FROM ANN BARNHARDT ON NEW POPE FRANCIS

Oh, we are in deep, deep trouble.

Posted by Ann Barnhardt - March 16, AD 2013 8:08 PM MST

Here is the full video of Pope Francis' first Mass in the Sistine Chapel. The consecration of the Host happens at 51:47. The consecration of the Chalice happens at 52:32.
I cannot believe I am about to type these words.
The Pope DID NOT GENUFLECT after either consecration. He did a weird bow thing, but didn't feel the need to bend his knee to God Almighty, physically present in his hands upon the altar.
HE. DID. NOT. GENUFLECT.
This is absolutely stunning. And unprecedented.
Oh yeah, we're in deep, deep trouble.
But hey, all of you guys who are sending me emails whining about how I'm not nice, or something, go ahead and explain this one. He is perfectly physically sound. He FREELY CHOOSES to not reverence Our Lord in the Eucharist upon the altar.
Oh, and he also didn't genuflect to Our Lord in the Tabernacle when he went to Santa Maria Maggiore on Thursday morning, either. Um, how can a man truly love Our Lady if he doesn't first show even the slightest respect to her Son? Someone please explain that one to me.
Hey! I have an idea! Let's do a Pope watch. First one to see the Pope genuflect to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, and not to a Superfun Rockband church pastor, wins! In the mean time, everyone should pray for Pope Francis and that he learns to show Our Lord the tiniest bit of respect and GENUFLECT to Him after He comes down onto the altar, and whenever he approaches or crosses the plane of a Tabernacle in which Our Lord is physically present. I think that would be a great prayer intention for one and all.
I never occurred to me that my desire to do penance in reparation to Our Lord for the sacrileges of the world would include the consecration rubrics of THE POPE.
Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.

UPDATE:
Thanks to the reader who suggested this. This is Pope Benedict's last public Mass on Ash Wednesday, February 13, 2013. Note that Pope Benedict, frail to the point of citing his frailty as a reason for his abdication, fully genuflects to the knee, as every priest MUST do as a non-negotiable rubric of celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
And for anyone arguing that it is simply too difficult for anyone over the age of twenty-four to genuflect, may I remind you that the rubrics call for both hands to be flat on the altar, which lends a great deal of physical support to the priest, and for there to be servers on each side who can assist with the genuflections by holding the elbows of the priest. That is one of the reasons the servers are there - to physically assist the priest if needed.
The genuflection after the consecration of the Host is at 1:19:33. The genuflection after the consecration of the Chalice is at 1:20:21.

