The following comes from a Jan. 13 release from the Cardinal Newman Society.
Linda Ronstadt, a self-described “recovering Catholic” who supports abortion rights, same-sex marriage and fetal stem cell research, will discuss her life and political activism among other topics at an event on the campus of Santa Clara University, according to the Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce.
Ronstadt, who no longer sings publicly due to Parkinson’s disease, will be discussing her book Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir.
Citing her disease just last year, Ronstadt spoke in interviews about the need for fetal stem cell research, according to National Right to Life News.
“The most promising treatment is fetal stem cell, which is also a great treatment for diabetes, MS, all kinds of things. And of course, the Christian right will not allow that research,” she reportedly told Associated Press. “It’s a terrible thing that they’re blocking that research because it could help so many people. It could save lives. … But they won’t get out of the way.”
In 2004 she told the Union-Tribune about her strong animus toward many Christians. “It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian,” she said. “It can cloud my enjoyment. I’d rather not know.”
Ronstadt, who called herself “a recovering Catholic” and “a spiritual atheist,” also publicly supports same-sex marriage.
It’s an important bridge to gap. I was a witness at the same-sex marriage of my good friend Marcela Davison Aviles [CEO of the Mexican Heritage Corporation] and I’ll never forget the hurt in her voice when Prop 8 [California’s anti-gay-marriage initiative] passed. It makes you feel bad when you’re disliked, it hurts your feelings in a terrible, terrible way.
I know that one of the reasons it turned out the way it did was because a lot more Hispanics came out to vote that year, because they wanted to vote for Obama. But how can you have a full and authentic expression of who you are if you have to live that way and hide it? As long as you have to pretend, it’s like “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and who wants to live that way?
The Santa Clara University event will take place on January 24th at the campus Mayer Theatre.
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In a special way, the New Evangelization is focused on ‘re-proposing’ the Gospel to those who have experienced a crisis of faith.Pope Benedict XVI called for the re-proposing of the Gospel “to those regions awaiting the first evangelization and to those regions where the roots of Christianity are deep but who have experienced a serious crisis of faith due to secularization.” The New Evangelization invites each Catholic to renew their relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church…”Every Gospel missionary must always bear in mind this truth: it is the Lord who touches hearts with his word and with his Spirit, calling people to faith and to communion in the Church…Dear brothers and sisters, you are among the protagonists of the New Evangelization that the Church has undertaken and carries forth, not without difficulties but with the same enthusiasm as the first Christians. To conclude, I make my own the words of the Apostle Paul that we have heard: I give thanks to God always for you all, constantly mentioning you in my prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labour of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ…May the Virgin Mary, who was not afraid to answer “yes” to the Word of the Lord and, after conceiving in her womb, set out full of joy and hope, always be your model and your guide. Learn from the Mother of the Lord and our Mother to be humble and at the same time courageous, simple and prudent; meek and strong, not with the strength of the world but with the strength of the truth. Amen.”
Pope Benedict
Blessed Pope John Paul II showed us how to live and how to die. Quite simply put, we do not kill one innocent person (an unborn child) to save the life of another. We must do all we can to try to save both. God give us the fortitude, courage, wisdom and patience to do just that, myself included when my time comes. May the Good Lord give Linda the grace to offer it all up to God for the conversion of sinners and to help her carry her cross without advocating for abortion.
I have asked Blessed John Paul II’s intercession for her. After all he understands if anyone does besides God.
“It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian … It can cloud my enjoyment. I’d rather not know.”
Thus spake Ms. Rondstadt in 2004. Here we have a valuable insight into the diseased and hateful mind of an anti-Christian leftist. Rather than being grateful for her conservative fans, perhaps relishing the opportunity to influence them with her music, she loathes them and can’t even stand to be in the same room. Can there be any doubt about the kinds of horrors she would enact if she had the power?
Linda must have been in denial as to all the Democrats who signed the petitions to get Prop 8 on the ballot and who voted for it, and also as to some of the Republicans who backed so-called same-sex marriages — such as one notorious judge that comes to mind. God help her misguided soul that seems to be in total denial that politics does not save us, and that there is good and evil and in between on all sides.
Correction: “politics DO not save us.”
“The most promising treatment is fetal stem cell, which is also a great treatment for diabetes, MS, all kinds of things.” – Linda Ronstadt A remarkably wrong and uninformed statement, which goes hand-in-hand with her intellectually vacant “spiritual atheism”.
