Catholic Pundit Watch

This needs some super sniffing to verify....

This is a forwarded email I got this evening that I have not checked out yet...But it was interesting enough to post on it's own merits...

On Nov. 16, 2006, the archdiocese sold a building in East Boston, formerly the church of the Parish of St. Mary Star of the Sea: price $850 thousand; buyer, MEE Development LLC (address in South Boston).

On December 6, 2006, MEE Development resold the property to Universal Church, Inc. for $2.65 million; a 20 day flip resulting in a $1.8 million profit; an annualized profit of 3,800% (211% over 20 days).

Interested parties, including the press, are now scrutinizing this.  From preliminary inquiries, subject to verification, it appears that the principal of MEE Development is a suburban Boston resident, lets call her Ms. "Susie Smith-Jones" for the moment.

Two theories:

1.  The archdiocese is so innocent of real estate values that it underprices one of its properties by a lot.

2.  [You figure it out.]

So, the archdiocese gives away almost $2MM, but has to call Suzanne Hurley on Christmas Day to "remind" her of their claim to the St James Mass collection, a few thousand bucks.

For giggles, I did a google search for "MEE Development LLC" and it yielded nothing.  I moseyed over to the Secretary of State and plugged in the name.  It's a new corporation on November 11th.  Looks like this savvy deal is their first.  Sole listing in the Corporation  - - "Shannyn Heyer-Cardin",  who must have fallen out  the sky because there is no google on her either.  Nothing under a business, personal google and nothing under Catholic.  She has no other corporation in Massachusetts listed on Galvin's site.   This is one lucky and elusive Harpeen.

She lists her address as 33A Street in Southie off of West Broadway - which, for you out of town folks, is the poverty stricken locus of South Boston.

Hey, this could be all on the up and up.... and just a two million dollar error on the part of the wizards at the Chancery.  Penny wise, pound foolish usual and customary debuchery. 

But....Somebody ought to pay a visit to 33 A Street and meet Ms. Heyer-Cardin, don't you think?    I'd like to meet the laddybucks of MEE Development.   

2000 Years of Martyrdom

Carol,

What do you think about SPO joining in prayer for pro-abort, pro gay marriage gov elect? How about some blog campaign to stop, or at least protest, or at least that he say something prophetic, like, “dear Lord, my our new gov snap out of his insanity and stop working against Your will, etc.?

 

Happy new year,

Fr. XXxx

Father, I think the Cardinal will roll out of bed thinking if only Jesus had the judgment of Sean O'Malley and said a prayer over the Herod instead of all the foolishness of offending people, none of us would be in this mess.

The political compromising of the craven has crippled Christ's Apsotolic mission.  That's what I think.  That's what you think.  That's what anyone with a mustard seed of faith thinks.

Pressure on Bishop Weurl

As Deal points out, we can always rely on Judie Brown to defend the Sacred Body and Blood of Our Lord from being exploited and trampled upon.

WASHINGTON, December 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)—a pro-abortion legislator who claims to be a practicing Catholic—prepares to celebrate her new role as House Speaker-elect, she also plans on airing her purported faith during an upcoming public Mass. On Jan. 3, Rep. Pelosi is scheduled to attend Mass at Trinity College in Washington as an endorsement of her alma mater and her Catholic faith.

In response to the announcement, however, American Life League has implored Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. to intervene in an effort to prevent Pelosi from using the Mass for political gain.

Pelosi is deliberately using the Blessed Sacrament to sanctify her dissent as Roman Catholic.  This, is as revolting to Christ's Eucharastic people as it gets.

The idea that we do not know the state of her soul when she boldly defies and pronounces her unwillingness to repent is disingenuous.  Repenting sinners don't continue to publicly lead the masses to perdition by way of articulating support for abortion.

Allowing Rep. Pelosi to receive honor at a Catholic college sends mixed signals about what the Catholic Church teaches," said Brown. "The bottom line is, abortion kills a living human being created in the image and likeness of God and is therefore always wrong. Because of this truth, it is unconscionable for Rep. Pelosi to call herself a Catholic in good standing while supporting the heinous act of abortion. We are hopeful that Archbishop Wuerl will intercede in this situation and prevent Rep. Pelosi from adding to an ongoing scandal."

"It is shameful that Trinity College, a supposedly Catholic institution, has turned a blind eye to the heretical views Pelosi embraces."

The Excommunicated Thrash About

Voice of the Faithful is deeply disturbed           at the action of both Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln NE and Cardinal           Giovanni Battista           Re, head of the Congregation for Bishops. In our goal to be a “voice” for           faithful Catholics we call for an explanation of the process by which           this decision was made. We are competent, educated people who understand           the long history of this serious action and we see no justification           for denying any person access to the life of the Church simply by virtue           of her or his membership in a select group. Voice of the Faithful condemns           the process by which a class of people was summarily excommunicated           by a single bishop in the US. Instead, VOTF follows the long tradition           of the Church where excommunication should be practiced rarely and           individually with careful discernment.

In the Vineyard, they dedicate this month to pearls of the pigs:  Excommunication Trumps Dialogue

Somebody call 911

The Jesuits have this poor soul captivated in their mirky cavern

The Globe is ruthless!

They have her sitting in a manger with all the wise men adoring her.

Meanwhile, Mary has morphed into myth, reflected in the reverent titles piled on her head -- queen of heaven, mother of the church -- that "are pushing the figure of Mary almost to the position of an Isis," the ancient Egyptian goddess, rather than a historical woman, Kimball says.

Fiddlesticks on all this crazy stuff in Scripture that has the Angels of God attending to the miraculous Woman crafted with God's hands without sin on her soul, while she fearlessly tells Gabriel let it be done to her according to God.