On Francis

Posted by Ann Barnhardt - March 14, AD 2013 10:34 AM MST

Let me start with a positive comment. Remember, this is the best I could come up with: If we had gotten the pope we DESERVE, we would now have Pope Snoop Dogg.
And thus ends the positivity.
Francis, like his homeland of Argentina, is a total disaster. He has overseen the near-total destruction of the Church in Argentina. He hates and despises the Tridentine Mass, which is to say that he hates the Mass - let's not mince words, and is a rabid persecutor of anyone in Argentina who shows ANY signs of tradition. A priest in Argentina literally risks the end of his career if he wears a cassock in public. He has forbidden the Tridentine Mass in Argentina, which is an act of direct disobedience, specifically against the papal decree Summorum Pontificum, but embraces horrific "charismatic" and "Superfun Rockband"-type liturgical sacrilege.
Which brings us to his regard for the papacy, and the Church itself. He said yesterday in his bizarre little speech, again and again, that he was the Bishop of Rome, which is true, but in being the Bishop of Rome the pope is the head of the Universal Church, not just the city of Rome. Francis does not believe this, and even made a reference to the idea that the pope is "first among equals". This means that he regards the Church as a mere loose confederacy, and also that he thinks the Church is, or should be, a democracy. The proof of this is, again, his blatant disobedience to Summorum Pontificum. He will never do anything to clean up the sodomite infiltrators in the Church outside of Rome because he doesn't feel that the pope has any authority outside of Rome. Bottom line here: many bishops and archbishops have been kept in line over the past eight years because Benedict was relatively aggressive in booting out extremely bad bishops. Benedict was feared in a healthy way. This guy is basically the big green light to every Marxist-homosexualist to just go ahead and do whatever, because they know Francis will never remove them or even chastise them, because Francis doesn't believe that the pope has any universal authority and is merely the bishop of the city of Rome proper - at least that is the excuse that will be given when nothing is done about abuses and heresies **that Francis is sympathetic towards.**
BUT, like all insecure leaders who say that they reject authority and obedience, reports from Buenos Aires are that he is an iron-fisted totalitarian against traditionalists, precisely because he has no confidence in or respect for his own authority, and thus assumes that no one else does either, and thus wields power against his perceived enemies only from brute force. Again, this is TEXTBOOK 20th century Marxist worldview and psychology. It is also the diametrical opposite of the virtue of MEEKNESS, which is power under control.
Next, he is an "ecu-maniac", which is to say that he is in the "all religions are equal and can't we all just get along" camp. In Buenos Aires he knelt before and received the "blessing" of a Superfun Rockband Church "pastor", and even received "communion" from a Protestant. There are pictures floating around of that episode. This is terrifying. He clearly does not have a strong belief in or understanding of Our Lord, His Church, the Mass or the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist. But, as I have stated repeatedly, almost none of the men ordained in the 1960s, 70s or 80s do.
Next, he's a Jesuit. Now, I must disclose that I have a deep personal, seething, visceral hatred of Jesuits, but my hatred of them is a corollary to the fact that they long ago descended into truly evil heresies and apostasy. Jesuits, in addition to being a cult of sodomites who hate God, are also … wait for it … Marxists. Now Francis has in the past put up some token resistance to so-called "Liberation theology", which is just Communist Totalitarianism in religious drag, but he is huge, huge, huge on "social justice", which is merely code for Marxism. This guy's worldview revolves around giving people free stuff because it's nice, which as we have discussed is contrary to logic and reason, specifically in the subset of mathematics, and thus is contrary to Our Lord who is FIRST the Logos, with the Divine Caritas (charity) proceeding out of the Logos. Bottom line, there will be zero positive assistance to the world from Francis with regards to the inevitable economic collapse. Not only will there be nothing helpful coming from him, he will almost certainly come out in favor of more debt, more "free stuff", and more rhetoric about how people are "entitled" to physical and service commodities (which are someone else's man-hours, remember) as "rights".
But Ann! He has gone on record against homosexual "marriage" and abortion!
Wow. Is this really how far we have sunk? The Roman pontiff is on record as being against sodomy and killing babies and we cite this as proof of ORTHODOXY? Really? I wonder if he also believes in gravity. Does belief in gravity constitute a conservative worldview now?
Benedict thought that between the "Natural Solution" (the passage of time yielding the death or retirement of the bad guys) and the appointments he was able to make over the last eight years that he had set up the College of Cardinals to elect a successor that was very much in the Ratzingerian camp. Benedict was wrong. Not only did they not elect a Ratzingerian, they elected the anti-Ratzinger. In the 2005 conclave Francis came in second to Ratzinger, which is to say that Francis was the "opposition". In what must have Benedict's mind reeling today, after eight years of purging and priming the College of Cardinals, the very men Ratzinger placed turned around and elected the anti-Ratzinger. This proves, as I have said all along, that playing prevent defense, namely the "natural solution" of waiting for the bad guys to die is UNSOUND. In war, you fix your bayonets, say your prayers, and you charge.
Tridentine Mass-goers and clergy, this guy will be on the warpath against us at some point. Prepare. Brace. He may attempt to undo Summorum Pontificum either directly or through intense passive aggression. Any hopes of reconciling the good guys in the SSPX is now totally over. Beyond that, the splinter factions will now claim that "they were right", and sadly even more schism will result, and more people will remain outside the Church. So sad.
We got what we deserved, and probably better than we deserve. God's chastisement of His people is sending them bad priests, bishops, and now, in all likelihood, a bad pope. What do you expect? Look around. The world is awash in staggering sin and blasphemy and no one will lift a finger to do anything about it. And, as my last essay on penance proved via my email box, no one is sorry or has any desire to make reparation to Our Lord for any of it. No one has the slightest comprehension of the notion of taking on the burden of guilt for sins that they didn't directly commit, which blows my mind because that is LITERALLY the ENTIRE POINT of the Incarnation. The mind reels at the collective obtuseness needed to miss that glaring point.
No one has the slightest comprehension of the idea of seeing Our Lord in agony and simply stepping over to Him and asking, "What can I do to help You? What can I do to make You feel better? Let me take some of Your burden. Let me go with You."
Nope. So long as we all leave Him alone in His Passion, He will leave us to our self-absorption and indifference.
Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.
Viva il Papa.


