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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Removing All Doubt (Again)


No, this is not a reprint (or rehash) of Dr. Thomas Droleskey’s exhaustively documented  exposé Removing All Doubt.  It is rather a supplementary article, building on the first.  The intent of Dr. Droleskey’s article was to remove all doubt regarding Anthony Cekada’s evil intentions: from his intended smearing of Bp. Petko and Fr. Bernard Hall, to his miscalculated and ill-timed gloating over Fr. Ramolla’s “probable” deportation, and to his shabby attack on Abbot Leonard Giardina – all of which miserably backfired on this moral leper.

But, as if that bit of mischief from the scum-suckers of Rialto Road was not enough, they have actually been at it again – this time with one of their French lackeys, Fr. Thomas “Loose Lips” Le Gal (acting at their behest) attacking Fr. Bernard Hall, who has been administering to French Catholics in the town of Chambery.  Of course, this bit of Dolanesque duplicity has backfired too.  Le Gal’s lying attacks were easily disproved in the article It’s Got To Be Ill-Le Gal, which masterfully unmasks Le Gal’s lies and refutes them one by one.

But this hasn’t stopped the foot-in-mouth Le Gal from continuing his serpentine efforts.  First, he accused Fr. Hall of writing the article (which he did not).  Then, when he was told that it was written by a layman, he got some of the locals in Chambery to label it as “disrespectful to clergy” – the same sorry tactic that some of the SGG sycophants have used here in the U.S.  These hypocrites seem to have forgotten the eighth commandment: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”  Apparently, it is okay for a cleric (Le Gal) to lie about someone (in this case, about a fellow cleric -- Fr. Hall); but it is NOT okay for a layman to defend Fr. Hall against Le Gal’s lies.  According to these people, this constitutes “disrespect.”

They seem to forget that when a priest lies, it is actually a much greater sin, because he has violated his sacred trust as an Alter Christus.   Then to compound that sin by trying to label someone’s truthful defending against those lies as “disrespect” or “slander” is doubly despicable.  But that is textbook Vipers of Vaudeville modus operandi; that is what they have used for years to intimidate their critics into silence.  But this time, that gimmick won’t work, for they have used it too many times.  Perhaps their boot-licking parishioners might fall for it, but the public-at-large no longer takes it seriously.

Le Gal’s latest bit of chicanery, added to what has already been committed, should have left no doubt in anyone’s mind of the baseness and perverseness of Dolan’s and Cekada’s characters.  But, apparently, the sick, sycophant zombies of SGG – like their misguided counterparts in Chambery – are still “doubting” -- they still seem to have not got the message.  Are they hopelessly brain-dead, or are they willfully intransigent?

Well, but one might claim (in their defense) that they may not be aware of what’s going on.  Sorry, chum -- they ARE.  More than a dozen prominent SGG parishioners were sent an e-mail (by one of SAG’s parishioners) containing links to several articles detailing Cekada’s latest hijinks.  He received only ONE RESPONSE – from an SGGer who stated that he had no time to read them because he was on his way to Australia* at the time (well, mate, you’re there now; so why don’t you give them a look?).  So, you see, the SGG parishioners have had more than ample opportunity to see what’s going on; they’ve just chosen to ignore it (in fact, during the past two years, scores of articles have been written -- most of which have fallen on deaf ears).

Actually, SGG’s parishioners wouldn’t have had to read anything from what they consider the “enemy camp.”  They only needed to read from their OWN camp – Cekada’s sorry piece in Quidlibet, or his gloating fiasco about Fr. Ramolla’s imminent, “sure-fire” deportation – to find out what their leaders were really like.  And, of course, let’s not forget Cekada’s Schiavo catastrophe, which virtually every traditional priest on earth condemned (excepting, of course, the vipers and their cohorts at MHT seminary).  No commentary from any outside source on any of this is really needed; it all speaks for itself.

But, like the blind cultists that they are, they simply “swallow and obey” any lies that come down the slop chute from the foxes who run their hen house.  They’ve been so brain-drained and conditioned by the vipers that they can no longer think or discern for themselves, or function in anything like a rational capacity.  What is obvious to a second-grader is now apparently beyond their mental grasp.  They are robots, pre-programmed to obey their masters -- and to reject “conflicting data.”

Are they really that brain-dead?  That certainly can be a piece of it:  they have been conditioned over time to be obedient robots of sorts.  And many, over time, have become narrow-minded hypocrites who condemn people for using “inappropriate language” instead of focusing on the message itself (see A Pristine Example of Hypocrisy), or who accuse people of being “disrespectful to clergy” while totally ignoring said clergy’s disrespect to everyone else (including other clergy).  They have come to confuse sanctimony for piety; they have come to have a notion of “respect” that is both false and selective; they have come to ignore harm that has been done to their co-parishioners – and even their own children (some, realizing that their children were mistreated in SGG’s “school,” have taken them out).  Yet in their sinful complacency, they still stay for the “traditional trappings,” i.e., the “show.”

The net effect of all this is that, for one reason or another, they have become “willfully intransigent” – even though they know that they are wrong.  But their pride is preventing them from admitting it.  Well, get over it, folks.  Get over your pride – before it’s too late.  Your bungling masters will continue to embarrass themselves – and you; and you will find it increasingly difficult to explain it to yourselves, to explain it to your children -- to explain it to anybody.  How many more blatant examples of their duplicity will you need to convince you?  How blatant must Cekada and Dolan get before you wake up and see it for what it is?  How long must the charade go on?

