Mary Ann Kreitzer, the President of the Les Femmes-The Truth website, gave the Catholic Monitor permission to repost her incisive piece titled "We All Have a Right to Our Good Name":
Sins
against the eighth commandment are legion. Slander and detraction are
serious issues. Which brings me to Church Militant (CM) and its
reporting on the SSPX -- again.
Michael
Voris recently reviled the SSPX as a "cult" on a CM Twitter thread
implying that anyone who attends or defends the SSPX is a "cult"
member. He used two examples to support his statement --
Let me repeat that. He mentioned TWO!!! comments left on the Twitter
feed and went on to cast aspersions on every single member of the SSPX.
But not only the SSPX, the entire Latin Mass community. He implied,
based on TWO comments, that everyone who attends the Latin Mass is
self-righteous and thinks they are "superior and Holy." And of course,
many of CM's followers piled on. Omigosh, those TLM supporters are evil
and "spiritually diseased."
Here's what Voris tweeted:
These SSPX cult members use filthy sexist (C*nt) and racist (Chink) terms in attacking people - and then go to LATIN Mass on Sunday thinking they are superior and Holy. Please. Talk about a reason for Francis to blow up their idol of the Latin Mass. They are spiritually diseased.
Note
first of all that Voris labels the SSPX a "cult." The implication is
that all the thousands who belong to or defend the SSPX are like the
followers of Jim Jones, cult members.
Wow!
Then
he goes on to give TWO examples of nasty tweets, one using a vulgar
term for Christine Niles, saying the comments are a "reason" for Francis
to deep six the Latin Mass (TLM). Since the SSPX says the same Latin
Mass as the FSSP and the Canons Regular of numerous orders, that was a
pretty inflammatory statement. And really -- TWO! comments out of an
estimated 25,000 who attend the SSPX chapels, not to mention another
75,000 who attend other TLM parishes!
I
have two trolls who visit my blog frequently, one almost daily, to
leave vile comments (which I don't post). One is an NO Catholic who
says she used to be a traditionalist. Her nasty comments don't make me
assume all NO Catholics are like her. Nor do I label every diocesan
priest as a sex abuser because of the statistically small number of
priests who are. I attend the NO almost every weekday and most of the
priests who say those Masses seem to be seriously committed to doing
God's will and bringing others to Christ. I'm grateful for them and
would never lump them in with the abusers.
Church Militant should be embarrassed and take down the Twitter thread immediately. I thank Mundabor
for his post that pointed me there since I bolted from Twitter months
ago. Everything he said about the tweet is spot on! Here's a bit: ...if
Christine Niles is insulted by people who are really fed up with her
and her sanctimonious wannabe crusade against the SSPX I for myself tend
to side with the insulting party, not the insulted one; because for me,
being the one who insulted first does not make the guy on the right
side of the discussion wrong, but merely intemperate.
...Really, Twitter gets out the worst of everybody at lightning speed....How can it be that Niles and Voris don’t know this?
Mind,
the two of them are journalists, that is: professionals of
communication. The (in most cases, I am sure) devout Catholics who
engage with them generally aren’t. I understand the occasional slip from
a non-professional more than the deliberated exploitation of it from
the professional.
Therefore, to take some “SSPX loyalist” who
loses his patience and is likely having a bad day and take it is an
example of the SSPX values and aims is profoundly disingenuous and, in
fact, dishonest. It is bad enough from the side of Niles, it is even
worse from the side of Voris, who then uses a single episode to tarnish all the followers and supporters of the SSPX as “cult members” . [Read Mundabor's entire post here - if you care enough. Internecine warfare gets pretty tiresome after awhile.]
The
Church definitely has a sex abuse problem. The Vatican has a problem.
Every diocese has a problem. Every religious order has a problem. Look
for dissent and you will probably find homosexuality and other sexual
sins associated with it. They go together. That's not to say you won't
find sexual predators among the orthodox. In my own diocese a number of
homosexual priests hid behind orthodoxy before they were exposed.
Don't
misunderstand what I'm saying. Every parent who discovers their child
has been abused, no matter who the abuser is -- priest, bishop, teacher,
coach, etc. should report it to police for a criminal investigation,
charges, and a trial. But some of what passes for "investigation" at CM
is laughable!
I
watched Niles' interview with Jassy Jasac with regard to Fr. Pierre
Duverger. Jasac told Niles that Fr. Duverger advised her to confront her
abuser and TALK TO HER PARENTS! Does that sound like the advice of
someone "grooming" her? Did Niles follow up on that? Did she ask if she
talked to her parents? Did she ask what their reaction was? No! Those
questions wouldn't support the narrative of the evil SSPX priest
"grooming" the poor child of the "Me Too" generation.
And what kind of investigator starts her interview with acceptance of the accusation as fact ("This grooming that
took place with you...") and then goes on to accept every single word
of the accuser as gospel truth and an accurate interpretation of what
happened without question? How much of Niles other reporting shows the
same sloppy (and biased) approach?
We've
seen false accusations from women many times: Anita Hill, Christine
Blasey-Ford, the woman who falsely accused three members of the Duke
lacrosse team of rape. False accusations are not rare. In fact, studies done
by the Air Force, Purdue, and other institutions in the 1980s and 1990s
showed that 40-60% of rape accusations were false. And their definition
of a "false accusation" was stringent. The accusers had to recant! Here are 36 cases
of false accusations including the notorious accusation by Jane Roe of
Roe v. Wade (Norma McCorvey) that gave us abortion on demand.
We
all need to be careful to avoid the sins of calumny, detraction, and
slander. Those making accusations need to be questioned carefully. Do
they have an axe to grind? Have they interpreted events accurately? Is
there solid evidence to back up their claims: eye witnesses, text
messages, emails? Is the person credible? Is there a blue dress?
We all have a right to our good name!
Note
in the video above, that exaggeration is one of the sins of detraction.
Should we slander every diocesan priest and bishop because of the small
percentage of diocesan priests and bishops (which, nevertheless, is in
the thousands) who abused children? Should we slander every member of
the SSPX community for the sins of the few?
Exaggeration is exactly what Voris and Niles did in their tweet. It certainly doesn't add to their credibility.
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