 If you are basking in the exuberance of Pope Francis, you may not appreciate this opinion by Ann.  So please send your thoughts, pro or con.  It's good for the blog and good for discussion.

BLACK SOCIALIST POP TO FOLLOW BLACK SOCIALIST OBAMA?

http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff700.htm

POPE BENEDICT RESIGNED TO AVOID ARREST SEIZURE OF CHURCH WEALTH BY EASTER

http://itccs.org/2013/02/13/pope-benedict-resigned-to-avoid-arrest-seizure-of-church-wealth-by-easter/

I know so many of you are heartsick about this. 

Please, if you have an opinion, leave a comment.  My father was Roman Catholic - such a devout man.  His whole family is religious.  I can't imagine how you feel.

It is just my opinion that pedophilia is even more rampant among men (and to a lesser extent, women) in authority.  Coaches, teachers, priests, ministers, rabbis, in juvenile detention schools, those involved in human trafficking. 

I don't remember hearing much about this while I was growing up. Looking back, I was never allowed to be alone with any man; I was prohibited to sit on a man's lap except my father's.  I remember sitting on my boyfriend's lap at my 8th grade graduation and my father came into the room, blood drained from his face.

I've heard recently that a relative, when serving as a young acolyte in the church to which the other side of the family belonged, was molested repeatedly.  A dark secret to bear in a time where things of this nature was an event to bear in silence.

POPE BENEDICT'S RESIGNATION

http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/about-pope-benedict?xg_source=activity

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH CHILD MOLESTATION FILES REVEALED

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/roman-catholic-child-molestation-files_n_2425444.html

EGYPTIAN MAGAZINE CONFIRMS MUSLIM AGENTS INFLUENCE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION - NO SURPRISE THERE, IS THERE? BUT THEN, DEAR CATHOLIC FRIENDS, YOUR CHURCH HAS BEEN TARGETED AS A HATE ORGANIZATION - SO READ THE SECOND LINK. AND HE'S GIVEN BILLIONS TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD!

http://godfatherpolitics.com/8830/egyptian-magazine-confirms-muslim-agents-influence-obama-administration/

http://sm2.responsebeacon.com/track?t=v&enid=ZWFzPTImbWlkPTE4ODUwOCZtc2dpZD0xNjQ5MDEmZGlkPTkyMDEmZWRpZD05MjAxJnNuPTMzNTY3MjU5JmVpZD1pbmtzbGluZ2VyQGJlbGxzb3V0aC5uZXQmZWVpZD1pbmtzbGluZ2VyQGJlbGxzb3V0aC5uZXQmdWlkPTJfNjIxNjUmcmlkPTYyMTY1JmVyaWQ9NjIxNjUmZmw9Jm12aWQ9JnRnaWQ9JmV4dHJhPQ==&&&9402&eu=1201&&&http://patriotupdate.com/viewbrowser

 http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/01/egyptian-lawyers-muslim-brotherhood-took-billions-from-obama/

Be aware and ready to control any horrific situation.

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE!

AND YOU ARE THE RESISTANCE!

TAKE A LESSON FROM HITLER'S PLAYBOOK - WE HAVE A MUSLIM (MORE THAN ONE) WHO HATES OUR COUNTRY; WHO HATES "US", NO MATTER WHAT COLOR WE ARE, NO MATTER WHAT RELIGION.  HE HAS APPOINTED GODLESS CLONES OF HIMSELF TO DO HIS DIRTY WORK.

IT'S UP TO US NOW:

NOT TO BE WEAK
NOT TO FEAR
TO PROTECT OURSELVES
TO PROTECT OUR FAMILIES
TO PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS
TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS
TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY

ARE YOU ROMAN CATHOLIC? DID YOU KNOW WHAT THIS ELECTION MEANS TO YOU AND OTHERS OF FAITH? HERE IS AN AD TO JOLT YOU OUT OF COMPLACENCY...BY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE ELECTION

OBAMA'S FALL FROM GRACE MUST HAPPEN IN NOVEMBER. 

ALL THAT WE REMEMBER AND HOLD DEAR DEPENDS ON IT.

