Cathy Caridi has written an overview about canon law and allegations (Part I) with some examples (Part II), the latter also mentioning Father Gordon MacRae. Good on Cathy. More and more canon lawyers are signing on to Father Gordon’s defense. Get that? Times are changing, and those who continue to self-congratulate themselves over their injustices to innocent priests, thinking that this makes them look good, are about to have a rude awakening. But it’s surely good to wake up and die right.
It strikes me that the longer the injustice against Father Gordon MacRae is perpetuated because people like Monsignor Edward Arsenault, Bishop Francis Christian, Bishop John McCormack do not come forward and tell the whole story about, for instance, stacking the jury, or, for instance, going out of their way by fraud to try to ensure that he would not have a good chance at any appeal, well, the worse it will be for the likes of Arsenault, Christian and McCormack. It seems to me that Bishop Peter Libasci could bring these and other matters to light. And he does want to do things in the light of day, doesn’t he?
Pulitzer Prize winning Dorothy Rabinowitz has written another great article on the wrongly imprisoned Father Gordon J. MacRae saga. Here’s the link to the new article at the Wall Street Journal:
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Update: I’ve been urging some others to publicize the article, as that would only be good. Meanwhile, some questions have come up. I’ll see if I can write on those in just a bit. Check back once in a while to: http://holysoulshermitage.com
At the end of “A Corner of the Veil” (a post on These Stone Walls) there’s a photo of Father Gordon MacRae’s mother at her family home in Logy Bay, Newfoundland, a few years before her death. Father Gordon’s mother is on the right. The lady on the left is her wonderful sister.
Father provides a hauntingly, hauntingly, hauntingly calming, wonderful, frightening, ever so peaceful and yet blazingly incisive interpretation of Robert Frost’s poem Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening. If you’ve never liked poetry, you’ll now rush out and buy anthologies of the same.
In the midst of this article, you’ll read the following, and I would like to place this before Monsignor Arsenault, and Bishops McCormack, Christian and Libasci:
My mother died a terrible death, having suffered for three years from hydrocephalus, the build-up of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain. It was misdiagnosed in her early seventies, and by the time it was properly diagnosed, it could not be treated. She visited me in prison with a cane, and then a walker, and then a wheelchair, and then, for the last year of her life, not at all. Though only sixty miles away from my prison, she could not even speak with me by telephone for the last six months of her life. She became paralyzed, and entered a prison of her own.
In our last visit in the New Hampshire State Prison visiting room a year before my mother died, I told her I was sorry for what had become of my life and my priesthood. Most mothers of priests – especially Irish mothers – take a certain pride in the priesthood of their sons. My mother left this world with her own priest-son in prison. I worried about the wounds to her pride my false imprisonment wrought.
But all was not lost. There was grace even in that. Sometime between now and Mother’s Day I hope you might read anew – or for the first time – “A Corner of the Veil.” It describes a promise I made to my mother that I would never take the easy way out of the crisis that priesthood brought me to. I intend to keep that promise, and in a dream last week, my mother showed up to help [continue reading there...]
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A reader from across the pond sent this in about a great idea for a gift for your mother on Mother’s Day. I put this up before Mother’s Day so as to give people a chance to follow this guy’s example in doing something really fantastic for his dear mother.
You can skip the advert in the video after a few seconds.
You’ll remember that two weeks ago, Father Gordon MacRae, a priest wrongly imprisoned (about), asked me to write a guest post over on his blog appropriately called These Stone Walls. That guest post was published as Pope Francis and The Judas Crisis. I include it below the page break here for archival purposes, but I encourage you to read it over there if you haven’t already, and drop a comment. I’m told that the day it was published, it got a record number of hits for that month on These Stone Walls. Yikes!
This guest essay written by Father George David Byers, of Holy Souls Hermitage, compares four points of Cardinal Bergoglio’s pre-conclave speech with four scenes of betrayal and evangelization of the dark peripheries of Gethsemane: The Judas Crisis & TNCRRG.
It is with sweet and comforting joy that we thank His Holiness, Pope Francis, for being the Papa of our Catholic Family of Faith. We are confident of his solidarity with us in the midst of our evangelization of the most extreme peripheries of existential desperation.
It is with unbounded trust in his fatherhood as he walks among us that we
In reading over Ryan Anthony MacDonald’s article — Truth in Justice – Was the Wrong Catholic Priest Sent to Prison? – particularly PART V: A PRIEST IN HIDING (scroll down to the end of the article), it comes to mind that there are quite a number of deaths and disappearances related to the wrongly imprisoned Father Gordon MacRae.
In reading over that story about Father Stephen Scruton, who may well have been interfering with those who would later accuse Father Gordon MacRae, I would like to add one more point that wasn’t included in that already long but magnificently researched and written article, namely, about the incident of Father Stephen Scruton leaving his counseling appointment in Boston, when, just as he was to head down the stairs, he mysteriously just happened to fall in just such a way that he would die within weeks and without ever regaining consciousness. It happens, I suppose. But it also just happens that Father Scruton had a particular letter in his hands as he fell to the coma in which he would die. That letter had been penned by Father Gordon MacRae. It was a request that Father Stephen Scruton step forward to say anything that might be relevant about his, that is, Scruton’s involvement, if any. Had he made up his mind to say something? Was he stopped? I know, that’s all conspiracy theory stuff. But I would like to ask a few questions: (1) Now that he’s dead, can his psych records be subpoenaed by New Hampshire’s Attorney General’s office? Surely those records would reveal plenty that is exculpatory for Father Gordon MacRae. (2) Why in the world would the Diocese of Manchester, N.H., so easily let Father Scruton remain silent about all this? Did they? (3) Who was behind the mysterious voice that was heard? It sure does sound like another priest, who is probably alive today, and who could testify about everything about Father Stephen Scruton. And I’m quite sure that that voice belongs to someone who has been following the story quite closely. If he’s reading this, I will make a simple appeal to him in the name of Jesus: Just tell the truth. It will do you good. Wake up and die right. Life is short. Eternity is forever.
Another priest was gunned down in place of Father Scruton, with that murder immediately followed by the murder of the accomplice and the suicide of the murderer.
One of the prosecutors of Father Gordon MacRae left New Hampshire immediately after the trial. He’s just. like. gone.