For the overwhelming majority of the traditional community, there is no longer any doubt that the agenda of Anthony Cekada and Daniel Dolan is an evil one.  Cekada’s disgusting letter to all those priests, with its over-the-top gloating about Fr. Markus Ramolla’s impending non-existent deportation; his illogical and vicious attack on a saintly man, a deceased abbot who cannot talk back -- how much longer will you people at SGG support such trash until all doubt is removed about you??

* As a postscript, let me mention that the man on his way to Australia was going there for a serious reason (for which he has our thoughts and prayers in mind), and at the time legitimately had no time to respond to the e-mail sent to him; the fact that he responded at all says more for him then for those who were not under such a burden, but who did not bother to respond at all.  However, enough time has passed that a more appropriate acknowledgement from him (and others) would certainly be appreciated.

Deportation Letter Transcript


The following is a word-for-word transcript of the letter that Anthony Cekada wrote to several priests, where he attempts to convince them that Fr. Markus Ramolla was to be deported.  Of course, it didn’t happen.  Cekada’s arrogant gloating proved to be his usual pack of lies.  This letter can be found in Dr. Thomas Droleskey’s article Removing All Doubt; but, for those who do not have the time (or do not wish to take the time) to read through Droleskey’s entire report, it is reproduced here alone for your convenience.  It is as follows:

Dear Fathers
I just talked with our immigration lawyer and told him we'd gotten a couple of questions about this. He says that nothing in the recent St. Albert the Great bulletin announcement corresponded with the way U.S. immigration law really works.
Here's a summary of the lawyer's explanation:
• Fr. Ramolla went into "unlawful presence" status as soon as we terminated his R-1 status and after he was put into "removal proceedings" by ICE in December 2009. This was automatic.
(BTW, the next hearing in Fr. Ramolla's removal proceeding is slated for May 19 in Cleveland. His bulletin didn't mention that at all.)
• The visa that he got though us until November, 2011 (called an I-94) then immediately became toast -- or Zweiback, if you prefer. It doesn't matter what the expiration date said. The mere existence of an ongoing removal proceeding automatically voided it.
• Once a foreigner is in "unlawful presence" status, the immigration regulations won't allow him to change to legal status while he remains in the U.S. (Exceptions: contracting marriage in the U.S., or facing political persecution and/or torture in the Fatherland).
• To apply for an immigrant visa or a non-immigrant visa again (together with R-1 [religious worker] status sponsored by ORCM, say), Fr. Ramolla would have to go back to Germany and try to apply for the visa and religious worker status at the U.S. Consulate.
• However, even assuming ORCM could jump through the regulations minefield of the interminable and expensive INS procedure for admitting religious workers -- will Bishop McKenna, Bishop Neville and the Sisters let the the Federal Customs and Immigration Service "inspect" their facilities at Monroe and Highland, as required? -- our friend would be up against another problem.
Fr. Ramolla's CIS record is now forever stained with the scarlet words "unlawful presence" and subject of "removal proceeding."
• And since his permanent record will also show that he remained in the U.S. for a full year after the removal proceeding began (from Dec 2009-Dec 2010), the Consulate will inform Fr. Ramolla that U.S. immigration law imposes an automatic 10-year ban on him re-entering the U.S. So, if he'd care to try applying for another visa in connection with ORCM, he would be welcome to come back again in 2021, but not before then.
I looked up the regulation on the 10-year ban. If you're interested in slogging through the legalese, it's discussed on page 8 of this document:
• On the $3,000 legal fee, the lawyer says that potential deportees will sometimes want to string the proceedings along for as long as possible to stay in the country, even when he's told them that in that in the long run, they'll be deported anyway. He makes them sign a statement saying he's told them they'll finally be deported.
I asked him if he were handling Fr. Ramolla's case himself, what defense would he use? After trying to spin out a couple of ideas, he said he couldn't come up with one that could ultimately work.
• The lawyer's conclusion on the rosy claims in the SAG bulletin: No way.
• As regards Fr. Ramolla's trial with CIS on May 19, the lawyer thinks that because their cases are essentially the same, the outcome for Fr. R. will be the same as it was for Bernie Hall: CIS will "allow" Fr. Ramolla to depart "voluntarily" within a certain period of time -- though perhaps a little more than the 60 days Bernie got.
Thus the principal points of how the lawyer reads the situation. He's been handling our immigration work for nearly twenty years now, and he's almost always been right, so I think this is probably the way things will end up.
-- Fr. Cekada

Monday, June 13, 2011

…Or It Will Deal With Thee


Three recent developments have come to pass which should illustrate, even for the most die-hard, brain-dead apologists of Daniel Dolan and Anthony Cekada, the depths to which these vipers – make that vermin – can sink.  The first involves Cekada’s role in the attempted smearing of the character of Bishop Paul Petko (with the intent to discredit Bp. Petko’s ordination of Bernard Hall to the priesthood); the second involves Cekada’s embarrassingly amateurish attempt at convincing his fellow clerics that Fr. Markus Ramolla was to be deported (Cekada’s aim here was obviously to convince those clerics to withdraw their support from Fr. Ramolla, since his deportation was, according to Cekada, virtually a “done deal”).  And the third incident – and this just happened in the past few weeks, involves Cekada embarrassing himself (once again!) with a cowardly attack on a priest known and loved by just about every known traditional Catholic:  Abbot Leonard Giardina.