FREEDOM.
JUSTICE.
LIBERTY.
HONESTY.
SECURITY.
THE CONSTITUTION.
OUR WAY OF LIFE.
OUR RELIGION.
OUR SPEECH.
OUR THOUGHTS.
OUR JOBS.
OUR LIVES.
OUR HEALTH.
OUR FUTURE.

CHURCH SAYS: DON'T VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA

http://lastresistance.com/41/church-says-dont-vote-for-obama/

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/pelosi-s-new-archbishop-warns-america-could-be-moving-toward-despotism

NEWSPAPER AD SUGGESTS PREZ OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS WOULD EXECUTE CHRISTIANS (AND THE NEXT ONE JEWS, MAYBE?)

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/christianity/catholicism/newspaper-ad-suggests-pres-obama-and-democrats-would-execute

WILL THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION BECOME THE NEXT CIVIL WAR UNDER OBAMA?

http://godfatherpolitics.com/5404/is-this-the-civil-war-obamas-looking-for-bishops-prep-catholics-for-mass-defiance/

YOU'LL BE SURPRISED AT THIS SPEECH A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST GIVES AGAINST RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM

http://www.stthomasmore.org/parish-clergy/video/invocation

TSA HIRED SERIAL SEX ABUVE PRIEST PEDOPHILE AS A SCREENER (YOU GUYS HAD BETTER TAKE MORE INTEREST IN THE SAFETY OF YOUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN)

http://www.infowars.com/tsa-hired-serial-sex-abuse-priest-pedophile-as-screener/

CAN A SITTING PRESIDENT COP BOTH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE CONSTITUTION AT ONCE?

http://constitutionclub.org/2012/03/16/can-a-sitting-president-cop-both-the-catholic-church-and-the-constitution-at-once/

Or any religion?

The madness is that he can if you let it.

Today is Sunday. I hope every minister, priest, pastor, preaches a sermon about mere men and dictators who dare think they are God.

ATTENTION: BAY COUNTY, FL AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES - MTG TONIGHT ON THE BMC TAKEOVER

There are still many unanswered questions, and some fact finding to be done BEFORE the sale/lease is completed.

We don't have much time.

All are invited to this meeting at the Holiday Inn Select in Panama City, 77 (Martin Luther King Blvd.) and Highway 231.

Room for 150.

Please come!

RICK SANTORUM AND TRUTH IN HIS CAMPAIGN - NOT SO MUCH. A LITTLE LATE ON SUPER TUESDAY, HOWEVER. TELL YOUR CATHOLIC FRIENDS OR BETTER YET EMAIL THIS.

POSITION: Rick Santorum voted for the Patriot Act and has “no problem with it”, since there were no “widespread abuses” of it. (Coeur d’Alene, Feb 14, 2012)

ANALYSIS: The first official action of a Senator is to take the oath of office to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States”. The Patriot Act violates portions of the First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution:

http://www.scn.org/ccapa/pa-vs-const.html

If you believe an oath is a solemn promise, should we be we willing to reelect an oath breaker to any public office?

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a self proclaimed watch dog for “hate groups”. They also hold training sessions with law enforcement agencies all over the country to help them identify potential terrorist groups. If you are a Traditional Catholic, you are on their watch list. Are you an unknowing target of the Patriot Act?

http://www.cfnews.org/SPLC.htm

POSITION: Rick Santorum stated that the cause of the housing bubble collapse was because “$4 a gallon gas” caused people to miss their mortgage payments. (Coeur d’Alene, Feb 14, 2012).

He made this same claim to the voters of Michigan:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57386298-503544/santorum-high-gas-prices-caused-recession/

ANALYSIS: Federal agencies strong-armed banks to make unsound loans at low interest rates (sub prime) to individuals who could not qualify for conventional loans. This increased the bidding for housing and resulted in artificially high prices. When the predictable defaults started, the housing prices collapsed to more realistic market levels.

http://universityofcommonsense.org/articles/what-caused-the-housing-bubble/

If a candidate cannot make a correct assessment of the causes of a problem this immense, perhaps he cannot take corrective or preventive action on less critical issues.

POSITION: Rick Santorum stated that it is unfair for us to borrow money from China to pay for Social Security retirement benefits. (Coeur d’Alene, Feb 14, 2012).

