tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9326585299181874242024-03-04T20:35:53.683-08:00The Lay PulpitThe Watcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313770117983560091noreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932658529918187424.post-31347908631251210042018-06-30T05:59:00.000-07:002018-06-30T06:03:06.880-07:00The Cults: "Calcified Catholicism"<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">Editor’s Note</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">: This is the last in our series of articles in “winding down” our blog. Prehaps we may post again (we’ll certainly let you know if we do); but for now, we are thinking that "this is it." In our previous articles, we’ve tried to summarize most of the major problems characterizing the SGG cult; and this last article continues in that vein, recounting some more of the "highlights" of what the cult-masters have done. To that end, we hope that we have “covered most of the ground.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">The “bottom line” on all this is that the cult-masters have shown, over and over again, that they are <b style="font-weight: normal;">not Catholic</b>, but self-serving <b style="font-weight: normal;">parasites </b>who are out to <b style="font-weight: normal;">materially profit </b>at the expense of gullible followers – who tell people what they want to hear, then proceed to exploit them in every which way that they can. They are <i style="font-weight: normal;">hirelings</i>, not shepherds – costumed <b>con men</b> who need to be put out of business. Period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">That said, we present our final article…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The great Catholic historian Hilaire Belloc once remarked that the Catholic Church in the late <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Middle Ages </i>suffered from what he called “calcification.”<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>By that, he meant that it had grown rich, jaded, and materialistic, and that “rites and rubrics” – the "<i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">mechanics" </i>of Catholicism – often took precedence over its <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">principles</i>.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>What this led to were evils such as <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Lay Investiture,</i> <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Simony</i>, and <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">the </i><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">selling of indulgences</i> – evils that ultimately precipitated the <b>Protestant Revolt</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Does this sound familiar?<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Well, it <i style="font-style: normal;">should</i>, because that is precisely what is happening in Tradistan today -- and what has been for some time: the cult-masters are giving us the <i>mechanics</i>, but not the Catholicism.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>But today’s “calcification” is something more than that.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>It is actually <i style="font-style: normal;">worse</i>, because it is actually <b style="font-style: normal;">devoid </b>of Catholicism.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>The Church in the late Middle Ages was at least <i style="font-style: normal;">united </i>– and true.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Today’s Tradistan is a disjointed mishmash of sectarian cults, all fighting with one another, and each making up its own “articles of faith” and its own sectarian “rules.”<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie Dolan’s SGG and Not-so-big Don Sanborn’s MHT are Tradistan’s two arch-typical examples of this.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>As we’ve pointed out so many times in the past, Dannie is all about “the show”; and the Donster is all about <i>hellfire and brimstone</i> (and bullying).<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Dannie’s penchant for ostentation is so glaringly apparent that it’s almost comical.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Look at any of SGG’s bulletins (and especially Dannie’s <i>’Corner</i>), and you’ll find it crammed full of Dannie’s trademark “S&S” (Syrup and Sanctimony), along with other examples of his empty, meaningless “holy-speak.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And click on SGG’s bulletin any given Sunday, and you’ll find full-color pictures (and sometimes even <b style="font-style: normal;">videos</b>) from one of SGG’s latest extravaganzas – this past <i>Corpus Christi</i>, for instance (click <span style="color: red; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/06/02/solemnity-of-corpus-christi-3/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>).<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>That particular bulletin has a <b style="font-style: normal;">video </b>of Dannie giving his “pontifical blessing” -- which he has even put on <b style="font-style: normal;"><i>YouTube</i></b>, the ultimate cyber venue for sleazy self-promotion. <span style="font-style: normal;"> (</span>Only Dannie would ever dream of putting on such a pretentious display of pomposity.)<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>But such tawdry, self-promotional frippery is what Dannie is all about – <b style="font-style: normal;"><i>ALL </i></b>about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">All of this ecclesiastical pageantry, of course, is designed to dazzle and impress: his over-the-top Episcopal attire, the billowing clouds of incense (that have sometimes been known to trip SGG’s smoke alarm), the seemingly endless retinue of servers and torch-bearers, the bell-ringing – you name it. It is “the Full Monty” – a perfect latter-day example of Belloc’s “calcified Catholicism.” But, as we said before, none of it is real. It’s more like a cardboard mockup, a façade, a Hollywood stage set – an ornamental <i>stage production</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">It is, again, the “mechanics” of Catholicism – elaborately detailed rites, rubrics, and rituals – but totally <b>devoid </b>of its “spirit,” i.e., of Catholic principles and precepts. What the public sees on SGG's website are all its pomp and pageantry, but not the sordid side: the brutality that went on at SGG’s “school,” the blatantly immoral behavior of the school principal’s sons – <b>and Dannie’s condoning of it all</b>. Nor have they ever seen (or ever will see) any retraction from him and Tony of what these depraved wretches said about <i>Schiavo</i>. Such things are kept out of the limelight, because they don’t fit SGG’s “business model.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And <i>business model</i><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>is just what it is.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Dannie doesn’t really <i><u>believe</u></i><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>in<i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>any of this holy-speak drivel that he perpetually puts out; he does it only because it’s “good for business”: it gets his Gerties to <b style="font-style: normal;">donate</b>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>That is, it’s all about <b style="font-style: normal;"><u>money</u></b>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>His (and Tony’s) “<i style="font-style: normal;">una cum</i>” nonsense, for instance: they really don’t care about that one way or the other. <span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>But it is a good <span style="font-style: normal;"><i>business</i></span><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i><i><span style="font-style: normal;">strategy</span>:</i> if they can convince people that this is something necessary for "being Catholic” – they’ll use this (and other such invented “articles of faith”) to keep their sheep in the pen (and from defecting to <i>other</i><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>pens) – because “more sheep” equals <b style="font-style: normal;">more money</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And, over the years, Dannie and Tony have exploited their Gerties in every way imaginable, guilt-tripping them into donating both their money and their talents to the cult center. Everything at SGG is geared <i style="font-style: normal;">not </i>for saving souls, but for <i>Dannie and Tony’s comfort</i><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>– and for <i>emptying wallets</i>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Not a week goes by when Dannie and Tony are not begging for money, and they have devised myriad ways to get it. And while asking the Gerties to “sacrifice” and to “offer it up,” Dannie and Tony "reciprocate" by routinely going on “apostolates” that are nothing more than mid-winter vacation getaways to warm, sunny destinations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And, in addition to that, they have suckered the Gerties into paying for a new facility they neither <i>needed</i> nor <i>wanted</i> – and then asked them for help in paying its “high heating bills” (when this new, “energy efficient” facility turned out not to be so “energy efficient”).<span style="color: black; font-style: normal;"> </span>(This new facility, by the way, includes a school that largely stands vacant, and a “grotto” that has had to be repaired and restocked with fish several times.)<span style="color: black; font-style: normal;"> </span>And now (as we reported in our last article -- click <span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2018/06/london-bridge-is-falling-down.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"></span>), their “new facility” is prematurely <i style="color: black; font-style: normal;">falling apart </i>-- and in need of all sorts of repairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Meanwhile, Dannie and Tony run this crumbling enterprise as if they were “popes” (which, of course, they aren’t): issuing phony “dispensations,” granting phony “indulgences,” and denying people sacraments <i>at will </i>(<b style="font-style: normal;">none </b>of which they have the authority to do), applying “rules” that they themselves don’t follow, and/or applying them “selectively.” <span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>These renegades, answerable and accountable to <b style="font-style: normal;">no one</b>, just “make it up as they go along” – and expect their Gerties to blindly obey all their decrees and directives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">This is the kind of “calcified Catholicism” that has come to epitomize SGG – and that goes on there day in and day out. We and <i>Pistrina </i><i>Liturgica </i>have done our best to expose it and to combat it; and we think that we’ve reached “the right audience” in doing so: both attendance and revenue at SGG are down -- and continue to decline. And, although we’ll never be able to reach and convince the “hard core” there, we think that the cult’s malignant influence has been effectively “checked” -- which is why we have decided to "wind down" our blog. </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But, although we are winding it down, all that we have written to date – as we said before -- will remain intact, as a permanent reminder (and warning) for people to stay away from these malignant parasites.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Will we ever be able to shut the cult-masters down completely?<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>No.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>There will always be enough <i>hopelessly gullible</i> there to at least keep them “on life support.”<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>But if we can keep them <i style="font-style: normal;">in check </i>– keep them from <i>growing</i> – that will be “enough.”<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>And, so far, we’ve been able to do just that.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Thanks mainly to <i>Pistrina Liturgica’s </i>untiring efforts in exposing the myth of Dannie and Tony as “scholars” and “liturgical experts,” for instance, anyone with an ounce of common sense now sees them for the pathetic know-nothings that they are; and both <i>PL</i><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>and we have done a thorough job of uncovering their skullduggery and deceit.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>And, in the main, our efforts have worked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But this is an ongoing process – and one that cannot totally depend just on what's printed in two blogs.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>That is why we repeat what we've said many times in the past: that word must be <span style="font-style: normal;"><i>spread</i></span><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>– and this can only be done by <i>followers </i>-- by “apostles” – and y<u><i>ou</i></u><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>are our “apostles.”<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>By documenting what the cult-masters have done, we have made the information available; but, again, it is up to you to <i style="font-style: normal;">disseminate </i>it.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>As Catholics, we have a <i style="font-style: normal;">moral duty </i>to do so – to <i style="font-style: normal;">actively </i>oppose evil when we can.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>To invoke once again Pope St. Felix III’s words, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-style: normal;">“</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it; and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them.” Or, as Edmund Burke even more succinctly put it, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">That is the key: good men must do <b style="font-style: normal;">something</b>. Blogs like ours (and <i style="font-style: normal;">Pistrina Liturgica</i>) have made the truth about SGG and MHT available; that is the “something” that we have done. But that is the limit of what we can do. The “something” that you, our readers, can do -- to reiterate -- is to <i style="font-style: normal;"><u>spread</u> that word. </i>It’s not enough just to say that one “disapproves” of them – and it is <b style="font-style: normal;"><i><u>certainly</u> </i></b>not enough to say, “Oh, I go there; but I only go there for the <i style="font-style: normal;">sacraments;</i> however, I do not <i>support</i> them.” These are both “cop-outs.” Besides, “not supporting the cults” may hold them in check, but only <b style="font-style: normal;">active opposition </b>will deliver the “knockout blow.” And, you can deliver that knockout blow by, again, <i style="font-style: normal;">being an “apostle” and spreading the word</i>. It may not be easy – but it’s not impossible either. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small;">Some parting words:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small;">As we said in a previous post, this blog, although “finished,” won't be going away.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small;">Whatever has been written date will remain intact, to serve as a standing warning against the cult-masters.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small;">We will also check our blog every now and then for comments, and respond to them as needed.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small;">And will we ever start our blog up again?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small;">Some of our readers have sent in comments suggesting that we do, but perhaps on a more infrequent basis – </span><i style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">monthly </i><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small;">or </span><i style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">quarterly</i><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small;">, for example. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small;">Well, anything’s possible. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small;">But, practically speaking, we think we've said just about everything there is to say about the cult-masters – and that this is “enough.”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Besides, since so much of the damning evidence against the cult-masters has come from <span style="font-style: normal;"><i>their own lips</i></span>, how much more is really needed? <span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>If <i><u>that</u></i> isn’t “enough,” then <span style="font-style: normal;"><i>what is</i></span><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>-- and what more can one say?<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>We feel that we have accomplished our mission, and have made a convincing enough case.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>We have, we believe, done our very best to put Pope Felix’s words of into action.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>In short, we believe that we have “done our part”; and we can rest easy, knowing that we have done it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">We also think that many of you, our readers, have "done your part" -- and for that, we sincerely thank you. But it will take your <i>continued </i>help and vigilance to put these charlatans completely out of business -- and get rid of their <i>counterfeit Catholicism</i> once and for all. Let's make that happen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">Editor’s Note</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">: In today’s article -- our next-to-last before “signing off” -- we thought it a good idea to recap the problems that SGG has had (and continues to have) with its “new” facility’s prematurely crumbling infrastructure. The new facility was supposed to address all of the concerns that SGG had with its old one. It did not. Instead, it has brought new problems of its own – problems that are popping up with disturbing regularity. Here is our article…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The average life of a house roof these days (with standard asphalt shingles) is about twenty-five years, give or take. And, unless it suffers unusually severe wind damage or whatever, it lasts that long without encountering any leaks. But not so with the SGG cult center: its roof life seems to be measured in <i>months</i>, not years. The roof at the cult center’s “new” West Chester facility, not yet <i>fifteen </i>years old, has been springing leaks almost since the day the cult center was built. And, as we’ve reported several times, there are two reasons for this: first, the roof is <i>horizontally flat </i>(vs. “pitched”) because Tony Cekada – overruling SGG’s architect on this -- wanted it that way (because this made the place look more “medieval”; and, second, it leaks because it’s <b>shoddily built</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">Actually, the whole facility, from the ground up, is shoddily built.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>The roof itself has sprung so many leaks that Dannie has felt compelled to promise his Gerties a <span style="color: blue; font-style: normal;">“leak report” </span>(as if roof leaks were an <i>expected</i>, <i style="font-style: normal;">regularly occurring </i>sort of thing).<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>And the rest of the cult center is not faring much better, either.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>In previous articles (click </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2013/05/extreme-makeover-brain-dead-edition-aka.html'" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">and </span><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2014/10/sermon-in-stone.html" style="color: purple; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">), we reported how <b>poorly constructed </b>the cult center is (and also how <b>unnecessary </b>the building of this new facility was).<sup>2</sup> Dannie’s “sermon in stone” (as he still refers to it), for instance, is actually stone <b>veneer </b>(from China) that is <b>hung on </b>(with “pins”) – an arrangement that not only provides <i>no structural support </i>to the building, but actually <b>detracts </b>from it structurally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The result of all this shoddy workmanship has been <i>one problem after another</i>: a roof that’s had a half dozen or so leaks (and as many unsuccessful attempts at repairing it), several (prematurely) failing HVAC units, several electrical problems, repeated infestations of vermin (including raccoons and mice), and a parking lot that needs re-paving (and new lights). Even the goldfish-stocked “grotto” -- another useless frill -- has had to be repaired. Hardly a week goes by without Dannie mentioning the need for something to be fixed – and hinting (or downright <i>asking</i>) for his Gerties to pay for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And the reason that Dannie must continually beg for money is simple: he and Tony have never “put any acorns away for the winter.” (They thought the “good times” of the Brueggemann “gravy train” era would last forever – but they didn’t.) These problems that SGG is now facing should have been <i>anticipated </i>– and money <i>set aside </i>for them. But, because Dannie and Tony have blown SGG’s “acorns” on vacation travel junkets and their other creature comforts, there’s no money left in the kitty to pay for needed replacements – or even for routine maintenance. And now Dannie is trying to pass these expenses off as unforeseen “extras,” as it were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">What makes all of this so ironic is that the “new” cult center needed never to have been built in the first place. The old facility (in Sharonville, Ohio) was <i>much better constructed </i>than SGG’s (now crumbling) “new” facility (and, in fact, will probably still be standing <i>long after </i>the “new” SGG is a pile of rubble). And, although not quite so big as the new facility, it had ample space for SGG’s congregation. It also had a large basement (which the new facility hasn’t) that could be used as a “cry room” for mothers with babies – and one that, unlike the new facility’s vestibule “cry room,” was <b>air-conditioned </b>in summer and <b>heated </b>in winter. Plus, best of all, the Sharonville facility was completely <b>paid for</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Now some people might argue that the old facility was <i>crowded </i>– especially when it came to the school (located in its basement) and “storage.” But SGG’s supposed need for “extra space” -- for its school and for “storage” -- could easily have been met by <i>buying the building next door </i>-- an “<i>Odd Fellows </i><i>Hall</i>” – which was not only available, but could have been bought “for a song.” (That <i>Odd Fellows Hall </i>also had plenty of <i>parking space </i>– another one of the “reasons” given for moving.) <b>There was absolutely no need for the new facility</b>.<sup>1<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And, speaking of the new facility, the Brueggemann family (who comprised <i>by far </i>the biggest contingent of SGG’s congregation – and most of its revenue) offered <b>free land </b>in northern Kentucky (where most of the Brueggemann’s lived) on which to build it. But Dannie wanted it built <i>north </i>of Cincinnati, because he claimed that it was SGG’s “demographic epicenter.” (<b>It wasn’t</b>. Northern Kentucky, with its large Brueggemann contingent, was its true epicenter.) But Dannie wanted the new facility built in West Chester -- <i>because was closer to the restaurants that he and Tony frequented</i>. (The old facility, by the way, was just as close to those restaurants – perhaps <i>closer</i>.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The land on which the new facility sits, by the way, was actually more suited for <i>commercial use. </i> Donated by a previous SGG benefactor, the lot adjoins an <i>industrial park</i>. And that being so, it was commercially <i>valuable</i>. In fact, it could have been reportedly been sold for <b>a half-million dollars </b>or more – <b>more than enough </b>to buy that <i>Odd Fellows </i>building, <b>with plenty of money left over</b>. But Dannie wanted his “sermon in stone,” because (he thought) it would look more “impressive” – which it really doesn’t.<sup>2</sup> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Another irony about the new facility is that one of the biggest reasons for its being built was the “school.” Dannie’s “great endeavor” was built to accommodate a large number of students; and in anticipation of that, “the principal” was sent for to run it (along with his large family). But the school never “blossomed” – especially after the principal’s aberrant behavior became embarrassingly apparent. Enrollment, never robust to begin with, continues to dwindle to this day. The school, built to accommodate as many as two hundred students, now serves <i>little more than a dozen</i>. That must be the bitterest of ironies for Dannie: the school has never come to fruition – yet he is forever after saddled with the cost of <i>paying for it</i>. (It’s like having to perpetually make payments on a car, but not being able to drive it!) <sup>3<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie’s SGG, like that <i>London Bridge </i>of nursery rhyme fame, is indeed falling down. It’s a Hollywood stage set, built for “the show” – <i>Dannie’s</i>show. Dannie and Tony probably figured that it wouldn’t last for the long haul, but long enough to get them into retirement. But even <i>that </i>is now in jeopardy: the repair bills are beginning to mount up. And as SGG’s Hollywood stage set continues to crumble, the more the costs to patch it up it will continue to climb – eventually reaching a point where they will become <b>unsustainable</b>.<sup>4</sup> (The only future that we see for it – when it eventually falls into ruins – is as a wildlife refuge for raccoons, or possibly an archeological dig site for baby bunny bones.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">As time inexorably marches on, this will only get worse; and the Gerties will be asked to throw even more good money after bad (as they are already doing). So, Gerties, before Dannie’s dump becomes a complete pile of rubble (and its rotting infrastructure gets reclaimed by raccoons, rodents, and other assorted critters), we suggest that you <b>get out </b>while you still can. Or -- better still -- <b>get out now</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Another reason for building the new facility was that it would be more “energy efficient.” But that certainly doesn’t seem to be the case, because Dannie is always whining about “high heating bills.” The new facility, for one thing, does not have <i>gas </i>service; and therefore, for all its energy needs, it must rely on <i>electricity </i>(which is substantially more expensive). So, the difference in energy cost between the old and new facility is probably negligible. (Another thing: the reason why SGG’s HVAC units are prematurely failing is that they are <i>heat pumps</i>, which don’t last as long as conventional heating devices.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">On its website, the panoramic view of SGG’s facility <i><u>does</u> </i>look “impressive.” But, for one thing, the picture is “turned” about 45* on its side, to make it look like a large, campus-like complex in a pastoral setting. The truth is, it’s right next door to an <b>industrial park </b>(its “school” – on the right side of the picture – is about 50 feet away from a corrugated-metal factory building). (Click </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/4900+Rialto+Rd,+West+Chester+Township,+OH+45069/@39.3239919,-84.4612882,3a,75y,10.23h,90.82t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1saAcOw0wAeO7dQimi5Kq1_A!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DaAcOw0wAeO7dQimi5Kq1_A%26output%3Dthumbna" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> to see this on “Google Earth.”) And the “structure” on the picture’s <i>left </i>side -- a “cloister walkway” – is actually a walkway to <b>nowhere</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The walkway was originally intended to connect to a large Gothic-style church (Dannie’s “sermon in stone”).<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>But the church never materialized.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>(The Gerties, even as gullible as they were back then, wouldn’t “spring” for <i><u>that</u></i> boondoggle -- so Dannie had to settle for using the school’s (intended) gymnasium as a “church.”)<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>What the picture also doesn’t reflect is SGG’s <i style="font-style: normal;">leaking roof</i>, its <i style="font-style: normal;">deteriorating parking lot</i>, its <i style="font-style: normal;">raccoon-infested “church,”</i>and a host of other problems with its <b style="font-style: normal;">prematurely failing </b>physical facility.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">3 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">It is widely known that Dannie cannot get rid of “the principal.” He’s stuck with him, whether he likes it or not – even though all of the latter’s kids are now “graduated.” (The school, by the way, has had more Lotarski graduates than <i>all its other graduates </i><i>combined</i>.) Most of the “school’s” rooms, by the way, are not used for “teaching,” but as repositories for Dannie’s and Tony’s <b>junk</b>: their horde of “ecclesiastical goodies” that they’ve accumulated over the years. It seems that its only real value has been as a <i>warehouse</i>, not an educational institution. (For more on the school, click </span><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2015/06/sggs-school-bad-bargain.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> and </span><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2017/06/sggs-school-still-bad-bargain.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">4 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">During this past Winter's arctic cold spell, Dannie happened to mention in his January 7 </span><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/01/06/the-holy-family-2/"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">’Corner</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">: <span style="color: blue;">“<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">How busy we’ve been! Oh, our fair share of</span> </span></span><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">frozen pipes </span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">and catching up from Christmas, but more.”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "bookman old style";"> [Our <b>bold </b>emphasis.] </span><i><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Frozen pipes?</span></i><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> If the facility had been properly built, this should <b><u>never</u></b> have happened. If the piping had been put between <i>interior </i>walls – as it should have been (and which has been common construction practice for the past 50 years or so) – <i>it never would have frozen</i>. But it was obviously installed in the <b>exterior </b>walls (without proper insulation to boot) – a fatal design flaw. But that’s been the bane of both SGG and the Brooksville cult center: they’re both <i>shoddily designed </i>-- and <i>shoddily built</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Editor’s Note</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">:<span> </span>Continuing in our “winding down” series of articles, we thought it appropriate to mention once again one of Dannie Dolan’s <b>major failures</b>: SGG’s “school” (and one that he continues to <b>deceptively </b><b>promote </b>whenever he can).<span> </span>SGG’s “school” is just one of the <b>many </b>reasons why the SGG cult center is a <b><i>total </i></b><b><i>sham </i></b>– and another reason for people to <b>stay away </b>from this cesspool.<span> </span>Here is our article...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Never since Anthony Cekada’s fictional <i>School Dazed</i><sup>1 </sup>has such a preposterous bit of nonsense been written about SGG’s “school” as the “Teacher’s Prayer” printed in SGG’s August 27, 2017 </span><a href="http://www.sgg.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170820.pdf" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">bulletin</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">. <span> </span>Last year, <i>Pistrina Liturgica </i>wrote an article about it (click </span><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2017/08/back-to-chool.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">). <span> </span>And now, we’ve also decided to write one, because we thought it deserved another “shot across the bow.”<span> </span>(In fact, it <b>cries out </b>to be written about again.)<span> </span>The sheer <b>effrontery </b>and <b>brazenness </b>of it – but most of all, the sheer <b>hypocrisy </b>of it -- simply boggles the mind.<span> </span>Everything said in that “prayer” is <b>the exact antithesis </b>of what SGG’s “school” is all about. <span> </span>Dannie’s <i>Teacher’s Prayer</i>, just as was Tony’s <i>School Dazed</i>, is <b>pure fiction</b>.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;">What we thought we’d do then – now that SGG’s school year has come to a close – is to follow up with an article of our own about Dannie’s “Teacher’s Prayer.”<span> </span>And, speaking of Tony’s <i>School Dazed</i>, what we thought we’d also do is to answer Dannie’s nonsense somewhat the same way in which Tony’s was (in <i>School Dazed Revisited</i> (click </span><a href="http://sggscandal.com/editors/schooldazed1.htm" style="color: purple; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">here</span></a><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;">)</span><i style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">, i.e., </span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">juxtaposing Dannie’s “pulpit fiction” with “honest fact” – except that we’ve replaced the words “pulpit fiction” with “Dannie’s Day Dream.”<sup style="font-style: normal;">1</sup><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>And, rather than <i>juxtapose</i><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>his words and ours (i.e., <i>side-by-side</i>), we arranged it with his words first <span style="color: blue; font-style: normal;">printed in </span><b style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">blue</span></b>, followed <i style="font-style: normal;">afterwards </i> by <i style="font-style: normal;">our </i>words (printed in <b style="font-style: normal;">black</b>) <i>underneath</i>. <span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Ready?<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Here goes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Dannie’s Day Dream: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">“Make me ever more worthy of the confidence shown me by parents, by entrusting to me what is dearest to them in this world — their children!”</span><span> </span>And then this: <span style="color: blue;">“…Your mercy, for forgiving and healing; Your wisdom for counseling and directing the young lives entrusted to me.”<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Honest Fact: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Actually, when the parents entrusted their children to the “principal,” they didn’t get “mercy” and “wisdom”; they got <i>verbal abuse</i><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>and <i>physical battering</i><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>(and<i> cruel humiliation</i><i style="font-style: normal;"> in front of their classmates) </i>– in which many of them were <i style="font-style: normal;">reduced to tears</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Dannie’s Day Dream: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">“Teach me to treat these souls with the delicacy and infinite patience of Your Holy Spirit.”</span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Honest fact:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;"><span> </span>Patience?<span> </span>Delicacy?<span> </span>What kind of “patience” did the “principal” have when he had a boy <b>beaten with a wooden paddle </b>for missing his homework?<span> </span>(And, for that matter, what kind of “patience” does Dannie have for crying babies who “interrupt” his sermons?)<span> </span>This “prayer” couldn’t have been any more <b>sadistically mocking</b>, than if it had been written by the <i>Marquis de Sade </i>himself.<span> </span>Dannie and the “principal” must have <i>collaborated </i>on this abomination.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Dannie’s Day Dream: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Grant me Your light, the better to read hearts; Your perspicacity for discerning Your work and penetrating Your designs; Your mercy, for forgiving and healing; Your wisdom for counseling and directing the young lives entrusted to me.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Honest Fact: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Well, Dannie, <i>your </i>“perspicacity” doesn’t quite “measure up,” does it? However did you “discern” that <i>watching porn and animal torture videos </i>amounts to “boys will be boys”? <span> </span>Dannie, you are simply astounding!<span> </span>How did you ever get to be so erudite and caring?!<span> </span>Oh Dannie, you’re just “marvy”!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Honest Fact: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Dannie, here again, your actions don’t quite “measure up.”<span> </span>And, Dannie, may <i>our </i>actions be <b>light-years away </b>from yours; and may we sincerely hope that “nothing may touch these children” – especially any <i>wooden instrument </i>wielded by the “principal.”<span> </span>And may our children not be subject to your “boys will be boys” code of morality.<span> </span>That is, Dannie, may we “impede <i><u>your </u></i>action” both on their bodies and on their souls!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Honest Fact: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">May <i><u>your</u> </i>“truth and beauty,” Dannie, <b><i><u>never</u></i></b> "be transmitted to my students” – or <b>anyone else's </b>students, for that matter!<span style="color: blue;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;"><span> </span>And </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;">Dannie, we thank our lucky stars that “the Heavenly Father’s plans for each of my pupils” don’t match <i><u>your</u> </i>plans! </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Well, so much for Dannie's "prayer"! We wonder <i style="font-style: normal;">in open-jawed astonishment </i>that anyone whose school has such a track record as SGG’s could conceivably publish such a <b style="font-style: normal;">forgery</b>. <span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>But it just proves that, when it comes to sheer <i style="font-style: normal;">audacity</i>, <i style="font-style: normal;">arrogance</i>, and <i style="font-style: normal;">hypocrisy, </i><b style="font-style: normal;">Dannie has no equal</b>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>And the fact that virtually no other school feels the need to go to such drastic lengths to promote itself is proof that Dannie is <b style="font-style: normal;">getting </b><b style="font-style: normal;">desperate</b>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>But Dannie’s promotional efforts here are an exercise in <b style="font-style: normal;">futility</b>, because <i>nobody</i> is listening to his drivel.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>They all know that it really is just a “Day Dream.” <span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">SGG’s parishioners are painfully aware of how abysmally <b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">substandard </b>the school is – and they still haven’t forgotten what happened there in 2009.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>And, although they’re too spineless to leave SGG altogether (and give up their “show”), they realize that those same underlying forces of 2009 are still at work.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>(That is, the “principal,” at whose hands the students suffered back then, is still there.)<sup style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">2</sup><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>And SGG’s parents are smart enough to know that their kids will still be i<b style="font-style: normal;">n harm’s way</b> at the “school” (both <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">physically </i>and “academically”) -- which is why so many of them <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">home school </i>their kids (or send them elsewhere – even to <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Protestant </i>schools<sup style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">3</sup>). <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>So, why take the risk? <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>Only the terminally gullible (or uninformed) could ever trust their kids to SGG’s “school.” <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>And, consequently, the enrollment there continues to <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">dwindle</i>.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>In the 2015-2016 school year, the <b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">total </b>enrollment (K through 12) was <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">twenty-five </i>-- and in 2016-2017, it was <b style="font-weight: normal;"><i>eighteen</i> </b>(Click </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/05/13/easter-iv/" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">for picture).<span> </span>We don’t have figures for the current <i></i>year’s enrollment.<span> </span>But, whatever it is, the total is <i>paltry</i>, considering that the physical facility was built to hold at least <b>ten times </b>that many. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The sober truth is, that in promoting SGG’s “school,” Dannie is <b>beating a dead horse </b>– and an <b>expensive </b>one at that.<span> </span>For the pathetically small number of students enrolled there (and for the even <i>more pathetic </i>“education” obtained there), SGG’s “school” is still the woefully bad bargain it’s always been.<span> </span>Note, too, that this year, there is no picture of SGG’s “proud graduates” in the Sunday bulletin – <b>because there aren’t any</b>.<span> </span>(Dannie <i><u>did</u> </i>mention something on <i>Trinity Sunday </i>(click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/05/26/trinity-sunday-3/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>) about <span style="color: blue;">“</span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">congratulat[ing] our five home schooling graduates, whose Mass was offered yesterday on Ember Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: blue; font-family: Georgia;">”</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black; font-family: Georgia;"></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">– but <b>nothing </b>about graduates from SGG’s “school” itself)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> This is yet one more confirmation that SGG’s “school” is a <b>miserable failure </b>– and one more reason for prospective cult-center clients to <b>stay away</b>.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">And even if enrollment were to increase <i>tenfold</i>, the school still wouldn’t be “paying its way” – either financially or academically. <span> </span>What SGG’s parishioners are in effect doing is <i>subsidizing the Lotarski family </i>for operating a know-nothing establishment (whose only “contribution” is to <i>help drain the parish coffers </i>every year).<span> </span>SGG’s “school” is a <i>cadaver on life support </i>– or rather, <i>a corpse about ready for rigor mortis to set in</i>.<span> </span>It’s time then for Dannie to <b>admit </b><b>defeat </b>and <b>pull the plug </b>on the “school.”<span> </span>But, of course, we all know that this won’t happen, because “the principal” won’t <i><u>let</u></i> it happen, will he?<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">There were actually <b><i>six </i></b>installments of <i>School Dazed Revisited</i>, on the “2009 Scandals at SGG” website.<span> </span>(Click </span><a href="http://sggscandal.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> for website, then scroll down to find the articles.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The principal’s wife, by whom the school children were also subjected to cruel mistreatment, is also still teaching there at the school.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>And, ironically, she and the principal are the only two at the “school” who receive any kind of meaningful financial remuneration for their efforts.