CHILDREN HAVE YOU CAUGHT ANYTHING ? editorial by the Maid
³Children
have you caught anything?²
asks, our Lord to the Fisherman.
How
would we respond to Our Lord today, if we were asked the question?
Better
still , lets see how Uncle Screwtape and Nephew Wormwood would answer
.(from C.S. Lewis the Screwtape Letters)
Well,
Lord Screwtape here,
You
need to understand that most people are too busy with their agenda to be
thinking about yours.
Letıs
see now , we have the Three Priests who appeared at the
Joint
Judiciary Committee on April 28,
2003 to testify AGAINST what
³marriage
should mean, that is , the definition of traditional marriage between one man
and one woman You know Lord, we
canıt dedicate our lives to strengthening the Family, we must support the alternative life style, after all we do have our Monday Night
PFLAG meetings over at
St.Camillus church in Fitchburg,
Ma. Fr. Richard
Lewandowski Pastor of St
Camillus is very much
in
favor of the alternative life style
so please donıt tell him
what to do. This is the
reason he is against the marriage act;. It should be between two men and two
women. I think you had it all
wrong in the bible Lord, canıt
trust those apostles of yours. , why my very best friend teaches at St Johnıs
Seminary and he says man and woman
fight, but man and man donıt just ask him , he will tell you, just
as he teaches this message to the young seminarians so, understand Lord,
that is why Fr. Lewandowski has come to testify.
,
Fr.
Thomas Carroll from the Jesuit Urban Center,; States that the
Traditional Marriage Is all washed up. ³ Got to get with it Lord , Marriage is for squares.²
Rev.
James Keenan, Weston School of Theology.
³Hi Lord, THANKS, got a new job this fall. Gonna be teaching at B.C. , Moral
Theology , for the next two years,
ainıt it great Lord.
Iım THE expert on Moral Theology and I say
Traditional Marriage is for squares, too ! Got a big job ahead of me teaching those little twisted
minds, if we must be Christians,
than let us be Christians with a difference. Those
young scholars are so pedantic.
Iım here also to testify against Marriage between a man and a woman
. Everyone knows sexual love has no boundaries. A marriage service I fear, would be very offensive and actually
should be neglected, or better
yet, broaden to include all
genders, (You know, we have about 6 genders now and to think Lord, when you
started out, all you made was man and woman, how boring.So all in all, your question.how many have we
caught..Iıd say quite a
multitude!²
But wait Be patient Lord, letıs see what Call me Walter, or Walt, or Wally Cueinin is up to today, maybe he has caught something for you
,
,
³Lord,
Itıs me Walter, and please donıt
ever call me Father. You will be
happy to know that I am catching a whole lot of people for you. We call them VOTFıers. Gave a talk the other night at St. Eulalia in Winchester. The Pastor allows all the guest
speakers to talk right in the Church, in your presence Lord, so you can hear me
real good when I talk against you.
I told them, just in case,
you didnıt hear me, that they are
the key to the way we worship. Not
you Lord !. Told them also that
they need to have a voice in the church because they have to have a voice in
the worship, know what I mean Lord
? When you change the way you worship with a community, you change the whole
meaning of whatıs behind it. I
also told them Faith never changesunderstanding of it does! Cool, huh ! Think
about it Lord, New Rituals produce a New Theology, why as the catholic community goes, this will impact on them slowly until the whole community is sucked in, sorry, I mean involed.
Hereıs something Uncle Screwtape taught me. Told the 300 people the other night that WE need to select
our own Bishop. Here comes the
whopper, even communist countries
have their own choice, therefore, we decided to provide three names to the Vatican. Imagine the laity coming up with the
idea of episcopacy. Cardinals may
be bit nervous about a new mass,
new terms, especially as
presider, his role not being celebrant.everyone is celebrant. Wormwood thinks we all should vote on
the Pope too, not just the Cardinals.
Need to reshape the worship of the church. He had another good idea of having everyone at the round
table, not just as spectators, but as responsible people with their own voice gosh, we got you a multitude of them too. Well, progress is very deep.
The real crisis in the church
itself, paved way for new
understanding, it ainıt just
crisis of abuse anymore. Good move
, huh Lord ? Screwtape also showed
me how to begin the Priest Forum.
We need to have Bishops with a
VISION. There is no one Bishop left that can pull us together since Bernadin died, so Screwtape showed me how we should
train priests with lay people. No disconnect. Need interaction.
Trouble is, I can
only muster up about 258 Priests to join the forum. Some of the brothers are just too stubborn to join, so we want to invite a greater
expansion of married men to join in the pool of ordination.
