Musings of a Priest Falsely Accused
Editors Note: In a major development in the case of wrongly imprisoned priest, Father Gordon MacRae, the nations largest newspaper has once again taken up this story. Dorothy Rabinowitz, a pulitzer prize winning journalist on The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, published a riveting article on the Father MacRae case on May 11/12, 2013 entitled, [...]
I want to thank Father George David Byers of Holy Souls Hermitage and Ryan MacDonald of A Ram in the Thicket for stepping in for me on These Stone Walls over the last two weeks. I hadn’t gone anywhere. Prisoners do not get vacations, after all. Remember my post, “When the Caged Bird Just Can’t [...]
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Ryan A. MacDonald of A Ram in the Thicket. A troubling back story in the trial and lawsuits against Father Gordon MacRae has been in open view for two decades, but overlooked by both Church and State. In an article I wrote last September entitled “Judge [...]
This guest essay written by Father George David Byers, of Holy Souls Hermitage, compares four points of Cardinal Bergoglio’s pre-conclave speech with four scenes of betrayal and evangelization of the dark peripheries of Gethsemane: The Judas Crisis & TNCRRG. It is with sweet and comforting joy that we thank His Holiness, Pope Francis, for being [...]
A decade of disasters and a surge in fraud led the Justice Department to form the Disaster Fraud Task Force, but who investigates fraud against Catholic priests? “‘Well, if you want to accuse a priest of something, I can have $50-grand in your account by the end of the year – a $100,000 settlement split [...]
A month into his papacy, a campaign of venom lurks below the surface of media focus on Pope Francis. The lessons of history and psychology make it highly suspect. I resist the occasional depiction of TSW as “a blog about falsely accused priests.” Though it might not seem so to readers, I actually only rarely [...]
“Let the greatest sinners place their trust in My mercy. They have the right before others to trust in the abyss of My mercy . . . To such souls I grant even more graces than they ask. I cannot punish even the greatest sinner if he makes an appeal to My compassion, but on [...]
The very presence of Pope Francis makes a mockery of pride, and calls for a most vital Catholic reform: a reform of our hearts to atone for the worst of our vices. “It is a terrible thing that the worst of all vices can smuggle itself into our religious life . . . But this [...]
As the vernal equinox opens a Catholic Spring, many asked what Catholics hope to see in Pope Francis. Let’s instead ask what he hopes to see in us. Habemus Papam! In Pope Francis we have a Holy Father who comes to us at the dawn of Spring. This Pope for the New Evangelization opens a [...]
In the papal Conclave underway this week, Cardinal electors have but one central task: to discern the successor of Peter the Holy Spirit has already chosen. “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when [...]
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