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>The other instructors either teach on a "volunteer" basis, or their compensation is so meager that it barely amounts to being a “subsistence wage” -- Sharon Patton, for instance.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>She was “paid”: but when she died recently, she didn’t even have enough money in her personal estate to pay for her own burial: it was funded by <i>donations</i>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>(See SGG bulletins </span><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/02/17/lent-i-12/" style="color: purple; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-style: normal;"> and </span><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/02/25/lent-ii-12/" style="color: purple; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">here</span></a><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-style: normal;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-style: normal;">)<span> </span>(P.S.<span> </span>We wonder if Dannie “took <i>his </i>cut” from the donations as well.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";"><b>Editor’s Note</b>:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>Continuing in our “countdown” series of articles as we “wind down” our blog, we offer the following, reminiscing about how many times the cult-masters (Dannie, Tony, Not-so-big Don, and Pivvy) have been “caught” trying to “cover their tracks” over the years.<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>Although they do this sort of thing on a regular basis, the following article highlights some of their more “memorable" occurrences in blowing their cover. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">In answer to comments we received on our last article (concerning winding down our blog)), we at <i style="font-style: normal;">Lay Pulpit </i>stated that, among other things, we wanted to “spend more time with our family,” etc.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Now the thought occurred to us that, in the cult-masters” (and their deputized goons’) minds, that sounds as if we are “retiring from the filed of battle.”<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Well, <b style="font-style: normal;">not really</b>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>The fact is, we have <b style="font-style: normal;"><i><u>won</u> </i></b>our battle: we have conclusively shown (and proved) what kind of imposters the cult-masters really are; and we have successfully convinced the audience that we <i style="font-style: normal;"><u>need </u></i>to convince.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>So, let the cult-masters (and their goons) think what they will; we really don't care <i>what</i> they think. We've accomplished our task -- <i>and they know that we have</i>. Therefore, we'll not waste any more of our words on them; they will never budge.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">However (as we said in a previous article), there is nothing wrong with repetition; so we have decided -- in the articles that we have remaining -- to summarize some of the things that we've mentioned in previous articles, for one last bit of “reinforcement.” In the following article, we have consolidated several examples of how these bunglers have, over the years, <b>repeatedly </b><b>tripped themselves up </b>in their failed efforts to deceive people. That said, here is our article…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">People hate to admit that they’re wrong – especially when they <i style="font-style: normal;"><u>know</u> </i>they’re wrong.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>And nowhere is this more assuredly so than in Tradistan.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>The cult-masters like to pretend that they’re <i style="font-style: normal;">always right </i>(and that <i>everybody else is wrong</i>), so it’s really catastrophic for them when their wrongdoing invariably gets discovered, and they “get caught.”<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>In fact, that is their “eleventh’ commandment”:<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>“Thou shalt not get caught.”<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>How many times, though, has Dannie (or Tony) engaged in such activity, only to be exposed?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">Examples abound – the time back in 2011, for instance, when Dannie and Tony once got caught contradicting each other (because they forgot to “compare notes” with each other about what happened in a “bell-ringing” incident back then): or the time (in 2014) when Dannie tried to disrupt the ordaining of a young man at a rival chapel (in Lawrence, Massachusetts) – <i>and got caught</i>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>(Click </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-shut-souls-hypocrisy.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">for <i>Pistrina’s </i>original article on this, and </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2014/11/rotten-to-core.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">for our follow-up.) And who can forget Big Don’s trying to cover up the fact that he had written a letter in support of Tony’s depraved position on <i>Schiavo </i>(by removing the letter from his website), only to have it re-surface (on <i>our </i>website -- click </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2016/05/special-edition-letter-by-donald-sanborn.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;"> for letter). And, oh yes, there’s the time the Pivmeister granted permission for one of his parishioners’ daughters to get a heart transplant (because the parishioner was a big donor) – even though it meant <i>removing the heart from a living “donor” </i>before transplanting it. (That is, it meant <i>having to </i><i><u>kill</u> </i><i>the “donor” first</i>.) The Pivmeister hoped that this would “fly under the radar.” Sorry, Marky, but that subterfuge didn’t work either. That got found out too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">And then there’s Tony’s shameless slandering of the late Abbot Leonard Giardina <u style="text-decoration: none;">(</u><b><i><u>after</u> </i></b>his decease, <i style="text-decoration: none;">when the man couldn’t defend himself)</i>.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>Tony accused him of being mercenary (when in fact it is <i style="text-decoration: none;">Tony </i>who is the absolute <b style="text-decoration: none;">epitome </b>of that sort of thing).<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>He and Dannie (and Big Don) have made a <b style="text-decoration: none;">career </b>of bad-mouthing others (and “disqualifying” them for a variety of bogus reasons), when these folks were <b style="text-decoration: none;">totally innocent </b>(and <i style="text-decoration: none;">no threat whatsoever </i>to these lepers).<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>Dannie even went so far as to pick on the local power company (<i style="text-decoration: none;">Duke Energy</i>), blaming them for SGG’s </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; text-decoration: none;">“excessively high heating bills.”</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style"; text-decoration: none;"> And, in letters to a disgruntled former SGG parishioner (who left in disgust after the 2009 school scandals), both he and Sanborn tried their best to guilt-trip the man into returning – even accusing him of “dishonoring” the memory of his dead wife. (See also </span><i style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-tale-of-two-letters.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">A Tale of Two Letters</span></a></span></i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style"; text-decoration: none;">) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">This litany could go on and on, but we think that you get the picture. The real point of our reprising all of this is to point out that not only have Dannie and Tony (and Donny) been doing this <i>for a long time</i>, but that they are so embarrassingly <b>amateurish </b>in how they go about it. Heretofore, of course, they didn’t <i><u>have</u> </i>to be “subtle” or “professional” about it: they could get away with anything, because the gullible Gerties would swallow whatever swill they served up – but not anymore. Now, Dannie and Tony are <i>habitually </i>getting “caught with their pants down” – not only because we’re there to keep an eye on them, but because the Gerties are now noticing too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: #262626;">Now one would think that Dannie and/or Tony might “wise up” and be a little more “careful” or “subtle” by now.</span><span style="color: #262626;"> </span><span style="color: #262626;">Oh, they might </span><i style="color: #262626;">think </i><span style="color: #262626;">they are; but they </span><i style="color: #262626;">aren’t</i><span style="color: #262626;">.</span><span style="color: #262626;"> </span><span style="color: #262626;">Dannie’s recent attempts to “pull the wool over the Gerties’ eyes” have all been miserable failures – and downright comical: his “Teacher’s Prayer,” for instance.</span><span style="color: #262626;"> </span><span style="color: #262626;">In his attempts to cover up the fact that SGG’s “school” is a </span><b style="color: #262626;">miserable failure</b><span style="color: #262626;">, Dannie manufactured a “</span><i style="color: #262626;">Teacher’s Prayer” (</i><span style="color: #262626;">at the beginning of the 2017-18 school year) to drum up support for the “school” (and to create the impression that this “</span><i style="color: #262626;">Prayer</i><span style="color: #262626;">” reflects the “school’s” values and standards).</span><span style="color: #262626;"> </span><span style="color: #262626;">It did nothing of the sort.</span><span style="color: #262626;"> </span><i style="color: #262626;">Pistrina </i><span style="color: #262626;">sniffed this out for the scam that it was.</span><span style="color: #262626;"> </span><span style="color: #262626;">(Click</span><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2017/08/back-to-chool.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> </span>f</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">or their article.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">And, before that, at the end of the previous school year, Dannie also tried to promote the failing “school” by proudly displaying a picture of <i>eight </i>SGG “graduates” in the 2017 <i>Trinity Sunday </i>bulletin (click </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/06/10/trinity-sunday/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">)</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">. But we were there to “sniff that out” too (click </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2017/06/sggs-school-still-bad-bargain.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">for article). It turns out that <i>five </i>of those eight were "<i>eighth grade</i>“ graduates,” <b><i><u>not</u> </i></b><i>high school </i>graduates; and of those remaining three, <i>two </i>were <i>Lotarskis </i>(the “<i>principal’s</i>” children) – that is, there was only <b>ONE </b>non-Lotarski graduate.<sup>1</sup> Note, too, that Dannie fails to mention that SGG’s school enrollment has been steadily <b>shrinking </b>over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">Another “failure” for Dannie is SGG’s <i>crumbling infrastructure</i>. The cult center – even though barely <i>fifteen years old</i>, is <b>falling apart</b>. The problem is that <i>now</i>, Dannie cannot automatically rely on a rich benefactor coming to his rescue. In “the good old days” (when the cult center was brand spanking new, and the shoddiness of its workmanship not yet apparent), Dannie could always count on Bernie Brueggemann (his main benefactor) to bail him out. But Bernie is now gone, and the cult center’s shoddiness is showing up everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">But an even <i>bigger </i>problem for Dannie is that <i>his credibility is now gone </i>as well. At one time, everything that Dannie told his Gertie's was "gospel," and he could <b>demand </b>that they not read “forbidden” websites (such as ours and <i>Pistrina’s</i>) -- and they would <b>obey</b>. But that prohibition carries no weight anymore. More and more, Gerties are now reading our websites (or are “getting it by word of mouth”) – and they are finding out that what we say is <i>the truth</i>. Dannie can no longer dupe and bamboozle them as he used to; and they're now getting wary – and <i>suspicious</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">(In his November 12, 2017 <i>’Corner </i>(click </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/11/11/pentecost-xxiii-3/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">), Dannie mentioned providing a </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“leak update” </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">[for the roof] the following week (which, by the way, never came). We wonder what will happen the next time SGG experiences a big downpour – in the middle, say, of one of Dannie’s big extravaganzas. Will Dannie need his <i>ombrellino </i>to keep dry? Will he have to issue raincoats to all the servers? Worse still, if there is a clap of thunder, will one of SGG’s <i>raccoons </i>(or some other critter) get “spooked” and fall out of the rafters? Dannie might have to press <i>Caravaggio </i>into service to get rid of them! (Perhaps he could camouflage” <i>Caravaggio </i>in some way, to make him “fit in.” Can you picture <i>Caravaggio </i>in a surplice and cassock?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">So, as the cult center continues to crumble, Dannie seems to be getting more and more nervous. Have you noticed how “edgy” he’s getting lately (and how much more guilt-tripping and “poor-mouthing” he’s been doing)?<sup>2</sup> That’s because he knows that, as the cult center continues its inevitable decline into dilapidation, his costs are <i>climbing</i>, while revenues are correspondingly <b>shrinking </b>– and that it’ll only get worse as time goes on. In short, Dannie is in trouble – <b><i>BIG </i></b>trouble. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">But will this make Dannie change his <i>modus operandi?</i> Probably not. Dannie’s an old dog – and “old dogs” and “new tricks” don’t mix. And, besides, Dannie <i>just doesn’t know any other way</i>. So, he’ll just “double down” on using his <i>old </i>bag of tricks: lots of syrup and sanctimony, lots of “sympathy ploys” (“playing the victim,” blaming “the Duke” for “high heating bills,” etc., etc.), lots of “enemy bashing” (Bergoglio, the SSPX, anybody <i>Novus Ordo</i>, Feenyites, etc.) – and, of course, lots of good old-fashioned <i>guilt-tripping </i>– as much as he can get away with. It’s all he’s got left, and he’ll play it to the hilt. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">But he will <i>fail</i>, because he doesn’t have <b>right </b>on his side. Anything built on falseness and deception -- like a science built on false hypotheses, or a building on a bad foundation, does not stand up to scrutiny. Eventually, it gets found out. And that’s Dannie’s problem: all he has going for him is his “S&S” – Syrup and Sanctimony – and nothing else. Time and again, this parasitic pus-bag has conclusively demonstrated that he is a creature with no moral compass, who only strives “not to get caught” while doing his malicious mischief. But that’s the curse of those who try to observe “the eleventh commandment,” while ignoring the other ten: they always <b><i><u>do</u> </i></b>get caught!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt;">1</span></sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt;">More often than not, there are <b style="font-style: normal;"><i><u>NO</u> </i></b>non-Lotarski high school graduates at SGG’s “school.”<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>In fact, in the school’s entire thirty-odd year history, there have been more Lotarski grads than <i>all the rest put together</i>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> And t</span>he Lotarskis, of course, didn’t have to pay any tuition; their education was free.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>So, the “school” was, in effect, their own <b style="font-style: normal;">private tutoring service </b>– at the expense of SGG’s parishioners. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt;">The “principal” and his wife, of course, are paid handsomely for their services, while the other teachers are either paid <i>subsistence wages</i> – or not paid at all.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>One recently deceased teacher (Sharon Patton), for instance, couldn’t even afford to pay for her own funeral.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Instead, it was paid, as Dannie stated in his March 4, 2018 </span><i style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/03/03/lent-iii-3/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">’Corner</span></a></span></i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;">, by a “go-fund-me” account: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;">“</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;">Thanks to all of you who helped pay for the funeral, and so quickly, with the Go Fund Me site. We appreciate once again the charity and cooperation of Mueller Funeral Home.”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">2 </span></sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">His whining one Sunday (click </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/11/11/pentecost-xxiii-3/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";">) about there being only one “light bulb” left burning (in SGG’s parking lot) was <i>particularly </i>hokey: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "bookman old style";"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“St. Andrew Avellino once miraculously lit the way on a ‘dark and stormy night’ returning from a sick call. There were no street lights back then, but he glowed. So should we. We must ask his assistance for our darkness here, which hit us suddenly last Sunday with the time change. We</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia";">got the one remaining parking lot light functioning this week, but we’re still pretty dark by after the 5:45.”</span><span style="font-family: "times";"></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "bookman old style";"> C’mon, Dannie! Do you really think that people will fall for that line of crap – that you can afford <b>travel to Argentina</b>, but can’t afford a light bulb?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Editor’s Note: SGG’s <i>Bishop’s(?) Corner</i> is always a disgustingly disingenuous collage of “S&S” (“Syrup & Sanctimony”), but Dannie’s May 27, 2018 <i>‘Corner</i> (click </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/05/26/trinity-sunday-3/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>)</span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;"> was </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;"><i>particularly</i></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;"> nauseating. After regaling his Gerties with his usual over-the-top dose of meaningless holy-speak, he finished it off with his usual graphic depictions of his feral cats’ gory exploits – fantastical ravings of a diseased mind. This got us to thinking: is there really any hope for Dannie? Will he ever be jostled from his demented dream-world into the world of reality? We think not.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: red;">After more than a half-decade of documenting Dannie's and Tony's misdeeds, their fraudulent “apostolstes,” their parasitic life-style, etc. -- we are coming to the conclusion that those two will <b style="font-style: normal;">never change</b>, but will continue on their crooked course for ever and ever, no matter what we do or say. And we are also of the opinion that we have said <i>enough</i> – that we have more than proved that these two are imposters – so, why waste our time proving it over and over again? We think we've already convinced the <i>right</i> audience -- so why waste our time trying to convince the intransigent "hard core"?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: red;">Actually, we have better things to do with our time than waste it on these parasites, and perhaps it’s time that we move on to bigger and better things. (In fact, both we and the folks at <i>Pistrina Liturgica</i> have been coming to this conclusion for the past year or so.) After all, we have made our point – and, more importantly, <i>it has hit home:</i> both attendance and revenue are down at SGG; and no one (outside the cult-center walls) takes these clowns seriously anymore. In TradWorld, they are finished – so why should we keep expending our energy embellishing what we've already proved?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: red;">That said, we have decided to “wind down” our blog, because, again, we believe that we have “accomplished our mission” and have “proven our point” (and we'd now like to devote more time to our family and friends!). In what we have written to date, enough has already been documented to forewarn everyone about these imposters – and, as they say, “forewarned is fore-armed.” However, we should point out that our blog will not go away: all that we have posted to date will remain, to serve as a permanent, standing warning against anyone potentially becoming a <i><u>new</u></i> victim of these hucksters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: red;">We will not quit just yet, though. Along with the following article, we have a few more left “in the pipeline” before “running out.” [And -- who knows? -- we may still occasionally publish even <i><u>after</u></i> our official “shutdown” date, if we feel inclined to do so.] But, for the most part, our thinking is that, again, we've "done enough," and that we think it's about time to "retire." With that said, here is the first of our remaining "pipeline" articles…</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">A recent <i>Pistrina Liturgica </i>article (click </span><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-line-in-sand.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">) pointed out one of the real “hazards” of Tradistan: the validity of orders – especially regarding one’s <i>lineage</i>. As <i>PL </i>correctly noted, one cannot always rely on a “priest’s” (or “bishop’s”) lineage being valid, until one investigates the entire “chain” of that lineage. But one thought that struck us is this: the problem with Tradistan, is that most “clergy” think that <i>their </i>orders are <b>valid</b>, and that it’s “<i>the other guy’s</i>” orders that are suspect – and they in fact typically use this as a “bargaining chip” to convince people to come to <i>them</i>, rather than to that “other guy.” Most, too, are <b>too </b><b>proud </b>to admit of any “lineage” defect anyway -- and thus, would not humble themselves to submit to getting <i>conditional orders </i>(which is the easiest and most obvious “fix”).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie, for instance, considers anyone going to an “<i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">una cum</i>” Mass as “not Catholic” – and a heretic.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>Dannie also condemns “Feenyites,” “non-sedes,” the SSPV, anyone who is “<i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Novus Ordo</i>” -- and (LOL!) anyone whom he considers “malformed.”<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>And the SSPV retaliates by attacking the Thuc lineage, and by calling anyone who attends any of Dannie’s chapels a “public sinner.”<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>And they both condemn anyone who is SSPX, FSSP, or any part of that “alphabet soup” that they consider <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">verboten </i>(as PL noted in its article).<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>The “bottom line” is that they’re all at each others throats, condemning, “excommunicating,” and “withholding the sacraments” to whomever they consider “malefactors” or “heretics”<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>-- as if all these issues were <b style="font-style: normal;">Articles of Faith </b>and were <i>theirs</i> to interpret -- as if they were <b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">popes</b>.<sup style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">1</sup><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">All of this ultimately leads one to ask the question, “what is <i>real </i>Catholicism, and who are the <i>real </i>Catholics?” And, ultimately, it begs an even more basic question: Who is saved, and who isn’t? Only sedes”? Only this or that “lineage”? Also, are all <i>Novus Ordo </i>Catholics going to hell? All Protestants? What is it actually that one must do to "get saved”? Does it depend on how much one prays or goes to Mass? On how many <i>Hail Mary’s </i>or <i>Rosaries </i>one says? On how many votive candles one lights? On how many times one attends Dannie’s “show”? Does one’s “justification” depend, as that Pharisee in Christ’s parable contended, on how many “prescribed prayers” one says, and how much fasting one does? Are these the <i>real criteria </i>for “justification,” I.e., for salvation? We think not.<sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And, notwithstanding the fact that many of these aforesaid things are good practices, they do not constitute the sum total of what <i>being </i><i>Catholic </i>is all about. “Being Catholic” is much more than that.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> As our Lord explained in the parable about the Pharisee and the publican, it’s not so much about “the letter of the law” and about “saying all the prescribed prayers” as it is about <b>being humble </b>– and about <b>charity</b>. </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">As St. Paul said in his epistle, </span><i><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> And that’s just what many in Tradistan are: “sounding brass” and “tinkling cymbals.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Like the Pharisee in the parable, Dannie is all about “saying all the ‘prescribed’ prayers” (and, of course, “the Show”) – but what about his <i>charity?</i> Where was his (and Tony’s) charity, for instance, for Terri Schiavo -- or for all those kids brutalized at SGG’s school? And what about their “Catholic morals”? What kind of “Catholic moral code,” for instance, condones fornication, and watching porn? Is that what “Catholicism” is all about? Again, we think not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie and Tony are the <b style="font-style: normal;">epitome</b> of that <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">tinkling cymbal </i>– and the epitome of everything that Our Lord railed against in His parable about the Pharisee and the publican. They are Tradistan’s <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><u>quintessential</u> </i>“Pharisees”: all “letter-of-the-law,” and <b style="font-style: normal;">no spirit</b>. <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>And, of course, for cultists like Dannie and Donny, <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><u>their</u> </i>“letter of the law” is whatever they want it to be – and which they (of course) <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">selectively </i>enforce. For them, “the show” constitutes <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">their </i>“Catholicism.”<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>Catholic morality and principles “take a back seat” in their scheme. Rather, they are, in reality, the <b style="font-weight: normal;"><i>antithesis</i> </b>of everything Catholic.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;">They are like that Pharisee who once asked our Lord, </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: green; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;">“Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;">In answer, our Lord responded, </span><span style="color: green; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;">“</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: green; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;">Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="reftext" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color: green; font-family: "bookman old style";"></span></b></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: green; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;">This is the greatest and the first commandment.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>It’s a simple but powerful formula, but one that -- like that Pharisee -- Dannie, Tony, and the Donster have completely <b>lost sight of</b>.<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>Instead of “doing unto others as you would have them do unto you,” they do unto others “what they damn well please,” so to speak: “playing pope,” condemning and disparaging their rivals, making up their own “letter of the law” rules (most of which re wrong, and <i style="font-weight: normal;">all </i>of which are selectively applied), and (trying to) enforce their own (bogus) “authority.”</span><sup style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">2</span></sup><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "bookman old style";">So, whether they ever get themselves “fixed” or not, and no matter what their “lineage” is, people like Dannie, Tony, and Donald Duckmeister <b>will never be Catholic</b>. </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">By both their words and actions, these lepers have proven that they are <i><u>not</u> </i>Catholic – and never will be. They are <i><u>not</u> </i>“the Real McCoy,” but parasitic <b>imposters</b>, <i><u>playing</u> </i>at being “Catholic” – and leading souls astray. Their cult centers are not “oases in the desert,” but <b>the desert itself</b>. And the sooner that people come to realize this, the better for them – and their souls.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-family: "bookman old style";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And that’s their problem: they are <b><i><u>not</u> </i></b>popes. They haven’t <b>one shred of authority</b>. They have <b>no power </b>and <b>no right </b>to condemn <b>anybody </b>– and yet they do so on a regular basis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Again, they exercise an “authority” that they do not possess -- nor ever will have. In some cases, they have <i>refused the sacraments </i>to people (either because they were “<i>Novus Ordo</i>,” or – in one case – because they attended an SSPX chapel while on vacation); yet, in other cases (where these “Novus Ordites” were wealthy, or had spouses who were big donors to the cult), Dannie and Tony <b>freely gave them the sacraments</b>. And on several occasions, they have <i>refused absolution </i>to people in the confessional, simply because they <i>suspected </i>them of having committed some “transgression” (of which they have absolutely no proof). As usual, it’s a matter of “making up their own rules,” and selectively applying them – and ultimately, of course, it’s about <b>MONEY</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Editor’s Note: We have been informed by <i>Pistrina Liturgica </i>that they’re still on “hiatus,” and that they may or may not post, depending on how things go. But, whatever they do (or don’t do), we’ll still be posting. Our article for this week follows somewhat along the same lines as our last one (in which we brought up <i>Schiavo </i>again) in that it talks about <i>why we repeat themes</i>, that is, why we bring up “old subjects” again (which some of our “commenters” view as “unnecessary” and/or “redundant”). That said, here is our article… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">One of the complaints that we often get (in “comments” from the cult-masters’ apologists) is that we “harp about the ‘same old things’ all the time” – <i>Schiavo</i>, for instance.<span> </span>The inference here is that <i>Schiavo </i>(and anything else we reprise) is “old news” (and therefore doesn’t “need” to be mentioned again).<span> </span>Their inference is probably also that, if the cult-masters haven’t “committed any sins” <i>lately</i>, perhaps they’ve “reformed” – so why condemn them for “old sins”?<sup>1<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Well, they’re wrong on <b>both </b>counts: first, “old news” <i><u>does</u> </i>need to be brought up now and again; and secondly, the cult-masters continue to demonstrate that they <b><i>haven’t </i></b>reformed.<span> </span>We continue to get confirming intelligence that they have <i><u>not</u> </i>cleaned up their act.<span> </span>And as we do, we report it – but it doesn’t necessarily come on a “regular basis” – <i>each and every week</i>, so to speak.<span> </span>Indeed, it would be unrealistic to expect that there would be “something new” to write about <i>every week</i>.<span> </span>Also, there is often <i>new information </i>that comes to light on “old news” (such as on <i>Schiavo</i>), so we “dredge it up” again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">These hypocrites <i>know </i>that we are telling the truth (and that they are not).<span> </span>They <i>know </i>that they can’t deny or disprove it, so they must <b>resort to “name-calling” </b>– labeling what we say as “harping” or as an “old canard” -- in their fruitless attempts to diminish its credibility.<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The other thing that is so hypocritical about them is that they <i>habitually do </i><i>the exact same thing</i>: they often dredge up “old news” <i>themselves</i>.<span> </span>In fact, that which they typically accuse others of, they are invariably guilty themselves.<span> </span>That’s because there is no <b>intellectual honesty </b>in Tradistan.<span> </span>They believe what they want to believe, and ignore what they want to ignore -- especially when it negates their point (and is embarrassingly obvious).<span> </span>Their typical ploy is to “change the subject,” and then start harping about one of their old “pet peeves” – or some other such “diversionary tactic” to avoid the real issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;">In our responses to these complaints that we are repeating “old news,” we simply point out that there are many instances where repletion is both </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">legitimate </i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;">and </span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">necessary</b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;">: the </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Gospels</i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;">, for one.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;">Every week, the Gospels are </span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">repeated </b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;">from church pulpits (along with a corresponding sermons), because people </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">need to be </i><i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: small; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">shorter </i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;">attention spans).</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;">Repetition is </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: small; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>reinforcement</i></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;">.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;">That’s why it’s used so much in “political”<span style="font-style: normal;"><i></i></span>and “commercial” ads: it is a well-documented fact, again, that people tend to </span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; 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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">And not only do people “forget,” but they also “forgive.”<span> </span>Over time, as peoples’ memories grow dim, so too do their senses of outrage often subside over time – about <i>Schiavo</i>, for instance.<span> </span>Several of were outraged about that, and <i>left </i>SGG.<span> </span>(Many, however, <i>stayed, </i>because they thought that, at the time, this wasn’t “reason enough” to leave.)<span> </span>[Oh, how sadly mistaken they were!]<span> </span>Some even later <i>returned </i>to SGG, because they “forgave and forgot.”<span> </span>Then came the <i>school scandals </i>of 2009; and this <b><i><u>was</u> </i></b>“enough” – at least for half the congregation.<span> </span>For them, this was indeed “the straw that broke the camel’s back.”<span> </span>(But for the other “half,” this was still not “enough.”)<span> </span>And for some, they too (unfortunately) “forgave and forgot” over time, and returned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Had these people been “reminded” more regularly about those two events (<i>Schiavo </i>and 2009), they too might have left for good – and especially if they had heard about the so many <i>other </i>malicious acts of which the cult-masters have been guilty.<span> </span>There are too many to catalogue here; but if they were known, the cumulative effect of them, we believe, would certainly be <i><u>more</u> </i>than “enough.”<span> </span>And that is precisely why we must keep these things – all of these things -- in the public eye, and <b>repeat </b>them as often as we can, lest people forget.<span> Again, i</span>f they are “out of sight,” they will certainly be “out of mind.”</span><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">2</span></sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">We mentioned earlier the inference (by some of the cult-masters apologists) that the cult-masters may have possibly “reformed,” because nothing “big” (like “<i>Schiavo” </i>or “2009”) has happened lately.<span> </span>Well, let’s put that myth to bed right now: although nothing so “spectacular” as those two events has (supposedly) happened since then, much <i><u>has</u> </i>happened that is no less significant: Dannie’s and Tony’s frequent slandering and/or ill treatment of innocent people (such as Abbot Leonard Giardina, Bernie Brueggemann, and Sr. Gerard Vincent), for instance; their malicious meddling in other peoples’ affairs (such as Dannie’s attempt to sabotage an ordination in another chapel), for instance; and “appropriating” the proceeds from the sale of a satellite church (including its $120,000+ building fund), for instance.<span> </span>Actually, there is a whole <i>litany </i>of “for instances,” any one of which <i>conclusively demonstrates </i>that they have <i><u>not</u> </i>“reformed,” nor ever will.<sup>3<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Another “for instance”: the “school.” No one much hears any more about what’s happening there (excepting Dannie’s occasional “propaganda plug” for it).<span> </span>Does this mean that “all is well” there?<span> </span>Does this mean that the “principal” has “reformed”?<span> </span>We think <i>not</i>.<span> </span>(Sadistic principals don’t “change their stripes” either.)<span> </span>Our guess is that, because of the irreparable damage that he did back in 2009, the “principal” has been ordered (by Dannie) to “behave himself,” lest the <i>other </i><i>half </i>of SGG’s congregation “sees the light” and leaves -- and Dannie just can’t afford to let that happen.<span> </span>(Another possibility is that the abuse at the school has “gone underground,” i.e., that it’s <i>still there</i>, but goes <i>unreported </i>-- which, we think, is a distinct possibility.)<span> </span>But whatever the case, a telltale sign “that something’s wrong at the school” is this: its <b>anemic attendance</b>.<span> </span>Most of the parents of school-age kids, whether they’ve “heard about 2009 or not,” must “<i>know </i><i>something</i>” -- because they’re not putting their kids in the school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">No, the cult-masters have <b><i><u>not</u> </i></b>“reformed”; they’re probably just becoming more <i>careful</i>, more <i>cunning, </i>more <i>discreet </i>-- or at least trying to (and not doing all that good of a job of it, we might add).<span> </span>And, regardless of whether it’s the “school,” or <i>Schiavo</i>, or <i>anything else, </i>enough has <i>already </i><i>surfaced </i>about the dastardly duo, that no <i>new </i>“scandals” are necessary to <b>prove conclusively </b>that they are <i>wolves in sheep’s clothing</i>, that they are unrepentant rogues, and -- to repeat what we said earlier -- that they will <b>never </b>“reform.”<span> </span>(However, we believe that there <i><u>will</u> </i>be “new scandals” yet to come, because Dannie and Tony are scoundrels; and as history has repeatedly shown, scoundrels never stop <i>being </i>scoundrels, but keep doing their mischief until they trip themselves up.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">And that’s why we have always been there, <i>reporting </i>and <b>repeating </b>– whatever it takes -- to get the word out and <b>keep </b>it out, until these parasites are put out of business.<span> </span>If Tony would only <i>admit </i>that he was <b>dead wrong </b>about <i>Schiavo </i>(and apologized for it); if Dannie would only <i>admit </i>the obvious truth about what took place at SGG’s school in 2009; if he would only <i>admit </i>that <i>fornication </i>and <i>watching porn </i>are <i><u>not</u> </i>“boys will be boys,” but <b>blatant immorality</b>; if only Dannie and Tony wouldn’t have slandered and harmed all those innocent people that they did; if only they hadn’t wrongly confiscated that satellite chapel’s “building fund” money (as well as pocketing the proceeds from its sale) – the “if only” list could go on and on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">“If only” they would have <b>apologized </b>for <i>all they’ve done, </i>and <b>recompensed </b><i>all whom they’ve harmed </i>– but they <b>didn’t</b>.<span> </span>(But that, of course, takes <i>humility</i>, and a conscience – neither of which they have.)<span> </span>Or, better still, if only they had not done all those nasty things <i>to begin with</i>, but they <b>did </b>– and they don’t show any signs of “slowing down.”<span> </span>And that is why we are here, “reporting and repeating.”<span> </span>Perhaps we will never be able to convince the “hard core” at SGG to abandon the cult; but if we can prevent <i>others </i>from falling prey to the cult-masters, we’ll consider that a “win.”<span> </span>And for those of you who are “others,” you can help make that “win” happen by <i>withholding your material support from these parasites</i>.<span> </span>Keep your cash in your wallet.<span> </span>Don’t give it to Dannie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Their inference is also that we must always be coming up with “something new and different” every time in order to <i>prove </i>our point (or that “old news” loses its validity and “expires” over time).<span> </span>But how </span><i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"></span></i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">many “new and different” examples of the cult-masters’ malfeasance must one produce in order to prove that they are scoundrels?<span> </span>How many times must we “prove our point”?<span> </span>How much is “enough”?<span> </span>Actually, <b><u>once</u> </b>is enough.<span> </span>And since we have already produced <b><i>dozens </i></b>of “new and different” examples – all of which are <i>independently </i><i>verifiable </i>-- we think that this is <i><u>more</u> </i>than “enough.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Many people, incredibly enough, may still be unaware of <i>Schiavo </i>and/or the events of 2009.<span> </span>And for many, if they became aware of these events “too long” after they happened, “forgive-and-forget syndrome” may have set in -- in which case, the impact of those events on their minds may have been severely diminished (or even lost) over time.<span> </span>And so, for such people, more “reinforcement” may very well be necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Some time back, we posted an article, “<i>Schiavo Alone” is Enough </i>(click </span><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2017/04/schiavo-alone-is-enough.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">), which stated (as its title implies) that Tony Cekada’s words <i>alone </i>(about Terri Schiavo’s death) should have been enough to cause one to reject him and Dannie.<span> </span>However, we realize that this alone may <i>still </i><i>not </i>be “enough” for some people.