Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Catholics Kicked Out of Cathedral After Handing Petition to apostate Abp. Gomez

by David Nussman • ChurchMilitant.com • February 20, 2019

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LOS ANGELES
(ChurchMilitant.com)
- Two Catholics were kicked out of the LA cathedral after trying to hand a petition to Abp. Jose Gomez.

Brother Christopher Sale and a Catholic layman using the name John Paul Norris approached Abp. Gomez in a walkway after Sunday Mass at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral on Feb. 17. The archbishop's security workers tried to stop the two men from getting too close to Abp. Gomez. But the archbishop allowed them to speak, at least initially.

The men were trying to present to Abp. Gomez a copy of a petition to remove retired Cdl. Roger Mahony, his predecessor in the Los Angeles archdiocese. The petition, launched last year, has garnered more than 7,000 signatures. It calls for Cdl. Mahony to be condemned by Church leaders, punished by the Vatican and investigated by law enforcement for covering up sexually abusive clergy.

While Cdl. Mahony was officially relieved of many public duties in 2013 owing to his legacy of clerical sex abuse cover-ups, he remains embedded in the Los Angeles archdiocese. For instance, he is slated to speak at this year's LA Religious Education Conference.

A short video of the encounter was shared by Clean the Church. In the video, things turn south after someone mentions the name of disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick (recently laicized). A security guard intervenes, saying, "No talking about that, I'm sorry."

Security officers quickly turned against Norris and Bro. Christopher, widening the space between them and the archbishop. It is unclear whether this was due to the mention of McCarrick's name or the fact that they were being videotaped.

Brother Christopher complied with the security officers, who escorted him from the premises.
"The faithful were appalled to see a man wearing a religious habit being escorted off the cathedral grounds," Brother Christopher told Church Militant in an email correspondence on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Norris persisted in calling out to Abp. Gomez and trying to get past the security team.
Norris told Church Militant he managed to pass on the text of the petition to the priest walking alongside the archbishop, but not the list of signatures — which he says is several hundred pages.
He tried evading one security worker and explained he was trying to give the archbishop the signatures for the petition. The security officer advised Norris, "You can turn them in to the office, if you want. You can go inside the office."
He mentioned to Church Militant that there had been efforts in the past to make sure Abp. Gomez would see the petition himself.
As the security officer continued blocking Norris' path to Abp. Gomez, another worker told him, "It's private property. He said you can't."
Norris replied, "I understand, but he's my bishop. I have the right to ask him a question, he's my bishop."
He called out as Abp. Gomez and the others walked away, "Bishop Gomez! Do something about Mahony!"
Church Militant reached out to the archdiocese of Los Angeles to get Abp. Gomez's side of the story. No response was received by press time.

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Norris told Church Militant in a phone interview Tuesday that he found it ironic that Abp. Gomez supports immigration but "basically kicks people out" of the cathedral.
Brother Christopher commented on the incident, "I would imagine he [Abp. Gomez] regrets how he handled the situation. He just turned his security team loose on us and they behaved like a bunch of mafia thugs. Really shameful."
He also stated, "Had we been hostile I could understand. We were extremely courteous."
"I have written letters to Gomez over the years," Bro. Christopher mentioned. "This was the first time I met him."
"He did send a letter once to tell me he commended my work," he added, "but he didn't think I needed to wear a religious habit. I wrote him back telling him that God put this habit on me and that's where it's going to stay."

Church Militant interviewed Bro. Christopher in 2016. He described a powerful conversion experience in which the Lord brought him away from drug addiction and same-sex attraction.

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St John Chrysostom

Our Lord having reproached the Jews with blindness, they might have said, We are not blind, but we avoid you as a deceiver. Our Lord therefore gives the marks which distinguish a robber and deceiver from a true shepherd. First come those of the deceiver and robber: Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. There is an allusion here to Antichrist, and to certain false Christs who had been, and were to be. The Scriptures He calls the door. They admit us to the knowledge of God, they protect the sheep, they shut out the wolves, they bar the entrance to heretics. He that uses not the Scriptures, but climbs up some other way, i.e. some self-chosen, some unlawful way, is a thief. Climbs up, He says, not, enters, as if it were a thief getting over a wall, and running all risks. Some other way, may refer too to the commandments and traditions of men which the Scribes taught, to the neglect of the Law. When our Lord further on calls Himself the Door, we need not be surprised. According to the office which He bears, He is in one place the Shepherd, in another the Sheep. In that He introduces us to the Father, He is the Door, in that He takes care of us, He is the Shepherd. (Catena Aurea)

LIBERTAS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
35. And as to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits, and end at last by making no apparent distinction between truth and error, honesty and dishonesty. And because the Church, the pillar and ground of truth, and the unerring teacher of morals, is forced utterly to reprobate and condemn tolerance of such an abandoned and criminal character, they calumniate her as being wanting in patience and gentleness, and thus fail to see that, in so doing, they impute to her as a fault what is in reality a matter for commendation. But, in spite of all this show of tolerance, it very often happens that, while they profess themselves ready to lavish liberty on all in the greatest profusion, they are utterly intolerant toward the Catholic Church, by refusing to allow her the liberty of being herself free.

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St. Vincent Ferrer -- Sermon on the Last Judgment: In the same way, in the time of Antichrist, the Sun of justice will be obscured by the interposition of temporal goods and the wealth which Antichrist will bestow on the world, inasmuch as the brightness of faith in Jesus Christ and the glow of good lives will no longer shine among Christians. For, lest they should lose their dominion, temporal rulers, kings and princes will range themselves on the side of Antichrist. In like manner, prelates for fear of losing their dignities, and religious and priests to gain honors and riches, will forsake the Faith of Christ and adhere to Antichrist.

Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal aspect of the object, without which the species of the habit cannot remain. Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in Holy Writ and the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth. Consequently whoever does not adhere, as to an infallible and Divine rule, to the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth manifested in Holy Writ, has not the habit of faith, but holds that which is of faith otherwise than by faith. Even so, it is evident that a man whose mind holds a conclusion without knowing how it is proved, has not scientific knowledge, but merely an opinion about it. Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in error. Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 5, a. 3)