After we posted last night a link to Deacon Sandy’s homily of last week in which he disgracefully insulted and put forth for ridicule Pope Benedict, Deacon Sandy tried to remove the video.
He wrote to me this morning and made the following claim about the picture:
“I ask you to understand that I did not in fact know that the image used was Pope Benedict. (I am still not sure it is – I am curious – how do you know it is?) I got the picture from an image library as a result of searching for “fine vestments”. I chose the image because it was cropped and did not reveal who was in the vestments shown.”
I am sorry, but this denial in my opinion it strains credulity to the point of breaking and way beyond. The context of the insult and the tittering and laughter of the crowd make it obvious that they all knew as well.
How do I know? Because the Pope and his shoes have been the subject of many articles and have been a favorite cause of derision by progressive Catholics toward Pope Benedict for years. Years.
This was again just highlighted when dozens and dozens of articles compared Pope Francis’ black shoes to Pope Benedict’s shoes for the purpose of saying that the Pope Emeritus was all about pomp.
In other words, progressives used that same picture in exactly the same way to deride the same man.
I find implausible that Deacon Sandy did not know this or that his intent was anything other than the same. Thus unable to believe Deacon Sandy, I find it even more troubling that he can seemingly prevaricate with such facility.
So rather than admit the obvious, Deacon Sandy would have s believe that he is a complete ignoramus. Who else wears a white cassock with red shoes Deacon?
But Deacon Sandy had one more comment for me. He wanted me to know that he is the victim in all this:
I have to share with you Patrick that the instances over the past several weeks have been very painful and hurtful. I wish you and others who read in CMR no ill will and respect the good intent of what you do. I do not ask that you or anyone else agree with me – what is troubling is the dark nature of the commentary, and the accusatory, divisive and judgmental tone.
What do you think?
March 11, 2014 at 4:13 pm
What a crock of ______.
March 11, 2014 at 4:44 pm
How do we know, Deacon? Because the Pope Benedict's coat of arms is on the sash. It is so obvious, how could you miss it?
March 11, 2014 at 5:04 pm
Pope Benedict or not (although Claves pointed out the coat of arms) it is clearly a Pope who is being disparaged.
March 11, 2014 at 5:09 pm
Fredx2:
I'm afraid we are only deluding ourselves if we think that the Cardinal did not confirm this poor man in his sin. By his words, his voice inflections and, yes, his cowardice, he did indeed give the homosexuals exactly what they wanted to hear.
Dolan was our Ordinary for a few years here so we know him quite well, sad to say.
March 11, 2014 at 5:30 pm
He only manifests if you say his name three times….
March 11, 2014 at 5:35 pm
This Special Little Snowflake can dish it out, but he can't take it.
March 11, 2014 at 6:41 pm
Other than a married deacon does not take a vow of celibacy (an unmarried deacon does, on the way to priesthood or not), there is no difference in the Rite of Ordination itself.
March 11, 2014 at 7:02 pm
The real tragedy is that Deacon Sandy at Good Shepherd is just a sampling of one of thousands of deacon/priests who wander the "stage" with overbearing self-worth and 1970s fodder. Each of these "preachers" are flanked by a folk choir equally aggrandizing but unaware that their awkward kitsch is the cause of so many young people leaving the Church who are searching for serious and elegant spirituality.
March 11, 2014 at 8:09 pm
Thank you, David. I recall when Papa Bene said that.
I laughed and laughed.
What a great attitude!
March 11, 2014 at 8:25 pm
Is it any surprise that his church is nearly empty?
Maybe more pop bands and big screen TV's will pull 'em in. That'll do it.
March 11, 2014 at 9:38 pm
MOTHER'S SON
Deformed
Love
Is applauded
Misguided
Sentiment
All the rage.
Child-like
Innocence
Is marauded
Mother's rape
Has weakened
Her gauge.
But somewhere
There are
Fields of clover,
Hearth fires
Glow…glassed
In red
And cliffs
Where souls
Climb over and over
Still reach
The hill
Where Mother's Son bled.
Merci Marcel!
March 11, 2014 at 9:39 pm
Permanent deacons are nothing but a useless appendage foisted upon us by VCII. This guy is the worst example, but most of them are crass modernists, with a stiff clericalistic bent.
March 11, 2014 at 9:39 pm
Any good canonists around who could make the deacon pay for his insults to the pope?
March 11, 2014 at 9:52 pm
On the complete absurdity of "full communion," search the net for this essay:
Gnostic Twaddle, by Christopher Ferrara
March 11, 2014 at 10:10 pm
Oh snap! You just cracked me up!! Haha
March 11, 2014 at 10:14 pm
Great read. So sad that this is Catholic, but sspx continues to be castigated (most recently by Karl Keating)
March 11, 2014 at 10:28 pm
Praise God the pews are empty. Perhaps that is because you are lukewarm, therefore God will spew (puke) you out of His mouth!
March 11, 2014 at 10:48 pm
Sounds like an encounter group. They don't kneel – I wonder if they sit. I stopped watching when he started talking about the ministers recognizing the presence of Christ in the assembly. Before I knew that yoga wasn't ok, that's how the yoga sessions I attended started and ended. I don't know if I will finish watching but I do know I'm glad that isn't my parish. And mocking our dear Papa Benedict is abominable. I agree that this deacon should be prevented from giving homilies until the Bishop reigns him in – as well as the congregation that likes such liturgies.
March 11, 2014 at 10:54 pm
Just what I thought it would be: Weakland is an embarrassing heretic, therefore SSPX should enjoy full faculties.
That's along the lines of trying to argue your way out of a traffic ticket because OJ Simpson got away with murder, or that Richard Nixon must be alive because Herod the Great was in even worse shape before he died, which was almost 2000 years before Nixon's death. Yet it is one of the first things to come out of the mouths of SSPX supporters.
An organization that depends on fallacious support is not an organization worth supporting.
March 12, 2014 at 12:12 am
He seems kind of Pharasaical. In effect, he is thumping his chest and saying "Look what a good Christian I am, I am not like that Pope who wears Prada shoes'
Only the shoes were not Prada at all. They are quite very normal shoes.But Deacon Sandy chose to believe the foul lies that went around when Benedict was first made Pope, that the shoes were Prada when they weren't. Question: why would Sandy believe an easily disprovable lie about the Pope?