Category Archives: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

WE MAY BE IMPATIENT, BUT ARCHISHOP FULTON SHEEN IS NOT

Posted on September 8, 2014 by abyssum

!!!! The way in which the New York Archdiocese refused to let Fultun Sheen’s body be transferred to Peoria is what is scandalous. Not that the delay itself. If the reports are correct, Cardinal Egan agreed with Bishop Jencky to … Continue reading →

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OOPS! CARDINAL WUERL DOES IT AGAIN!

Posted on September 5, 2014 by abyssum

!!!! Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. The removal several years ago of Father Guarnizo for denying Holy Communion to a Lesbian Woman who informed Father Guarnizo in the sacristy just before the celebration of the Mass that she … Continue reading →

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AN ORDINARY’S NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE, CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE

Posted on August 25, 2014 by abyssum

!!!! My Fair Lady has always been one of my favorite movies. I thought of it in 2011 when the drought which had already afflicted South Texas for three years was about to enter its fourth year. I remembered Eliza … Continue reading →

Posted in Abortion, BISHOPS, INFANTICIDE, LIFE ISSUES, MEDICAL-MORAL PROBLEMS, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, SAVING CHILDREN, SCIENCE AND ETHICS, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE CATHOLIC PRIEST, THE RIGHT TO LIFE, WITNESS TO THE TRUTH | Comments Off

AN ORDINARY’S NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE, CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR

Posted on August 24, 2014 by abyssum

!!!! Braunvieh Bull similar to my bulls, Cornerstone Amigo and Ambassador Dan Morales’ lawsuit was settled but my troubles were not over. I had a Coadjutor Bishop, Bishop Roberto Gonzalez, who did not understand that he was no … Continue reading →

Posted in BISHOPS, EUGENICS, EUTHANASIA, FAITH, HEALTH CARE, JESUS CHRIST, LIFE ISSUES, LITURGY, MEDICAL-MORAL PROBLEMS, MINISTERIAL PRIESTHOOD, MORAL RELATIVISM, NUTRITION AND HYDRATION, POPE, PREACHING THE GOSPEL, SUICIDE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE CATHOLIC PRIEST, THE RIGHT TO LIFE, THE SACRAMENTS, UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD, WITNESS TO THE TRUTH | Comments Off

AN ORDINARY’S NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE, CHAPTER TWENTY THREE

Posted on August 23, 2014 by abyssum

!!!! John Cardinal O’Connor, Archbishop of New York My becoming persona non grata with my brother bishops in Texas was to get even worse, it that were possible. The Board of Directors of the John G. and Marie Stella Memorial … Continue reading →

Posted in BISHOPS, CANON LAW, INTOLERANCE, JUSTICE, THE BOSTON ARCHDIOCESE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD, WITNESS TO THE TRUTH | 1 Comment

AN ORDINARY’S NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE, CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

Posted on August 23, 2014 by abyssum

!!!! Corpus Christi Cathedral, Corpus Christi, Texas The telephone call came like a lightning bolt from the sky. In the last week of May, 1983 Archbishop Pio Laghi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States called me in Pensacola and told … Continue reading →

Posted in Abortion, BISHOPS, EUGENICS, EXCOMMUNICATION, LIFE ISSUES, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE CATHOLIC PRIEST, THE EUCHARIST, THE RIGHT TO LIFE, THE SACRAMENTS, UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, WITNESS TO THE TRUTH | 1 Comment

AN ORDINARY’S NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE, CHAPTER TWENTY

Posted on August 22, 2014 by abyssum

!!!! Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski and Cardinal Karol Wojtyla My work as Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Migration involved many different groups of people. One group was the large number of priests from Poland who were entering the United … Continue reading →

Posted in BISHOPS, CANON LAW, POPE, POPE FRANCIS, SAINT POPE JOHN PAUL II, SANCTITY, THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD, WITNESS TO THE TRUTH | 1 Comment

AN ORDINARY’S NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE, CHAPTER NINETEEN

Posted on August 21, 2014 by abyssum

AN ORDINARY’S NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE, CHAPTER NINETEEN !!!! Aerial view of Kansas City International Airport How does one become convinced that God has a plan for us. I am not sure when I first became convinced that God … Continue reading →

Posted in FAITH, PRAYER, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE CATHOLIC PRIEST, WITNESS TO THE TRUTH | 1 Comment

AN ORDINARY’S NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE, CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Posted on August 21, 2014 by abyssum

!!!! Sacred Heart Cathedral in Pensacola Saint Thomas More Co-Cathedral in Tallahassee November 6, 1975 was the day of my installation as Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee in the Civic Center in Pensacola (Sacred Heart Cathedral was too small for the … Continue reading →

Posted in EVANGELIZATION, FAITH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, INTOLERANCE, MINISTERIAL PRIESTHOOD, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE CATHOLIC PRIEST, WITNESS TO THE TRUTH | Comments Off

AN ORDINARY’S NOT SO ORDINARY LIFE, CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Posted on August 20, 2014 by abyssum

!!!! Draw a line from East to West starting just above Fort Lauderdale and ending just above Naples, and everything south of that line would be the territory of the Archdiocese of Miami. Since most of that area consists of … Continue reading →

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