<span> </span>Therefore, even more “reinforcement” may be necessary -- especially in this day of short memories and attention spans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">To date, we have written at least half a dozen articles dedicated exclusively to <span style="font-style: normal;"><i>Schiavo</i></span><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>– so why are we doing so again? The reason is simple: because someone in our readership has brought up the subject again – and we had to respond (in order to clear up some of his misconceptions). In a comment on one of our recent articles (click <span style="color: red; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2018/04/there-are-none-so-blind.html#comment-form" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>: “Anonymous,” 2:20 PM), the commenter agreed with <i>some</i> of what we said about Terri Schiavo: <span style="color: blue; font-style: normal;">“</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">Now, do I think that Schiavo should have been entrusted to her parents' care? Of course. Was the woman dying or shutting down as Cekada suggests? No.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;"> But the commenter then added, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">“She was clearly in a PVS, and was being tube fed, but may have been able to swallow. But that doesn't change the fact that tube feeding is extraordinary, and, by the way, I could never verify that Michael Schiavo had a live in girlfriend or was the beneficiary of an insurance policy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">The problem, though -- as we pointed out in our response to this comment – was that Terri Schiavo was <b><i>NOT </i></b>in a “PVS,” i.e., "Persistent Vegetative State." Other “problems” included the commenter’s claim that </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">“tube feeding is extraordinary,” </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">and the commenter’s inability to </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">“verify that Michael Schiavo had a live in girlfriend or was the beneficiary of an insurance policy.” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">All of these “concerns” were <i style="font-style: normal;">addressed and answered </i>by us <i>several times</i> in previous articles, but we thought we’d cover them again, just to reassure our “doubting correspondent.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">First, his claim that Terri was in a “persistent vegetative state” is patently <b>false</b>. Perhaps our correspondent’s assertion was based on what Cekada said. Phony Tony, in trying to play “medical expert,” stated that </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">reviewing CT images, watching a video and reviewing ‘summary/excerpts regarding testimony given in deposition transcripts’ -- is no substitute for examining a live patient.”</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> Actually, <b>nothing could be farther from the truth</b>. Personal observation is often <b>totally misleading </b>– especially in <i>neurological </i>cases.<sup>1</sup> It is, in fact, the medical equivalent of <b>judging a book by its cover</b>.<sup>2</sup> In neurological cases like Terri’s, medical test results – CT scans, MRI’s, EEG’s, etc. -- are the only really <b>reliable </b>information to be had. (See also <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2013/04/terri-schiavo-revisited-again_20.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">Terri Schiavo Revisited - Again</span></a></span>.)</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;">Then too, our correspondent might have been basing his assumptions (about PVS) on Michael Schiavo’s (Terri’s husband’s) citing of several pro-death “experts” who claimed that Terri was in a PVS (or “brain dead,” as is the more popular term). But the <i>real </i>medical evidence showed that Terri was <b><i><u>not</u></i></b> “brain dead.” Sure, she was brain-<i>damaged</i>, but not brain-<i>dead</i>. (Click </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www1.cbn.com/brain-damaged-not-brain-dead-autopsy-report-terri-schiavo" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"></span><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></span><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;">for one corroborating article.) One of the mainstream media lies about her was that, when her brain was weighed after her death, it didn’t weigh enough to be “normal.” The problem here is that her brain weight was low <i>because it was </i><i>dehydrated</i>, <b><i><u>not</u> </i></b>because it had “shrunk significantly.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">There was also plenty of EEG evidence (in addition to personal observation by eyewitnesses) that she indeed had cognitive function.<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>She was definitely not a “vegetable” or a “flat-liner.”<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>Besides, she reportedly gave short answers at times, and smiled on a regular basis.<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>She was also able to breathe on her own, and eyewitnesses also attest that <b>she</b> <b>could swallow</b><b style="font-weight: normal;"> </b>– and actually received the <i style="font-weight: normal;">Sacred Species </i>at one point (before she was deprived of nourishment by court order).<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>[By the way, this ability to breathe on her own prompts us to ask why our correspondent stated, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;">“Normal people swallow their food. Normal people breathe air. If you cannot swallow your food and breath air that most definitely constitutes extraordinary.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;"> Terri was <b><u>never</u> </b>on a respirator, and she could actually swallow – so why make such an “insinuating” statement, as if it were applicable to her.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;">Secondly, our correspondent’s claim that tube-feeding is “extraordinary” is taken out of its proper context, and therefore <b>false</b>. Yes, it is not the way that a fully able-bodied person eats; but it is a very <i>ordinary </i>way for feeding incapacitated people – <b>and has been for decades</b>. (And, as we pointed out in our reply to our correspondent, it is also <b>cheaper than conventional feeding</b>.) Many people, <i>whatever their mental state</i>, have been routinely tube-fed – again – <i>for decades</i>. It is not “extraordinary.” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">And, whether it be for days, weeks, or</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;">decades</i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">, it is, in fact, the</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: start;">method of choice</b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"> </b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">for sustaining debilitated people (and has been</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: start;">common medical practice</b><b style="color: #222222; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"> </b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt;">for over fifty years).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Lastly, regarding our correspondent’s not being able </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">to “verify that Michael Schiavo had a live in girlfriend or was the beneficiary of an insurance policy</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">”:<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>First, let us simply state that Michael Schiavo and his girlfriend, Jodi Centonze (whom he met in 1992, and started his “relationship” in 1995, <b style="font-weight: normal;">ten years<i> </i></b><i>before</i> Terri’s death) already had <b style="font-style: normal;">two children</b><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </b>(with Michael Schiavo)<b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </b>by 2004 – still a <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>full year</i></span><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </i>before Terri’s death (click </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_timeline"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">for <i>Wikipedia’s </i>timeline of events). [Also, click </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/us/former-husband-of-terri-schiavo-marries-girlfriend.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;">and </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2009/01/01/bio-1291/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">for additional confirmation of Schiavo’s relationship with Centonze.]<sup>4 </sup> As far as our correspondent’s question about whether Michael was the beneficiary of the insurance policy on Terri, that is a <b>moot point</b>. The <i>relevant </i>point is that, regardless of who the “beneficiary” was, this money was earmarked for Terri’s <b>medical care </b>-- but that Michael Schiavo chose to use it instead </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-weight: normal;"><i>for</i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <i>himself and his new girlfriend</i>. (A really “caring husband,” huh?)<sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">But, regardless of how much “cognitive function” Terri had, or how much of a </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">“burden on society” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">(as Tony Baloney put it) her medical care might have been, the bottom line on all of this is that, regardless of her condition, <b style="font-style: normal;">NOTHING</b><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </b>justified<b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </b><b style="font-style: normal;">starving and dehydrating her to death</b>.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>As we reminded our correspondent in answering his comment, her death was <b style="font-style: normal;">murder</b>, pure and simple – and his conjecture about what constitutes “extraordinary means” was <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">irrelevant </i>(as well as <b style="font-weight: normal;"><i>totally wrong</i></b>).<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>There was absolutely <b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">no reason whatsoever </b>to justify her <b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">court-ordered execution.</b><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span>So, if our correspondent was trying to use the “extraordinary means” argument to insinuate that Tony’s position was somewhat “justified” (or that it somehow lessens Tony’s culpability), then he is sadly mistaken. <b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> It does neither</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">Our correspondent, although professing ignorance of several pertinent facts in the matter (such as, whether Michael Schiavo had a live-in girlfriend or not), was nevertheless <b>very definite </b>in his conviction that Terri Schiavo was in a “persistent vegetative state.” How is it then, we wonder, that he was so very cognizant (and so positively sure) about that latter point, yet “missed” everything else? We also find it odd that our correspondent was not able to satisfy his curiosity by <i>consulting the internet </i>(or to learn <i>even more </i>by reading our previous articles on <i>Schiavo). </i>Was his “selective ignorance” <i>genuine </i>-- or he was just another one of Tony’s deputized mouthpieces trying to defend the indefensible? We don’t know; but, whatever the case, we have addressed all of his concerns. And, whatever his intentions, if his aim was to legitimize Cekada’s position in any way (or to mitigate its invalidity). then (again) he is sadly mistaken -- and we think that we’ve effectively put to rest any concerns he might still have in that regard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">The really <i>important </i>takeaway is this: that, <i>whoever he was</i>, he now knows <i>the truth </i>– and no longer has the need (or the justification) to defend the indefensible. We must actually thank him, for he has given us the opportunity <b>once again </b>to set the record straight on <i>Schiavo</i>, and to <b>reinforce </b>what we’ve said about it in the past -- and he has given us the opportunity once again to <b>expose Phony Tony </b>for the consummate liar that he is. So, <i>whoever </i>“our correspondent” was, we hope that we have now cured him of his “ignorance” – and, once again, we thank him profusely for the opportunity to do so!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">1 </span></sup><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style";">There have been many documented cases – especially recently – where patients who had been thought to be “vegetative” <b>for decades </b>have “come out of it” and have <b>completely recovered</b>. In Terri’s case, she was definitely making medical progress, when Michael Schiavo decided to <b>stop </b>her therapy, and to pocket the medical money (awarded her) for himself and his girlfriend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">2 </span></sup><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style";">Of course, this is <i>precisely </i>what the Gerties do in judging what is “Catholic”: they regard “the show” as “true Catholicism.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">3 </span></sup><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style";">As we’ve pointed out several times in previous articles on <i>Schiavo</i>, there were <i>two children </i>at SGG (Maria Duff and Peter Schappacher) who were nourished <b>for years </b>by tube-feeding -- <b>before, during, and after </b>the <i>Schiavo </i>affair – and Dolan and Cekada were <b>completely aware </b>of this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style";">4 </span></sup><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style";">Note also (from one of the web links) that Jodi Centonze was previously <i>divorced </i>(in 1989) before she married Michael Schiavo. It gives one an indication of how much Schiavo “cared” for Terri (and how much of a “Catholic” he was): he fathered two children with Centonze <i>years before</i> his (invalid) marriage to her, while his <i>real </i>wife lay helpless in bed. (One wonders why Tony never expressed any moral outrage about this!)</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Anthony Cekada’s comments about <i>Schiavo</i>, when published, sent shock waves throughout the Catholic world. Many Catholics – “<i>Novus Ordo” </i>and “traddie” alike -- rightfully <i>condemned </i>Tony Baloney’s depraved position justifying Terri Schiavo’s murder. And at SGG, the reaction was generally the same: most Gerties <i>disapproved </i>of what Phony Tony said. But, ingrained with a misplaced notion of “respect for the cloth,” they pretty much “looked the other way” and remained silent about it. Most of them probably figured that “getting the sacraments” outweighed their <i>private concerns</i>, so they said nothing – at least <i>publicly</i>. The small contingent who <i><u>did </u></i>voice their concerns (in private letters to Phony Tony) were arrogantly rebuffed by him. And, although they may have circulated their letters amongst a few other Gerties, that same misplaced “notion of respect” kept them from voicing their concerns more widely. For the most part, it all stayed “within SGG’s walls.” <sup>1</sup><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">However, many Gerties no doubt made a mental note of what he said. Then came the 2009 school scandals, which included not only widespread <b>brutalization </b>of students by the school “principal,” but openly <b>immoral behavior </b>by his sons. When one of the school’s teachers complained to Dannie about that immoral behavior (including one of those sons fornicating with a fellow student), the teacher was <b>dismissed </b>(and later slandered by both Dannie and Tony as being “mentally disturbed”).<sup>2</sup> News of this “spread like wildfire” throughout SGG’s congregation -- and especially, when the girl got pregnant, it spread amongst SGG’s younger set. For many Gerties, all of his was the proverbial “straw that broke the camel’s back.” (For a more about what went on, click </span><a href="http://sggscandal.com/editors/abuses.htm" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The immediate impact of these events was that <i>half the parish left in protest.</i> Included among them were many of the families whose children got victimized – including SGG’s main benefactor, Bernie Brueggemann, whose grand nephew was also one of those victimized.<sup>3</sup> But, although half the congregation left, many of those who were victimized pretty much “kept it to themselves” – again, because they still harbored some feeling of “respect for the cloth.” However, a few <i><u>did</u> </i>voice their concerns (including Bernie). And when they did, they did so with that same “respect for the cloth.” In each and every case, they gave Dannie, Tony, and the Donster every “benefit of the doubt”; but, in each and every case, they were <b>arrogantly rebuffed </b>by them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But now there <b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u>isn’t</u></span> </i></b>any doubt.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>We now know that these “men of the cloth” deserve <b style="text-decoration: none;">no respect whatsoever </b>– first, because they are not really <i style="text-decoration: none;">clergy</i>, but, more importantly, because they are <b style="text-decoration: none;">evil men</b>.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>These maggots have repeatedly <b style="text-decoration: none;">ignored </b>the basic precepts of Catholic morality (and the sanctity of human life), they have slandered dozens of innocent people, and they have used the sacraments as “weapons.” <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>They have also bamboozled the Gerties into paying for an unneeded new facility (that is now prematurely deteriorating, and in continual need of repair), into paying for a “school” that has accomplished nothing except <i style="text-decoration: none;">drain the parish’s funds</i>, and into bankrolling the cult-masters’ boondoggle “apostolates.”<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>Their track record at SGG has been one of continual subterfuge and deception – doing whatever it takes to get what they want – and it’s all been documented and verified.<sup style="text-decoration: none;">4<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-style: normal;">And the majority of the Gerties still there at SGG know this. They cannot feign ignorance of what Dannie and Tony have done; and to the degree that they know, there is a corresponding degree of culpability.<sup>5</sup> So, for them, there is <b>no excuse </b>for staying there and giving these maggots “the benefit of the doubt” – because <b>there is no doubt</b>. So why do they stay? Some, as <i>Pistrina Liturgica </i>pointed out in a recent article (click </span><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/03/appearance-vs-reality.html" style="color: purple; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">), have even <i style="font-style: normal;">returned </i>to the cult center after having left.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Why are they there?<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>They are there because, as <i style="font-style: normal;">PL </i>also<i style="font-style: normal;"> </i>pointed out, it’s an <i style="font-style: normal;">addiction</i>: they just can’t do without the pontifical pageantry that Dannie puts on every week, and they don’t care if they have to <i style="font-style: normal;">sacrifice their principles </i>to get it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">In all probability, the Gerties <i style="font-style: normal;"><u>know</u> </i>all about Phony Tony’s position on <i style="font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i>, and they <i style="font-style: normal;"><u>know</u> </i>all about the abuses that occurred in 2009 – but they don’t care, as long as they get their “Show.” <span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>That’s all that matters.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>And, as we said before, depending on what degree of knowledge they have, so too is their corresponding degree of <i style="font-style: normal;">culpability</i>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>But for those who once left SGG and then returned, <i>their</i> culpability is even greater: they cannot be given any “benefit of the doubt” <i style="font-style: normal;">whatsoever</i>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>These worms <b style="font-style: normal;">fully knew </b>who and <i style="font-style: normal;">what </i>Dannie and Tony are – and what they have done.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>They have absolutely <b style="font-style: normal;">no excuse</b>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">They are perhaps even <i><u>more</u> </i>culpable than Dannie or Tony themselves. After all, those two maggots <i>can’t </i><i>help </i>doing what they do; they have a vested interest in engaging in their predatory practices, because that is their “business model”: <i>it puts money in their pockets</i>. But those “returnees” have no such material stake – nor do they have a <i>spiritual </i>one, because, as <i>PL </i>pointed out, they have <b>plenty </b>of options for “getting the sacraments” <i>elsewhere</i>. They lost nothing by leaving SGG, and they <i>gained </i>nothing by returning. So why have they returned? There is certainly no <i>rational </i>reason. So, for them to return to SGG – knowing full well what Dannie and Tony are -- makes them an even lower form of scum than those two.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">This indeed is unfortunate. But the “good news” is that these brain-dead are, by and large, <i>older </i>people. And as they die off, the younger people – who are <i>not so </i><i>gullible </i>(and <i>spineless) </i>as they -- are not coming in their stead. <b>Attrition </b>will take care of the problem. (Just recently, in fact, Dannie alluded to this, wistfully recalling the large crowds at SGG in the past, and then lamenting, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“Those who once attended are dead.”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "bookman old style";"> (And, on another occasion, he lamented,</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“Sad. The dead are gone, the devout grow older and can’t come, and no one takes their place anymore, although the memory of their example reproaches us.”</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">) So, as time inexorably marches on, Dannie’s “demographics” problem will only get <i>worse</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And the reason that the younger are not so <b>gullible </b>as their parents is that (as we’ve mentioned more than once) it was <i>they</i>, the younger Gerties, who in 2009 really saw what was going on at SGG. They witnessed first-hand all the <b>abuse </b>and the <b>immorality</b>, and how Dannie <b>condoned </b>it -- and they saw through the <b>sheer hypocrisy </b>of it all. (We might also add that they saw through <i>Schaivo </i>as well,)<sup>6</sup> They, more than any others, realized that Dannie’s “Show” is just that – for <i>show </i>– and that behind its façade, there’s <b>nothing</b>: no Catholic morality, no Catholic principles – no real Catholicism at all. It’s all fake. It’s all a farce. And they weren’t buying it.<sup>7<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">So, perhaps the <b><i>real </i></b>“solution” at SGG is the <i>demographic shift </i>now going on. We can certainly hope that those older folks <i><u>do </u></i>someday “see the light” before they die. But, if they didn’t see it after <i>Schiavo </i>(or in 2009), how can one realistically expect that they will now? What magnitude of “eye-opener” will it take to make them “see the light”? We, of course, hope and pray that they <i><u>do</u> </i>see the light, for their own wellbeing -- both material and spiritual. But making that happen is a tall order. One can lead a horse to water – but if that horse is “brain-dead,” how can it discern <i>water </i>from “Cult Kool-Aid”? Again, we can certainly hope that those folks wake up and “see the light” – <i>but we’re not holding our breath</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The correspondence <sup></sup>between one of the parishioners and Cekada <i>did </i>eventually get put on a website (click </span><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1393366/posts#47" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">), but it never got the “press” that Tony’s comments got. (Tony’s original “position paper” was included as an “insert” in one of SGG’s Sunday bulletins. Negative comments from disgruntled parishioners were discreetly “kept out of sight.”) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The teacher, by the way, was <b>absolutely right </b>about that (and other things): the girl soon afterwards got pregnant. The vilification campaign against that teacher continued on a regular basis. In addition to the “mentally disturbed” lies told about him, he was said to be a “slacker” and a “failure”; and then false rumors began being circulated about him (including one that he was carrying an AK47 rifle, and was going to terrorize an SGG “parish picnic” one year!). Far from being a “slacker,” the man is a hard worker, has a good job, and is now happily married and living in Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> <sup>3 </sup>Shortly after he left, Bernie received a letter from Donald Sanborn (whom Dannie had informed of Bernie’s leaving), arrogantly (and <b>wrongfully</b>) rebuffing him for leaving SGG. Bernie then replied, firmly setting Big Don straight with the <b>truth </b>– but with much more respect than Bombastic Don accorded him. ((See </span><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-tale-of-two-letters.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">A Tale of Two Letters</span></a><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">4 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Much of the verification is from <i>independent sources </i>(that is, sources connected with <b>neither </b>us or the cults), or from the testimony of people whose reputations are beyond reproach (such as Bernie Brueggemann), and/or from <b><i>multiple </i></b>eyewitnesses (for instance, the dozens who witnessed the widespread victimization that occurred in 2009). And, of course, much of our corroboration comes from Dannie’s or Tony’s<b>own lips</b>. (Dannie and Tony routinely <b>indict themselves with their own words</b>. In fact, on at least one occasion, they even managed to <b>contradict </b><b>each other</b>.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie’s and Tony’s (and Big Don’s) “corroboration,” on the other hand, comes from them “blowing their own horns,” or from them singing one another’s praises. And in every case, it’s gross misrepresentation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">5 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Some of the people who are still there at SGG were <b>close friends </b>of those who were victimized (or, in several cases, even witnessed the victimization themselves); yet they chose to <i>disregard </i>their friends’ testimony, and remained at the cult center. “The Show” was more important to them than <i>the truth</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">6 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The “younger set” back then included a girl, Maria Duff, who suffered from a severe heart defect. And, in addition to being fed through a tube (as Terri was), she was also confined to a wheelchair -- and was on a heart monitor, a respirator, and <i>oxygen </i>as well. She, unlike Terri, was <i>truly </i>on “life support” (as Tony falsely intimated that Terri was) – yet, unlike Tony, her parents did the <b>truly Catholic thing</b>, i.e., they <i>respected </i><i>the sanctity of her life</i>, and lovingly cared for her. They didn’t “pull the plug” on her, as Tony would have done. The other kids saw this – and thus saw through <i>Tony’s </i>hypocrisy as well. <sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">Recently, <i style="text-decoration: none;">Pistrina Liturgica </i>had an article (click <span style="color: red; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/04/spring-mailbag-2018.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>), written in response to several dissenting emails about an <i style="text-decoration: none;">earlier </i><i style="text-decoration: none;">PL </i>article (click <span style="color: red; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-gift-horse-looked-in-mouth.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>) that dealt with the “Liénart liability.” <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>Archbishop Liénart, who ordained Marcel Lefebvre, was reputed to be a Freemason; and, being a Mason, <i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u>if</u></span> </i>he had <i style="text-decoration: none;">deliberately wrong intentions </i>when conferring Lefebvre’s orders, those orders (and, therefore, any further orders conferred by Lefebvre) might be invalid.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>The dissenting emails claimed that this could not be so.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>They claimed that if Liénart (or anyone else) uses the right <b style="text-decoration: none;">form</b>, one must <i style="text-decoration: none;">presume </i>the ordaining minister’s to have the right <i style="text-decoration: none;">intentions</i>, and that this therefore makes the conferred orders <b style="text-decoration: none;">valid</b>.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">And, to back up their claim, the dissenters cited something written by Anthony Cekada as their “proof.” Phony Tony stated that <span style="color: blue;">“this principle </span>[the presumption that the right intention exists] <span style="color: blue;">is affirmed as certain theological doctrine” </span>– “this principle” being the following, written by the noted theologian, Bernard Leeming, S.J.: <span style="color: green;">“The minister of a sacrament is presumed to intend what the rite means.”</span> The problem with this “proof,” however (as <i>PL’s </i>article went on to explain), is that Erroneous Antonius conveniently “forgot” to include <b><i>the rest </i></b>of what Leeming had to say: <span style="color: green;">“Nevertheless, if in fact he resolves not to do what the Church does, he has not sufficient intention and the sacrament is invalid.”</span><sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">This, for sure, is not the only example of Tony “conveniently forgetting” things. Phony Tony <i>habitually </i>uses <i>willful omission of critical facts </i>(and other forms of willful deception) to get all his false points across. He did it, for instance, on <i>Schiavo</i>; and he did it on his article <i>School Dazed </i>(his failed attempt at trying to explain away the scandalous events at SGG’s school in 2009). He also did it in his failed attempt to “prove” the validity of Dannie’s one-handed ordination.<sup>1 </sup> And now, on this latest <i>Liénart </i>issue, Tony once again <b>willfully omits </b>a crucial piece of information (that would blow his whole argument). And yet, although he was roundly beaten on every point in this and everything else he’s written, his “hard core” loyalists staunchly sing his praises. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">After <i>PL</i>’s article, for instance, <b>completely destroyed </b>their claim that <span style="color: blue;">“</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">Father Cekada beautifully disproved [</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">Thuc’s</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">] defective intention ‘canard,’” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">did they send in any further emails or “comments” <i>admitting </i>that they were wrong, and/or <i>retracting </i>what they said? <b>No, they </b><b>did not</b>. <i>PL’s </i><b>undeniable </b><b>evidence </b>that they were wrong was met with <b>stony silence</b>.<span style="color: blue;"> </span>In their subsequent “comments” to <i>PL’s </i>article,<span style="color: blue;"></span>they simply <b>ignored what <i>PL </i>had said</b>, switched to other subjects, and started talking about some of their other “pet issues.” They simply <i>ignored the truth that was staring them in the face</i>.<sup>2</sup> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">What, one may ask, motivates these people to <b>ignore the truth</b>? And what is it that makes them remain so <b>blindly loyal </b>to a liar? <i>No matter </i>that Checkie had <b><i><u>not </u></i></b><span style="color: blue;">“beautifully disproved the defective intention ‘canard.’” </span><i><span style="color: #333333;">No matter </span></i><span style="color: #333333;">that he was proven <b>utterly wrong</b>. <i>No matter </i>that their vain hopes in Phony Tony were <b>utterly </b><b>dashed</b>. None of this matters to them: Tony is their <b>hero </b>-- their “ultimate authority on everything.” Like mesmerized kindergartners, they eagerly (and obediently) <i>hang on his </i><i>every word</i>. It’s almost as if Tony were some sort of <b>sacred </b><b>oracle</b>. Whatever Tony says is “gospel”: “My Tony, right or wrong!” What, one wonders, instills (and perpetuates) this kind of <b>hero worship </b>in people? When people are that <b>obstinate </b>that they <b>completely ignore the facts</b>, how does one cope with such intransigence? How does one change their mindset?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style";">The short answer is, <b style="text-decoration: none;">one does not </b>– and <b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u>that’s</u></span> </i></b>the problem with Tradistan.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>It’s a classic case – a perfect illustration -- of the <b style="text-decoration: none;">cult mentality</b>. <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>As <i style="text-decoration: none;">Pistrina </i>correctly noted about them in another article (click </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/03/appearance-vs-reality.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style"; text-decoration: none;">), it’s an <i>addiction</i>. The Gerties (and their counterparts in Florida) <b>KNOW </b>that Dannie, Tony, and the Donstrosity are liars, bullies, and frauds – but they support them anyway. However, one could <i>almost </i>understand why the Gerties come to “the show.” After all, people like a good performance; and most people are also creatures of habit: they don’t like “change.” And one could <i>almost </i>understand why they put up with the know-nothing “school,” the wasteful spending, the boondoggle “apostolates,” and all the rest. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style";">But one <b style="text-decoration: none;">cannot </b>understand why they would <i>support a lie when they <b><u style="text-decoration: none;">know</u> </b>the truth</i>. <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>It is one thing to make a false claim.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>But to make that claim, then to have it proven wrong <b></b>by <b style="text-decoration: none;">independently verifiable proof</b>, and then to <i style="text-decoration: none;">respond </i>to that proof with <b style="text-decoration: none;">stony silence </b>– that is quite another thing.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>That is “obstinacy on steroids” <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>-- the <i style="text-decoration: none;">epitome </i>of “stonewalling.”<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>But why do they do this?<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>Because, again, they’re a <b style="text-decoration: none;">cult</b>, that’s why -- and <b style="text-decoration: none;">that’s what cults do</b>: over time, little by little, they <i style="text-decoration: none;">condition </i>people to do their bidding, to obey, and to believe that the cult is the <i style="text-decoration: none;">one and only path </i>to “salvation.”<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>They replace rational and logical thought with <i style="text-decoration: none;">irrationality </i>and <i style="text-decoration: none;">blind obedience</i>. <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>And that is why the hard-core of SGG (and MHT), for all intents and purposes, <b style="text-decoration: none;">will never change</b>: again, because they’re <b style="text-decoration: none;">a cult</b>. <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><i style="text-decoration: none;">Schiavo </i>and the events of 2009 didn’t move them -- and this latest “silent denial” of theirs is just one more reinforcing confirmation that this is still the case -- that their irrational intransigence is still <b style="text-decoration: none;">intact</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style";">And that is what makes it so difficult to deal with people of that sort. How does one reason with them? How does one engage in a logical discussion with them, when they don’t observe the <i>rules </i>of logic? What does one do in the face of such intransigence? What is one to do? <i>Keep trying</i>, that’s what. The Gerties’ infatuation with the cult-masters, as <i>PL </i>noted, is an <i>addiction; </i>and addiction is a slow, gradual process -- so one cannot expect to reverse that process “overnight.” That is why we will continue in our efforts to save the Gerties from themselves: because such a “de-programming” process takes time. And lastly, we do it because we realize that, even if we can’t change <i>them</i>, we are at least <i>deterring </i><i>others </i>from falling victim to these predators. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style";">And, as it turns out, we <i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u>are</u></span> </i>“making some headway.” <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>For instance, the “wholesale defection days” at SGG and MHT might be over, but defections <i style="text-decoration: none;">still do occur</i>. <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>Plus, “attrition” is taking its toll: the congregation at SGG is aging; and as the older Gerties die off, the younger ones are not stepping up to take their place. (Dannie himself has noted this: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; text-decoration: none;">“The dead are gone, the devout grow older and can’t come, and no one takes their place anymore.”</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; text-decoration: none;">) <span style="color: #333333;">And not only is attendance down, but so are <i>collections</i>. The Gerties who still go there are giving less than they used to. (Collections, in fact, are actually less than what they were <i>a decade ago</i>, which is not good for Dannie -- especially when <i>inflation </i>is factored in.) And, considering the fact that Dannie now has “more mouths to feed” (his crew of assistant “clergy”), and considering that his prematurely crumbling cult center is now starting to cost him <i>real money </i>to fix – and then factoring in the financial millstone (of the know-nothing “school”) that Dannie still has around his neck -- the picture is actually worse than what it seems. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style";">So, these two things – the dwindling attendance and the dwindling collections – are telltale signs that we <i style="text-decoration: none;"><u>are</u></i>, in fact, “making headway” -- that the Gerties <i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u>are</u></span> </i>getting the message, and that their attitudes are changing.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>That is why we’ll keep our message out there; one cannot “give up.”<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>(The other thing to bear in mind, again, is that the Gerties are not our <i style="text-decoration: none;">only </i>“audience.”) <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>So, we shall continue in our efforts – for those reasons, and because that is what anyone <i style="text-decoration: none;">with a Catholic conscience </i>would do.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>The cult center’s days are numbered, in more ways than one. <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>And you too can continue in <i style="text-decoration: none;">your </i>efforts to help “number their days”: Keep your money in your wallet.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>Don’t give it to Dannie.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">1<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">On <i style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">Schiavo</i>, he stated (amongst other falsehoods) that the cost of keeping Terri Schiavo alive placed a <span style="color: blue; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">“grave burden on society,”</span>and that her husband had <span style="color: blue; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">“the right before God” </span><i style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><u>not </u></i>to <b style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">“sustain life for as long as possible <u>in a body that was </u></span><u><span style="color: blue;">obviously shutting down for good</span></u><span style="color: blue;">.” </span></b>[Tony’s <b style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">bold </b>emphasis and <u style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">underlining.</u>] <span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>The problem here is that Terri’s body was <b style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><i><u>not </u></i></b><span style="color: blue; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">“obviously shutting down for good,” </span>nor was she on a respirator or “life support” of any kind.<span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>She was simply being <i style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">tube-fed</i>, which <i>for decades</i> had <i style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u>not</u></span> </i>been – as Tony falsely contended -- considered “extraordinary means.”<span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>(It’s also cheaper than conventional feeding.) <span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>And she was <b style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><i><u>not </u></i></b>(nor would she <i style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">ever</i>have been) a <span style="color: blue; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">“grave burden on society.”</span><span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>(There was actually <i style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">plenty </i>of insurance money awarded for her care – <i style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><u>and</u> </i>her family offered to take care of her if and when that money ever ran out.)<span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>She was simply <b style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">starved and dehydrated to death </b>by court order, initiated by <i style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">a husband </i><i style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">who wanted to keep the insurance money for himself and his new live-in girlfriend</i>. <span style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>In making these assertions justifying Terri’s murder, Tony <b style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">ignored </b>all of this (and other medical facts refuting his assumptions) – all of which were <b></b><i style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">readily available and made public at the time</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And in his<i>School Dazed </i>article, it was much the same: Tony <b>willfully </b><b>ignored </b>the testimony of numerous eyewitnesses, many of whom were so incensed by the lies and distortions in his article that they were moved to write their own accounts of what actually happened. Eventually, much of this was consolidated in a six-part series of articles, <i>School Dazed Revisited</i>, which systematically and methodically put to rest all of Tony’s lies and distortions. (Click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://sggscandal.com/editors/schooldazed1.htm" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>, <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://sggscandal.com/editors/schooldazed2.htm" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>, <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://sggscandal.com/editors/schooldazed3.htm" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>, <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://sggscandal.com/editors/schooldazed4.htm" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>, <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://sggscandal.com/editors/schooldazed5.htm" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>, and </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://sggscandal.com/editors/schooldazed6.htm"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">for all six parts.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">Tony’s treatise on one-handed ordinations also suffered the same fate. (This was the one which -- <i>PL </i>noted -- contained <span style="color: green;">“perverse mistranslations of infallible papal teaching.”</span> <i>Pistrina</i>, in a lengthy rebuttal (click <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/267553276/The-Dubiety-of-Ordination" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>), completely <b>destroyed </b>all of Tony’s false arguments (along with the last vestiges of Tony’s fictional reputation as a “scholar”).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.415" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.416" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
