Catholic Mass? Or Catholic Mess?

Judas Priest!

That's my new exclamation of surprise, it supplants the blasphemous one I used to use before returning to the Church a few years ago.

"Cardinal" Roger Mahony and his Archdiocese of Los Angeles holds a yearly heretical "Education Congress" where they try to indoctrinate Catholic educators into their modernist teaching.

This travesty you are about to watch is the closing "liturgy" from their "education congress".

If you can't stomach this video, at least wait for Deacon "Twinkle Toes" to emerge around 6 minutes in. He is worth the price of admission.

That last Bishop doesn't look real to me. I think he's a fake. His vestments look like they came from a high school play.



Does anyone else feel dirty?

Thanks to Saint Mary's of Dorrance Parishioner for causing me to lose my roast beef and taters....

Save Our Schools

Father Z found a great article from The Catholic Spirit on How to save a Catholic School.

I wonder how long the Diocese will continue down this road of closing school after school as they systematically jettison the school system and our children along with it. Let's pray our next Bishop sees the value of a truly Catholic education and is able to halt the gangrenous growth that has infected our schools for so long.

Here is one place to start: read this article to see how they saved St. Matthew's school in St. Paul.

While most inner-city schools continue to struggle in a difficult economy, one school — St. Matthew’s in St. Paul — has been experiencing unprecedented growth.

Last year, enrollment at the school increased 30 percent. This year, despite the worst recession since World War II, enrollment continues to grow.

What’s the secret? It depends on whom you ask.

Like other urban schools, St. Matthew’s had been losing students at an average of 10 to 15 per year. When the kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school’s enrollment dipped down below 140 students, principal Doug Lieser realized he needed to find a way to increase enrollment and financial support if the school was to survive.

The first thing Lieser did was conduct a survey asking parents why they chose St. Matthew’s for their children. Their answers surprised him.

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