This is my alma mater. I graduated years ago. I remember during my years at Santa Clara I only had two classes taught by the Jesuits. At the time I was majoring in Economics.
Much has changed since you attended Santa Clara, Father. I used to be upset at my folks for not ‘paying’ for me to go there after having attended Catholic schools from 1-12 grades. (I had a ton of friends who went there.)
Looking back now, I’m so very grateful that the limited means of my parents (and the great gift of God) prevented me. My Faith would have been very different now, had I done so. Or rather it wouldn’t be there at all despite my likely still believing I was Catholic.
God bless and Pray for your Alma Mater.
Has much changed since Father attended SCU? I don’t know what years he refers to, but maybe having only 2 Jesuit teachers over the course of the curriculum is not too far off the mark even now. The problem, of course, is that Jesuitism is very efficiently administered with or without Jesuit faculty on these campuses. The Catholic identity deficiencies of the Jesuit schools were well recognizable by the end of the 60s, and supplied the impetus for the organization of schools like Thomas Aquinas College in 1971.
It’s OK to have a Pagan, like Linda Ronstadt, come to speak at a Catholic university. The important thing is for the college to see this as a teaching opportunity, so that her talk can be seen as a counterpoint to Catholic teachings. Of course, this suggestion is laughable at Santa Clara. The best solution there is simply to fire all “protesting” Catholic professors, OR, to publicly advise parents that the school’s faculty is largely made up of lapsed, or non-existent, Catholics, so caveat emptor. This level of honesty, or living the Faith, is also a laugher, in that the college teaching life is pretty cushy, and no one wants to do anything too radical. Besides, does anyone have Faith at Santa Clara? (One might also ask, where is the bishop in all of this?)
The bishop is probably kept busy with immigration reform or some other important liberal issue.
Who will Santa Clara University invite next? Satan?
John,
PLEASE don’t give them any suggestions!
May God have Mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
This person is a mess.
Speaking of messes, we just learned that Father Costello, Pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco’s infamous gay Castro District, is resigning after only six months on the job!!!!
He’s a good man who could just not stand the bizarre role of being Pastor to a bunch of people who flaunt the Church’s teaching on sexual morality.
Who will Archbishop Cordileone send there next?
Pray for the man!!!!
He is a good man. I went to a Mass where he officiated. He was very loving, well-spoken, and spoke on the evils of sin, but the love of God for those who repented.
I am not surprised. Most Holy Redeemer is a joke. It’s a front for the gay mafia who 1) Aren’t interested in the Catholic Church or her teachings; and 2) Want their lifestyle, not them personally, to be not only condoned, but accepted.
God bless Fr. Costello. He deserves better that that cesspool and I’m sure God has something special in mind for him.
It is reasonable to believe that Fr. Costello’s position as a “teaching authority” (the much-vaunted “magisterium”), just as with for others like Bp. Vasa, Abp. Chaput or Card. Dolan, has been undermined by the ill-starred statement of Pope Francis in America magazine (Sept 19, 2013) that the Church should not be ‘obsessed” with preaching about ‘abortion, gay marriage and contraception.’ “
Father Costello IS a good man. He tried hard to find a home at MHR. I will say two things about him: He will make a great pastor where there are many families. He is brilliant at preaching to youngsters. The other thing is that he was deeply honest with the congregation there. I was present the Sunday in which he confessed that he and his friends way back when used to come to the castro after a few beers and beat up gay guys as they came out of the bars. And he asked for their forgiveness, and received a teary eyed standing ovation for it. If all priests displayed a fraction of his humility and his willingness to admit failings, maybe we’d be a better Church today.
I pray that her being a ‘recovering Catholic’ that she will TRULY RECOVER to be a REAL CATHOLIC!!! She must get rid of her pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality and pro-fetal stem cell research first before she is TRULY RECOVERED!
Let us all keep her in prayer.
An’mus is right. The new evangelisation is all about bringing people back to the faith. We can’t do that is we tell them we hate what they are and what they stand for. We need to bring them back and then bring them the faith and make it theirs. It starts with us inviting them to join us. After a while they will learn the faith. But, we can’t ask them to go to confession before they are allowed into our houses of worship. Let them come as they are and let us welcome them as they are. God will take care of the rest.
” Let them come as they are and let us welcome them as they are. God will take care of the rest.” more liberal Vatican 2 drivel,,, if what they stand for is hatred for Christ and his Church we can certainly hate them….
