the wealthy need the poor to stay out of spiritual poverty -- @FrRobertBarron, citing Cardinal George
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) September 22, 2013
Tea Party
Spin Doctress K-Lo Cites Cardinal George's Spin Doctor Bobbie Barron – “the
wealthy need the poor to stay out of spiritual poverty” – What the Hell Does
That Mean???
The Poor
should stay poor or jeopardize the salvation (or wealth) of the Rich???
Cardinal George Chicago - Martyrdom is Good for Everybody Else Other Than Me
The British Uber-Catholic Blogosphere went ape
shit the other day when Parliament under conservative Prime Minister Cameron
confirmed the right thing, the human thing to do, to confirm the civil right of
all citizens in Britain the right to civil marriage.
The law which passed is on
the road to adjustments, tweaking, and a final vote in the House of Lords
exempts religious groups, gives them the right to abstain from being forced by
law to administer the marriage ceremony for the state.
In BRITAIN it was the conservatives that pushed
for marriage equality for some strange reason. I do, as an aside, wonder if there
is a some new world order committee that tells the guy in charge in every country – “this is how
it goes Jack and or Dave and or Barry etc…” (aside over)
Well the period in which the organized resistance
to marriage equality was a lot like their prep time for elections like for only
a few weeks. So the opposition and not necessarily the political right only had
days and weeks to organize opposition letter writing, blog explaining campaign
against the human rights thing of marriage equality.
Now that Cameron has betrayed his upfront promise
for his government not to get involved in marriage equality, the religious
right is seething in anger and looking for scapegoats etc. for their defeat in
Parliament.
All well and good the way they do things in Britannia. Since that recent vote in Parliament, I have not found one single right wing Brit religious blog that has not quoted half of
Cardinal George of Chicago’s so called “Call to Martyrdom" in the British Isles.
It spread like wildfire. Almost like off the same mimeograph machine.
The quote is:
“I am (correctly) quoted as saying that I
expected to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will
die a martyr in the public square.”
A call to martyrdom of Brit Catholics?
The source of the quote which is rarely quoted in
the British Catholic Blogosphere is the link below along with the full two
sentence quotation by the holy loquacious bishop of Chicago, whom many think is
Benedict XVI’s logical successor as head of the Vatican Mafia Crime Family.
“I am (correctly) quoted as saying that I
expected to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will
die a martyr in the public square.”--“His successor will pick up the shards of a
ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the Church has done so
often in human history.”
All well and good that Cardinal George’s successor
be flung into prison but I think it not on matters of faith as much as for
fiscal mismanagement (stealing) and the child abuse scandal cover-up as now
documented in the infamous Ratzinger Pedophile Archives in the Vatican, which I
think is Cardinal Ratzinger’s ultimate legacy to humanity in terms of documenting
the Holocaust of Innocence (of Children) orchestrated by the pervs presently running
the Church of Rome.
My spec choice for the man in prison in Cardinal
George’s rightful place as the next Cardinal of Chicago is Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville Kentucky, that state represented at present in the Senate by
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (grandma) and tea bagger tea party
superstar Rand Paul. Geez.
I do not suppose that Cardinal George knows or
cares that far right Brit Catholics are about to act like lemmings and jump off
the cliff of martyrdom and or enroll in Afghani style Martyr classes in the
greater London region. Will he make an effort to rescind his popular half quoted
position, while jihad forms in his absence of clarity? I somehow doubt it.
On top of this now defeat of the far right
Catholics in Britain is their blogosphere, they are now quoting the great church
father of law Cardinal Burke as author of revenge and denying sacraments to all Catholics in Parliament who voted with the Cameron team on marriage equality. Oy Vey!
What a strange backward Déjà vu Britain is now
after our recent elections where we did not vote for Obama as much as make
every effort possible to vote against the Church Party – the GOP – who would
scrap our social safety net to finance lazy crony moron business men who don’t
know how to run businesses or create jobs.
Against a backdrop of
art, architecture and past history, Father Robert Barron, a protégé of Chicago
Cardinal George has compiled a bootlegged style schlock imitation piece of Sir
Kenneth Clarke’s Civilisation series but on "religion" - what religion I was unable to decipher.
"Catholicism" is a series of segments of art film, travelogue and incoherent religion
lectures that ramble all over creation’s time line and imagination.
BUT - Where is the
real Roman Catholicism Father Barron?
I ran into two
episodes of Robert Barron’s “Catholicism” on PBS on one of those raising cash
on a rainy Sunday afternoon deals and offering a full five DVD set of ten
episodes for a $250 tax deductible contribution to the local PBS station.
Media expert Barron’s
independent, independent film which has no traceable roots in IMDb (Internet
Movie Data base) that I can compare the credentials of people using terms and
titles like Director or Cinematographer to see if Cardinal George and or his
cronies got their three million dollars worth in this vanguard media vehicle of “the
New Evangelism” and or “Getting the old MoJo Nostalgia Thing going for the
pre-Vatican II Medieval Church”.