The other prosecutor committed suicide.
Am I missing any?
I’m getting the idea that this case should be getting more attention from the FBI, that is, re-opening the case, but this time concentrating on a statement from Bishop McCormack to Leo Demers and another attorney in a meeting — (Bishop Takes Pawn: Plundering the Rights of a Prisoner-Priest) — at which the Bishop said:
“What I am about to tell you must never leave this room. I believe Father MacRae is innocent and his accusers likely lied, but there is nothing I can do to change a jury verdict.”
But that’s not the statement that is so important, for, as I understand it, the Bishop also went on to say that he, Bishop McCormack, cannot publicly speak of Father MacRae’s innocence that is known to him, the bishop, since there are other considerations which are more important.
I mean, hey, if I were investigating this, I would really want to know what’s more important than one of his priests, whom he knows to be innocent, being wrongly imprisoned for the rest of his life.
The only thing I can think of is the dogged determination to protect the policies of immediate and even blanket settlements for all accusers regardless of the guilt or innocence of the priests so accused. It about saving thirty pieces of silver, right?
We don’t want more deaths like that of Judas. I’m pushing on this since people are not getting younger, and there will always be more coming out about all this, perhaps much sooner than later. The quicker they cave and provide testimony about the truth of the matter, the better it will be for them. What we don’t want with The Judas Crisis is this:
That would just be too sad altogether. Jesus is good and kind and merciful and forgiving, yes, also for any Judas, if only they ask and receive. Peter betrayed our Lord as well, but he came back and our Lord forgave him. And now he’s Saint Peter. That’s what I like to see! Let’s have a Saint Edward Arsenault! Let’s have a Saint Bishop McCormack! Let’s see them know the goodness and kindness of our Lord. Let’s see them fess up to the truth of the matter…
Really, guys, you want to do this within the next few days. Today is the day of salvation. Just do it. Pick up the phone to the Attorney General’s office and ask to be recorded under oath. Make the appointment for Monday morning, early.
Bishop John B. McCormack, Aux. Bishop Francis J. Christian and Fr. Edward Arsenault, announce names of accused priests of the Diocese of Manchester. The attorney for the alleged victims said that he had never seen anything like it. In some cases they didn’t even ask about dates or allegations.
I do note that [now Senator, Kelly] Ayotte is one of those “pro-lifers” who sides with most pro-abortion “exceptions.” She has made pro-family, pro-gun statements, and is considered a conservative Republican (for whatever that’s worth these days), and was endorsed by John McCain, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour and Rick Santorum, with her name being floated more recently even as a 2012 vice-presidential running mate for Mitt Romney. But, let’s put aside any and all other possible political conflicts of interest anyone might have, and look just as Father Gordon MacRae’s case.
So, in regard to the Attorney General’s office [of the State of New Hampshire, when Kelly Ayotte worked there] and Father Gordon MacRae, I suggest that readers take a look at Ryan MacDonald’s Bishop Takes Pawn: Plundering the Rights of a Prisoner-Priest
To all intents, constructions, and purposes that one might imagine in this regard, it really does seem that, from the very beginning – and just as Ayotte was skyrocketing in her career – the Attorney General’s office was in collusion with Father Edward Arsenault and Bishop John McCormack so to obtain, by way of fraud, the confidential files of Father Gordon MacRae that he wanted to give to a defense lawyer, with this fraudulent obtaining of these files having the end of publicly publishing those files without his knowledge or consent. This, it seems to me, transgresses any reasonable understanding of confidentiality laws, an action having adverse effect on all confidential communications of all priests without exception across the country, regardless of guilt or innocence.
Can a bishop bypass confidentiality laws? Can an Attorney General utilize a third party in order to bypass confidentiality laws over against the person involved? Are there civil or criminal penalties, or none at all? Just asking…
At any rate, by the time of Ayotte’s election as a Senator, all of this seeming collusion seems to have cemented into a long-standing close friendship between herself and Father Arsenault, as we see from one of the emails that escaped the last minute email purge at the Attorney General’s office:
Dear Kelly,
You will be great in Washington.
I look forward to having dinner with you
and Joe upon arrival.
In other words, this isn’t just glad-handing someone who’s also from New Hampshire and now in Washington, D.C. as a newly elected Senator; this email instead assumes entitlement to an intimate dinner as a top priority for someone who will be otherwise be utterly mired in a steep learning curve as a newcomer to D.C. politics. Just. Wow.
At any rate, just based on Ryan’s great article, what seems to be happening is that the Diocese of Manchester was and is interested in protecting their policy of immediate and even blanket settlements no matter what, that is, regardless of the guilt or innocence of any particular priest. Such settlements save thirty pieces of silver. See The Judas Crisis and The National Catholic Risk Retention Group (TNCRRG). But didn’t Father Arsenault and the Diocese of Manchester, N.H., need and don’t they continue to count on collaboration from the all too accommodating Attorney General’s office? The kickback for the Attorney General’s office is that everyone gets to play the hero for being tough on abusers – regardless of whether they are actually innocent – with Ayotte herself becoming always more the all around electable hero.
Note that it is precisely because Father MacRae was admittedly known to be innocent by the Diocese of Manchester that he had to be put down in favor of their policies which have it that everyone is automatically guilty, no matter what.. Do the math like a cynic. Holding everyone to be guilty and paying out immediate and even blanket settlements is the only way it is thought by the likes of a Father Arsenault that a diocese can save money over against the risk of outcomes of any litigated proceedings. If Father MacRae’s case were to be overturned, this would throw the policies of Father Arsenault’s The National Catholic Risk Retention Group into confusion, that is, effectively, the policies of immediate and even blanket settlements of most all (arch)dioceses in the United States, particularly Boston and Manchester, N.H. Cooperation of Church and State to hold all priests automatically guilty is thought to be good for all, but this is the old Judas-priest’s cry, Pro bono Ecclesiae! (For the good of the Church!), enabling doing evil so as to pretend that one is achieving good, which is explicitly condemned as worthy of hell by Saint Paul (Romans 3,8).
But, of course, lack of due process for anyone is not good for anyone, and in the long run, hurts real victims, who will be ignored when people get so fed up with false accusations that they will brow-beat even real victims into silence. Giving the green light to false accusations is to re-rape real victims.