Her research, she says, concludes that Mary was sitting around pulling on her moustache with a basket on her head, terrified and trembling about raising a child without a man.

What's an army of angels and the Holy Spirit at your side if you don't have a man.   I wonder what happened to Joseph in her tragic lack of understanding in Catholicism.

I wonder too, what the Cardinal will do when he opens up his Globe to read about this misled woman under his guardianship while he's looking for something to blog about.

Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Ave, ave dominus
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedictus
Et benedictus fructus ventris
Ventris tuae, Jesus.
Ave Maria

Ave Maria
Mater Dei
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Ora pro nobis
Ora, ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Nunc et in hora mortis
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Ave Maria

Fourteen Legislators Countersue

They argue that they are immune from liability for legislative actions

They may be immune from liability for injuries caused by the laws they legislate that are enacted with common sense, good judgment - etc.  The immunity from liability does not extend to cover corruption.

If they decided on January 2nd to lift the laws on drunk driving and the citizens of the Commonwealth endure two years of arrogant, illicit theft of righteous empowerment from the people to correct their flaw - - the people injured are not left without tort.

With the SJC leaving them hanging on the rafter for their democratic treason, they are going to be hard pressed not to vote on the amendment.

Then again, this is Travigweenie.

No sign that the prayers of Christendom for conversion of the heart were accepted by the call of his conscience

"Before the rope was put around his neck, Hussein shouted: 'God is great. The nation will be victorious and Palestine is Arab,' " Askari said.

Blasphemes in his final moments by using God's name to make his butchery out to be a holy mission.

Deal says it better than I could...

The death penalty for Hussein, in my judgement, is required by Catholic social teaching.  "Bloodless means" applied to carrying out the court's verdict on his crimes would not protect the common good of Iraq.  For Hussein to live on even under the most secure circumstances would have been a constant source of violence, rebellion, and, most likely, hostage taking.

These is precisely the circumstances the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church intended to permit in it's approval for the death penalty under the right conditions.

The photos of the execution are macabre and pagan and I fail to see what there is to rejoice about - but it's fair to say that most of us are relieved when a butchering tyrant can no longer incite the hatred that causes people to kill one another.   

A Blessed Christmas to One and All

Hillary Hillarious

Who would be the last person individuals in their right mind would hire to gain momentum with prolifers?

Clinton’s evangelical point man, Strider, will take his cue from Mara Vanderslice, whose consulting firm Common Good Strategies helped Democratic candidates make inroads among evangelical and churchgoing Roman Catholic voters in Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

She has some savvy stragies:

After college, Vanderslice spoke at rallies held by the AIDS activist group Act Up, which disrupted Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989 by spitting the Eucharist on the floor....  She acknowledges that she still struggles with common evangelical ideas about abortion, homosexuality, and the literal reading of Scripture, according to the Times.

The Democrats To God be the Glory Campaign.

I guess if you buy into the philosophy that Bob Casey won prolifers over Rick Santorum because the super slueth Eucharist chewer and spitter was on Casey's team, this all makes some kind of sense?

I don't buy into it.  Speaking to many prolifers across the nation, knowing how they feel - it's pretty clear to me that Casey won because (with all due respect for Rick and his work) Santorum made the unfortunate error of supporting Arlen Specter and prolifers have a new zero tolerance policy.  I suspect the days of putting a candidate before prolifers and asking them to vote for the lesser of two evils, prolifers will disengage from politics in 2008 and let the chips fall where they may.   

I don't see a stampede behind K-Lo of National Review and Maggie Gallagher and I'd be shocked to ever see one.  The wizards at the RNC could open wide the path to Pennsylvannia Avenue for Osama Obama and the Clintons but it will have nothing whatsoever to do with the sacreligious Vanderslice.

The ACLU staged quite a publicity stunt last week

Sarah Loy, 27, who supports same-sex marriages, said she was facing the crowd with a sign that read "No discrimination in the constitution" when a man approached her outside city hall, telling her she had to leave.

Dear Mr. Nangle,

I suppose ugly is in the eye of the beholder, but from where I stood in the 
crowd at the "Let the People Vote" rally, it was Sarah Loy who staged the 
incident that you reported as assault and battery.

I saw Larry Cirgnano approach anti-traditional marriage protester Sarah Loy at 
the "Let the people vote" rally.  I was about 15 feet to Ms. Loy's right, up a 
couple of steps with a clear view, and Larry had to move right in front of my 
field of vision as I was looking at the Speaker, Chris Mineau.  

Ms. Loy, who was standing in front of our 'Let the People Vote' crowd, was 
holding a pro same-sex marriage sign, and was as close to the podium as about 
anyone was, even though she clearly was not in our group.  I saw Larry move 
quickly towards her, but I did not see Larry touch her.  I saw her turn and run 
away quickly as Larry approached.  When she was about 4-5 feet away from Larry, 
she took a dive to her right, at about a 75 degree angle from the direction and 
momentum both she and Larry were moving in.  She went immediately into a fetal 
position. 

Larry could not have pushed her to the ground because she was not in arms reach 
when she started to go down, and if as she contends Larry did push her, she 
would have gone forward, not to her right at almost a right angle.  Larry's 
momentum and direction would have made her go forward in a straight line, not 
change her direction.  I think you should have presented the fact that Larry 
Cirgignano was not arrested even after the police investigated in the begining 
of the story, on the front page.  The police did not arrest Mr. Cirignano 
because he did not push Ms. Loy to the ground, she staged it.

I am curious, did you see any bruise, bump or blood on Sarah Loy's head where it 
slammed "against the concrete sidewalk"?

The charges are absurd to anyone who knows Cirignano's gentle spirit.