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Superstar Casey Cole OFM Causes a Stir

Father Casey Cole, a Franciscan, published on Instagram.com (8 July) a video showing him on "America's Got Talent", an American talent competition broadcast on the NBC television network.

However, Cole has never been a guest on this show, which is aimed at the simple-minded. He simply filmed himself in liturgical vestments behind a Eucharistic table and mixed it with scenes from the show. The video is so well done that simple minds believe that Cole's appearance on the show actually happened.

The video begins with one of the judges asking Cole how he is doing. Cole replies: "I feel so sick I could throw up." He then introduces himself as a "Catholic priest", causing the audience to go into hysterics. After a few more nonsensical questions, he starts his performance. It consits in the words of institution of the Novus Ordo Eucharist and the elevation of a host.

The "consecration" of the host is followed by another outburst of enthusiastic hysteria. End of the video. Instagram claims that the clip has been viewed more than 10 million times, which is unlikely.

After some commenters thought the clip was real and that Cole had actually been at the talent show, Cole produced a second video on 9 July in which he calls the first video "a joke". He says he didn't mean to make fun of the Eucharist, on the contrary, he wanted to praise it.

Cole is a rather egocentric, good-looking internet personality ("digital creator") who likes to provoke. He is also a sports and beer fan. One of his topics is homosexuality, and so far he has said that homosexual acts are sinful.

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Opera 369
If Tucho Fernandez, the "kiss me - heal me " writer, gets to see this video, his best friend Franko, (aka Francis) will invite Casey Cole...to Santa Marta/Vatican ... asap; offering him a 'special, very special blessing' and reception'!
Maria delos Angeles
Are you suggesting he might be career-positioning?
Opera 369
Not 'suggesting' anything. However, logically- strategically ( not by "feeling" as the woke society including Franko prefers it); the so-called priest is at: "America's Got Talent"! Or not??
Orthocat
The "good ole boy" network thrives in the Church - no matter what blather is said about including laity & 'wymym' [women]. Wouldn't surprise me if he ends up a bishop!
Carol H
Where is his superior during all of this juvenile behaviour?
Liam Ronan
@Carol H Agree. It's the kind of thing a dumb kid would do and later regret it all their life.
Orthocat
They're probably some dying religious community of ageing Vatican II types who are just so thrilled to have such a young (and handsome) vocation they just let him do whatever he wants. Sadly, I've seen this before...
Anthony November
He apparently did a YouTube video on why he doesn’t pray the rosary.
Denis Efimov
And why?
LYunque
Not the behavior of a holy and pious priest. Very sad.
tbswv
Attention seekers all around us. Will it never stop??
Faith In The Ruins
Why do I recognize his name? I don't think it's for positive reasons.
But, no, Father. I understand what you're trying to do. It's just in incredibly poor taste. If my six year old can grasp the difference between the reverence and honor due to God and the adulation the crowds give an entertainer, then you should as well.More
Why do I recognize his name? I don't think it's for positive reasons.

But, no, Father. I understand what you're trying to do. It's just in incredibly poor taste. If my six year old can grasp the difference between the reverence and honor due to God and the adulation the crowds give an entertainer, then you should as well.
mccallansteve
Focus on Christ, Fr. not yourself and worldly glory.
Orthocat
He's the catholic version of that "Zoomer" kid whose made a name for himself boosting Biden 😬 🤪 Except in this case it's Francis & Vatican II.
Denis Efimov
The reality today is that to support any of this usually means to no longer be Catholic.
Ari B
He's a hippie Novus Ordo priest. Whatever.
Denis Efimov
These are often synonyms. Peace, love, tolerance.
Father Karl A Claver
Those HUGE hosts are disgusting. When the priest breaks IT, pieces and fragments are all over the place. One priest told me that a chunk fell on his head.
Maria delos Angeles
He is precisely making the point of why the Novus Ordo should be rejected as anthropocentric and abrogated as soon as sanity reigns from on higher up.
Billy F
This…👆
Naomi Arai
But will sanity reign from higher up…and if so, where? Obviously not from the CounterChurch of Novus Ordo.
Maria delos Angeles
@Naomi Arai That will depend on a large degree on us. Whether we can organize to remove Bergoglio and his cohort of criminals from the Vatican. Physically remove I am talking at this stage.
V.R.S.
Most probably it was invalid.
Dr Bobus
Why?
V.R.S.
@Dr Bobus
The lack of intention. The Church does not do such things like this poor wretch did. Ecce enim Corpus meus is not Hocus Pocus as some blasphemers wanted it.
Moreover, if he used the "for all" formula which the Church has never used (we are not talking here about fallen post-conciliar popes and their pitiful cronies) it is an additional argument for the lack of validity.
English Catholic
Obviously has some psychiatric / attention seeking problems. Should be laicised a.s.a.p.