Father Robert Barron
is a polished articulate wordsmith but a third rate theologian as any PC
theologian in the RCC is these days. Though he wears glasses and a wristwatch,
I guess the appearance of intelligibility is allowed on occasion with
permission in its certified authorized theologians mixing with the little
people through the firewall of the media. Is allowable to a certain extent in
the desperate marketing and sale of this “New Evangelism” thing?
Walks like a
duck. Sounds like a Duck. It must be the
New Evangelism thingy. Frozen concentrated grape juice in a frozen concentrated
orange juice container I fear. What’s
the difference? Catholicism – one size fits all. Right? One fruit juice is as good as another.
Whatever. Enough on tangents.
Three million bucks
does not go very far these days even in terms of a non-union made film.
I will say that most
of what I have seen could have been shot with stock footage and much of it with
scenes of happy heterosexual couples holding hands in the streets and parks and
all the running happy children in these parks added to strike a “I want that
too” chord in the viewer – the illusion of temporary happiness at least.
Viewing these two
propaganda pieces on PBS I wanted to learn something I did not already know
about Catholicism. Many of the PBS series Ihave seen illustrating topics such as Baseball, the Civil War or even Judaism have been informative and thought provoking.
Not once in these two
episodes do I once hear what the Roman Catholic Church is all about or what it
believes in.
I did watch these two
episodes:
“Amazed and Afraid:
The Revelation of God Become Man”
“That Than Which
Nothing Greater Can Be Thought: The Ineffable Mystery of God”
The first episode is a pile of 10, 15, 30 second sound bites against a backdrop of the all the art of
churches, the Sistine Chapel ceiling paint job etc. And while it is sometimes exquisite to encounter
a sixteenth century Spanish cathedral alter piece covered in icons and gold, one like me
after one too many shots of such decadence and with a Protestant conscience, I am
reminded of all the slave labor and ruined lives of millions of enslaved peasants
and Indians in South and Central America that went into the creation of this “art”.
It is here where the
sound bites and the 90 second and two minute polished homilies struck me of the
whole disjointed mess of this propaganda film. That beyond art, the RCC is idolatry
and love of the idol – the thing – its own thing. That an ignorant illiterate serf in medieval
Europe may have learned his bible stories from the stained glass of the
Cathedrals.
I thought I recognized
the style of Barron’s polished 90 second and two minute focused homilies which
remind me of the finishing punch line statements after many long agonizing boring religion classes I remember in catholic high school. I also feel for his seminary students mucho.
But looking at and
listening to Father Barron blather on with so many rambling, disjointed, bunch
of little phrases, thoughts, opinions, against the backdrop of medieval art,
happy couples in parks etc. that I am reminded of the possibility of some drunken monk in some medieval theology class in a cathedral pointing to a stained glass
picture of Noah’s flood and then telling the story of Adam and Eve. Some serfs
may have gone to their graves confused on the finer subtle points of that theology lesson etc.
The second episode
mentioned continues the rambling sound bites against the backdrop of stock
footage. The drunken medieval monk acting gig in the cathedral medieval theology class
gets more polished and starts into an alphabet soup of disconnected ideas without any spellable words
produced in the consumer’s spoon.
But
defining or understanding God is a really big subject and I have heard better
explanations of the vastness and mystery of God from Muslims on video tape and
filtered through a coarse sieve of translation.
One very disturbing scene
in this second episode has Father Barron doing his theology schtick against the
backdrop of Auschwitz and rambling about how evil can be done in life etc. How
can God let that happen?
He even concedes that
the idea that God letting evil happen for a greater good is a tad bit too much
for human understanding.
He slips into a story
about the old testament story of Job and rambles on a bit. Jumps to a Seurat
pointism painting in a museum. And finally ends on a cute story of the American
Philosopher William James and his dumb dog who cannot read.
Then he slips back to
the Auschwitz scene without an answer to the mystery of God letting the Shoah
happen.
No apology for what so many
Catholics in the Nazi Party did to the Jews.
I guess by episode eight or nine Father Barron will be explaining why
God’s intentions at Auschwitz were so obtuse and why it is perfectly clear why the
Jew hating(?), Jew/humanity ignoring Pius XII must be made a modern saint
according to the new, modern, retro-Medieval “New Evangelism”
Being the hack
seminary teacher and dog trainer that Barron appears to be and in grand favor
of his mentor and patron Cardinal George of Chicago, I think that no
intelligent person has anything to fear from this waste of three million
dollars that disappeared off the ledgers somewhere. No threat I think to any
higher order of primates here at least.
This new untried Attention
Deficit, all over the map non-map, approach to the heart of Christianity that the RCC has become, much like a
millstone tied around the rest of Christianity’s legitimate attempt to follow
the simple teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, is sad.
