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DEL.ICIO.USThe state Supremes attend a Red Mass in a red state, en masse
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
At 11 a.m. Thursday, all seven members of the Georgia Supreme Court will troop the necessary half-mile or so to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in downtown Atlanta and bow their heads at a Red Mass. So will several dozen other judges and lawyers. But on this blog, the Supremes are the ones who count.
The Red Mass is a relatively new phenomenon in Atlanta’s religious and political life, though it has roots in the 13th century. Officially, it’s known as the Solemn Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit. The nickname comes from the color of vestments worn in the service and the red robes worn by judges in the Middle Ages, according to Pat Chivers over at the Archdiocese.
The ceremony marks the beginning of the judicial year — which, we surmise, is judged according to the calendar set by the U.S. Supreme Court. We’re told the Red Mass is a big deal in D.C.
In Atlanta, the ceremony dates back to 1995. Only last year was it greatly expanded to reach out to non-Catholics. None of our state Supreme Court members are Catholic. Some justices attended last year, Chivers said. This time it will be unanimous.
Two things can be drawn from this. First, the service is yet another sign of growing Catholic influence in the South, extending deep into Georgia’s political elite. Secondly, high court participation is yet another sign that the Supremes have begun to take politicking for their jobs much more seriously.
Comments
By Churchill
September 26, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this
O.K. Will Jones…. Let’s hear it.
By Will Jones
September 26, 2007 9:07 PM | Link to this
Hear what? “I told you so?”
Bush/Cheney Hitler-financing Fifth Column: Vatican banker-Rockefeller/CFR/CIA/Fed BIG OIL Mafia Afghan heroin drug trade Illegal immigration to destroy the Working Class Korea Vietnam Iraq false war 9/11 Pedophilia institutionalized w/ its concommitant homosexuality and the perversion atrocities and murders committed by its confused victims…all on account of the Roman Anti-Christ.
America’s Founder was correct: To Samuel Kercheval Monticello, January 19, 1810
SIR, — Yours of the 7th instant has been duly received, with the pamphlet inclosed, for which I return you my thanks. Nothing can be more exactly and seriously true than what is there stated; that but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandising their oppressors in Church and State; that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man, has been adulterated and sophisticated by artificial constructions, into a mere contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves; that rational men not being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down their throats, they raise the hue and cry of infidelity, while themselves are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ.
The descendants of Baptists, Freemasons, Slaves, Protestants, Jews, Huguenots who built Georgia…Veterans of WWII who saw us die fighting Rome’s catspaw, and their Knights of Malta-led CIA turn a blind eye as “Operation Ratlines” slipped 30,000 of their Nazi SS past Nuremberg through the Vatican’s basement, then kill JFK with Bush to send us to keep their slaves on the farm in Vietnam…expect wisdom from judges who celebrate with the Anti-Christ priesthood before the very faces of Americans? Larry Craig is no less bold…and cut from the same cloth.
Take their names…do not forget.
By Will Jones
September 26, 2007 11:39 PM | Link to this
P.S. I can’t make it but some enterprising citizens should go to the locations announced and, with digital equipment, photograph and videotape the group of justices and lawyers before the appointed criminal backdrop, en masse, and in their official robes, violating the Constitution. Good money will be made selling copies to their future opponents as Georgia will soon remember its roots and White and Black, together, rise to bring true Justice to Our Great State.
By Anonymous
September 27, 2007 8:22 AM | Link to this
Oh, what the heck, I’ll ask. It’s entertaining to watch, anyway.
So Will: How, exactly, are these judges “violating the Constitution” by attending a religious service?
By Craig
September 27, 2007 9:38 AM | Link to this
I’m just curious what this obsession with red is. I mean Red State? Red Mass? Isn’t red the color glorified by Communists? Didn’t the National Socialists in Germany use this color? Are Republicans adopting a national color that has a history of oppression, totalitarianism, and even mass death?
By Michael Caldwell
September 27, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this
In response to your comment that the Supreme Court members were motivated to attend the Red Mass by the need to “politic for their jobs” there was no time or place for politics at the event. Rather there was a religious service in which the Justices joined all present in humbly asking God’s grace upon the judiciary and justice establishment. Wisdom, prudence, fortitude, and integrity are all gifts of the Holy Spirit. they, like the rest of us, need this grace to do their jobs.
