After a year, more prayers needed

For over the past year, the Holy Roman Church has celebrated the men who gladly spend their entire lives everyday for the sake of bringing Christ to an unbelieving world both physically and mystically.

Unfortunately, it really is an unbelieving world.

Throughout the Year for Priests, the Catholic priesthood has come under attack in a vicious way that has never been seen. You can thank the devil's favorite tool, the media, for that. Most of the more vicious attacks were directed at the Roman Pontiff himself. One needs only to look back at the New York Times and their attacks on Pope Benedict XVI and New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan.

More recently, the cover of TIME Magazine had an image of the back of the Pope's head with the title reading "Why Being Pope Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry". The article went on to portray the Pope as complacent with the sex-abuse scandal. Needless to say, the entire article was nothing more than a piece of filthy garbage (though, I should apologize to filthy garbage for comparing it to an article from TIME. Tisk, tisk).

I find it hysterical when liberal media covers the Pope meeting with sex-abuse victims. They try to make it look like it's justice. In reality, the commies just want something to satisfy their blood-lust for anti-Catholicism. They want the victims to pound the Holy Father for not doing anything for them and destroying the Catholic Church. This is their chance!

Though, you never hear MSNBC or the BBC cover the results of the meeting.

Hmmm...gee, I wonder why?!

Perhaps it is because the Pope radiates the same love and compassion, and yes, even the sorrow, that Christ showed when He walked this earth. It even led to one victim who met the Holy Father in Malta to ask "Do you know you have a Saint?".

Bet you didn't hear Diane Sawyer talk about that!

It is a shame that our priests are subject to the hatred of others because of the evil done by a tiny minority, a speck of evil men. But it doesn't end there.

Remember the Notre Dame scandal? Who can forget the images of Fr. Norman Weiler, an older priest, who was arrested for the scandal caused by a brother priest, the president of the University, for honoring an American President who condones the ongoing infanticide in his country:



Imagine, a priest being arrested for defending Christ, Whom he served for many years, and the faithful who were indeed scandalized.

This is what the Catholic priesthood went through during the Year for Priests. Please continue to pray for them as they continue their ministry to the unbelieving world.

ALL IN THE PHILADELPHIA AREA: St. Peter's; Merchantville, NJ (Diocese of Camden), will hold a Holy Hour for Priests this Friday, June 18, at 7:00pm. Please spend this special evening before our Eucharistic Lord as we pray for priests, and please spread the word around.