Anti-Fr. Altmann Bp. Callahan said of Disgraced Gay Archbishop Weakland: He made "his Mistakes but also [did] some of the Good" according to WISN 12 News
Archbishop Listecki’s left are Archbishop emeritus Rembert G. Weakland, and Bishops William P. Callahan
Bishop William Callahan of La Crosse has launched an unmerciful attack on Catholic pro-life Fr. James Altmann and removed him from his ministry.
Shockingly in 2009, Callahan said of his apparent friend disgraced gay Archbishop Rembert Weakland that he made "his mistakes but also [did] some of the good" according to WISN 12 News:
Callahan said he talked to Former Archbishop Weakland last week, but despite his knowledge of the book, it was not discussed.
Callahan, who's known Weakland for years, said he's surprised by Weakland's admission that he is gay...
... Weakland is no stranger to controversy. He retired in 2002 after it came
out he had an affair decades earlier with a male college student. He
has also came under fire for hiding the actions of pedophile priests.
WISN 12 News asked Callahan if he thinks the Archdiocese can move on beyond the things Weakland left behind.
“Certainly, without a doubt, certainly. The church has moved on for
centuries with saints and sinners, and that's Jesus' intention,”
Callahan said.
Callahan said Weakland’s legacy in the church is not just his mistakes
but also some of the good he did, including shaping the modern mass. He
does not expect the Vatican to weight in on the book. [https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2009/05_06/2009_05_13_Wisn_AuxillaryBishop.htm]
Patrick J. Buchanan reported the following of Callahan's apparent friend Weakland:
For Weakland was a homosexual who confessed in a 1980 letter he was in
"deep love" with a male paramour who shook down the archbishop for
$450,000 in church funds as hush money to keep his lover's mouth shut
about their squalid affair.
According to Rod Dreher, Weakland
moved Father William Effinger, who would die in prison, from parish to
parish, knowing Effinger was a serial pederast.
When one of
Effinger's victims sued the archdiocese but lost because of a statute of
limitations, Weakland counter-sued and extracted $4,000 from the victim
of his predator priest.
Dreher describes Weakland's tenure thus:
"He
directed Catholic schools ... to teach kids how to use condoms as part
of AIDS education and approved a graphic sex-education program for
parochial-school kids that taught 'there is no right and wrong' on the
issues of abortion, contraception and premarital sex. He has advocated
for gay rights and women's ordination, bitterly attacked Pope John Paul
II, denounced pro-lifers as 'fundamentalist' and declared that one could
be both pro-choice and a Catholic in good standing."
Speaking of
sex-abuse victims in 1988, Weakland was quoted: "Not all adolescent
victims are so innocent. Some can be sexually very active and aggressive
and often streetwise." [http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36362Anti-Catholicism and the Times
by Patrick J. Buchanan , 04/06/2010]
Last year, Bishop Callahan launched an attacked on Catholic pro-life Fr. Altmann saying "he will attempt fraternal correction before imposing canonical penalties or taking other formal steps in the matter, and acknowledged that the priest had inflicted a 'wound' upon the Church." [https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/09/09/la-crosse-bishop-to-correct-catholics-cant-be-democrats-priest/]
Fr. Altmann in his YouTube viral video correctly said: “You
can not be Catholic and be a Democrat. Period” because the Democrat party is for the "intrinsically evil” of killing unborn babies.
It appears that Bishop Callahan may, also, disagrees with the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Fatima on telling people in "intrinsically evil” about the possibility of the infallible Catholic teaching on Hell.
The La Crosse Tribune quotes Callahan apparently possibly saying that he "hope[s]... no one" speaks of "hell" to those in "intrinsically evil”:
“I said, ‘Hopefully, no one has ever told him that he’s going to hell. That’s not what we teach. We teach certainly that there are areas of action that we consider intrinsically evil, and that there are actions that we would say these will set you outside of the law, but God is the one who judges.”, and that there are actions that we would say these will set you outside of the law, but God is the one who judges.” [https://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/money-politics-and-religion-a-conversation-with-bishop-william-callahan/article_16a248da-3c36-11e2-9fd3-0019bb2963f4.html]
Does Callahan "hope... no one" speaks of "hell" to those in "intrinsically evil”?
If this is what Bishop Callahan is saying then it appears that the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Fatima disagree with him.
I hope that Callahan isn't disagreeing with Our Lord and Lady.
Hopefully, he teaches about making first Fridays and first Saturdays to make reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as well as the Immaculate Heart of Mary and for the conversion of sinners as Our Lady of Fatima asked for so they don't go to Hell.
Tradition in Action explains that Jesus is merciful, but also because of original sin and when after baptism we sin which is an infinite crime He had to redeemed us by his infinite sacrifice on Good Friday. However, He requires that we in grace unite to His Redemption by doing penance and reparation for forgiveness of our sins and implicitly for others:
"In the images of the Sacred Heart, He points to this symbolic font of love and mercy for us. The devotions to the Sacred Heart always suppose reparation for our sins. We are sinners, we must make reparation. Despite the promises from Our Lord and the fact that He paid an infinite price for our Redemption, we must make reparation. We should always do penance for our sins and make various kinds of reparation."
"... the error of the [extreme Francis] Divine Mercy devotion. It preaches that we can expect an unconditional mercy with no price to be paid whatsoever, with no obligations whatsoever. This is not the message of Christ."
"Christ is merciful. Time and time again, His mercy pardons our repeated sins in the Sacrament of Penance, always taking us back no matter how bad our sins are. And what happens in the Sacrament of Penance? The very name of the Sacrament tells us exactly what happens: to be effective the Sacrament supposes penance.
Not only are you there at the Sacrament recognizing your full
submission to the Church and your dependence on the Sacraments for
forgiveness, but you walk out of the confessional with an imposed
penance."
[https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/f072_DivMercy.htm]
Also, Fatima's Sister Lucia said that Our Lady asked for sacrifices and rosaries to obtain the graces so sinners will not go to Hell, but, also, for reparation because of sins against God and the Mother of God:
"Sacrifice yourself for sinners and say many times especially whenever you make such a sacrifice: 'O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversions of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary."
Sister Lucia told Father Lombardi, according to the Vatican's Osservatore della Domenica on February 7, 1954, the following about why there is a need for sacrifices and prayers for sinners so they can be saved from Hell.
Fr. Lombardi: "Tell me is the Better World Movement a response of the Church to the words spoken to Our Lady?"
Lucia: "Father there is certainly a great need for this renewal. If it is not done, and taking into account the present development of humanity, only a limited number of the human race will be saved."
Fr. Lombardi: "Do you really believe that many will go to Hell? I hope that God will save the greater part of humanity." [He had just written a book entitled: Salvation for those without faith.]
Lucia: "Father, many will be lost."
Fr. Lombardi: "It is true that the world is full of evil, but there is always a hope of salvation."
Lucia: "No Father, many will be lost."
(Fatima, The Great Sign by Francis Johnston, Tan Publishers, Inc. Rockford, Illinois, Page 36)
The devotions of Our Lady of Fatima and the Sacred Heart of Jesus are both about reparation because each person has free will that by grace can cooperate with God for his redemption or reject God's grace and sin by committing "intrinsically evil” actions whereby he may and can reject God's mercy and freely choose to go to Hell.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He want you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost - Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
- Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: "212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted...Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden" [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
- Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times "Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003": http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]