ANALYSIS: Current recipients of SS retirement benefits have contributed for up to 48 years into the fund (age 18 to 66). Several studies suggest that the benefits would be larger if the “contributions” had been invested in private annuities or other investment vehicles:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/ssps/ssp2.html

The SS Administration deposits the contributions into a Trust Fund. Congress then borrowed these funds to finance deficit spending of the Federal government by purchasing Federal Bonds, which are nothing more than IOU’s. The only way to pay retirement benefits is for the Treasury to redeem the bonds - either by borrowing more money or to raise taxes. Then we blame the retirees for this borrowing!

For Santorum to imply that it is unfair for us to pay what is due in justice to these workers is simple class warfare - a weapon usually wielded by the Democrats.

POSITION: Rick Santorum has voted five times to raise the debt ceiling.

http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2012/02/romney_criticizes_santorum_for_raising_the_debt_ceiling

ANALYSIS: Fiscal conservatives do not vote for increases in the Federal debt, which can only be paid by increasing taxes. Instead, they find ways to shrink the burden of government.

POSITION: Rick Santorum claims to be a political conservative.

ANALYSIS: Most politicians will cater to their audiences by telling them what they want to hear. What is the best way to predict how a politician will act in the future? Look at his voting record – something he can’t talk his way out of. Actions speak louder than words.

Conservative Index Rating

Time Period Santorum Paul

2002 62% 91%

2003 45% 100%

2004 60% 100%

The Index rates Congressmen on up to 40 different issues per Congressional Session, and rates them on Constitutional, conservative, and free market grounds. You can see a description of each bill that was voted on, so you can decide if your candidate voted the way you would want them to vote.

http://www.lloydbaileysscuba.com/truth/pdf/ci107-4.pdf

http://www.lloydbaileysscuba.com/truth/pdf/ci108-2.pdf

http://www.lloydbaileysscuba.com/truth/pdf/ci108-4.pdf

POSITION: Rick Santorum is in favor of auditing the Federal Reserve, but not in favor of abolishing it.

http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/Senate/Pennsylvania/Rick_Santorum/Views/The_Federal_Reserve/

ANALYSIS: The purchasing power of the dollar has diminished by 98% since the Federal Reserve was instituted in 1913. It is a private bank controlled by international interests. The erosion of the dollar’s value occurs at a faster rate than wages increase, so the poor, the middle class, and retirees are becoming impoverished.

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/chart-graph/value-us-dollar-over-time?library_node=70313

The fifth plank of the Communist Manifesto (published in 1848), states, “Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.” The Fed is exactly that monopoly.

http://www.libertyzone.com/Communist-Manifesto-Planks.html

Ron Paul is the only candidate who understands this and who wants to return the country to a sound monetary system.

It is no surprise that the media has distorted Dr. Paul’s position on most issues. They will search for the one statement in a presentation that will make him appear foolish. Dr. Paul was in Spokane last Friday, and I challenge you to listen to his unedited address and make up your own mind.

Go to www.acn.cc

Click on the “Audio Archives” tab

Click on the “Special Local Programs & Events” link

The Ron Paul broadcast is at the top of the list – click on listen or save

CALL TO ACTION!

The only way you can influence the Presidential candidate selection process is to attend the Republican Caucus on Tuesday, March 5.

CARDINAL GEORGE: CATHOLIC HOSPITALS WILL BE GONE IN TWO LENTS, UNDER OBAMACARE REGULATIONS

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/cardinal-george-catholic-hospitals-will-be-gone-two-lents-under-obamacare-regulation

What an extraordinary coincidence. The Sacred Heart System has taken over a public, non-profit hospital here in Panama City, FL and will finalize the negotiations. The contract was negotiated primarily in the dark, with provisions for 40 years and two extensions. It was not necessary to sell/lease this hospital, since there was help available because it was originally built under the Hill-Burton Act.

There were two public hearings, which was attended mostly by BMC employees. I spoke of just this thing, using Allen Keyes' newsletter which warned of the consequences and religious hospitals under Obamacare.

Of course, I was ignored. it was a done deal already.

So now this pops up today.

All of you in Bay and surrounding counties - take heed. This hospital will supply indigent care at a lower level than BMC has in the past. In three years it can be flipped for profit.
Sacred Heart knew what it was doing, no doubt.

Maybe the fat lady hasn't sung her last song.