So what should we do, Canisius?
Should each person be given a “faith test” when they come into the door of the Church and get kicked out if they fail? Or maybe, people that fail should be tortured to confess their heresy, and when they confess we can execute them?
I think many have missed the point ! A “recovering alcoholic” regards alcoholism as a disease. Does not a “recovering catholic” imply the notion that she has as a disease from which she is recovering ? Those who accept her as she is are playing with fire. “Qui parcit nocentibus innocents punit”.(Whoever pardons the guilty punishes the innocent.)
Bob One,
In other words, DON’T TEACH THEM about their SIN!
May God have Mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Linda=Non Servium
Why doesn’t one of the retired Archbishop’s of S.F. live and work at Most Holy Redeemer. Perhaps, AB John R. Quinn could live there with AB George Neiderauer. They could move out of their mansions on the grounds of St. Patrick’s Seminary and make a contribution to the Archdiocese that they oversaw. And when he is in town, Cardinal Levada could help out, too. Surely this would not be asking too much of them. They could see first hand what is going on in the parish and perhaps make some changes.
..great comment, Amy. Let’s petition the diocese to assign Quinn, Niederauer, and Levada to be “parochial vicars” at MHR!..
Amy, Archbishop’s Quinn, Niederauer and Lavada have all been to Most Holy Redeemer many times. Each time, they have admitted that MHR is what Church is supposed to be and more should emulate that. We here at MHR would welcome them with open arms. Regarding Fr. Costello… He is a good man and he would be best placed where there are children. He’s great with kids and they love him. I wouldn’t be to quick to judge MHR regarding his 2 years here. If you look at his track record, he’s been at his last two parishes for only 2 years at a time when he should have been at each for 6.
We have seen the pictures of the cross dressing entertainment at MHR under Niederauer (not Cordileone).
This is not a wholesome church activity for Saving Souls.
See the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” regarding the homosexual lifestyle.
#2357, 2358, 2359, and “2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices.”
In addition from the Vatican web site, please read: “LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE PASTORAL CARE OF HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS” – which includes –
“15. We encourage the Bishops, then, to provide pastoral care in full accord with the teaching of the Church for homosexual persons of their dioceses. No authentic pastoral programme will include organizations in which homosexual persons associate with each other without clearly stating that homosexual activity is immoral.
A truly pastoral approach will appreciate the need for homosexual persons to avoid the near occasions of sin.”
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html
Bishops who do not do their jobs lose Souls like that of Linda Ronstadt, and her former lover Jerry Brown. They do not correct the sinner, they just ignore their actions.
My Parents were Married (Heterosexual – on both sides) at Most Holy Redeemer where I was 11 months later Baptized.
Mind, this was before the Gaystapo, er, um, uh – forces of tolerance – spray painted swastikas and slurs against the Pope on the walls. Although the Perps are known – the ‘community’ keeps them in the kloset too.
Not unlike the Larry Brinkin Pederast Posse – previously discussed in a CCD Article.
Brinkin is revered in the Pederast / Homosex movement in Frisco (like ‘beat poet’ Allen Ginsberg & Harry Hay – soon to be ‘honored’ with plaques in the Castro) and he was earning $135,000 per year at the Human Rights Commission there until his retirement in 2010.
The San Francisco board of supervisors established a “Larry Brinkin Week” in February 2010 in his honour. Brinkin is “married” to another man and is a respected member of the community…
SEE: Leading California gay rights leader arrested over child porn possession
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/leading-california-gay-rights-leader-arrested-over-child-porn-possession/
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2012/07/09/ted_haggard_larry_brinkin_and_glaring_media_bias/page/full
https://cal-catholic.com/wordpress/2012/06/27/no-shame/
“MHR parishioner,” why did you or your co-parishioners allow the shock-mock anti-Catholic group, the blasphemous Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, to attend a Sunday Mass celebrated by Archbp Niederauer (Oct. 7th, 2007) and receive communion from the archbishop? Wouldnt it have been appropriate “Catholic action” for you to politely but firmly inform them that they wee not welcome to embarass the Archbishop whom you so warmly regard, and to disgrace the rite by their insulting presence? I find it amazing that no one at MHR, and I assume not yourself either, had the presence of mind to stand up to these two individuals, who did so much damage by their little shock-protest. I see, you assert that “MHR is what Church is supposed to be and more should emulate that.” God help you for that comment.
