Father James Altman interview: We need more like him, a lot more...

 Amici,

Here's a GREAT recent interview with Father James Altman.

An excerpt:

Altman explained that his simple goal is to lead his parishioners to remain faithful in the face of what’s going on in the world, noting that in countries like Ireland and Canada, those resisting mandates while striving to live their faith are being arrested.

“It’s coming here if we don’t stand up to it,” said Altman. “Shepherds of the Church, bishops of the Church: You better get united, you better start standing up for the faithful. That’s your job.”

“Back when this whole thing started, the bishops of the Church lost a great opportunity to finally stand up and be relevant again,” noted Altman. The U.S. bishops could’ve “shown an abundance of courage, instead of an abundance of cowardice.”

“They lost the opportunity, they dropped the ball, they abandoned the sheep,” said Altman. “It’s like a blinking pink neon sign,” repeatedly flashing the message that the Church is “non-essential, non-essential, non-essential.”

“Why should people believe in the real-presence [of Christ in the Eucharist] when the shepherds of the Church in this country and around the world have said it doesn’t matter if you receive or not?” wondered Altman.

“There’s an absolute lack of faith,” he declared. “This is the bad fruit that has come from the bad trees over the last thirty years, really since Vatican II when they destroyed our churches, when they eviscerated our sacred liturgy, [and when] they made it a turning toward man instead of toward God.”

A chairde, support this good priest, and others like him. We have them everywhere, after all. In Columbus, Ohio, we have, for example Fr. Joseph Klee. Father Klee recently wrote me about Father Janusz Roginski, a Polish-born priest who needs our prayers and support. He was expelled from an Ontario diocese for speaking out against a homosexual pride flag being flown outwide a Catholic school. (He says he was expelled for differing with his bishop about the Church's response to the pandemic, as well as the gay flag issue.)

They all need our prayers and support.

An P