The first “development” -- Cekada’s role in spreading “dirt” about Bp. Petko – has been thoroughly documented by Dr. Thomas Droleskey.  It was he who did the investigative work to ferret out Cekada’s involvement here; hence, rather than “re-invent the wheel,” I refer the reader to the following article, entitled Removing All Doubt, for details.  However, it is suggested that the reader first finish here before doing so, for two reasons:  first, Dr. Droleskey’s article, being the excellent exposé that it is, covers a lot of territory, in much detail; therefore it is necessarily lengthy.  Secondly, the piece about Bp. Petko comes late in the article, after several other topics (including the other two “developments” with which this article deals).  Hence, this would probably be too much for the reader to “digest” in one sitting.  But, by all means, read it; it is well worth the time spent.  The doctor does his usual masterful job.

For those who have not yet read Dr. Droleskey’s article, let me just say here that the details he relates illuminate Cekada’s past betrayal of (the then Rev. Mr.) Bernard Hall in such a way that makes Cekada’s actions all the more despicable.  And, until the reader has a chance to read Dr. Droleskey’s exposé in full, let me summarize here that it was Cekada who – while Bernard Hall was in the U.S. these last several decades -- was supposed to be (i.e., was personally responsible for) keeping his immigration papers in order, but didn’t.  He used Rev. Mr. Hall, thoroughly exploiting him (while paying him next to nothing), and then, after all his years of faithful service, not only discarded him but reported him to the immigration authorities besides.  What kind of exquisite low-life does it take to do such a thing?

Concurrent with the attempted smearing of Bp. Petko and of the ordination of Fr. Hall, rumors are being circulated about that Fr. Hall’s ordination is invalid, i.e., that he is not a priest.  It is not yet certain who or what the source of these rumors is, but we could hazard some guesses as to where they started (and who is helping them along). There are other ugly rumors, too, being spread about Fr. Hall in Europe – by a priest who was ordained by Dolan.  Rest assured that all of this slander, whether on this side of the Atlantic or the other, will be exposed – and dealt with.

Bp. Petko, by the way, in a subsequent interview with Dr. Droleskey, related how he quit a novus ordo seminary because of its raging homosexuality -- a move that caused him quite a bit of grief, especially from the seminary faculty.  Bp. Petko goes on record as being adamantly opposed to homosexuals and their perverted life-style.  Dolan and Cekada, on the other hand, set a more-than-dubious example for their SGG flock in that regard.  For instance, Birideshead Revisited, British author Evelyn Waugh’s novel about an upper-class Catholic family in pre-WWII England, was one of the books read by SGG’s high-school students for the past several years.  The problem here is that this story deals with upper-class decadence, homosexuality, marital infidelity, and alcoholism, among other things, not to mention a quasi-homosexual (or, to some critics, openly homosexual) relationship between the novel’s two main characters.  In the end, the novel paints a redeeming picture of Catholicism – but it drags itself through a lot of mud on its way there.  At best, it is a novel for mature, seasoned readers, not high-schoolers – especially those in a high-school that bills itself as traditionally Catholic.

Besides this, there is the well-documented immorality and depravity that has gone on at SGG’s school.  Then there is the example that Dolan and Cekada set themselves: two priests traveling together to the Bishop’s Lodge, an upscale resort that caters to the hedonistic pleasure-seeker set.  In view of all of this, Anthony, your insinuated misinformation about Bp. Petko is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black, isn’t it?  And, oh, by the way, there are other “anomalies” about you and your caro compagno that could be mentioned here too; but that will be the subject of a later article.

In his efforts to get his political bedfellows to defame Bp. Petko and to derail the ordination of Fr. Bernard Hall, Cekada’s attempts at both were cowardly, contemptibly Machiavellian (yet embarrassingly amateurish), and – in the end – a miserable failure – except perhaps to those brain-dead zombies at SGG who crave such swill.  But that’s vintage Cekada: trademark arrogance mixed with equal parts of mendacity, vindictiveness, and ineptitude.

But that bit of Cekadaesque chicanery pales in comparison to this next bit of perfidy: his “meisterstück of mayhem,” a letter (after clicking on link, scroll down a short distance to where the letter begins with “Dear Fathers”) that he has just recently published to several traditional clerics, in yet another miserably failed attempt to discredit Fr. Markus Ramolla.  This time, Tony put the shoe so far in his mouth that it made it all the way through his digestive tract. Like many of his other writings, it is vintage Cekada: arrogance, smugness, cockiness, seditious lies, and vindictiveness, all clumsily pieced together -- a tour de force of turpitude – and, like his other efforts, a total, miserable failure. But what sets this letter apart from all of the other swill that Cekada’s poison pen has put out is the sheer MAGNITUDE of his malice.

It was not enough for this Judas to turn Fr. Ramolla (and Bernard Hall) over to the U.S. immigration authorities; he had to brag about it (“Fr. Ramolla went into "unlawful presence" status as soon as we terminated his R-1 status…”), and then boasted later on, ”The visa that he got … then immediately became toast -- or Zweiback, if you prefer” [Zwieback – not Cekada’s misspelled Zweiback --is the German word for toast; in fact, the Germans usually don’t use that word anyway; they use our word “Toast.  It seems that Cekada’s research here matches that of his unscholarly WHH].  Oh, how cute and clever of you, Tony!  You even had to get cocky and flippant, and use the trendy text-messaging shorthand of the day, “BTW” (“By The Way”) at one point in your discourse.  Well, “BTW, Tony,” Sie sind Zwieback (you are toast), “if you prefer” -- because  Fr. Ramolla’s deportation case has been dismissed.  Yes, this is the joyful announcement (scroll down to the “Note from Father” in St. Albert’s Pentecost Sunday bulletin)!  And, hopefully, you and your partner in crime, Danny Daffodil, will be dismissed too -- by your SGG parishioners (at least those with any brains left).

