Included in today’s line-up in San Diego’s diocese paper are the following:
Constitution is in danger
“These days, we hear about a constitutional crisis as the U.S. system of government unravels. Crumbling is the desire to do the work needed to nurture a sense of “we” in “the people.” Collapsing is the hope of e pluribus unum (out of many, one). And erased is the belief that all human beings “are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” Yes, the Constitution is in danger, but something even greater is at risk — our very humanity and, with it, the possibility of God’s loving dream for us in Christ awaiting our response.”
From the Southern Cross by Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu, Ph.D.
According to Catholic Women Preach, “Dr. González-Andrieu speaks and marches with those who thirst for the liberative power of theological thought in a number of interlaced areas of inquiry. She has published scholarly articles on theological aesthetics, Latinx theology….”
Cardinal’s green appointee puffs up her boss
Just one month before the publication of Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si” (On Care for Our Common Home), Cardinal Robert W. McElroy was installed as the sixth bishop of San Diego on April 15, 2015.
Ten years later, he leaves behind an incredible legacy of caring for creation as he departs for his installation as the archbishop of Washington, D.C. There, he will undoubtedly continue to stress that creation is a gift to humanity and that we are responsible for preserving this gift for future generations.
As the Creation Care Ministry formally established under his leadership, we bid him “fair winds and following seas” on his new adventure and offer in gratitude this brief review of the landmark actions taken here during his tenure….
Shortly after his arrival, he launched just such a response, solarizing the Pastoral Center and encouraging parishes to follow suit. Today, with over 55% of parishes having solarized, the diocese as a whole is tracking very close to the Paris Climate Agreement, which calls for a 50% reduction of carbon emissions by 2030 to prevent average global surface temperatures from rising above 2 degrees Celsius. 195 countries, including the Vatican, are signatories to this international treaty.
From the Southern Cross by Christina Bagaglio Slentz, director of the diocese Creation Care ministry
The Democrat Party has never been in a weaker position than it is now. They have been revealed to be incompetent governors, with no good ideas, who are childish and throw tantrums when they don’t get their way. The whole party is in disarray. They have been reduced to holding up little paddle signs when the president is speaking.
Creation care ministry is just Democrats trying to invade and control the church.
How many priestly vocations has the Diocese of San Diego had while it has solarized over the past decade?
I work for the church and am looking forward to retiring, after which I’ll have nothing to do with the corrupt institutional church. Just go to a Mass without any music, if I can find one, and live my life in peace.
Might I suggest Mass at St. Margaret’s in Oceanside? The music is the best (O Sanctissima, Panis Angelcus, as an example), many prayers in Latin during Lent and Eastertide, as well as Advent and the entire Christmas Season. Incense fills the air. There are only male altar servers, most of them from St. Joseph’s Academy, who wear black cassocks and white surplices (and black shoes — no sneakers or flip-flops). The organist is fabulous and after the Ita Missa est, he plays beautiful classical music that fills the large church and it finds many parishioners standing until its finish. Communion can be received kneeling and on the tongue. There is no invitation for the “sign of Peace ” to be done (but some do, anyway) because of the disruption to the Mass. There is no collection taken up, for the same reason of disruption (a collection box is in the narthex). It is as close to a TLM as is allowed (prior to its suppression by PF, there was a weekly Low Latin Mass, offered by a Norbertine priest from the Abbey.
I agree with all you say — and more. Good priests and Religious Orders are suppressed and apostate ones survive and are promoted.
The erstwhile Bishop of San Diego foisted all his libertine dockets, not only on diocesan lay parishioners, but on the backs of the faithful clergy who had to first stomach and then implement them.
From personal experience, I know he was extremely disliked. Now, it’s anyone’s guess as to his replacement: Auxiliary Bishops Ramon Bejarano, Michael Pham, or Felipe Pulido. I’m sure all three have been groomed by McElroy; however, there might be a glimmer of hope in that they don’t seem to possess the slick and split-tongued psyche of their Harvard-educated, obdurate liberal predecessor.
I was formerly in the Archdiocese of SF. He did his harm there, too. I was dismayed that when I moved down to SD, Cordeleone moved to SF and we got McElroy!!!