Steve, if you recall, Archbishop Niederauer welcomed them, and gave them communion. And he did rightly so. It wasn’t until he was backed into a corner and forced to denounce the situation. I was here that day. It was the Castro Street Fair day that is just down the street. Those dressed up came to church on the way to the fair (where I might add, they raise a lot of money for dozens of charities) not to disrupt (which they did not do) and they were welcomed as we would welcome anyone with love in there heart. If it was some sort of protest, they must be mind readers because the AB’s attendance was not announced, even to the parishioners until he arrives as mass began. The only damage that was done by what you call protest was done by whomever felt the need to photograph the service and make an issue out of it. That person is the one who made the protest. Otherwise it would never had been spoken about. I hope god has mercy on your soul my friend. You have not learned a single think that his son taught us. Love one another as you would love yourself. Jesus didn’t follow that with a list of Except for this or except for that. You sir should be ashamed of yourself for calling yourself a Christian with so much hate for your fellow man.
If there were nothing wrong with what happened at MHR back in ’07 then there would have been no issue, MHR. I would think you would be pleased that light was shed on that which is so worthy if only to praise it. That praise was not forthcoming, however, because MHR doesn’t exist in a bubble to determine that which is Catholic or in teaching with the fullness of the Truth.
That said, you also indicated that those Catholics under 40 at MHR, or maybe it was 30, don’t have a problem with Same Sex Marriage. That’s a scandal, MHR Parishoner, as it goes against that which is Catholic in Faith and Morals. That is the problem that many Catholics are concerned with as it is often the supposed Shepherds who are allowing the ruination of the young, that is the twisting of their minds to believe that good is evil and evil is good. Especially when large donations are made in the name of charity.
So I’m glad you are praying for Steve Phoenix, for your regular exchange with Our Lord may work to your benefit in opening your mind to the reality of the scandal that you spread.
Thank you, MHR person, it is refreshing when someone admits that what is wrong is right and doesnt try to fool others. So, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were in fact welcomed by MHR and Bp. Niederauer: it is what I have always claimed, because the video clearly shows him looking at them each, and deliberately giving them communion—a blasphemous, brazenly anti-Catholic agitprop group, whom you openly endorse. I have been an SF resident for many years, and we are both aware that many of them wear sex apparel in their “robes”—-and that is not profane nor obscene. Thank your for your refreshing and candid admission. God help you for it.
Vacant of Light…..praying for her immortal soul.
“Bob One”: Your statement is simply bizarre. No one, ever, stops a practising homosexual, or any sinner, from coming into a Catholic Church; in fact, the call for them to do so is made often. You are correct, in a sense, when suggesting that a level of respect is to be shown to returning sinners. Yet you are completely wrong by suggesting that the Church should invite sinners in, get to know them (while they keep on sinning), that then, somehow, they will “learn the faith.” Christ told the adulteress (and many others) that he did not condemn them, but to go and “sin no more.” He did not say, “why not come and join Me and My disciples, and bring along your boyfriend so you can continue having adulterous sex while listening to Me preach.” Christianity is about carrying your cross, not about learning to like eating your vegetables. Sorry, sinners should be like the prodigal son, who threw himself down before his Father, saying how unworthy he was to be called his son. Of course, the Father is joyous and forgave him everything. Everyone sins and needs forgiveness. MHR fails because it tolerates the intolerable; falsely letting the homosexual crowd alone while the continue having sex, and while they go through the motions of the Church’s rituals without committing to it. The “New Evangelization” does not mean, and can never mean, redefining sin (although many in the Church would love to have it so).
Well said St. Chris, well said would love to hear a cogent response from the resident cheerleader for Vatican 2
Poor soul. Maybe a bitter women.
She was no doubt poisoned by former lover, Jerry Brown.
Maybe a wonderful Catholic student will go up to her and offer her the joy of Catholic Faith? Can’t hope that a priest will do that.
Oh, my! I remember when my brother collected all of her albums, and was madly in love with that gift, her voice. It is telling to me that she has lost it, and that she has lost the ability to think, logically. Her comments appear very immature for someone her age. I know that some people never “grow up” and it sadly appears that she is one of those sad persons. What is especially disturbing is her comment about how she feels when she knows there are Christians in her audience. Well, thankfully, God has relieved her of having to endure that hardship by taking her voice away. I wonder how she will feel when she realizes that Santa Clara is a pseudo-Christian school, and there could possibly be pro-life students, for instance, there who would openly display their Catholic ideology by possibly wearing rosaries, or handing them out at the door, with pro-life signs, or any other number of ways to show her that they know she is “recovering” and that they are there to help. It could happen.