You went on to triumphantly proclaim, “Fr. Ramolla's CIS [Citizenship and Immigration Services] record is now forever stained with the scarlet words ‘unlawful presence’ and subject of ‘removal proceeding.’”  Well, Anthony, little did you realize that in your moment of “triumph,” you cemented your own defeat.  Cekada, you are disgusting; you are vermin.  In your blind hatred and your relentless determination to destroy Fr. Ramolla (and Fr. Hall), you have destroyed yourself.  You and your slime-ball boss should simply go back and crawl into a wormhole where you belong.

You couldn’t wait to boast to your fellow clerics, could you?  In your haste and eagerness to discredit Fr. Ramolla before them, you discredited yourself.  And when you stated, “Fr. Ramolla went into ‘unlawful presence’ status as soon as we terminated his R-1 status…,” you inadvertently tipped your hand  that it was you who turned him into the immigration authorities.  Heretofore, it was a case of “our word against yours” (although there was an eye witness) that this was true.  You have saved us the trouble of proving it, for you have furnished the self-condemning words yourself.  Thank you, Anthony, for rendering us that service!  That fact that you did all of this to a fellow priest (a fellow Alter Christus, if you will) and then boasted about it to other fellow priests – that shows the world, in a way that nothing or no one else can, just how low you can sink, and just what a completely miserable wretch that you are.

What did you hope to gain, first, by slandering Bp. Petko, and then following up with your bone-headed blunder about Fr. Ramolla?  Whom did you think that you were fooling?  And why, if you really don’t care whether Fr. Ramolla sinks or swims, did you, as you mentioned in your letter, follow so closely what was being said about him in the SAG bulletin?  Why take such a keen interest in it?  Why so hell bent on wishing him ill?  And why so eager to report it to the world that you had to send out an unsolicited letter to so many priests to let them know that he was “toast”?

This time, you and/or your lying, groveling apologists at SGG cannot hoodwink a Fr. Stepanich with your misinformation and trick him into being your cat’s paw again.  This time, you cannot command support or acquiescence from him or any other of your fellow clerics; you cannot even expect “neutrality” from them, for you have tipped your hand so openly, so publicly, to so many people, in such an embarrassingly obvious way, that it cannot be kept unconcealed – and you did it yourself.  You cannot refute it; you cannot deny it; it is unimpeachable -- because it’s from your own lips; you are its author.   Even the sniveling SGG saps who usually fall for your “song and dance” cannot deny or explain this one away.

It will be interesting to see who among the SGG faithful will (at long last) come to their senses. Will those who have heretofore turned a blind eye to what’s going on – will they have the intellectual honesty to admit (and face up to) the truth?  And those who simply stay for “the show” – those Barnumesque extravaganzas that Dolan puts on to dazzle the senses of the senseless: will they come to their senses?  Or, lastly, those whose excuse for staying is “Well, we have the valid Mass here,” or “Well, we’ve gone here for years, and see no reason to change now:  will this be the wakeup call that jolts all of them out of their stupors?

The truth is, any SGG parishioners with any brains at all should have figured out long ago what Dolan and Cekada are.  They knew what the score was.  What has kept them from admitting it?  What has kept them at SGG?  Complacency?  Habit?  No, it all boils down to one thing: pride.  Their pride, in one form or another, keeps them there. Pride – like all vices (and it is the worst of them all) – is a self-destructive thing; humility – true humility -- is a self-healing thing. Pride handcuffs people into holding on to their errors, and it makes them willfully blind to the truth.  Humility frees them.  And that’s what the folks at SGG need to do:  get over their pride and accept the truth.

Those who have the courage to do so will be richly rewarded.  The people who have left SGG for SAG (St. Albert the Great) have not regretted it.  At SAG, there will be no recriminations or “I told you so’s.”  You will be warmly welcomed, as a lost sheep is welcomed back into the flock.  And, should you leave there for whatever reason, there will be no “guilt-trip” brow-beating to shame you back into the holding pen, as there is at SGG.  Lastly, you will not be fleeced: SAG’s books are open to its parishioners, not hidden behind a smoke screen, with a Lotarski there barbecuing the books.

Those who, in the past, have sided with Dolan and Cekada against innocent people like Fr. Ramolla, or who have spinelessly remained “neutral,” should now have the courage (and decency) to come forward and openly, i.e., publicly, give him their support – and, conversely, to give Dolan and Cekada the public denunciation that they deserve.  As a previous article pointed out, this is not a time for evasive, acquiescent reticence; it is a time for speaking up and speaking out – especially for those priests who know them from their seminary days – who know who and what they are.