a:link, span.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.424" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoHyperlink</span>
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.425" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-style-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.427" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">noshow</span>:yes;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;
text-underline:single;}
a:visited, span.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.439" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoHyperlinkFollowed</span>
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.440" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-style-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.442" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">noshow</span>:yes;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;
text-underline:single;}
p.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.453" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraph</span>, <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.454" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">li</span>.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.455" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraph</span>, div.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.457" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraph</span>
{margin-top:0in;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.472" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-add-space:auto;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.476" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.484" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.485" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.495" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.496" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ascii</span>-font-family:"New York";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.501" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.502" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">fareast</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.508" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.509" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hansi</span>-font-family:"New York";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.514" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.515" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
p.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.522" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst</span>, <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.523" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">li</span>.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.524" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst</span>, div.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.526" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst</span>
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.527" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-style-type:export-only;
margin-top:0in;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.545" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-add-space:auto;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.549" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.557" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.558" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.568" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.569" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ascii</span>-font-family:"New York";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.574" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.575" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">fareast</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.581" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.582" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hansi</span>-font-family:"New York";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.587" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.588" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
p.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.595" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle</span>, <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.596" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">li</span>.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.597" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle</span>, div.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.599" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle</span>
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.600" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-style-type:export-only;
margin-top:0in;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.618" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-add-space:auto;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.622" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.630" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.631" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.641" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.642" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ascii</span>-font-family:"New York";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.647" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.648" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">fareast</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.654" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.655" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hansi</span>-font-family:"New York";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.660" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.661" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
p.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.668" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraphCxSpLast</span>, <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.669" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">li</span>.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.670" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraphCxSpLast</span>, div.<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.672" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">MsoListParagraphCxSpLast</span>
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.673" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-style-type:export-only;
margin-top:0in;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.691" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-add-space:auto;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.695" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.703" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.704" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.714" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.715" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ascii</span>-font-family:"New York";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.720" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.721" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">fareast</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.727" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.728" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hansi</span>-font-family:"New York";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.733" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.734" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
span.apple-converted-space
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.744" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-style-name:apple-converted-space;}
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{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in .75in 1.0in 1.0in;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.762" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-header-margin:.25in;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.766" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-footer-margin:.25in;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.770" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-paper-source:0;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
/* List Definitions */
@list l0
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.782" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-id:1;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.785" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-type:hybrid;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.789" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-template-ids:1 1 2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1;}
@list l0:level1
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.796" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-format:bullet;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.801" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:"";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.804" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.809" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;}
@list l0:level2
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.820" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-format:bullet;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.825" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:"";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.828" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.833" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;}
@list l0:level3
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.844" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-start-at:0;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.848" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:"";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.851" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.856" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
margin-left:0in;
text-indent:0in;}
@list l0:level4
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.870" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-start-at:0;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.874" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:"";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.877" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.882" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
margin-left:0in;
text-indent:0in;}
@list l0:level5
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.896" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-start-at:0;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.900" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:"";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.903" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.908" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
margin-left:0in;
text-indent:0in;}
@list l0:level6
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.922" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-start-at:0;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.926" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:"";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.929" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.934" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
margin-left:0in;
text-indent:0in;}
@list l0:level7
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.948" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-start-at:0;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.952" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:"";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.955" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.981" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1004" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:"";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1007" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1012" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1097" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-format:bullet;
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1111" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
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font-family:Symbol;
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1129" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1130" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-family:Georgia;}
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1140" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-type:hybrid;
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1172" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1257" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-format:bullet;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1262" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1266" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1271" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
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font-family:Symbol;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1286" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1287" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">fareast</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1293" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1294" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1384" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:;
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1414" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-type:hybrid;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1418" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-template-ids:2005014742 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715;}
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{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1435" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1440" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1454" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-type:hybrid;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1458" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-template-ids:-638317196 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715;}
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{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1475" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1480" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
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@list l10
{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1493" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-id:617372214;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1497" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-type:hybrid;
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{<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1518" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-start-at:0;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1522" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-format:bullet;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1527" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1531" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1536" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
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font-family:Symbol;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1547" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1548" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">fareast</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1554" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1555" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-family:Wingdings;}
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1565" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-type:hybrid;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1569" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-template-ids:-1545193916 670856820 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;}
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1590" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-format:bullet;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1595" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-text:;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1599" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-tab-stop:none;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1604" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-level-number-position:left;
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text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Symbol;
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1619" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1620" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">fareast</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";
<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1626" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1627" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">bidi</span>-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
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<span class="goog-spellcheck-word" id=":df.1643" tabindex="-1" role="menuitem" aria-haspopup="true" style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mso</span>-list-template-ids:507176168 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;}
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<sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="background-color: white;">This -- denying <i>the </i><i>obvious truth</i>, or giving one “the silent treatment” – is not a new thing. It’s as old as <i>the </i><i>Garden of Eden</i>. But In Tradistan (as Vince Lombardi might say), “It’s not everything; it’s the <b><i><u>only</u> </i></b>thing.” Tony, for instance, obstinately refuses to say that he was <b>horribly wrong </b>about <i>Schiavo </i>– despite the overwhelming evidence against him. Invariably, the cult-masters stubbornly cling to their erroneous positions (even though they haven’t the proverbial “<i>snowball’s chance in Hades” </i>of carrying their point); and they simply <i>remain silent</i>, hoping that, in time, people will “forgive and forget.” They do this because <i>they have no other option</i>: they know that people will remember what they hear, and <i>forget what they </i><i><u>don’t </u>hear</i>. And now, their culties are using that same strategy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">For those of you who read Dannie’s <i>’Corner </i>on a regular basis, have you ever noticed how often he interjects a phrase such as “when I was passing by the grotto one day, saying my <i>divine office</i>,” or “as I was walking one day, saying my daily rosary,” or some other such phrase as that? “Name-dropper Dannie” is always interjecting such phrases into his <i>’Corner</i>, giving the impression that he spends most of his days in <i>prayerful contemplation</i>. Sometimes, he even pretends that his <i>pet cats </i>are in on the act: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“We were saying some morning prayers on St. Stephen’s day, the cat </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">[Caravaggio] <span style="color: blue;">and I, when he noticed something and jumped down from my lap.” </span>(Click </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2016/01/03/the-holy-name-of-jesus-9/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">)</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> </span><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></sup></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And even when he’s <i>away </i>from the cult center, Dannie likes to give the impression that he’s always praying – such as the time he went to a shrine (near sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico, of course): </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“’Why stand ye here all the day idle?’ I thought of Septuagesima’s Gospel the other morning myself as I was saying my prayers in front of the oldest shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the United States.” </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">(Click </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2014/08/30/pentecost-xii-9/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">.) Here again, we wonder how much “praying” Dannie was really doing. And how is it that he had to go to <i>that particular shrine </i>(near Santa Fe, his favorite “getaway” spot). There are plenty of shrines that are <i>a lot closer </i>to SGG – where Dannie’s “prayer” would be just as “efficacious.” Could it be that Dannie’s <span style="color: blue;">“saying </span>[his] <span style="color: blue;">prayers in front of the oldest shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe” </span>was just an attempt to justify <i>wrangling a boondoggle out to sunny Santa Fe?</i> We think so. </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">In a great many of his <i style="text-decoration: none;">’Corners</i>, it turns out, Dannie tries to put on his “prayerful contemplation” act.<sup style="text-decoration: none;">1</sup> And that’s just what it is: <b style="text-decoration: none;">an act</b>. How do we know? Because, if Dannie were <i><u style="text-decoration: none;">really</u> </i>“prayerful” and “contemplative,” <b style="text-decoration: none;">he wouldn’t have to be </b><b style="text-decoration: none;">trumpeting it to all the world </b>– that’s how. A truly good and humble person <b style="text-decoration: none;">doesn’t have to </b><b style="text-decoration: none;">advertise </b>that sort of thing – nor <i style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u>does</u></span> </i>he.<sup style="text-decoration: none;">2</sup> He doesn’t try to play “holier than thou” – like the Pharisee in the parable -- and <i style="text-decoration: none;">broadcast his piety </i>for all to see. He doesn’t do it for public notice or adulation. He does so <i style="text-decoration: none;">privately</i>, disinterestedly “offering it up” -- without publicity or fanfare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">In fact, if one is a truly good person, he does not need to tell <b style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">anyone</b> <b style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">at all</b>.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">God </i>sees it; and if <b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><i>He </i></b>knows, that’s all that matters. <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>If one is truly good, it <b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">shows through </b>in his <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">actions</i>. <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>But <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Dannie’s </i>actions don’t send such a message – so he must resort to “advertising.”<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>Like the Pharisee in the parable, Dannie “says all the right prayers.” <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>And like that Pharisee, he <span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><i>talks</i></span><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </i>about being good; but how “good” is he really?<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>How does he <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u><i>really</i></u></span><i style="font-style: normal;"> </i></span>treat his fellow man?<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>What about <i><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Schiavo?</span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span></i>What about those SGG school kids brutalized back in 2009?<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>What about those people to whom he has <i style="text-decoration: none;">refused the </i><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><i>sacraments</i></span><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> (“disqualified” because they were </i><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><i>“Novus Ordo,”</i></span><i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </i>or because they visited an “unauthorized” chapel)?<i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </i>Those are the things that <i style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">really </i>define Dannie – but that he would like to forget, because they don’t fit into his “advertising” scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But Dannie’s “advertising” doesn’t stop there. One of Dannie’s biggest advertising campaigns is for his “school.” Here again, if the school were really that good, it wouldn’t <i><u>need </u></i>to be “advertised” – and it would be full to overflowing. Neither is the case. SGG’s school, built to accommodate <i>hundreds </i>of students, has barely over a dozen. Yet Dannie “plugs” it on a regular basis, boasting about the <span style="color: blue;">“excellent education” </span>offered there. But in the school’s thirty-odd year existence, the number of its high school graduates (other than the “principal’s” children) can be counted <b>on one hand </b>– with <i>none of whom achieving academic distinction of any sort</i>. The “school,” any way one looks at it, is a <b>proven failure</b>. (Click <a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2017/08/back-to-chool.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>, <a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2015/06/sggs-school-bad-bargain.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>, and <span style="color: red; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2017/06/sggs-school-still-bad-bargain.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">here</a> </span>for more on the “school.”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Perhaps, though, the biggest, most blatant bits of misrepresentation of which Dannie is guilty are his pretending to be an “expert” on rites and rubrics, and his portraying Tony as a “scholar” and a “theologian.”<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>These claims are even bigger “laughers” than those made about the “school.”<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>Here again, if Dannie truly were an “expert” (and Tony a “scholar” and “theologian”), they wouldn’t have to keep <i>advertising</i> that they are (and singing each other’s praises on a regular basis) -- <b style="font-style: normal;">and </b>they would have <b style="font-style: normal;">real credentials </b>to back up their claims – <b style="font-style: normal;">WHICH THEY DON’T</b>.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>In their efforts to promote themselves, Dunce-cap Dannie and Tinhorn Tony have been caught <i>over and over again</i>, making one bungling error after another, to the extent that no one in TradWorld takes them seriously anymore.<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>The only people who fall for these two amateurs are their gullible, hard-core loyalists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And <i>gullible </i>they have been – but, even more than that, <i>apathetic </i>and <i>indifferent</i>. That is, they really <b>don’t care</b>. Unless they have been living <i>in a total vacuum</i>, they would have heard at least <i>something</i>, for instance, about what happened back in 2009. And if they haven’t read about the many documented cases of Dannie’s duplicity and hypocrisy that have been brought to light <i>since then</i>, they would’ve at least heard about them by word of mouth. (And even if they didn’t, these people – if they had any brains at all -- should have <i>seen through </i>Dannie’s affected sanctimony and all the rest of his “false advertising” – and should have <i>figured it out </i>by now.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But they won’t – because they don’t care what Dannie is, or how he’s treated his fellow man, as long as they get their “show.” Some of them, with full knowledge of what kind of a worm Dannie really is, try to “excuse” themselves by saying, “Well, I’m only <i style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">going there for the Mass</i>; I’m not ‘supporting’ them.”<span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>Well folks, by going to their “Mass,” you <b style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u>are</u></span> </i></b>supporting them!<span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>You are giving these lepers a <i style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">legitimacy </i>that they neither <i style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">deserve </i>nor <i style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">have</i>, and you are <i style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">enabling </i><i style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">them to mislead and exploit others </i>– and in doing so, you become their <i style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">accomplices</i>, sharing <b style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">moral accountability </b>with these imposters for what follows.<span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>This is especially so for those Gerties who at one time <i style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">left </i>SGG, but later returned -- <i style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">because they know better</i>. <span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>They know exactly who <i style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">and </i><i style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">what </i>Dannie and Tony are.<span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>That’s why they left.<span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span>They left for valid reasons, but returned for an <b style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">invalid </b>one: “the Show.” They placed “the Show” above <b>their</b> <b style="text-decoration: none;">principles</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">We have listed, in this article (and in many that have come before it), myriad examples of Dannie’s “false advertising.”<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>But for those who think that this is “not enough” – or, for those who think this is “ancient history” (and that Dannie is “rehabilitated” since then), they need only look at what happened just a couple of months ago -- yet <i style="text-decoration: none;">another </i>dose of Dannie’s “false advertising”: the funeral for the woman sacristan who died recently.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>Not only did Dannie pay her his usual disingenuous “lip service” for <b style="text-decoration: none;">needlessly sacrificing her life for the cult</b>, but he also issued a phony “dispensation” (from Friday abstinence, because her funeral was on a Friday). (Click <a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2018/01/caution-working-for-cult-may-be.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>and <span style="color: red; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/01/of-all-weeks-unluckiest-day.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">here</a> </span>for more.)<span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>How many more “doses” will it take before his Gerties face the hard fact that Dannie is <i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><u>not</u></span> </i>“rehabilitated”? <span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span>How long will it take for them to wake up and see that <i style="text-decoration: none;">Dannie really doesn’t care about them</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The “good news” is that many have <i>already </i>woke up, especially in 2009 – and especially those youngsters back then who, unlike their gullible parents, <i>saw through </i>Dannie’s duplicity, and left. But the <i>bad </i>news is that many of those same youngsters became so <i>disillusioned </i>with Dannie’s “Catholicism” that they <b>lost their faith</b>. (Click <a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/search?q=The+cult+--+and+its+consequences" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.) Gerties, don’t let this happen to you – but especially not <i>to </i><i>your children </i>– before they become disillusioned too. Your children are <i>just as perceptive</i>as those back in 2009 were – and remember too that, as their parents, <b>you</b>are responsible for <b>their souls</b>. Don’t let them become disillusioned as well, just because <b>you</b>fell for Dannie’s “false advertising.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And, as we said earlier, he often likes to pair his “prayer contemplation act” with one of his “cat” stories. That way, he can appear “cute” and “holy” at the same time. Just this past <i>Quinquagesima Sunday</i>, he commented in his <i><span style="color: red;">’<a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/02/10/quinquagesima-2/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: red;">Corner</span></a></span></i>, <span style="color: blue;">“<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Puccini woke me up at 3 AM the other night, wanting to play. Well, that’s the Devil’s hour, so I admonished him and said a prayer to St. Michael and went back to sleep. ”</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Firstly, we have a hard time believing that Dannie ever said that “prayer.” And we wonder too, with all of this prayerful concern about “Puccini,” why he never offered any <i>similar </i>“prayers” for all those baby bunnies that his feral felines mangled and gulped down. (Perhaps he was too busy <i>snickering</i>, and couldn’t quite get himself into a prayerful mood.) If you ask us, we’d say that Dannie’s fanciful musings about his cats are not so much “cute” and “holy” as they are <b>bizarre </b>and <b>deranged </b>– and that Dannie belongs not in a rectory, but in an <i>asylum</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And, by the same token, a truly <i>good </i>person doesn’t – without any provocation -- publicly <b>slander </b>an innocent person such as Abbot Leonard Giardina (as the Checkmeister did – click </span><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2013/09/well-ok-he-got-schiavo-wrong-but.html"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">), nor does he clandestinely call a chapel in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to try to torpedo the ordination of an innocent candidate (as Dannie did – click </span><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-shut-souls-hypocrisy.html"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">). No matter how much the dastardly duo try to pass off their sanctimony as sanctity, their malicious mischief always betrays them. They will always be Tradistan’s shining examples of Pecksniffian hypocrisy. They will never project true goodness – <i>because they haven’t any</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can always count on Dannie’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Corner </i>being
a disjointed mishmash of mindless drivel, and this one (click <a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/03/10/lent-iv-laetare-7/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: red;">)</span> was no exception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was full of the usual ramblings
about his cats, and his weekly references to the weather – and, of course, lots
of sanctimony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But beneath the nondescript
nothingness, Dannie always has an agenda: he uses these references as “tie-ins”
to whatever message he wants to convey; and today’s message was – as it is
increasingly coming to be – all about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">guilt-tripping</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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started off with this anecdote: <span style="color: blue;">“</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I
was talking with a nice non-Catholic lady from Southern Kentucky about the
crazy changeable weather we had last week and she wisely summed it up in her
charming twang, ‘Well, that’s March for you’” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">– after which Dannie
followed with this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">non sequitur:</i></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="color: blue;">“</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Catholic in me sees it
as symbolic of the greater Lenten struggle going on these days: Light vs.
darkness. Fight on, nor be discouraged </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[sic]<span style="color: blue;">. Behold
half of our combat is done, less than half remains. Let us rejoice that the
true Spring, Easter, comes each year ‘ready or not’ and animate ourselves<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>bravely to fight on, generously to
prepare.”</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Then, seemingly “switching
gears,” Dannie continues: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The biggest enemy we face is not
the enemy, in his many guises, but ourselves, as Pogo said. The saints reproach
us each day. How hard they were on themselves, how easy on their neighbor.
Curious how we manage to reverse it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But by prayer and penance and…kindness we can change the clock of our
crimes, as we did last night with all of our gadgets for Daylight Savings Time.
More daylight to do good. Put your neighbor’s virtues in the daylight right
next to your own faults.” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ah, there’s the tie-in:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">guilt-tripping</b> again: the Gerties must </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“animate </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[them]<span style="color: blue;">selves<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>bravely
to fight on, generously to prepare” -- and “put </span>[their] <span style="color: blue;">neighbor’s virtues in the daylight right next to </span>[their]
<span style="color: blue;">own faults</span>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>{Alas, if only Dannie would follow his own advice!]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie goes on: <span style="color: blue;">“Fr. Cekada and the McFathers were away last week, so several days we did
only morning Masses, since that seems to be where the money is. </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[</span><span style="color: blue;">“where the money is”</span><span style="color: black;">: a
Freudian slip?] <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: blue;">It’s nice to see the little Baptistry chapel full.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">[Apparently,
it usually isn’t: more guilt-tripping – and another Freudian slip?]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: blue;">Still,
it was odd for me not </span>[to]<span style="color: blue;"> be offering my 5 PM
Mass. I hope those who are interested in that sort of thing (extra Lenten
Masses) are finding our weekday schedule helpful. For the rest, well…?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Yeah,<span style="color: blue;"> “for
the rest,”</span><span style="color: black;"> it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more</i> guilt-tripping!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[It also was, by the way, a guilt-tripping allusion to an earlier
“survey” that Dannie had sent out.<sup>1</sup>}<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then Dannie added this: </span><span style="color: blue;">“Several
extra faithful did come to the Vespers on Sunday.”</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[But,
apparently, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not enough</i> – more
guilt-tripping!]</span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then, to get in one last bit of
guilt-tripping, Dannie finished up with two anecdotes, the first of which
involved his cats: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I was in my room the other morning, practicing that day’s Vesper
hymn. Both cats, however, took exception to my singing, and came personally to
remonstrate with me.”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, after a
little more meaningless banter about his cats, Dannie added, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Well the
hymn does say we should be sparing in all things during Lent, except prayer and
charity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pray your charity
increases this Lent, and your prayer deepens.” </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And in the
second anecdote – actually, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">post-script</i>
to an earlier anecdote about a bird (a robin) who was apparently “obese” from
over-eating – Dannie exhorted his Gerties:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">“</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just don’t
end up like that Robin…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In that first anecdote, Dannie – again hinting
that the Gerties were a little “lax” in their “prayer and charity” -- was
hoping for a better showing from them this Lent: <span style="color: blue;">“I
pray your charity increases this Lent, and your prayer deepens.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>And his reminder, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just don’t end up like that Robin…,”</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was another one of Dannie’s
not-so-subtle reminders for them to be more observant in their Lenten fast and
abstinence rules. But such a remark was a bit <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cavalier</i> coming from Dannie, considering his Mexican “Lent,” when
he pigged out on “copious quantities of meat.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as for “charity,” what about the “charity” that Dannie
and Tony had for Terri Schiavo, and for those SGG school kids back in 2009 – or
for all those other people they’ve maligned over the years? Where, we ask, was their
charity then?<sup> 2</sup><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For Dannie, “charity” is a “one-way street”:
he expects it from others, but has none himself to give.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie’s “charity,” as he has proved so
many times, is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">non-existent</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the new MHT “bishop’s” hokey coat-of-arms,
Dannie’s “charity” is as phony as the proverbial three-dollar bill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other thing to remember is that
when Dannie says, “I pray your charity increases this Lent,” what he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i> means is, “I hope your <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">obedience</i></b>
increases,” because that’s what Dannie is all about: manipulation and control
(because, ultimately, that translates into <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MONEY</b>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie knows that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">obedient</i> people <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>give</u></i></b> – and the way to make
them give <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more</i> is by everlastingly <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">guilt-tripping</b> them – to make them feel
that they are “never doing enough.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, as it is with all cults, he wants them to “sacrifice” and to
practice “self-denial” (as he did when he asked them to pay his “high heating
bills,” while he was on his “apostolate” in sunny Mexico, pigging out on
“copious quantities of meat”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dannie and Tony want their Gerties to “do without” -- to “offer it up,”
so that they can “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>live</u></i> it up.”
