Thorough, Concise, and Catholic

We just completed “Infiltration”, by Dr. Taylor Marshall.  The area that we appreciated was the apparent weakness found in virtually all the Popes, from and including Pius XII to Francis, and the tangible evil propagated by the Freemasonic influences within the higher levels of the Church.  
Taylor’s review of the dismally declining stats, of Kenneth C, Jone’s, “Index of Leading Catholic Indicators: the Church Since Vatican II”, allowed us to put numbers on what we have been living through.  
Having also read, “Work of Human Hands” by sedevacantist Fr. Cekada, we feel Dr. Marshall’s work gives faithful Catholics a non-schismatic reference to understand the devastating harm done by the likes of Monsignor Bugnini.

Deliberate Ignorance Is Not a Virtue!

Many in today's Catholic world of church corruption, turn a blind eye to negative reports of whatever is happening.  I guess, if they are unaware, they think they can simply plead "ignorance"?  This logic may be acceptable, if the source is not trustworthy; that is one with a history of spreading disinformation.  But, if the source has a track record of honesty: not so., Not so!

This intentional ignorance has been addressed in James 1: 18,  "And let every man be swift to hear but slow to speak and slow to anger."  I, like most of the members of today's scandal ridden "Church of Nice", only read the last two phrases of this admonition.  They seem to have skipped over the the first, "and let every man be swift to hear,"  Catholic media outlets like Church Militant, Life Site News, Taylor Marshall, The Remnant, etc. have a long record of honest reporting.  These same outlets are often painted with an "unacceptable" brush by the establishment Church.  This has resulted in many Catholics who are unaware of how thoroughly corrupt the current Roman Catholic Church is:  Priests and Bishops in hiding for fear of their lives, Vatican deals that have thrown the Church in China under a totalitarian bus,  a homosexual current that has infected many aspects of seminary formation, a Pope that has been credibly accused of heresy, and now a Pope that has been proven to be a liar.

Many apparently believe it is virtuous to avoid these Catholic news sources, to maintain their comfort in the pews.  It is not virtuous to avoid knowing the truth.  St. James says, "be swift to hear".

Copulating With a Dead Chicken

Raising chickens for some forty-plus years has periodically reinforced my appreciation of human morals.  It started after allowing a hen to hatch-out a clutch of chicks.  The problem is: half are hens, and half are roosters.  As they mature, one rooster can normally service about a dozen hens, and a relationship of sort is formed.  So with too many roosters, each morning the hens stare at each other, to see whose turn it is, to be the first off of the roost, as the young cocks line-up to mate.  One quickly appreciates the difference with our human moral code.  This daily interplay becomes the impetuous to cull the flock, which has the added benefit of meat in the freezer.

I currently have two roosters.  The older cock, is a Rhode Island Red, services about 15 hens, and is a gentleman.  He eats only after the hens, keeps the peace amongst the hens, and keeps the younger rooster outside of the chicken run.  This younger rooster is the elder’s son, and he keeps a constant patrol, which also acts as a deterrent to keep the hens from flying-out, over the chicken-run fence.  The young rooster is walking the perimeter, hoping to chance upon a hen.  

Just recently, I checked the feeder in the coop, and noticed one of my older hens had died, which occasionally happens.  I didn’t have time to dispose of her, so I threw the carcass out of the coup, onto the barn floor, to take care of the body later. The next day, I went into the barn to search for something, and I heard some commotion.  I looked over to see the young rooster attempting to mate with the dead chicken.  He seemed to be having a grand time, but I put a stop to this perversion immediately.  I couldn’t believe this bird; it disgusted me.  In this case though, falling back on my appreciation of human society's morals, doesn’t seem to hold water.

Think about it.  Our young males may not be copulating with the dead, but break-out the cock films, the porn, or some other dead image of another human being.  Is it any different?  Thankfully we have laws to protect our young women as they come off of their roosts and move amongst us.  But what affect does copulating with dead images have on our young males’ ability to relate to our young women, or even a mixed gender group of live people, with souls?

