TNT GUEST HOST FR. NIX: “BISHOP GRACIDA… IS A GREAT HERO… FOR QUESTIONING VALID RESIGNATION OF POPE BENEDICT… AT LEAST ONE OTHER CARDINAL… QUESTIONING THIS, TOO.”

BISHOP GRACIDA ASKS, “IS STEVE SKOJEC A DOUBLE AGENT WHO KEEPS CATHOLICS CONFUSED BY HIS DEFENSE OF FRANCIS THE MERCIFUL”

POPE OF THE AMAZON GOES ‘NATIVE’ IN AFRICA

BANS ON SHIPMENT OF GOODS IMPOSED TO CURB HONG KONG PROTESTS

CATHOLIC THING:  MOST OF OUR BISHOPS NEED TO STEP DOWN AND GET OUT OF THE TRUTH BUSINESS.

REMNANT’S MATT ON ROSARY-WIELDING SALVINI:  ONCE AGAIN WE SEE THAT POPE FRANCIS AND COMPANY ARE BEHIND THE SCENES MANIPULATING ELECTIONS.

MICHAEL MATT:  I DON’T THINK THERE’S ANY WAY WE CAN DOUBT THAT “UNITE THE CLANS!” IS WHAT GOD’S WANTS!  STOP ANATHEMATIZING EACH OTHER!  STOP THE CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD AND CONDEMNING THOSE IN THE WRONG PARKING LOT!

THEOLOGY OF THE BODY IS NOT CATHOLIC TEACHING

EUROPE’S RADIANT ROYALS ARE HELPING PRESERVE FAMILY VALUES?

KANSAS CITY DIOCESE NAMES PRIESTS IN ‘THE DREADFUL SCOURGE OF SEXUAL ABUSE OF MINORS’

WHEN MICHAEL MATT ‘UNITES THE CLANS’ WILL HE LET WRITERS WHO CONTRIBUTE TO THE CATHOLIC INQUISITOR ALSO WRITE FOR THE REMNANT?

RED HAT REPORT DOWNLOADS ON UNCLE TED’S LONG-TIME ROOMIE, EVIL VATICAN FRANCISCARDINAL KEVIN FARRELL

NOT CONSERVATIVE SOHRAB AHMARI AND NOT CONSERVATIVE C.C. PECKNOLD BOTH PREDICTABLY NON-BINARY

ENORMOUS CROWD GATHERING AT PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS OF NORTHERN IRELAND

SECOND BUFFALO WHISTLEBLOWER SAYS HE WAS ABUSED AS SEMINARIAN

POPE TO NUNS, YOU MAY THINK I AM A “BIT ECCENTRIC”

WHILE IN AFRICA: FRANCIS APPOINTS THREE LIBERAL PRESIDENT DELEGATES FOR AMAZON-SYNOD

MOZAMBIQUE: AS HERETIC FRANCIS TELLS CATHOLICS “RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES “ARE NECESSARY,”  SEC OF STATE #2, PERVERT ABP. PENA PARRA CHEWS GUM

IF TRAD INC. THINKS FRANCIS IS DEFINITELYPOPE AND YOU’RE IN SCHISM IF YOU DOUBT, THEN SOMEONE NEEDS TO TELL CD. BURKE, CD. MULLER, AND ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX AT THE LEAST.

EVERYONE I DON’T LIKE IS AN ANTI-SEMITE: AND OTHER LESSONS FROM THE CATHOLIC LEFT

NEUMAYR TO MIKE CHURCH:  THEY DON’T LIKE FRANCIS ANY BETTER IN SOUTH AMERICA EITHER!

‘I’M STILL NOT RESIGNING’ – PRESSURE BUILDS ON BUFFALO BISHOP MALONE

BLESSED ASSISTED SUICIDE: THIS STORY IS JUST ONE MORE PROVING THE OLD TRUISM ABOUT LIES AND DEATH BEING ROOMMATES.

ASSISTED SUICIDE: A TALE OF TWO NARRATIVES

THE BERGOGLIAN HERESY: CARDINAL MUELLER’S USE OF IRONY AND SARCASM.

FERRARA ON ‘NUANCED’ DOUTHAT: ‘A CATHOLIC WHO DOESN’T KNOW WHETHER A POPE WHO ATTEMPTS TO CHANGE THE CHURCH’S CONSTANT TEACHING ON FAITH AND MORALS TO SUIT HIS PERSONAL OPINION IS A HERO OR A HERETIC SHOULD NOT BE WRITING BOOKS ON HIM’

THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION:  IT’S FREUD’S FAULT

It is gratifying each week to hear from many friends of the parish across our country and abroad, bringing to mind the words of John Wesley: “The whole world is my parish.” That can be said ever more fervently by any pastor, for each parish is a microcosm of the ecclesiastical presence of the Body of Christ on every continent, as it bears witness to the Universal Faith that makes the Church “katholikos.”

So distant readers will indulge some reflections on our local parish scene, as the summer draws to a close. These past months were something of a surprise in that there seemed to be no significant slowdown in parish life. While many of our own people did travel outside the city, which is no little adventure for Manhattanites, we had many national and international visitors. Because the social media have made our world a “global village,” it seemed that most visitors were not strangers, and many were already familiar with life here. We have an increasing number of tourists stopping in at the church—almost constantly—and this may in part be due to the renovations and installations of art completed during the summer. We must make an effort to welcome our visitors and help them to learn more about the parish.

Our church already has one foot in the Heavenly City, where there are no seasons, at least in the sense that we have no air conditioning. (Our heating system is not always reliable either, and I have occasionally warmed my hands over the thurible on winter days when there was no heat at all.) This summer we had some brutal hot spells, and one Sunday the city issued a health advisory cautioning the frail and elderly against going outdoors. That was the first time in memory that we eliminated the homily at the Masses, and I had the impression that no one objected. But I was impressed as well at the numbers of people who came stoically on humid days and indeed in good spirits—just as in past winters there was patience when heavy clothing was needed. Here in “Hell’s Kitchen” we are a durable people.

This Sunday, September 8, is the 38th anniversary of my priestly ordination. It was a simple ceremony in the cathedral’s Lady Chapel. The three prelates who were at the altar with me on that day, including Cardinal Cooke, are no longer in this world, but they are invoked at each Mass, along with all those who since the middle of the nineteenth century have been part of this parish, which now enters challenging and promising times. “Memento, Domine, famulorum, famularumque tuarum et omnium circumstantium, quorum tibi fides cognita est et nota devotio . . . Remember, O Lord, Thy servants and handmaids and all here present, whose faith and devotion are known to Thee.”

 

 

Fr. George William Rutler, 9.7.19