Those who collaborate in whatever way in insuring that there is to be no due process for priests are collaborators in abuse. It needs to stop. It needs to stop now.
I suggest that the Attorney General’s office tell the full truth – with a time-line – about what happened concerning Father Gordon MacRae, including details and names of all involved. That kind of honesty helps everyone.
The ram in the thicket, which Abraham sacrificed in place of his son Isaac, as a symbol of the Sacrifice of the Redeemer that was yet to be provided by the Lord.
The great Ryan Anthony MacDonald, journalist and author of A RAM IN THE THICKET, has written a guest-post on the blog THESE STONE WALLS hosted by the falsely accused and long imprisoned priest, Father Gordon MacRae (about).
There have been some rather incisive articles of late over on These Stone Walls, including:
Nota Bene: This last link listed above is a response of Ryan MacDonald to a “letter to the editor” of the Homiletic & Pastoral Review, a letter that was attacked Father Gordon MacRae with a breathless ignorance of the facts of the case. Now, just to say, in decades gone by, HPR has published some great articles, including one by yours truly (Offering Mass Invalidly - The priest must pronounce the words of consecration — March 1998). At any rate, that gracious response of Ryan MacDonald, presenting the actual facts of the case in order to set the record straight, was not published by HPR, which, I must say, seems rather nefarious to me. But, more on that later.
The demon Azazel taking away the scapegoat
I should also like to note that last article of Ryan MacDonald’s pushing for a review of the case of Father Gordon MacRae is the article for which Ryan MacDonald’s most recent article acts as the Prequel.
Ryan MacDonald has just now published a guest-post on These Stone Walls:
It’s a story involving murder and suicide and betrayal of the innocent.
Nota bene: Betrayal of the innocent helps no one, not the ones betrayed, not the betrayers, not the false victims, and certainly not any true victims of other cases, who are re-raped by such capitalizing on their sufferings for the financial benefit of others.
A week ago a request for prayers for Father Gordon (about) and Pornchai was put up here at Holy Souls Hermitage, with an emphasis, I said, on Pornchai. Many have been wondering what this special request was all about.
I finally got the go ahead from Father Gordon today to write something about this. I also had a good chat with Pornchai. It’s always refreshing to speak with those who reflect Jesus so well.
Those of you who don’t know about Pornchai would do well to read about him in his own words: first HERE (at the Catholic League), then HERE (at These Stone Walls). After that, search on the blog here for stories with links to These Stone Walls, The Catholic League, The Divine Mercy Shrine, etc.: http://holysoulshermitage.com/s=pornchai
So, this is a very brief account of what happened the other week. I’m only brave enough to write this, risking making mistakes, since Pornchai himself will have a guest post coming up during Easter Week here at Holy Souls Hermitage, just in time for Divine Mercy Sunday, when he was brought into the Church. He can correct me! O.K. So…
A young, very cocky new prisoner, full of himself, continuously causing trouble everywhere he’s been, always bragging what a great competitive boxer he is, always right in everyone’s face, was living in a bunk out in the open space of the cell block in that ever so overcrowded prison. He noticed that there was a bunk opening up in the cell next to Pornchai and Father MacRae. He. Wanted. That. Bunk.
Everyone, including the prison administration, wanted that free bunk in the cell to go to another prisoner who was also living out in the open, right in front of the cell of Father Gordon and Pornchai. That other prisoner is extremely elderly, and is dying of stomach cancer and other illnesses.
Father Gordon helped the old fellow move into the cell. This set the young boxer to pacing for hours, obviously terribly agitated. Suddenly he appeared at the cell of Father Gordon and Pornchai, upset that he did not get the bunk he wanted. Towering head and shoulders over Pornchai, he went after Pornchai, sucker punching him the face, so that his teeth came right through his upper lip, blood everywhere.
Don’t mess with Pornchai. Let’s just say that Pornchai sent this overconfident boxer guy right to the hospital. Literally. And, mind you, a trip to the hospital is always to be avoided if possible in a prison. Pornchai really cleaned his clock. Sorry, but I just have to smile when I think of this scene. Sorry!
Both were sent to solitary confinement to chill out for a week. Imagine for just a moment what this must have been like for Pornchai. Everything was going great. He just graduated from High School (a diploma, not a G.E.D.), and had privileges such as woodworking and having a job in the prison, coveted pass-times for prisoners as you can imagine. He had found the faith and was enjoying going to Mass with Father MacRae. He was helping the staff psychologist help other prisoners in overcoming their past horrific lifetimes. He is the peacemaker with any prisoners who otherwise want to kill each other. All of it taken away in a second, and for all he knew, permanently. Just because someone decided to do this to him.
What was he to think about? How he had already spent some 14 years in solitary confinement? The horrors of his childhood? Should he lose himself to bitterness, rancor?
Instead, Pornchai spent much of his time in solitary confinement in prayer, and speaks of forgiveness for the other fellow, hoping that he will find the proper programs in the prison so that he can be helped, so that he can grow. Thank God, the prison officials let him out of solitary confinement, and judged that he acted in self-defense. They still let him keep his job in prison, but took away the woodworking privileges for six months as a way to say that Pornchai wiped up the floor with the other fellow a bit too well. I told Pornchai that that means that he can have some time to write. He was eager to do just that. I left out very many things about Pornchai’s thoughts about our Lord during these trials. Magnificent, really. But I think he will mention something of that in his own post in a few weeks time.
Know that both Father Gordon and Pornchai thank you so much for your prayers!
Oh, and, by the way, the older gentleman dying of stomach cancer did get that bunk, and is very thankful for it. The other fellow won’t ever be back in this particular cell block.
As you know, although Holy Souls Hermitage is also a finalist for the Readers’ Choice Best Catholic Blog, I’ve been asking you NOT to vote for HSH, but rather TSW, that is, These Stone Walls. Some have said that Father Gordon MacRae’s (about) These Stone Walls is just about one thing, justice, one cause. But that’s not true. For example, in this weeks post, just today, over at These Stone Walls, we read this:
Why should the news accounts about Benedict XVI be treated with any more respect for truth and accuracy than those of Pius XII? There is actually a connection between these reports in the news media. In a comment on that post about Pius XII, reader Dorothy Stein wrote that it was largely disgruntled Catholics with an agenda, and not the Jews of the generation that lived through World War II Europe, who became the loudest slanderers and detractors of Pius XII.
