Unbelievable: Springfield Mass. Diocese has new high school named for Bergoglio!

Today is September 23rd, the autumn Ember Friday. Today is also the feast of St. Padre Pio, whose feast technically doesn't exist liturgically in the calendar of the missal he always said Mass according to up until his death. 

Fourteen years after Padre Pio's canonization, it is considered hate speech to name a church or school after any saint who either only said, knew, or attended the Traditional Latin Mass, a.k.a. the Catholic Mass. While relics of any class are required to be inserted into the altar mensa (stone) in order to consecrate a church and name it after that particular saint, there are less restrictions for Catholic schools and charitable organizations. It is very praiseworthy to name a Catholic school after a canonized saint of the Church or a local bishop or priest who supported Catholic education. (Cardinal Spellman in Brockton, Archbishop Williams in Braintree, and Bishop Fenwick in Peabody, all in the Archdiocese of Boston, are a few examples.) 

But the Springfield Diocese, which covers Western Massachusetts, is pretty much hippie country, and there never were a lot of Catholics in this area anyhow. When Cathedral High School was blown away by the 2011 Tornado, it closed for good. Holyoke Catholic High School saw facing low enrollment, so the two were merged into a new school named after--guess who--Pope Francis. 

Pope Francis High School is currently in temporary quarters until the new school is finished by 2018. They are using the "prep school" format where all the students where pretty uniforms. They require 60 hours of community service to graduate, and it costs $9300 this year for tuition, more than many community colleges! (For more info, look at the school's website at your own risk.)

I only came across this school after reading a high school football preview pull-out section from my local newspaper, and one of the schools had Pope Francis on the schedule. But it is classless to name a school after a pope who is never going to be canonized. 

What would happen if someone named a school after Archbishop Lefebvre? 

Back online, a lot to catch up on...

After computer issues over the past three weeks I'm finally able to post something. There have been several things going on that I would like to summarize:

Sitting for the National Anthem

The modern-day (D) party is responsible for encouraging treasonous behavior, including, but not limited to, sitting down or kneeling for the National Anthem or abstaining from the Pledge of Allegiance. (See Title 36 of the U.S.C. for the statutes) With the sitting President encouraging this behavior, I have no plans to vote for a Democrat for Federal office indefinitely. 

Since Colin Kaepernick is a demoted quarterback making $12 million as a bench warmer, the NFL should have had the balls to fine him. But they don't require anyone to stand who's bodily-able to do so. (The NBA requires all persons in the arena to stand.)

Could Hillary Drop Out?

I'm obviously not voting for Hillary Clinton because what she will do to anyone who loves this country. But if she withdrew at this stage of the game, this would complicate things even more. Early voting is occurring now in some states, and with the ballots already printing for the election, her name will appear on them. The 20th Amendment only mentions that the Vice President-elect would become President if the winner dies, but doesn't mention if a candidate withdraws. If the DNC were to announce a write-in candidate, then people may not follow-through. In most states the electors are still bound to the winning candidate, even if he or she withdrew or died before election day. So this could almost guarantee a Trump win. 

Frankenpope Allows Bishops to Appoint Lay Officiants for Marriage

Behind everyone's back, Pope Francis has issued a motu proprio on May 31st that bishops may delegate laypersons as officiants for weddings in their dioceses when there is no priest or deacon available to officiate. I WILL NEVER ENTERTAIN SUCH PRACTICES. 

My Tribute to 2016 Team Golden Girls

The following image is my tribute to the Golden Girls who won gold for Team USA at the just concluded Rio Olympics. I made it in Sketchup (a CAD/3D modeling program) since my Photoshop license transferred from the original owner of my last laptop/hard drive/server expired.

Here we go:

Since it is about the Olympic team, it's free for you to share! 

Another weekly Sunday Mass in New England

From the New Liturgical Movement blog: 

Effective Sunday, September 4, 2016, Holy Ghost Parish in Tiverton, Rhode Island (Fr. Jay Finelli, pastor) will have the Traditional Latin Mass every Sunday at 9AM and every Holy Day of Obligation. Holy Ghost has been offering the Novus Ordo ad orientem and a TLM on the First Sunday of every month. 

Despite having the best bishop in New England, the Diocese of Providence only had Sunday Masses in the Traditional rite at Holy Name in Providence (near Brown and RISD). 

Holy Ghost Parish is right over the Fall River, Mass. line. The Diocese of Fall River has a Francis appointee, and I suggest any Catholics who remain in this diocese to start crossing diocesan (and state) boundaries every Sunday to attend this Mass. 

PRAYER REQUEST...

Catholic Family News editor John Vennari recently announced he has cancer. Please pray to St. Philomena for his recovery and if you can donate to help cover his medical bills, please send your money to the address at this link. 

Is Katie Ledecky a devout Catholic?

God Bless Katie Ledecky! God Bless Team USA!

