On October 16, the Adult Faith Formation Calendar of San Francisco’s St. Ignatius Church, contained the following entry:
“Sunday, November 29th, 10:50am, Xavier in Fromm Hall “The Theology of Luke” with Vincent Pizzuto. Luke forms the readings for the liturgical Cycle C for the coming year. Pizzuto, a biblical scholar, is on the faculty of USF.”
The Reverend Pizzuto, associate professor of theology and director of the Catholic Studies program at the (Jesuit) University of San Francisco, will be familiar to readers of California Catholic Daily. His anti-Catholic positions have been documented in 12 articles dating as far back as March of 2008 “Beyond the confines of the Roman Church” and as recently as October 14, 2015 “Is this really going on at a Catholic College?”
The Reverend Pizzuto, a baptized Catholic, left the Church, and in 2007 was ordained ‘priest’ in the Celtic Christian Church, an “old Catholic” church not in communion with Rome. In 2014 he was received as a member the Episcopal Church, in which he now serves as a priest. Neither of these moves concerned the authorities at USF enough to revoke his mandate to teach Theology, or direct the Catholic Studies program at the ostensibly Catholic university. The most recent CalCatholic article on Pizzuto, excerpted from Catholic Education Daily, reported:
“Despite Pizzuto’s reported apostasy and active homosexual relationship, he remains a theology professor at USF, teaches a course on ‘Homosexuality and the Bible,’ is actively researching ‘LGBT Hermeneutics and Theology,’ and offers workshops, retreats and lectures on ‘gay/lesbian spirituality,’ according to his faculty webpage.”
The hosting of the Reverend Pizzuto is merely the latest in an ongoing series of events at St. Ignatius that indicate that the parish, like Pizzuto, is moving “beyond the confines of the Roman Church.” As documented in CalCatholic, the church has removed its confessionals and replaced them with an art gallery. Following that, the church removed the last three pews adjacent to the art gallery, in order to provide more room for “social gatherings.”
On August 15 of this year, the parish hosted a screening of “Love is Strange,” a movie celebrating same-sex “marriage” by openly homosexual filmmaker Ira Sachs. A majority of Sachs’s oeuvre celebrates the homosexual lifestyle.
In March of this year, the parish hosted Dr. Tim Lewis for an Adult Faith Formation program titled ‘How to Talk to Your Teenage Children About Sex’. The CalCatholic article ‘Strange sex advisor for your kids’ March 26, 2015, points out that Lewis was an odd choice for a Catholic Church, although certainly not for St. Ignatius. Lewis’ profile on the Psyris.com website describes his areas of expertise as: “LGBT and Questioning Individuals” and “Occupational Issues of Persons with HIV.” The profile closes with: “LGBT and questioning individuals face special challenges in life no matter what age or where they are in the coming out process. A therapist who knows and understands these issues can be key in helping you to overcome obstacles associated with living in a heterosexually-biased world….”
The Reverend Pizzuto is quite open about the direction and purpose of his biblical eisegesis—that is, imposing his own meaning on the text– and his November 24 talk on Luke must be seen in that light. The purpose was clearly indicated by a statement he made on KALW Radio’s City Visions show on December 12, 2011. The show’s topic was “Far from Rome: Being Gay and Catholic in the Bay Area.” As reported in CalCatholic, Pizzuto, “…described efforts to change the Church’s teachings as a ‘battle very much under way,’ and said that ‘the Bible, as we understand it really does not address current issues… what we need to change is not so much the scriptures, which of course we cannot change, but the interpretation that has been given to them. And that’s going to take a lot of theologically and biblically interpretive work to move us forward.’”
To contact the Archdiocese of San Francisco about the Reverend Pizzuto being given a teaching forum in a Catholic parish: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, 415-614-5500.
More dissent in Orange County. Guest speaker Professor of Religion Rev. James Heft, S.M. President, and Founder of Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, and Professor of Religion, has been Invited to speak at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Newport Beach, Ca. on November 12, 2015
Scroll down to the bottom left page of the bulletin.
