It is certainly a difficult, strange and dangerous time to be a Catholic. Daily, we see images of brutality and murder, rape and mayhem falling upon our Christian brothers and sisters in Africa, the Middle East and Pakistan. They are going through a martyrdom. We seem so oblivious to their suffering; it is happening so frequently that it is slipping from our collective consciousness.
Persecution comes in many forms and in many ways. It is not always bloody and it pales in comparison. Yet, the Lord asks us to take whatever comes and to offer it up to God united with His suffering; "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and come follow me." A few sentences later, Our Blessed Lord asks, "For what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?" The people who engage in the world against faithful Catholics, need to ponder that.
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Just over a month ago, I received a letter from one of Toronto's most expensive and aggressive law firms clearly threatening a lawsuit, notwithstanding later denials. It was clear in two letters that I would be sued in court the defense of which would have been in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I made fair comment on this blog against what I believe were certain contestable comments uttered by Father Thomas J. Rosica, CSB in the public square; be they in his capacity as English-language spokesman of the Holy See, Executive Producer of Salt + Light or as a priest of the Congregation of St. Basil. These were public comments and Catholics have the right and duty under Canon Law to make their concerns known to their pastors and the Christian faithful. Dorothy Cummings MacLean of Catholic World Report provides some history and perspective on the situation.
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Patricia Januzzi is a Catholic teacher threatened for her zeal for the faith. Even heartless Hollywood actors chimed in to denigrate and insult this woman which says much about them. She has been vilified and persecuted on social media. America, as well as our own Canada, has become fascist. Mrs. Januzzi put on her own Facebook page a comment about what we all know is a homosexualist agenda to change our culture, our schools, our language and our religions to force us to accept that which we do not believe. We never will accept it or succumb to their bullying no matter from whom it comes. It is an attack on the family and marriage and that has been clear from the beginning. Her bishop has remained silent. Her pastors sit by. Her Catholic school administrators have betrayed her, the students and Our Blessed Lord on the altar of political correctness where they have burnt incense. The contact page at Immaculata High School has removed all the names of the administration and their emails. Fortunately, not before your writer wrote to them and here for your use are their emails which include the Principal, Vice-Principal and senior administrators. The links are live or you can copy and past them into the address line as they are separated by a semi-colon as follows.
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In New York yesterday, Michael Voris and his cameraman were assaulted and jostled at the St. Patrick's Day parade. This came at the hands of those around Timothy Cardinal Dolan after Voris, with press credentials, asked the Cardinal a question about his participation as Grand Marshall in the parade with activist homosexualist groups marching behind him.
Persecution comes in many forms and in many ways. It is not always bloody and it pales in comparison. Yet, the Lord asks us to take whatever comes and to offer it up to God united with His suffering; "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and come follow me." A few sentences later, Our Blessed Lord asks, "For what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?" The people who engage in the world against faithful Catholics, need to ponder that.
Just over a month ago, I received a letter from one of Toronto's most expensive and aggressive law firms clearly threatening a lawsuit, notwithstanding later denials. It was clear in two letters that I would be sued in court the defense of which would have been in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I made fair comment on this blog against what I believe were certain contestable comments uttered by Father Thomas J. Rosica, CSB in the public square; be they in his capacity as English-language spokesman of the Holy See, Executive Producer of Salt + Light or as a priest of the Congregation of St. Basil. These were public comments and Catholics have the right and duty under Canon Law to make their concerns known to their pastors and the Christian faithful. Dorothy Cummings MacLean of Catholic World Report provides some history and perspective on the situation.
Patricia Januzzi is a Catholic teacher threatened for her zeal for the faith. Even heartless Hollywood actors chimed in to denigrate and insult this woman which says much about them. She has been vilified and persecuted on social media. America, as well as our own Canada, has become fascist. Mrs. Januzzi put on her own Facebook page a comment about what we all know is a homosexualist agenda to change our culture, our schools, our language and our religions to force us to accept that which we do not believe. We never will accept it or succumb to their bullying no matter from whom it comes. It is an attack on the family and marriage and that has been clear from the beginning. Her bishop has remained silent. Her pastors sit by. Her Catholic school administrators have betrayed her, the students and Our Blessed Lord on the altar of political correctness where they have burnt incense. The contact page at Immaculata High School has removed all the names of the administration and their emails. Fortunately, not before your writer wrote to them and here for your use are their emails which include the Principal, Vice-Principal and senior administrators. The links are live or you can copy and past them into the address line as they are separated by a semi-colon as follows.The Pastor of the school is Monsignor Seamus F. Brennan of Immaculate Conception parish. It seems that Monsignor and the school are not unfamiliar with controversy surrounding the issue of homosexuality. The last time, they seemed to deny the seriousness of boys being photographed in the gymnasium shower room. The perpetrator, Patrick Lott the then volunteer coach at Immaculata and a former school principal elsewhere, pleaded guilty to numerous charges in connection with the filming.
We have a Catholic high school with a track-record of staff with abusive behaviour by a homosexual, and make no mistake - that is what it was now persecuting a teacher for standing up for the truth. One can legitimately ask, is there more to this story?
We have a Catholic high school with a track-record of staff with abusive behaviour by a homosexual, and make no mistake - that is what it was now persecuting a teacher for standing up for the truth. One can legitimately ask, is there more to this story?
The silent bishop is the Most Reverend Paul Gregory Bootkoski, Bishop of Metuchen.
Patricia Januzzi has a family to support and with the actions of her persecutors and cowardly behaviour of Monsignor Brennan and the school administrators she is without work and healthcare. I have no doubt that someone is going to hire our sister but in the meantime, she needs our support both moral and financial.
In New York yesterday, Michael Voris and his cameraman were assaulted and jostled at the St. Patrick's Day parade. This came at the hands of those around Timothy Cardinal Dolan after Voris, with press credentials, asked the Cardinal a question about his participation as Grand Marshall in the parade with activist homosexualist groups marching behind him.There is a common-denominator in all of these examples; the complete disregard by church authorities for Canon Law to say nothing of civil and constitutional rights and the tenets of the Second Vatican Council and the Pope's own words to "make a mess."
The time has come for all Catholic who care about the Truth and the Church as taught for two-thousand years to rise up and defend it and Her.