A similar phenomenon is now true of Benedict XVI. I have read repeated praise of him, of his papacy, of his brilliance, of his justice – the latest coming from the Chief Rabbi of Rome – while Catholics with varying agendas cast shadows over him, some subtle and some overt. I don’t buy any of it. Most of these Catholic critics are simply using the story of this historic papal transition the same way they used the story of the clergy sex abuse scandal. The agendas of disaffected, disgruntled and sometimes sadly misled Catholics are typically given a soap box in the news media.
O.K. Listen up, oh ye troops in this ecclesia militans, in this Church Militant: In your charity, I’m asking you, please, to right here, right now, offer a Memorare and a prayer to Saint Michael for both Father MacRae and for Pornchai. Sometimes, the mercy of the Lord takes us right through the very fires of hell on Calvary as He draws all to Himself as He Himself is lifted up on the Cross.
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.
Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio;
contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium.
Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur:
tuque, Princeps militiae Caelestis,
satanam aliosque spiritus malignos,
qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo,
divina virtute in infernum detrude.
Amen.
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our protection against the wickedness
and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray:
and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits
who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
And if I say that all war is hell, and that we are at war with Satan, I must also say that Jesus’ love for us shines most brightly in our perception when the hell is at it’s absolute worst, for then we see Jesus get to work as at no other time on our souls, forging us into His soldiers to do battle with Him, a battle of truth and goodness and kindness, which is always confronted and rejected by this world, no matter what our circumstances happen to be. But this is exactly how Jesus gets us right to heaven. Our job is only to be in humble thanksgiving for what we learn in the midst of hell, for what we learn when we see Jesus, with ineffable majesty, reach through the hell to grab us. Please, continue to pray daily, particularly for Pornchai.
This is something that well-read people love. One of the seminarians for the Fathers of Mercy — decades ago — loved anything like this. He was well-read. My mom was enthralled with series like this. She was well-read.
Meanwhile, I’m the most unwell-read person ever. And lacking in all culture. Evidence: The Archbishop Secretary for the Congregation for Bishops over in the Holy See used to drag me around to museums all over Italy, trying to give me an education in the basic humanities, only to realize at the end of it all, that I was a total barbarian, just another timber wolf or moose from the Northern forests of Minnesota.
Another inmate at the prison, Ralph, asked what this Downton thing was all about, and had eyes glazing over just about as quickly as mine did with Father Gordon’s description of it. Something about “Post-Edwardian” put my brain on dry-ice.
And yet, there is something I love about what Father Gordon wrote in this post as with all his posts. There’s always a perspective of someone locked away out of history. That perspective, ironically, immerses one into a sense of the vast sweep of history all the more. Father Gordon is a master at getting this across. We can learn much about the depth of human character before the Lord of History from Father Gordon.
I note his mention of the praying of psalms, which we priests do everyday. They’ve been said by a good chunk of humanity since they were first written, even some three thousand years ago. Our Lord Himself, the very Creator and Sustainer of history, cited the first line of Psalm 22 during that timeless hour of His on the Cross: “My God! My God! Why?!”
Thanks, Father Gordon (about). This post also is a real gem: HERE
P.S. Disclaimer: I don’t have a T.V. or use Netflix, so I haven’t watched this Downton thing. I read the comments over on TheseStoneWalls and noticed that many say they also don’t watch T.V., except for this wholesome series. But I’m guessing that those commenters over yonder are all extremely well-read.
UPDATE — Father Gordon Responds. I just now received this email:
Hi Fr. George. It is very rare that I get to comment on other blogs, but of course you and your great readers know that someone is doing this for me. Thanks so much for this post. Ralph will feel vindicated when he sees the printed copy on its way to us. Pornchai will just roll his eyes as he always does whenever I mention Downton Abbey. We have been buried under two feet of snow over the last two days which makes our prison all the more confining. The good news is that I have received my new television replacing the one mentioned in the link on your post. It has to be an all-time record for speed in the prison bureaucracy. I was shocked, but not nearly as shocked as I was by the last episode of Downton Abbey I watched. I have only missed one, and PBS will rerun it this week so all is not lost. I’m sure your presentation on Genesis was great. Of this we have no doubt. Pornchai and I both offered two days in prison this week for the success of your talk. They didn’t stone you, and that’s a good sign!
With blessings to you and your readers from Father Gordon behind These Stone Walls.
Father Gordon MacRae (about) has a project for you regarding the Great Pornchai Moontri. Even if you’re a member of SNAP or VOTF reading this, surely you can do this. And even though I think SNAPers and VOTFers are a bunch of hyenas, surely they aren’t so afraid of Father Gordon MacRae that they would refrain from giving a just a few seconds to the Great Pornchai Moontri. Just a thought. All other readers can surely to this. I know many of you have already. Thank you for that. But there are some stragglers.
We wouldn’t want you straggling, would we? You know what happens to stragglers.
No one who is an enemy or who is wishy-washy is left standing before the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. So, get to it.
Various readers of HSH have informed me that Felix Carroll at the Divine Mercy Shrine in Stockbridge just put up an article about Pornchai Moontri and Father Gordon MacRae — not to mention Bishop John McCormack. Felix writes that, “in his homily, Bishop McCormack spoke of Pornchai’s redemption as a result of learning to trust even in the midst of great suffering.”
The article begins: “Pornchai Moontri remembers he was carrying his knife…”
Now, dear HSH readers, we are to be as clever as snakes and innocent as doves, right? Right!
Just a little chess move here. Go over to the Marians Divine Mercy site and, having read the brief article, leave a comment, however short. This is important. Don’t let there be one of you reading this post who doesn’t do this! HERE!
P.S. Share the link on facebook, email, etc., etc., etc.! This is important.
I just now received this email from Father Gordon MacRae:
I did not mean to leave you in the dark about yesterday’s hearing, but I was in the dark myself until a few minutes ago. Without going into too much detail just yet, i can say the following and so can you:
1. We survived the hearing intact. The state prosecutor’s motion to dismiss was not successful YET.
2. The judge is inclined to allow the appeal to go forward for a full hearing, at least in some aspects of it. The tentative date for the next hearing is May 1. This is all I know.