Returning to Tradition

Emmitsburg seems to have a significant number of Catholics, but you don’t have to be “Catholic”, to realize that there are serious problems within the “Bark of St. Peter”.  Just two years ago, the Baltimore market was shocked with the revelations in “The Keepers”, recently followed by the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report.  There now seems to be a developing cottage industry of alternative reporting programs focused on this problem, on Youtube and other platforms.  Programs such as TNT with Taylor Marshall, Michael Matt with the Remnant Underground, Life Site News, and Michael Voris with Church Militant refuse to just report on the Catholic world as the bishops may wish.  Church Militant’s “Vortex”, has focused on the almost daily exposures of rot, which they report is contributing to massive payouts to victims, parishes closing, drops in the numbers of ordinations, etc. 

Many Catholics who have “red pilled” to this problem, are becoming as lost sheep:

                     some wandering off, while others searching for tradition, seeing modernization as one of the possible problems. “Modernization” was condemned by Pope Pius X, and has been chipping away at the Church of Rome since the early 1900’s.  Changes were being made in the years prior to Vatican II, and the years since then.  This attack is thoroughly explained in a book, “Work of Human Hands”, by Fr. Cekada.  The result has not only been a liturgy with: the priest facing the people, communion in the hand, trashing of statues, clapping in church, and an otherwise lessening of reverence, but the introduction of what some call weaponized ambiguity, that has affected doctrine.  Many have argued that changes in the prayers, also reflects changes in belief.  “As you pray, so as you believe.”  “Lex orandi, lex credendi”

As a young boy, some almost 60 years ago, I served at the altar for Latin Mass in my parish.   Looking for tradition has been a sort of coming home.  Even though the Extraordinary (Latin) form of the Mass had been all but eliminated, there are Chapels in the area, which offer the Holy “Sacrifice” of the Mass, in Latin.  Judging from the attendance, there seems to be larger numbers of faithful searching for this Traditional worship.

Some churches, that I am aware of, are: St. Alphonsus in downtown Baltimore, with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, St. Mary’s in Hagerstown, the new Carmelite Monastery in Fairfield, and the Seminary at the Mount has one on Monday mornings.  We prefer the Augustinian monks in Charles Town, West Virginia, at the Priory of the Canons Regular of New Jerusalem.  It is only about a 50-minute drive.  They have two Latin Masses everyday, and administer the sacraments according to the old rite.

Over the years, the Catholic Church has been the force defending the dignity of the individual, the importance of the family, and the primacy of our Trinitarian God.  Please pray for the Catholic Church: the good priests, good seminarians, and the Truth.  We will pray for you.

We Have Arrived: Third World

     A dozen years ago, I had the opportunity to go to Calcutta, India on pilgrimage.  We prayed, experienced a third world culture, and performed some corporal acts of mercy.  My highlight was pulling a tooth on a woman in Mother Theresa’s House of the Dying.  One evening as we were walking back to our ten-foot wall-enclosed, guard dog protected, dormitory, we passed through an intersection, where over a hundred locals were gathered.  As we passed through, I heard several loud desperate shouts.  The crowd began to encircle one area, and an eerie hum filled the air.  We hesitated, and tried to see what the ruckus was about.  A young man holding a small club, stood above another man who had fallen.  Our guide pushed us away, the shouts weakened, and the crowd’s hum got louder, as they tightened-in on the event.  Our guide told me that the man on the ground would be beat to death.  Beat to death?  None of the hundred stand-arounders would help?  Any effective weapons for self-defense were prohibited?

   This stuck with me, and I later asked, “Why we didn’t try to stop it?”  “We were out of our culture”, but it bothers me to this day.  I consoled myself with: this could not happen in our Christian world back home, someone would surely have a weapon, or Christian virtue to stop it, in a place like Frederick County, Maryland.