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But the problem with such a strategy is that
people eventually <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">figure out</b> what’s
going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They come to realize Dannie’s
“apostolates” are nothing more than mid-winter <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">getaways</b>, that Dannie’s “CAT” (Car Airport Transportation) Club is
just a free <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">taxi service</b> for Dannie
and his fellow drones, and that – while they’re being asked to pay Dannie’s
“high heating bills,” their young mothers with babies are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">shivering</b> in SGG’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unheated
vestibule</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(They are also
beginning to notice – and resent – being constantly tapped for money to fix
SGG’s prematurely crumbling infrastructure, and for its know-nothing “school.”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This kind of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">exploitation</b> can go on for only so long, and then such a “strategy”
becomes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unsustainable</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People can only take so much of this
before they “get a belly full of it,” and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">revolt</b>
– and that is precisely what is happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Unfortunately, there are still many Gerties
who haven’t woken up to the obvious fact that they are gradually (but
inexorably) being squeezed by Dannie and Tony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the frog that is put in a pot of tepid water, and then
slowly “cooked to death” (because it doesn’t notice that the pot is being
heated), the Gerties are unwittingly being “cooked” by Dannie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">good</i> news is that many <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>are</u></i>
“waking up” – because both attendance and revenues are down at the cult
center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other good news is
that this “waking up” will continue (because Dannie will keep <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exploiting</i>, and hence more and more
Gerties will “get the message”) – because Dannie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">just doesn’t know when to quit</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In time, people will realize, at long last, that Tradistan
is just a mechanism for self-serving parasites to profit at the expense of the
unsuspecting and the gullible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pistrina
Liturgica’s</span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
recent article (click </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms.html"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 12.0pt;">) on the new MHT
“bishop’s” coat-of-arms – and what a pretentious, shabbily crafted bit of
fakery it is – is yet one more proof underscoring just how <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">phony</b> Tradistan really is: a place where costumed con men fabricate
their own heraldic “pedigrees” and “play church,” and make up rules <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for everyone else but themselves</i> -- and
where “self-denial” is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for everyone but
themselves</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i> on, the cult-masters have shown <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">over and over again</i> that they’re <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bogus</b> – and that they are not about
“doing unto others as you would have them do unto you,” but about “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">doing unto others</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as they damn well please</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For the cult-masters, there are no rules, no accountability -- and
certainly no <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">charity</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, there is no <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Catholicism</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To repeat, Tradistan is “all for show”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-- and nothing else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s time to put an end to this “show”
– to trade in this sham for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the real
thing</i> – and that time is long past due.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, how about doing it now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Starve the Beast!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">___________________________<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie
recently sent out a “survey” to his Gerties, where he asked them which Mass times
would be good for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, after
not getting much of a response to his survey, he followed up by sarcastically asking
them, in one of his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’Corners</i>, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 13.0pt;">“What would
be the best Mass time for you not to attend?”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> (Click </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2018/02/dannies-in-trouble-and-he-knows-it.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 13.0pt;">for more on this.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">3 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The
litany of abuse and cruelty is a long one – and one with which most of our
readers are familiar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, rather
than repeat it here for the uninformed, we simply ask them to “get up to speed”
by reading past <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i>) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lay Pulpit</i> articles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Actually, we recommend that they start
by checking the website </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://sggscandal.com/"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">sggscandal.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a lot of ground to cover – but a
necessary step for anyone who is really serious about seeking the truth.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
The Watcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313770117983560091noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932658529918187424.post-72506212831381797392018-03-10T04:30:00.000-08:002018-03-10T08:04:42.451-08:00“Excess Baggage”<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Well,
the Floridian Farce – Swamp Fest 2018 -- is now over with, and Joey Selway has his miter
– and all the attendees have traipsed back to their respective cult centers,
ogling their fellow culties with their tales of having been at “the big show”
–Tradistan’s “event of the millennium.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And among them, of course, was His Self-Importancy, the
Rialto Road peacock, no doubt still wallowing in the luster having had the
(seemingly) heady role of being a prestigious “co-consecrator” for the "boy bishop.”<sup>1</sup>
But the “bottom line” on this affair is that it was just Tradistan’s latest bit
of pretentious, pharisaic ostentation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In Tradistan, you see, “pomp and ceremony” equals “Catholicism.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But
that is precisely what is wrong with Tradistan: pomp and ceremony is just that
– <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pomp and ceremony</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>NOT</u></i></b>
Catholicism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, it is
anything <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>BUT</u></i> Catholicism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First and foremost, it’s deception --
and Tradistan’s chief architect of such hypocrisy is, of course, Dannie
Dolan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie’s pontifical
pageantry is all designed to give the impression that he is a good man – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">which he isn’t</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To cite just one of many examples of his hypocrisy: for Dannie
to stand there, “waxing poetic” about “protecting our innocent children” on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guardian Angel Sunday</i>, then <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">expose</b> them to the cruelty of “the
principal” (and to the blatant immorality of his sons), and then to have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">condoned</b> it all, absolutely <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>reeks</u></i></b>
of hypocrisy – and of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">evil</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">What
“good” is all that “pontifical pageantry,” coming from a man who thinks that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">watching porn</i> is a case of “boys will be
boys,” or who can condone what happened at SGG’s school in 2009 – or who can
justify the murder of Terri Schiavo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What kind of “Catholicism”
can one expect from such a man?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What kind of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">moral guidance</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What good is all of this “pontifical pageantry,”
coming from such a man?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Has it “improved”
his character in any way?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, it hasn’t.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as the skill of a surgeon (or
the beauty of a composer’s music) is no indication of either one’s character, neither
is Dannie’s “show” an indication of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>his</u></i>
character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all his “holy talk”
and over-the-top ostentation, Dannie has <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">absolutely</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">moral fiber</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Now
the fact that we have mentioned this (and other things) several times before
has led to comments by some of the cult-masters’ apologists that we are
“repeating the same old stuff over and over again.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They accuse us of “harping” – especially about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, yes, we <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>do</u></i></b> repeat such things – and
why not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But one is to accuse us of “harping” about such things, then he might as well accuse his parish
priest of “harping” about "the same old Gospel” and “the same old
parables” every week from the pulpit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He might as well complain, “Oh, are you harping about the Crucifixion
again?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give it a rest!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The logic of such a mindset is indeed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">empty</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">absurd </b>– but it is the only ploy left for those who cannot deny the
truth, and who cannot defend the indefensible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Do
these people think that, just because these things happened years ago, their
severity is somehow <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mitigated</i> by the
passage of time? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps they
think that we should just “forget about what’s happened in the past” and “let
bygones be bygones.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or perhaps
they might point out that the events of 2009 (or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i>) are ”water over the dam” and/or that Dannie and Tony have
“mended their ways” since then. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, if they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>had</u></i>
mended their ways, we might be inclined to feel differently, and give them the
benefit of the doubt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">haven’t</i> – and they have demonstrated
that time and again since then. Their whole tenure at SGG has been one of
deceit, of misrepresentation, and of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">exploitation</b>,
which continues to this day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie
still expects his Gerties to be his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">serfs</b>,
catering to his every whim; and he continues to invent new ways to take
financial advantage of them (such as his “CAT” club” – “Clergy Airport
Transportation” club) – as if the Gerties have nothing else to do but play “taxi service” for Dannie and his band of boondoggling “clergy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie also continues with his <i>guilt-tripping</i>
in his everlasting efforts to shame his Gerties into coming to “the show” more
often (and/or he hands out phony “dispensations” to entice them to come).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he is everlastingly touching them
for money to subsidize his trips to sunny Mexico (or to some other “apostolate”
destination).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then, of course,
there are Dannie’s never-ending pleas for money to fix the prematurely
crumbling cult center. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie’s
attempts at exploitation will never end – because he can’t afford to stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s hurting for money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the Lotarski millstone around his
neck, and with the mounting expenses of his crumbling cult center, he just can’t afford to let up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what
compounds his problems is that, because of his (and Tony’s) past profligacy,
what money they should have accumulated by now is not there – and no more is coming
in. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Gerties are catching on: attendance
is down, and collections are downright anemic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, Dannie’s prestige is at an all-time low.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His trek down to the swamp for Joey’s
“consecration” was just a bread crumb thrown to him, to keep the SGG-MHT
“alliance” on life support, until Joey (or his old man) decides to “pull
the plug.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Joey
doesn’t need Dannie (or Tony) anymore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PL</i> pointed out,
the association of MHT with SGG was not so much the Selways’ but Sanborn’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joey owes no particular allegiance to
Dannie or Tony – nor does he have any.<sup>3</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, for that matter, he doesn’t need [Not-so-] Big Don
either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joey has his miter now;
and he’ll still have the support of Brooksville’s “elite” families (and his
own family's), whether Donny stays or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All that Sanborn represents for him now is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one more mouth to feed</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Donster is no longer an asset, but a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">liability</i>. And, actually, so are Dannie and Tony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those losers can’t even sustain <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">themselves</i> – so what would Junior have
to gain from any continued association with them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">In
Joey, the Swampland now has its “new blood.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And whether he brings any new <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">brains</i> to the mix, that’s a moot point: the cult doesn’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>need</u></i> brains; it just needs <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">money</b> – and, between the Selways and
the “elite” families, there’s plenty of that to sustain them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The old regime – Dannie, Tony, and
Donny – are no longer “relevant.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">redundant</b> – “excess
baggage,” if you will.<sup>2</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, as Brooksville becomes more insular and withdrawn into itself (which,
as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PL</i> noted, is a distinct possibility),
the over-the-hill threesome will only become <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more</i> irrelevant and unneeded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Big Don, for instance: any pipe dreams to the contrary notwithstanding, he
is no longer the dynamo he once was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With his heart problems, the Flatbush firebrand cannot be his bombastic
old self anymore – nor have any energetic “expansionist” plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Dannie and Tony?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dannie’s dreams of turning SGG into a Midwestern Mecca have evaporated;
and, because of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i> and the 2009
school scandals, both Dannie’s and Tony’s credibility in TradWorld is now <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ZERO</b> -- so they too are not about to do
any “expansion.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all three,
their dreams of prestige and glory are now a distant memory; and they have
nothing to which to look forward, except a few years of retirement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">good</i> news is that, as their prestige
and effectiveness decline, the less spiritual harm these lepers can do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bad</i> news is that the “new blood” might carry on where "the old blood" leaves off -- Joey at MHT, and (probably) Uneven Steven at SGG. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is our sincere hope that they do not
– that Joey will one day wake up and realize that he is not suited for this job
that his daddy forced him into, and that McFaker will not follow in Dannie’s
footsteps – but so far, the likelihood of that happening doesn't seem very promising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">can</i>
hope, though, that – if Brooksville does become more “insular,” this may at
least help keep that cancer from spreading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we can also hope that, as more people continue to find
out about Dannie and Tony, that tumor will dry up too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hope that, one day, people will no
longer be victimized by these malicious predators – or any others like them – so
that Traddieland can, once and for all, be rid of such “excess baggage.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But
the harsh reality for Dannie is that, though he was a “co-consecrator,” he
wasn’t the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">main</i> one: Geert Stuyver
got that nod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie was just a
dummy co-pilot “along for the ride” – no doubt picked (by Big Don) because of
SGG’s and MHT’s “seminary” relationship (that is, for “political reasons”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PL</i> pointed out, it was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">absolutely
necessary</b> to have Stuyver (because of “One Hand’s” doubtful orders).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But,
in retrospect, perhaps the “political risk” of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></i> having Dannie outweighed that other risk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Tradistan, politics – and the power
and money it brings – reigns supreme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> In Tradistan, p</span>olitics has always outweighed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">principles</i>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, like it or not, Big Don’s
and Dannie’s fates are intertwined, because they are both seen as one entity by
much of Tradistan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, keeping
their political alliance alive (at least for the time being) was probably to
their mutual advantage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Jellyfish</i> might have been a “safer” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ecclesiastical</i> choice; but, given the
enmity of the Highlanders for Big Don, it was a bad <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">political</i> one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, Big
Don probably chose “the lesser of two evils” by having Dannie as a
co-consecrator instead of Neville.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">One
might also think of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the Jellyfish</i> as
being part of “the old regime” – intertwined with both SGG and MHT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But his “relationship” with both of
them has always been “tentative” at best (and, lately, pretty well <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">non-existent).</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jelly</i>
really doesn’t need either of them: he comes from money, so that’s not a
problem for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And given the
estrangement of his “Highlander” folks with Big Don – and the fact that Donny
is on his way out – there’s no longer any material benefit in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jelly’s</i> being chummy with Big Don.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And as for being chummy with Dannie
and Tony, they can offer him no material benefit as well.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">3 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The
general consensus among many traddies is that Joey never really had much use for
Dannie (or Tony) anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, now
that he’s got his miter, Joey loses little by “cutting the cord” with those
two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Funny, isn’t it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie did the same thing to Pivvy:
used him to get his miter, then <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dumped</i>
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now, it seems, Dannie may
end up reaping what he has sown!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Well
folks, perhaps there <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>is</u></i> such a
thing as “poetic justice after all!]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
The Watcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313770117983560091noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932658529918187424.post-8775556036886420302018-02-24T06:24:00.001-08:002018-02-24T06:24:11.410-08:00Dannie’s in Trouble – and He Knows It<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
In SGG’s January 28, 2018
bulletin (click <a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/01/27/septuagesima-3/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>), Dannie Dolan’s <i>’Corner</i> had all the usual
“ingredients”: syrupy sanctimony, “name-dropping” – and even more gory
anecdotes about his (and Big Don’s) cats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">salient</i> theme was --
as it often is – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">guilt-tripping</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course, Dannie tried to be “subtle” about it; but the guilt-tripping message
came through <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">loud and clear</b> (and it
wasn’t all that “subtle”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
fact, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it wasn’t subtle at all</i> (and
even had an added note of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sarcasm</b> to
it).</div>
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Dannie started off by wistfully
recalling SGG’s <span style="color: blue;">“</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">Friday night Lenten sermons back in the palmy years of the 80’s.
Sermons ran as long as 45 minutes, and the darkened church was well
filled!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anybody remember?”</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Yes, Dannie, we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>do</u></i>
remember: those interminably long sermons (during which the Gerties had to keep
their little ones from crying, and/or squirming in their seats, lest it
“offend” you) – and we remember the dimmed lights, the affected, hushed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whispering</i>, and all the other
histrionics you ginned up to enhance “the Show.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It all sounded so <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">splendid</i>,
and it “packed the house” (and kept them spellbound) -- <i>for a while</i>.] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie
then added, <span style="color: blue;">“Well, those days are done. Many souls,
well fed, have departed to the Everlasting Banquet. But we still have our
Sunday Masses, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">some Sundays</b> the
Mass is well filled.”</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Our <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bold</b> emphasis.]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then,
as if to reassure himself that things would get better, Dannie added, </span><span style="color: blue;">“Of course, we still do have Friday evening Stations…” </span>after
which he then added, <span style="color: blue;">“Today’s purple tells us it is
planning time for Lent. What will we give up, what will we do ‘extra?’” </span>[The
“we,” in this case, are the Gerties, who, Dannie is hinting, must -- come <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lent</i> -- make sure that SGG’s pews are <span style="color: blue;">“well-filled.”</span>] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But
then, with his next dose of guilt-tripping, Dannie decided to embellish it with
something extra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie started off
with this: <span style="color: blue;">“I’ve only heard from one or two souls
about a good daily Mass time. One individual said he wouldn’t be attending but
that 7 AM would be the best time. How about you?”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then came this fitting <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">exclamation point</b> on his
guilt-tripping:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">“What would be the best Mass time for you not to attend?”</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">“Not to attend?”</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow, that bit of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sarcasm</b> was the “icing on the cake”!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Careful, Dannie!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Through your cheesy smile, your fangs are showing!]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">Recovering somewhat after
that acerbic post-script, Dannie -- after regaling his Gerties with </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">another one of his tasteless “cat
stories” (this time, involving Sanborn, with whom Dannie is trying to give us
the impression that he is a “bosom buddy”)<sup>2</sup> – Dannie continued with
one last bit of guilt-tripping by (not-so-subtly) hinting that the Gerties come
on Candlemas for <span style="color: blue;">“Winter Soup Supper, and All Night
Adoration,” </span>adding, <span style="color: blue;">“You will not want to miss
any of it, I am sure. We would miss you if you did. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the meantime, we’ll get started on taking down the Christmas decorations</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">.
You could help, maybe. But don’t miss Friday Mass! Our Lord would miss you</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Gerties are not only being guilt-tripped into <span style="color: blue;">“taking
down the Christmas decorations</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">,” </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">but coming to <span style="color: blue;">Friday
Mass </span>and <span style="color: blue;">All Night Adoration</span> too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise, it’s not only a case of <span style="color: blue;">“we would miss you,” </span>but<span style="color: blue;"> “Our
Lord would miss you</span>” as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Wow!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A “double-whammy”
guilt-tripping!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t get any
more “emphatic” than that!]<span style="color: black;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Well, Dannie, “don’t hold your breath”
for the Gerties to come flocking back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That bit of sarcasm before -- <span style="color: blue;">“What would be
the best Mass time for you not to attend?”</span> – turned out to be a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Freudian slip:</i> the Gerties indeed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>aren’t</u></i></b>
attending!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And do you now why,
Dannie? They aren’t because, since then, they’ve been finding out the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">truth</i> about you, and that all your
theatrical whispering and lighting effects are just that: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">theater</b> – just part of “the Show” – an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>act</u></i></b> put on by an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">imposter</b> who is the exact <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">antithesis</b> of all those sweet, pious
words that you so melodramatically whispered out in those sermons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Since
then, Dannie, they’ve witnessed the litany of scandalous events of 2009: how
you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ignored</i> – actually, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">condoned</i></b>
-- the abuses at the school, and how you rebuffed those parents who came to you
with their grievances (even Bernie Brueggemann, your main benefactor, whose
grand nephew was so maliciously treated by “the principal”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They saw how you also <b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ignored</span> </b>what “the principal’s” <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sons</span> did – a school girl impregnated,
and the watching of porn on the school computer – and you wrote it all off as “boys
will be boys.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve since found
out how you treated Bernie Brueggemann – your main benefactor – and tried to
guilt-trip him into returning to SGG after he had left in disgust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And, too, many of them recall <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i> -- and how you and Tony actually
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">condoned</b> that travesty.)<sup>1</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, adding all of this up,
Dannie, they now realize that all of those nostalgic <span style="color: blue;">Friday
night Lenten sermons</span> that you want them to recall ere just so much <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">empty rhetoric</b>, that now rings hollow
in their ears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They now realize
that, again, it was all just <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">part of
“the Show.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the past several months – for the past several<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">years</i>, in fact – Dannie
has been whining about attendance at “the Show” being down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as time goes by, Dannie’s whining
has become more strident and shrill -- and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">desperate</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
recently, Dannie again invoked another one of his phony “dispensations” (from
abstinence) to get his Gerties to come to “the Show” on Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And whether it fills the pews or not,
it is (as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i> noted – click </span><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/02/throwing-caution-to-winds.html"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">), proof that Dannie has had to resort
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">That <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Freudian slip</i> of Dannie’s that we mentioned earlier -- <span style="color: blue;">“What would be the best Mass time for you not to attend?”</span>
-- was perhaps even more “telling” than anything else, because – besides being
a sign of Dannie’s obvious <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">frustration</i>
-- it is a telltale <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">admission</b> by Dannie
that the Gerties are indeed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">tiring </b>of
his “show” – that he’s <i>losing his grip</i> on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(That <span style="color: blue;">“individual </span>[who]<span style="color: blue;"> said he wouldn’t be attending” </span>was telling Dannie,
in effect, “I really don’t care <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>what</u></i>
time it is; I’m not coming <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">anyway</b>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the diminished crowds at “the show”
are a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">reinforcing confirmation</b> that
this indeed is the case.)<sup>3</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Catholicism</b> is all about: that it’s
not about – as with that Pharisee in Our Lord’s parable -- “saying all the
right prayers” (aka, “coming to ‘the show”), but about “doing unto others as
you would have them do unto you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And perhaps they are also finally realizing that the way <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dannie</i> has been “doing unto others” is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>NOT</u></i></b> what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Our Lord</i> intended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And -- that being the case -- why then,
Gerties, do you support such a leper?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why
go to the cult center out of “convenience” (or because of some “technicality”
that Dannie invents to disqualify others), or out of the (false) notion that
SGG is “the only game in town”? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Do not <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">enable</b> this predator, and in doing so, become his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">accomplice </b>– which gives you a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>share</u></i> in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">moral responsibility</b> for those he victimizes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t let that continue to happen – to
them or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get out <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">now</b> – and don’t let your “inertia” or
your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pride</i> stand in the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">get out</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, for
those of you who can’t yet find the courage to do that, you can <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at least</i> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">stop supporting</b> the mitered maggot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">No
doubt, too, they’ve been exposed to at least <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">some</i> of what they've heard from fellow (and former) SGG parishioners, and what blogs such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PL</i>
(and ours) have reported – either by reading us
directly, or, more probably, by “word-of-mouth” from former SGG parishioners
(which, in this latter case, represents <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">independent
corroboration</b> of what we say).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And coupling that with what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they
have observed or discovered by themselves, </i>all of this is starting to “sink
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tasteless</i> it
was: <span style="color: blue;">“Bishop Sanborn and I were trading cat stories.
In my absence, Fr. Cekada was feeding ours. An over-enthusiastic Caravaggio (he
does enjoy his dinner) suddenly body blocked Fr. Cekada, and cat food</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";"> was
spilled all down the front of Father’s new Polish cassock. Bishop Sanborn was
awakened recently by munching noises under his bed. The cat had deposited a
finch there and was eagerly consuming the little bird, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bones and all</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">[Our italics.]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow, what a nice, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">depraved</b> touch -- and just before mentioning the Candlemas “Winter
Soup Supper”!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">appetizing</b> “lead-in” for the
“supper”!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">For that “supper,” by the way, the
Gerties had to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bring their own soup</i> --
another way for Dannie and his indolent “clergy” to enjoy yet <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">another</i> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">freebie</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(That’s a common
practice of Dannie’s: many of the “celebrations” that he has are “B.Y.O.” –
“Bring Your Own” – affairs, where the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Gerties</u></i>
must supply the goodies.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like
inviting someone to dinner – and then asking them to pick up the tab.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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actually <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">stupid</b> of Dannie to mention
this, because it is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">public</b> confirmation
on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>his</u></i> part as well. And mention it he does. Just last week in his<i> <a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/02/17/lent-i-12/"><span style="color: red;">'Corne</span></a></i><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/02/17/lent-i-12/"><i><span style="color: red;">r</span></i></a>, he started off by stating, <span style="color: blue;">"Like last week's rain you came in dribs and drabs all day, rather than a downpour."</span> (Dannie just can't seem to stop guilt-tripping, can he?!) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">In the January 14, 2018 SGG bulletin, its <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bishop’s(?)</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Corner</i> (click </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/01/13/epiphany-ii-11/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">) had this item: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The whole Church is called
upon to pray for the precious grace of unity come Thursday, the opening of the
approved, indulgenced Chair of Unity Octave. We pray for the return of
different non-Catholic groups to Mother Church. We would do well to remember
all of the confused Catholic groups out there as well in this great
chastisement.”<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This was just
part of the token <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">lip service</b> that
Dannie piously intones every week in his </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">‘Corner</span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> – empty words about things that he knows <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">won’t</i> come true, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nor does he <u>want</u> to come true</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The fact is, Dannie doesn’t <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">want</i></b> unity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unity</i>
implies <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">hierarchy</b>; and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hierarchy</i> means that Dannie would have
to report to a higher authority – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">which
he doesn’t want</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie wants
to be the boss of his own little realm, making up his own rules (and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">selectively</i> applying and/or breaking
them).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Dannie were part of a
larger, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unified</i> organization, he’d be
reporting to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">superiors</i>, and having to
do <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">their</b> bidding, not his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also means that he couldn’t control
his own purse-strings, use the sacraments as “weapons” (arbitrarily deny people
the sacraments, etc.), or go on his winter getaway “apostolates” whenever he
pleased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, “unity” would <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">put him out of business</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">In our last <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2018/01/arrogance-on-steroids.html"><span style="color: red;">article</span></a></span>, we noted that Dannie acted <span style="color: green;">“</span></span><span style="color: green; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">as if
this were the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">High Middle Ages</i>, and
Dannie were some sort of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">feudal lord</i>
‘prince of the church.’”</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, that’s almost <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">literally</i> true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>does</u></i> treat his Gerties as if he was a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">feudal lord</b>, and they were his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">vassals</b>
(and the rank-and-file his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">serfs</b>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that word -- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">feudal</i> -- signifies in more ways than
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, “feudal” implies <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">feuding</i> factions, all fighting with one
another over “turf” (which was usually the case in medieval Europe’s feudal
society -- and is certainly the case in today’s Traddieland).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the trad groups fight with one
another – usually over <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">technicalities</i>
– in order to expand their turf (at one another’s expense).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>do</u></i> “unite,” it’s usually some sort of loose “confederation”
(as it was back in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Middle Ages</i>),
and usually temporary in nature -- where each group keeps its own
autonomy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Traddieland, it’s not
about “the common interest,” but about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">self-interest</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">And that’s the way it is with Dannie & Co.:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SGG does not report to MHT (or to
CMRI): they’re all separate dominions, each with its own “lord” (aka “bishop,”
“superior general,” etc.) – and “cooperation” occurs only to the extent of
agreeing on “safe,” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">non-turf</b> issues
(“Bergie bashing,” etc.).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie
will never submit to Donny, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vice
versa</i> (nor will Marky and the CMRI, for that matter).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All three of them – at one time or
another – have dreamt of being “Emperor of Traddieland” – but not by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cooperative unification</i>, but by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">imposing his will on the others</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re all <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">rivals</b> with one another – and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NONE</b>
of them would ever <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">voluntarily</i> submit
to being under one of the other’s suzerainty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Big Don, whose MHT got “aced out” (at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Our Lady of the Sun</i> in Arizona) by the
Pivmeister, will never merge with CMRI -- or with anyone else, for that
matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Besides, Big Don’s
“merging” days are over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s
turning MHT over to “the Kid” now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Plus, his declining health will keep him from playing a “major role” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anywhere</i> from here on.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as for the Pivmeister and CMRI,
they’re not interested in “merging,” either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have been content to carve out a “niche” that is mainly
“domestic” (the continental U.S) – plus some isolated outposts in Australia and
elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Dannie?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, he and Big Don, despite their
seminary “collaboration,” have never been “chummy” – especially after SGG’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">2009 school scandal</i>s fiascos created a lot of unwanted
“guilt-by-association” publicity for MHT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And now, since those same scandals (and other strategic blunders) have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">trashed</b> Dannie’s (and Tony’s) one-time
“reputation” here in the U.S., their only hope now seems to be to carve out <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their</i> “niche” somewhere else: in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Latin America</b>, where their blunders are
not so “well-known.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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America</i> – is where Dannie is pinning his main hopes these days (and now, to
some extent, Africa).<sup>1</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is why Dannie is always braying about his “apostolates” in far-off
lands: it’s about the only “prestige” that he (supposedly) has left with his
Gerties anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With his junkets
to Latin America, Dannie can give his Gerties the impression that he is a “world
player” – especially with ”Africa” (the Nigerian mission) thrown in. Dannie can
plaster pictures of both <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all over his
website</i> -- both for his cyber suckers, and for his Gerties back at the cult
center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Note,
however, that when Dannie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">travels</i>,
it’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">only</b> to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Latin America</i>, not Nigeria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The latter is too expensive <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and
too dangerous</i> for Dannie – and not nearly as much fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nigeria has only <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">propaganda</b> value for Dannie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monetarily</i>, it’s a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sinkhole</b>.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">But even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i>
– Dannie’s “world player” image -- is getting to be pretty tarnished these days
– especially in Latin America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dannie’s clumsy meddling in Lawrence, Massachusetts (click </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-shut-souls-hypocrisy.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">)
raised the ire of Argentine-born Bishop Andres Morello, amongst others; and
other Latin American clergy (such as Fr. Siordia) seem to be getting Dannie’s
“number” as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie’s
one-time charisma with Latinos is evaporating fast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nowadays, the only “south of the border” folks with whom
Dannie (supposedly) still has any influence are those whom he can “buy off” (by
playing “Gringo Santa Claus” for them).<sup>2</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">More and more, folks in Latin America are “jumping ship”
with Dannie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we intimated
before, the only ones who have anything to do with him are those he can “buy” –
and even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their</i> numbers are dwindling
(because Dannie can’t afford to play “Santa Claus” for them as he once
did).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, “word is getting
around” about Dannie in Latin America: word about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i>, about Dannie’s doubtful orders – and about his opulent
life-style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(At one time, Dannie
could “hide” such adverse publicity from them – but not now in this age of the
internet, where news travels fast, and knows no boundaries).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Santa” or no “Santa,” Dannie’s
“prestige” there is eroding – and people are seeing him for the sham that he
is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“feudal lords”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re not
sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of it hinges, as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PL</i> said, on what happens after “the Kid”
gets his miter at the Swampland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Will MHT (as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PL</i> opined) become
more “insular,” or will “the Kid” try to play a major role in Traddieland?<sup>
3</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, whether it goes one
way or the other, will that set off another “turf war”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, whichever way it goes, don’t look
for any “unity” in TradWorld. That’s a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">myth</b>,
because – to repeat -- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no one</b> (least
of all, Dannie) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>wants</u></i></b> that to happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ll all “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pray”</i>
for “unity”; but they’ll do everything they can to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">prevent</b> it, because – again -- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">it’s</b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bad for business</b>.<sup>4</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traddieland’s “feudal lords” don’t want
to give up their positions and privileges –their “turf” – for some
“ideal.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re all <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pragmatists</i> – “political animals” -- who
are not about to sacrifice their self-interest for some intangible, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unprofitable</i> “principle.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">So, don’t hold your breath for “unity.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“It
ain’t gonna happen”!</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>will</u></i> happen, instead, is that
Dannie will continue to keep SGG as a separate entity – answerable to nobody,
and free of interference from any “watch-dog” group -- so that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">he alone</b> can benefit from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">exploiting</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">his flock</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And his
recent plea to join his “CAT Club” was just another “installment” in that
exploitation.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gerties, Dannie
will continue to “sweet talk” you with his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pious
sanctimony,</b> and “pray” for goals that he <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">knows</b> are unreachable (and, again, which he <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">doesn’t want</b> to be reachable).<sup>5</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end, he’ll just keep telling the
Gerties all those “sweet nothings” that they like to hear – and keep <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">emptying their wallets</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">One would hope that the remaining Gerties will
eventually see what many others have seen (and borne witness) – and heed those
warnings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Heaven knows – they’ve
been warned often enough!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">realistically</i>, if they haven’t woken up
by now, they probably <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">never</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">will</b> – until it’s too late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But whether they do or not, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">good news</i> is that the rest of us <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>have</u></i> woken up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if the Gerties don’t – well,
“that’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>their</u></i> problem!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">1 </span></sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Dannie has a “mission” in Nigeria, run by a “Fr. </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Nkamuke</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">,”
who was “ordained” by Dannie (which, of course, makes him orders doubtful).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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course, another big <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">personal</i> reason
(besides playing “Santa Claus”) for Dannie going down south is to get away from
the cold gringo winters, and -- equally as important -- for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dodging fast and abstinence rules during
Lent</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">3 </span></sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">One
scenario that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i> opined is that
“the Kid” will <u>not</u> play a major public role in Traddieland, and that,
under him, MHT will become more “insular.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is probably a good guess, because “the Kid” doesn’t
have the “leadership” skills (and forceful personality) that the Donster has;
and education-wise, he was “educated” at MHT (which means that he has <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no credentials whatsoever</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add to that the fact that, as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PL</i> also pointed out, he comes from a
rich family, and has been pampered and indulged all his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That, combined with his lack of
leadership skills, says that he’s not the “type” for putting out any “major
effort” in Traddieland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lastly,
remember that not only “the Kid’s” family, but the other “elite” families, have
plenty of money -- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more than enough </i>to
sustain their operation comfortably – so why take on anything (or anyone)
else?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, “merging” or
“unification” with anyone else might very well <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>dilute</u></i> their resources (monetarily or otherwise) – so why
take that risk?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">4 </span></sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">And,
for the bishop-led cults, that’s just what they are: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">businesses</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their “Catholicism”
is not so much a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">belief</i> as it is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">business model</b>; and they differentiate
themselves from one another with the “products” that they “market,” to keep
their sheep loyal to their “brand.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We seriously doubt if any of them <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">believe</i>
in what they “sell,” because their “product” often doesn’t match their “advertising.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Example: Dannie talks about “protecting
the innocence of our children” – yet overlooked (and even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">condoned)</i> the scandalous events of 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he and Tony preach about “the sanctity of life” – yet they
condoned the murder of Terri Schiavo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They tell their audience one thing, then do another. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">5 </span></sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The
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cushy life-styles, their autonomy, and all the rest of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Besides, none of them are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">adequately trained</b>; so, “post- reconciliation,”
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Last week, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina Liturgica</i> had an article (click
</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/01/feeding-upon-charity.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">)
about an item that appeared in SGG’s Jan. 7, 2018 </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2018/01/06/the-holy-family-2/"><span style="color: red;">’Corner</span></a></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Dannie’s request to form a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CAT</b> club” – a “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">C</b>lergy <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A</b>irport <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>ransportation club,”
as he put it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In its article, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PL’s</i> emphasis was on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">how bad of a deal it was</i> for Gerties to
pay for a service for which they derived no benefit – and also on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what an example of Dannie’s managerial
ineptitude</i> it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PL</i> chose not -- <i>consciously</i> at least -- to mention what
an example of Dannie’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">arrogance</b>
this was – perhaps because they didn’t want to belabor the obvious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>we</u></i>
have decided to cover that base, by looking at it from that angle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">But first, let’s
recap what Dannie said in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’Corner</i>
about his “club”: </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I would like to ask you to
join our CAT club at St. Gertrude the Great. No, nothing to do with Caravaggio
or Puccini, cat food or vet trips. CAT stands for some-thing like “Cars and
Transportation,” actually “Clergy Airport Transportation,” I guess. In a word,
it assembles our drivers who would be willing to give an airport ride or pickup
for the good Fathers going about their mission rounds.” </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">He then went on to lament, </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“We’re low at the moment, and nobody picked up Fr. Lehtoranta
returning from his Milwaukee Christmas. I was mortified. It seemed a little</span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> unfriendly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cold. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And at Christmas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took a cab.”</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">But why, one of
Dannie’s apologists might object, is all of this an example of his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">arrogance?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, it should be obvious: that Dannie <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">expects</b> this as a “perk.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is common knowledge that Dannie himself must be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chauffeur-driven</i> everywhere (as if he is some kind of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">corporate magnate</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mini-potentate</i>, or as if he was physically
incapacitated in some way – which he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">isn’t)</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now he expects a similar perk for
his journeyman “clergy”: for them to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">driven
to</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">picked up</i> at the airport
(on whatever trips they’ve taken) by a pool of Gertie “taxi drivers.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie was, in his own words, </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“mortified”</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">
that </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“nobody picked up Fr. Lehtoranta returning from
his Milwaukee Christmas.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">So now, Dannie has laid this new expectation on his
Gerties – as if they don’t do “enough” already.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style;">And <i><u>more</u></i> than "enough" they
do. As it is, his Gerties are already </span><i style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">swamped</i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style;">
doing a variety of “volunteer” work: a small army of women doing sacristan
work, cleaning, cooking – and, in addition to other personal laundry for the
“clergy,” also </span><i style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">washing and ironing</i> SGG's <b style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">altar linens</b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style;"> (which must be spotless --
and changed on an </span><i style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">oppressively frequent</i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style;">
basis).</span><sup style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">1</sup> <span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style;">The men
do a variety of “volunteer” work as well (though not so much – and not so
regularly – as the womenfolk): janitorial work, yard work, and a lot of other “heavy” work that the women can’t handle.</span><sup style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">2</sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style;">And, of course, every family, in addition to all of this, is
tapped for the <i>weekly collection</i> (as well as “special” collections) -- and is
expected to “tithe,” (as is </span><b style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">pre-printed</b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Bookman Old Style;">
on the collection envelopes).</span><sup style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><o:p></o:p></sup></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">And now, in
addition to all this, Dannie wants this “taxi” service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now if SGG were a “big-time” operation
(and Dannie a major “prelate”), one might <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rationalize</i>
(or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">legitimize)</i> Dannie’s unrealistic
“expectations” in some way. But SGG is a pathetically small, jerk-water operation,
and Dannie (and his “clergy”) are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nobodies</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides, drivers for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>real</u></i> prelates are usually <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">paid</b> for their services – and they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>certainly</u></i> don’t have to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">provide</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their own car</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their own gasoline</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At SGG, the drivers (as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">PL</i> noted) are not only saddled with
these expenses, but must incur the “wear and tear” on their vehicles as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lastly, most clergy at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real</i> churches – and that includes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pastors</i> – either <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">drive</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">themselves</i>, or <i>take turns with their</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fellow clergy</i> <i>driving each other</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t ask their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">parishioners</i> to volunteer their time,
their car, and their gas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such an
“expectation” is<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> absurd</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">This, of
course, is not the first instance of the dynamic duo’s “unrealistic
expectations” – that is, of their <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">arrogance</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have a long track record of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an earlier article (click </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2017/10/dannie-and-tony-archdukes-of-arrogance.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">),
we cited, amongst other instances of their arrogance, how one of SGG’s office
staff had not only to bring in Dannie’s and Tony’s mail for them, but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to open it for them</i> as well – and Tony
even expected her to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">shine his shoes for
him</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Needless to say, she
didn’t.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “CAT Club” is just
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">latest</i> “edition” of their
arrogance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we’re sure that not
only does Dannie expect his Gerties to provide “curb to curb” service to and
from the airport, but that they provide it with all the pretentious <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deference</i> that Dannie has come to expect
as “proper protocol”: “greeting them in the proper manner,” handling their
luggage for them, opening the door for them, etc., etc., etc. – in other words,
do all the things that one expects from a <b>servant</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">That’s the key
for Dannie: one must not only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>do</u></i>
the task, but be “subservient” in doing it – as if this were the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">High Middle Ages</i>, and Dannie were some
sort of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">feudal lord</i> “prince of the
church.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Dannie, this is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></i> the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">High Middle Ages”</i>; and you are not a “prince bishop,” entitled to
fealty from your vassals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">twenty-first century America</i>, where
people are not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">illiterate peasants</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bound by “fealty”</i> to some feudal lord,
but intelligent, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">free</i> people with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">constitutional rights</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are not your “serfs” – but you
would certainly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">like</i> them to be,
wouldn’t you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">And indeed that
is what has happened over the years at SGG: normally rational, intelligent
people have, by degrees, been “conditioned” by Dannie to be his obedient,
obsequious “serfs” – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">automatons</i> to do
his bidding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Gerties are
“guilt-tripped” on a regular basis to come to the show more often, and to “do
more and more for the cult” (which is merely the classic cult tactic of gradual
“noose tightening” -- straight out of the cult “handbook” -- until one becomes
so loaded down that he has no time left for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anything
else</i> but the cult).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Gerties,
Dannie’s “CAT Club” is just the latest round of that “noose-tightening.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you “give in” to that, Dannie will
only think up another “expectation” – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">because
Dannie is never satisfied</b>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(One
need only witness his never-ending <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">guilt-tripping</i>
about coming to “the show” as proof positive of that.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in your heart of hearts, you <i>know</i> that
Dannie will not stop with this “CAT Club,” but will come up with <i>new</i> "expectations" -- new ways to ways</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> keep tightening the
noose.</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Gerties, don’t let that
noose get any tighter.</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Get out
before it’s too late, and it chokes you – or you become a “casualty” in some
other way (as Katie Bischak did).</span></div>
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about what Dannie said in his ’<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Corner --</i>
that </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“nobody picked up Fr. Lehtoranta returning from
his Milwaukee Christmas” – </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">it seems rather <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ironic, </i>too, that Dannie<span style="color: blue;"> </span>was <span style="color: blue;">“mortified” (</span>and
thought that<span style="color: blue;"> “it seemed a little</span></span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> unfriendly” and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Cold”</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">) that an able-bodied young man was so “inconvenienced”;
yet, when Terri Schiavo was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">put to death</b>
by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">court-ordered starvation and
dehydration</i>, Dannie felt no such “mortification.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell us, Dannie, what is more “mortifying”: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">missing a cab ride</i>, or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">being put to death?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Gerties, it’s
time for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>you</u></i></b> to get mortified – not just at Dannie’s
intransigent, blasé attitude about Terri, but his blasé attitude about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To this tinhorn tyrant, you are just so much <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cannon fodder</i> – expendable resources to
be used at will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gerties, isn’t it
time to come to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">obvious truth</b>
that Dannie is an arrogant, uncaring, and self-serving <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">opportunist</b>, who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">doesn’t give
a damn</i> about anybody but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">himself</b>
– and that this “CAT Club” is just the latest in his long history of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">exploitation schemes</b>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isn’t it obvious that Dannie’s “bottom
line” always has been – and always will be -- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">money</b>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And isn’t it
time, Gerties, that you “just say no” to this conniving huckster, before he
tightens the noose <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">even</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more </i>around your necks?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Do yourself a
favor: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">leave the cult</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Pull the plug” on this arrogant, pretentious
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">nobody</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t give him a “free ride” -- either figuratively <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>or</u></i> literally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get out now, before he takes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>you</u></i> “for a ride.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep your “cab fare,” and leave the cult.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">SGG’s
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">parishioners</i> have always been
expected to do their work for the cult on a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">volunteer</i>
basis; but the “principal’s” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kids</i> have
– more often than not – been <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">paid</i> for
their services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, in much of the
cooking that the women do for Dannie & Co., not only are they expected to donate
their time, but are often expected to donate the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">food</i> as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">2 </span></sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">And for <i>Easter</i>, <i>Christmas</i>, and <i>Lent</i>
(especially <i>Holy Week</i>), the workload
is <i>particularly</i> <b>unbearable</b>. Dannie’s <i>Altar of Repose</i>, for instance: every
year during <i>Holy Week</i>, Dannie has his
sacristan (and others) construct this altar – and it must be a <i>new design</i> each year. The effort takes <i>several</i> people <i>several</i>
days to do – and, after being up for <i>one
day</i>, it’s all torn down the next. (See </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-cult-masters-misogynists-and-more.html"><span style="color: red;">The Cult Masters: Mysogynists -- and More</span></a></span><!--EndFragment-->
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The Watcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313770117983560091noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932658529918187424.post-79317200422029731662018-01-13T05:45:00.000-08:002018-01-19T05:50:04.560-08:00Caution: Working for the Cult May be Hazardous to Your Health<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In his
Dec. 9, 2017 </span><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/12/16/advent-iii-gaudete-sunday/"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">‘Corner</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, Dannie Dolan
reported that one of SGG’s long-time “sacristan” helpers (Katie Bischak) had fallen
(while working at the cult center) and seriously injured herself: </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“Our hearts, our prayers, our intentions were all given to
Katie Bischak, our devoted sacristan, this past week. Katie fell in the
sacristy on Monday and broke several bones, necessitating surgery. During the
operation, she had a stroke, and fell into a coma. We are praying for her all
the way through. Pray with us to St. Joseph, Katie’s special saint. She would
need a miracle to recover, or the grace of a happy death.”</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As Dannie
noted, she <span style="color: blue;">“broke several bones, </span></span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">necessitating surgery.” </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, she died a few weeks later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his December 31 </span><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/12/30/sunday-within-the-octave-of-christmas/"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">’Corner</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, Dannie noted
that she died, and that she was buried from SGG: </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“The church
was full on Friday for another Pontifical Mass, this one a Requiem to lay our
dear friend and sacristan to rest.”</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then went on to thank those who
afterwards were </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“stepping forward to help with the always heavy
sacristy workload for a bishop and four priests</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lastly, let us mention that, in
his Dec. 24 <span style="color: red;">‘</span></span><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/12/23/vigil-of-christmas-advent-iv/"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">’Corner</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, Dannie thanked
all the cult slaves who helped put up SGG’s Christmas decorations: </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“A quiet, cheerful, prayerful spirit made our church
decorating seem almost effortless this year, although it certainly is not. God
bless our workers.” </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Now we are
not certain whether Miss Bischak was putting up Christmas decorations at the
time when she fell, but it doesn’t matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point is that she, a 74 year-old woman, was undoubtedly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at a</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">considerable
height</i> when she fell – considerable enough that she <span style="color: blue;">“broke several bones”</span> -- and considerable enough to culminate in
her <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">death</b> a week or so later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a risk that a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">74 year-old</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">shouldn’t even be asked to take</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that Dannie could even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">permit</i> – much less, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">expect</b>
-- a septuagenarian to take such an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">unnecessary
risk</b> borders on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">criminal negligence</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Dannie doesn’t care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he opined in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’Corner</i>, one could simply hold out hope
for “a m</span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">iracle to recover” </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">or </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“the grace of a happy death.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">Oh, Dannie, how magnanimous you are to<span style="color: blue;"> </span>proffer two such “attractive” alternatives!<sup>1<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">How is it, we wonder,
that Dannie’s band of hapless milquetoasts – McFaker, Lurch, and the Forlorn
Finn – couldn’t trouble themselves with such “arduous tasks”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How is it that these <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">men</b>, all young, well-fed, and healthy,
were unable to perform such work, but had to rely on a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">74 year-old <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">woman</b></i> to
risk her life – make that, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>LOSE</u></i></b> her life – because doing
such work was “too much” for these wimps (or “beneath their priestly dignity”)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why was it “appropriate” to expect this
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">74 year-old</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">woman</i> to do such work, and not these <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">able-bodied young men</b>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Is it because <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their</i> lives are
more “precious” than hers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But aren’t “good shepherds” supposed to take
care of their sheep?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell us,
Dannie: do “good shepherds” ask their “sheep” to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">risk life and limb</b> for them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Isn’t it “the other way around”: that a good shepherd is supposed to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lay down his life for his sheep?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or were those words of our Lord’s
just so much <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">empty rhetoric</b>?</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The answer
to all these questions is simple: Dannie is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>NOT</u></i></b> a good
shepherd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He is a hireling</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs.