Since Olympic Gold Medalist Kathleen "Katie" Ledecky from Team USA says a Hail Mary before she swims, she has been reported by several news outlets as a "devout" Catholic. But does saying the Hail Mary alone make you a devout Catholic? 

The 19-year-old from Bethesda,  Maryland comes from a well-to-do family who sent her to Catholic schools. Fine, but so many "Catholic" schools accept anyone with money. Many of her classmates might have not been baptized Catholics. 

Unless Katie starts attending the Traditional Latin Mass, I would not count her in as a devout Catholic. Since her Olympic training might have interfered with her ability to attend a proper Sunday Mass, it is not her fault. 

Katie Ledecky is only a lay woman. But according to the August 12th edition of the "Catholic" Free Press , the Bishop of Worcester sat as a spectator at Bishop Athanasius Schneider's Pontifical High Mass at World Youth Day sponsored by Juventutem. (I can't imagine this was an official WYD event.) Supposedly this was his first Pontifical liturgy since his seminary days. 

As Bishop, he is responsible for the liturgy in his diocese. The fact that Bishop McManus can leave his diocese to be an official catechist at Catholic Woodstock and attend a Pontifical High Mass that Woodstockers would never attend shows that he is selling his flock out. Why isn't he relocating his episcopal throne to the Gospel side of St. Paul's Cathedral, moving the altar back against the reredos, and start offering Pontifical High Masses in his own cathedral church as a real bishop would? 

Young Catholics like Katie Ledecky are being corrupted in their spiritual life on a daily basis because of Vatican II. Please pray for them. 

World Youth Day debuts porno sex-ed curriculum

I never supported World Youth Day because it's a Catholic Woodstock. But just like the 1969 festival at Bethel, New York, the Vatican™has decided to hold workshops on how to present sex education in CCD classes. Life Site News has a disturbing slideshow of some of the material, many of which are pornographic. (Because they're so bad I'm not going to link to it.)

I have added the trademark symbol after the name of the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church because it ceases to be the spiritual headquarters. To those Bible-believing Protestants: St. Peter was the first Pope, but the Church is located over his tomb of martyrdom in Rome. There is no mention of a Vatican.

He might wear a white cassock, but if a pope doesn't not fulfilling the Petrine office faithfully, he is not to be followed. 

The Catholic Church is comprised with all orthodox believers (clergy and lay) who uphold all her Magisterial teachings and liturgical rites. They could live anywhere. 

The Church could be located anywhere in theory. Just look at the Avignon Papacies. 

Any of the bishops who are present at WYD instead of governing their dioceses should be condemning this once and for all. 

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. 

Tim Kaine's parish

In his acceptance speech to be Hillary Clinton's viceroy, Sen. Tim Kaine mentioned his Jesuit schooling and membership at St. Elizabeth's Parish in Richmond, Virginia. Below is a recent screenshot from the parish Facebook:

(I blacked-out the names and icons of the commentators for privacy reasons.) If you read the first two comments to this imprimatur, I feel your pain. The Bergoglio ticket is now complete (with a fluent-Spanish speaker).

Under a Clinton-Kaine reign, expect to see the following within the first hundred days:

• The virtual repeal of the First, Second, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments;

• A pathway to legalization for anyone who entered the United States of America illegally;

• The criminalization of private schools;

• A Federal tax on almost everything;

• 30-something-year-old feminists with no practical or judicial experience nominated to  the Supreme Court and throughout the Federal Judiciary;

• and most importantly to my readers, THE CRIMINALIZATION OF THE TRIDENTINE LATIN MASS AND SACRAMENTS. 

I'm not kidding! 

Liberals and moderates have dismissed Donald Trump's nomination speech as too negative and dark. BUT THESE ARE DARK TIMES! America is in it's most dangerous time period since the Civil War. At this point, IF TRUMP WINS, THEN TRUMP WINS. This is not an endorsement, but I would expect whichever party who controls Congress next term to impeach and remove anyone who violates the Constitution. If The Donald misbehaves in the Oval Office or the Lincoln Bedroom, then I would prefer Mike Pence to step-in over Tim Kaine.

If Trump looses, then it will be the fault of Reince Priebus for allowing the debates to become entertainment. It will partially be the fault of Ted Cruz, who in my opinion should have not quit after Indiana and stayed until he was mathematically eliminated. If Trump didn't get his 1237 votes at the convention, then Cruz would have been the nominee, and we would have a chance. 

It is very ironic that the Democrats are holding their convention in Philadelphia, the place where the First and Second Continental Congresses met, and the Declaration of Independence written. Today's (D) party is not your grandfather's; they simply have no allegiance to the United States. 

If Trump wins and you really don't like it here, you have the right to leave. The United States does not force people to stay here if they don't want to live here. If you want to move to Canada with all the Hollywood celebrities, fine. But someone like me will be executed if I try to escape to the United Kingdom.