The Prefect of the highest Vatican Court of Appeals, Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke, has complained about the negative influence of the public in the revelation of abuse cases.
In earlier cases in the USA, a strong interaction between the media and attorneys intensified and an "objective judgement became difficult to discern between the situation and the individual cases themselves.", said the US Church Justice in Rome for Journalists on Thursday afternoon.
The sexual abuse by clerics have caused a deep wound to the "smallest and most defensive members" of the Catholic Church. An exact and comprehensive recondition of the abuse cases must include ecclesiastical punishments, so said the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Archbishop Burke Criticizes Media Influence
How striking that he says that there must be "ecclesiastical punishments". These should be far more fearful to the Catholic than the tender mercies even of Sha'ria law and the dreaded wall of hooks or some other unthinkable device of pre-modern justice.
Pope knew priest was paedophile but allowed him to continue with ministry -Times Online
Ruth Gledhill maintains that Benedict XVI is "unassailable" and that his papacy is one of continuing centralization of the last two papacies. It's amazing then that he doesn't seem to be able to keep even his closest Cardinals, like +Schonborn under control. On the contrary, there is a tremendous amount of freedom on the part of Catholic institutions to support causes contrary to Catholic teaching and mission, so on the face of it her suggestion is a dubious one, as it is with other readers of liberal Catholic papers who describe certain liberal prelates as conservative when well-informed readers know it not to be the case.
Still more important is the backdrop against which she poses this alleged state of affairs. If Cardinal Mahony couldn't be unseated with hundreds of legitimate claims against his Archdiocese that happened on his watch, do you suppose that the Holy Father can be brought down by allegations against his brother and one fuzzy claim that he had a hand in relocating someone ALLEGED to have abused a child?
The news media is digging deep and coming up with a few scraps. It is to be hoped that this signals the continuing downfall of the kingmakers of facile public opinion and the rise of a more liberal, factual and fair appraisal of the events of the day and not some pack of mercenaries in the employ of the consensus of moral depravity.
Pope knew priest was paedophile but allowed him to continue with ministry -Times Online
Still more important is the backdrop against which she poses this alleged state of affairs. If Cardinal Mahony couldn't be unseated with hundreds of legitimate claims against his Archdiocese that happened on his watch, do you suppose that the Holy Father can be brought down by allegations against his brother and one fuzzy claim that he had a hand in relocating someone ALLEGED to have abused a child?
The news media is digging deep and coming up with a few scraps. It is to be hoped that this signals the continuing downfall of the kingmakers of facile public opinion and the rise of a more liberal, factual and fair appraisal of the events of the day and not some pack of mercenaries in the employ of the consensus of moral depravity.
Pope knew priest was paedophile but allowed him to continue with ministry -Times Online
Dead Sea Scrolls at the Science Museum: Ancient fragments with well-hidden secrets | Twin Cities Daily Planet
Tertullian once asked, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem." What, indeed, does Collegeville have to do with Nag Hammadi and Qumran? Perhaps the modernist Monastery is hoping for the glamour of this archeological find to rub off on their atheist illustrated and deceptively packaged Illustrated "Bible".
Dead Sea Scrolls at the Science Museum: Ancient fragments with well-hidden secrets | Twin Cities Daily Planet
On display adjacent to The Dead Sea Scrolls is an exhibit showcasing the St. John’s Bible, an illuminated manuscript commissioned by St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota; it’s the first handwritten illuminated Bible to be created anywhere in the world since the Middle Ages. [That's a piece of humbug pronounced by the Abbey and it's not true. There have been illustrated Bibles since then.] The pages on display are striking, and the small exhibit is an eye-opening introduction to a remarkable project being executed just up the highway. - J.G.
Dead Sea Scrolls at the Science Museum: Ancient fragments with well-hidden secrets | Twin Cities Daily Planet
Pope gives full support to German bishops' plan for responding to abuses :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
It's good that there is talk of handing over to the secular arm for punishment, but what about the severe penances? If it sounds like too much of a government program, it'll sound like an empty and faceless bureaucratic and cynical maneuver, designed to frustrate, stonewall and disarm detractors while protecting the guilty from justice.
Again, would that we hadn't abolished juridical torture and made severe penances a thing of the past.
Pope gives full support to German bishops' plan for responding to abuses :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
Again, would that we hadn't abolished juridical torture and made severe penances a thing of the past.
Pope gives full support to German bishops' plan for responding to abuses :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
He Introduced the Index of Forbidden Books
Paul VI in a conciliar delirium: The United Nations is the great school, where humanity is brought to peace.
-Fr. Luigi Villa
(Kreuz.net) On 20th March Paul VI received the Administrative Council of the 'Rotary Club'.
In a talk he explained, that the organisational form of this para-masonic organization and their methods were good, and the goals, the Pope maintained, were good.