Bischak certainly wasn’t the first to take such risks for Dannie, nor will she be
the last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">habitually</i> has his Gerties take needless
risks for him – those “Christmas decoration” helpers, for instance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every year, they, too, take <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">grossly</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unnecessary</i> risks in “helping out.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(They’ve been doing so <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for
decades</i>.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at the picture
of SGG all gussied up for Christmas (click </span><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/12/30/sunday-within-the-octave-of-christmas/"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note the decorative lights hanging from
the ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">twenty feet</i> (seven meters) or so in
height – high enough to cause a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fatality</b>
if someone fell from that altitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We can’t tell from the picture if there were any other decorations put
up at that height; but in the past, there were plenty of them at such heights,
all put up by people on ladders.<sup>2<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>real</u></i> miracle, though, is that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>more</u></i></b>
people haven’t been injured before now, as Miss Bischak was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the past, here have been many
“accidents” where the injuries either went <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unreported</i>
and/or weren’t considered “serious” enough to report – and there were even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more</i> “close calls.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that doesn’t matter to Dannie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For him, Gerties are “expendable.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is always is more “fodder” where <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they</i> came from.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (</span>And they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did</i> come: as Dannie expressed in his
Dec. 24 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;">‘</span></i></span><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/12/23/vigil-of-christmas-advent-iv/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">’Corner</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> [after Miss Bischak died], he was thankful </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“to those who are stepping forward to help with the always
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Now one
might think that Miss Bischak’s death would have given Dannie <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sobering pause</b>, and made him <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">seriously reflect</i> on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">unnecessary risk</b> at which he was
putting his Gerties by having them do such frivolous “make-work” tasks – like putting
up all those gaudy, over-the-top Christmas decorations he expects every year.<sup>3</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One might think that Dannie would,
instead, take a solemn vow <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NEVER</b> to
put anyone at such risk <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ever again</b> –
and to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">beg God’s forgiveness</b> for
having done so in the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
not Dannie: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God forbid</b> that he
should ever <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">feel any remorse or regret</i>
for what happened to Miss Bischak – much less, to admit any wrongdoing in the
matter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">As <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i> reported last week (click </span><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2018/01/of-all-weeks-unluckiest-day.html"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">here</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">), an announcement was sent
out from SGG regarding the details of Miss Bischak’s funeral -- and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dispensing</i> (from the Friday abstinence)
anyone who showed up for the funeral (which was on a Friday).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that Dannie thought he had to
grant a “dispensation” in order to get enough people to show up is a testament
to his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">insecurity</b> (and the fact that
he’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">losing his grip</b> on the
Gerties). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s also an
indication that his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">main interest</b>
was not so much <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miss Bischak herself</i>,
but simply “filling up the pews” for her funeral – to impress her family and
friends, no doubt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, it
shows that he held Miss Bischak in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">so</b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">little</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">esteem</b> that he felt he had to use a “dispensation” as bait to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bribe</b> people into coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Another reason for the “dispensation,”
of course, was to allow Carnivorous Dan to satisfy his lust for </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSmDgXCMuAs"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">pigging out</span></b></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";"> on “copious
quantities of meat” -- and </span><a href="https://www.theknot.com/marketplace/the-farm-cincinnati-oh-242656"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";">The Farm</span></i></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";"> was a perfect venue for doing this.)<sup>4</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The fact
is, Dannie hasn’t much esteem for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">anybody</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Gerties are not so much his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">parishioners</i> as they are, again, his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fodder</b> – to do with what he will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His “caring” about them extends only to
the point of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what they can do for him</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he can always count on (and expect)
an ample supply of Gerties to “throw into the breech” to put on his “show” for
him – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no matter what the risk</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But can he?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although, in the short run, some Gerties came </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“stepping forward to help”</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> after
that woman’s accident, how many will be there for the long-term?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not many, we wager.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">And who could blame
them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all saw what happened
to Miss Bischak – and how all Dannie could muster at her untimely death was to
lamely volunteer: </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“Her warm and friendly
presence will be missed.” </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How, we wonder, can Dannie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sleep at night</i>, knowing that this woman died -- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">needlessly</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">and before her time</b> – just to gratify his insatiable appetite for
gaudy, over-the-top decorations?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The truth is, Dannie has <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no
trouble</i> sleeping – because he has <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no
conscience</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The woman was undoubtedly
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tired</i> (and performing an undeniably <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">unsafe</b> act) when she had her
(ultimately fatal) fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
Dannie doesn’t care: Dannie <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">loves</b> to
see women <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">endlessly toiling away</i> on useless,
make-work projects.<sup>5</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">By now, the Gerties
should surely be asking themselves this: Why risk life and limb, year after
year, just for some token (and empty) words of praise from Disingenuous Dan?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do all of this, just for an invite
to his yearly “pat-on-the-back” (his once-a-year <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">serf appreciation party</i> held on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Epiphany)?</i>
</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By
now, his Gerties should surely be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">thinking
twice</b> before <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">risking their necks</b>
“volunteering” from here on – just for a few crummy pancakes (or scrambled
eggs) once a year. <sup>6</sup></span><sup><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Perhaps, now,
they’ll realize (at long last) that Dannie’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">intentions</i> – just like those “dispensations” he divvies out -- are
as phony as the proverbial “three-dollar bill.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We all
know that we must eventually die – but not the way Mrs. Bischak did: performing
one of the many <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">dangerous</b> “make-work”
tasks that the mitered maggot routinely <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">invents</b>
for his slaves to do -- just to appease his insatiable lust for superfluous frills
and frippery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her death was so <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">needless</b>, so <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pointless</b> – so <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">AVOIDABLE</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gerties, it’s time to stop risking life
and limb (and your wallet) for this wretch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen to what your gut’s surely been telling you for some
time now: that Dannie really doesn't care about you [[ and that he's out to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exploit
you</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></i> to save your
soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t become another one of Dannie’s
“statistics”: “used, abused, and discarded” – or perhaps, as in Miss Bischak’s
case, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">dead</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">Don’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">enable</i> Dannie’s “risky business” by
putting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yourself</i> at risk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Remove</span></b><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> that risk
-- by putting Dannie and his “show” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>out</u></i> </b>of business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Withhold your money (and your labor),
and…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Starve the beast!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">_____________________________<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Yes, that’s right: Dannie, with his usual <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">vacuous sanctimony</b>, actually proffered those two alternatives: “a</span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";"> miracle to recover”</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> or </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“the grace of a happy death”! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">But tell us, Dannie: what kind of
“miracle recovery” did she have to look forward to?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If her mangled body somehow “recovered” – with her (most
probably) confined to a wheel-chair (and/or facing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chronic pain</i> for the rest of her life) -- what kind of “miracle”
would you call that”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you
then piously suggest another “alternative”: that she “offer it up”? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We recall seeing Bernie Brueggeman (then in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">upper seventies</i>), standing atop a 25 or 30-foot ladder, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">needlessly risking his life</b> stringing
garlanding around and along the windows on either side of the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(At some point, the ladders were
replaced by rented “scissors lifts” used to get people up to that height,
making the job less dangerous.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whether that is still the case, we do not know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the fact that Dannie had people
take such needless risks <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at all</i> is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">deplorable</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, whether or not “lifts” still replace ladders in those
instances, there are still many other instances where they do not – and where
ladders are still used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again,
putting people at such risk is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deplorable</i>
– but, again, Dannie doesn’t care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If they fall down and break their necks, no problem!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie can simply wish them the
enviable choice of “a m</span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">iracle to recover”
</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">or </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“the grace of a
happy death.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This, of course, is to make SGG look “good in the brochure” – that is,
on its website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Dannie is always
looking for an “impressive” picture to put on SGG’s website, to make it look
more “Catholic” for all of his “cyber suckers.”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Carnivorous Dan <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">LOVES</i></b> his meat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why he likes to skip off to </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style";">México </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">lindo</span></i><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">during Lent – to take
advantage of their relaxed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fast and
abstinence</i> rules (that is, their <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">complete
lack</b> thereof).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We weren’t sure
why Dannie would “dispense” abstinence just for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a parishioner’s funeral</i> – except that </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "bookman old style";"><a href="https://www.theknot.com/marketplace/the-farm-cincinnati-oh-242656"><span style="color: red;">The Farm</span></a></span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";"> </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">is noted for its excellent hot <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/dining-reviews%E2%80%A6"><span style="color: red;">buffet</span></a>,</span> including <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fried chicken</b>, and standing round of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">carved</i> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">roast beef</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">baked ham</b> (but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no fish</b>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our guess was
that Dannie didn’t want to miss out on such a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">meat-lovers’ feeding frenzy</b>, so he opted for the “dispensation.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">But of all
the venues for a luncheon, why <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Farm?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Friday</b> funeral for a long-time “traditional Catholic,” why pick a
place where <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fish</b> is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">conspicuously absent</b> from the
menu?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, again, why <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Farm?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s make an educated guess:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Simple. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie didn’t pick it</b> (nor did he
pay for it).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was probably
chosen (and paid for) by Katie’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">relatives</i>,
who were (just as probably) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Novus Ordo</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Katie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never married</i>, and hence had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no
children</i>; plus, there were no other “Bischaks” on SGG’s parish register except
a long-deceased “Nicholas.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, any “relatives” of hers were probably <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Novus Ordo</i> nieces and nephews, who couldn’t care less about “Friday
abstinence.”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that, coupled
with the fact that Katie and all her relatives were “west-siders” (residents of
Cincinnati’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">west side)</i> – plus the
fact that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Farm</i> is a long-standing
west side fixture – made it the logical choice for the luncheon venue. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Of course,
if Dannie<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> had</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">paid</i>, he would’ve picked a place where <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fish</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was offered</i> -- thus eliminating
the need for fabricating any “dispensation.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">didn’t</b>,
did he?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides, when has Dannie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>ever</u></i> paid for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a parishioner’s</i> funeral luncheon?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Never</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s always the other way around: the
deceased’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">relatives</i> pay – and pay
dearly -- both for the “Mass” and for the bash afterwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[So, rest assured, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dannie didn’t pay for the affair</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, if he only gave his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">loyal Gerties</i> a crummy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pancakes
and scrambled eggs breakfast</i> as “reward” for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">year-long toil</b>, why on earth would he spring for a $15-a-plate <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">funeral luncheon </i>for a crowd of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Novus Ordo</i> strangers?]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But how to get around the “Friday”
thing?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just “gin up” a phony “dispensation” to “fix it.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Dannie – instead of
doing the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Catholic”</i> thing – did the
expedient, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">human respect”</i> thing (aka,
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the coward’s way out</i>”), and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">acquiesced</i> to the venue selection, even
though it meant <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">prostituting</b> his
[non-existent] “principles” (and then invoking his phony “dispensation” to “justify”
it all).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another reason for him to
acquiesce was that, for Dannie and his entourage, they got to “free-load” off
these <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Novus Ordo</i> relatives who, we
repeat, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">most certainly paid for the
luncheon.</i> Ironic, isn’t it: Dannie can routinely <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">refuse the sacraments</b> (including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">last rights</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Requiems)</i>
to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Novus Ordites</i> -- but is not above <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">accepting</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">free food</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">from them</b> (and
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">trashing</b> traditional <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">abstinence rules</b> so that he and other
“traditional Catholics” can partake in the freebies)!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[So much for the Mitered Maggot’s “principles”!]</span><span style="font-family: "times";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">5 </span></sup><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">That’s the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">misogynist</b> in him.
</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie has a long and storied history of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">misogyny</i>, especially for women who are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sacristans</b>: he has had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at
least</i> three of them (and perhaps more) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">quit</b>
on him and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">leave SGG</b> so far -- one
with a nervous breakdown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See </span><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-cult-masters-misogynists-and-more.html"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Cult Masters: Misogynists – and More</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">6 </span></sup><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">Yes, that’s what they got this time for their year-long toil: a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">breakfast</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the past, Dannie would hold an “appreciation
dinner” for them (provided they sat through the obligatory <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pontifical extravaganza</b> beforehand, that is).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year, however, the “party” was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">downgraded</i> to a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">breakfast</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">:</i> </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“Epiphany falls on First Saturday, after the All Night
Adoration. The special time of 8 AM will see the Epiphany Adoration end with a
Solemn High Mass before the Blessed Sacrament Exposed. Afterwards, there’s
breakfast for</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia";"> </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia";">everybody in Helfta Hall.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Note,
however, that the Gerties still had to sit through a </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“Solemn High Mass”</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (at
which, we hope, a collection was not taken up) before getting their “free”
breakfast.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Every year around <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All Souls' Day</i>, Dannie Dolan cranks up his “indulgence
machine.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This past <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All Souls’ Day</i> was no exception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his Nov. 4, 2017 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’Corner</i>, Dannie intoned the word
“indulgence” no less than <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">three times</b>,
in his efforts to remind the Gerties that they could earn some by coming to the
cult center at the prescribed times, and doing the prescribed “acts.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And more often than not, the prescribed
“act” includes some sort of “offering” – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">purgatorian
society</i> envelopes, for instance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When one puts the prescribed “donation” in the envelope (and sends it in
to Dannie), whichever poor souls’ names are on the list get some sort of
remission of their “temporal punishment.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Now the thing that makes one wonder is
this: how many “names” are allowed on one envelope?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what happens if the “prescribed amount” is not in the
envelope?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does that soul get
“short-changed”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if, perhaps, there’s <i>no
limit</i> on how many names can be on an envelope, why can’t one just put <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everybody’s</i> name on the list?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">forgets</i> to put a name on the list, is that soul “SOL”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(“S*** Outta Luck”)? Or if that soul
was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Novus Ordo</i>, is he or she also
“outta luck” or somehow “disqualified”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(like the one whom Dannie refused both <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Extreme Unction</i> and a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Requiem</i>
Mass that one time)?<sup>1 </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">These are burning questions, especially
for those on whose resolution a “plenary” indulgence often hinges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">plenary</i> indulgence was gained for someone last year (or the year
before that, or the year before…), then why is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">another</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one</i> needed? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they not “take” sometimes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they somehow lose their efficacy
over time?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this brings up
another question: why is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">donation</i>
required at all? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why must there
always be an expectation of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">monetary compensation</i>
in return for purely <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spiritual</i>
favors? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Then there are, at various times, other
envelopes for this or that “intention.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dannie has all sorts of manufactured reasons for “envelope stuffing”
throughout the year: “Easter memorials,” Christmas memorials,” “Lenten
offerings,” etc. (not to mention, all the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a
la carte</i> “special intentions” throughout the year (money for SGG’s
“excessively high heating bills,” or to fix its ever-leaking roof, for
instance).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a particular
deceased loved one was previously “covered” by an offering on one of these
occasions, then why does he or she need to be “covered” again?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And why is another cash offering
required?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And tell us, Dannie:
does a person get more “graces” by putting his money in one of these envelopes
(vs. adding it to his regular “weekly collection” offering)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many times must the gullible
Gerties “go to the well” for Dannie, to get their “intentions” fulfilled?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Then, of course, there are SGG’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">votive candles</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We fondly recall the time when a woman
paid for one of Dannie’s “five day” candles, only to discover that, when she
returned the next day, the candle was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">extinguished</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why, we may ask, was this candle
snuffed out <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the day after it was lit?</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And (notwithstanding the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reasons</i> for why it was prematurely
extinguished -- and whether that compromised its “efficacy” or not), we also
wonder what kind of enhanced “efficacy” a “five day” candle has over a “one
day” candle (or, for that matter, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">five</i>-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hour</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">five</i>-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">minute</i> candle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much “better” is a five-day candle
than any other candle?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many
more “graces” does it provide?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But then there’s the biggest <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">laugher</b> of them all: Dannie’s
“privileged altar” (and all the “indulgences” attached to it).<sup>2</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember that one?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember all of Dannie’s claims about
it?<span style="color: green;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Are
you starting to ask yourself if<span style="color: green;"> </span>all of this is
sounding a little “fishy” -- a little “too good to be true”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you starting to ask yourself if <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">His Fraudulency</i> could be “selling us a
bill of goods” here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">could</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be</i> – and yes,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> he is</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie’s “indulgences” – like the rest
of his wares – are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FAKE</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NON-EXISTENT</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact,
everything that Dannie says or does is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fake</b>
-- because he has <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no commission from the
Church</b> to grant such things (or have such power).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no authority</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no jurisdiction</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">imposter</b>.<sup>3</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add to that the fact that he’s shown
himself to be a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cheat</b>, charging
people for “five-day” candles -- and then having them <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blown out</i> after one day, just to save a little beeswax. <span style="color: green;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie’s “indulgences” (and all the
rest of it) are just <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fund-raising
schemes</b> – ways for people to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">empty
their wallets</i> for him -- and nothing more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sad thing here about what Dannie is doing is that this
is what got the Church into trouble to begin with, spawning the Protestant
Revolt: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">selling indulgences</b>.<sup>4</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worse, he’s selling “indulgences” that
are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">non-existent</b> – and selling them <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">over and over again</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many times have the Gerties stuffed
“purgatorian society” envelopes <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">year
after year</i> – often for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">same</b>
“indulgences”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And how many “memorial”
envelopes have they stuffed for extra “graces”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What Dannie is doing here, pure and simple, is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Simony</b>: the buying and selling of
ecclesiastical privileges – except that they <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">don’t exist</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The Gerties think that, by getting all
these “indulgences” and “graces,” they’re “getting something for nothing” – a
“free lunch,” as it were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Actually, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the opposite</i> is
true: they’re paying a very significant “something” – and getting <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">nothing</b> in return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of these “offerings” are just
different ways in which Dannie can empty their wallets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the absolutely <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">amazing</i> thing is that Dannie <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">gets away with it</b> – at least up until
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Gerties have actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fallen</i> for this crap, and some still do
– still taking Dannie’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">snake oil</i> for
“the real thing.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that’s human
nature: since time immemorial, people have been <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">intrigued</i> with the idea of “getting something for nothing”; and
many will <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unquestioningly </i>believe
those who promise it to them – and do anything to get it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And that’s what cults do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why they’re in business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people of Jonestown were willing to
commit <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mass suicide</i> for their
“salvation.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All that Dannie’s
Gerties have to do, on the other hand, is to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stuff envelopes with money</i> on a regular basis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What could be easier and more “straight-forward”
than that? – except that it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></i>
straight-forward. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s about as
“crooked” as one can get. Week after week, Dannie’s promises his Gerties all
sorts of “magic”; but all they get, more and more, is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">humbug</b> – and a combination of never-ending <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">guilt-tripping</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pleas for
more money</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But, fortunately, the Gerties are
catching on to Dannie’s act – and “voting with their feet” (and their
wallets).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collections are
down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Attendance is dwindling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just about every week, in fact, Dannie
has something to say about the low attendance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One Sunday, he lamented that </span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“Sunday
church attendance continues low this Fall. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looks like we peaked in Summer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go figure.”</span><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">5</span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Well, Dannie, your Gerties <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>are</u></i></b>
“figuring.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">catching on</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are beginning to realize that your cult is just that –
a cult – and that it’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fake</b>, that
it’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bogus</b>, and that they’re
throwing their money away for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NOTHING</b>.
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">This coming Lent, Dannie will no doubt
be (once again) cranking up his “indulgence machine,” and/or will be promising
some other “free” ways to get “guaranteed salvation.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this time, Gerties, don’t fall for the scam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First of all, nothing that Dannie ever “gives”
is really “free.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You usually end
up <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">paying</i> for your “free lunch.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly (and more importantly), Dannie’s
“indulgences,” like all his other “spiritual goodies,” are, to repeat, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">counterfeit.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, you are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">paying</i>,
but getting <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">nothing</b> in return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, keep your money in your wallet,
where it belongs <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">--</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></i> in Dannie’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pocket</i>, where it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">disappears without a trace</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Charity begins <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at home</i>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></i></b>
at the cult center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This coming
year, do the right thing: make a New Year’s resolution to…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">See the LP article (click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2016/12/hypocrisys-poster-child.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>) about the time Dannie refused a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Requiem</i> Mass (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>and</u></i> the last rites) for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Novus Ordo</i> mother of an SGG parishioner (who was poor), yet <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>granted</u></i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>both</u></i> to another <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Novus
Ordo</i> woman, simply because her husband was a big SGG donor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie’s bogus claim of a “privileged altar” was exposed
by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina Liturgica.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2015/10/dead-reckoning.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span> and <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2015/11/altar-ego.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span> for PL’s articles on this.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">3 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">This, therefore, makes all of those “burning questions
that we brought up before <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">irrelevant</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If an “indulgence” is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bogus</i> to begin with, then – no matter
how many times it is “gained” -- it’s still <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bogus</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">4 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">It’s ironic that the building of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">St. Peter’s Basilica</i> in Rome, the biggest church in Christendom
(built to triumphantly celebrate the supremacy of the Church), precipitated the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">splitting</i> of Christendom – a split
due largely to the abuse of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">selling
indulgences</i> to pay for that “triumph.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it’s ironic that Dannie is virtually doing the same
thing, except that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>his</u></i>
“indulgences” are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bogus</b> – because,
to reiterate, he has no commission from the Church to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">5</span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> After this past <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All
Souls' Day</i>, Dannie also commented (in his November 4 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/11/04/pentecost-xxii-3/"><span style="color: red;">’Corner</span></a></span>):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";">“Fr.
