Franciscan University Of Steubenville: “A nerve center of traditionalist Catholicism” (!?)
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
I am a graduate of Franciscan University (B.S. Business, MBA.) and thus I feel the need to make commentary on this recent article published by the Pittsburgh Post Gazaette. Although "decent" strides have been made by the University to become more "traditional" in appearance, due to Vatican II, Franciscan remains a "far cry" as a nerve center for traditional Catholicism. You cannot be Catholic and adhere to the teachings of Vatican II it is impossible. Having said this, I still know MANY "good willed" people both professors and laymen, from the University, who are sadly following along in false obedience who are now beginning to scratch their heads and "see what we are saying". I continue to pray for them all daily. What might be a shock to many (from the outside) is that some professors and laymen even support the Resistance and reiterate what we say privately. I know a decent amount of students who support the Resistance and refuse to go to Mass on campus we even drive one individual weekly to Mass where we attend 30 minutes outside of Franciscan.
Can Franciscan "get its act together" and truly become a nerve center for the Counter-Revolution, Catholic Resistance and ultimately lend a great hand in the re-education process of what true Catholicism is, the overturning of Vatican II, etc? I do believe so. Our Lady has called me back to the area to help lead this area into moving into the right direction. I believe this area will be key in the restoration to come as America literally falls apart. For those who think this is funny in the traditionalist circles I remind you how even pagan Rome converted. God seemingly uses those who we think have no business truly doing His work and in this case there is great opportunity in the Ohio Valley to be a "hot bed" for Resistance and the Counter Revolution. Will Ye follow me in this New Crusade fellow friends and alumni, DEUS VULT! The "tide must turn" in this war against the new religion it might as well be with thee. The day of Wrath is upon us and the eagles are gathering. #Catholic #Resistance
Let me highlight the misleading statements/errors of this article in red:
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Attractive young singers accompanied by electric
guitars, bass and drums led off with high-octane worship music at the
crowded college fieldhouse on a warm July night. More than 2,000
teenagers teens sang along, raised their hands and hopped up and down
beneath colored spotlights while swatting around a beachball and an
inflatable shark (sound traditional yeesh! sounds more like Francis was in town).
It might seem like a cross between a mosh pit and an evangelical Protestant megachurch — except for the replica of the medieval crucifix on stage and the nearby statue of the Virgin Mary (there is no mixture between Protestantism/Pentecostalism and Catholicism).
Before the night was over, speakers were encouraging the hushed teenagers to go to confession, pray before the consecrated sacrament and practice other traditional Catholic pieties (to do so doesnt make one Catholic; we are doctrine first peoples).
It was the opening night of a three-day Steubenville Youth Conference sponsored by Franciscan University here. Twenty more like it have been taking place here and across North America throughout this summer.
The Friday-through-Sunday gatherings draw 50,000 teenagers, many riding 12 or more hours by bus, to what has become a rite of passage for many young American Catholics over the past four decades.
It’s just one of the ways that Franciscan University, located in this small post-industrial county seat on the Ohio River, has become a nerve center of traditionalist Catholicism in America (not even a chance; not at this point anyways)— a network of broadcasters, publications and other groups reaffirming church dogma (they follow Vatican II modernism/liberalism/Masonry therefore heresy and the new religion), devotions and the policy priorities of bishops in opposing abortion and gay marriage.
A Steubenville Youth Conference is “unlike any other environment,” said Alex Grob, 18, of St. Catherine of Sweden Church in Hampton, who was attending for the second time. “As a teenager, it’s hard to find an environment like this, when you’re with so many kids who are trying to celebrate and live out their faith (Vatican II is not our Faith).”
Added Zach Probst, 17, also of St. Catherine, who was attending the mid-July conference to cap off a weeklong leadership training at Franciscan University: “I couldn’t even describe it, the change I went through.”
Attending just days after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the land, he added. “I felt the church is losing a lot of battles. But after this week, I know there are youth who are going to be strong in the church. I hope I will be one.”
The influence of such conferences is widely felt. At least one in 10 newly ordained American Catholic priests has gone through a Franciscan University youth conference as a teenager, as have one in five new nuns, according to recent studies by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.
So have many lay leaders in the church. Franciscan University, half of whose students attended a summer youth conference, counts about 700 lay alumni as currently working in full-time church jobs, not including another 400 ordained priests.
At the closing Mass of each youth conference, teens are invited to come forward if they’re considering a future in the priesthood or a religious order.
Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik (this Bishop is an egregious heretic, conservatives in the Novus Ordo are heretics, always attacking real catholics not following the new religion; attacking us implying we are heretical/schismatic in print in Pittsburgh), who celebrated the closing Mass at a Steubenville gathering earlier this summer, was surprised at the large response. LINK http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/1010-the-limits-to-ecumenical-outreach-bishop-zubik-and-the-sspx
“There were several hundred young people who came forward,” he said. “Not that all of these people are eventually going to become priests and sisters, but at least they’re taking their faith seriously enough that it was an option.”
The conferences offer “a fun Catholic event (typical novus ordo all about party time and fun; this is not Catholicism), which doesn’t always go together,” said the Rev. Father Matt Lamoureux of St. Patrick Church in Yorkville, Ill., who was accompanying 90 youths from two parishes to this year’s event in what’s become an annual trek. He first experienced Steubenville as a seminarian and “saw how powerful it was for youth,” he said. “When I was assigned as a priest, I knew we had to do it.”
About 10,000 teens have attended five conferences in Steubenville this summer, with another 40,000 projected at 16 other conferences at locations from Halifax to San Diego. The university also sponsors conferences for adults that are reaching 6,000 this year. This year is the 40th year of the adult conferences and 39th for its youth conferences.
“They’re sacramentally based, we have dynamic praise and worship (also known as Protestantism), we have speakers who are nationally known,” said Mark Joseph, executive director of Christian outreach for Franciscan University.
Such speakers at the recent July weekend included the Rev. Leo Patalinghug, and accomplished chef who has become a media presence with his “Grace Before Meals” movement that seeks to promote family togetherness around the dinner table. He led the teens in an examination of conscience before a scheduled time in which dozens of priests would be hearing confessions. Mixing in recent pop-culture allusions to “Twilight” and “The Lord of the Rings,” he had the teens reflecting on sins ranging from dishonoring parents to dabbling in the occult to indulging in pornography.
”You find saints in the confessional because in confession you admit the truth: ‘I ain’t a saint, but I want to be one,’ ” said Father Patalinghug.
Several teens interviewed in July said a highlight of the youth conferences is the Saturday night time of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, in which a priest carries the consecrated host through the darkened arena, and teens raise their hands in sometimes-tearful prayer and praise. Franciscan has also long been associated with the Catholic charismatic movement (a protestant movement that has infiltrated the Church) , which blends Catholic piety with exuberant, Pentecostal-like worship.
Mr. Joseph traced the university’s trajectory to the Rev. Michael Scanlan, the retired longtime president who determined that in the face of liberalizing trends, “we need to take a hard right and be more Catholic.” (oh goodness)
Such traditionalism (this is not traditionalism) is in minority among self-identified American Catholics today, many of whom dissent on such issues as gay marriage and birth control, according to surveys. But it’s in favor among many at the church’s altars, front pews and microphones, including priests and others who came of age during the long pontificate of St. John Paul II (John Paul was a modernist not a Catholic; Franciscan even has a new statue of him with the condemned bent cross) and were shaped by his conservative social views and devotions.
A lifesize image of John Paul greets conference participants at the fieldhouse, even in the era of pontiff who sainted him, Pope Francis (Francis is even worse than JPII), who took his name from the founder of the Franciscan order associated with the university.
Sam Rocha, an academic and blogger who graduated from Franciscan and played guitar at some of its conferences about 15 years ago, said he has mixed feelings about the conferences and their legacy.
Growing up in a small rural parish in Texas, attending a conference offered the first chance to see “there’s a lot of Catholics out there” and to bond with them, said Mr. Rocha, now a professor of educational studies at the University of British Columbia.
But he lamented that he hears more commentary coming out of Franciscan about culture-war battles than about fighting poverty or environmental degradation (those are Marxist campaigns wake up Mr Rocha!), signature priorities of Pope Francis.
And the high-energy conference experience can “go into a sentimentalism that, if not properly understood or discerned, can lead people in many cases to a more stranded spirituality after the feelings wear off,” Mr. Rocha said. “I’m almost speaking autobiographically. Nonetheless, I think there’s grace, and that can intervene in any structural weaknesses.”( Franciscan needs to step up and join the Resistance and counter revolution, remove the silly protestantism novelties, resist Vatican II, the New Mass and the whole Vatican II Revolution as a whole. (The question is will they be a leader or wait till after the chastisements when all hell has broken loose in the world? Without proper doctrine sadly Franciscan is a Protestant University following the Revolutionary principles of FreeMasonry which soon ends in a formal unification of all religions. Let us keep in prayer, one Rosary a day, for Franciscan my friends!)
