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Cincinnati’s past ignoring heterodoxy and heresy have caught up to it as Archbishop Schnurr rolls out a PR consultant led “Beacons of Light” crisis communications program designed to steer public opinion, but there is a much better (and far cheaper) way he could be fixing the problem instead of papering it over.
Audio Chapters
00:00 – Show Open
00:22 – Modern Commentators Ignore (or don’t know) History
00:36 – First Hand Cincinnati History
01:54 – Bernadin and Pilarczyk’s Seminary
04:22 – Ratzinger’s Brief Clean Up of Seminaries
05:40 – Barbara Fiand, teaching Women’s ordination in the Seminary
06:48 – Progressive Modernists Unchecked in Cinincinnati
07:39 – 90’s Cincinnati, Confession Wasn’t Necessary
08:48 – 5 Womyn “Consecrating” the Host During Mass
09:39 – Pilarczyk’s “Advancement of the Laity” (rejected by ratzinger in 97)
13:16 – Schnurr Inherited this Mess – Disclaimer
13:32 – The Mysterious Removal of “Sister” Akers Right Before Schnurr
15:03 – She was “Numb” – because no action against error had existed for decades
16:08 – Eric Sammons lives there, goes to my old parish, and still doesn’t get it
16:42 – The Chickens: Unchecked Gnosticism, Modernism, and Error
18:53 – Ignorant Commentary Ignores the Chickens
20:04 – Father Hardon: Church Won’t Survive Where rampant Annulments and Contraception
20:51 – Past Cincy Bishop: Eucharist is Just a Symbol of Community
21:39 – If Mass is just community, it doesn’t take a prophet to see it will fail
21:56 – There are some signs of hope around Cincinnati
22:07 – NCCB “Are We Host Gazers or Host Partakers”
22:53 – Mercy Nuns and Reiki Touch Anyone?
24:29 – Schnurr inherited the Titanic
26:24 – Schnurr’s First Letter (on the “Beacons of Light” website)
28:35 – Oblique PR formula, Generalizes the Problems away from the intentional subversion of faith
29:24 – Of course parents don’t encourage vocations — the lay people think they are the priests now
29:37 – Letter Fails to Deliver a Realistic Problem Statement
31:09 – Dysfunctional Codependant Happy Face Language
33:12 – PR Formula, Crisis Communication Proposed Solution
34:00 – Treating Symptoms, but Ignoring the Problem
34:19 – Yes, The Plan Can Fail, there’s no promise that the Church will survive everywhere (North Africa anyone?)
35:17 – Consensus Management — you can comment — they already know what they’ll do
36:01 – An example of the Tone Deaf US Church — ignoring the problems of decades
37:01 – My two cents: Try Speaking Like A Bishop instead of being a consultant
37:26 – Schnurr’s Second Letter
38:26 – Who Cares what Catholics want? We need Sacrament factories and Reliable Catechism
39:08 – The Clash to Come: Concentrating Heterodoxy and Error into the Beacons of Light
40:17 – Bishop Talk: “centered on the Eucharist”… it doesn’t mean what he thinks it means
41:32 – All the Things NOT said and Missing from the letter
41:56 – The FAQ section reveals the misfocus of consultants
43:05 – How it Should be “Top Down” instead of what the consultants wrote. How Schnurr should have focused this
44:21 – It looks like a resignation to Continued Decay
45:27 – The funniest thing the Consultants said shows they are wrong
47:17 – The Real “two ways lay people should be involved”
48:00 – Wrap -up (Fr. Hardon and a story about Fatima)
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