The Bishop’s Corner of June 22 (from the SGG Church bulletin) was
“vintage Dannie Dolan.” It had all
the buzzwords and “killer phrases" that the culties like to lap up (“exquisite motets in polyphony,”
“solemn, outdoor procession,” “Fatima Rosary Procession,” etc.),
plus the following testimonial from a “correspondent” who had seen a picture of
SGG’s first communicants on its website: “Bishop
Dolan: What can I say! Stunning picture on your website. Splendor, solemnity,
commitment and dedication as well as adorable innocence, all circumscribed by a
tangible atmosphere it seems of God’s pure love. Find it hard to stop looking
at it. Inspirational and calming in this terrible age of spiritual darkness.
Thank God and thank you and the fathers with all my heart.”
This
“correspondent” marveled about the “adorable innocence” and “tangible
atmosphere it seems [our italics] of God’s pure love” that the picture conveyed; and he (or
she) found the picture to be “inspirational and calming in this terrible age of
spiritual darkness.” [The operative word here was the one in italics]. We wonder
what this “correspondent” would have to say, if he knew about Dolan’s “boys
will be boys” remark about the SGG school principal’s sons’ watching porn and
animal torture videos on SGG’s school computer. We wonder what he’d think about Dolan’s and Cekada’s totally
ignoring one of those sons fornicating with (and impregnating) a fellow
student. And we wonder what he’d
think about Dolan’s ignoring the protests of parents whose children were
victimized at SGG’s school. We
wonder if he’d find all of that “inspirational and calming in this terrible age
of spiritual darkness.”
First
off, the picture to which the correspondent refers -- as well as Dolan's having that correspondent’s testimonial printed in the SGG bulletin (and re-printing the hyperlink to the picture in the bulletin as well), underscores
Dolan’s total preoccupation with appearances. It also underscores his deception – and, most of all, his
trademark HYPOCRISY -- by using that
picture of those children, who truly are
innocent, to infer that he and Tony are innocent as well (which people
familiar with their track record know to be a monstrous sham). In that correspondent’s one passage “… all
circumscribed by a tangible atmosphere it seems of God’s pure love,” the
operative word there, again, is “seems.”
All of what Dannie does or says seems to be about “God’s
pure love” – but it isn’t. It’s not about “God’s pure love”; it’s
about “Dannie’s pure profit” – and, of course, about “the show.”
It’s
about “the show” – what looks
good – because that’s the way that
Dannie gets his profit.
Whether it’s one of his frequent processions, or his “triple play”
funeral extravaganza for a rich donor’s deceased wife, or one of his pontifical
pageants (complete with gold-fabric canopy, bell-ringing, and enough incense to
set off a smoke alarm – which it once did), Dannie has always been about “the
show” – because “the show” is good box
office. It draws in the crowds
– and thus the money – especially
from the gullible and the easily impressed, who fall for this kind of
crap. The cyber-savvy (but
intellectually bankrupt) Tony dresses up SGG’s website with
“traditional” looking tinsel, and the drooling culties lap it up.
If
that correspondent knew about the well-documented laundry list of the
Rasputin twins’ misdeeds – and how they try to defame and discredit
anyone who gets in their way, we wonder what he’d say. Just to take a a few more samplings: if he knew how
they bad-mouthed and slandered their fellow clerics (even the late -- and
universally loved -- Abbot Giardina), we wonder what he’d say. If he knew how they denied innocent
people the sacraments simply for “going to the wrong chapel,” we wonder what
he’d say. If he knew that they
asked their flock to “offer it up” during a wintry Lent, while Dannie was
basking in the sun in Latin America and gorging himself on “copious quantities
of beef,” we wonder what he’d say.
If he knew that mothers with newborn babies had to shiver in an unheated
vestibule “cry room” while Dannie and Tony kept toasty in their
three-climate-zone rectory, we wonder what he’d say. And if he knew what Tony Cekada had to say about Terri
Schiavo, we wonder what he’d say.
We
think we know what he’d say! The indescribable hypocrisy
of Dolan’s putting this correspondent’s comments on his web page is downright nauseating (and, for that matter, so is
having to read the drivel that Dannie puts in his Bishop’s Corner week after week, year in and year
out!). This had to be one of
Dolan’s supremely pristine examples of appearances
trumping reality – of his “splendor, solemnity, commitment and
dedication” to deception (It is also
a monument to peoples’ enduring capacity to swallow such drivel without throwing up.) If that correspondent was fully aware of what the two
Rasputin twins really had to do with “adorable innocence” (and how
they’ve treated the truly innocent), the next time he read Dannie’s Bishop’s
Corner or saw one of those pictures on SGG’s web page, he’d not only know
what to say -- he’d know what to do: bring his own barf bag.
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