He destroyed the San Diego Diocese. The paper did not “swing” to the left. It was always over there.
The only political colour that make any sense is red.
Consistent with Laudato Si criteria the following improvements could be made to the Cardinal’s new city of operations: a) refill the swamp. The whole land area of DC was originally a tidal marsh full of mosquitoes filled over in a long massive project mostly with slave labor. Restoring it to Creation’s original design will be necessary. The heat-aborbsing buildings will all have to be moved and the original preference of Philadelphia as the nation’s capital could be restored. This would require the re-absorption of the diocese into its original home of the Baltimore diocese. All efforts will be made to establish reparations for removed indigenous peoples and forced slave labor; b) the cherry blossoms decorating the tidal basin are clearly not native to the region and will be replaced by approriate swamp ecology ; c) the animals in the DC zoo must find a new liberation home; d) solarization will prove unneccessay as a green goal since there will be no energy needs in a restored swamp ecology which will function as a national model for other parishes and dioceses; d) disassembled buildings will provide a source of employment for a massive recycling project
Democrats simply need to leave the church if they won’t convert to true Catholicism. Democrat values are false gods. No Democrat should be a bishop, and no Democrat should be employed by the church. In California, that would mean that about 80% of church employees would have to be let go. Hmm… no wonder the church is such a mess.
Trump would be smart to ignore anything and everything McElroy says or writes. Don’t even mock McElroy. Just ignore him. McElroy is irrelevant to governing and irrelevant to the Church in the US.
The “Ph.D” who wrote that first comment is a dimwit. The US government is not unraveling. There is no constitutional crisis. What is she talking about? I think she also teaches at that dreck of a school LMU.
Maybe there will be a constitutional crisis when it is revealed that Joe Biden’s handlers issued executive orders and pardons that he didn’t know about. That should void all of those orders and pardons. It’s already been revealed that nearly all the orders have identical autopen signatures. Jill was running the presidency.
A priest in Washington DC compared President Trump to Satan in a homily Sunday. Is the Cardinal okay with that? What if a San Diego priest had compared President Biden to Satan?
Bishops should stick to faith and morals. They are not experts in climatology, genetics (how many genders are there?), migration, national security, tax policies and a lot of other things. The Cardinal should follow the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and encourage the lay faithful to influence those areas, based on their faith and competencies.
https://catholicvote.org/catholic-walks-out-of-mass-as-priest-compares-trump-to-satan-at-dc-church/?mkt_tok=NDI3LUxFUS0wNjYAAAGZI5PmAqyRZa5SK4hAUNsspX-DHbJy6qt_r19RO_x08fOXHi1bLbWvZzcqHpcltiNr3n8DqjuYXu6imrUk6XeCxaw2AxHyxdrIltmusMWkVw
That priest did it because he knew McElroy will be his boss and he wanted to curry favor with the new big guy. Watch that priest get promoted to vicar general soon.
Father knows best.
This is the same guy who banned EWTN from the San Diego Diocese media.
Reply to Mojave: When is the Church going to ban McElroy?
I have thought the same thing since McElroy was out vigorously promoting the LGBT agenda and other evils, as a priest in SF. When are they going to ban this shameful, radical heretic? Made me sick, when it was announced that he would be consecrated a bishop. Huge mistake!
The true Church of Jesus will survive and flourish after all the Marxist-Communists that infiltrated the Church are dead and dust in their graves. Viva Cristo Rey!
Reply to Catherine Masak: The gates of Hell will never prevail against the true Church of Jesus Christ. Those opposing the true Church are doomed. Everything they are building will collapse. Viva Cristo Rey!
Let’s always remember that Federal employees, including those who live in large white public housing, take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. They don’t take an oath to anything else. The Constitution states that Congress makes the laws and says where and how the money is spent. The President is supposed to execute the laws, and the Judiciary interprets the laws for their constitutionality. The President doesn’t have the right to make laws by executive decree. When Congress allows the President to make rules about how money is spent, who can and cannot be arrested, which media can report on the news, or ignores court rulings, then we have a constitutional crisis, no matter how good the executive orders are and how much we agree with them. We are tilting toward the executive branch ignoring the separation of powers design of the Constitution. lt won’t take much to overturn it.