McKenna says he’s always edified by the numbers who come back, freely, one day
after the day of obligation, to pray for the Poor Souls to be freed from their
fiery prison. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it is true, but
the Bishop [</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "bookman old style";">Bishop?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To whom<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are you referring here, Dannie?]<span style="color: blue;"> remembers many years ago that one could have an evening
High Mass for All Souls, and draw a good crowd to pray for poor souls, ‘whom no
man could number.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who once
attended are dead, and it is for us the living now to remember them too in
prayer, at Mass and with indulgences. It is a wonderful thing that we can offer
many Masses on November 2 (each priest is privileged to offer three) and that
the living still come, albeit in little clusters rather than crowds, to pray
for our dear dead.”</span></span><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Did you notice, too, in the following
week’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’Corner</i>, the number of
“saints” there were in Dannie’s “All Saints” group picture? (Dannie has SGG’s
kids dress up for it every year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In years past, there were dozens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This year, there were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">barely</i> a
dozen -- probably from two or three families at most.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/11/11/pentecost-xxiii-3/"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> </span>for photo.)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
The Watcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313770117983560091noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932658529918187424.post-71766679969066961582017-12-23T05:30:00.000-08:002017-12-23T05:30:29.342-08:00We’re Back -- Almost<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">This short post is simply to let our readers know that our first
article, after our autumn-early winter hiatus, will appear on December 30 (to
ring out the old year, and ring in the new). But before doing so,
there is something that we’d first like to mention. Most of our readers are
aware that comments are now moderated – a necessary step that was a direct
result of the unbridled spamming that went on several months back. This,
of course, will continue. In fact, from here on, we will have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">zero tolerance</b> for any of the
childish drivel sent in by people like “Robert Rawhide” or “Sal Monela,” whether they
disguise themselves as “Anonymous” or not. We can pretty much guarantee
that, most of the time, they will be summarily put in the “spam” file.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">We mention this, simply to save “Robert” and “Sal” the trouble of
wasting their time – but especially <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">our</i> time
and that of our regular readers -- by writing in. We wish to spare
everyone having to wade through the baseless nonsense that such people send in
– written merely to <i>disrupt</i> simply for disruption's sake -- and we wish to spare <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ourselves</i> the
tedious task of having to answer these crackpots.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Our first article, to repeat, will appear December 30. And,
just as in this past year, articles will appear bi-weekly (i.e., every other
week), unless specified otherwise. We are glad to get back into the fray, and
once again to be giving Dunce-cap Dannie, Tinhorn Tony, and Not-so-big Don the
“attention” that they deserve. Stay tuned!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
The Watcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313770117983560091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932658529918187424.post-87581062901393169472017-10-07T05:15:00.001-07:002017-10-07T05:15:05.526-07:00Dannie and Tony: The Archdukes of Arrogance<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="color: #fb0007; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Editor’s Note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
will be our last post for this year. As we did last year, we will be “taking
a break,” now that </span></i><span style="color: #fb0007; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Pistrina Liturgica<i> is returning
from theirs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will be back on or
about the first of the year.</i></span><span style="background: aqua; font-family: "bookman old style";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">A
former SGG parishioner who worked in its office reports that, as part of her
job, she picked up Dannie Dolan’s and Tony Cekada’s mail
for them every day, and that when she brought it in, Tony would hand her a letter opener
-- and she would then have to open it for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, this task was too “menial” for Tony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This same woman said
that, one day, Tony also put his shoes under her desk,
apparently expecting her to shine them for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say, she <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ignored</b>
the shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(By this time, she
realized that she was being treated like a base lackey -- and decided that “enough
was enough.”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a month on the
job, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">she quit</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And, oh, by the way, she never got
paid for that month’s work.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
as for Dannie, in addition to such servitude, he expects even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">more:</i> Dannie, as is widely known, is so
jaded that he doesn’t even <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">drive</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">His Self-Importancy</i> must be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">chauffeur-driven</b> everywhere he goes.<sup>1<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Another
incident that gives an insight into Checkie’s “character” happened one Sunday
when a phone call for him came in from Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And because Tony was in his “office” (conversing with a
couple of parishioners), the person taking the call knocked on the office door
to let him know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tony, pretending
not to hear him knocking, kept on conversing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, after knocking again, the person stuck his head in
the door, and – speaking for no more than five or ten seconds -- informed Tony
of “a call from Europe”; whereupon Tony, disdainfully looking up, rebuked him
for “interrupting,” saying, “Don’t you see that I’m busy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell them to call back later.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Tony’s
“conversation,” by the way, was of no great importance, while the call from
Europe <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>was</u></i> – but Tinhorn Tony
had to make a point of “not being disturbed,” and therefore used this occasion
to make his “importance” felt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are, we’re sure, many other examples of Tony’s pretentious
arrogance; but we think this one gets the point across.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re also sure that Dannie has done
much the same thing (but perhaps a little more “subtly” than Tony). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, typically, the only instances where
the terrible twosome ever “have any time for anyone” are those where one can do
them some <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">material</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">good</i>, either <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">actually</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">potentially</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise, one gets “short shrift” from
them (or is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">completely ignored</b> by
them).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Their
arrogance plays out in so many other ways too – in the opulence of their life-style,
for instance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In their 2000+ sq.
ft., three-climate-zone rectory, Dannie and Tony live in air-conditioned (or
heated) comfort, while Gertie mothers must put up with a “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">zero</i>-climate-zone” vestibule for them and their crying infants (where they
sweat in summer and shiver in winter).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dannie and Tony’s rectory, by the way, includes an over-sized private
bedroom for each – with each bedroom having its own huge walk-in closet and
private bath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">In
the “church” building, it’s much the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Space originally intended for staff offices was “reassigned,”
and remade into a “social hall.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Dannie and Tony, however, there was no such “cost-cutting.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For them, each was given his own
over-sized office (Dannie’s has a fireplace), with both offices sharing a
wet-bar kitchenette and a private full bath (with shower). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, the dozen or so “staff” got
shoe-horned into an area about the size of Dannie’s office, and they must share
the “social hall” bathroom facilities with the other parishioners. (It is
interesting to note, too, that the complex includes a windowless “sleeping”
room that can be used for other activities that lend themselves to “windowless
rooms.”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">But
Dannie’s and Tony’s arrogance perhaps plays out <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">most</i> in their shameless <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">self-promotion</b>.
Dannie touts himself as Traddieland’s master of all things “liturgical” -- and
Tony, of course, of all things “theological.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Together, though, they try to pass themselves off as
Traddieland’s “authorities on everything.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In recent years, they have branched out into all sorts of
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not content with just
performing for the “studio audience” (his in-house Gerties), Dannie has, as
we’ve already noted, put his “show” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">online</i>
(along with his bulletins, newsletters, and his never-ending pleas for
donations).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, as we’ve also
noted, Tony has -- in addition to his printed publications -- gone “cyber” with
his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">YouTube</i> videos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that is not enough for these
glory-hungry gourmands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In their
eagerness to promote themselves as a “full-service” cult center, they have, in
the past year or two, launched two new initiatives: a liturgical “calendar” and
an “Ordo.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And
how have all of these initiatives fared?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Miserably</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without exception, these new endeavors have
been exposed for the shoddily plagiarized mistake-a-thons that they are; and,
outside the cult center walls, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NO ONE</b>
pays attention to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in their
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">arrogance</b>, Dannie and Tony don’t
seem to notice that the world-at-large is ignoring them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their arrogance insulates them from
such harsh realities, because, like other forms of self-delusion, it does not
recognize itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It knows no
shame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, week after week,
unembarrassed and unabashed, they plod on, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">impervious</b>
to the fact that they are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">huge failures</b>
in the world-at-large.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, like
the carnival hucksters that they are, they continue to sell their snake oil to whomever
is gullible enough to buy it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">And
so far, they still have found enough suckers who will donate to keep their
ecclesiastical medicine show limping along on “bruise control” – but just
barely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That critical mass is
shrinking as people inevitably wake up; and as they do, the financial burden of
the Lotarski millstone weighs more and more heavily around their necks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That, coupled with the fact that none
of their “extracurricular” ventures has ever panned out, means that it’s becoming
harder and harder for them to make ends meet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Proceeds from Tony’s opus, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WHH</i>, for instance, haven’t been enough to crowd-fund a lemonade
stand.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By and large, it’s their
old standby – donations from their gullible Gerties – that keeps them afloat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">How
long will these carnival con men hold out?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But what is certain is that their demise is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inevitable</i>, because – although Dannie and Tony will never recognize
their own arrogance – their Gerties inevitably <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>will</u></i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(No one
stays gullible forever, and even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>they</u></i>
will eventually wake up one day.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But Dannie and Tony will <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></i>
“wake up,” because they’ve been faking it for so long, it has become “real” for
them; and they are hopelessly ensconced in their self-delusion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Dannie
will continue in the delusion that he is TradWorld’s “reigning expert” on rites
and rubrics (in spite of the fact that he’s been caught <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">over and over again</i> “making it up as he goes along” in his
unrelenting efforts to make his “show” more spectacular); and Tony will
continue to fashion himself as a “scholar” and a “theologian” (even though he’s
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">neither</b> – and has made himself the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">laughing stock</b> of TradWorld).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie and Tony will continue to try to
exploit and victimize their followers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But, as we said, no one stays gullible forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ll get wise to Dannie and Tony --
and when they do, these <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">archdukes of
arrogance</i> who have been exalting themselves all these years will, at long
last, be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deservedly</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">humbled</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We’re
not quite sure why Dannie never learned to drive; but we’re sure that, if
asked, he will come up with some “explanation” as to why he didn’t (and, of
course, his gullible Gerties will probably “buy it.”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the fact is, even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">old
ladies</i> learn how to drive these days; and it is inconceivable that, in
today’s world, a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">grown man</b> doesn’t drive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, it’s our guess that Dannie <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>does</u></i></b>
know how to drive, but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">won’t</i>, because
he figures that “driving a motorcar” would be beneath the dignity of someone of
his “personage.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if Dannie
thinks that being chauffeur-driven “enhances his image,” he’s sadly
mistaken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this day and age, an
able-bodied man not being able to drive is simply <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unheard of</i> – except, of course, if he is physically (or mentally)
disabled – or (as we suspect) has a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prima
donna</i> complex.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
The Watcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313770117983560091noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932658529918187424.post-19428642190964177002017-09-30T05:13:00.000-07:002017-10-01T04:18:03.531-07:00Dannie’s Two Millstones<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Sometime back we
posted an article entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Playing the
“Victim” (aka “The Blame Game</i>”). (Click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2015/05/playing-victimaka-blame-game.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in it, we talked about SGG’s failing HVAC system and its
failing school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, here we are
again: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">déjà vu</i>”!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just recently, SGG’s HVAC woes came up again,
after which <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i> posted an
article about it (click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2017/07/setting-beggar-on-horseback.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, as for the “school,” lately that’s been very much in the
news as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nary a week goes by
when Dannie is not promoting it in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bishop’s(?)
Corner</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">That being said,
we think that it’s particularly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">apropos</i>
right now that we revisit both of these items.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recently, Dannie has been frantically promoting his “school”
(to increase its embarrassingly anemic enrollment) in an effort to justify its
existence. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far, it has been
both a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">huge financial drain</b> on SGG’s
resources (because of the principal’s “salary”) and a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">huge flop</b> (because of the school’s sorry “academics”); and, as we
noted earlier, Dannie has also been mentioning what has become a recurring
nightmare: fixing (or replacing) SGG’s failing air-conditioners. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">In our
aforementioned article, this is what we had reported about SGG’s HVAC problems: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">In his</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> <a href="http://www.sgg.org/2015/05/02/easter-iv-the-finding-of-the-holy-cross/"><i><span style="color: #fb0007;">Bishop's Corner</span></i></a> <span style="color: green;">of May 2, 2015, Dannie mentioned that the church
sanctuary’s HVAC unit had been hit by lightening (and was thus supposedly
malfunctioning). He then added,</span> <span style="color: blue;">“Here the
story becomes impossibly complicated, all caught up with big brother
regulations and smoke detectors which never worked correctly in the first
place, and companies gouging churches for great quantities of wasted money,
backed up by the government oversight. Much patience and a cool head is
required to navigate these waters.”</span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Apparently, “big brother” is unjustly imposing “regulations” on SGG
and “gouging” them for</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> <span style="color: blue;">“great quantities of wasted money, backed up by government
oversight” </span><span style="color: green;">[whatever <i>that</i> means!].
Apparently, too, the </span>“<span style="color: blue;">smoke detectors that
never worked correctly in the first place</span>” <span style="color: green;">are
the fault of “big brother” as well. Did it ever occur to Dannie that they
didn't work properly because they were not<b><i> installed </i></b>properly?
How, we may ask, can “big brother” and his <i>regulations</i> be the cause of
smoke detectors not “working correctly”?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Stripped of Dannie’s confusing rhetoric and false logic, what it all
means is that he is probably getting ready to soak the culties again for MONEY
to meet these “unjust” expenses. He has to portray himself as “victim” so
that the culties can cough up the money for these “meanies” who are “responsible”
for it all.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">And this is some
of what we had to say about the “school”:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The principal’s salary (and that of his family members who are on
the payroll) represents a huge financial millstone around Dannie’s neck, and he
wants <b>desperately</b> to be relieved of that burden – but he can’t (see <i>Pistrina</i></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> <a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2015/05/good-riddance.html"><span style="color: #fb0007;">article</span></a>). <span style="color: green;">And
the sad thing (especially for the culties) is that it’s such an <b><i>unnecessary</i></b>
burden, because the school has a total of <b>twenty-five</b> students in all, K
through 12. We wonder how the parishioners would feel if they knew
that the <b>lion’s share</b> of their weekly donations was going to provide <i>twenty-five
kids</i> a <b>substandard</b> education.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Firstly (as we
had also pointed out in that article), the HVAC problems were as much the
result of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">poor workmanship</i> as they
were of any “lightening strike” (or of “big brother”); and secondly, if the
system was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">insured</i> (which it should
have been), the “lightening strike” damage should have been covered by said
insurance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And, actually, with
proper “surge protection” up front – which there also should have been -- the
lightening damage would have never occurred in the first place.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, as for the “school,” Dannie cannot
get rid of it – or, rather, get rid of it’s <i>principal</i> (for reasons that
are a mystery to everyone but him and Dannie).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so, the superfluous “principal” remains -- and the Gerties
continue to <b>foot the bill</b> for having him around. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">But, so far,
Dannie has “gotten away” with this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And whenever Dannie wants any “extra” money from his Gerties, he simply
dreams up some “crisis” (along with appropriate “villains,” such as “big
brother”), and then taps his Gerties for the expenses – which usually end up being
used <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></i> for whatever the
“crisis” was, but for funding another one of his boondoggles to some exotic
location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, this year it’s no
different: in spite of all the HVAC expenses that SGG has staring it in its face,
Dannie and Tony managed to go on another “getaway”: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In SGG’s August 27, 2017 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’Corner</i>,
written this time by “Lurch” (Charlie McGuire), it was reported that Dannie and
Tony both were<span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">“</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">away on a much needed vacation (I figure it has been at
least two years since their last one).”</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Well, if one
doesn’t count boondoggle “apostolates” to sunny Latin America as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vacations</i>, we suppose Lurch is right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This one was billed as a bona fide <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vacation</i>, not as an “apostolate.”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, to help justify this vacation,
Dannie later mentioned that </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">it was to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chimayo</i> -- “America’s Lourdes,” as he
calls it (to make it <i>look like</i> an "apostolate").<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if one looks at the
map, Chimayo is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stone’s throw</i> from Santa
Fe (Dannie’s favorite vacation spot).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But why, we may ask, did Dannie and Tony go to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Santa Fe</i> again – and at a time when SGG is strapped for cash to fix
its failing HVAC systems?<sup>2</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Shouldn’t they be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">conserving</i> their cash, in case another
one of their AC units bites the dust – or for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">other</i> “unforeseen expenses”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(SGG’s physical facility, for instance -- from its parking lot to its
leaky roof to its critter infestations -- is in sorry shape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s only a matter of time before
“something else” happens.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And,
again, what about the ongoing cost of that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">other</i></b> millstone around their necks: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the “school”</i> – especially with attendance
in a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">downward death spiral<sup>1</sup></b>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lately, Dannie’s promotion of the
“school” has been nothing short of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">frantic</i>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i> reported in a recent article, Dannie has even concocted a
pretentious “teacher’s prayer” (click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2017/08/back-to-chool.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a> </span>for article) to drum up support for
this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ongoing failure</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s all to no avail: attendance
continues to dwindle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">So, it seems that Dannie’s old
problems – SGG’s crumbling infrastructure and its “school” -- are still there –
and not likely to go away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
former will continue to (prematurely) decay -- because it was never built right
to begin with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as for SGG’s so-called
“school,” it will continue to be a liability; and, as we’ve already noted,
Dannie can (apparently) do nothing about it: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he must incomprehensively <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">tolerate</b> the “principal” -- a financial burden that the Gerties
must continue to bear (and which must be a source of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">continuing frustration</b> for them).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being so, it is only a matter of time before they will <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">start asking why</i> – and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">demanding answers</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">And when they do,
they’ll inevitably <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">stop</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">swallowing</b> this malarkey about Dannie
and Tony being “victims” (and blaming everyone else for their troubles), and
find out that Dannie and Tony are not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">victims</i>
but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">victimizers</b>, and that it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>they</u></i>, the parishioners, who are
the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">real victims</b> – that Dannie and
Tony are the two millstones around <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>their</u></i>
necks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when that happens,
Dannie and Tony will, at long last, have no place to hide – and will finally <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reap what they have sown</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">1</span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Attendance
at the “school” was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">twenty-five</b> in 2015
(see </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">SGG’s April 26, 2015 <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2015/04/25/easter-iii-solemnity-of-st-joseph-2/"><span style="color: red;">bulletin</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">),
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">nineteen</b> in school year
2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2017/06/sggs-school-still-bad-bargain.html"><span style="color: red;">SGG’s School: Still a Bad Bargain</span></a></span></i>.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s it going to be in 2017?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And speaking of
HVAC systems, why – in lieu of going to Santa Fe -- couldn’t Dannie and Tony
(as they’ve always exhorted their parishioners to do) have “offered it up” and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">foregone their trip</i> to buy heating and
AC equipment <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for the church’s vestibule</i>,
where SGG’s mothers and their small infants are still <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shivering </i>in winter and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sweating</i>
in summer?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">One of the recurring complaints we get
at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lay Pulpit</i> (from defenders of
Dannie Dolan’s SGG cult) is that we are not very knowledgeable when it comes to
“ecclesiastics.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a recent <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2017/09/armchair-theologians.html"><span style="color: red;">article</span></a></span>, for instance, we reported how one
dissenting commenter stated, </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Clearly, the author(s) of this blog are not very familiar
with most traditionalists and the FSSP in particular.”<sup>1</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, we entirely agree with that
statement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We certainly don’t know
all there is to know about the FSSP (or the SSPX, or Traddieland in general, or
any particular group) – nor do we wish to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
inference in that aforesaid comment, of course, was that, since we are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></i> “ecclesiastic” (or
“theological”) experts, how can anything that we say about the SGG and MHT
cult-masters be trusted as “credible” (since they are “clerics” and we are
not).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, it’s simple: one
doesn’t <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">need</i></b> to be a theologian to be an “expert” on Dannie and Tony,
or rather, to point out the evil that they have done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True, unlike our colleagues at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina Liturgica</i>, we are not Latinists, nor is our knowledge of
theology or any other related “ecclesiastical subjects” anywhere close to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina’s</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are clearly far superior to us in all of those respects –
and we gladly acknowledge it (and applaud them for it).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To
be sure, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina’s</i> superior
knowledge has enabled them to expose Dannie and Tony in so many ways for the
charlatans they are – especially for their deplorable lack of knowledge in
everything from Latin to liturgy to theology (moral or otherwise).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And, we might add, they have also been
thoroughly successful in dismantling the arguments of those “armchair
theologians” who have tried to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">defend</i>
the cult-masters.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina’s</i> efforts, Tony’s reputation as
a “scholar” (and Dannie’s as a “liturgist”) have been thoroughly <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">demolished</b>, and their abysmal ignorance
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">unmasked</b>.<sup>2</sup> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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again, that is not to say that exposing Dannie’s and Tony’s incompetence is the
exclusive province of “theologians.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One does not have to be a “theologian” (or at least <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">much</i> of one) to prove that the
cult-masters are bad men – and that they are imposters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One doesn’t have to be a “theologian,”
for instance, to point out the obvious fallacy (and depravity) of what Cekada
said about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone with an ounce of common sense
can figure out that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">dehydrating Terri Schiavo to
death</b> was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">murder</b>, pure and
simple. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And
one does not have to be a theologian to figure out that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the dismissing of the SGG school principal’s sons" watching porn as
“boys will be boys”</i> is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">morally
reprehensible</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor does it
take a theologian to determine that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">expropriating
a chapel’s $123,000+ building fund</i> amounts to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">theft</b>.<sup>3</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
list of Dannie’s and Tony’s malfeasance is a long litany indeed; and, when one
looks at what they have done, it doesn’t take a theologian to decipher that
these two are simply con men looking for material gain at the expense of
others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">At
both SGG and MHT, there has been a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">total
disconnect</b> between what is good for souls and what is good for the
cult-masters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get a girl
pregnant?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No problem!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As long as you’re a good organist,
we’ll overlook that “detail.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like
to watch porn and animal torture videos?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No problem!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As long as
you’re a good server (or can carry a processional cross or a candlestick in one
of Dannie’s “pontifical parades”), “you’re good to go!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not about doing what’s right, but
about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">looking</i> right – and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">getting the rubrics</i> right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not about “doing unto others as
you would have them do unto you,” but about how often one attends “the show.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not about how holy one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i>, but about how holy one <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">looks</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As always, it’s not about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">substance</i>, but about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cosmetics</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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again, it doesn’t take <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“theological expertise” to figure any of this out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, we might add, it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>does</u></i> take theological expertise
to prove that the cult-masters <i>themselves</i> are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></i></b> theologians,
which – as we mentioned earlier -- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i>
has done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this is important,
because there are those who, despite the cult-masters’ deplorable lack of moral
fiber, might “respect” them simply for their “theological” or “ecclesiastical” prowess
(if they had any), and hence might try to “justify” these imposters on such
grounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, it is imperative that
the myth of their “expertise” first be dispelled, in order to ensure that they
are not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">legitimized</i> by anyone, using
that as a pretext.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, again, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i> has done this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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along with of the “high tech” help of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i>,
we “non-theologians” have been able to play what we see as a supporting role in
exposing the cult-masters, and to make it plain to everyone by now that Dannie,
Tony, and Big Don are not “theologians” or “scholars,” but simply
opportunistic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hucksters</i> – unscrupulous,
self-serving <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">predators</b>, who dream up
spurious “theological arguments” and invent new “dogmas” to get gullible people
to follow them (and to empty their wallets for them).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And because they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>are</u></i>
unscrupulous, one can always count on them to continue taking the morally wrong
path, thus exposing themselves again and again -- and continuing to provide us
with new evidence to use against them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To
be sure, enough <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to date</b> has already
been said about these predators to ensure that no new victims <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>ought</u></i> to fall prey to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But again, there are still plenty of
unsuspecting victims out there who might fall for their sales pitch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And because there are, count on Dannie and Tony
to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">continue</i> doing their mischief. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end, such behavior will gain them
nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will inevitably <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">destroy</i> themselves; and this will have
the beneficial effect of eliminating them as a threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, during that time, whom will they
take with them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much
“collateral damage” will they do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
that’s why we’re here: to keep that “collateral damage” to a minimum. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And,
just as we have not had to be “theologians” to show the cult-masters for what
they are, neither should anyone else have to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With what is already known about them, it should be obvious
to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anyone</i> that they are not in the
business of saving<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> souls</i>, but of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">exploitation</b> – for material gain at the
expense of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is why we
urge everyone to “get the word out” to others about these predators, so that
together we can put<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <u>them</u> “</b>out
of business.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we continue to do
our part, we ask you to do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>your</u></i>
part, so that you don’t become their unwitting “accomplices,” and thereby <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">enable</b> these lepers to continue their
victimization of the unsuspecting innocent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can help stop them, then, by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spreading the word</i>, and, of course, by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">withdrawing your financial support</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, keep your cash in your wallet, and…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Beast!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1 </span></sup><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Some
may feel that our comments to date about the FSSP constitute a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blanket endorsement</i> of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They do not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All we’re saying is that the FSSP clergy we’ve met so far have
checked out “okay” (and were definitely superior to the trash at the cult
centers).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all we claimed is
that no one (other than a pope) has the authority or jurisdiction to rule on anyone’s
validity (including theirs); and, since no pope has as yet decided, no one can
positively claim that the FSSP are invalid. But that’s as far as we can go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An FSSP priest, like any other priest,
should be first “checked out” for his orthodoxy, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if one still feels “iffy” about them, then he should go
somewhere else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if the only
“somewhere else” available is SGG or MHT, then we suggest that he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stay home</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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only is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i> “world class” in its
mastery of Latin, but they are thoroughly proficient in ancient Greek as well –
both of which have enabled them to expose not only Tony’s woeful ignorance of
Latin and Latin grammar and his numerous blunders in translation, but also
those of whomever wrote SGG’s laughable “Ordo” and its “liturgical
calendar.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, Tony’s claim to
be a “Latinist” (as well as a “scholar” and a “theologian”) is now a totally
debunked myth. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina’s </i>efforts in this regard
cannot be overestimated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed,
no one but they in TradWorld had both the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">superior
knowledge</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the will</b> to take
on such a task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for their
diligence and tireless efforts, TradWorld might still be wallowing in the misconception
that Dannie and Tony really know what they’re talking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And not only has <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i> done so, but in a most thorough and decisive way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One must also realize that it took a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">yeoman effort</b> on their part, for which,
unlike the cult-masters, they received <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no
financial compensation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3 </span></span></sup><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dannie
and Tony took not only the chapel’s building fund ($123,664), but their
operating fund as well ($19,330), and then sold the congregation’s chapel out
from under them, pocketing the proceeds ($320,000).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this, of course, is just one of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">known</i> examples of their thievery.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
The Watcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313770117983560091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932658529918187424.post-58340000063649401352017-09-16T05:48:00.001-07:002017-09-16T05:48:21.923-07:00A Woman For All Seasons<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">In his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2017/08/19/pentecost-xi-3/"><span style="color: red;">Bishop’s(?) Corner</span></a></span></i> for August 20, 2017,
Daniel Dolan happened to mention that <span style="color: blue;">“Tomorrow is Sr.
Jeanne Marie’s feast day, and we wish Sister a blessed one, with many prayers
for a speedy and secure recovery. God keep her, and all of our shut in in His
loving care.”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, how
thoughtful of Dannie – if he had only <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>meant</u></i></b> it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie, Tradistan’s master of
affectation, loves to name-drop and to drop “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">F</b>-bombs”<sup>1</sup> (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">F</b>lattery,
that is) whenever he can – token praise for his groveling cult slaves who toil
for him, and who credulously swallow his weekly doses of candy-coated <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">insincerity</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">But Dannie doesn’t stop there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His favorite use of flattery and name-dropping
is for eulogizing the <i>deceased</i> – especially those whose memory is revered by
the Gerties (and hence do him the greatest material good) – Bernie Brueggemann,
for instance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bernie was SGG’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">all-time biggest benefactor</b>, both
spiritually and materially; and hence Dannie has used every opportunity he can to resurrect
his memory for “public relations” reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows that Bernie is still remembered and revered by most
of his Gerties, and that he can still get a lot of “mileage” out of using his
name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">We too have invoked Bernie’s name – but not for
the same reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather, we have
reported about how he was taken advantage of by Dannie, and then <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">discarded</b> after Dannie had drained him
of his last bit of cash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have
eulogized Bernie several times, dubbing him (in one of our articles) “a man for
all seasons.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-man-for-all-seasons.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span> for article.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, we’d like to take this
opportunity to do the same for someone else – only this time, a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">woman</i></b> for all seasons”: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sister Gerard Vincent</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Sister Gerard” (as she was commonly
called) was an older nun who had taken her vows long before Vatican II, but who
had left her order after the “changes,” and who eventually ended up at SGG.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Sister Gerard was the one bright spot in SGG’s
otherwise dreary landscape, a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>real</u></i></b> nun “from the old
school.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was, as they say,
“the genuine article,” not one of Dannie’s “new creations” (i.e., a “newly
minted nun” from one of the fake “orders” that he invented).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sister Gerard, too (unlike her younger
counterparts) was well versed in the old Faith, and -- “old school” nun that she
was -- was suited for any task, especially teaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A native New Yorker (from Brooklyn), she was “no-nonsense,”
but also a jovial and gentle soul, always with a cheerful smile -- and who
always had a kind word (and a joke to tell) for everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her only “weakness” was that, being an
older nun separated from her former order (and therefore bereft of its material
benefits), she was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">entirely dependent</b>
on Dannie and Tony for her daily sustenance (and, indeed, for all things
“material”) – a vulnerable (and thus <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bad)</i>
situation in which to be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">And being the obedient, conscientious, trusting
soul that she was, she soon found herself being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exploited</i> by Dannie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–
because that’s what Dannie does: he takes advantage of people – especially the
good ones; and when he can no longer “profit” by them, he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">discards</i> them (as he did Bernie).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it was no different with Sr. Gerard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While she was “productive,” she not
only taught, but helped out with SGG social functions (and everything
else).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, with age, she
inevitably “slowed down.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as
this happened, so too "did her star fall” at SGG: the younger nuns – especially
the “game-players,” i.e., those who “sucked up” to Dannie, got preferential
treatment, while Sr. Gerard became, by degrees, a “non-entity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Once having her pick of the most comfortable
quarters, she was gradually relegated to smaller and smaller ones, until she
ended up In a “postage-stamp” sized bedroom (that had to “double” as an
office).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her one pleasure – her
pet cat – she had to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">give up</b> because
one of the younger nuns – one of Dannie’s “favorites” -- was “allergic” to it.<sup>2</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Yes, Dannie, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">who had three cats of his own</b>, made her get rid of hers!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cat was taken away, and placed with
a new owner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the cat, believe
it or not, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">found its way back to the
convent</i>; and, climbing a tree in the convent’s front yard, it re-entered
through her bedroom window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Dannie,
when he found out, ordered it<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> removed
again</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sr. Gerard was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">heartbroken</i>; but, being the obedient
soul that she was, she <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">submitted</b> to
the mitered maggot’s will – to this impolitic act of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cruelty</b> that was so deplorably, but oh so quintessentially, so <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">predictably</b> “Dannie.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Sr. Gerard, as we said, was an older nun when she
came to SGG – so much older that she was, in fact, due to celebrate there her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">golden jubilee</i> (fifty years) of being a
nun, when she fell and broke a bone in her hip – an injury that required her to
go into “rehab” for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because of that, her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">jubilee</i>
celebration (which was to be held in SGG’s “social hall”) was “postponed.”<sup>
3</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the celebration never
came to pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Claiming that she
was needed back at SGG, Dannie cut her recuperation short and “pressed her back
into service” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prematurely</i>, whereupon
she fell again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time, she
didn’t recover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shortly afterward,
she died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie, however, did not
waste the funds earmarked for her celebration: he spent them on a party for one
of those aforementioned “newly minted nuns.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This nun, by the way – after much mistreatment by Dannie --
later <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">left</i> the religious life, and
returned to the lay state.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">And not only did <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His Expediency</b> take advantage of Sr.