   Last Friday, my nephew, Robbie was a patron at a bar on Rt. 15.  He somehow became involved in a disturbance and was taken outside, where reportedly ten members of a motorcycle gang beat him to death.  Reports of up to seventy-five witnesses gave statements.

   Just two days later, a sixty-year old man, with no significant criminal record, was confronted at his front door by Anne Arundel County’s version of our police state.   They demanded his gun.  Gary Willis was mistaken; he thought he still lived in the constitutional United States of America.  Somebody had dropped a dime, and our legislature’s latest tweaking with the law, loaded-up.  He resisted.  The state executed him. 

   I was wrong: the crowd witnessed executions do occur here.  Robbie Swann and Gary Willis are dead, and I haven’t heard of any arrests.  We have arrived.  The hum, the silence, and the “yeas” in Annapolis, all have a similar tone.  And it ain’t, “Namaste!”

McCarrick: Scandal, upon Scandal, upon Scandal!

                                                              September 18th,  2003
Pope John Paul II:
      Please Help!  Your church in the United States is in dire need of some stern fatherly discipline.
Last night, in Washington D.C., I and two dozen other pro-lifers participated in a demonstration against the scandal of Senator Ted Kennedy hosting a Catholic fundraiser.  While publicly claiming to be "Catholic", Senator Kennedy has a long record of supporting the abortion industry in the United States.  Many of our signs stated that he could not do both.  Other signs showed the corpse of an aborted child, and another signed asked, If the Senator continues this scandal, that you excommunicate him?
      We had a wonderful priest in our group, Father Peter West.  He led us in prayer, and his presence was essential to our cause.  Many people were apparently blind to our concerns, as they walked past our signs dressed in tuxedos and evening gowns.  Their eyes looked through us, not acknowledging us, or our message.  Another priest entered the hotel through our pickets, and sped up as someone recognized him.  The worst scandal though, was when Cardinal McCarrick walked through our line, and excused his attendance at this fundraiser as not honoring Senator Kennedy.  He was just there for the schools financial gain.  Christ's words to the "blind fool" Pharisees. Matthew 23, spoke clearly to the Cardinal's position in this scandal.  "They tie up heavy burdens (hard to carry) and lay them on peoples shoulders, but they will not lift a finger to move them"
      Toward the end of our picket, a blind man appeared, tapping his cane along the curb, and on the tire of a police car, parked next to our sidewalk position.  I asked the man, "Are you trying to get across the street?"  He replied, "This is where I usually get a cab,"  I looked up and saw a cab awaiting his turn to pull in, in front of the hotel, to drop off a fare.  I flagged the cab, and explained to the blind man, Ollie, that he would have to walk out into the street.  I guided Ollie, as he tapped his way around the police car inquiring, "Isn't this a cab?"
      He was shocked when I told him, "No.  You had been tapping on a police car."
      "O!"  He exclaimed.  "What's going on!"  I told him we were picketing a Catholic fundraiser where Senator Kennedy was being honored.  He turned into his seat and regretfully said, "I wish I had known.  I would like to have been with you."
        Holy Father:  We have scandal upon scandal, the blind leading the blind, everybody's Catholic, but who is really Catholic?   We, the United States Church, need your fatherly discipline.  Help!

Scandalized,

Mike Hargadon

Letter from Sister Cathy Cesnik's sister, MARILYN CESNIK RADAKOVIC, to Archbishop Lori. (Reposted with her permission)

MARILYN CESNIK RADAKOVIC

June 6, 2017

Most Reverend William E. Lori

Archdiocese of Baltimore

320 Cathedral Street

Baltimore, Maryland  21201-4421

    Re:    An Important Message from the Archbishop

Dear Archbishop Lori:

    Reference is made to your correspondence dated May 17, 2017, entitled “An Important Message from the Archbishop,” as well as prior correspondence and circumstances involving Sister Catherine Cesnik, my biological sister.

