21 February 2015

ROSICA v. VOX

Once upon a time after Vatican II, bishops, priests and their lackeys in the "official" Catholic media remained silent when the Faithful were attacked by the wolves, sometimes unknowingly facilitating the actions of these wolves, oftentimes covertly supporting these wolves. Now, five decades on, several of these clerics have become full-blown wolves themselves, openly and unashamedly attacking the Faithful, calling that which is good "evil", and transmogrifying that which is evil into "good"...

For Canadian Catholic bloggers, a good proportion of them tending toward orthodoxy and who regularly monitor the deplorable state of widespread apostasy in this nation's Establishment Church, it is common knowledge that Father Thomas Rosica is a power hungry Modernist. The public face is one of a humble and hard-working orthodox cleric, but outbursts and vilifications in response to articles on the internet from Traditionally-minded Catholics betray a hard and fast Progressive agenda at odds with the Magisterium. The same viewpoint, I gather,  applies to other Canadian Catholics of orthodox bent who, while not expressing their viewpoints online for whatever reason, may have had misfortune to transact or communicate with this ladder climbing clericalist.

Fr. Roscia has his hand in every pie throughout the Canadian Catholic landscape - diocesan newspapers, universities, secular media outlets, WYD Toronto, the CCCB, chanceries, advising, writing, lecturing, hosting Church-related events, winner of numerous awards, etc. He is all over the place, a prominent public figure who has lately gone trans-Atlantic, soaring to the very top. Since Pope Francis' election, Rosica has been appointed as - another notch in his long list of accomplishments - English language spokesman for the Vatican Press Office. Or, as I prefer to say in this time of diabolical disorientation in Rome, Fr. Federico Lombardi's pool boy.

So, to demonstrate my solidarity with blogger Mr. David Domet (aka Vox Cantoris), after the threat of lawsuit he received from Fr. Rosica, demanding that posts critical of his public statements removed - even reserving the right to litigate against Mr. Domet "regardless of an apology or retraction"! - this blogger provides various links to his own articles critical of Fr. Rosica's public statements and actions.

So far as I am aware, the reader would be well to note that it is unprecedented for a Vatican official to commence civil legal action against a Catholic layman critical of  the hierarchy. Fr. Rosica is a big time player with many influential "friends", so in all likelihood he consulted with certain individuals at the Vatican before commencing legal action so as intimidate a Catholic blogger into silence. Accordingly, it is not hard to deduce that Rome has declared war on Catholic bloggers - and here we have "the Francis Effect" manifesting in true form.

Below there is a cornucopia of well-referenced articles  (starting in 2010) available for perusal: Rosica's vilification of LifeSite News during the Kennedy funeral affair, his gushing interview with the excommunicated ex-priest Greg Baum, his swooning endorsement and collaboration with liberal Vaticanista John Allen, Jr., his function as mouthpiece for the apostatic Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, including machinations occurrent  at the Salt+Light Media Foundation (of which he is CEO), Catholic-lite par excellence - but most importantly for the current context, Fr. Rosica's views on the role of lay Catholics on the Internet.

Posts devoted entirely to Fr. Rosica public words/actions are these:


Posts with just a few paragraphs critical of Fr. Rosica are these:

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28 comments:

marylise said...

The threatened lawsuit appears to be a case of oppression of the poor (David Domet) by the rich (Father Rosica). Other interpretations are valid, e.g., attack on freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and freedom of religion, but it is hard to imagine the lawsuit would be contemplated if David Domet were rich and Father Rosica were poor.

Colin Kerr said...

tolerance and openness reveals itself, eh. bad week for Canadian Catholics. But good will ultimately come out of this because of this 'revelation.'

Aliquantillus said...

The problem is that Father Rosica is backed by the current Magisterium of Pope Francis. It is equally true of Francis that "the public face is one of a humble and hard-working orthodox cleric, but outbursts and vlificationis in response to [...]" [...] "[...] traditionally minded Catholics betray a hard and fast Progressive agenda at odds with the Magisterium" of the historical Church". It is the Pope who is behind all this Progressivism and Modernism. It is Francis, not Rosica, who is the main problem of the Chuch nowadays. Rosica is only a factotum in the Pope's hands.

Pere Untel said...

The threat of a lawsuit against a blogger is a shot across the bow. Does anyone really think that Fr. Rosica is so out of control that he could not foresee the effect this action would have in the blogosphere? This legal action is meant to silence and warn the loyal opposition that enough is enough and that the Revolution will proceed as planned. The madness and the sheer incomprehensibility of many of the pronouncements and musings coming from the Eternal City are part and parcel of the revolutionary program. The diabolical disorientation afflicting the world must be countered by the only spiritual arms at the disposal of the poor of God: prayer and penance. Seek refuge in the Immaculate Heart of Mary as our Lady has called us to do. Do not waste your precious time on submissions and petitions. Truth is not a matter of consensus. Be faithful unto death and pray for the grace to persevere. "When the Son of Man returns, will he find faith on earth?"

marylise said...

