Saturday, May 30, 2015

COUNTERFEIT CATHOLICISM 1

Counterfeit values always resemble the true. Auden

In his 1948 classic Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel narrates how he employed a ruse to mimic the skilled Kyūdō archer's unconscious, natural release of the bowstring. At first, his teacher, Awa Kenzô, is almost deceived. However, thanks to long years of faithfully living his exquisite art, after the briefest of pauses, the master rebukes his pupil for the deception.

This is the indignant response of an intelligent lay person with a sensus Catholicus, who takes a good, long second look at the SGG-Brooksville dog-and-pony show. On the surface, it appears to be Catholic, but as soon as you examine it mindfully, you know something's awry. It just doesn't quite feel right. No matter what your eyes tell you, your heart and intellect warn: The whole thing's all off-center.

Maybe it's Dannie's cloying piety coupled with the ghoulish tales of his ever-vomiting, bloodthirsty cat. Or it could be Cekada's embarrassingly bad scholarship. It might be Big Don's laughably inadequate pesthouse with its malformed inmates and punishment-loving "teaching" staff. Perhaps it's the relentless fundraising, the lavish vacations in the extravagantly fashionable Southwest. Or maybe it's the over-the-top foreign travel. Often it's simply the craziness: the invented dogmas, the banishments, the twisted theology, the hypocrisy, the postponed absolutions, the money grubbing, the "hickory stick" educational philosophy, the denial of sacraments, the bad mouthing of other priests, the emotional outbursts from the pulpit, and the frequent upheavals where the scandalized faithful en masse abandon cult chapels in outrage.

Whatever it is, an assured voice deep inside you urgently whispers, "This hateful mummery cannot be true Catholicism."

In the final analysis, the cult can't pass the "duck test." Oh, yes, it has wings, but it only looks like a duck provided you're myopic and standing a long way off. To be sure, it splashes about to remove gore and filth, but it doesn't swim like a duck. And on a howling, windy day, it's guttural hiss or nasal whine may almost -- but not quite -- sound like a duck's quack to the hearing impaired. So under normal conditions, even if you're totally blind and stone deaf, you're sure the odd bird is no duck, no matter what "One-Hand Dan," Erroneous Antonius, and Big Don tell you: You know it's a scavenging turkey vulture.

In the next few weeks, we'll remind you that when you came upon the SGG-Brooksville cult, you didn't discover a traditional Catholic Shangri-La guided by a wise hierophant like the gentle High Lama of Frank Capra's Lost Horizon. Instead, like George Clooney in the Rodriguez-Tarentino film From Dusk Till Dawn, you witlessly stumbled past a garish façade into a hellish pit of horrors.


Let's get our summer series started today with an example from the hinterland of Tradistan. We won't comment. We'll just give you the facts. You'll be able to conclude on your own that the behavior described is not that of an authentic Catholic priest. He's an honest-to-goodness fake.
This malformed basket-case is no longer directly affiliated with SGG, but he keeps in contact with the cult masters, on occasion dining intimately with them or substituting for them at SGG if they all happen to be away for an "ordination." His Latin is more than doubtful; he used to be seen carrying an English translation of the Breviary. Another person reports he uses an English-language ordo. He frequently mispronounces both Latin and English words, and still has not learned the correct pronunciation of "Bergoglio." (The moron says burr-GOGG-lee-oh.) As one disgusted informant told us, this sorry excuse for a Catholic priest once asked him to translate the Missal rubrics for handling and purifying the chalice on All Souls' Day. The bulk of his reading material consists of pietistic leaflets and spiritual booklets aimed at a low-level lay readership.
He once refused to prepare a young couple at his chapel for matrimony. Tellingly, he wouldn't consent to marry them, claiming his apostolate for the sick and dying left him unprepared for such complexities. (At great inconvenience, the family had to look for another priest.) Despite saying daily Mass for many, many years, he always seems unsure of himself when he celebrates, often betraying his uncertainty with false movements, non-standard liturgical gestures, sighs, and long pauses.
His presence at the altar is a scandal, as his chasuble is almost always disgracefully wrinkled and ofttimes soiled. Customarily he wears an un-ironed tab-collar clerical shirt à la Novus Ordo, with a cross of some kind dangling wildly from his neck. He insists on using the Pius XII rite, but on one Palm Sunday, he read the wrong Gospels. On Good Friday, he recites the tre ore because the Mass of the Presanctified is too complicated for him. He barely can celebrate a Missa cantata, and, in our memory, has only done so once.
He frequently postpones absolution for penitents, especially women. Once when a Novus Ordite wanted to join the traditional Church, he said he had to think about what to do. After coming back once and getting no answer again, the man, a professional, never returned. On another occasion, he denied a woman communion. When confronted afterward, he told the family he had not been sure whether she had gone to confession. Later when the woman went to confession to him on Good Friday, he denied her communion on Easter Sunday, alleging he did not know that she had confessed and received his absolution.
At the baptism of the woman's child, he threatened the assembled friends and family that he would not perform the sacrament unless a young female bystander left. He considered her to be immodestly dressed. From the pulpit, he appears obsessed with women's attire, especially their footwear. He's concocted a sicko rule that summer shoes must have a strap of some sort so the soles don't flap when walking. He loves to scold the laity, and, worse still, he's always on the verge of flipping his wig. Years ago, a young Mexican priest, who had to lodge with him at one of the cult's residences, used to lock the door to his room in fear of what might befall him.

