My youth group and others continued praying for her
(Although, that was hardly the only idiotic thing said at the conference.)
As do many. It is sad when one so young dies. Parents especially want their children to outlive them.
Now parents ought to see what their children are being subjected to at these gatherings.
Thankfully, some youth leaders use the idiocy as a teaching tool and the young people respond by seeing both the error and the truth.
Other examples from the weekend,so I am told, are :
Fr. Tony Ricard of New Orleans (whom I can only describe as a Catholic version of Chris Rock) told the kids, “In the Mass we pray, ‘Lord, I am not worthy to receive You, but only say the word and I shall be healed.’ Well, God has said the Word. He said it all in His Son. You are worthy. You are worthy. So when you go somewhere, you walk in with your head high like you own the place.” This Fr. Tony also had his own bobble-head. After his talk, he blessed us and immediately after the blessing, he said, “Kick it!” and a hip-hop song started playing while he and several youth from his parish started dancing around like MC Hammer.
…a workshop called “Catholic and Just” which was on Catholic social teaching. The speakers were neo-Marxists who insinuated that Global Warming was as serious as abortion. My kids and I got up to leave and a large woman yelled, “You’re just leaving cuz’ you don’t want to hear the truth!”
…we went to another workshop entitled “Being Yourself with Mary and the Saints” put on by Br. Mickey O’Niell McGrath. This monk (who wore a business suit and did nothing but promote his work the whole time) was absolutely awful. Aside from having to look at his terrible art work, the most disheartening part of his presentation was some of the things that came out of his mouth.
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“It is my mission to banish from the Church all images of Jesus and Mary where they are portrayed perfect and spotless.”
“Judgment is not from God. People who judge others have never read the Bible” (if judgment is not from God, how will God judge anybody?)
“My parents are canonized saints.”
“You know, Mary and Joseph were not Catholic. They were Jews.” (this shows a misunderstanding of the relationship between Judaism and Catholicism, which I will not go into here
"St. Terese of Lisieux is my favorite saint because she never mentions the word “sin.” (actually, I did a word search and found that she does use the word 14 times in “Story of a Soul”)
"Have you ever seen that “Infant Jesus of Prague” image? My friends and I like to call that the “Barbie Jesus.”
Sad… pray for our youth that they may not be struck down and turned off to the Church by some “within” the Church itself.
