I suppose Hulkster would have this mindset. It’s the “Catholic” thing to do.

Wrong!

It’s the Novus Ordinarian thing to do.

I watched the video and he looks like a zealous heretic.

Are we quick to label him mentally ill to justify the Novus crowd’s inaction?

Or, is zealousness in any form such a foreign concept to Novus Ordinarians that it’s assumed to be some sort of mental illness.

Since when did Joe Six Pack consider “Novus Churches” holy places?

The police are trained and able to subdue mental people. The dude is clearly mentally out of whack. If he thought the Church was so bad he wouldn’t step foot in a Mass.

“A Christian should argue with a blasphemer only by running his sword through his bowels as far as it will go.” St. Louis, King of France

“When a person blasphemes, his mouth should instantly be shut. Strike him in the mouth! Crush it, so that he cannot speak!” St. John Chrysostom

“A Christian should argue with a blasphemer only by running his sword through his bowels as far as it will go.” St. Louis, King of France”

“When a person blasphemes, his mouth should instantly be shut. Strike him in the mouth! Crush it, so that he cannot speak!” St. John Chrysostom

And if you gave the man an appointment to see one of your Catholic social workers, what odds would you give for him keeping it? Powerful slim, I’d wager, though he just might show up at office sometime to give the poor souls there another tirade about how the pope is the Antichrist and how they’re all going to hell.

The Levite priest would have cut him to pieces. And they weren’t protecting the Body of Christ, just some bread.

All I’m saying is we work him over a little with some Gitmo tactics before the cops arrive. It would give some satisfaction for the crime made against God (yes, even considering that this was a Novus worship site), it would teach him a lesson, and stand as a message to his brethren.

Interestingly enough, Clara and I will soon be joining St. Augustine’s, which is, I assume, the parish to which you belong. I have a hard time believing that there is no one there who would be properly disposed to deal with the situation.

I don’t know which Catholic traditions you’re thinking about, but I can think of a number of saints who I’m pretty sure would not have sat passively in their pews on such an occasion. St. Ignatius of Loyola? St. Louis de Montfort? If you had been in the temple on the day Our Lord threw the moneychangers out, would you have chided Him for unnecessary harshness? Just something to think about.

As for JSP and his “masculinized” Christianity. Real nice, and very Christian of you to accuse the vast majority of Catholics of being sissies. Do you really think that the proper, Catholic response to an intrusion by a mentally unstable individual is to “beat the snot out of him?”

At my trad mass (in St. Paul, MN), I’d like to think that we’d do the right Catholic thing – and that is to calm him down and seek out help for him. Obviously, we’d involve the police, but we also have a great Catholic social services program, and I’d like to think that we’d seek out help via those programs, too. Nobody – NOBODY – would try to physically assault him. And if anybody did, that person would no longer be welcome at our mass. Helping the less fortunate, the downtrodden, the confused and broken: That’s a Catholic response. That’s a trad response. Compassion for those less fortunate for us – including the mentally unstable.

As a long-time reader of this blog, I really am disappointed at the tone of this post. It is SO unkeeping with Catholic traditions.

Even with the priest saying, “just someone try and get his license plate, but don’t confront him.”

It was a feminized response for a feminized version of Catholicism.

Most properly nurtured trad congregations (not fly-by-night 1st and 3rd Sunday indult situations) would have had a dozen or so men jump to their feet, drag that guy out, and beat the snot out of him.

I’m with you Clara. Jesus did not start singing hymns, he drove the “money changers” out of his Father’s House. We need to display such courage to our sons and daughters lest another generation of effeminate Catholicism will come into existence.