Gerard’s passing to “recycle” her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">jubilee</i>
money for another purpose, but he also exploited it in other ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because Sr. Gerard, for instance, was
(as was Bernie Brueggemann) so well liked by all of SGG’s parishioners, Dannie
has – you guessed it -- often <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">invoked her
memory</i> to his advantage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
one occasion (in his Nov. 23, 2014 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2014/11/22/last-sunday-after-pentecost-7/"><span style="color: red;">’Corner</span><span style="color: red; font-style: normal;">)</span></a></span></i>,
Dannie quipped, <span style="color: blue;">“Only 22 years ago dear Sr. Gerard
suggested we should have a parish dinner for St Gertrude’s Day, and did most of
the cooking herself! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What wonderful
memories, what great examples, what an enduring cause for thanks!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>[Yeah, Dannie – it’s too bad
that you didn’t give <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>her</u></i> a
dinner!]<span style="color: blue;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>And
some months earlier (in his June 8, 2014 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.sgg.org/2014/06/07/pentecost-4/"><span style="color: red;">’Corner</span></a></span></i>), Dannie oozed this: <span style="color: blue;">“God reward the clergy, religious (Sr. Gerard Vincent
especially), and laity who so generously gave of themselves in the hour of need
for what needed to be done in those early days of the Catholic restoration.”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">May God <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">indeed</i>
reward <span style="color: blue;">“Sr. Gerard Vincent especially”</span> – but we
can’t predict the same for Dannie!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He, so saccharine and sweet in his praise for her after her decease, yet
so cruelly abusive to her during her life – but what else could one expect from
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His Malevolency</b>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s Dannie’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">modus operandi</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
what he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does:</i> he uses and abuses
people while they’re living -- and then, after their death, he invokes their
memory for whatever advantage he can derive from it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Did Sr. Gerard realize that Dannie was a
scoundrel?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes indeed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But like many, she was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at first</i> “taken in” by Dannie’s unctuous
charm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gradually, however, she
came to see him for the scoundrel that he is – and that his “mousy grin” was
more that of a malevolent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">rat</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly by the time of his cruel
mistreatment of her, she knew “what was what.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But by that time, it was too late: old and infirm, she had
nowhere else to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some say that,
because of her cruel mistreatment, she “died of a broken heart.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, it certainly saddened her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, being the true Catholic that she
was, she realized that this world’s “vale of tears” is a transient thing, and
that she would find <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">eternal joy</b> in
the next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She therefore resigned
herself to God’s will, and died at peace with her Maker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we’re sure that when she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">met</i> her Maker, it wasn’t long afterward
that she partook of that joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
wish we could say the same for Dannie – but we doubt if that will be the case. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Not
to be confused with the kind of “F-bombs” that a certain “door mouse” used to
drop (back in his seminary days in </span><span style="color: #13009b; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Écône)</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">2 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">This
younger nun, along with another nun (and a lay helper as well), did a lot of
“sacristan” work for Dannie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
of her jobs was to procure “altar flowers” and other items for Dannie’s
“show.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, since she didn’t have
a car of her own, she regularly used a parishioner woman’s car to drive to the
florist (as well as to run other errands).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This parishioner says that “sister” usually returned the car
with an empty tank (and, of course, with no reimbursement for the gas used) –
and all strewn with flower petals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(This parishioner also bought some of the “items” that sister got – also
with no reimbursement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was simply
“expected” of her.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This
nun, who had some “emotional issues” to begin with, eventually had some sort of
“breakdown” (no doubt, too, from being overworked by Dannie), and left
SGG.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also left the religious
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oddly enough, however, we
hear that she has since <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">returned</i> to
SGG, but as a lay person.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is interesting to note that Sr.
Gerard’s golden<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>(50-year) jubilee
was set to be held in SGG’s “social hall,” i.e., SGG’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">school lunchroom</i> (with catered “sandwich” fare), while Dannie’s and
Tony’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">silver</i> (25-year) jubilees were
held at Cincinnati’s most prestigious venue, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/ohio/hilton-cincinnati-netherland-plaza-CVGNPHF/dining/orchids-at-palm-court.html"><span style="color: red;">Palm Court</span></a></span></i> in downtown Cincinnati’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/ohio/hilton-cincinnati-netherland-plaza-CVGNPHF/index.html"><span style="color: red;">Netherland Hilton Plaza</span></a></span></i><span style="color: red;">.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note
also that, though Sr. Gerard’s rehab was cut short, Dannie’s “rehab” from a
sinus operation <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wasn’t</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After this unnecessary (and ultimately <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unsuccessful)</i> operation, Dannie was
given “all the time needed” for an expensive (and also <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">unnecessary</b>) “recuperation” at the <a href="http://www.bishopslodge.com/"><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Bishop’s Lodge</span></a> in sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now you know where the cult center’s
“priorities” were!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
The Watcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313770117983560091noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932658529918187424.post-54146373407980772072017-09-09T05:49:00.000-07:002017-09-09T05:49:05.147-07:00Armchair Theologians<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Editor’s Note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we did last year around this time,
we will be posting weekly (instead of bi-weekly) while </span></i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Pistrina Liturgica<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> is
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, after their return,
we’ll be taking a “hiatus” ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After our last weekly posting, we’ll let our readers know how long that “hiatus”
will be. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Our May 20
article, <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2017/05/but-what-about-sspx-and-fssp.html"><span style="color: red;">But What About SSPX and FSSP</span></a></span>, got several
comments dissenting with our attitude toward both the SSPX and FSSP – and some
of which had “links” to websites with derogatory information about them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also got comments accusing us of not
being knowledgeable about the SSPX and FSSP – especially the FSSP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One commenter wrote: “</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Clearly, the author(s) of this blog are not very familiar
with most traditionalists and the FSSP in particular.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, that commenter is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">absolutely right</i>: we <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">don’t</b> have a thorough, in-depth
knowledge about the FSSP – nor did we ever <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">profess</i>
to have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But
what we <i><u>can</u></i> assert is that, until
proven otherwise, their Mass and sacraments must be assumed to be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">valid</b> – and, regardless of how many “links” that the dissenters
post to give the impression that the majority of FSSP clergy are liberals and
radicals, that is simply not the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By and large, these clergy detest what Bergoglio is doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what’s more, most are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">decent men</i>, not money-grubbing
charlatans like the SGG and MHT cult-masters. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have we personally “checked out” each and every one of
them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course not!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Nor have we personally “checked out”
each and every “traddie” priest.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is not our business to check out each and every priest to certify
whether he is “good” or “bad.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
only claim that there are good and bad clergy in <b>any</b> camp, and that anyone with
normal discernment can sort out which is which.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> And i</span>f they “check out” okay, then go with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s as simple as that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
dissenting commenters who flooded us with their “links” about errant FSSP or
SSPX priests would have us believe that they’re <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>all</u></i> “reprobates” and heretics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, that’s not the case – just as showing what charlatans
the SGG and MHT cult-masters are does not mean that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>all</u></i> traditional clergy are trash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, in the same vein, these commenters <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">have no business</b> pronouncing on the validity of any SSPX or FSSP clergy
(or any other clergy, for that matter).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To those who questioned the validity of these orders – especially those
of the FSSP – let us ask them in return: </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">who among you has the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">authority</b>
to rule on the validity of their orders?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And under <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">whose</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">jurisdiction</b> do you make such a
claim?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The answer to those two questions is: under <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no one’s</b> authority or jurisdiction – no one, that is, except <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a </i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pope</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Traddieland’s “armchair
theologians,” let us repeat that: no one except a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pope</i> can make such a judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, until a pope rules that they are invalid, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we must assume their orders to be</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">valid</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, along with that, one must also assume that their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sacraments</i> are valid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, since none of us is pope, none of
us can say that one cannot go to one of their priests for Mass or the
sacraments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These commenters can
rant and rave all they want; but their views are only that: their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">views</i>, i.e., mere <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">opinions</i></b>, carrying <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no weight or juridical force whatsoever</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To
these armchair theologians who, like their cult-master idols, try to pass off
their private opinions as “articles of faith,” (and who try to force them on
the rest of us) we have this to say: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">keep
your opinions to yourselves</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And to these same hair-splitters who dissect every word to find fault
and/or to willfully misconstrue everything one says, we also invite them to act
with at least <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">equal</i> scrutiny toward
their cult-masters heroes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
simply amazing how such pious <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pecksniffs</i>
can <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ignore</b> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hard, factual evidence</i> about bagworms such as Dannie, Tony, and Big
Don, yet resort to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">using conjecture and baseless
assertions</i> to denounce and disqualify everyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It
is also amazing how all these people who have never experienced being
personally victimized by the cult-masters, can rule on the testimony of those
who <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>have</u></i></b>
been victimized. All the “Robert Rawhides” and “Sal Monelas” of the world who
crawl out of the woodwork to question everyone else, yet defend Dannie and Tony’s depraved justification of
Terri Schiavo’s murder, for example: how can they do that, and still look at
themselves in the mirror every day?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How can these men, who call themselves “Catholic,” take such a position –
and still call themselves “Catholic”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What kind of “sick puppies” are they that they can stoop to such <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">irrational rationalizations</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What’s
more, what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">motivates</i> them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What kind of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">contentment</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">satisfaction</i>
do they get out of supporting men such as Dolan, Cekada, and Sanborn?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It must take a special breed of person
to support these moral lepers, and to categorically <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">deny</b> the truth about them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps if they “sign up” and join one of the cults’ leper colonies and
experience firsthand what its previous victims have endured, they might gain
some “perspective” – and we heartily invite them to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps then, if any of their close
friends or relatives ends up in the same predicament as Terri Schiavo, they can
come to Dannie or Tony for “advice” on how to “cost-effectively” deal with it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">No
doubt, for reiterating our position about the SSPX and FSSP, we will get
another flurry of dissident “fan mail.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, depending on how “disruptive” they are, they’ll either
be answered, or go into the “spam” file.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(And, yes, we’ll try to answer them – until they get to the point where
they are being disruptive simply for disruption’s sake.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But one thing that these disruptive
efforts prove is that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>our</u></i>
efforts are working – that they’re having an effect -- and that people’s
attitudes about the cult-masters are changing (regarding <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i>, for instance).<sup>2 </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">People
are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">listening</i>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">steering clear</b> of the cult
centers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are no longer
blindly following these imposters and swallowing their swill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People are starting to wake up and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">think for themselves</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cult centers are dying: their ranks
are shrinking, and their coffers are dwindling – and that’s a good thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In time, leper colonies like SGG and
MHT will be a thing of the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
urge all those who are there to wake up as well, and to hurry that process
along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do what so many others
before you have done: start by voting with your pocketbooks; and then, “with
your feet”: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">leave the leper colony!</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">___________________________<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1 </span></sup><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For one thing, one can count on an SSPX or FSSP priest to
be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">better formed</b>, with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">real</b> moral (and theological) expertise
– and someone you can count on to render <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">real
moral judgments</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To repeat
what we said in our original article, </span><span style="color: green; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">“one gets <b>real Catholic morality</b>, not some counterfeit,
make-it-up-as you-go-along <b>claptrap</b> from one of Tradistan’s tinhorn
‘theologians.’ And that’s because their clergy are <b>properly formed</b>,
with a <b>real education</b> at a <b>real, accredited seminary</b> – not some
janitor-in-training apprenticeship from one of Tradistan’s <b>trade schools</b>.
And, because the SSPX and FSSP are part of the institutional Church – and thus <i>answerable
to a</i> <i>hierarchy</i> – they must be fiscally accountable, and not use the
collection basket as their own personal bank account, as the
answerable-to-nobody cult-masters do. They will not fleece their sheep
for money to go on ‘apostolates’ to posh destinations, nor will they solicit
“donations” for questionable ‘improvements.’ In short, they will ‘play by
the rules’ – and not make up their own.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2 </span></span></sup><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The email traffic at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i>
confirms this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(We at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lay Pulpit</i> are not set up to receive
email.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who, for instance,
heretofore agreed with Phony Tony about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i>
(or at least remained acquiescently silent about it) are now <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">speaking out</b>; and more and more are sharing
stories of their own personal experiences of abuses suffered at the hands of
Dannie, Tony, and Big Don.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People’s attitudes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>are</u></i></b> changing, and they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>are</u></i> coming to the realization
that the cult-masters are nothing more than self-seeking, self-serving
hucksters.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
The Watcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18313770117983560091noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-932658529918187424.post-22913213294349946072017-08-26T07:07:00.001-07:002017-08-26T07:07:09.981-07:00“Moderation in All Things”<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 31.5pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">As many of our readers will recall,
sometime in June we experienced a bit of a “cyber bombardment” of “wall-to-wall
spamming,” coupled with as many as thirty (exceptionally adversarial) comments
in a single day (obviously “orchestrated” by one of the cult centers).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, since such an onslaught made it
difficult to answer all the comments in an orderly fashion -- and also because
it was wasting the time of our regular readers having to put up with all this
nonsense -- we decided to implement “moderation.” Each comment is now
“moderated,” i.e., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reviewed for content</i>
(by a blog administrator) before being approved for publication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This way, comments can now be addressed
in a rational, orderly fashion; and each comment can be given the attention it deserves.<sup>2</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, more importantly, it puts the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blog administrator</i> – not these
disruptive “loonies” -- back in control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The latter can no longer wreak their havoc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has put a fitting end to their “disruption” strategy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">And, although such an onslaught was “disruptive”
-- we welcomed it, for a couple of reasons: Firstly, the comments
themselves illustrated to our regular readers how completely <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">adolescent</i> these people are (thus
reinforcing what we’ve been saying about them all along).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And secondly – because these comments were
so absurd – they gave us “material” with which to expose these clowns in future
articles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of our articles -- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Say Again?</i> (click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://thelaypulpit.blogspot.com/2017/07/say-again.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>)</span> -- in fact, was a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">direct outcome</b> of this disruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in answer</i> to one of these loonies’ comments about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i>; and, guess what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That article brought on yet <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">another</i> spurious comment about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i>,<sup>1</sup> which gave us – you
guessed it -- yet <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>another</u></i>
opportunity to talk about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i>
again:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The comment was as follows:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">“Fr.
Cekada clearly stated, that IF Terri was capable of eating via the mouth when
fed, then what they did was murder. The other issue is whether a stomach tube
is extraordinary means. And it is. My father revered his parish priest, who
later got cancer of his arm, and he chose death rather than amputation.
Amputation is a one-time-thing, and quite easy compared to a stomach
tube...which is on-going. Fr. Cekada is entirely vindicated.”</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Well, for starters, Checkie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">already knew</i> that Terri <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>was</u></i></b>
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">“capable of eating via the mouth when
fed” </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">– because, not only was it public knowledge <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">before, during, and after</b> the time of
her ordeal, but Checkie himself was actually <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">informed</b> of it at the time -- by several people.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> 3</span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, his statement, <span style="color: blue;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">IF</b> Terri was capable of eating via the
mouth when fed, then what they did was murder,”</span> is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LIE</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“IF”</b>
about it.<span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">We might
also ask: what person who calls himself a “theologian” would – on such an
important point – not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be sure of his
facts</i> before making such a [mis]communication?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what sort of “theologian” – when he <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>did</u></i></b> find out
(which he indeed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did),</i> would not
write a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">retraction</b> of his erroneous
position?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Checkie did <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">neither</b> of these things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">decade</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">later</i>, he still
stubbornly <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">refuses</b> to recant what he
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The next <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">lie</b> that this commenter told was the following: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">“The other issue is whether a stomach tube is extraordinary
means. And it is. My father revered his parish priest, who later got cancer of
his arm, and he chose death rather than amputation. Amputation is a
one-time-thing, and quite easy compared to a stomach tube...which is on-going.
Fr. Cekada is entirely vindicated.”</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, he did not read the part
stating that [Cekada] <span style="color: green;">“based</span></span><span style="color: green; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"> his ‘extraordinary means’ argument on an
outdated opinion of Pius XII’s that tube-feeding might be considered
‘extraordinary.’ By the time of Terri’s death, tube-feeding had <b>for
decades</b> <i><u>NOT</u></i> been considered ‘extraordinary’ but <b>routine</b>.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>So</u></i> routine, in fact, that two of
SGG’s parishioners had their kids on tube-feeding at the time (as we also
included in one of our footnotes).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Sure, one might consider tube-feeding to be
“extraordinary” in the sense that it is not a “natural” food-ingestion process;
but, by that definition, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>any</u></i></b> “artificial device,” such
as artificial limbs, crutches, hearing aids, cataract inserts – you name it –
could be considered “extraordinary means.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as far as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tube-feeding</i>
goes, this has been considered <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">routine</b>
for so long – even in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">decades-long
feeding</i> – that the term “extraordinary means” is no longer applied to it
(except, in the case of (to use Checkie’s words) <b><i><u><span style="color: blue;">“a body that is obviously shutting down for good</span></u><span style="color: blue;">.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The only problem
here (as we also pointed out), Terri’s body was <b><i><u>NOT</u></i></b>
“shutting down for good.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we must point out the idiocy of the part of the comment dealing with the </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">“parish priest, who later got cancer of his arm, and he chose
death rather than amputation. Amputation is a one-time-thing, and quite easy
compared to a stomach tube...which is on-going.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Actually, according to Catholic
moral theology, someone choosing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">death</i>
over a life-saving amputation would be considered <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">morally reprehensible</i> – perhaps tantamount to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">suicide</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">plenty</b> of people who have undergone
amputations <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to save their lives</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This priest sounds as if he’s some sort
of wimp or coward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hasn’t he ever
heard of the expression, “offering it up”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, we might point out that the two aforementioned kids
who were on long-term tube-feeding did not register <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">one complaint</b> about it being “painful” or “a burden.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bottom line, “Mr. Commenter”:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Checkie is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>NOT</u></i></b> <span style="color: blue;">“entirely vindicated.”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He should, in fact, be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>indicted</u></b>.
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">So, as one can see, this comment (along
with the previous “onslaught”) has given us plenty of “material” about which to
write. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an ensuing comment
(which, by the way, we decided to “spam”), someone added this<span style="color: blue;">: “</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">You
should go back to not requiring a post approval, this new way is much too slow.
Ya </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">[sic]<span style="color: blue;"> I know some people
blasted you in a similar way that you pretty much always blast others and it
probably didn’t feel good, but bid deal so there are a few extra posts about
how you delete comments and now you only play into that by monitoring all
comments.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>(This same
comment was also sent in to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i>,
who responded to it in a succinct but decisive way, hence our decision to
simply spam it and let them handle it.)<sup>4<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">But that ensuing comment got us to thinking:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that we at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lay
Pulpit</i> (and, of course, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina)</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">allow comments at all</i> – “moderated”
or otherwise – is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">far and away</b> a
more liberal policy than what the cult-masters allow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In their bulletins, newsletters, and other “communications,”
they make provision for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no feedback
whatsoever</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you imagine if
someone started giving Dannie, Checkie, or Big Don the kind of “feedback” that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>we</u></i> get here – or if someone got
out of his pew and started giving a “sermon within a sermon” (similar to that
one lunatic’s “blog within a blog” nonsense back in June)?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How long would Dannie (or Big Don)
tolerate that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Dannie can’t even
tolerate <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">crying babies</i> during his sermons!)<sup>
</sup></span><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">5</span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">So, bottom line, we see our new
“moderation” policy as an eminently <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>good</u></i>
one –one that provides for feedback -- but one that spares our general
readership the disruptive (and time-wasting) influence of a handful of
crackpots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a policy that (we
think) will be here “for the duration” at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lay
Pulpit</i> (and at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina)</i>.<sup>6</sup>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is one notable difference
between us and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i>, however: we
at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lay Pulpit</i> have decided to “spam”
those comments that we feel are merely “disruptive for disruption’s sake.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We choose not to tolerate such
comments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i>, on the other hand, is more “accommodating” in their
approach to such opposition – and we applaud them for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We feel that they have chosen the
“right” strategy for them – but we feel that our strategy is “right’ for
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We both have our reasons for
our policies, and we think both are valid ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But beyond that, we feel no need to further explain why our
policy is different from theirs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">In either case, we certainly believe
that moderation of comments is a good thing, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for everyone concerned</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(And, actually, it is a good policy for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any</i> publication, large or small, for it provides for two-way
communication, yet still provides the right safeguards.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cult-center loonies have been
whining loudly, complaining that moderation “slows things down too much.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No it doesn’t (and no, it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hasn’t</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We like it, and we think it’s here to stay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if those loonies don’t like it --
well – they’ll just have to get used to it! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Ironically,
many of the comments we got from these trolls were accusing us of “bringing up <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i> again” – yet it was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>they</u></i> who actually brought it
up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, in writing about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schiavo</i>, we were merely <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">responding</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to their taunts</b>, not prematurely and preemptively “dredging up old
news.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, regardless of who was
“dredging it up,” according to these trolls’ logic, regularly reminding people
of our Lord’s crucifixion would too be considered as “dredging up old news.” </span><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">2</span></sup><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">And, of course, comments that are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">particularly</i> absurd can be “spammed”
and/or deleted if need be – and we have done a fair amount of “spamming”
already, with no adverse effects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It has, to be sure, resulted in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fewer</i>
comments; but we like it that way, because the comments we now get are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">constructive</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rational</i> – not the insane claptrap that the loonies have been peddling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, more importantly, our new policy
has not adversely affected our readership; it has actually <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">increased</b> since we’ve implemented the policy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">That is not to say that a more “open”
toleration of comments doesn’t have its advantages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one thing, as we’ve already noted, it gives us more
“material” for future articles; but on the other, it often turns the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">comments</i> section into a three-ring
circus, where the loonies can carry on an incessant dialogue about issues of
interest no one but themselves (and which waste everyone’s time) -- and which,
more often than not, are only read by the loonies themselves anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have chosen to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></i> so “open” – and that works
for us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our colleagues at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina Liturgica</i>, by the way, were the first to implement moderation,
and we followed suit shortly thereafter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this is what has particularly upset these
“loonies”: they can no longer wreak their havoc in an unbridled and haphazard
way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But,” as they say, “they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">have brought it on themselves</i>.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, if they want to blame anyone for
this new policy, they need only “look in the mirror.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">3 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">And Cekada <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>was</u></i></b>
totally aware <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">at the time he wrote his
words</b> that Terri could swallow – because he was informed of it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">by several people</i> (including one of his
own parishioners, as well as a noted neurologist).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">correspondence<span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">between
this parishioner and him, she informed Checkie that Terri <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>was</u></i></b> – amongst
other things -- able to swallow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(For
more of her correspondence with Checkie, click </span><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1393366/posts?page=47#47"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">here</span></a>.<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">)
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">4 </span></sup><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pistrina</i> responded thusly: </span><span style="color: green; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">“We didn't go to moderation because of the
"blasts": we always allowed them, and we even enjoyed them. Even now,
almost all comments but spam are published. We do delete those that offend
decency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had to moderate
because the spammer was disturbing our Readership. As it stands now, there
isn't too much time before a comment is posted, except when they arrive during
our night-time, so we'll stick to moderation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">5</span></sup><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">As we’ve reported in more than once in
the past, Dannie <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">stops his sermon</b> if
a crying baby is “interfering.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The “offending baby’s” mother must remove it to SGG’s vestibule (because
there is no crying room <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per se</i>) – a
vestibule that is neither heated in winter nor air-conditioned in summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, once in the vestibule, mother and
baby <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">are</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not allowed to re-enter</b> the church until <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AFTER</i></b> the sermon is
finished (because the “commotion” of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
door being opened</i> is too much for His Self-Importancy to bear).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">6</span></sup><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In fact, it is a policy that should
have been implemented in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We did not have the foresight to see the day when disruptive loonies
would cause such harassment for both us and our readers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that they have done so, we have
been able to “neutralize them” by putting the right safeguards in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we thank these loonies for their
“disruption” – for, thanks to them, now those safeguards <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>are</u></i></b> in place!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Dannie Dolan’s SGG <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bishop’s(?) Corner</i>, as always, “never disappoints.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s always chuck full of his usual mix
of ecclesiastical excrement: “S&S” (Syrup & Sanctimony), “The Show,” gruesome
details of his feral critters’ exploits, copious quantities of “Bergoglio
bashing,” lots of condescending flattery for all his cult slaves -- and, of
course, the weekly “weather report.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, as usual, many of Dannie’s absent-minded musings and ramblings –
especially about his critters – are fairly pointless to anyone other than
himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, last week’s ‘</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">First, he started off with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the weather</i>, as he is wont to do: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“This past week was a heavy one, both for work and weather.
And it’s always harder to work in this weather!”</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(We’re not
sure why it’s “h</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">arder to work in this weather!”</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> but, okay, so be it.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then this tidbit: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The McFathers have decamped to hot humid Florida (they
could have stayed here) for vacation.” </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Sounds like Dannie was perhaps a little
“addled” that they went to Florida [vs. staying back at the cult center] for
vacation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is he complaining about
it being “a waste of money”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(If so,
isn’t that a bit like “the pot calling the kettle black”?!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dannie started waxing poetic about “The Show”: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“But
all of our feasts and devotions were duly done, and sung. Our young people
formed a fine choir for St. Peter’s Chains. First Friday’s Adoration (thank you
to the Guard of Honor) anticipated the glory of today’s Transfiguration. ‘Lord
it is good for us to be here!’ we can only cry out with Peter. Believe it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Well,
okay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But why recount the week’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>past</u> events</i> (including those poor
“Guard of Honor” scmucks who had to drive to the cult center <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in the middle of the night</i> to do their
“hour” for Dannie -- while <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His Complacency</b>
slumbered, snugly and indolently, in his king-sized bedroom back at the
rectory).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t think that the
“Guards of Honor” who were there (between 2 and 5 A.M.) exclaimed, “L</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">ord it is good for us to be here!” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">It
was probably something more like, “Lord, why <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>are</u></i> we here at this hour, while Dannie (as usual) is snoozing
comfortably?” </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">The
next thing Dannie blathered about was his “critters” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Caravaggio</i> and a certain “weasel,” followed by some “bashing” of
the cult’s “enemies” (but, curiously, no “Bergoglio bashing” this time): </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The idea of God as Father is blasphemous to the
Mohammedans, and forgotten by too many Christians.” </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“At
some point he </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[Fr. Lehtoranta]<span style="color: blue;"> pulled
into the parking lot of a Baptist church to get his bearings. It was a beehive
of activity. ‘Vespers,’ Fr. Cekada quipped. Well, if only the Baptists knew
about Vespers being almost all biblical, I’m sure they would crowd in. Then our
parking lot would be packed on some Sunday afternoons. Imagine. Twice on a
Sunday and once during the week, and they line up to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">tithe their ten percent</b>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span>[Our <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bold</b> emphasis.]<span style="color: blue;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they have
neither tabernacle nor altar nor sacrifice. Do you suppose we will one day pay
terribly for taking it all for granted?”</span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
“takeaway” from this is not so much Dannie’s “Baptist bashing” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per se</i>, but his using this as an
opportunity to give his culties another not-so-subtle reminder about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">tithing</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dannie still expects them to give <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">one tenth</b> of their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gross</i>
income to the cult center!<sup>1</sup><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">But we save the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #13009b; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">pièce
de résistance</span></i><span style="color: #13009b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">for last: Dannie's next "tidbit" was about implementing a new “liturgical practice” for SGG: “First Wednesday” devotions!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To quote Dannie, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Last week Fr. Lehtoranta had the inspiration to initiate
the First Wednesday devotion, so we did. (How did we miss that one all these
years?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">[Yes, Dannie, how <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>did</u></i>
you?!] <span style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
five years indulgence is granted for those who ‘perform some devout exercise in
honor of St. Joseph’ on the first Wednesday of the month.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Well, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/dwilen/gomer-pyle-say-golly"><span style="color: red;">Golly!</span></a></span></i></b> (as Gomer Pyle would say).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Five years’ indulgence!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Yes, that’s right, boys and girls: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">five years</b>!]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether or not Dannie has the “power” to grant such an
indulgence (and we don’t think he does – for a multitude of reasons) is really
an irrelevant point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Rather, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">relevant</i> point here is that, for Dannie, “being Catholic” is all
about how many <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First Fridays</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Saturdays</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First Thursdays</i>
– and now, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First Wednesdays</i> -- one observes,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>not</u></b> about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">how one treats one’s fellow man</b>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Dannie has lost sight of the latter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Correction: he never saw it to begin
with.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why Dannie can reconcile
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">watching porn</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fornicating with a fellow student</b> (aka,
“boys being boys”) with “being Catholic.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s why he and Tony can sell a congregation’s satellite chapel out
from under them (and expropriate their building fund), and still be “Catholic.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that’s why he can muse whimsically,
with complete detachment, about birds and bunnies being shredded by his feral
cats, and still be “Catholic.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
how can Dannie reconcile all these things? Because he has<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <u>no</u> <u>principles</u></b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that’s
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">With Dannie, it <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">really doesn’t matter</b> what one does (or how one treats his fellow
man), as long as he “shows up for the show” (or, to put it more correctly, “as
long as he <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">donates</b>”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all “letter-of-the-law” stuff: all
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">letter</i>, but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spirit</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, as St. Paul puts it, it’s all
“sounding brass and clanging cymbal,” but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no</b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">charity</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that – coupled with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no
morals or principles</b> – is, as they say, “a deadly combination.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being the case, all of these extra-added
“devotions” are not about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">making people
holier</i>, but about imposing extra-added <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">control
and manipulation</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">totally immersing</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>them in the cult, until there’s nothing else left <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>but</u></i></b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the cult</b> – the classic cult
blueprint for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">control</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">And why is Dannie doing this? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Because
he’s getting desperate</b>, that’s why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is “Last Chance Gulch” for Dannie: a last ditch attempt to whip the
Gerties into line, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because he’s losing
his grip</i>: financially, psychologically, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">actually</b>. “The old magic” (aka, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">manipulation
and control</i>) isn’t working very well anymore (and hasn’t for some time).
Both the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">collections and attendance</i>
have never recovered to pre-2009 levels, and are down even more, so Dannie “has
to do something.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that
“something” is still <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">control and
manipulation</i> (even though it’s not working very well anymore).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s really all he has left – that,
plus lashing out at all his “enemies” (real or imagined): Bergoglio, Moslems,
Baptists, SSPX, FSSP, the government, the local energy utility, “weasels” – you
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">So, that’s why he’s going back to his
old standby: overloading the Gerties with “activities” (that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">time-worn</i> but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tried-and-true</i></b> cult
tactic).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will it work?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, we don’t think so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Gerties (at long last) are beginning
to see through this ruse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we
said, both attendance and collections are down (although Dannie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>did</u></i> comment in his ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Corner</i>, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Summertime
brought another light attendance last week, but a good collection”</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This, however, is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wishful
thinking</i> on Dannie’s part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
collection (relatively speaking) was not all that “good.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this comment was significant in one
respect: like his earlier “tithing” comment, it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>did</u></i> reaffirm Dannie’s one, overpowering priority: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MONEY</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And, let’s face it: Dannie really doesn’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>care</u></i> if the pews are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">completely empty</b>, as long as he gets
his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Geld.</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">That being said, we implore those
Gerties still being exploited by the mitered maggot to “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">turn off</i></b> the Geld,” i.e.,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to shut their pocketbooks</i> -- and to
continue “voting vote with their feet.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dirt-bag Dan and Antonius Balonius are two “fake news phonies” who do
not deserve <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">ONE
RED CENT</span></b> of anyone’s hard-earned cash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s “bring down the curtain” on their "Not-So-Divine
Comedy"!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s “close down
production” on this farce -- and the sooner, the better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Starve the beast!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">One perceptive commenter [“Anonymous,”
Aug. 5, 8:27 PM) caught this (about Dannie’s perpetual preoccupation with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tithing)</i> on last week’s ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">’Corner</i>, and commented about it on PL’s
article (click <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-bishops-bestiary-chapter-4.html#comment-form"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span>), after which <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Reader</i>, in concurrence, responded with several remarks,
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">“</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Boy does he [Dannie] want the Gerties to get the idea. To make sure
they did, a couple paragraphs later he [Dannie] wrote: <span style="color: green;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: blue;">‘<i>Summertime
brought another light attendance last week, but a <b>good collection</b></i></span><i>.’</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>P.S. The collection haul still
amounted to less than what $GG used </span><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';">to rake in before
the <b>2009 $GG $chool $candal.</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style';"><span style="font-size: x-small;">All we shall add to
that is, “Right on, <i>Reader!”</i></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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