On 4 October 1965 he spoke to the UN - General Assembly in New York and declared: "Gentlemen, you have achieved a great work. You teach men peace. The UN is the great school, where one receives this education."
Paul VI. even visited the abstract meditation room of the United Nations, which is consecrated (geweiht) to God, who men honor under many different names and forms .
The Old Was Disposed of
On 23 March 1963 Paul VI let the lay-Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey (+1988) bless a wall of Cardinals, Bishops and faithful.
On 14 June 1966, he abolished the Index Liborum with the notification "Post Litteras apostolicas".
Simultaneously, a de facto Index was reestablished according to liberalistic theology.
Primarily, the Roman Missal and the works of right believing Catholic Theologians landed on the list.
On 3 April 1969, Paul VI replaced the ancient Roman Missal with the constitution "Missale Romanum" and later with the constitution "Novus Ordo Missae", above all this was done, in order to please the protestants.
With the Motu Propio "Matrimonia mixta" he forged the solemn vow between non-Catholic marriage partners to inform their children of the Catholic Faith.
On 22 November 1970 he avoided Ingravascetem aetatem by the Motu Propio, "over eighty-year old Cardinals, participating in the conclave."
Later bishops upon reaching the age of 75 were forced to retire.
Thus the old bishops should be removed, who might obstruct the development of the Conciliar Church.
A Suction Tube?
With the instruction "Fidei custos", Paul VI permitted laymen to give Holy Communion with the unspecified pretext, "special circumstances and new necessities".
With the instruction "Memoriale Domini" he permitted the Episcopal Conferences of those countries to allow Communion in the hand with their permission, despite this being done already, illegally.
Still, briefly before, the Pope himself had condemned the practice because of the, "danger of profaning the Holy Eucharist," and for the reason of "pious respect for believers towards the Eucharist."
Paul VI signed also an Edict, which maintained, that under both forms, the Precious Blood could be consumed through a straw.
When he died, there were no Christian symbols to be seen on his coffin.
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-Fr. Luigi Villa
(Kreuz.net) On 20th March Paul VI received the Administrative Council of the 'Rotary Club'.
In a talk he explained, that the organisational form of this para-masonic organization and their methods were good, and the goals, the Pope maintained, were good.
On 4 October 1965 he spoke to the UN - General Assembly in New York and declared: "Gentlemen, you have achieved a great work. You teach men peace. The UN is the great school, where one receives this education."
Paul VI. even visited the abstract meditation room of the United Nations, which is consecrated (geweiht) to God, who men honor under many different names and forms .
The Old Was Disposed of
On 23 March 1963 Paul VI let the lay-Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey (+1988) bless a wall of Cardinals, Bishops and faithful.
On 14 June 1966, he abolished the Index Liborum with the notification "Post Litteras apostolicas".
Simultaneously, a de facto Index was reestablished according to liberalistic theology.
Primarily, the Roman Missal and the works of right believing Catholic Theologians landed on the list.
On 3 April 1969, Paul VI replaced the ancient Roman Missal with the constitution "Missale Romanum" and later with the constitution "Novus Ordo Missae", above all this was done, in order to please the protestants.
With the Motu Propio "Matrimonia mixta" he forged the solemn vow between non-Catholic marriage partners to inform their children of the Catholic Faith.
On 22 November 1970 he avoided Ingravascetem aetatem by the Motu Propio, "over eighty-year old Cardinals, participating in the conclave."
Later bishops upon reaching the age of 75 were forced to retire.
Thus the old bishops should be removed, who might obstruct the development of the Conciliar Church.
A Suction Tube?
With the instruction "Fidei custos", Paul VI permitted laymen to give Holy Communion with the unspecified pretext, "special circumstances and new necessities".
With the instruction "Memoriale Domini" he permitted the Episcopal Conferences of those countries to allow Communion in the hand with their permission, despite this being done already, illegally.
Still, briefly before, the Pope himself had condemned the practice because of the, "danger of profaning the Holy Eucharist," and for the reason of "pious respect for believers towards the Eucharist."
Paul VI signed also an Edict, which maintained, that under both forms, the Precious Blood could be consumed through a straw.
When he died, there were no Christian symbols to be seen on his coffin.
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CCHD Stations of the Cross
This just in from "Reform the CCHD". Reform it out of existence would be a better idea. This most recent evil shows a station of the Cross dedicated to a Planned Parenthood funded recipient of CCHD funds, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, here.
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This year, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) released its own version of this ancient devotion. This self-promotion offers a few scriptural passages relevant to each of the 14 Stations of the Cross (Jesus is Condemned to Death, Jesus Takes up His Cross, Jesus Falls the First Time, etc.), which are followed by commercial commentaries on groups receiving grant money from the CCHD. Even the prayers at the end of each station are tainted with these commercial insertions.
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Pope establishes structure for Anglicans uniting with Rome
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has established a special structure for Anglicans who want to be in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church while preserving aspects of their Anglican spiritual and liturgical heritage, said U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada.
The cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said a new apostolic constitution would establish "personal ordinariates" -- similar to dioceses -- to oversee the pastoral care of those who want to bring elements of their Anglican identity into the Catholic Church with them.
Anglican priests who are married may be ordained Catholic priests, but married Anglican bishops will not be able to function as Catholic bishops in keeping with the long-standing Catholic and Orthodox tradition of ordaining only unmarried clergy as bishops, Cardinal Levada said.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has established a special structure for Anglicans who want to be in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church while preserving aspects of their Anglican spiritual and liturgical heritage, said U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada.
The cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said a new apostolic constitution would establish "personal ordinariates" -- similar to dioceses -- to oversee the pastoral care of those who want to bring elements of their Anglican identity into the Catholic Church with them.
Anglican priests who are married may be ordained Catholic priests, but married Anglican bishops will not be able to function as Catholic bishops in keeping with the long-standing Catholic and Orthodox tradition of ordaining only unmarried clergy as bishops, Cardinal Levada said.
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Despite The Danube Cardinal's Remarks: Pope Benedict Defends Celibacy
Perhaps good can come of evil. The Cardinal on the Danube has caused a furor on-line while appearing to question the salutory nature of clerical celibacy, and indeed, it's what we've come to expect from him, but while he has stopped short of criticizing celibacy, he's very interested in giving voice to dissident communities in Vienna who ARE opposed to everything the Church teaches and expect that because they have an opinion celebrated by the mass media and entertainment complex, that they deserve to have their views put into effect. Remember when the Cardinal did such and such, like when he tried to blame the orthodox Father Wagner of Linz for the decline in Austrian Church membership?
Truly, our current Pope has ideas that are a sign of contradiction to the consensus; with not a little courage.
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Truly, our current Pope has ideas that are a sign of contradiction to the consensus; with not a little courage.
Pope Benedict Defends Celibacy
He was speaking at a theological conference before meeting Germany's top bishop for talks about a new crisis over sexual abuse of children.
German Bishop Robert Zollitsch apologised again to victims of abuse by German priests. [This Bishop made some excellent comments on sex abuse.]
The Archbishop of Vienna had suggested that the Church should examine celibacy and priests' training. [Yes, perhaps we should examine celibacy and learn how it has been the discipline of the Church for many centuries for good reasons.]
'Honesty needed'
Europe's Catholic paedophile scandal now affects institutions in Ireland, the Netherlands, Austria and Germany.
The Vatican has also admitted married clergy who converted from the Anglican faith
In Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn wrote in a diocesan magazine that "the issue of priest training, as well as the question of what happened in the so-called sexual revolution" needed to be addressed.
But the Pope said on Friday that celibacy is "the sign of full devotion, the entire commitment to the Lord and to the 'Lord's business', an expression of giving oneself to God and to others".
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Osservatore Romano Full of Errors
There was a comedy routine Robin Williams did about how if women ran world government that we'd have world peace. Well, Mother Goddess worship has come to the Vatican as well.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A greater presence of women in decision-making roles in the church might have helped remove the "veil of masculine secrecy" that covered priestly sex abuse cases, a front-page commentary in the Vatican newspaper said.
The article said that despite calls by popes and others for welcoming women into equal, though diverse, roles in the church, women have generally been kept out of positions of responsibility.
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US museums lend masterpieces to major Caravaggio exhibit in Rome
By Father Matthew Gamber
Catholic News Service
ROME (CNS) -- Three Caravaggio masterpieces, originally painted in Rome but now part of U.S. museum collections, returned to Rome as part of a historic exhibit of the artist's work.
In a way, the paintings are on a pilgrimage back to their birthplace, said Elizabeth Lev, a Caravaggio expert and professor of art history at the Rome campuses of Duquesne University and the University of St. Thomas.
"Caravaggio's vision was carried across the ocean thanks to these works, but now these paintings are making a pilgrimage back to the city where they were born," Lev said.
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ROME (CNS) -- Three Caravaggio masterpieces, originally painted in Rome but now part of U.S. museum collections, returned to Rome as part of a historic exhibit of the artist's work.
In a way, the paintings are on a pilgrimage back to their birthplace, said Elizabeth Lev, a Caravaggio expert and professor of art history at the Rome campuses of Duquesne University and the University of St. Thomas.
"Caravaggio's vision was carried across the ocean thanks to these works, but now these paintings are making a pilgrimage back to the city where they were born," Lev said.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
CONFESSORS: OPEN A "DIALOGUE OF SALVATION" WITH PENITENTS
VATICAN CITY, 11 MAR 2010 (VIS) - At midday today, the Pope received participants in an annual course on the "internal forum" organised by the Apostolic Penitentiary. By participating in the course, he told them, "you have shown the pressing need to dedicate deeper study to a subject that is essential for the ministry and the life of priests".