You didn’t complain when Biden ignored and refused to enforce immigration laws and let millions of illegal invaders into the US and gave them federal funds for housing and food and education.
You didn’t complain when Obama enacted operation Fast and Furious.
You didn’t complain when Biden attempted to forgive student loan debt.
You didn’t compalin about so many illegal, wasteful and fraudulent things done by Democrats.
Trump is trying to undo all the corruption and illegality of his predecesssors, going back decades. Trump is trying to break the Deep State in the three-letter agencies, who consider themselves unaccountable and a shadow leftist government.
I’m all in favor of cutting and slashing government spending. No more handouts. No more directing taxpayer funds to leftist pet projects such as BLM protests and illegal invaders.
Drain the swamp.
Did your president ever use these orders to circumvent the Supreme Court on payback student loans? Funny how you look over executive papers by old slo joe
How many Kamala bumper stickers on the cars in the chancery employee parking lot?
Reply to cleric or climatologist? Lib for sure: It’s obvious this priest is trying curry favour with the higher ups in Washington D.C. that hate U.S. President Donald Trump. It’s time to drain the D.C. swamp immediately.
There is a very disturbing news story in “Crux” today, Wed. March 12, regarding the extreme evils of Marko “Rapenik” and his sexual, spiritual, and psychological abuses of about 40 adult women, nuns in a religious order he founded. The Vatican is slow with this terrible man’s case. The article pointed out that “Rapenik” is still in good standing with the Catholic Church, and free to do as he pleases, until his case is settled. I feel very sad for all those poor nuns that “Rapenik” severely harmed– tortured, raped! Catastrophic Satanic filth! They will never fully recover. Of course, the issue of the statute of limitations was brought up– but during the time when ‘Rapenik” was first severely sexually, spiritually snd psychologically abusing the poor nuns, they brought complaints to the Vatican– but were denied any help– and “Rapenik” was confimed as a priest “in good standing.” The Vatican needs a good kick–a complete investigation and overhaul of its entire, evil-drenched, hypocritical– and very, very dangerous– untrustworthy system. They have betrayed Christ– and He will one day punish those hypocritical criminals in clerical robes, in the Vatican, who have evilly betrayed Him, refusing help to His innocent, holy nuns, who were brutally tortured and raped by their “priest.”
Here is a link to the article on Fr. Marko Rupnik, featured in many Catholic publications. Tthis one is from the “Catholic Herald,” and the link is shorter than the one in “Crux”— easier to type. The article starts with a Roman reporter confronting “Rapenik” with questions at a Rome airport– which “Rapenik” and a companion try to avoid, and run from.
https://thecatholicherald.com/rupnik-confronted-at-rome-airport-over-abuse-allegations/
Reply to “Rapenik” article today: After reading the Catholic Herald article below I was deeply appalled and disturbed by this priest’s behaviour. Why is he still a priest? It sounds very much like an open and shut case. The Vatican should have ruled on this case a long time ago.
Eagerly awaiting Cardinal Mac’s catching traction in D.C.. I hear he will lobby to install solar panels on the Capitol, White House, Supreme Court Bldg and the Lincoln Memorial. He will hold a novena to receive inspiration on how to dangle solar panels from the Washington Monument. A true spiritual leader!
Another reason I know longer give to annual catholic appeal.
I no what you mean.
Reply to George: According to commenters on this site Cardinal McElroy seems to sow destruction where ever he goes. Why does the Church keep promoting him?
All the religious networks, including EWTN, presented McElroy’s installation Mass. At age 71 (born 2/05/1954) he can only wreck the Catholic Church and its members– and harass conservative Republilcan religious lawmakers— for four more years, on-the-job– unless the Pope asks him to stay longer. Too bad we have so many heretical losers, instead of truly good, faithful Catholic spiritual leaders, in today’s Church. I suppose McElroy will be happy to give Rep. Nancy Pelosi– abortion propagandist– Holy Communion at Mass, in defiance of Abp. Cordileone’s orders– at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Maybe more Catholics will leave the Church, due to McElroy’s presence– or else, stop contributing money.
