Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the mfn-opts domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /nas/content/live/brownpelican/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114
Opinion: Fr. Celatus: Bad Fruit From a Bad Tree – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Opinion: Fr. Celatus: Bad Fruit From a Bad Tree

Atheism Is Just Wishful Thinking for People Who Crave Less Meaning in Life, by John Zmirak

Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: Never Seen Anything like This

Joshua Kettle Unsplash+

By Fr. Celatus, The Remnant, July 8, 2024

The Gospel of last Sunday reads: “At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them.”

These words brought to mind the sentiments expressed by a modernist rector of a diocesan seminary many years ago. He was lamenting the ever-increasing numbers of conservative Catholic candidates entering the seminary, despite his best efforts to bar their entry or vet them out. In exasperation he once said that it would be better to have no seminarians at all rather than have conservative Catholic priests.

At first glance this view seems to be counter intuitive. After all, without seminarians there really is no reason for a seminary to exist, along the lines that there is no purpose for an airport if there are no planes. But, if your ultimate goal is not filling the seats in a seminary classroom but rather replacing the Church with a counterfeit, that prefers facilitators and feminists to priests, then it makes perfect—satanic—sense. …

Continue reading >>>>>>>>>>