UPDATE – Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ – R.I.P.

UPDATE - Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ - R.I.P.

UPDATE 3 Sept 202 15:12 CDT

I checked the page of the Midwest Province of the Jesuits.   Fr. Mankowski did pass away.

HERE

The family says that he died at 1PM CDT.  In other words, just minutes after I finished saying Mass for him.

The Postcommunio of the Mass “for the sick, close to death” (Pro infirmo qui proximus est morti) says:

 

Quaesumus clementiam tuam, omnipotens Deus, ut per huius virtutem sacramenti famulum tuum gratia tua confirmare digneris: ut in hora mortis eius non praevaleat contra eum adversarius; sed cum Angelis tuis transitum habere mereatur ad vitam.

We beseech your mercy, Almighty God, that you might deign by your grace to strengthen your servant though the might of this sacrament: so that in the hour of his death, the Adversary will not prevail against him; but rather that he will with your Angels merit to have his crossing over into life.

A few minutes after I prayer that at Mass, Fr. Mankowski had his crossing.

Originally posted Sep 2, 2020 at 22:46

A fine priest and great scholar, a true Jesuit, Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ, has died of a brain aneurysm….  is still alive.

I was hearing conflicting reports, so I called the Midwest Province of the Jesuits and got the straight information.  Father had a brain aneurysm.  He is, as I write, on life support and the prognosis is effectively without question.  While we never rule out God’s intervening hand, we have to prepare for bad news pretty soon.

This means that he can receive the Sacrament of Anointing – Extreme Unction – and the Apostolic Pardon.   That… my friends… is grace.

A subitanea et improvisa morte, libera nos Domine!

I will celebrate Holy Mass today, Thursday 3 Sept, for Fr. Mankowski using the form Pro Infirmo qui proximus est morti.

I am so sorry about his all-too-soon – foreseeable – death. Fr. Mankowski was – is – an unreal scholar. As a matter of fact, he contributed an important essay to the important book   Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church – US HERE – UK HERE.  This is one of the best defense of marriage there is.

Here is a video from February of Fr. Mankowski.

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UPDATE:

Fr. Mankowski wrote a review of James Martin’s pro-homosexual book.  HERE

In his usual razor style, Paul cut to the chase in the first line:

Is sodomy a sin? Perplexed readers of Fr. James Martin, S.J.’s latest book will want to put the question to him, if only to understand why he felt it important to write at all.

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St. Joseph, Patron against Communism, PRAY FOR US!

I received this image of St. Joseph today via snail mail from a reader.

It seems appropriate in this time of BLM and Dems running for office and Antifa.

St. Joseph, Patron against Communism, PRAY FOR US!

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75th Anniversary of the end of WWII

Today, 75 years ago… 2 September 1945 – representatives of the Empire of Japan formally signed instruments of surrender on the deck of USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

WWII ended formally.  2194 days after Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 to 2 September 1945. 6 years and 1 day.

Celebrations at the time must have been amazing.  I like this photo of the mostly peaceful conga line in Lafayette Park near the White House!

75th Anniversary of the end of WWII

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On Twitter @JamesMartinSJ attacks a Bishop for pointing out the OBVIOUS about pro-abortion ‘c’atholic politicians… blocks response

Jesuit homosexualist activist James Martin, who promoted his agenda by consorting with the Party of Death at the DNC, has on Twitter attacked a Catholic Bishop, Most Rev. Richard Stika.

Stika expressed what every properly formed and oriented Catholic would: he doesn’t understand how someone who is rigorously, openly, actively pro-abortion can call himself a “faithful Catholic”.

Former VP Joe Biden, now presidential candidate, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are both known Catholics who relentlessly promote abortion.

Their words about their faith are empty in the face of their actions.

Stika underscored this. Jesuit Martin attacked.

Martin thinks that, just because one claims to profess what the Apostles Creed states, claims to profess certain other dogmas of the Church, that, therefore, one is without question a faithful Catholic, no matter what he or she has been doing for years to promote the extermination of the unborn, especially through collaboration with Big Business Abortion, which also means a racist agenda.

Even demons believe the content of the Apostles Creed and what the Church teaches.  They hate that content, but they know it and believe it.  And – coincidentally – demons also work for the murder of the unborn and strive to promote racism.

Martin posted on Twitter, and then blocked responses.   Let’s see what he wrote and what I tried to post.

On Twitter @JamesMartinSJ attacks a Bishop for pointing out the OBVIOUS about pro-abortion 'c'atholic politicians... blocks response

On Twitter @JamesMartinSJ attacks a Bishop for pointing out the OBVIOUS about pro-abortion 'c'atholic politicians... blocks response

What I would have replied:

How many same-sex “marriages” has devout ‘c’atholic Biden officiated at by now?  More than one?  You would know.

Could this be the reason why Martin sticks up for Biden?

Because of his support for Martin’s pro-sodomy agenda?

Because public support of Biden, even to the point of attacking a bishop, might draw attention and future consideration by a new administration?

UPDATE:

Already a follow up to James Martin, SJ and his attack on Bp. Stika.