    I was disappointed by many of the statements you made in your correspondence.  Among the most troubling statements was the following:  “The Archdiocese first became aware of an allegation of abuse by Maskell, in 1992, more than 20 years after the abuse occurred.”  This statement was false, and known by the Archdiocese to be false, as Maskell was reassigned by the Archdiocese to Archbishop Keough High School in 1967 after allegations of child abuse were made by the mother of an altar boy at St. Clement Parish.

    Also among the most troubling statements was the following:  “Maskell” was returned to ministry in 1993 after the Archdiocese was unable to corroborate the allegation of sexual abuse after its own investigation and conversations with attorneys representing the individual came forward.”  This statement was false, and known by the Archdiocese to be false, as the corroboration allegedly sought by the Archdiocese was within the possession, custody, and control of the Archdiocese at least since 1967.  In addition, more corroboration than the Archdiocese could have asked for or needed was right under the Archdiocese’s nose, in the form of Maskell’s harem, maintained at Archbishop Keough High School, without interference from, and without oversight of, the Archdiocese, since 1967.

    Unfortunately, your correspondence represents a transparent attempt by the Archdiocese to “get in front of” the Netflix documentary series entitled “The Keepers,” which premiered on May 19, 2017.  Anyone who took the time to watch “The Keepers,” or who otherwise informed themselves as to the circumstances at Archbishop Keough High School, would easily be able to reach the conclusion that the Archdiocese was engaged in an anticipatory, disingenuous, public relations ploy.

    Your correspondence was far too little, far too late.  The Archdiocese has no moral authority over the circumstances at Archbishop Keough High School involving Maskell’s  harem, or Sister Cathy.  The Archdiocese abdicated its moral authority when it reassigned Maskell to Archbishop Keough High School in 1967, and left him there, to run amok, unsupervised, to commit unspeakable, predatory, atrocities against the young girls left in his charge to guide and protect, until 1975.  Counselor, indeed.  Maskell’s counseling program was tantamount to an Archdiocese sponsored prostitution ring.

    The Archdiocese was responsible for reassigning Maskell to Archbishop Keough High School in 1967, and the Archdiocese is responsible for the “cascade of horribles” that followed, including the “cascade of horribles” that happened to Maskell’s  harem, each and every one of them, as well as Sister Cathy, when she learned the unfortunate truth about the harem.  The fact that the Archdiocese was able to successfully hide behind its statute of limitations defense, and avoid civil liability, does nothing to diminish the Archdiocese’s moral liability.

I will not sit idly by while the Archdiocese belatedly attempts to use Sister Cathy, my biological sister who was beautiful in mind, body, and spirit to everyone who knew her, in its efforts to justify its inaction to prevent the “cascade of horribles,” and even its concealment and whitewashing of the “cascade of horribles.”  Please refrain from even mentioning Sister Cathy in any further correspondence promulgated by the Archdiocese, as it is offensive to her memory.

There is only one possible way for the Archdiocese to reclaim its moral authority over the circumstances at Archbishop Keough High School involving Maskell’s harem, or Sister Cathy.  Permit an unfettered audit of the Archdiocese’s complete investigative files, and the Archdiocese’s complete personnel files, for Maskell, including all assignments and evaluations, as well as any other complete relevant files, such that the audit may follow where the evidence truthfully leads.  Emphasis on “complete,” and on “where the evidence truthfully leads.”  This audit would be conducted by independent investigators, not associated with the Archdiocese or the City of Baltimore Police Department, but their findings would be made available to the Archdiocese and the City of Baltimore Police Department, upon the conclusion of the audit. So much sorrow has transpired and damage to beautiful children. I cannot sit idly by.  For whatever reason this has landed on your watch. I beseech you to find the courage to do the right thing. Do not take the easy path here and hide behind a false cover of religion.

This is your moment in time. Find the courage to not stand beside Maskell and continue to protect him but to reveal the truth. I believe you are a courageous man of God and will find the courage to permit the unfettered audit.

                            Sincerely,

                            MARILYN CESNIK RADAKOVIC