Reply to drain swamp: Yes drain the swamp of all the evil diabolical leftist pet projects. End the free ride! Make America Great Again.
Restrainer, I think I agree with you, but to be sure, would you identify what you think are “evil diabolical leftest pet projects.” Thanks.
Perhaps “disaster” could also identify any teaching that the Cardinal has taught or expounded on that are against the teaching ol the Church.
Specifics are really important. Without facts we only have opinions. Right?
Reply to Restrainer Bob One: Here’s an article that should answer your question by Glenn Beck: https://www.iheart.com/content/glenn-beck-blog-doge-reveals-insane-things-the-government-spent-your-tax-dollar.
Reply to Restrainer Bob One: For some reason they removed this link. But if you google: Doge reveals Insane things the Government Spent your tax dollars on by Glenn Beck, Feb. 7, 2025 you can still get the full article. I tried it and it works for now.
We all have suffered so long with the heretical Cdl. McElroy! Perhaps many will recall this article in “First Things,” published on Feb. 28, 2023, in which faithful, orthodox Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, famously called Cardinal McElroy a heretic. It is called, “Imagining a Heretical Cardinal.” Maybe Bob One will enjoy reading this. Here is the link:
https://firstthings.com/imagining-a-heretical-cardinal/
Big Mac!
Reply to Mojave: Big Mac is just a little Mac trying to be big.
Reply to bumper stickers: Left wing zealots working in the Chancery office. How sad!
Here’s the title of an opinion article released yesterday from Catholics For Catholics via LifeSiteNews: Bishop Strickland calls on the Holy See to ‘reconsider’ appointment of Cardinal McElroy to DC. Bishop Strickland says, As shepherds of Christ’s flock, bishops are called to be vigilant in safeguarding the integrity of the Church and the souls entrusted to our care. It is with great concern and profound sense of duty that I address the appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy to Washington D.C, a decision that raises serious moral and pastoral questions. The grave scandals of abuse and their cover-up have wounded the Body of Christ, and trust in the hierarchy has been badly shaken. The faithful have the right to demand accountability, transparency, rooted in truth and justice. This is just part of Bishop Strickland’s statement.
I still like to participate in the nightly Rosary for the Pope, from the Vatican, for his health. Wish the College of Cardinals that elected Pope Francis could have more power to collaborate with him on decisions and programs. This ancient, “monarchichal” style of papal leadership is very dangerous, I think. And the Pope’s deviant ideas on expanding politically-motivated power in the Church for women and the LGBTs– along with his extremely flawed Synod on Synodality concepts– is ridiculous– a massive failure, highly destructive to the Church. The Catholic Church was established by Christ to continue His work on earth, after His death, to help people learn and follow Christ’s teachings, and hope to live for all eternity with Him in Heaven. And that’s all. A strangely “anti-Catholic” pope, so it seems, in many ways. Bishop Strickland understands the Catholic Faith much better than this pope, unfortunately. You cannot confront “mistakes” of any religious or secular “monarch,” alone– best to put up with them, work around them, and be careful what you say. I think a collaborative style of leadership may be better, only between trained, ordained bishops/cardinals and pope– no untrained laymen. A pope must be made to adhere to the Catholic teachings, moraity, Magisterium (Catholic teaching authority vested in the pope and bishops, in union with the pope), Deposit of Faith, Canon Law, rules, traditions, etc. that a pope is elected to uphold.
If you saw the installation Mass of Cardinal McElroy at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, you could see many prelates processing into Mass in the Basilica, and gathering up in the altar area. But looking closely, you would notice that the Basilica was not totally packed with Catholic worshippers– there were empty areas in the church.
I was also very shocked to read a news story about McElroy’s predecessor, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, who worked with a group of Black performers in Atlanta GA, to do a “Hip-Hop Mass.” Worse than the “Clown Mass,” “Puppet Mass,” scantily-clad dancing girls on the altar, or some awful 1960s thing…..
In my comment of March 15 at 8:07pm, I misspelled “morality” in my final sentence. It should read, “A pope must be made to adhere to the Catholic teachings, morality, Magisterium (etc. etc.)…”