Fetal stems stems have not successfully treated one disease. They only have “potential” for curing disease, touted by the Leftists so they can keep getting funding to pour down a black hole. On the other hand, adult stem cells have treated and reversed close to a hundred diseases.
If Ronstadt were truly interested in treating Parkinson Disease, she would pursue adult stem cell research. Being blinded by her ideology in face of her disease is truly irrational.
Peggy, there was a woman who was told the same thing about stem cells from aborted fetuses. She went to a foreign country to get treatment for her disease. It was so fraudulent that the treatment center asked her to make a commercial for their website about how it helped her BEFORE she had even received treatment. Knowing that, she still allowed them to treat her. It did not help of course. She passed away. Unethical is just that unethical all the way.
Anyone facing this type of disease should talk to physicians from the St. Gianna Physicians’ Society and other good Catholic pro life stem-cell treatment organizations as to what is out there to ethically treat their disease. They should put their money into those organizations. They have done wonders for certain things, and all by using adult cells and cord blood cells. Also, I believe they have been able to make similar cells as fetal cells with adult cells at times, so it will be totally unnecessary to use cells from aborted children. Look up Catholic pro-life stem cell organization on line. I cannot think of the name of the one I donated to when one of my family members passed away right now. If I find it I will post it.
I should clarify that it was fetal stem cell treatment that she received abroad.
Amen, Peggy. Can you e-mail Linda Ronstadt?
God please help her!
Ironically, Ronstadt’s appearance might convince student listeners that their Catholic faith is very precious and that the singer being a “recovering Catholic” might show she can improve her life and outlook even more with a faith foundation, retuning to her faith roots. We must pray she gets the medical help she needs. Her present journey is painful, and we should be empathetic to that. She can’t sing anymore, not a single note, due to her illness. Sad.
I doubt there will be a huge turnout for her talk……those 20-somethings will be like “Linda WHO”?
Once again PJ is MIA.
It is a shame that Linda Ronstadt prefers to abandon the principles that sustained the German and Mexican peoples from whom she is descended and take on the superficial, disdaining values of the Hollywood types among whom she has tried to gain acceptance in years past.
Several years ago my husband and I spent a couple of escapist hours on a rainy weekday afternoon at a celebrated Malibu ocean view restaurant with only ourselves as customers until Linda Ronstadt came in with her agent. She was so sad, depressed and irritable that at first my husband couldn’t recognize her, only two tables away in an open room. On TV she seemed pert and energetic back then, as well as deeply sensitive and caring. Not in real life, at least not that day! Wow.
The way she treated both her companion and the staff was pathetic, beneath contempt really. During some quiet moments, she spoke to me briefly but looked at me much longer, seemingly with wonderment, curiosity and even envy, all of which surprised me. I think she was envying my good relationship with my husband, though I couldn’t fully understand the staring at me, rather than the expected reverse! Linda Ronstadt had, even then, a lot of work to become the sensitive, caring friend we all imagined her to be with that clear sweet voice and sensitive music. Pondering in retrospect, I felt I understood why her fellow recovering Catholic boyfriend, Jerry Brown, may have ended the relationship.
This hurting and hurtful woman needs our prayers, our compassion, and to become more familiar with the great Catholic heritage she has rejected and denounced in error. I think her celebrity and sadly lost talent, as well as her present afflictions, intimidate too many Catholics who then fail to draw her back to the Catholic Church, the primary source, protector and promulgator of the treasured teachings of Our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Those of us who have been blessed with the gift of faith are failing this woman, who is failing herself, her fellow human beings, and her great Catholic heritage. She needs to see the light, and we Catholics are the only ones who can help her see things more clearly. Let us pray for her, and let those of us who can, reach out to this poor suffering soul. It is useless to disdain her when instead we might save her.
Wow Maryanne Leonard you ran into her? Wow..I probably wouldn’t have recognized her since I do not know much about her. I don’t know how anyone can reach someone so prideful. Or if anyone in that upper class scenario as her, are there any humble Catholics that may reach her? Who knows.
Plus is she humble enough to be reached out to? Some people are just rotten to the core, but only the good Lord knows what is deep, if there is still some goodness and worth saving, and people praying…..you betcha that a conversion will take place, only in God’s time.
