that, "any kind of formal cooperation in the enactment or application of such gravely unjust laws" and even any "material cooperation on the level of their application" must be avoided. "In this area," states the document, "everyone can exercise the right to conscientious objection."
Considerations makes it abundantly clear that, "The Church teaches that respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to considerations of homosexual unions." (No. 11). In other words, there can be no doubt that all Catholics have a moral duty to oppose the homosexual agenda.
The good folks at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Still River, Massachusetts understand this. What a shame that Cardinal Sean O'Malley does not.
The Catholic community in and around Boston deserves an authentic shepherd who understands that opposition to all sin - AND ESPECIALLY SINS THAT CRY TO HEAVEN FOR VENGEANCE- is a duty of each and every Catholic.
The faithful deserve wheat. And they suffer from a Cardinal who offers only chaff.
Don't expect firm teaching from this cowardly cleric. He is afraid of the world and subject to the vagaries of public opinion.
ReplyDeleteGod is chastising us with the pastors we deserve. If all people would stop sinning God may send us true shepherds.
ReplyDeleteHoses 4:6...
ReplyDelete"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children."
You're putting the cart before the horse. You've got it bass ackwards....bad priests lead to bad flocks!!!
I'm pretty sure a doctor of the Church said that when God is angry He permits bad shepards to come. Only if we repent he'll send shepherds after his own heart.
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ReplyDeleteImmaculate Heart of Mary School: the only true Catholic school in the Commonwealth.
ReplyDeleteBad priests pervert the people:
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From the above article:
ReplyDeleteThe bad example of the priest necessarily produces immorality among his people, says St. Bernard. Should a secular mistake the way, he alone is lost; but when a priest errs, he shall cause the perdition of many, particularly of those that are under his care, says the same St. Bernard. The Lord ordained in Leviticus that for the sin of a single priest a calf should be offered, as well as for the sins of the entire people. From this Innocent III. concludes that the sin of a priest is as grievous as the sins of the whole people. The reason is, says the Pontiff, that by his sin the priest leads the entire people into sin. And, long before, the Lord himself said the same: If the priest that is anointed shall sin, he maketh the people to offend.” Hence, St. Augustine, addressing priests, says, ” Do not close heaven: but this you do if you give to others a bad example to lead a wicked life.” Our Lord said one day to St. Bridget, that when sinners see the bad example of the priest, they are encouraged to commit sin, and even begin to glory in the vices of which they were before ashamed. Hence our Lord added that worse maledictions shall fall on the priest than on others, because by his sinful life he brings himself and others to perdition.
Well, the St Patrick Day parade in Southie has long been an occasion of sin; any resemblance to a holy procession is in one's imagination. It's a tribal debauch.
ReplyDeleteI stopped going to Mass within the Boston area. I attend a Latin Mass in Still River now. Boston is coming unglued.
ReplyDeleteMy friend Dr O'Brien the author of the blog www.gfaba.com asks the question in his latest post:
ReplyDelete"...Even as Catholics are slaughtered and persecuted all over the world, the one-percenters in the bishops' palazzos are primarily obsessed with increasing special privileges for those whose behavior is in direct opposition to immutable Church teaching. I wonder why that is? What could it be?"
I think we all know the answer to the question - too many of the clergy in high and low places are homosexuals.
St. Patrick's Day has been stolen from the secular heathens just like St. Valentine's Day. This year was their grand finale with '50 Shades of Grey'. But, do our Prince's of the Church have to 'join in'? I guess the secular minded ones are all for it.
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