Thursday ……………. November 12 7:30 – 9:00 PM ………………. O’Donnell Hall
No Admission Charge…………………Public is Invited
https://www.olmc.netg/files/g865166/f/201510/October 18 2015.pdf
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Here is a previously taken You Tube video of Father Heft speaking and answering questions. Start viewing at 30:39 A woman identifying herself as being a married lesbian asks a question. View Father Heft’s response. This was an opportunity to mercifully teach the FULLNESS OF TRUTH to this woman as well as the listening audience. The woman then said she ended up baptizing her own children and Father Heft told her she had the authority to do so and then Father Heft smilingly told her to be patient because the church moves slow and that one day she will be a bishop.
https://youtu.be/N0z14pNfdWs
She does not identify herself as a lesbian, but Father Heft talks about gay issues so he assumed that she is in a same-sex relationship and she did not correct him. She doesn’t say why the children were refused baptism and I wonder whether it was because they are foster children. I don’t think the church will baptize unless a legal parent or guardian requests it.
So I don’t think she did have the authority to baptize.
The thing about her becoming a bishop was obviously a joke.
They are joking at the Anti-Family Sin-Nod too but the ONLY people laughing are the working minions of the father of lies.
From Blessed Catherine Emmerich, AA II. 488.
“I saw within a city, a meeting of clergy, laymen and women, who were sitting together, eating and making frivolous jokes, and above them a dark cloud which descended in a plain submerged in darkness. Amid this fog, I saw Satan sitting and around him, many companions as people were in the meeting which was going on underneath.”…..continued….
From Blessed Catherine Emmerich, AA II. 488. continued…..
“All these evil spirits were continually moving and busy trying to push the people at this meeting to do evil. They whispered to them to their ears and acted on them in all possible ways. These people were in a very dangerous state of sensual excitement and in provocative conversations. Churchmen were those whose principle were: “You have to live and let live. In our time we should not be apart or be a misanthrope (a person who hates or distrusts humankind): we must rejoice with those who rejoice.”
Great excerpt, Catherine: thank you for reminding us. Anna Katerina Emmerich’s works are amazing in their detailed prophecy of the future. this is one of those passages. Thank you again.
By the way, St. Ignatius Church also has a mehrab, a Muslim prayer niche orienting the Muslim to Mecca, in place of (originally) one of the side altars, where the Great and True Sacrifice was once celebrated; it is on the right side, just beyond the doorway to the campus-side of the church. (“The unholy thing in the holy place”, Mt.24:15). Take note.
More signs of the False Church, on the very former place of the True One.
My doctor is a graduate of the University of San Francisco, and that fact alone makes me nervous. There are some outstanding Jesuit priests, of course, some of whom can be heard teaching brilliantly on EWTN, but so many of them have been giving so many Catholics grey hair for so long that it makes one wonder what in the world is wrong with them? They are both profoundly remarkable academically and historically, and such a headache in so many ways one wonders why? Does anyone have any insights on what is up with the Jesuits?
USF doesn’t have a med school so may I assume he went to a good one. Personally I’d be a bit concerned if my doctor, lawyer or CPA went to Bob Jones, Liberty or some other Holy Roller school. Seriously, if you are uncomfortable with you primary care provider for ANY reason, I urge you to switch to someone else.
C&H why would be so concerned if one your hired professionals went to a “holy roller” school. I really want to know how the liberal mind works, if someone is coming from a place biblical piety why does that concern you. Yet places where there is open rebellion against the Word of God you seem to have no problem with.. I really honestly want to know…??
I’m surprised good Catholics support USF with their tuition dollars.
Mary Anne Leonard, as one quite familiar with the two N. California Jesuit universities, and, for what it is worth—not very much any more—a high school, college and post-grad graduate of their institutions, and as one still very much associated with their institutions (just some background)—here is my observation:
At the time of Vatican II, the Jesuits were given a special mission by J XXIII and P VI: the mission? To counter atheism. As one USF Jesuit of exemplary achievement told me: “It failed, and do you know why? Because many Jesuits were atheists themselves.” I stared at him, shocked. “Yes. It had started then.”
I hearken back to this pontiff’s ready acceptance of the atheist journalist Scalfari, in…
I hearken back to this pontiff’s ready acceptance of the atheist journalist Scalfari, in his interview: “…you do what you do, and we will all meet in heaven.” But is that heaven that one will “meet in”?
My point is you can see the influence of the practical atheism prevalent in the Jesuits even on the very Jesuit pontiff (some will claim we are calling him an atheist: not so—yet).
All that is a long time ago—the failure of the Jesuits to counter atheism in the 60’s—a pontifical mission, mind you, given the very order with its famous vow of obedience to the pope.
But during the 80’s and 90’s, what subsequently flowered in Jesuit universities as a logical fruit of that blossom: secularism (which is atheism…
what subsequently flowered in Jesuit universities as a logical fruit of that blossom: secularism (which is atheism under a different name), in which no preference to Catholics or their beliefs is to be shown; then atheism’s political and economic philosophy, Marxist socialism; and ultimately it will lead nihilism.