Related:
http://tradcatknight.blogspot.com/2015/07/novus-ordo-when-jesus-meets-elvis.html
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It might seem like a cross between a mosh pit and an evangelical Protestant megachurch — except for the replica of the medieval crucifix on stage and the nearby statue of the Virgin Mary (there is no mixture between Protestantism/Pentecostalism and Catholicism).
Before the night was over, speakers were encouraging the hushed teenagers to go to confession, pray before the consecrated sacrament and practice other traditional Catholic pieties (to do so doesnt make one Catholic; we are doctrine first peoples).
It was the opening night of a three-day Steubenville Youth Conference sponsored by Franciscan University here. Twenty more like it have been taking place here and across North America throughout this summer.
The Friday-through-Sunday gatherings draw 50,000 teenagers, many riding 12 or more hours by bus, to what has become a rite of passage for many young American Catholics over the past four decades.
It’s just one of the ways that Franciscan University, located in this small post-industrial county seat on the Ohio River, has become a nerve center of traditionalist Catholicism in America (not even a chance; not at this point anyways)— a network of broadcasters, publications and other groups reaffirming church dogma (they follow Vatican II modernism/liberalism/Masonry therefore heresy and the new religion), devotions and the policy priorities of bishops in opposing abortion and gay marriage.
A Steubenville Youth Conference is “unlike any other environment,” said Alex Grob, 18, of St. Catherine of Sweden Church in Hampton, who was attending for the second time. “As a teenager, it’s hard to find an environment like this, when you’re with so many kids who are trying to celebrate and live out their faith (Vatican II is not our Faith).”
Added Zach Probst, 17, also of St. Catherine, who was attending the mid-July conference to cap off a weeklong leadership training at Franciscan University: “I couldn’t even describe it, the change I went through.”
Attending just days after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the land, he added. “I felt the church is losing a lot of battles. But after this week, I know there are youth who are going to be strong in the church. I hope I will be one.”
The influence of such conferences is widely felt. At least one in 10 newly ordained American Catholic priests has gone through a Franciscan University youth conference as a teenager, as have one in five new nuns, according to recent studies by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.
So have many lay leaders in the church. Franciscan University, half of whose students attended a summer youth conference, counts about 700 lay alumni as currently working in full-time church jobs, not including another 400 ordained priests.
At the closing Mass of each youth conference, teens are invited to come forward if they’re considering a future in the priesthood or a religious order.
Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik (this Bishop is an egregious heretic, conservatives in the Novus Ordo are heretics, always attacking real catholics not following the new religion; attacking us implying we are heretical/schismatic in print in Pittsburgh), who celebrated the closing Mass at a Steubenville gathering earlier this summer, was surprised at the large response. LINK http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/1010-the-limits-to-ecumenical-outreach-bishop-zubik-and-the-sspx
“There were several hundred young people who came forward,” he said. “Not that all of these people are eventually going to become priests and sisters, but at least they’re taking their faith seriously enough that it was an option.”
The conferences offer “a fun Catholic event (typical novus ordo all about party time and fun; this is not Catholicism), which doesn’t always go together,” said the Rev. Father Matt Lamoureux of St. Patrick Church in Yorkville, Ill., who was accompanying 90 youths from two parishes to this year’s event in what’s become an annual trek. He first experienced Steubenville as a seminarian and “saw how powerful it was for youth,” he said. “When I was assigned as a priest, I knew we had to do it.”
About 10,000 teens have attended five conferences in Steubenville this summer, with another 40,000 projected at 16 other conferences at locations from Halifax to San Diego. The university also sponsors conferences for adults that are reaching 6,000 this year. This year is the 40th year of the adult conferences and 39th for its youth conferences.
“They’re sacramentally based, we have dynamic praise and worship (also known as Protestantism), we have speakers who are nationally known,” said Mark Joseph, executive director of Christian outreach for Franciscan University.
Such speakers at the recent July weekend included the Rev. Leo Patalinghug, and accomplished chef who has become a media presence with his “Grace Before Meals” movement that seeks to promote family togetherness around the dinner table. He led the teens in an examination of conscience before a scheduled time in which dozens of priests would be hearing confessions. Mixing in recent pop-culture allusions to “Twilight” and “The Lord of the Rings,” he had the teens reflecting on sins ranging from dishonoring parents to dabbling in the occult to indulging in pornography.