"PERPETUITY" MEANS NOTHING IN BAY COUNTY, FLORIDA

Last night I witnessed a mass brainwashing and a hostile takeover of Bay Medical Center by Sacred Heart Hospital.

The Bay County Commission gave public lip service by sitting, staring into space, while some of us (including Dr. Victor Ortega) tried to inform them with facts. The Commission, who gave us incinerator problems, band-aid fix cement pillows to cover up an under-the-Bay sewer line, the airport to nowhere at which three thousand plus jobs never materialized, no international flights as promised, rising flight prices, the loss of a carrier, continuing environmental problems, allied businesses that never came (and if you ask the pilots on the Atlanta-ECP flights, they are terrified of the mushy runway on hot summer days), are stealing a taxpayer-funded public, non-profit hospital, organized under the Hill-Burton Act which was absorbed by the Public Services Act, Title XVI, a federal act providing Hill-Burton services to the indigent and under-insured available “in perpetuity”; meaning, “forever”. There are remedies available for failing public, non-profit hospitals through this act, and whoever is in charge among the Bay County snake oil salesmen, someone dropped the ball, was unaware, or has kept this hidden. This is a serious problem, and because of this, a Grand Jury should be seated to explore why.

Earlier, I picked up a cursory (and in no way complete) printout of some of the capital items in the Radiology Department. Remember, it is “no way complete”; $10 million dollars worth. I stepped into the lobby of the new wing, the baby of the CEO, Steve Johnson (formerly of Sacred Heart), who admittedly spear-headed this disaster despite all economic indicators pointed to a failing economy under the premise like the airport – if you build it they will come. Without a Certificate of Need (CON) rooms were closed in the main hospital, and new, luxury private rooms were made, as well as a new restaurant with a brick pizza oven and a gourmet menu – in Panama City, Florida where any restaurant you choose can be found in within 20 minutes.

I was dyspeptic. The lobby and garden is huge, stunning and something you would see in a high end hotel. Why wasn’t this money put into patient care and more state-of-the-art diagnostic/treatment equipment and/or staff? The opulence is embarrassing and obscene for our depressed community, but not for Sacred Heart to come in and scoop up.

One of the speakers, our County attorney, Mr. Arline, I believe, mentioned questioning Mr. Johnson’s allegiance to Sacred Heart before hiring him. Now I know what my gut told me is true. For the ten years the hospital knew there was trouble looming, Johnson was planning the lease/sale all the time.

We have five Commissioners, all of them businessmen. I questioned why two audits weren’t done by “our” side (the County); a complete financial audit and a physical plant audit, right down to the last staple in the last staple gun and the last gauze pad. I asked the Chairman of the Commission why this wasn’t done and he doesn’t know! Supposedly they have taken the word of Sacred Heart who use a formula to guess at this number.

I wonder at the ex-Sheriff who won his seat on the Commission by 15 votes, to whom this transaction was handed. He has no experience in healthcare, whatsoever.

I wonder at the man sitting in front of me in the first row making notes on a yellow legal pad prior to the meeting. His first entry was “Golden Parachutes”. Golden Parachutes? Who’s getting them?

Most of the audience, I’m guessing by the big, blue buttons, was staff and management. Funny thing about the management at BMC – they have been known to intimidate the staff before when union attempts were made. The threat issued was the firing of any employee who dared try to organize or vote for the union. Manipulation works because the staff is ignorant of the facts.

No one is talking about the current Obamacare/HHS edict concerning birth control and how, if HHS stands firm and does not back down, it will affect religious hospitals. In the literature I have found, Sacred Heart specifically will be forced to close some or all its hospitals because they will not comply on religious grounds. What happens then, to BMC? What happens to our Muslim physicians?

Because of the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church, and the changing attitude of the hospital formerly known as BMC, under the control of Monsignor Reed in Tallahassee, your young daughter, in need of a morning after pill or termination of pregnancy because of rape or incest, will be turned away whether or not you have insurance. If you aren’t insured, where will you go?
I guess there's always Planned Parenthood.

Employees of BMC are going to find it very difficult when their own personal religious ideology is challenged by the Church of Rome and the new management of Sacred Heart.

We have only two hospitals. Gulf Coast Hospital is private. BMC today, is public, non-profit, serving five counties. We need proof that all our needs are met, even women’s services. In the Bible Belt, you are going to feel the full impact of the strong hand of Roman Catholicism, and you are going to suffer for it. You have never been exposed; therefore, you are ignorant, and ignorant you will stay until something happens to you.