This is one small step for Father Gordon, one HUGE step for due process for all priests.
This is a major, major victory.
There are many who are trembling about this.
Prayers are the order of the day. This may just put on hold some policy decisions all the way to the Holy See.
Father Gordon J. MacRae, unjustly sentenced to die in prison by anarchist ex-judge Arthur Brennan
Please offer a prayer for Father Gordon MacRae and his lawyers and all those involved with his case today. There is… well… not quite a hearing… but rather a discussion with those involved (judges, attorneys, prosecutors) today (finally, after a half-dozen delays) which will decide the fate of what is to come, that is, what hearings, at what times, and at which level of the judicial system. Prayer moves mountains. How about the saint Michael prayer and The Emergency Chaplet of the Immaculate Conception?
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Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio;
contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium.
Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur:
tuque, Princeps militiae Caelestis,
satanam aliosque spiritus malignos,
qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo,
divina virtute in infernum detrude.
Amen.
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray:
and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits
who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
Also note that my friend, David F. Pierre, Jr., who runs The Media Report, noted that this was the number one story on his site:
Rev. Gordon J. MacRae, sentenced to 33½ to 67 years, has been in the New Hampshire State Prison For Men since 1994 on abuse charges. Yet TheMediaReport.com compiled an exclusive report in February showing that newly released signed statements in a court motion reveal that Fr. MacRae’s primary accuser, a man named Thomas Grover, totally made up the abuse accusations in order to extract money from the Church.
These signed statements include stunning declarations from individuals who have been very close to Grover. One such declaration is from the accuser’s stepson, who wrote, “On several occasions, Grover told me that he had never been molested by MacRae.”
Then there are the words of Grover’s former wife, who said that Grover is a “compulsive liar” and a “manipulator” who “can tell a lie and stick to it ’til its end.” Most notably, the former wife also said that Grover “never stated one word of abuse by [MacRae].”
The statements also include one from a former friend of Grover who was slated to accuse Fr. MacRae of abuse but recanted. “[I knew] full well that it was [all] bogus … I did not want to lie or make up stories,” the man wrote.
The National Center for Reason and Justice is sponsoring Fr. MacRae’s case, and TheMediaReport.com continues to keep an eye on this important and compelling situation of a man serving very hard time for a crime for which convincing testimony pronounces his innocence. Stay tuned for any future developments.
(Pictured far right in the photo collage at the top of this post is Arthur Brennan, the New Hampshire judge who oversaw Fr. MacRae’s trial and sentenced the priest in 1994. Brennan is now retired and has since become a leading member of the radical “Occupy” movement. The picture of Brennan was taken when he was arrested during a protest at the Hart Senate Building in Washington, D.C., in October 2011.) [HSH edited that picture to include Vincenzo's presentation of Father Gordon MacRae.]
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Also note that both Father MacRae (about) and Pornchai (Father George privileged to be “doing time” with the Great Pornchai “Super-Max”imilian Moontri) are now on their second bout of the horrific flu-pneumonia that is, of course, rampant in prison at about 50% of the population. Father Gordon didn’t have a post last week because of the flu and because of the post being lost in the mail for about ten days. Yikes!
Father Gordon MacRae (about) presents hope to us, based on the faith and love he has witnessed in tragedies such as that at Sandy Hook. Thanks, Father! Here.
I’ve heard from a number of priests who have had the experiences of Father Suarez and Monsignor Weiss in Sandy Hook. It’s part of what being a priest is all about.
And, yes, this also brought to mind such things in my own day, when, in my parish, two cars jam-packed with teenagers were drag racing on a mountain road and were coming to the crest of a hill, over which was coming another car jam-packed with a large family. No one survived.
But faith survived. An outpouring of love survived. Hope survived.
You’ll want to follow the links in Father MacRae’s story. You’ll know then that God is indeed with us: Emmanuel. Again: thanks, Father! Here.
Father Gordon MacRae (about) has written an emotional piece about what can go on in prison during the lead up to Christmas. He entitles his article “In Sin and Error Pining”, which reminds me of Celine Dion’s incomparable singing:
Some very important words are often ignored: “In Sin and Error Pining”.
That’s because so few pay attention to Advent, the anguish of the need for our Redeemer to come among us.
But Father Gordon helps to set that straight. This will be his 19th year in prison during Christmas.
There’s something he did not write in that article, but I’ll tell you, just to give you some background before you read his article. The entire week before Christmas is often spent in lockdown in the entire prison.
But Father! Aren’t prisoners always locked down in prison? That’s what it’s all about!
Well, there is some freedom to go out of your cell if you have privileges. You might be able to go to the occasional Mass, to the Library, but things are difficult in prison before Christmas. It all comes to weigh on the prisoners who want to be home at this time. Things become very tense and violent in all the frustration.
Perhaps those in prison know more about the reason for Christmas and the preparation of Advent than we, in all our tinsel Christmas parties before Christmas could ever know, we who are so eager to take down all that belongs to Christmas on Christmas afternoon, when the celebration should only be gearing up until Epiphany, indeed, until February 2nd!
I’m afraid Western civilization in general couldn’t give a damn about any Redeemer, for we think we have no need for that little baby in the manger. We kill such babies with abortion and now infanticide. He’s too poor to have quality of life, you know. We just don’t care. It’s all tinsel.
But Father gives an insight about a much truer Christmas reality in prison. This is where some of the most spiritual and profound Christmas experiences take place.
IN PRISON, BABIES MATTER!!! HERE. (Ooops… I fixed the link)
P.S. What is it, do you think, that Father Gordon does NOT mention in his article? To me, it’s absolutely glaring. Glaring.
Suggestion:
Send a Christmas Card to Father Gordon and Pornchai, and, through them, to all the prisoners there. Keep them going for the 12 days of Christmas! Hah! Flood them all with Christmas cards.
U.S. POSTAL MAIL SENT TO FR. GORDON MACRAE:
Readers may write to Fr. Gordon MacRae in prison. Please observe all prison mail requirements listed below. If mail is refused and returned to sender by prison officials, please note that Fr. MacRae is often unaware of the refusal. Mail should be addressed exactly as follows using no title:
Gordon J. MacRae P.O. Box 14 – No. 67546 Concord, NH 03302-0014
Use no title (e.g. “Fr.” Or “Rev.”) on the envelope.
