Editor’s Note: Due to the mention of Fr. Mark Rogers, we asked the mole to search back through previous photos to learn more. Here is something of what was turned up from 2019.
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20 February 2019
Dear Diary,
There was a really bad storm last night that dumped a lot of snow. It was fun to see Chester drag Fr. Charlie into the big piles that the plow pushed around.
Finance meeting. It’s just not getting better. Gotta get more staff in to figure out where the money is going.
The worst part of the day was dealing with Fr. Mark Rogers. He was one of those hang overs from the time of old Bishop Hughes. Super conservative. For a long time he was at Hughes’s trad place – Shrine of the Martyrs of Islamic Terror – gotta do something about that name before the Nuncio gets on that one – because I couldn’t put him anywhere else. He used Latin and wore a cassock all the time and his parishioners were always on my case. He wouldn’t play ball. When his people visited someplace normal like Fr. Bruce’s community, they were always kneeling for Communion and causing a scene. Every time he or his people came up there was a headache. I figured he had psychological problems since he didn’t update. I sent him to that priest place out east, St. Leo’s. He really fought going. Not only that, when news got out about Fr. Mark leaving the Shrine and going to St. Leo’s an added positive was that a couple of the younger priests stopped showing up for things in cassocks. Leo’s is expensive, but two birds, and all. Some of the other bishops do this too, when they need to lay down the law and scare guys into line. The doctors reports said that they worked wonders with Fr. Mark. Odd, because he seemed sorta weird and downcast when he got back. Not happy at all.
When Fr. Mark came back I put him at Sing* so he could get into the swing of ministering in today’s Church. He came to see me several times and asked – pretty near begged – either to be moved or to be let go to do something like study or even go over to Black Duck where he knows some of the priests but I had to have bodies in the parishes. He didn’t want to live alone and wanted fellowship and community and worship with priests who were “actually Catholic”, which made me mad. He really must have been loopy because he just up and quit one day, disappeared out of the nice apartment we were paying for. I guess that proves I was right to send him in for treatment. We haven’t heard from him and don’t know where he is.
Anyway, I signed some papers and couple of letters sent word to DC and approved an announcement for the Glimpse**. Fr. Mark Rogers is suspended now and off the website. Sad, but what was I supposed to do? Fr. Charlie and Sr. Randi wouldn’t talk to me for the rest of the day. It’ll blow over in a few days.
Steaks and taters tonight with Dozer who is in town.
*Sing A New Faith Community Into Being Faith Community
**The newspaper of the Diocese of Libville.
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This one is funny, but I can’t laugh. Our local TLM is gone, gutted by the removal of the priest who said it to other pastures, due to the declining number of priests.
There’s just none of them left anymore.
Sometimes it’s difficult to not despair.
It’s just not getting better. Gotta get more staff in to figure out where the money is going.
staring him right in the face, isn’t it
They say the most subtle form of humor is satire, and satire is just reality presented in an absurd context yet contains the truth of what is portrayed.
McB is grotesque. But, I’m pretty sure, does not diverge far from the mark for many downtown.
This entry would be funny if it didn’t contain more than a whisper of truth. That I can imagine more than one of the high hats having quite this attitude and manner of relating what he really thinks to his private ‘diary’ speaks more to how low they’ve sunk than how aware (blindingly obvious) we’ve become.
Bishop Fatty may be in big trouble. He may be set up to attend the new Synod to welcome LGBQXYZ, Woman deacons and Communion for the Divorced.
Even Chester would have have a hard time with this.
@BW I couldn’t laugh either. This is the Church’s Cultural Revolution, any priest who does not get with the program is sent off to re-education camp. We also lost our TLM saying priest as part of the usual revolving door 6 years and you move on which is the policy in this diocese. The family that provided the trained altar boys also moved on shortly thereafter. Now the nearest one is 2 1/2 hours away and only on First Saturday.
Members of the Faithful cannot know how much this parody of a bishop’s life and thought ring true.
Our Lord Himself said that the days would come when those who persecute His followers would believe that they were doing God’s Will…
Not sure if a lot of western bishops actually believe in God, or in “doing His Will,” or if they HAVE (any) of The Faith that they are charged with teaching…
but, it just means more of carrying The Cross with Him.
Not the first time, certainly, that His chosen shepherds have been faithless, worldly, uneducated and foolish — and even evil — but it’s no surprise to Him…
This story reminds me of one in our diocese, that had a happier ending. I’m told that we had a Priest who was a late vocation; he had been in the CIA for several years. As a pastor, he was hardworking and orthodox. Our perverted, corrupt former Bishop called him one day and told him he was at his home near the Priest’s parish, one of the multiple homes the Bishop had around the diocese. His Excellency told the Priest that leaves had accumulated at the side of the house and he wanted them raked up. The Priest replied that he was in the middle of a staff meeting and would have his maintenance man go over as soon as possible to take care of it.
“No”, the Bishop replied, “I want you to do it.”
The Priest did what he was told, but because of this and manifold other abuses by Chancery officials, sometime thereafter he announced that he was leaving the diocese to join a religious order. It seems that if a Priest wants to move from one diocese to another he has to get permission from both Bishops, but if he’s joining a religious order, he need only to get the Order’s approval and his Bishop can’t stop it.