You can’t give to someone something you have lost, so don’t expect the University of S. Clara to give her back her faith!
May God have Mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher,
Somewhere in all of this somebody needs to belt out a rendition of “You’re No Good!”
Let’s pray for Linda Ronstand.
St. Christopher — interesting name. Can someone tell me how a discussion about Linda Ronstadt lead to a discussion of MHR and our Pastor, Fr. Brian? There are no failures at MHR. Fr. Brian is doing a great job. MHR has been and will continue to be a spiritual home to straight and LGBT Catholics in the Castro and Bay Area. Our ministries offer vibrant programs and our membership is growing even as the Castro changes with the addition of more young professionals who work at Silicon Valley’s largest technology companies. These people (under 40) are very accepting of LGBT’s and same sex marriage. In fact, MHR has started a 6:30 pm Sunday Twilight Mass to give busy young (and older) Catholics another option to attend Sunday Mass. And, MHR has had a Wednesday dinner for the homeless for many years. Archbishop Cordileone has twice been to MHR and helped served food to the poor on Wednesday evenings. St. Agnes and St. Ignatius parishes in S.F. are inclusive parishes and have large LGBT communities but MHR continues to receive all the negativity generated by conservative Catholics. Not to worry, as we just push the delete button on those emails :)
“MHRJIM”: Your post is execrable. The activities you describe involving homosexual persons is what is wrong with the Catholic Church, and its embrace of homosexual sexual activity. No one that is a responsible Catholic can “accept” any homosexual sexual activity, ever. And no parish activity can treat homosexuals as part of anything good and enduring as long as it is clear that these persons are simply using the Church in an attempt to change its behavior. The simple truth is that homosexual sexual persons must repent, and must stop any sexual activity in the future. Being a homosexual person is blameless; acting on it is sinful, mortally sinful. This is no secret, except from the Church hierarchy that, in being “pastoral,” demands that everyone look away from what homosexuals are actually doing in their relationships. Linda Ronstadt favors homosexual marriage, and thereby affirms homosexual sexual behavior. You seek to string together some soup kitchen meals, and other programs, in an effort to mask the awfulness of the crime of homosexual sexual behavior. It does not matter what nice things MHR does, or how nicely Ms. Ronstadt used to sing, when compared to the scandal that could be done to many homosexuals that might be misled by the “acceptance” activities of which you speak. MHR, and its clergy, fail in that it, and they, do not stand for moral truth, do not speak out, in love, to warn homosexuals that their sexual behavior may well lead them to Hell. Acceptance is the very worst thing that can happen to the “LGBT” crowd; they need to be told the truth, and the way to be free from sin.
Good Cause states “…Ronstadt’s appearance might convince student listeners that their Catholic faith is very precious and that the singer being a “recovering Catholic” might show she can improve her life and outlook even more with a faith foundation, retuning to her faith roots.” This is the preposterous “argument-by- eclipse:” the exact contradiction of what = a fulfilled Catholic life is evidenced instead (in this example0 by this sorry shell of a person. Other examples of the “argument-by-eclipse” are “the new springtime of the Church” of Vatican II, or that those who left the Church after 1965 are “better off”.
Either MHR Parish needs to be closed, or the Archbishop needs to get up on the podium and speak at all the Mass’ telling the people in the pews, that none of this
pro-homosexuality condoning will be permitted any longer!
That we are all to respect and love all people, but NOT condone their actions,
period!
In 2007 I heard that Archbishop Niederauer was to celebrate Mass at the Most Holy Redeemer which was also the same day of the Castro Street Fair. I attended an early Tridentine Mass and drove to the Castro District, I wanted to know if the Archbishop was there to tell the parishioners to “go and sin no more”. Instead I photographed the Archbishop giving Holy Communion to two members of the sisters of perpetual indulgence who’s very motto is “go and sin some more”. The Archbishop later apologized saying he failed to recognize them. Anyone who has seen the pictures cannot understand how that was possible. https://americansfortruth.com/2007/10/09/more-san-francisco-nuttiness-catholic-archbishop-gives-communion-to-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence/
You went to Holy Mass to spy?
Well that answers the question of why someone was taking pictures at Mass, which you are not supposed to do.
Good grief, Anonymous, you call it spying and yet if everything was kosher, what is so ou
…. continued to Anonymous.