It should by now be clear to everyone that the Dolan-Cekada modus operandi has consistently been one of mendacious slandering and duplicity.  Although Cekada has been of late the main mouthpiece (make that foot-in-mouth piece), Dolan has done his share too (see Daniel Dolan Outdoes Himself This Time, and also his apology sermon, to name just two examples). Dolan and Cekada’s covering up of the abuses at SGG’s school is widely known and well documented, as is their legendarily extravagant life-style.  Cekada’s dubious “accomplishments” are, of course, legion: his celebrated Schiavo folly (see Schiavo Revisited et al) and his School Dazed, both of which were thoroughly and convincingly refuted, are two of his more glaring faux pas.  Actually, just about every time he opens his mouth, one of his feet usually ends up tickling his tonsils.

In fact, just in the past few days, lightning has struck again – which brings us to the third “development”:  In his latest installment of Quidlibet, Cekada has once again made a complete ass out of himself – this time by hurling poison darts at the late Abbot Leonard Giardina, that humble and holy man who has never done or wished anybody any harm -- a man who was loved and respected by the whole traditional community; a man who had been a priest for over fifty years!  Cekada, how could you be so abysmally, recklessly stupid?!!  Are you “losing it”?  Is your mind rotting?  This latest faux pas of yours is so embarrassingly blatant that it merits another article all to itself.

And, in fact, another article – actually, two articles – have already been written (doubtless, more will follow).  Therefore, in the interest of saving myself the effort, I refer the reader to those two pieces: one is on-line (see link on cathinfo), and the other is an editorial slated to be in the June issue of The Four Marks (due out shortly). In it, Phony Tony’s blundering malfeasance is thoroughly, totally laid bare – so much so, in fact, that there is no need for this writer to provide further elaboration.  Simply pick up a copy of The Four Marks, and read it.  The only thing that I will add is to say that Cekada’s slurs against Abbot Giardina are, like those against Bp. Petko, once again, a case of the pot calling the kettle black – except that in BOTH cases, the kettle is hygienically clean, and the pot is the blackest of blacks.  In fact, in the abbot’s case, Cekada’s slurs are unspeakably more despicable: as The Four Marks editorial pointed out, the abbot is deceased and thus unable to answer the slander -- a case of the detestably wicked slandering the saintly dead.

It seems that Dolan and Cekada can’t leave anyone alone.  And, as noted so many times, this has been and continues to be their downfall: they just don’t know when to shut up.  Their tongues continually provide their opponents with fresh and copious quantities of ammunition.  These three latest occurrences of foot-in-mouth disease should convince everyone that SGG is the Titanic -- and Dolan and Cekada are its captain and first officer.  If it is not obvious to one by now, then it will NEVER be.  To SGG’s parishioners: get off the sinking ship.  These two, by their latest perfidy, have (unwittingly) thrown you a lifeline: an excuse to leave SGG.  Seize the opportunity -- use that lifeline!  Get out, while you still can.

A word to Daniel Dolan and Anthony Cekada:  we must thank you vermin once again for providing the rope with which you hanged yourselves.  We didn’t have to lift a finger – you did it all yourselves.  For that, you have our undying gratitude.  You have, of course, once again exposed yourselves as the consummate scoundrels that you are – in a league all by yourself.  To anyone who is at all rational, your credibility and respectability should be ZERO.

You probably never dreamed back in Christmas 2008 that the little snowball that started with Eamon Shea’s standing up to you would grow into the mighty avalanche that it is today.  You probably figured that a little bit of slanderous intimidation on your part would silence him, as it did with so many others.  Well, it didn’t.  The more that you tried to suppress it, the more it has “snowballed.”  You have apparently forgotten all that you were taught about martyrdom and persecution being the fertilizer that makes the Church flourish and multiply – and so it has been in our case: the more you have tried to hurt us, the more we have grown – and the more you have hurt yourselves.  Like that stalking cartoon coyote who keeps trying to “dynamite” his roadrunner prey, your efforts are deliciously futile: they all come back to blow up in your face -- like a boomerang fitted with a nuclear warhead.  What a poetic and fitting manifestation of God’s justice!  In your headlong rush to bring harm to others, you bring God’s retribution upon yourselves!

The little seed that started with one man’s courageous stand back in December 2008 has, thanks to your firing of Fr. Ramolla, grown into St. Albert the Great Church, a thriving congregation, with two satellite locations, and more to come; and your firing of and deportation efforts against Bernard Hall resulted in his becoming Father Bernard Hall.  And, because he was forced by your treachery into returning to England, there is now a satellite operation going on there as well (amazing, isn’t it, how God allows evil, to bring good out of it?!!).  You two, by your persecution, made it all possible.

For that, again we thank you.  And to our thanks, we must add those of Mr. Dennis Gaye.  He, a retired member of the NYPD who, along with his wife Janet has known Fr. Hall for thirty some odd years, has written you a letter, where – with the no-nonsense eloquence of a New York cop -- he too thanks you for setting Fr. Hall’s career-path on the course that it has taken.  To his Bronx brevity, we would like to add a few Bronx “cheers” as well for you two inept Dummkopfs (or Dummköpfe, if you prefer).  As Mr. Gaye so aptly pointed out, thanks to your bungled efforts, we now have another Alter Christus in our fold.

To label Daniel Dolan and Anthony Cekada as scum-sucking pigs would be an absolute disservice to that porcine segment of the animal kingdom; pigs, at the very least, serve a useful purpose in the long scheme of things.  These two don’t.  And they don’t ingest scum; they are scum.  They are vermin.  They are worms.  Someone recently commented that Judas at least derived some pecuniary benefit by getting paid for his treachery; and the fact that he hung himself at least showed some sense of shame on his part.  These two dolts betrayed Frs. Ramolla and Hall “just for the hell of it” -- out of sheer vengefulness and spite – and, of course, have no sense of shame at all.  The reason that they have no shame is that they have no conscience.   These latest acts of treachery should demonstrate to all but the utterly callous just how low these two can sink – and have sunk.

