One thing is clear. No organization, not even one holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, is immune from the whims of the arrogant bureaucrat.
For reasons it shouldn’t be hard to fathom, some bureaucrat at the under-secretariat of stupidity at the USCCB released a statement pointing out that one group out of likely hundreds of groups that will be opportunistically present during World Youth Day in Madrid is not “official” and not “accredited.” RealCatholicTV and Michael Voris.
Patrick Madrid remarks
This is quite unusual, perhaps even unprecedented, in the 27-year history of the Vatican-sponsored World Youth Day (WYD) events held every three years in a major city around the world. The official WYD website contains the following announcement in which it takes the remarkable step of publicly spurning American Catholic Internet commentator Michael Voris
Quite unusual indeed and also quite unnecessary. Voris remarks that this same bureaucracy did not and does not feel compelled to issue written statements about the dozens of “Catholic” groups who attend these things and openly defy Church teaching and give out condoms and such things. No warnings about them. But Voris gets a written denunciation of his unofficiality. How silly.
Whomever issued this statement should be fired so that they can take up their rightful position on some Obamacare death panel.
You can see Voris’ response to this silliness here.
July 29, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Judging from some of the children's religious education textbooks the USCCB people "accredit" as well as various other things historically I don't think their stated ability to accredit anything goes very far.
July 29, 2011 at 3:53 pm
"WHOever issued this statement…"
Catholics are held to a higher standard.
July 29, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Your link doesn't go to Voris' response anymore. Here is the link:
http://realcatholictv.blogspot.com/2011/07/no-bull-in-madrid.html
August 1, 2011 at 4:29 am
Come on, you guys, read the whole story. Voris was planning on running his own catechesis classes out of the hotel he's staying at. WYD officials are just making it known that he's not an official WYD catechist (only bishops are official WYD catechists) in case some people think that he has some official connection to WYD. Bottom line is, Voris is not officially affiliated with WYD, and WYD is making that clear.
Mark Shea has written three sentences about this and they are all factual, with no commentary. Get a grip.