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| Archbishop Charles Chaput (left) evangelizing the faith. |
The best of the best New York’s Cardinal Timothy
Dolan has quoted the best of the best wordsmith Archbishop Charles Chaput of
Philadelphia declaring Philly to now be
“Mission Territory” after decades of crime and coverup under the Cardinals
Krol, Bevilacqua and Rigali crime regimes.
Timmy, in typical alpha male mode for the USCCB has
volunteered the Archdiocese of New York as “Mission Territory” as well and is
likely petitioning the Congress at this very moment for tens of thousands guest
worker visas for Catholic missionaries from South America, Africa and South
Asia to swarm over North America and save it and or offer it up to the
oligarchs on a silver platter for a good price or place at the table in the new
world order of things.
There was a time when Rome used to send the best of
the best of Europe to missionary territories in the New World and up against the dominant Protestant Christian Culture of the young United States.
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| What have you done to my (Philly) church? |
Bishop (Saint) John Neumann, a Sudetenland German, as fourth
bishop of Philadelphia missionary territory laid the foundation vision that built the largest, superior
Catholic education system in the United States, perhaps the world, that stood
for almost a hundred years until the Krol, Bevilacqua, Rigali regimes started
to strip the wealth of the Philly church, shipping cash over to Solidarity in
Poland for General Wojtyla to oppose the Russkies etc. along side CIA allies
and Ronald Reagan (bow your head).
These problems kill a Christian love of poverty and zeal. They choke off a real life of faith. They create the shadows that hide institutional and personal sins. And they encourage a paralysis that can burrow itself into every heart and every layer of the Church, right down to individual Catholics in the pews. The result is that Philadelphia, like so much of the Church in the rest of our country, is now really mission territory–again; for the second time...
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