I hope that you folks at SGG are listening.  I hope that you folks at Our Lady of the Sun in Arizona are listening.  And I hope that traditional clerics of every stripe are listening.  Those of you at SGG: how much more of Dolan and Cekada’s monumental arrogance and Byzantine bungling are you willing to put up with – or ignore, or pretend that it’s not there?   To all doubting Thomases (and Thomasinas), and to all those sitting on the sidelines, playing the spineless “hear no evil, see no evil” game: how much longer will you sit there, pretending ignorance and remaining silent? The time for silence and acquiescence is past.  It is time for you to choose which side you want to be on -- and time is running short.  How can it not now be clear to all of you just what kind of creatures that Daniel Dolan and Anthony Cekada are?

Try as they might to disparage and malign innocent men like Fr. Ramolla and Fr. Hall, they will never succeed.  These latest antics of the vipers should vanquish them, and vindicate those whom they have so maliciously slandered.  Frs. Ramolla and Hall, and those of us who support them, have invoked the help of the divine Infant of Prague to our cause.  We know that with His help, we will succeed; we know that God will take care of us – and has:  we have been and continue to be richly rewarded.  The reptiles of Rialto Road, who seek to destroy us, continue to see all of their disruptive efforts go up in flames, because they are not of God; they are not on His side.  And if you follow them, you will follow them into ruin.

To all those folks at SGG and to any still-doubting clerics out there, please remember that you are thinking, rational creatures, and that faith – that any virtue, for that matter – must be based on reason, not on blind, mindless obedience.  A blindly obedient “traddie” is just as bad (and as dangerous) as a blindly obedient Moslem suicide bomber.  Remember too that to blindly ignore the truth is bad, but to knowingly, willfully ignore it is even worse.  Use the brain that God has given you.  Let this Pentecost be your own personal Pentecost:  let the Holy Ghost descend upon you and let His Wisdom enlighten your mind.

Such enlightenment ought to come easily, since, by now, things have become too glaringly obvious to be denied or ignored.  Those who have been paying attention well know that Cekada’s recent acts of treachery are just the latest chapter in a long and continuing process – except that, lately, they have become more and more blatant, and almost devoid of subtlety.  And to anyone with even rudimentary perception, it should be clear that these acts can be neither written off as “anomalies” nor minimalized as “insignificant.”  They cannot and must not be ignored.  “Pretend” time is over, folks.  It’s time to get real.  Deal with reality… or it will deal with thee.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Are You Awake Yet?


They have never met, nor will they – at least, not in this life.  They are about as disparate a pair as one is likely to imagine – the original “odd couple,” so to speak.  Their names are Keith and Joseph.  Keith is a big, hulking guy of forty something.  Joseph is a little baby boy.  What, pray tell, do these two have in common?  Well, little Joseph is Joseph Thomas DiSalvo, the son of Michael and Mary DiSalvo – names that should ring a bell to parishioners both at St. Albert the Great and at SGG alike.

Little Joseph was still-born after the full-term pregnancy of his mother.  He would have been a vibrant, healthy baby boy, but for an umbilical cord which wrapped around his neck and snuffed out his young life. He was eight pounds plus.  He was perfectly formed.  As the Eurasian combination of an Italian father and Indian mother, he probably would have grown up to be a strikingly handsome young man – and with the parents he had, a good and just man.  But God took him.  His loving parents never got a chance to see their little boy grow up.

Little Joseph was laid to rest on a somewhat chilly but bright April day.  There were just a handful of people there at the cemetery.  The ceremony, simple but dignified, was presided over by Fr. Markus Ramolla.  Some appropriate prayers were said.  A Rosary was said by all those present, one of whom was Keith.  Little Joseph was not an important personage – a relative “nobody” – hence no one was under any great obligation to attend his funeral, nor would they “score any points” for being there.  But for the few who were there at the gravesite, no one would have known of Keith’s presence there.  But he was there.  He cared.  And God cared.

He was there because little Joseph meant something to him.  He was there not for appearance’s sake, but because he cared about little Joseph and his parents.  It did not matter to him that he got no big recognition for being there, because he’s not about appearances, he’s about substance.  How refreshing.  How refreshing it is that someone does something not “for the brownie points,” but because it is the right and charitable thing to do – no show, no ostentation, just a simple act of kindness, with no expectation of anything in return.

It is easy to understand, by the way, why the death of Joseph DiSalvo doesn’t signify much to Daniel Dolan.  When Tim and Eileen Duff’s little boy died, Dolan did not – according to the little boy’s father -- shed a single tear.  Yet, when Jeremy Cyr left SGG, Dolan cried.  What kind of person is it who shows no emotion whatsoever for a baby, yet bawls when a grown man leaves him?  Daniel, you didn’t cry when Fr. Ferrera or any of the other priests left, or when scores of other people left.  Why the tears?  What gives?

Little Joseph’s passing was dutifully mentioned in the St. Albert’s bulletin (and from its pulpit) but, of course, not at SGG.  Joseph’s parents, Michael and Mary, were – a year or so back – forcibly ousted from SGG.  They were ousted because they refused to sign an ultimatum -- put before them by SGG’s pastor, Daniel Dolan – denouncing their friend and fellow parishioner, Eamon Shea.  For this, they were not only ousted, but banned from church property, like so many others before – and since.  Hence, it is no great surprise that little Joseph’s passing got no mention or recognition from the SGG clerics: no profit in that, so why bother?

