Apparently there's a guy named Bill O'Reilly who's a big deal on some TV news channel I don't watch and on some syndicated radio show that I don't listen to. I've seen him or heard him a couple of times in passing. He's apparently a self-identified Catholic, too, who's quite eager to peddle the distortions of his own ill-formed conscience as superior to Catholic teaching. And beyond that, he's an incomparable blowhard bore.
From what I've seen, he makes Rush Limbaugh seem like Russell Kirk.*
Well, anyways, he's apparently weighed in on the homosexual infiltration of Most Holy Redeemer parish in San Francisco, where last week Archbishop Neiderauer committed sacrilege by giving the Blessed Sacrament to a couple of flamboyant sodomites who are apparently part of the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence." Bill is apparently outraged that these guys invaded and desecrated a Church.
What an idiot! They didn't invade! They were invited and welcomed there. As all of us who ever pay any attention to the news of the Church know, heck, they used to have functions at Most Holy Redeemer! And the Archbishop who committed the sacrilege is complicit in the promotion of their sodomite agenda.
And apparently some of the folks who got that Archbishop appointed are more than complicit in the promotion of the sodomite agenda, but that's another story.
Anyways, back at this Bill O'Reilly character. Sheesh. A big fancy network and a staff of several (if not dozens of) people, and they can't check facts? Is that all it takes to be on the TV and make a bunch of money? Heck, I can do that, and I can direct the outrage where it truly belongs.
In the meantime, I'll just go back to my book about Fr. DeSmet.
--Curmudgeon
*For those of you who don't know, Russell Kirk was the thoughtful, exceptionally well-read man who deserves the most credit for starting the modern conservative movement....back when there was still something worth conserving.
I know who Russell Kirk is, but who is this Rush Limgbaugh you speak of?
ReplyDeleteI too have heard of Russell Kirk, and even had the pleasure of reading an article on his environmental views in Modern Age. What a great man! I suppose his contemporary equivalent is either Pat Buchanan or Joseph Sobran, though Kirk was not quite so combative as the latter, if memory serves.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the clarification. I was confused, because whenever I hear Russell Kirk mentioned, it is always in a contrast of him to commentators like O'Reilly or Sean Hannity, so I wrongly supposed that they had equivalent niches.
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