No doubt like Fox
News which attributes its high ratings to being the only channel playing in
most nursing homes in America, the canned Catholicism DVD treasury will appeal
to the long term only memories of the inmates there who hopefully still have
control over their estates before they part this earth and leave their wealth
to the “New Evangelism” of the Roman Pagan Catholic Church.
No hidden Picasso
here. Perhaps though just another encounter with a resurrected Elvis painted on
velvet kind of decorative art thingy.
Sir Kenneth – rest in
peace. Your reputation on art history remains safely intact.
Chick-Fil-A is yet to break into the Bigtime diverse Chicago, Philly, NYC, Boston franchising arena.
Cardinal George of Chicago is rooting for Chick-Fil-A BTW as his choice for Catholic Values Fast Food.
Wendy's in Columbia SC, one of a 74 chain Wendy's subdivision operated by Jim Furman, Tarheel Capital, is rooting for the competition, as seen above, in serving unwholesome mechanically separated tortured chicken as opposed to good old A-merican Beef.
Rumor has it that Wendy's will beat Chick-Fil-A into the East African franchising market namely Uganda where Evangelical Christian fast food must bribe the local pols with cash and have a uniquely American version, of the Christianity Hate Brand seal of approval.
Cardinal George
of Chicago, a Christian Evangelical Conservative has come down on the side of Dan Cathy’s
conservative Christian hatred of gays and the funding of gay hate projects,
some co-sponsored by the Catholics.
These days, the
conservative Catholic Hierarchy have in all but exact word and deed negated the
brotherhood and sisterhood generated towards other faiths out of Vatican II.
Along with
forgetting Vatican II is the negation Pope Paul VI’s wrongful Catholic blame of the Jews
for the mythical figure of Jesus and his death. Read Cardinal George's revised remarks below on that chestnut. RIP Paul VI. RIP Vatican II.
So when I hear
Heir George speak about Rahm Emanuel’s values I know what the coded
anti-Semite message is (wink, nod).
Prove me wrong!
Show me one photo of Cardinal George standing next to Mayor Emanuel, shaking hands and "smiling".
Cardinal George on Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ flick:
…There is a priest in the archdiocese who has a
lot of experience in filmmaking, and he has sent out to the parishes all the
information on the film and how to participate in viewing it. I have sent out
the documents from Rome and the USCCB on how to read the Passion stories in the
Gospels. I would encourage people to see the film.
I would then say
something else. We should see it not only as Christian believers; we should try
to watch it with the eyes of the Jewish people.
The history of
anti-Semitism, a very sorrowful history, has made many Jews very sensitive to
any recognition that even some Jews were involved in the death of Jesus.
Obviously some Jews were involved in the death of Jesus. He had enemies among
his own people. His apostle Judas betrayed him and some of the leaders of the
people were against him. Read the Gospels. At the same time, all Jesus' friends
were Jews, as were the first apostles and disciples - everybody was a Jew
within this story, except the Romans who, in fact, killed him. They killed him
in their own fashion - a terrible execution, torture. And all of that torture
is attributed to the Romans in the film.
But the push to
have him condemned is attributed to some of the Jewish leaders, even though the
Romans are primarily responsible. Jesus had enemies among his own people. He
also had friends and disciples among his own people. Jesus was a Jew. And you
can hardly tell the story of Jesus' life, certainly not the story of his death,
without saying that some Jews did this and some Jews did that.
–
Cardinal George 13 February 2004 - St. Vincent Ferrer Parish, River Forest,
Illlinois
I guess when old Nazis like Cardinal George of Chicago need some spending cash for the holidays for their misters or mistresses, they need to call up Salt Lake City and get a talking point memo and check, cash money transter, to bash the gays.
No doubt the half senile old geezer likes calling the LGBT community KKK, no doubt the old geezer does not want to invoke Godwin’s law into the conversation. No doubt the Roman Catholic Adolph Hitler is still too sacred a territory to touch and cannot be cited to invoke Godwin’s law.
I find the GREAT HATE OF 2012 – (the great Mormon Catholic Hate Alliance against gays in the 2012 election year) (cash for hire hate) the ongoing hate of the Mormon Hierarchy and the RC Hierarchy is underway in the true spirit of CEO Christmas – their way – not mine – and even before the calendar turns to January 1, 2012.
Is there a moral equivalent to Godwin’s law to shut up old Catholic or Mormon hate geezers like Francis George and Thomas Monson, who compare a life community in the United States to the KKK – If they could, these haters would give Jesus another 40 lashes for good measure to teach him his real place in their scheme of things.
One good fallout of this great test of moral courage for all Americans of good heart and soul is that maybe the evil, the Satan, in the hierarchies of these two church institutions merged, will burn itself out and the rest of us, including the LGBTs, can go on about our lives in peace and tranquility as the real God of common people intended after 2012.
Whatever.
Peace on Earth but only to men and women of good will.