Benedict XVI recalled how this year's course coincides with the current Year for Priests, dedicated to St. John Mary Vianney, "who heroically and fruitfully exercised the ministry of Reconciliation. ... From the saintly 'Cure of Ars' we priests can learn not only a limitless trust in the Sacrament of Penance which leads us to reinstate it as the focus of our pastoral concerns, but also the method of 'the dialogue of salvation' which must be part thereof", he said.
"Awareness of one's own limits and the need to turn to Divine Mercy in order to ask forgiveness, to convert the heart and to find support on the path of saintliness, are fundamentals in the life of priests. Only someone who has himself experienced greatness can convincingly announce and administer the Mercy of God", the Holy Father explained.
The current cultural context, characterised by "a hedonistic and relativist mentality which tends to remove God from the horizon of life, does not facilitate our acquisition of a clear picture of reference values, and does not help us to discern good from evil or to develop a correct sense of sin". This, the Pope noted, is not very different from the period in which St. John Mary Vianney lived, marked as it was by "a mentality hostile to the faith, as expressed by certain forces that even sought to prevent the exercise of the priestly ministry.
"In these circumstances, the saintly 'Cure of Ars' made 'the church his home' in order to lead men and women to God", the Pope added, "and he appeared to his contemporaries to be an evident sign of God that he encouraged many penitents to come to his confessional". Thus, the Holy Father went on, "it is necessary for priests to live their own response to vocation 'exaltedly', because only someone who daily becomes living and clear presence of the Lord can arouse a sense of sin in the faithful, give them courage and stimulate their desire for forgiveness from God".
"The 'crisis' in the Sacrament of Penance, which is often spoken of, is an appeal addressed first and foremost to priests and to their great responsibility to educate the people of God in the radical demands of the Gospel. In particular, it calls on them generously to dedicate themselves to hearing sacramental confessions, and courageously to guide their flock not to conform itself to this world, but to make choices that go against the tide, avoiding deals and compromises".
Finally, Benedict XVI invited priests to open a "dialogue of salvation" with their penitents, as suggested by the "Cure of Ars". A dialogue that, "arising from the certainty of being loved by God, helps man to recognise his own sin and progressively to introduce himself into a stable process of conversion of heart, which leads to the radical rejection of evil and to a life lived in accordance with God's wishes".
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Benedict XVI recalled how this year's course coincides with the current Year for Priests, dedicated to St. John Mary Vianney, "who heroically and fruitfully exercised the ministry of Reconciliation. ... From the saintly 'Cure of Ars' we priests can learn not only a limitless trust in the Sacrament of Penance which leads us to reinstate it as the focus of our pastoral concerns, but also the method of 'the dialogue of salvation' which must be part thereof", he said.
"Awareness of one's own limits and the need to turn to Divine Mercy in order to ask forgiveness, to convert the heart and to find support on the path of saintliness, are fundamentals in the life of priests. Only someone who has himself experienced greatness can convincingly announce and administer the Mercy of God", the Holy Father explained.
The current cultural context, characterised by "a hedonistic and relativist mentality which tends to remove God from the horizon of life, does not facilitate our acquisition of a clear picture of reference values, and does not help us to discern good from evil or to develop a correct sense of sin". This, the Pope noted, is not very different from the period in which St. John Mary Vianney lived, marked as it was by "a mentality hostile to the faith, as expressed by certain forces that even sought to prevent the exercise of the priestly ministry.
"In these circumstances, the saintly 'Cure of Ars' made 'the church his home' in order to lead men and women to God", the Pope added, "and he appeared to his contemporaries to be an evident sign of God that he encouraged many penitents to come to his confessional". Thus, the Holy Father went on, "it is necessary for priests to live their own response to vocation 'exaltedly', because only someone who daily becomes living and clear presence of the Lord can arouse a sense of sin in the faithful, give them courage and stimulate their desire for forgiveness from God".
"The 'crisis' in the Sacrament of Penance, which is often spoken of, is an appeal addressed first and foremost to priests and to their great responsibility to educate the people of God in the radical demands of the Gospel. In particular, it calls on them generously to dedicate themselves to hearing sacramental confessions, and courageously to guide their flock not to conform itself to this world, but to make choices that go against the tide, avoiding deals and compromises".
Finally, Benedict XVI invited priests to open a "dialogue of salvation" with their penitents, as suggested by the "Cure of Ars". A dialogue that, "arising from the certainty of being loved by God, helps man to recognise his own sin and progressively to introduce himself into a stable process of conversion of heart, which leads to the radical rejection of evil and to a life lived in accordance with God's wishes".
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Obama's Controversial Catholic Advisor
Obama has a number of strange advisors, in addition to Cardinal McCarrick.