The Jesuits are on the doorstep of their own nihilistic self-destruction right now, turning St. Ignatius Church—modeled on the great basilica of St Paul Outside-the-Walls near Rome, St Paul’s very tomb, one of the most sacred places in Christendom—into a mosque and a museum.
Do you know—well before my/our time—how many good and true vocations came to the Jesuits through the very doors of St. Ignatius Church, in the 40’s and 50’s and even into the 60’s, where at all hours of the day, priests were celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass at those side altars now destroyed and replaced with art works (and a Muslim prayer niche) that push the nihilist agenda?
How many teen and college guys were so impressed with the very virile and dedicated, balanced, self-disciplined intellectual Jesuits they met?
I have been told by so many Jesuits about it. All gone now. All gone.
And remember, what was told to Scalfari, when he could have been told the truth of Jesus Christ and his Church: Instead he was fed stones. “Proselytism is such solemn nonsense.”
There is always so much garbage going on in SFO – but here we go again –
send am email to Bishop Cordileone along with a link to this article..
or any other CA Bishop as appropriate.
info@sfarchdiocese.org
Someone may have an even better email address.
Or as stated at the bottom of the article call Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, 1-415-614-5500.
The modern, post-Vatican II “intellectual” Jesuits, like many in academia– sold their souls to the Devil, in the 1960s!! Very immature, shallow, irresponsible men, with no depth! .”Gov. (Jerry Brown) Moonbeam” in Sacramento, is just the same! No true, honest religious faith, no Christian morals, no sense of respect for God, nor responsibility.
Allowing nonsense like this to occur, and yet blaming and prohibiting SSPX priests and other traditionalists like FSSP and Christ the King from having parishes, just shows how diabolical disoriented the Catholic Church has become.
I was in St Ignatius’ church recently. It actually looks and feels more like a museum than a church. Another 20 years and it will be totally irrelevant.
Don’t forget that the Pope is a Jesuit….his famous response “who am I to judge?”
I doubt Moslems would set aside space in one of their mosques for a Christian worship place.
” A Heterosexuality-Biased World”
Anti-Scientific Misandry (Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality) is the Tenure Track in the pathetic farce of Academentia, and this ‘perfesser’ is a prime example of the types of Males (XY) Permitted to serve as an example of…
– Virtually all that the Catechism teaches is Objectively Disordered and Promotes Evil. Tenure track Anti-Scientific Misandry refuses to recognize the Basic Scientific Fact that All Procreation is Heterosexual.
Regardless of how joined, Procreation Requires the Heterosexual Bonding of Male (XY) and Female (XX) – Turkey Baster Creationist legislation and court rulings notwithstanding.
Does USF even Allow Opposing (Meaning Genuinely Catholic)…
Would that USF Dare to host even one of the speakers featured at the upcoming conference about their Agenda:
Powerful pro-family conference on “Understanding Homosexuality – the politically incorrect truth.”
https://www.massresistance.org/…/Stand4Truth…/index.html
Possibly the most powerful conference dealing with the LGBT agenda ever held in the U.S. will take place on October 26 in Salt Lake City. Homosexuality in all its aspects is the topic of the inaugural Stand4Truth Conference.
A comprehensive conference for the public that explains truthfully and thoroughly the issues of homosexuality in terms of science, therapy, the law, the media and religion. This is the conference that much of America has been waiting for!
Vital…
An apostate is someone who has rejected the whole of Christian faith.
Words, some people are obsessed with them, and twist them to fit their agenda. Apostates and heretics are basically the same. The Church is in a downward spiral and only a miracle can reverse the trend. The Church is becoming smaller, and only a remnant will remain, and she will go underground, just as Christ was entombed.
Does the word “unsuitable” never come to mind? I mean really!!!
‘IdeologicalColonization’ in America
https://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4432/Catholic-Education-Antidote-to-%e2%80%98Ideological-Colonization%e2%80%99-in-America.aspx
\ Here we encourage all Catholics to support the education of the next generation of Catholics, as a communal responsibility, particularly in light of the challenges of ideological colonization.
– Pope Francis has highlighted the dangers of “ideological colonization” and pointed out that ideological colonization threatens Christian families everywhere. “Ideological colonization of the family” describes the efforts of ideologically, politically and financially motivated individuals and organizations to change…