{"id":99673,"date":"2017-03-30T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=99673"},"modified":"2017-03-24T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T03:08:12","slug":"week-ago-talked-confab-trump-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/03\/week-ago-talked-confab-trump-tower.html","title":{"rendered":"So a week or so ago we talked about the confab at Trump Tower…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

which featured the amazing \u201cPatriotic Rosary\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, a reader went out and found some background on it:<\/p>\n

Available at the Diocese of Metuchen, NJ, where it is apparently prayed in Parishes.<\/p>\n

November 10 at 7:30 p.m.
\nPatriotic Rosary
\n<\/strong>St. Magdalen de Pazzi Parish,\u00a0105 Mine Street, Flemington, NJ<\/p>\n

The authorship is interesting, as is the organization distributing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaritas of Birmingham is a mission located about 20 miles southeast of Birmingham, Alabama. The mission is biblically based, is multi-purposed, serving many areas for the evangelization of the world through the messages of the Virgin Mary given in Medjugorje as the Queen of Peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.caritasofbirmingham.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCaritas of Birmingham business still drains millions of dollars from gullible Catholics in donations. In recent years, it was annually $3-4 millions, according to words of the leader of Caritas of Birmingham, self-styled \u201cA Friend of Medjugorje\u201d, Terry Colafrancesco in 2011.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.medjugorje.ws\/en\/articles\/caritas-of-birmingham\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA lawsuit filed by former residents and families of residents accused Colafrancesco of enticing devout Catholics to the complex, draining their assets and keeping them from their loved ones. The suit was settled privately.<\/p>\n

A self-proclaimed \u2018cult fighter\u2019 in California lost his bid to shut Caritas of Birmingham down and was ordered to pay the organization more than $2 million in 2006 for his continued pursuit and criticism of it, according to court records.<\/p>\n

Colafrancesco brushes off the criticism. \u2018A cult is a belief in something,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

A 2009 tax filing listed nearly $6 million in assets and nearly $4 million in income for the organization, which Colafrancesco says runs on many small donations.\u201d<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2171220\/Thousands-Americans-trek-Alabama-witness-woman-Virgin-Mary.html<\/a><\/p>\n

My two cents:\u00a0 \u201cWhy someone who writes for WaPo can\u2019t dig this up, when I did it in 7 minutes, says a lot about the state of leftism in America.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, to be fair the piece I linked last time as an editorial, not a news story. \u00a0But yeah, you\u2019d think somebody closer than the Daily Mail<\/em> (and more of a real paper) would want to follow up on a story about Catholic Big Cheeses praying the \u201cPatriotic Rosary\u201d in Trump Tower. And that tie in with the fraud that is Medjugorje seems like a natural for the WaPo. \u00a0But then again, when it comes to religion I always deduct IQ point from the MSM and when it comes to reporting on the Catholic Church I double the deduction.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

which featured the amazing \u201cPatriotic Rosary\u201d. Well, a reader went out and found some background on it: Available at the Diocese of Metuchen, NJ, where it is apparently prayed in Parishes. November 10 at 7:30 p.m. Patriotic Rosary St. Magdalen de Pazzi Parish,\u00a0105 Mine Street, Flemington, NJ The authorship is interesting, as is the organization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-99673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mailbag"],"yoast_head":"\nSo a week or so ago we talked about the confab at Trump Tower...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"which featured the amazing "Patriotic Rosary". 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