But that just points up what SGG’s clerics are all about:  appearances – “the show,” as Eamon Shea put it.  So, it wasn’t surprising that they passed little Joseph up -- because they’ve done it so many times before.  In fact, they did basically the same thing to Keith, when he was at SGG (Keith, like most of the rest at the gravesite, was a former member of SGG).  While there, he did a lot of volunteering of his efforts – or at least tried to.  But his efforts were more often than not rejected, because Keith was not up there on the “appearances” scale.  At times, he was a bit unkempt; hence, he was forbidden by SGG’s pastor to do any ushering, because he didn’t “look good enough” for the “show.”  And quite often, his offers to volunteer at SGG were declined, for one reason or another.  He was treated as an “embarrassment” to be kept out of sight, to be “swept under the rug.”

Did he resent this? I’m sure he did.  But he didn’t let on.  He took this slighting with good nature and with unsung humility, and did not let it discourage him.  Because of this, some people at SGG have misread him.  They think that because he’s so easy-going and so seemingly “pliant” and “resilient” that he’s “an easy mark” and that he’s weak and gullible.  But another word for “gullibility” is faith; and when it comes to his Faith, Keith is nobody’s fool.  And when it comes to discerning true right from true wrong, Keith is not fooled.  He saw the wrong going on at SGG; and because of it, he -- along with many others -- left.  It is they who have remained there who are the gullible ones.  Keith saw through the SGG façade; they haven’t.  He didn’t fall for “the show.”  He didn’t confuse the cover for the book; they did.   It is they, who think themselves so superior -- pharisaic, sanctimonious hypocrites -- who were in the end just a bunch of small-minded, gullible fools.

Thinking Keith “weak,” they have often tried to “win him back”– to get him to return to the SGG fold.  One of them has tried every “guilt-trip” tactic in the book to try to sway Keith’s mind.  She recently sent Keith letters, replete with letter-of-the-law passages saying that we must show “respect” to priests, regardless of what they do or how they behave, simply because they’re priests.  According to that logic, we must then show respect to Rasputin, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and all the other heresiarchs, because – well – they were priests, weren’t they?  So is Benedict XV (aka Joseph Ratzinger).  Of course, Dolan, Cekada, and Sanborn haven’t respected priests.  They have dishonored and disparaged dozens of clerics – including Fr. Ramolla from the pulpit; but that’s okay, according to this woman.  Her “respect,” like so many of her peers at SGG, is selective.  Only those who agree with “the gospel according to Doaln and Cekada” are respected; all others are “anathema.”  Woman, your logic is empty; you are a hypocrite and a fraud.

This woman’s diatribes have only served to convince Keith of his rectitude all the more, and she has only succeeded in showing herself to be the insincere fake that she is.  She is probably one of the many SGGers who condemns Michael and Mary DiSalvo, Joseph’s parents, for “being disrespectful” as well, because of their support for Eamon Shea.  No doubt, too, this woman thinks that Michael and Mary’s baby “was taken from them” as God’s “punishment” for their aforementioned “wrongdoing.”  The idea that losing their baby is punishment for a “transgression” is, of course, a Calvinistic notion, a protestant thing.  God sends us these crosses as a means for our salvation; He sends them because He loves us.  Just as He tried Job, so He tries us, to test and prove our mettle.

I invite this woman (and others) at SGG to swallow their pharisaic pride and start practicing what they preach (for a change).  They talk about having respect for clergy, when they, like their pastor, had none for priests like Fr. Ramolla.  They speak of forgiving and forgetting, yet they turn a blind eye to their clerics vindictively smearing people, mistreating them, and banning them, as if they were criminal trespassers.  They have seen and heard plenty, both from others, and from their own experience, yet they conveniently sweep it all under the rug.  They protect and shield guilty perpetrators while they revile and blame innocent victims.  No wonder that Calvary happened – these people replicate it every day by their actions.

I also invite those SGG folks to come to St. Albert’s, where substance, not appearance, counts.  Dolan and Cekada have tried to smear and hinder Fr. Ramolla in every way possible.  They unjustly fired him for opposing the evil at SGG’s school; they tried to get him deported; they tried to get Bernard Hall deported.  They have smeared scores of former SGG parishioners; they have made up countless lies about them.  And what is the upshot of all their nefarious efforts?  Persecution has only resulted in St. Albert’s thriving.  Like the blood of martyrs, it has only served to make them grow.  Meanwhile, the SGG empire --and its coffers -- are shrinking, rendering its clerics unable to sustain the opulent lifestyle to which they have become accustomed.  Boohoo, what a shame!

Meanwhile, Bernard Hall has become Father Hall; and, although the SGG vipers’ efforts have forced him to return temporarily to England (and to spend thousands of dollars in attorney’s fees fighting deportation), he will ultimately return, providing St. Albert’s with yet another priest (one more vocation, by the way, than was produced by SGG).  St. Albert’s is also ahead of schedule to buy and secure their facility – and with a roof that doesn’t leak, I might add!  St. Albert’s can’t help but continue to flourish, since its pastor does not require being fed at the Grand Finalé or being put up at the Bishop’s Lodge.  His needs are simple; the money at St. Albert’s goes for its parishioners, not to enhance its pastor’s lifestyle.