This weird and unholy behavior is not the coin of the Catholic realm. It's an out-and-out forgery of priestly comportment. Ignorant people only put up with it because they're spiritually terrorized. No matter how many hollow pieties he croaks, no matter how dour his perpetually frowning countenance, this loathsome, ignorant creature can never be esteemed a genuine Catholic priest. In the old days, he would have been packed off to a monastery, never to darken a church's door again. (Of course, in the old days, this repulsive parasite never would have gotten into a seminary in the first place, not even as a substitute janitor.)

Since the monastery-option's not available to Traddies, the only recourse is to withdraw all support and stay away until this bad penny gets out of circulation. Better to stay home alone than to offend the faith by supporting and abetting an unholy sham.

17 comments:

  1. Whatever other faults this priest may have, I am glad to hear he condemns the impure fashions of today. There are so many traditional Catholic women who follow the immodest fashions of our times, which Our Lady condemned at Fatima and said they bring so many souls to Hell. A lot of traditional priests are afraid to condemn this style of dress because the women who dress so are often also infected with a feminist mentality, and become very angry when told their clothing is immodest, even when it is bringing the souls around them to Hell, so it is so much easier for a priest to observe human respect and say nothing. So yes, some of this man's habits seem a bit strange, but he is deserving of credit for insisting that women dress modestly, especially at the administration of the Sacrament of Baptism, which most traditional priests wouldn't have the courage to do.

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    1. Curious. So, then, you agree with his blackmailing the family with the sacrament of baptism and spoiling what should have been the happiest of days?

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    2. Regardless of what one thinks about immodest fashions at Mass, I agree that him (and I have an idea who it is) spoiling such a day over trivial things like that is wrong. People make mistakes, we are fallen creatures. It's very possible the woman was someone who hadn't gone to a TLM before.

      The bashing and lashing towards the woman would MAYBE be justified if it was some gravely immodest, very short, nightclub-esque dress inspired by the latest episode of Sábado Gigante. But even that seems to come from his own interpretation of things, which if his idea on what a valid Mass is, is flawed.

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    3. Error: last sentence should say: "Which, based on his idea of what a valid Mass is, is flawed.

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    4. The female bystander at the baptism was a young woman, probably late 'teens or early twenties. She was the girl friend of a family member and almost certainly not a life-long trad. From the way the story was reported, her attire was not frilly or lurid, although it was in today's style for young women.

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    5. It's not blackmailing someone with baptism to ask someone inappropriately attired to leave before proceeding with the ceremony. It's his job to make sure the church is a fitting house of God, and if this person was causing scandal in it by her attire then the priest has the responsibility to ask her to leave. The harm is being done by the immodest woman, not anyone else. So she's the one that ruined the day, not the priest.

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  2. Yes, but being obsessed with footwear is going too far. Also, if he's CONSTANTLY harping on women's wear, then that's a problem.
    I've always said that priests need to stick to the Gospel for their sermons & not go off on tangents- no matter how worthy THEY deem the subject to be. A word or two on modesty should be sufficient if something needs to be addressed. More than that & most tune out & he's only irritating the rest. Why can't he privately counsel the offenders & leave the rest at peace?

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    1. The untrained and untridentine shavelings are probably ignorant of the fact that they should actually deliver a homily (c. 1344 § 1 CIC/1917), not some random blathering. Granted, of course, that they have neither a facultas concionandi nor are they Pastors - and even conceded that Canon law is not in force under the sedevacantist premise - I am sure we can all agree that the relevant canons should nonetheless be the normative κανών for any priestly ministry whatsoever.