Yes, we have to thank Rocco Palmo for spotlighting Mr. Denis McDonaugh, brother of Fr. Kevin McDonaugh, who is Obama's advisor on things Catholic. He graduated from St. John's University. Fr. McDonaugh, one of whose other brothers is also a Catholic priest. Comically, Fr. Kevin McDonaugh, formerly the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minnesota, insisted that there was no homosexual subculture in the Archdiocese, despite many priests active in one way or another in homosexualist causes. Closer to home, his brother own, Fr. William McDonaugh doesn't agree with the Church's teachings on homosexuality, and his advocacy of that cause seems more than personal.
Denis McDonaugh also has contacts, as Rocco Palmo mentions, with the Ambassador to the Holy See (another dissenter), Dr. Diaz, whom he prepared for the post.
Yes, we have to thank Rocco Palmo for spotlighting Mr. Denis McDonaugh, brother of Fr. Kevin McDonaugh, who is Obama's advisor on things Catholic. He graduated from St. John's University. Fr. McDonaugh, one of whose other brothers is also a Catholic priest. Comically, Fr. Kevin McDonaugh, formerly the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minnesota, insisted that there was no homosexual subculture in the Archdiocese, despite many priests active in one way or another in homosexualist causes. Closer to home, his brother own, Fr. William McDonaugh doesn't agree with the Church's teachings on homosexuality, and his advocacy of that cause seems more than personal.
Denis McDonaugh also has contacts, as Rocco Palmo mentions, with the Ambassador to the Holy See (another dissenter), Dr. Diaz, whom he prepared for the post.
Vatican Criticizes Condom Machines in Rome School
Yes, the Bishops in the Philippines are following through with the Pope's attack on one of modernism's false sacraments,fornication, and the Vatican renews its criticism of this mendacious evil. Condom use, despite the proliferation of their availability in the United States, doesn't seem to be the effective preventative it's supposed to be since 1 in 5 adults in the US suffers from the disease. [1]
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ROME — A Rome high school has decided to install vending machines selling condoms for its students, sparking angry reaction from the Catholic Church which claims the move will only encourage youths to have sex.
Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the pope's vicar for Rome, criticized the decision as trivializing sex.
L'Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference, said Thursday that sex was being reduced to "mere physical exercise." The paper lamented that young people these days have no spiritual guidance when it comes to sexuality, and that educators are more concerned with "the health and hygiene consequences of sex" than the moral implications.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Kolbe Academy: A Classical Education
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Catholic education has a long history, even in the U.S. Elizabeth Ann Seton founded a Catholic school system more than two hundred years ago. The movement climaxed in 1965 with more than 5.5. million students, but began to decline after the Second Vatican Council.
Now, there is a growing interest in classical education including Catholics. In homeschools and private schools, there is a movement to return to the traditional ways of education offered in the Church for hundreds of years.
Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum
Laura Berquist wrote her book, Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum to aid Catholics to be able to develop their own Catholic home schools. In the preface, Donna Steichen describes how Catholic culture has been embattled. Secularism has taken root, with fewer and fewer faithful pursuing a true Catholic education. However, a remnant remains and is growing as parents, disgusted with the state of public education, turn back to the tried and true ways of a traditional Catholic education.
Catholic Educational Theory
Education has its roots in five main values which make a school Catholic. Veith and Kern describe this in their book, Classical Education: the Movement Sweeping America. The first value centers on man. Man is created in God's image. Because of that, students are imbued with value, creativity, significance and meaning in life, and are to live as responsible citizens in the world. Secondly, God is in all things. This means that the curriculum is seen as pointing to a transcendant God - God is in all and through all.
Thirdly, Catholic education reflects the value of community - students and teachers are encouraged towards excellence, a reflection on the whole community. Fourthly, students learn not just about the Catholic faith, but begin to learn from it. Students' minds and hearts reflect the values of the Catholic tradition. Finally, knowledge is to be attained - rational, logical thought, critical reasoning are infused at all levels resulting in a rigorous education.
http://educationalissues.suite101.com/article.cfm/catholic-classical-education
Catholic education has a long history, even in the U.S. Elizabeth Ann Seton founded a Catholic school system more than two hundred years ago. The movement climaxed in 1965 with more than 5.5. million students, but began to decline after the Second Vatican Council.
Now, there is a growing interest in classical education including Catholics. In homeschools and private schools, there is a movement to return to the traditional ways of education offered in the Church for hundreds of years.
Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum
Laura Berquist wrote her book, Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum to aid Catholics to be able to develop their own Catholic home schools. In the preface, Donna Steichen describes how Catholic culture has been embattled. Secularism has taken root, with fewer and fewer faithful pursuing a true Catholic education. However, a remnant remains and is growing as parents, disgusted with the state of public education, turn back to the tried and true ways of a traditional Catholic education.
Catholic Educational Theory
Education has its roots in five main values which make a school Catholic. Veith and Kern describe this in their book, Classical Education: the Movement Sweeping America. The first value centers on man. Man is created in God's image. Because of that, students are imbued with value, creativity, significance and meaning in life, and are to live as responsible citizens in the world. Secondly, God is in all things. This means that the curriculum is seen as pointing to a transcendant God - God is in all and through all.
