Voris does a good job explaining the disastrous LA religious “education” conference March 14, 2014
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I put education in scare quotes, because it’s really much more oriented towards propagandizing than true catechesis.
Many are probably familiar with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Religious Education Conference held every March from the abhorrent videos of liturgical abuse that invariably surface each year. This conference is wildly popular in Amchurch circles, attracting thousands of attendees and sparking imitators around the country, including in our own Diocese of Dallas (which, I must hasten to add, is much more orthodox, even if there remain problematic presenters, such as one of last year’s keynote speakers, popular heretic and new age evangelist Fr. Ron Rolheiser).
Michael Voris goes into some depth in this most recent episode of his “Dispatches” series, spending about half an hour exploring the aberrant beliefs and open heresy of many of the LA conference’s speakers. There is a great deal of good info below, even if Michael could have easily produced a 2+ hour video and still not captured even half of the heresies held by those allowed to “educate” Catholics in LA.
This video is very informative and well worth your time if you have a little quiet period this weekend:
As a final note, now that Archbishop Gomez has been in LA for nearly 3 years, it is very sad to see that he has made precious few visible efforts to change the course of the LA trainREC. I’m not convinced Gomez was ever very orthodox (see the desperate condition of the Archdiocese of San Antonio), and he certainly doesn’t seem to be making many waves in reforming an Archdiocese of LA which visibly decayed during Mahoney’s period as ordinary.
Destruction is easy, building up is hard.
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Regardless of what others are saying, I still like CMTV.
Matt from the Remnant saiid it nest, we must stop the bickering. Christ, I think hurts, and and theMSM are luuuving it
I don’t disagree. My policy – within certain prudential bounds – has been to make use of good material no matter the source and not to get bogged down in internecine strife.
Archbishop Gomez has been a very sad and disappointing appointment. When he said that “immigration issues” were the greatest moral issues facing our nation my heart just sunk… I think this may be one of the reasons why Pope Benedict did not give him the Cardinal’s hat. I was rather surprised that Francis did not have him on that first list… L.A. Usually gets the hat quickly…
I would agree. I think its scandalous the way AB Gomez tries to guilt faithful Catholics into believing its immoral to oppose amnesty. I find him somewhat of a racist over this issue as well.
Baseballmom, tantamergo and Stoney,I am sorry that Los Angeles is now finding out just how very absent Archbishop Gomez is in the fight against heresy and liturgical abuse. I have had personal dealings with multiple chancery personnel in his former archdiocese and let me tell you, I have never met people, religious people, more indifferent to the shepherding of their flock than I did when I talked to them. Up to that point I was naive, but those one on one conversations made me sick to my stomach, in despair and angry. San Antonio has chased out multiple good priests, priests who did not toe the heretical party line.
Unless you are gaga over Vatican II, and can sit through lectures on social justice/amnesty and garbage like what is shown in the videos you have absolutely no welcoming Roman Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of San Antonio. It was this way when Archbishop Gomez was here, and it continues to be that way now. I read somewhere where it was said Archbishop Gomez liked to effect change quietly, behind the scenes, so how is that working out for you LA, because SA Catholics can tell you how things were shaken up here. Or not.
In closing, and so as not to hijack this thread, I will keep this brief, of the four EF masses listed on the official SA archdiocesan website, two have not existed for years. YEARS. And the stories behind why those EF masses no longer exist at those parishes would make you weep.The archdiocese has been informed of this “oversight” multiple times but have failed to correct the, oh what would one call it, false impression one could get. Of the remaining parishes, one is a jewel in the crown for the Archdiocese, it’s Anglican Use, so it’s hip and tolerable,the last, well, it’s been a hot mess. Because of the examples made of multiple priests who expressed a love for and a devotion to Tradition, good luck trying to find another priest willing to stick his neck out.
Ron Rolheiser, by the way, resides in San Antonio, as head of the Oblate School of Theology. We get to keep him when our good priests have been driven out of the country and the archdiocese.
Los Angeles Catholics, I am so very sorry and will pray for all of you there. I know your pain.
Gomz is busy out schmoozing the labor unions and pushing for a “path to citizenship” — doing both on behalf of the illegals from his home country of Mexico. He wants jobs and legal status for them. Does he care about their souls as much and those of “his” latino youth ?
I’ve had to read articles by Fr. Ron Rolheiser as penance. It sure was penance. But I did it.