By Will Jones
September 27, 2007 7:22 PM | Link to this
Mr. Caldwell, Presuming you to be an American, please expand on “religious service” and “Holy Spirit” in the institution America’s Founder identified as “the real Anti-Christ,” in the context of America’s Mottoes - Annuit Coeptis(Divine Providence Blesses Our Endeavors) and Novus Ordo Seclorem(The New Secular Order). Is “G_d’s grace” present in an institution whose 188 U.S. “dioceses”(an administrative term of the Roman Empire) each have at least one convicted pedophile priest (many have dozens)? Do you share the goal expressed in their “National Pastoral Plan for Hispanic Ministry” (USConf of Cath Bishops, Document 199-7) that illegal immigration is a “blessing from God” and should be promoted to take back a land stolen from their ancestors? Do you agree with Cardinals Spellman and Cushing, and Emeritus Chairman of the Council of Foreign Relations David Rockefeller, that Vietnam was a “pro-Western Christian democracy” that Americans should have died to protect? Do you think it correct that the Knights of Malta (the papal fraternity that openly claims “to run the Vatican”) should have issued 2,000 passports for Hitler’s SS to avoid Nuremberg or for 28,000 other SS to escape to Latin America through the Vatican’s “basement”? Do you disgree with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s conclusion in “A Moral Reckoning,” that two popes and the Vatican are “morally, ethically, and legally culpable for the Holocaust?” Did the Justices wear their robes of office? Do you disagree with Thomas Jefferson’s conclusion that Rome is “the real Anti-Christ?” Do you think you’re smarter than America’s Founder? Do you think you are an American?
By Victor Jones
September 28, 2007 5:16 AM | Link to this
society would be a lot further along if we all quit using run-on, never=-ending sentences, which obviously date back to 1810 or before.
By joe
September 28, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this
Mr. Jones, I presume you were not at the event, thus your comments here are out of line. If you would have taken the time to attend the event, instead of writing these asinine conspiracy theories, you would have found that it was an ecumenical event where people of all faiths, or no faith at all, were welcomed. Indeed, a Jewis Rabbi, a Methodist minister, and a Presbyterial priest all assisted in the function. In his remarks, the archbishop welcomed everyone (including agnostics), and simply made the point that we need to pray for our judiciary, regardless of your belief system. While I am not Catholic, I was very impressed with the inclusiveness of the event.
By Will Jones
September 28, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this
Stop being played for a yokel, or thinking anyone can’t recognize your unrighteousness. You fail to address any of the objections raised, including the obvious unconstitutionality of officially robed justices attending any sectarian “religious service.” America’s Motto is The New Secular Order. Do you actually think Divine Providence, the Gd of America’s Founders and Creator of the Universe is actually blessing Our Nation’s endeavors with a homosexual draft-dodger in the White House committing 9/11 to send us to false war for heroin and oil? Did any of the false ministers in your “meeting” bother pointing out the obvious fact that Bush and Cheney committed 9/11? As they did not, do you think they are servants of Truth and Righteousness? Philistines, perverts, and false patriots come in all denominations. Did Annuit Coeptis pertain when Bush’s bigamist father helped to assassinate John Kennedy to keep us in Vietnam and to restore the unconstitutional Fed over our money? Was America blessed when Prescott Bush financed the rise of Nazism through his fellow papal knight, Fritz “The Rockefeller of Germany” Thyssen? You didn’t wonder how a governor’s wife from Arkansas became a Senator from New York state? Have you noticed the resemblance of Winthrop Rockefeller’s nose to Bill Clinton’s? Gd is not mocked. Whom do you believe you are kidding? You?
By Churchill
September 28, 2007 2:09 PM | Link to this
Victor, don’t worry about it. It is like herding cats. Will is always like this.
By Jerry
September 28, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this
Will Jones wrote: Do you disagree with Thomas Jefferson’s conclusion that Rome is “the real Anti-Christ?” Do you think you’re smarter than America’s Founder? Do you think you are an American?
Actually, I have read T. Jefferson’s heavily edited Bible and am convinced that he and many other “Founding Fathers” were not even remotely Christian. The nation’s “Christian foundation” is a modern myth.
By Will Jones
September 28, 2007 5:01 PM | Link to this
The “Mystery of the Ages” is the conflict between the few - caesaropapism, and the many - Whig Principles: the Sovereignty of the People/Individual. America’s Founders were Whigs. Whig denotes “anti-Roman Catholicism.” “The King of America reigns in Heaven above.” Annuit Coeptis. All else is dross.
By Churchill
September 28, 2007 5:08 PM | Link to this
Jerry, read George Washington’s first Thanksgiving Address and get back to me. You may also want to read the first lines of the Declaration of Independence. (T. Jefferson wrote the first draft)