Thirdly, Catholic education reflects the value of community - students and teachers are encouraged towards excellence, a reflection on the whole community. Fourthly, students learn not just about the Catholic faith, but begin to learn from it. Students' minds and hearts reflect the values of the Catholic tradition. Finally, knowledge is to be attained - rational, logical thought, critical reasoning are infused at all levels resulting in a rigorous education.
http://educationalissues.suite101.com/article.cfm/catholic-classical-education
Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican -Times Online
Now, a major news organ finally puts the sex abuse scandal at the doorstep of the one who's in large part responsible for it, yes, and those who, driven by fear or lust for power and money, decided to serve him. No, it's not all of those things that the Church has done for the good throughout history which the modern age says are erroneous and unhealthy, it's the Devil.
Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican -Times Online
Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican -Times Online
Archbishop of Canterbury condemns evangelist 'bullies' -Times Online
Of course a man of conviction might seem like a bully to Archbishop Rowan. It's a strange thing in this day and age, no doubt.
Archbishop of Canterbury condemns evangelist 'bullies' -Times Online
Archbishop of Canterbury condemns evangelist 'bullies' -Times Online
Archbishop of Canterbury condemns evangelist 'bullies' -Times Online
Of course a man of conviction might seem like a bully to Archbishop Rowan. It's a strange thing in this day and age, no doubt.
Archbishop of Canterbury condemns evangelist 'bullies' -Times Online
Archbishop of Canterbury condemns evangelist 'bullies' -Times Online
What’s Wrong With Israel’s Proposed Conversion Bill
Another admission that Israel is the last confessional state in the world, simply fascinating that only a few rabbis, the ultra-orthodox, like our friend, Meir Kahane, are able to decide who is Jewish.
What’s Wrong With Israel’s Proposed Conversion Bill
Only in Israel. On the day that the U.S. vice president arrived in Israel, reportedly to thwart Israel’s bombing of Iran, and following two days of intensive talks between Israel’s prime minister and President Obama’s special envoy to the Middle East, the Israeli government almost fell ... because of a proposed bill about conversion to Judaism.
How could a conversion bill, which set out to marginally expand the list of rabbis who can perform conversions in Israel, set off a string of events that almost brought the government down? Though hard to imagine, the Israeli government coalition agreements include clauses that call for legislation to improve conversion in Israel. This week, such legislation was discussed in the Knesset law committee, and the proposed
What’s Wrong With Israel’s Proposed Conversion Bill
Marcus Grodi Finally Gets it on Americanism
EWTN, DOH!
Everybody should know that the American Catholic Church has been collaborating with the Prince of this world since the Maryland Catholics led by Hellfire Club approved +Carroll SJ forged a tactic, which eventually became a heresy, Americanism.
This is nothing to lose your Faith over, as Catholic Knight suggests, it's something to steel your heart and renew your baptismal promises, and hie thee to a real Monastery for some meditation and spiritual reading; keep alive those theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity by nurturing them with good deeds and spiritual works of mercy.
Everybody should know that the American Catholic Church has been collaborating with the Prince of this world since the Maryland Catholics led by Hellfire Club approved +Carroll SJ forged a tactic, which eventually became a heresy, Americanism.
This is nothing to lose your Faith over, as Catholic Knight suggests, it's something to steel your heart and renew your baptismal promises, and hie thee to a real Monastery for some meditation and spiritual reading; keep alive those theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity by nurturing them with good deeds and spiritual works of mercy.
Cardinal Schönborn analyzes Celibacy
He is more sly in attempting to evade criticism from Rome while placating his aging progressive constituency.
Whoever puts celibacy in the context of child abuses, acts irresponsibly. The newest author: Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna.
Cardinal Schönborn(kreuz.net) the old liberal archbishop of Vienna, Christian von Schönborn, wants to look for the causes of homosexuals violating children in the church.
That he wrote in a contribution for the collaborator magazine of the Archdiocese `to thema kirche'.
The cause of the homosexual violation of pubescent males are the result of sodomites who've crept into the Church.
But Cardinal Schönborn indicates to it cold-bloodedly and wishes everyone thereby, "a large portion honesty in the Church.“
The Prince of the Church writes up some possible causes for the homo violating:
"Applicably the question of priestly education belongs exactly to the same question about what happened in the 68er-Generation in the `the sexual Revolution'.
In addition the topic Celibacy belongs exactly to the same topic as personality development. “
Particularly irresponsible Cardinal
Cardinal Schönborn could easily foresee that this quiet allusion would be sufficiently made toward the subject of married priests; in order to obtain media concerns, his intended heading: "Schönborn analyzes Celibacy."
Any connection between Celibacy and Homo-abusing Educators was occasionally denied in the meantime.
One of the prominent experts in Germany, Hans Ludwig Kröber, does not see any indication that celibate teachers are more frequent abusers than others.
