{"id":7723,"date":"2003-09-24T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/09\/24\/the-franciscan-connection\/"},"modified":"2010-07-31T18:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T22:54:16","slug":"the-franciscan-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/09\/the-franciscan-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Franciscan Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: x-large;\">National Catholic\u00a0Enquirer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markshea.blogspot.com\/\">Mark Shea<\/a> today used the headline <strong>Sir\u00a0Elton Goes Franciscan <\/strong>for\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/20030924\/en_nm\/people_elton_dc\">news\u00a0story<\/a> on Sir Elton selling a lot of his possessions. Little does Mark\u00a0know about the shocking truth of Sir Elton and the Franciscan connection and\u00a0what use to be the apparent bastion of orthodoxy in the U.S. -Mother Angelica&#8217;s\u00a0Eternal\u00a0Word\u00a0Television Network (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewtn.com\/\">EWTN<\/a>). I have uncovered a plot where shady celebrities\u00a0have been infiltrating the ranks of EWTN personalities right under the nose<br \/>\nof faithful\u00a0Catholics.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/oconnor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"140\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/elton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"140\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/oconnorglasses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"140\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Fr. Charles P. Connor host of multiple shows on EWTN<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div>Sir. Elton John<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div>Fr. Connor caught in an unguarded moment<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/raymond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/peewee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Raymond Arroyo<br \/>\nEWTNews Director<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div>Pee Wee Herman<br \/>\na.k.a.<br \/>\nPaul Reuben<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Why is Mother Angelica no longer hosting a show? The excuse given is that she\u00a0is still recovering from the stroke that she had last Christmas. Occasionally\u00a0they show videos of her thanking people for their prayer, but nothing is done\u00a0live. Is\u00a0it\u00a0a\u00a0coincidence that she is now safely tucked away at the Our Lady of the Angels\u00a0Monastery in\u00a0Hanceville, AL far away from the television studio? How is it that Cardinal Ratzinger\u00a0could sit face to face with Pee Wee Herman for an interview and not even realize\u00a0it. How far does this deception go and is the Vatican hierarchy actively involved? Inquiring<br \/>\nminds want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Catholic\u00a0Enquirer Mark Shea today used the headline Sir\u00a0Elton Goes Franciscan for\u00a0a news\u00a0story on Sir Elton selling a lot of his possessions. Little does Mark\u00a0know about the shocking truth of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10619,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}