Use of tape and/or stickers (including religious stickers) is forbidden and will result in rejected mail.
Each envelope is limited to ten physical pages. Double-sided printing is OK.
Printed articles from the Internet are allowed (within the ten page limit) but newspaper/magazine clippings enclosed with letters are prohibited.
Unused postage stamps and unused writing materials are prohibited.
Checks to prisoners must include the prisoner’s full name and number (No. 67546), and the sender’s full name and address on both the check and the envelope. Abbreviated names (e.g. “J. Smith”) are not permitted.
If you’re anywhere near Brevard, N.C., stop in at the Pink Flamingo on main street. It has a HUGE variety of traditional and otherwise very cool Christmas cards. Do it today! This is one of the works of mercy that our Lord will ask you about. Be sure to say hello to all the prisoners. Be sure to say that you are praying for all the prisoners.
Father Gordon MacRae (about) has written an awesome post on the proper Separation of Church and State, whereby the State is not to persecute and control the Church, defining and establishing a state religion which controls every aspect of everyone’s lives, effectively having everyone worship the head of state.
Of course, no one could care less with all the Orwellian brainwashing that goes on, and no amout of punditry and commentary will change anyone.
That’s why Father Gordon, with great pastoral zeal, brings the message home to the Lord’s little flock, citing the Gospel of Matthew, and then closes with some rather incisive encouragement from Father John Harden, S.J.
“In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus cautioned us that we must go out in public as though sheep in the presence of wolves, but He never intended that we should follow the wolves.”
“Unless we recover the zeal and spirit of the first-century Christians – unless we are willing to do what they did, and pay the price they paid – the future of our country, the days of America are numbered.” Fr. John Hardon, S.J.
Now, I’d like to point out to HSH readers that when you head over to Father Gordon’s TheseStoneWalls, don’t forget to be taken by the irony of what you are doing, that is, reading some of the most incisive, thoughtful observations and meditations on the blogosphere today, that is, written by someone, wrongly accused, wrongly imprisoned, who has lived for more than 18 years in the midst of the 24/7 absolute mayhem of prison.
Whether Father realizes it or not, all the posts have the sharpest of analogies with his own prison life, so edgy, in fact, that I wonder if most people get this. Just something to keep in mind. For this week’s post, you have to know that Father has recently read over some of the very recent rehashes of the prosecution. I’m sure he must be wondering if the prosecutors are suffering from some of the electile dysfunction that he writes about in this great article. Oh, yes… that link for a terribly good read today: here. What a title.
Skip to 5’45″ in the video. Just the last few seconds.
Obama: “Alright. I gotta give the special dispensation.” Then, while making the Catholic Sign of the Cross over the turkey, he says, “Here’s that pardon. Congratulations, Cobbler, you have a great life ahead of you. O.K. Give Cobbler a big round of applause! Alright, we don’t want to overdo it.”
Now, having taken note of that, I see this comment coming in on another post on Thanksgiving, but I thought it best to put it in its own post, giving it the exposure it merits:
Hello Fr. George,
I wanted to wish you a Blessed Thanksgiving and also let you know that [...]
I wonder if I am the only person who noticed, but as I watched footage of our president pardoning his annual turkeys – an event that I always find to be painful – I distinctly saw him make the sign of cross over the turkey he was pardoning. I think this got by most people. It was most insensitive, and even though it was spontaneous, there is much truth in spontaneity. I interpreted it as a gesture of contempt, and not contempt for the turkey. If this footage is available somewhere, have a look.
With blessings, Your friend, Fr. Gordon
Prayers and blessings in return, Father Gordon (about).
Yes, well, I did take a look, finding not only the video and pictures for this year, but also pictures of previous years, which demonstrate that Obama carries out this mockery specifically of the Catholic Sacrament of Confession every year. He even adds words of encouragement to the pentitent about a better, great life ahead. So, it’s even worse than you might have thought. It’s not spontaneous. It’s scripted contempt.
Of course, there are many, especially Catholics who do not go to Confession, who will think that this mock absolution is just so very extremely cute — OH! HOW CUTE! — and they will be most offended by any comment to the contrary, thinking that nay-sayers are just too serious about everything, and need to lighten up, and that we should support PETA (actually read People Eating Tasty Animals), and that we should vote for Obama for a third term, and that we should all cry as we hold candles and say softly in the evening breeze “Yes, we can! Yes, we can! Yes, we can!”, and that all those meanies out there should support free abortion and infanticide for all, and that all those conservative Catholics and pro-life non-Catholics should be marginalized in society through insurance non-compliance penalties, and that — as a tantrum ensues — It’s just so cute how our wonderful Leader makes the Catholic Sign of the Cross over the Turkey!Cute! Cute! Cute! (spittle-flecks all around).
Yes, I agree, “I think this got by most people.”
And, sure, there will be some who will say that this goes back to George Bush and, in fact, to J.F.K., a Catholic!
But they are wrong. The National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation does go back to J.F.K., but this had nothing to do with any pardon. He said, and I quote: “Let’s just keep him.” This was less than a week before he was assassinated. The National Turkey Federation wanted some free press and political niceness in presenting a great meal to the beloved President.
Ronald Reagan compared his presidential pardon of Oliver North (I loved watching those hearings on C-SPAN!) with his having sent a turkey out to pasture. Well, O.K.
The first George Bush started giving turkeys a scripted ”presidential pardon”, but that was a strictly political exercise, which had nothing at all to do with religion. The idea was: They’re all turkeys, but we’ll let them go anyway, whether by way of pardons, conditional pardons, commutations of sentence, conditional commutations of sentence, remissions of fines and forfeitures, respites and amnesties.
It wasn’t until Obama came along that the Catholic Sacrament of Confession entered the script, complete with theatrical actions. Obama has a penchant for attacking the freedom of religion, specifically of the Catholic Church. He says that he will permit freedom of worship as if it were his personal prerogative, but he attacks this as being no more important than a Rose Garden photo-op. He knows that his forbidding Catholics the freedom of religion, of conscience, in the public square, forcing Catholics to pay for abortions and abortifacients, for forced organ donations and euthanasia (which go hand in hand)… He knows that this also means that Catholic conscience in worship, in confession, is merely a joke, like pardoning a turkey. Sure, he’ll pardon one or two or three, like Biden or Pelosi or Sebelius, but he’ll have all the millions of other Catholics, those unpardoned enemies of the State, for dinner.