The well-known psychiatrist Manfred Lütz explained to `the Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung', that it "is particularly irresponsible to name celibacy in this connection"“
"On a conference 2003 in Rome the internationally leading experts - all not Catholic - concluded that there was in no way any connection of this phenomenon with the Celibacy. “
He wants to make himself popular for the Upcoming Diocesan Conference
Nevertheless Cardinal Schönborn keeps this misleading connection upright.
Thus it looks for Diocesan Conference in the Stepensdom Cathedral from tomorrow until Saturday sympathizers in the old liberal church wing obviously for the progressive Viennese.
Already with the first Diocesan Conference `Apostelgeschichte 2010 ' in the autumn, the delegates demanded the woman's ordination and married priests.
The invited old liberals of guests applauded these topics at that time. Cardinal S was silent and approving.
Clergy Arrested in Nigeria for Impersonating Army
They should have been arrested for impersonating clergy too because none of them are Catholics.
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Two Bishops and three other pastors have been arrested by the police for allegedly impersonating the Nigerian Army.
The clerics are all general overseers of different churches in Lagos. The pastors were said to have been duping people with Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) Go Army Net Work.
Daily Sun reliably gathered that the pastors were wearing army uniforms with different ranks when they were arrested.
Daily Sun further gathered that the founder of the NGO, Bishop Maccran Ransome, of the Apostolic Church Mission had been swindling other pastors who he promised that his NGO would enhance their connection internationally.
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Father Kung is the cause of Child Abuse
The loquacious dissenter is at it again, (despite being silenced since 1979) and telling the world and anyone who will listen that the problem isn't himself, or those like him, but rather, one of the very things which defines Catholicism, clerical celibacy. He's even used it as an opportunity to parade that tired liberal shiboleth that clerical celibacy is the reason for the shortage in the first place. Indeed, Father Kung's rhetoric as fatuous as it is, still plays well to the perfidious media and the jeering crowds who hunger for innocent blood.
He's described the Catholic Church in Europe as having "uptight" views. It's rather hard to describe the perpetrators of these crimes as "uptight". Father Kung sounds a bit like a hustler or a pimp romancing a potential victim than a Catholic priest. Is it any wonder that he's a byproduct of Tubingen University, a place that produces more ecclesiastical termites than most "Catholic" Theology faculties.
But let's not let facts get in the way of a rash judgement which many people never the less unthinkingly hold. Despite the fact that sex abuse is proportionately more common among married Protestant and Jewish clergy[1], he and others like him will continue to use the medias exploitation of the weakness of quite a few liberal and homosexual priests and religious for the benefit of an infernal programme designed to attack the Church.
Far from being a Catholic priest, Father Kung is actually one mouthpiece for a society of malice, like the jeering crowds at Golgotha who ridiculed Our Lord in the time of His Passion.
What he and other detractors of the Catholic Church's name don't tell you is that there is a lot more child abuse outside the Catholic Church than as a result of its clerics. It shouldn't be surprising if the Catholic Church suffers then from the same moral ills that society at large suffers, indeed, what's surprising is that it doesn't suffer them as much. In a twist of irony, the entertainment industry is far more likely to abuse children than the priests of the Catholic Church. A few directors like Roman Polanski, Woody Allen and Terry Gilliam come to mind, who have either taken advantage of minors or at least make allowances for it, and even portray the potentiality in a positive light as Gilliam did in his most recent and salacious film where he portrays a 16 year old "seducing" a man in his early thirties. In any event, people are eager to invite these abusive degenerates into their home while they snicker malevolently at priest and altar boy jokes.
Thank God for the many loyal priests and religious you may have known in your life and offer thanks for the Masses and sacrifices they've made to bring you the sacrament.
He's described the Catholic Church in Europe as having "uptight" views. It's rather hard to describe the perpetrators of these crimes as "uptight". Father Kung sounds a bit like a hustler or a pimp romancing a potential victim than a Catholic priest. Is it any wonder that he's a byproduct of Tubingen University, a place that produces more ecclesiastical termites than most "Catholic" Theology faculties.
But let's not let facts get in the way of a rash judgement which many people never the less unthinkingly hold. Despite the fact that sex abuse is proportionately more common among married Protestant and Jewish clergy[1], he and others like him will continue to use the medias exploitation of the weakness of quite a few liberal and homosexual priests and religious for the benefit of an infernal programme designed to attack the Church.
Far from being a Catholic priest, Father Kung is actually one mouthpiece for a society of malice, like the jeering crowds at Golgotha who ridiculed Our Lord in the time of His Passion.
