One Catholic Dad versus the Culture of McCarrick

Fr. RP Mod • 8 days ago

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  M.R. Schwartz • 8 days ago

  In the early 90's, my wife and I opted to home school all our 5 children. That decision had our income drop 2/3rds. It was extremely tight with the mortgage and we faced the financial sword of Damocles for a very long time. Looking back, I would not change that decision, even for the world. Also, both my wife and I did not have an undergraduate degree so do not let a lack of a teaching degree hold you back. Get your kids out of the school. Doing it later is far tougher on both you and the children.

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  OMG M.R. Schwartz • 6 days ago

  I too, home-schooled. It is the only way. Catholic schools, generally, sadly, are as corrupt as the priest who doesn't preach what's right and what's wrong. Our Gospel of Life and KoC read essays from eighth-graders at my parish school. Every single student conveyed the relativistic idea that "some say abortion is wrong, while others understand it to be okay since it is necessary." Not a single one quoted the Catechism, Humanae Vitae, or a priest's words about it. This same parish Gospel of Life group insisted upon using funds from an orthodox member to create a garden and statue to those mourning the loss of an infant. A few orthodox members argued for the Pieta and mention of the word abortion. What won? A statue of a contemporary woman, legs spread, holding a sleeping child in her lap. The inscription is something insipid.

  As a volunteer in 40 Days for Life, I had one young gal turn to meet my eyes as she walked with her boyfriend into the abortuary outside of which I prayed. The very next day, a Sunday, I gasped as the very same two people stood in front of me at Sunday Mass and received Holy Communion together.

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  Pearl of York • 8 days ago

  You must take your boys out of that school! Just because the rainbow sticker was removed by the end of the day, be rest assured that teacher is indocrinating a love of perversion in her students behind closed doors.

  You are paying for the corruption of your children. I would never send my children to a Catholic school—I have much evidence they are worse than public schools (at least in my geographic area). My diocese is infiltrated.

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    Mike44R Pearl of York • 8 days ago

    I would demand that the teacher be fired for moral attitudes inconsistent with the mission of Catholic schools.

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  givelifeachance2 • 8 days ago

  The thing that gets me is there are probably around 50 million post abortive women out there who need to go to confession but can't do it because they need a father confessor not a fruit (however celibate). Same with their 50 million partners. You want to know why the pussy hats And ungodly rage being directed against prolife? Dammed up guilt and shame that can't be punctured until we can have some real confessors. And we'll know they are real when they talk the talk in their homily.

  Me, I'd like to go confess to father kalcik.

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    OMG givelifeachance2 • 6 days ago

    If there are 300 million people in the U.S., and 50 million abortions in the past 50 years, that means that about 1/3 of the population (more or less) is either the father or mother of an aborted child. Damned guilt and damned shame. And yes, it's raged against the few of us attempting to hold onto our faith.

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  Johnny Midnyte • 8 days ago

  If a male teacher put a rainbow sticker on his classroom door, your sons are in immediate danger of being sexually assaulted by a pederast. Let's stop dancing around this issue and calling these degenerates out for what they are.

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  SENDTHYHOLYANGELS Johnny Midnyte • 7 days ago

  Agree, grab your kids and get them out of there! I can tell you anyway,
  kids learn their religion at home. When I taught CCD, it was blatantly
  apparent which parents lived the Faith and which sent their kids to CCD
  to learn the Faith.

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  Myshkin • 8 days ago

  Home schooling is illegal in Germany and other places. Parents are not allowed to opt out of the curriculum.

  The force of the governmental arms, ultimately threatening to take children from parents, who are then imprisoned, is real. THIS is where the public face of the Church has been so sorely lacking. If the Bishops and priests are not being arrested, then they are not doing their jobs. It is impossible for the lay faithful, often acting in isolation, to oppose the violent enforcement of the leftist agenda.

  Beware. The State is coming -- if not for your children, then for your grandchildren.

  The Church is supine against the threat thus far.

  And I agree wholeheartedly with the writer: Where have our pastors and bishops been hibernating these last 50+ years? They run bureaucracies, funneling governmental monies often to "charities" that directly and openly oppose Church teaching.

  Our Church NEEDS to be POOR, and to get the Bishops out of their palaces, and to eviscerate their bureaucracies. Less "social justice" and more direct hands-on witnessing!! That is what we need so badly!

  In one sense, I HOPE that the whole institutional Church goes broke. It'd do us some good.

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  Ivan mi je ime Myshkin • 7 days ago

  "THIS is where the public face of the Church has been so sorely lacking."
  It is worse than "being lacking". Much worse.
  What can we expect from the 'modernist leaders' in this state, when we, the flock, the sheep were handed out by themselves into the hands of this secular world. And we know very good who the ruler and the prince of this world is. As we know that how can it be possible that the, the shepherds that don't know. They knew it, but nevertheless they just gave us away!
  Just read "Dignitatis humanae" in practice - alteration of Lateran treaties and secularization of Italy!" here - https://drive.google.com/op...

  Instead the modernist shepherds keep watch over their sheep, live for them and even die if necessary, they have made a deal with the wolfs which goes about their own safety, comfort, commodity...

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  4Veritas • 8 days ago

  Precisely what gets me angry about the scandals! I realize that the abuse was terrible for the victims even leading some to despair and suicide, and some others directly out of the Church. I can't begin to imagine the horror of the abuse. ,What almost all of us, however, have suffered is a failure to have the faith preached to us, and liturgies that leave something to be desired. I realize in some parishes it is because the priest has no faith or at least he is so immersed in sin that he feels like a hypocrite to preach anything challenging, in others it may be because the bishop will not support his priests when they preach and it leads to some of the laity complaining him, and in still others it is conformity to what was taught at seminary and with what other priests are doing. The one thing that the scandals have resulted in is my feeling cheated of what we should have heard from the pulpit. Also, if we had heard what we should have from our priests I feel it would have preserved a large enough segment of the parish members from error and perhaps, we Catholics who believe in the fullness of the faith would not feel like we are the minority in most parishes now in days.

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    OMG 4Veritas • 6 days ago

    Pulpit teaching on morality stopped in the 1970s. Yes, it goes that far back.