Catechism of the Catholic Church …

1867 The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are “sins that cry to heaven”: the blood of Abel, the sin of the Sodomites, the cry of the people oppressed in Egypt, the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan, injustice to the wage earner.

Four Sins that Cry to Heaven for Vengeance.

  • The “blood of Abel”: homicide, abortion, infanticide, fratricide, patricide, and matricide
  • The “sin of the Sodomites”: Non procreative sexual acts (sodomy). (cf. Jude 1:7).
  • Oppression of the poor.
  • The “injustice to the wage earner”: taking advantage of and defrauding workers (cf. James 5:4).

Isn’t that interesting?

Martin goes after a bishop for calling into question the Catholic identity of politicians who promote abortion, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance.

Martin actively promotes the “sin of the Sodomites”, a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance.

Perhaps he calculates that he has to undermine the Church’s teaching about the one category so that he can more freely pursue his agenda concerning the other?

UPDATE:

But wait! There’s more…

Back in 2016 I posted about how Nancy “The Theologian” Pelosi said something really stupid about the Catholic Faith. HERE

She claimed that – wait for it – same-sex “marriage” is “consistent” with Catholic Christianity.

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) — House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, says that same-sex “marriage” is perfectly “consistent” with Catholic Christianity.  [That’s just plain dumb.  No, it’s just a lie.  She knows better than that.]

Pelosi brought her grandchildren to see her receive an award from the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, to show the young, impressionable children that “marriage equality is important.”  [Friends, if you open your Illustrated Catholic Dictionary and look at the entry for can. 915, you will find a picture of Nancy Pelosi.  Then again, her photo appears in multiple entries.]

In an interview with Thomas Roberts on MSNBC, Pelosi said she took the children to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund gala because “it’s really important to see what the practice of our faith is.”

Pelosi, who described herself as a faithful Christian and “mainstream Catholic,” said her pre-adolescent grandchildren needed to see and be present at a gay and lesbian celebration in order “to give them the image that we have for all people,” meaning the image the Catholic Church has for all.  [God help those poor children.]

The House Minority Leader explained that same-sex marriage “is important,” and that her grandchildren “have been hearing this [message supporting gay ‘marriage’] their whole life” because “they go to Catholic school.”  [Pro-sodomy in Catholic schools in San Francisco?  I’m shocked!]

In perhaps the most controversial of her statements, Pelosi said, matter-of-factly, that same-sex ‘marriage’ “is consistent with the dignity and worth we [Catholics] attribute to every person.”

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So, Martin sticks up for Biden – who “marries” men – and Pelosi – who takes her grandchildren to sodomite events and then lies about the Church’s teaching.

 

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#ASonnetADay “I shall come back without fanfaronade” … GUEST SONNET by Dorothy Parker

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FOLLOW UP: Traditional Confirmation in @MadisonDiocese

It occurs to me that I did not post a follow up to our wonderful Rite of Confirmation that we had here in the Diocese of Madison thanks to the gracious generosity of Most Reverend Donald, by the grace of God, the local bishop.

On Thursday 27 August, Bp. Donald Hying confirmed, using the Traditional Roman Rite, 112 confirmands and then remained to preside at Solemn Mass coram episcopo.

Here are some photos, which I’ve also posted at the site of the Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison.

For those of you out there whose children and your young people were confirmed, I invite you also to make a contribution to the TMSM. HERE

FOLLOW UP: Traditional Confirmation in @MadisonDiocese

FOLLOW UP: Traditional Confirmation in @MadisonDiocese

FOLLOW UP: Traditional Confirmation in @MadisonDiocese

FOLLOW UP: Traditional Confirmation in @MadisonDiocese

FOLLOW UP: Traditional Confirmation in @MadisonDiocese

FOLLOW UP: Traditional Confirmation in @MadisonDiocese

FOLLOW UP: Traditional Confirmation in @MadisonDiocese

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Have a very Marian September

During September we traditionally reflect on Mary, especially in her role as Sorrowful Mother.

As Fr. Frederick Faber wrote in At The Foot of the Cross

“Mary’s sorrows were not necessary for the redemption of the world, but in the counsels of God they were inseparable from it. They belong to the integrity of the divine plan. Are not Mary’s mysteries Jesus’ mysteries, and His mysteries hers? The truth appears to be that all the mysteries of Jesus and Mary were in God’s design as one mystery. Jesus Himself was Mary’s sorrow, seven times repeated, aggravated sevenfold.”

So, reflecting on the Seven Sorrows of Mary can be of great benefit.  I wrote a series about the Seven Sorrows.

I also like to reflect on Mary in her “warrior mother” guise, as when she is using a weapon to protect her children.   In general, human mothers, even of the critter sort, get pretty worked up if some threat goes after their offspring.  Would Mary be any less concerned about us, in this vale of tears?

I’ve used this image of Mary on the sidebar of the blog quite often.  Let’s beat the devil… with a club!

