No doubt, Toronto Archdiocesan communications expert Neil MacCarthy has been hard at work cajoling the usual anti-religious and anti-Catholic Toronto Star to give a little publicity over the "Archbishop's" letter to us, his "Friends," particularly if it goes against Doug Ford as conservatives. Even progressive ones like Ford are not the Star's favourites. The Toronto Star features an article based upon the letter issued Friday by Cardinal Collins which you can read one post below. The Star highlights the comments that the continued restriction on religious services "makes no sense."
Oh dear, we've put down the glass of gin, woken from our stupor only to clutch our pearls.
No, it makes no sense.
It makes no sense that the Archbishop of Toronto who now is afraid of being irrelevant and that this last year and what is to come is his legacy, is the same one that threatened in a leaked webinar to "shut you down... I will shut you down," to any priest who would defy him or the "virtuous" public health officials on the rites of Holy Communion.
It makes no sense that the same episcopal shepherd who waxes on in a homily in the empty Cathedral about persecution and being "cancelled" does it to his own priests.
It makes no sense that the Cardinal went along with the closing of churches in March 2020 for more than two or three weeks to "flatten the curve."
It makes no sense that Collins cowered in fear to the "virtuous" public health officials who demanded to control our religious rites on how Holy Communion is administered.
It made no sense that the Cardinal should arbitrarily eliminate the right to our rites without considering any creative alternatives such as this. - No Holy Communion at Mass, by appointment only, in private as an individual or a family group, on the tongue if requested with all sanitary precautions taken before and after. Simple, no? Some Catholics have not had Holy Communion now for nearly a year, especially those who attend traditional Latin Masses, when they can, if they could.
It makes no sense that the Cardinal agreed that when churches opened at thirty-percent, people could not sing, even whilst wearing a mask.
It makes no sense that when the Premier dictated the non-sensical diktat to limit services to ten persons that the Cardinal shut down the public celebration of Holy Mass. entirely. That was the Cardinal, not the Premier. Yet, he says now, "it makes no sense." He could have followed the communion manner above, ordered every priest to offer two or three Masses a day in every parish. Do you know how many priests are at St. Michael's Cathedral? Nine. That's right, nine, plus him. That is ten Masses per day, or twenty, times nine people. As ridiculous as that limit is, he did not do it. He locked the doors completely. He did not say to Doug Ford, "I'll see you in court." That, makes no sense.
It makes no sense that Cardinal Collins suggested that parishes should be open daily for private prayer but did not order it. Many, maybe most, stayed locked up and shuttered.
It makes no sense that Cardinal Collins has let our few Protestant brethren who at least have zealous faith be alone in going to court in Toronto, such Peter Youngren Ministries while others in Ontario face massive fines or even jail, such as Pastor Jacob Reaume.
It makes no sense that Thomas Cardinal Collins did not use his position a year ago, or at least, four months ago, to garner the whole Christian and religious community, evangelicals, protestants, and others to confront the Premier in the public square and the courts and to stand up for our rights.
Your Eminence, I agree with you, your leadership and reaction and lack of action over the last year, "makes no sense."