Lastly, I ask the parishioners of SGG to give up their sham ignorance of what they know has been going on.  You have seen it with your own eyes; the evidence has been put before you on a silver platter.  You have absolutely NO EXCUSE to ignore the truth that has been staring you in the face for quite some time.  Get over your gullibility or your hypocrisy, whichever the case may be.  And stop insulting our intelligence (and your own) by pretending to take the moral high ground, because you have none.  You are standing on quicksand.  The vipers whom you so obsequiously defend and apologize for are morally bankrupt; and they will end up turning on you, like the vipers that they are, just as they have done to so many innocent victims in the past.

This woman who wrote to Keith asked him why so many people “left the home of the Blessed Sacrament and take to the internet instead?”  She goes on to say, “I fear souls will be lost by this very uncatholic behavior.”  Woman, are you insane?!!  First off, people have not “left the home of the Blessed Sacrament”; they have left SGG, and they still have the Blessed Sacrament – at St. Albert’s.  And as far as “taking to the internet” is concerned, what do you think Anthony Cekada has been doing?  He’s been hard at it on the internet (Quidlibet, School Dazed, etc.).  Do people not have a right to use that same medium to defend themselves against his poison?  Again, you need a remedial lesson in logic and clear thinking.  Maybe that will remedy your uncatholic behavior!

You dare to ask the reasons why so many people have left SGG?  Have you not read the myriad letters that so many have written stating those reasons?  Have not the rest of you at SGG done so as well?  Do not sit there and feign ignorance while at the same time refusing to lift a finger to inform yourselves of the constant barrage of information that has come your way.  Stop your fake pretending.  The reason that so many of you are “ignorant of the facts” is that you preemptively choose to ignore them; you blindly obey your cult leaders’ directives forbidding you to listen to anything said against them, yet you have the gall to imply that nothing in that vein has been said!  Hellooooooooo!!

Stop the hypocrisy.  Stop the pretense of righteous indignation.  And above all, stop the pretended, sanctimonious, and condescending façade of “pity” and “praying for us” that disguises and belies the poisonous acrimony of your guilty hearts.  Have the humility and honesty to admit your error.  Stop “stone-walling” the just, and look introspectively at your own injustice and lack of charity.  If you have the humility to do so, you will be rewarded, both materially and spiritually.  Come join a winning team – St. Albert the Great – where you will be appreciated, not exploited.  St. Albert the Great is all about substance, not about “the show.”  It’s about the book, not the cover.  Unlike SGG, it doesn’t have a fancy cover; it doesn’t need one. SGG needs a fancy cover, because there’s nothing inside.  And, speaking of books, St. Albert’s financial books are open to the parishioners, not hidden behind some Dolan-esque smoke screen.

It is interesting to note that, right after the announcement that Bernard Hall was to be ordained to the priesthood, “rumors” started being circulated around SGG about the bishop (Bishop Petko) who was to ordain him – rumors casting doubts on the bishop’s character – my oh my, what convenient timing!  How many of the SGG parishioners who patently deny what has been (correctly) alleged about their clerics are ready to believe anything and everything that reflects negatively on Bishop Petko – and, by some sort of “guilt by association,” on Father Hall as well.

First off, whatever is said about Bishop Petko – whether provable or not -- in no way takes away from the validity of Fr. Hall’s ordination, his credentials, or his character.  And, secondly, where is the proof?  Why do these folks deny the accusations against Dolan and Cekada -- which are provable – and readily accept hearsay that is not.  Why your readiness to believe the worst in one case, while categorically “forgiving and forgetting” in the other?  Why the selective credence, folks?  It seems to be another case of believing what one wants to believe, and rejecting what does not line up with one’s preconceived biases and misconceptions.

In an interview with Bishop Petko, Dr. Thomas Droleskey has ferreted out several facts which expose some of the slanderous clamor stirred up recently by gossip mongers seeking to discredit the bishop and, by extension, Bernard Hall’s ordination to the priesthood.  As time goes by, more facts will surface to refute those rumors; and the treacherous intentions of their detractors will be exposed for the counterfeit “concern” and vindictive, pharisaic defamation that they are.  Those who fit that mold – those who have ignored the hard evidence against the SGG vermin and yet who credulously swallow and spread groundless fabrications against innocent men – shame on you.  Before it’s too late, have the honesty and courage to face up to the truth – the truth that you have seen but have so far refused to admit.

Most of the traditional community sees the SGG clerics for what they are:  hucksters who put on a good, nostalgic “traddy show” for those who “long for the good old days.”  But that’s all it is – a fancy cover, with no book inside.  Dolan and Cekada are simply two parasites living off the sweat of their parishioners, who -- in exchange for their "nostalgia" -- slave away so that these two can live in style and take junkets to Europe, Mexico – and, of course, their favorite -- the Bishop’s Lodge.  All of SGG’s former major benefactors have wised up and have left, no longer supporting their schemes.  Apparently, the same holds true (in Florida) for the Selway family, who seem to have had a belly full of Sanborn’s pipe dreams.  Otherwise, why would big Don now have to go out and solicit from other sheep for his swampland parking lot et al?  Both in Florida and in Ohio, Dolan, Cekada, and Sanborn’s former benefactors have woke up and have seen these three for what they are.  For you folks at SGG, the alarm clock is ringing.  Are you awake yet?