Have a very Marian September

The title of this image is “Madonna del Soccorso… Our Lady of Succor, or Help”, painted in 1494 and it is found in the cloister of the Abbey of San Felice in Giano del Umbria, the Foundation house of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood.

Mary putting the smack down on the Devil with a club is a common theme.  There are numerous depictions of the Devil trying to get at a soul, in the guise of a child running to mom for help.

We use our spiritual weapon when we pray the Rosary.

Mary uses her spiritual weapon when she beats the Devil.

I’ve written more about here HERE.

A few more versions just for nice.

 

It’s a whip this time.  Gotta sting.

Have a very Marian September

Have a very Marian September

Have a very Marian September

Have a very Marian September

Have a very Marian September

Our Lady of Succor, ladies and gents.

 

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#ASonnetADay – 25. “Let those who are in favour … ah heck! … SUPERDAWG!”

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Wherein Francis school @DanHoranOFM – Holy Mass to be offered for him.

Fr. Dan Horan, OFM, recently called Sr. Dierdre Byrne – MD, COL USArmy RET a NAZI.  Really. HERE

“The Horan of Babylon” recently cast aspersions on the Most Holy Rosary as the spiritual weapon that it clearly is. HERE

He wrote: “Weaponizing faith is disgusting and idolatrous.”

On Sunday, during his Angelus address Francis said:

The life of Christians is always a struggle. The Bible says that the life of Christians is a military undertaking: fighting against the evil spirit, fighting against Evil.

Members of the Church Militant fight against evil using spiritual weapons.

Let us pray for Fr. Horan.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, 1 September, I will say Mass for his intention, asking God to grant him particular graces to awaken in him a new heart-rhythm and a new counter-point of view to challenge his rather narrowed prospect.

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What’s up at pro-abortion Fishwrap these days?

What's up at pro-abortion Fishwrap these days?“What’s up at Fishwrap?”, you ask.

Try this.

Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) is openly pro-abortion now… probably because the staff is solidly Dem or Marxist.  We’ve known that for awhile, but they aren’t hiding it, either.

There is a piece at Fishwrap by one Susan Vogt, who seems to have been a “family life minister” in a couple of dioceses and an adviser to the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Marriage and Family from 2000-2002. Heaven only knows what she advised. If this article at Fishwrap is any indication it wasn’t good.

Being pro-life is a messy affair during a presidential election

I am a pro-life Catholic. But before you put me in an ideological box and assume you know who I will vote for in November, let me complicate the issue.

First of all, you have a right to know where I stand. I am opposed to abortion on both a personal and spiritual level. Catholics are taught not to take the life of an unborn child.

Catholic or not, this is a moral decision that women facing an unwanted pregnancy have to wrestle with. Even a person with a rigorist conscience might pause when faced with incest, rape or the risk of death to the mother.

So where can a conscientious person of faith stand without being a hypocrite or naive? Ever since Cardinal Joseph Bernardin in 1983 coined the phrase “consistent ethic of life” Catholics were reminded that being pro-life also includes being opposed to euthanasia, the death penalty, assisted suicide and unjust war.

Today, we build on Bernardin’s seamless garment thesis that all human life is sacred by working to prevent premature deaths. People shouldn’t need to die from hunger, lack of affordable health care, gun violence and other societal injustices.

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You see where this is going.

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Although theoretically, the goal would be to eliminate the need for a woman to choose abortion, the first step is to reduce the number of abortions. Two approaches are:

Repeal Roe v. Wade

In my opinion, repealing Roe v. Wade is a flawed strategy. It will drive many abortions underground, especially for poor women who don’t have the money or means to travel to a more permissive state. It doesn’t solve the underlying problem — an unwanted pregnancy.

Prevent the need for abortion

Some basic starting steps for this approach are:

Educate our children from a young age about the advantages and wisdom of delaying sexual intercourse until marriage. Many chastity programs already do this — but not everyone listens or is compliant.
For those who won’t buy the “wait till marriage” approach (and there are many) provide reliable contraception. This could range from natural family planning, which is approved by the Catholic Church, to contraceptives such as birth control pills or condoms.
Research indicates that 75-90% of Catholics support the use of contraceptives.

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She was a “family life minister”.

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Promoting these proactive steps might help a societal consensus emerge. Until that day, we rely on the overarching Catholic moral principle: primacy of conscience.

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Very slippery.

So, Fishwrap has just given cover for a pro-abortion position under the umbrella of a “seamless garment” view. They won’t like that it is identified as being pro-abortion. They will claim that it is isn’t and that they are pro-abortion. But that’s what it is. Libs always demand that you deny reality. That what this piece does even from the title.

No, “Being pro-life is a messy affair during a presidential election” is not, in fact, messy, during an election cycle or not. Being pro-life means, FIRSTLY, supporting the right of the unborn to be born. That is non-negotiable. All the other other issues that are raised under the shadow of the “seamless garment” approach involve contingent moral choices which admit of varying views and approaches about which people can debate. The one point upon which all are required, but human decency and divine will, is the right to be born into a world which admittedly has problems.

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