With the help of Screwtape and Wormwood we keep creating new ways to
bring them into the fold. I know
it wonıt happen right away, but listen, we could continue to invite the
divorced, gays, homosexuals, bisexuals, lesbians, transvestites, you know , all the people who have a
commitment to church experience that is different. Hey, what the hell, no one comes to church anymore because
they are afraid of Hell. Told them
itıs a different world out there today, and besides Hell is only paved with
aberrations of mere logic.
Everyone down their knows it all. (Kind of like a VOTFıer).
Hereıs a little
secret that wormwood shared with me,
the legions, and some of the bishops who are petitioning Rome, canıt seem to do anything with this
Pope. Hear tell , they will have
to wait until the next Pope to get some action going. You know, he just wonıt experiment. Especially with the woman ministry
thing. Some of the minions are
forcing the catholic church in the U.S. to develop a women ministry. We are working on a new
approach. As Pastor of
Our
Lady Help of Christians I have some of the babes now practically doing all
The
funerals. I could even skip off
the altar and let the babes take over.
Pastoral Associates play a major role in the babes for priests. Here is my new
Battle
Cry Lord, ³Never say Never,² we will work at developing leadership
of
WOMAN
!
:Screwtape
here again;
Have you ever heard another
priest so adept at lowering standards of obedience , total disregard for the
hierarchy, and to the religious
and moral life of man. Done taught
this mortal well. I can now kick
his stern straight away into the pit.
I
also know what the great secret is LordThere can only be Eucharist if there is
a priest
And,
If
there are no priests then there will be no Eucharist. So I tell them all that there is no truth,
Only
ideas, and definitely no sacrifice, guess what,
they buy it. We could
have totally ruined your church today,
if it werenıt for those darn Saints of yours. Please keep them away from us. These Saints can see so clearly, they realize that the sin of the modern age is the sense of
a loss of sin. You know hearing
from one of them is like a thorn in my side.
Might
as well tell you Lord, we got
another priest for you , collecting the multitudes. Heıs over at the Arch Street Shrine. His name is Convertino. Heıs doing a good job bringing in all the homosexuals, and I donıt mean the chaste ones. Heıs giving them what they want,
brunch, lunch, a place to meet. ,Hey, as long as he doesnıt tell them
about confession, and a change of lifestyle, we are doing okay. More and more are coming to the Shrine,
and they are
chasing
all those orthodox catholics
out. Why, the other day, one of the priests at the Shrine
stopped a fella from kneeling at communion, way to go, Jack.
Do
have one more thing to confess to you Lord, (Oh, how I hate the word confess)
got a hold of a good Bishop the other day, Thomas Daily,
persuaded
him
that the New York VOTFıers were good Christians, and not to let his own
intellect
get in the way. He agreed to lift
the ban and let them meet in the church. I convinced him that it was the
prudent and righteous thing to do.
Told him we need progressiveness and not reactionary feelings. Instead of unchanging traditions, told him we donıt want to become
stagnant because the future is OUR promised land.
Now
donıt go putting that chink in my
armour, Lord. Keep that
Saint Michael away from me! Back, Michael,
Back..
Wormwoodwhere
are you when I need you ?
RosaryCampaign@FaithfulVoice.com
May 7, 2003
Bishop
Richard Lennon
The Chancery
2121
Commonwealth Ave.
Boston,MA
02135-3193
Dear Bishop
Lennon:
On April
28,2003, a fellow Board Member and myself, representing Morality in Media of
Massachusetts, attended the
Hearing by the Judiciary Committee at the Boston State House on the Marriage
Ammendment. This is an issue which we have supported through innumerable
obstacles for the past five years and have persisted because we believe,
strongly, that marriage should be defined as the union between one man and one
woman to preserve the traditional family as advocated by God.
To our
astonishment and to that of the proponents of this ammendment, three Catholic
priests gave testimony in opposition to the ammendment, citing supportive facts
from the Pilot, the Catechism and the Bishops' Conference. In our opinion, their
statements were erroneous and scandalous, supplying more ammunition to an
already hostile audience. This was evidenced by the Legislators' inquiries
which followed. Also, the negative recommendation by the Judiciary, in our
opinion, was a consequential result.
We would be
remiss as Catholics if these
priests names were not given to you for consideration. They are as follows:
Rev. Thomas
Carroll--Jesuit Center, Boston
Rev. James Keenan--Weston
School of Theology( confused the Legislators the most because of Title)
Rev. Richard
Lewandowski--St. Camillus, Fitchburg
Than you for
your time and attention.
Respectfully,
Rita G.
Covelle ,President
Morality in
Media of Massachusetts