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    2. If the Blunderer is the "professor" (LOL) of homiletics at the miserable pesthouse, that should explain all the witless blathering we hear. We have heard quite a number of the Blunderer's incoherent and self-centered musings, and we can assure you that whatever they are, they aren't a homily in the Catholic sense.

      As a note, the reptile of our post wasn't interned at the pesthouse. He received a primitive "formation" elsewhere many years ago and may not even have had a formal class, or, if he did, the lecturer may have been as clueless as his backward pupils.

      As you know, Tarquinius, the cult masters pick and choose the canons to enforce and abide by for their own purposes. As a result, their application of the code is anything but consistent. For instance, they insist that all priests must be formed in a seminary, and they roundly condemn those outside the cult who did not attend a formally organized institution. Nevertheless, when it suits them, they'll ordain and promote someone who studied independently.

      It's all counterfeit.

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  3. There's another thing you might find odd about them.

    They're sedevacantists, right? They use the 1955 Missal because they think John XXIII is a false pope.

    Yet, "Bishop" Dolan says a Missa Cantata with just him and servers. You know when that was approved? 1964, through Inter Oecuminici by Paul VI. How do you think he justifies that when he spends all his time raging against the V2 popes?

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    1. Thanks for the excellent observation: it strikes at the very heart of the cult's blatant hypocrisy. Dannie loves the show and won't be bound by any old rule that limits a bishop to either a pontifical Mass or a low Mass. The liturgy is what he and Checkie says it is, and that's that! And that's not real Catholicism.

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    2. We would note that "One Hand" does not even obey the Sacred Congregation's 1964 rule, which permits bishops to celebrate sung Mass "more presbyterorum," in the manner of priests. "One Hand" adds two MCs, who function as chaplains, as well as many other features never found in a priest's sung Mass. The aim is not edification, but spectacle and personal exaltation.

      In a few weeks, Pistrina will issue a post on the abusive liturgical practices of this imitation Catholicism. In its own way, the cult is as guilty of liturgical abuse as the Novus Ordo in its love of novelty.

      That's correct: we said "novelty." The cult's revival of long-disused liturgical practices, such as the "praegustatio" referenced today in the "Bishop's (?) Corner," is as repugnant to genuine Catholic sensibility as the false antiquarianism of the Modernists -- likewise "One Hand's" substitution of his invented final prayers for the Leonine Prayers, which he and Erroneous Antonius have impiously proscribed.

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  4. Never heard of the strap rule; however, there is a rule about open-toed dress shoes. Modesty is one thing, and it should definitely be observed.

    One must wonder how Our Lord would react to such condemnation that is constantly preached from the pulpits and the bulletins, especially considering the extravagant lifestyles that the "main priests" flaunt.

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  5. Modesty should be observed, but toes being exposed in a dress shoe doesn't have a thing to do with modesty. It is just one of the crazy, obsessive rules put in place.

    It is obvious this priest hates women, and he blames the women for any sinful behaviors of the men.

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    1. If exposed toes are immodest, then most of the statues of the BVM and many female saints will have to be covered or re-done!

      This imbalanced priest certainly does have issues, as many women have reported to Pistrina. It appears that he almost exclusively denies communion to women. Moreover, some of the first-hand reports from women of his behavior in the confessional are disturbing, to say the least. Back in the good ol' days, he would not have lasted too long in a parish. We're certain he would have been degraded and reduced to a lay status.

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    2. That's my point: he makes up outrageous rules for his parish to follow, even though it has nothing to do with Catholicism or modesty. It is as though he is testing "obedience" and loyalty. He continues to treat women, and even men, in the parish as obedient servants/dogs; constantly stating that the lack of obedience is the reason Lucifer was kicked out of Heaven. Does this mean he is comparing himself to Our Lord?

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    3. You're absolutely right in your analysis.

      This guy still has big issues resulting from his negative experiences with a controlling father. He can't stand it when someone else exercises authority, so he tries to lord it over the quaking laity. You can almost see the delight when he gets a chance to scold people over something silly like a forgotten soda can or telling an usher he should be inside the chapel.One would think that someone supposedly possessing the charism of the priesthood would have been able to conquer these demons.

      He's too ill trained to know that as a sede "priest," he has no authority, and he's content that most of the lame-brained laity think they have to listen to him. Laypeople have suffered his "fragility" for too many years. If the menfolk had any moral fiber, they'd stand up to him and put the weasel in his place. Then he'd really go over the deep end, and maybe just leave traditional Catholicism altogether.

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