Jeer Jeer at Ol' Notre Dame

 

{Hat tip to Fr. Z - see http://wdtprs.com/blog/2009/09/nds-mcbrien-eucharistic-adoration-is-a-doctrinal-theological-and-spiritual-step-backward/}

Father Richard McBrien, the Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford, paid consultant for the film "The DaVinci Code," and writer for for theNational Catholic Reporter and for The Tidings in Los Angeles, states in a recent essay:

"Eucharistic adoration, perpetual or not, is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward, not forward."

The full text of his latest heretical bombast may be found at:

http://ncronline.org/blogs/essays-theology/perpetual-eucharistic-adoration

One wonders, how? How can a "priest," a professor of theology at a "Catholic" university, a man vowed to "obedience" to some bishop, publicly attack Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar?

Well first, Fr. Mc Brien teaches theology at a "Catholic" University run by this guy...

 

Our old friend Notre Dame President Fr. John L. Jenkins, CSC with his new friend.

It would seem to me that the one person who can begin to set this right is this man....

The Most Reverend Henry J. Mansell, D.D.
Fourth Archbishop of Hartford

• Ordained December 19, 1962, in Rome
• Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of New York November 1992
• Ordained Bishop by Pope John Paul II in Rome January 6, 1993
• Installed as the twelfth Bishop of Buffalo June 12, 1995
• Appointed Archbishop of Hartford October 20, 2003
• Installed as the fourth Archbishop of Hartford December 18, 2003

I, for my part, am going to write him a letter.

Most Rev. Henry J. Mansell

Archdiocese of Hartford

134 Farmington Avenue

Hartford, CT 06105-3784

and I'm going to pray for Fr. McBrien at my scheduled holy hour (Thursday mornings at 1:00 am) at my local parish where I am proud to say there has been perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for the last 8 years!

Comments

[MVH]

Looks like in a way, McBrien is part of the fullment of the Third Message of Our Lady of Akita.

It's scary that he just might be so obstinate that he doesn't realize what he is doing.

May G-d have mercy on him and the rest of us.

[BBC]

Jesus never adorned Himself with jewels. When He sent the disciples out, He instructed them to not take any silver of gold. Why is the Eucharist always adorned with decorative gold? Was Jesus born in a palace? In John 4, Jesus tells the Samaritan woman that a time will come where the people of God will worship in spirit and in truth. Spirit is unseen, so why bow before what is seen? Paul talks about this in Acts 17 when he addresses the Areopagus. "God does not dwell in anything made by human hands." Prayer for communion, talks about what human hands have made, and we bow before this? Does not seem right. I applaud this man, get rid of the benediction.