… what is so outrageous in documenting what is going on? What was going on is the willful doublespeak/double-act that has led the faithful at MHR to believe, at least in action, that there is nothing wrong with same sex marriage. Real scandal, Anonymous, that if not reported to the proper authority and verified will continue to fester which, it seems, you want.
Oh, how horrifying to document abuses. But if there is no documentation, you cry, where is your proof. Your Anonymous moniker and pattern of your posts reveals more and more of what you are about…. and it is not the good of the Church.
Your tactics and agenda are disgusting.
As for taking pictures, Anonymous, would you nail someone for snapping a pic of a First Communicant, a Newlywed couple, or videotaping a sermon series? Likely, you would.
Anonymous, the comment “you went to Holy Mass to spy” is fairly disingenous. Based on well-founded experience, in Phoenix and in the Bay Area, if documentary evidence is not incontrovertible, persons such as yourself would be the first to claim that the facts are in question. As it is, initially Bp Niederauer denied the episode until the shocking photographic evidence surfaced, proving that he full-well looked the two blasphemous agitprops directly in the eye and gave them communion —an act he will have to answer for as well as they. The real issue is that the ordained person, a fortiore a bishop, is to do all in his power to protect the veneration of the sacrament. He failed, the scandalous “sisters” succeeded, and you accuse the messengers. It is classic Amchurch procedure.
Look who else is coming: Roy Bourgeois, who was expelled from the Maryknoll order and laicized in 2012.
It sounds like Linda Ronstadt has been attempting a recovery from distancing herself from God for quite a long time, almost her entire life. Now Linda is suffering from Parkinson’s disease and she is still in essence blaming God’s Church for her continuing unhappiness and lack of treatment for her medical problems. Who forced Linda Ronstadt to once publicly say that her one fantasy was to seduce a priest? No one did. Linda cannot blame that on anyone. Linda chose to say that. If Linda is honest with herself she will no longer blame God’s Church for her life of loneliness and unhappiness. How will the Linda Ronstsdt’s of the world fare when the only true “recovery” in Christ’s Church is perceived or thought of as the disease? Who helped and enabled and already willing and rebellious Linda to think in this diseased way? How tragic that Linda’s lifelong recovery battle with unhappiness and distancing herself from God will once again be validated and supported by those at SCU who are also attempting their “ill fated recoveries ” while dismissing God’s Church. The blind are leading the blind down the road of eternal unhappiness. There is no such thing as a “full recovery” without the ongoing working merits and grace of God’s salvific Church on earth. Santa Clara University has also forgotten that too so Linda Ronstadt truly needs all of our prayers in spite of her own habitually blinded rebellion against God. Linda gave a revealing insight into the unhappiness she has felt her entire life in a 1979 Redbook magazine article. God loves Linda Ronstadt and Linda is still rejecting that love. Linda needs spiritual direction from a holy priest or a modern day Bishop Sheen to truly help her on the right path to a “full recovery” in Christ.
Linda Ronstadt Interview by Elizabeth Kaye – Redbook Magazine 1979
Linda Ronstadt: Why Is She The Queen Of Lonely?
https://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intrb.htm
Catherine I don’t know anything about Linda R. But what you just said sure doesn’t say anything good about her nor does this title does either. I find that many people blame their church, faith, their parents, almost everyone except themselves. What a sad way to be. It doesn’t give any room for spiritual growth neither.
I have my eldest child who does that blame game and victim game too (all false just to justify her bad choices in life) but hopefully she’ll grow out of it since she is still young and immature. But this woman is older and its sad to grow up to be in that mental state of mind.
She is an embarrassment if you ask me. I feel sorry for the woman. Its hard to help someone like her, they never want to change nor grow yet many sick like minded people like her, follow her. I guess its true “birds of the same kind flock together” or something like that, I can’t recall how the saying goes but I think you know what I mean. But what makes this a tragedy is that they think it’s wise to have someone like her speak at an University event. Bitter old women speaking at any events don’t really give a positive view of any school when they choose to have them speak.
A misguided, immoral, “hippie misfit” speaking at a misguided, immoral, crazy, misfit “Catholic” school?? Under the false guise of claiming to be a so-called “recovering Catholic??” Both are Christ-rejecting, shallow, morally-illiterate atheists, and very tragically dumb!! This is only about entertainment, not religion, I bet! Big joke!! However, I am very sorry for this woman’s sufferring from a serious illness. She really does need prayers for her sufferring– and for a conversion to Christ, Who could help her, at this time, especially!