{"id":8579,"date":"2003-02-18T21:45:55","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T02:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/02\/18\/st-blogs-confidential\/"},"modified":"2003-02-18T21:45:55","modified_gmt":"2003-02-19T02:45:55","slug":"st-blogs-confidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/02\/st-blogs-confidential\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Blog's Confidential"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is St. Blogs parish? According to this page<\/a>
\n"St. Blog’s Parish is home to a varied congregation of Catholic webloggers
\nlocated around the world. The webring serves to link together the many weblogs
\nmaintained by Catholics<\/i>." <\/p>\n

Now the obvious question is who was St. Blog. I went through the classic Butler’s
\nLives of Saints and found no mention. Google searches also showed no hits. I
\nlooked at the Congregation
\nfor the Causes of Saints<\/a> and List
\nof Blesseds proclaimed during the Pontificate of John Paul II<\/a> and could
\nfind no mention of a St. Blog. A look through the Vatican
\nSecret Archives<\/a> also availed no information. I filed freedom of information
\nrequests forms with the United States Conference
\nof Catholic Bishops<\/a> and still received no information on this saint. This
\nperson is not someone removed when the new calendar came into being and there
\nhas never been any city practicing the cult of St. Blog anywhere in the world.
\nThe obvious shocking conclusion is that there has never been a St. Blog. This
\nis an urban myth perpetuated by bloggers with no basis in fact or even pious
\ntradition.<\/p>\n

This startling discovery has led me into further investigations into this so
\ncalled cyber-parish. The Catholic Encyclopedia defines parish as: \n<\/p>\n

A parish is a portion of a diocese under the authority of a priest legitimately
\nappointed to secure in virtue of his office for the faithful dwelling therein,
\nthe helps of religion. The faithful are called parishioners, the priest parochus,
\ncurate, parish priest, pastor (q.v.). To form a parish there must be (1) a certain
\nbody of the faithful over whom pastoral authority is exercised; the ordinary
\nmanner of determining them is by assigning a territory subject to the exclusive
\njurisdiction of the parish priest. Uncertainty of parish boundaries may work
\nharm and the Council of Trent (Sess. XXIV, c. xiii, de ref.) orders the boundaries
\nof parishes to be defined.<\/i><\/p>\n

What are the boundaries of this cyber-parish? "Around the world"
\nis too tenuous, so this definition directly violates the Council of Trent. The
\nCouncil of Trent (Sess. XXIV, c. xiii, de ref.) commands bishops to assign
\nto each parish its own individual rector<\/i>. What priest was assigned to minister
\nto this parish. This is where an even more shocking fact was uncovered. St.
\nBlogs is not registered with any diocese in the world. I even checked to see
\nif they came under the jurisdiction of any Eastern Catholic Churches, again
\nno. Even though there are blogging priests and deacons in this so-called parish
\nthere is not one blogging bishop to which they answer to. This is a great scandal
\nthat this schismatic cyber-parish dares to advertise itself as Catholic. Who
\nstarted this fraud. Why are people willing to perpetuate this deception.<\/p>\n

To answer the previous I discovered a post previously on Kathryn Lively’s blog<\/a>
\nrequesting information on the history of the term St. Blogs. She had stated
\nthat it was probably coined by Amy
\nWelborn <\/a>but that she couldn’t verify it since Amy keeps no archives. Since
\nthen Kathryn has made no mention of this. What did she find out? If she found
\nthe answer why has she not posted it? Who got to her? Alarm bells started ringing
\nin my head. Why didn’t Amy keep archives anymore? Through diligent searching
\nI was able to find archives
\non the Internet<\/a> of her blog "In Between Naps" found through the
\nWayback Machine<\/a> – her first post.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the latest detour on my quest to conquer, rather than be conquered
\nby the Internet. ..<\/i><\/p>\n

Her first post was Sep 10, 2001; yes a day before the infamous terrorist attack.
\nWhat is the connection? The archives mysteriously end on October 13, 2001. What
\nwas on those pages? What doesn’t she want us to know? Even stranger she has
\nrecently cut back to posting only once a week. Did someone else discover the
\ndark secret of this schismatic cyber-parish and blackmail her into semi-retirement?
\nWhat are her full plans to conquer the Internet. This surprising information
\nhas led me to investigate some of the other schismatic parishioners.<\/p>\n

I found the following
\ninformation<\/a> from the canon lawyer Pete Vere, JCL in which he says:<\/p>\n

For instance, let us suppose one wished to found a local association of
\nCatholic apologists the Diocese of St. Blog. Because the right to use the title
\n\ufffdCatholic\ufffd is limited under canon law, one could not name this ministry \ufffdCatholic
\nApologists of St. Blog\ufffds\ufffd without first obtaining the permission of the Bishop
\nof St. Blog in accordance with canons 300 and 312. Again, this is because in
\nkeeping with the second paragraph of canon 223, legitimate ecclesiastical authority,
\nin view of the common good, is entitled to regulate the exercise of one\ufffds canonical
\nrights.<\/i> <\/p>\n

Now before we look at the implication of this, let us first look at Mr. Vere.
\nHe is a former follower of the schismatic Archbishop Lefebvre and now a blogger
\nwith the schismatic St. Blogs. He is formerly of Canada and now living in Florida.
\nOne wonders what circumstances forced him to leave his homeland. Is he just
\nkeeping one step ahead of the Canon Law?<\/p>\n

Look at canons 300 and 312 and then the names of the following blogs:<\/p>\n

Catholic Light<\/a>, Catholic
\nand Enjoying It!<\/a>, Catholic
\nAnalysis<\/a>, Extreme Catholic<\/a><\/p>\n

Since there is no bishop for St. Blogs I did some checking with their home
\ndioceses and found that not one of them petitioned their local ordinary for
\nuse of the word Catholic in their blog title. Again signs of disobedience.<\/p>\n

I ponder why hasn’t this information come forth before. Domenico
\nBettinelli<\/a> who is an assistant editor of Catholic
\nWorld News<\/a> managing editor of Catholic
\nWorld Report<\/a> magazine participates in this psuedo-parish. These magazines
\nseem to be loyal to the church and yet Mr. Bettinelli has never run an expose
\ncondemning this fraudulent parish. What do some unknown people have on this
\nman to keep him silent?<\/p>\n

I have also found of link to one of the largest bankruptcies in US history
\nwith St. Blogs. What did Victor Lams<\/a>
\na former worker of this company have to do with it? Is he the behind the scenes
\nfinancial backer behind this parish using pilfered funds.<\/p>\n

Another clue was found looking at the names that these blogger who wrote under.
\nLady of Shalot<\/a>, Cacciaguida<\/a>,
\nOld Oligarch<\/a>, dylan<\/a>
\nand even Zorak the Mantis;<\/a> all
\nobvious aliases. At first glance I thought that Steven
\nRiddle<\/a> might be a real name, yet on second thought employing the word riddle
\nwas obviously meant to toy with us to see if we could determine his real name.
\nSome anagrams from his name are:<\/p>\n