”You find saints in the confessional because in confession you admit the truth: ‘I ain’t a saint, but I want to be one,’ ” said Father Patalinghug.
Several teens interviewed in July said a highlight of the youth conferences is the Saturday night time of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, in which a priest carries the consecrated host through the darkened arena, and teens raise their hands in sometimes-tearful prayer and praise. Franciscan has also long been associated with the Catholic charismatic movement (a protestant movement that has infiltrated the Church) , which blends Catholic piety with exuberant, Pentecostal-like worship.
Mr. Joseph traced the university’s trajectory to the Rev. Michael Scanlan, the retired longtime president who determined that in the face of liberalizing trends, “we need to take a hard right and be more Catholic.” (oh goodness)
Such traditionalism (this is not traditionalism) is in minority among self-identified American Catholics today, many of whom dissent on such issues as gay marriage and birth control, according to surveys. But it’s in favor among many at the church’s altars, front pews and microphones, including priests and others who came of age during the long pontificate of St. John Paul II (John Paul was a modernist not a Catholic; Franciscan even has a new statue of him with the condemned bent cross) and were shaped by his conservative social views and devotions.
A lifesize image of John Paul greets conference participants at the fieldhouse, even in the era of pontiff who sainted him, Pope Francis (Francis is even worse than JPII), who took his name from the founder of the Franciscan order associated with the university.
Sam Rocha, an academic and blogger who graduated from Franciscan and played guitar at some of its conferences about 15 years ago, said he has mixed feelings about the conferences and their legacy.
Growing up in a small rural parish in Texas, attending a conference offered the first chance to see “there’s a lot of Catholics out there” and to bond with them, said Mr. Rocha, now a professor of educational studies at the University of British Columbia.
But he lamented that he hears more commentary coming out of Franciscan about culture-war battles than about fighting poverty or environmental degradation (those are Marxist campaigns wake up Mr Rocha!), signature priorities of Pope Francis.
And the high-energy conference experience can “go into a sentimentalism that, if not properly understood or discerned, can lead people in many cases to a more stranded spirituality after the feelings wear off,” Mr. Rocha said. “I’m almost speaking autobiographically. Nonetheless, I think there’s grace, and that can intervene in any structural weaknesses.”( Franciscan needs to step up and join the Resistance and counter revolution, remove the silly protestantism novelties, resist Vatican II, the New Mass and the whole Vatican II Revolution as a whole. (The question is will they be a leader or wait till after the chastisements when all hell has broken loose in the world? Without proper doctrine sadly Franciscan is a Protestant University following the Revolutionary principles of FreeMasonry which soon ends in a formal unification of all religions. Let us keep in prayer, one Rosary a day, for Franciscan my friends!)
Related:
http://tradcatknight.blogspot.com/2015/07/novus-ordo-when-jesus-meets-elvis.html
TradCatKnight Radio (MP3) orderoftheeagle.wordpress.com/mp3/
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I graduated from Franciscan with a degree in Theology in 2007. The university should be called John Paul's university, as 90% of what I learned in my classes was based on his encyclicals and writings (all the riches of the past 2000 years omitted!). In retrospect, the university seemed to worship him (even before he was made a "saint"). I wanted to learn more about my faith, but knew that something was amiss with the FOPs and people being "slain in the spirit". I joined the traditional Latin choir (allowed to chant at one Mass a month) which was the only outlet for the traditionally inclined. Franciscan's spirituality is very dangerous- I knew many people suffering from abuse etc. and were finding no healing or answers in the modernist lies from the priests and professors. I know there are many good intentioned people there, but as a whole the university seeks to reconcile our filthy culture, and being a true Catholic- I thank God every day for leading me out of that intellectually dishonest and dangerous belief. God sets apart his own from the world.
ReplyDeleteI left the Novus Ordo after college, but my parents didn't. They came in contact with a priest from Franciscan, and told him about my decision to only go to Shrines, or places that uphold the traditional faith. The priest laughed and attacked that decision and told my parents that my soul is in danger.
Franciscan is leading many astray. Thank you for posting this article- It has made me realize that I need to pray for its conversion more than I do.
Thank you Rose...Would I happen to know you? Send me an email at apostleofmary@hotmail.com so we can chat off to the side. Yes it is unfortunate I know most of the priests and professors. Your on the right track avoid the Novus Ordo its not our Faith
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