BMC’s Board and the County Commission are putting their faith into the maze of Sacred Heart spin-offs who handle leases and sales. Take LHP Hospital group for instance, located in Plano, Texas. It is not a Florida corporation, and it has a poor track record.

Touted as a for-profit private health care investment corporation, whose management team doesn’t have much prior experience in health care how can they be trusted? LHP remains unproven in successes. What it really is, is a hedge fund. You can read more about this in Rosalie Schaeffer’s expose’ on the Sacred Heart acquisition in the two-part article she wrote in the “County Press”, located in Bay County, FL and you can find it in the paper’s archives.

To add a little fat to the fire, the public is unaware of a Florida bill on Sen. Rene Garcia’s website dealing with the acquisition of hospitals. The original legislation states that a public referendum be held prior to a sale/lease of any hospital. It was handed over to Sen. Don Gaetz with another number (on his website). He changed the wording and deleted the public referendum, so that only the Board of the hospital and the County Commission can vote on the issue. Why did Gaetz strike the language that gave the public a vote? The timing is suspiciously coincidental; January, 2012. What makes it more so is that Sen. Gaetz lives about 15 miles from Sacred Heart.

I see a lot of room for corruption here. It is unreasonable to sell or lease BMC for 40 years if audits aren’t done. It is unreasonable to fast track such a vital decision because the Public Services Act, Title XVI should have been consulted by these seasoned healthcare professionals. The information is there to help failing public, non-profit hospitals with financial help. And it is unreasonable not to have the sale/lease available for bid.

It is important that we take our blinders off and see this as it really is. It is a theft of a very high-tech, superior hospital with a great reputation that gives care to everyone in need by a private, for-profit religious hospital who is giving us literally pennies on the dollar when the silver bullet to its financial woes is available by federal law!

The current administration and the Board of BMC who by design or by ignorance have run BMC aground must put this decision on hold, and the Bay County Commission and a Grand Jury investigate the missing audits and the options under the Public Services Act Title XVI. The Public Services Act XVI, the explanation of a Florida Special District and the Hill-Burton Act are found on the internet. They are in plain English and you can easily understand them.

Shands in Jacksonville supports my understanding of mismanaged indigent care costs.
Call them and find out for yourself. They spend less in indigent care than BMC does and they are profiting. It’s a huge hospital with almost 700 beds. Is there a problem here? You betcha.

I suggested when I spoke last night, the possibility of making BMC a teaching hospital under Florida State University or Gulf Coast State College. The grants would pour in and the financial ills would be a thing of the past. We would grow as a community, the economy would improve, BMC would grow and provide jobs and exceptional healthcare for many and those jobs would keep our children here.

As it stands, I believe again that the public and the employees of BMC have been duped. Law is being ignored or hidden from public view. This looks like fraud to me.

Why are we accepting this?

http://m.news-gazette.com/news/health/health-care/2011-09-04/hospitals-fear-loss-tax-exemption-illinois.html

http://archive.chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/03/illinois-supreme-court-rules-provena-must-pay-tax.html

http://the-american-catholic.com/2010/03/19/should-catholic-hospitals-remain-tax-exempt/

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&search=search#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=catholic+for+profit+hospitals+and+tax+exemptions&pbx=1&oq=catholic+for+profit+hospitals+and+tax+exemptions&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=1645l19232l0l19769l62l52l7l1l1l0l546l9160l0.39.4.2.1.2l56l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=f2444c621718a756&biw=1116&bih=584

WHITE HOUSE STRUGGLES TO CONTAIN UPROAR OVER BIRTH CONTROL MANDATE

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/209553-white-house-struggles-to-contain-uproar-over-birth-control-mandate

If you watched the video of Ms. McCaughey on Obamacare last night that's a few posts down - that hideous piece of shit legislation that provides for our early demise as seniors and the physically, mentally impaired on Medicare and Medicaid, you'll be in another worse uproar.

DEFUND/REPEAL THE WHOLE DAMN OBAMACARE BILL AND SEND THE FRAUD IN THE WHITE HOUSE PACKING!

RABBI DOVID BENDORY OF JPFO DEFENDS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FROM THE TYRANT IN THE WHITE HOUSE

http://jpfo.org/rabbi/rabbi-defend-catholic.htm