Monday, March 06, 2006
ALTIER SILENCED OVER VIRTUS
A St. Paul priest's opposition to an Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis anti-sex-abuse curriculum has led to a request by Archbishop Harry Flynn "to take some time off" from his radio and web ministries, the archdiocese's spokesman said Friday.
The Rev. Robert Altier of St. Agnes Catholic Church has condemned the children's component of the Virtus program, which is mandated for all Catholic schools and religious education programs.
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New material has been added to Fr. Altier's website by the webmaster.
His greatest support has come from Catholic Parents Online where a statement about the silencing of Fr. Altier can be read.
Fr. Altier took part in the Eighth-Annual Minnesota Catholic Home Education Conference and Curriculum Fair.
One of his homilies can be read here.
Several of his talks are available here.
One talk is available here.
A blog reader wrote in to say that perhaps he was silenced because in his tape "The Truth About Demons" he said that "There is only one God; anything else is from the devil. The devil is real, and if we want to play with the devil we are going to get burned. You do not play with fire and walk away unscathed. So we need to make a clear choice. We cannot do what Solomon did and say, “As long as I worship the one true God then I can play around with all these other ones.” No, we cannot. We need to get rid of sin, we need to get rid of everything that is not of God, and we need to worship the one true God and Him alone." Unfortunately I was not able to locate this talk online.
In this age of ecumenism, that just might be enough to get him silenced. Of course the official position is his opposition to Virtus.
His prayers for protection, for occult curse breaking, for perimeter, and for spiritual warfare are available here. I think I'll keep them handy.
There's nothing quite as powerful for motivating curiosity as having an orthodox priest silenced by a liberal bishop. I don't think we've heard the last of Fr. Altier!
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