The real turkey is any Catholic who voted for Obama and his persecution of the Catholic Church.
Even if you didn’t vote for Obama, don’t be a turkey. Go to confession and get a real absolution while you can.
Squanto was a man who in the end gave thanks despite the wreckage wrought by the betrayals of others because he learned not to confuse his journey with his destination. He was a man who owed nothing to the Mayflower Pilgrims, but owed his life and freedom to the very Catholic Church the Pilgrims came here to be rid of. It is the most ironic of tales, and some have found it a worthy addition to their Thanksgiving traditions.
Father Gordon MacRae (about), the great priest’s priest, and not only for this Episcopal Conference territory, brings to us the truth of the real First Thanksgiving in America. That short article (the most recent on TheseStoneWalls) is an introduction to this repeat by demand article, which you will want to read and share: HERE.
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter.
All told, Masses offered for Benedict XVI came to 918.
י ב ר כ ך י ה ו ה ב ה ת א ם ל ת פ י ל ת מ ר י ם ה ק ד ו ש ה May the Lord continue to bless you according to the intercession of Mary Most Holy
Proud to be a 4th degree K of C
N.B. As far as I understand, if you a non-practicing Catholic Knight, vid., a pro-abort politician, your membership remains because of laws about any purchased insurance. It seems that if such pro-aborts could be thrown out, they would be thrown out.
Stained glass windows at the Fathers of Mercy Shrine of the Divine Mercy
Dear seminarians, fellow priests and bishops... don't say you can’t be bothered to join in this novena for the healing of autistic children and adults and for help for their families, carers and the professionals who work with them. Send in the first names of those with autism.
When I was a chaplain in Lourdes I also used to bring the names of these kids to the prayer box in the grotto at Lourdes.
Here is a recently updated list of names of those who have joined the novena so far. Remember: Each name here carries a hugely awesome story of joy, anguish, pain, exhilaration, confusion, prayer – and lots and lots and lots of worry. Say a prayer for them now. Don’t forget: their souls are sustaining yours. Really, don’t forget that, not even for an instant. You will be happy you didn’t forget when they welcome you into heaven, and you are astonished at how they, by their prayers, got you into the pearly gates, even if just barely! It is the souls of just such as these which sustain seminarians, priests and bishops. Am I not right? Say a prayer for them now.
Andy
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John (Junior)
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Ian
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Patrick
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Melissa
Max
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Henry
Giancarlo
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Romulus
Jordan
Ayrton
Dylan
Jordan Scott
Courtney
Henry
George
Anthony
Christopher-Jon
Ian Walter
Dhruv
Hayden
Paul
Marcello
Lucia
Joseph
Matthew
Gian Jude
Jackson
Jessica
Danny
Joshua
Cody
Dylan
Michaela
Victoria
Ayden
Alesander
Harry
Cookie
Andrew Jordan
Avelynn
Guy
Allan
Melissa
Loren
Na
Nikofi
John
Alexander
Franz Daniel
Joseph
Ryan
Samuel
Joseph
Lee
Avery
Megan
Enrique
Jonathan
Benjamin
TJ
Deacon
Brian Anthony
Blake Patrick
Elijah
Lukas DeAntonio
Omari
Cal
Aanyah
Kyle
Clary
Kati
Denise
Riano
Adam
Peter
Michael
Peter
Joseph
Nicholas
James
Dylan
elijah aragon
Dean
Antonia
James
Clay
Michael
Kenny Paul
Josh
Joey
Jack
Elijah
Andrea
Nathan
Arian
Liam
John Emmanuel
Michael Jude
Coral
Kenneth Paul
Rocco Antonio
Gabriel Aaron
Rivan
Rozelle Marie
Raymond
Donavan
Kian
Preston
Austin
Kenneth
Richard
Alexis Nonis
Michael Jovani
David
Kassie
Williams
Archangel
Bucky
Basil
Joseph
Osayame Mark Osifo
Romeo
Ralph
Jared
Charles
Francis
Osayame
Thomas
Tawana
Massimilano
David
Henry
Danielle
Tiana
Benjamin
Avery
The novena is in honor of Saint Philomena the Wonder Worker.
Taking in the view during my Confession run -- This includes my brothers all time favorite picture on the blog (and with a gazillion pictures, that's saying a lot). Great advice about how to go to Confession.
A hermit does not "FIND HIMSELF" ever! -- This is one of personal favorites. Brief but to the point about being found by our Heavenly Father instead of pretending to find Him.
JESUS GOES TO CONFESSION -- Another of my favorites! If you want to know how much Jesus loves us, this post will give you an indication. A seven-fold Yikes!
Dangers on the Road to Confession -- Ever get the impression that there's always something which stops you from getting to Confession? Here's the post for you (some great pictures!)
The Biblical Foundation of Priestly Celibacy by Father Ignace de la Potterie, S.J. This is one of the more visited posts of the blog. Father Ignace was a good friend. A confidant. I used this in a course on priestly celibacy that I gave at the Pontifical College Josephinum. I was very pleased that so many of the seminarians were extremely well read, and were, indeed, on the cutting edge of research involving Scripture, Canon Law, Patristics, Church History, Ecumenical Relations, particularly with the Orthodox, the prudence in regard to Anglicanorum Coetibus, the for the moment the ignoring of matters regarding the permanent diaconate, etc. Some were planning on doing doctoral theses on the subject. All were 1000% in favor of strict priestly (and diaconal!) celibacy. My heart rejoiced each class. People, you have to know that we have very, very excellent priests coming up. Some of those I'm talking about were just ordained in the last couple of weeks. (Spring of 2012). Also know -- Yikes! -- that is is because of this very article (among some others), that Father de la Potterie was so very bitterly hated by some few, who could not provide an answer to what he said, so well did he say it.