At the risk of stating the obvious, in his threatened lawsuit Father Rosica is also in violation of the Fifth Commandment ("Thou shalt not kill") and 1 Cor 6: 6-11 in which St. Paul expressly forbids lawsuits launched by one Catholic against another. This is still only scratching the surface. Father Rosica should be disciplined by the appropriate authority, made to do penance, removed from his high office, privileges and secure income and ordered to write an apology to David Domet. Who needs terrorists when we have Father Rosica to persecute the faithful? Thank you, Heresy Hunter, for defending your grossly mistreated brother in Christ.

TH2 said...

Fr. Rosica has quick and easy access to large amounts of money. For example, the Gagliano family funding of Salt + Light.

TH2 said...

Let us hope so and pray that it does.

TH2 said...

I concur, Aliquanillis. Beforehand, Rosica was to some degree restrained. But now, being an international superstar, the wolf has been uncaged. And it is Francis who possesses the key that unlocked that cage.

TH2 said...

Supremely wise counsel from Pere Untel. I agree wholeheartedly that petitions are a waste of time. Yes, prayer and penance are the prime weapons in the battle.

marylise said...

Yes, exactly. And lay persons like David are living on the edge financially because even a decent income can suddenly be undermined. It happens all the time. This is why, in a sense, most lay persons are by definition poor. Even if they have money, they may not have it for long. The archdiocese will not pay their bills if they go bust. By the way, to the list of infractions contained in the threatened lawsuit, we can add violation of the Catholic principle of subsidiarity. Subsidiarity means resolution of conflict at the lowest possible level.

Maggie said...

Does a modernist believe in following the Commandments?

kiwiinamerica said...

A so called "shepherd" threatening to ruin a sheep.
In the Gospel, the Good Shepherd comes looking for the lost sheep with a crozier in order to rescue it. In Canada, he comes with a baseball bat in order to beat the living daylights out of it.
Utterly incredible.

conservative5 said...

Let us have faith that no matter who Father Rosica's friends are, even the Pope, God will protect his sheep for the wolves. Mr. Domet needs all the support and positive media he can garner to shine a light of the evil that is making its way in the Holy Mother Church. Prayers to St. Michael the Archangel are needed.

conspires theorizes questions said...

Maybe Rosica is an alien or a plant by one of the higher order of the Masons? They are everywhere and they live among us. Read the Book of Enoch. The end is near.

sort it out like grown ups said...

David has a great job working for the school board and he gets paid to sing at various parishes.


If you are going to spend as much time as he does on the internet, waving the flag for the one, true, Catholic and latin speaking church, he has to be ready for a pushback.


Like our beloved Mary, sitting in prison as a witness to her conscience, David needs to be ready to suffer the same. This is the cost of discipleship.


Remember the Codes of 17 and 83 allow for clerics to maintain their good name.

seriously marylise said...

Domet violated the same commandment by running Rosica's name into the mud.


Seriously Marylise, who writes your material?

snake finder said...

Do you agree with everything that Mr. Domet has written about this priest?

Anon Out of Fear said...

Mary's single and nobody wants to ruin her financially. David's not looking at a cell but at himself and his family losing their home. Meanwhile, good name nothing. Father R has not been smelling like a rose to the little people he's stomped on in the past twenty years. The Kennedy Funeral scandal with all R's subsequent insults to shocked and angry viewers, the Baum interview and the relentless fawning over the rich and/or powerful have all blackened his good name.

Anon Out of Fear said...

Can you run a name into the mud if its already there?

conservative5 said...

Yes, I do.

TH2 said...

Maybe you are a troll who uses multiple pseudonyms in one comment thread, like this one, to confuse readers?

TH2 said...

Note to Readers: be aware that comments in the above from
"conspires theorizes questions", "snake
finder"
, "seriously marylise" and
"sort it out like grown ups" originate from the same
individual.

kaufman316 said...

A small part of me is curious to see unto which pool house the IP leads...

Mary McMahon said...

More the actions of a employee in an Corporation ,then a man of God ,no turning the other cheek ,and definitely no Vatican 2 dialogue ,but then the dialogue is apparently for the benefit of non Catholics only .

ecclesiam said...

This one's about Rosica too, and I'll put another one up on Sunday.
http://ecclesandbosco.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/dont-forget-to-say-your-rosica.html

TH2 said...

Thank you, Eccles.

TH2 said...

...also, for the benefit of the Modernist heretics within.

LionelAndrades said...

The issue is doctrine...
March 27, 2015

No donations to organisations that are pro- abortion but on the issue of salvation, dogmas , Vatican Council II they would welcome donations to LifeSites, whose editor dissents

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2015/03/no-donations-to-organisations-that-are.html

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