Continence -- C.W. fanatics will not like the reference to JPII in this very short post. Oh well. The definition of continence might surprise quite a few readers. The definition of terms is important! and enthralling! I wrote these notes up for a course given to the seminarians of the Good Shephard Seminary of the Archdiocese of Sydney. The Rector at the time wanted me to innoculate the seminarians from the heresy that they would be getting in their classes at a certain Catholic institute where they were attending lectures at the time. Yikes!
Chastity -- Another brief, important article with an in your face, perhaps rather unexpected definition. Knowing the definitions introduces us also to the spiritual life, as to why chastity is a gift of grace, bringing us into friendship with the Lord.
Celibacy -- Another in your face, perhaps unexpected definition that we need to know. This and other terms are bandied about with few knowing what they are saying. Bonus: a video of the great Irish singer, John McCormack, in reference to the priest who addressed Pope JPII during, I think it was, his first trip to the U.S.A. Hah!
Virginity -- Another in your face, perhaps unespected definition that we need to know. I've added a rant on the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Mother of God, and also commented on topics such as consecrated virgins, rape, "spiritual virginity", etc.
Eunuch - Part I -- This is, in my opinion super important commentary. I always get the remark from seminarians and priests that they've never seen anything like this before. Indeed, I haven't seen this anywhere else. This is all about the depth of Christ's love for His Immaculate Bride, the Church. That charity, in which we participate, is awesome indeed. You are dead wrong if you think you already know what a eunuch is. Dead. Wrong. Behold, something truly awesome about the love of God for us.
Eunuch - Part II -- A necessary follow-up and continuation of Part I, with lots of scriptural references in both Old and New Testaments. You'll never think of these passages in the same way. This is so important for priests to understand what they are doing as priests, especially when they offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and absolve sin and such. Priests are married to the Church by the Sacrifice they offer! Priests must know this or they will find themselves in touble. In knowing just how they are married to the Church, they will rejoice. It is just this which will bring much healing to the priesthood.
LUST & angels -- This is a refreshing anecdote from the life of Saint Jerome when he went further off into the desert to be a hermit. Instructive and bringing us right before Jesus. Totally cool.
Repression idiocy -- This is a rather severe critique of the hell of repression and doubled over concealed and especially for that reason very dangerous repression that was foisted upon seminarians for decades and is, I fear, still foisted upon them in some places. The kind of repression idiocy which I critique has been hailed as "Catholic" and "orthodox" by "conservative" Catholic seminaries and universities and colleges. It's anything but that. If you want to risk going straight to hell, do up some of this kind of oppression. If you want to be on your way to heaven, be at ease with weakness, in all chasity, in all honesty, before Jesus, and He will show you the way to rejoicing in holy purity. It's not about mind games. It's about knowing the wholeness and holiness of our Lord and Savior.
Wounded Healer idiocy -- The Wounded Healer idiocy is perhaps one of the most evil dynamics there is. Ever hear of it? Know who wrote popularized it? This is the method of "nice" and "caring" psychology, but is really just a horrific projection of the "Wounded Healer." This is a necessary read just because you will surely run across this kind of thing. Blech!
Impure, lustful thoughts -- This is very much a favorite post on HSH blog. I have very often also directed people to it. It seems it is very useful indeed.
My experience with porn -- This post generated by far the most heartfelt emails and comments on the blog. Porn is a huge problem in the USA and increasing around the world. This post speaks to that catastrophy. Yikes!
AD CINGULUM! -- This is from the series on the Vesting Prayers for priests for Holy Mass. However, I think all will be able to rejoice in what they read here, and will know more about the priesthood of Jesus among us, and what priestly celibacy is all about. Awesome!
There are many other posts I would like to add to this series. If you readers have any ideas, drop a comment in the comments box or send an email to holysoulshermitage using gmail dot com. Thanks!
♬ “Kíll the priest! ♬ Kíll the priest! ♬ Kíll the chí-ld ráp-ing priest!” ♬ (Meet the cheerleader) A HSH Special - In this article you will meet Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti, one time president and director of the Saint Luke Institute (shudder) and – how to say it? — a one time paper-giver at the 2012 Pontifical Gregorian University Abuse Symposium (in preparation for the preparation of guidelines of the Holy See on how to treat abuse cases right around the world, coming up in another year or two). You will also see a never before published in full exchange of emails between Rossetti and Mr. Ryan MacDonald.
Abuse terminology that favors The Judas Crisis - This covers the specious terminology, which, however defined in this or that document, means something different in every case: substantiated / non-substantiated -- credible / non-credible. For some, non-substantiated and non-credible means unfounded, which means false, which calumny. But not all are in agreement about that usage. Thus, something can be deemed credible (though not in court of law), though non-substantiated, thus effectively destroying the priesthood of a priest with no proof.
The Judas Crisis $$$ — settlements vs litigation - This brief post is very important to understand the monetary motivation for not providing due process to priests. This should be an eye-opener, and make you sick. This is how bad things can get. If bishops and chancery toadies can do this to their priests, how will they treat real abuse victims in the future?
Prisons are for free! Didn’t you know? - Part of the collateral damage of NCRRG policies is that innocent priests will end up in prison. The prisons babysit these innocent priests "for free." Not giving innocent priests due process saves money. Using prisons saves more money. And tax-payers don't care? Really?
The Judas Crisis: NCRRG (Arch)Dioceses complicit in encouraging murder of priests? - This is a rather hard-hitting article. It is commentary on an article written by the NCRRG. This is of utmost importance to understanding The Judas Crisis. This is ground-zero of The Judas Crisis. The cold-blooded, callous indifference of The Judas Crisis is most evident here.
NOTA BENE: There are many more articles which are linked in those articles, and they are also important, such as the article critiquing the homosexualized VIRTUS® program: Msgr Stephen Rossetti, Msgr Edward Arsenault, VIRTUS ®, Saint Luke Institute, militant homosexualism The VIRTUS Child Protection Program Team: We must be militant homosexualists! That particular article is important to read in regard to the Judas Crisis in that VIRTUS® is one and the same with the NCRRG.
A reader from across the pond sent this in about a great idea for a gift for your mother on Mother’s Day. I put this up before Mother’s Day so as to give people a chance to follow this guy’s example in doing something really fantastic for his dear mother. 
The Story Buried Under the Fr. Gordon MacRae Case
A week ago a request for prayers for Father Gordon (
Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio;
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