What he and other detractors of the Catholic Church's name don't tell you is that there is a lot more child abuse outside the Catholic Church than as a result of its clerics. It shouldn't be surprising if the Catholic Church suffers then from the same moral ills that society at large suffers, indeed, what's surprising is that it doesn't suffer them as much. In a twist of irony, the entertainment industry is far more likely to abuse children than the priests of the Catholic Church. A few directors like Roman Polanski, Woody Allen and Terry Gilliam come to mind, who have either taken advantage of minors or at least make allowances for it, and even portray the potentiality in a positive light as Gilliam did in his most recent and salacious film where he portrays a 16 year old "seducing" a man in his early thirties. In any event, people are eager to invite these abusive degenerates into their home while they snicker malevolently at priest and altar boy jokes.
Thank God for the many loyal priests and religious you may have known in your life and offer thanks for the Masses and sacrifices they've made to bring you the sacrament.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Skirts for Women Will be Mandatory at Ave Maria
AVE MARIA — Skirts will soon be mandatory for female staff and faculty at Ave Maria University.
A new dress code bans pants and slacks for female employees during work hours, unless they’re traveling. Male staff members are required to wear suits, and male faculty are required to wear at least a jacket and tie, with suits preferred.
The new rules take effect on Aug. 30, 2010, the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year. The university notified faculty and staff of the changes last week.
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A new dress code bans pants and slacks for female employees during work hours, unless they’re traveling. Male staff members are required to wear suits, and male faculty are required to wear at least a jacket and tie, with suits preferred.
The new rules take effect on Aug. 30, 2010, the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year. The university notified faculty and staff of the changes last week.
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Holy Father: Government Can't Replace Love
VATICAN CITY, MARCH 8, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Without charity work, society cannot last long, Benedict XVI says, since even in the most just society, love will always be necessary.
The Pope affirmed this Saturday when he addressed some 7,000 employees and volunteers of Italian civil protection services gathered in Paul VI Hall.
The audience was held exactly 11 months after the April 6 earthquake in Italy's Abruzzo region.
The Holy Father thanked the many "good Samaritans" for the commitment to the victims of that tragedy. Referencing his encyclical "Deus Caritas Est," he also affirmed that "love will always be necessary, even in the most just society."
The Pope affirmed this Saturday when he addressed some 7,000 employees and volunteers of Italian civil protection services gathered in Paul VI Hall.
The audience was held exactly 11 months after the April 6 earthquake in Italy's Abruzzo region.
The Holy Father thanked the many "good Samaritans" for the commitment to the victims of that tragedy. Referencing his encyclical "Deus Caritas Est," he also affirmed that "love will always be necessary, even in the most just society."
Online Tool Created to Contact Vatican Officials: 'Why Are American Bishops Allowed to Defy the Pope's... -- WASHINGTON, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
WASHINGTON, March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by Randall Terry, Director, Operation Rescue Insurrecta Nex.
A new tool is available for faithful Catholics who want to contact Vatican officials about American bishops who refuse to uphold the teachings of the Church.
Randall Terry states: "The Faithful can write a personal letter, which will be faxed to 18 Vatican officials. The purpose is to beg the Vatican to deal with American bishops who refuse to follow the Pope's instructions regarding withholding Communion from Catholic politicians who promote child killing.
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Obama, Clinton are Armenian Holocaust Deniers
A congressional panel on Thursday approved the resolution, paving the way for a possible vote by the House.
But US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the administration would "work very hard" to prevent this.
Turkey voiced strong protests after the vote and recalled its ambassador from Washington for consultations.
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But US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the administration would "work very hard" to prevent this.
Turkey voiced strong protests after the vote and recalled its ambassador from Washington for consultations.
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Abortionfest at USF
By Gibbons J. Cooney
Special to California Catholic Daily
The University of San Francisco, a Jesuit institution, will host the “Global Women's Rights Forum” from today through Thursday, March 11. The forum is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, the Sociology Colloquium, the School of Nursing, the Politics Department, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, and curiously, the Theology and Religious Studies Department.
The three speakers at the forum’s Wednesday event, “Bringing Home the right to Health: Critical Interventions in Women's Health Care,” are Lori Freedman, visiting scholar at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at UCSF; Destiny Lopez, executive director, ACCESS, Oakland; and Eve Zaritsky, a physician at Oakland Kaiser, and the medical director of the Women's Community Clinic, San Francisco.
At UCSF, Professor Freedman works as a research associate at the ANSIRH (Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Heath) think tank. ANSIRH’s “Later Abortion” Web page says: “This website is dedicated to the memory and spirit of Dr. Tiller and is a resource for women, clinicians, researchers and journalists who want to learn more about later abortion care.” The reference is to notorious partial-birth abortionist Dr. George Tiller who was murdered in 2009. ANSIRH spearheaded the “Second Trimester Abortion Initiative” which “…promotes a strategic vision for securing access to and provision of second trimester abortion care in the United States,” and provides a list of clinics that provide what they call “Later Abortion.”
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Special to California Catholic Daily
The University of San Francisco, a Jesuit institution, will host the “Global Women's Rights Forum” from today through Thursday, March 11. The forum is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, the Sociology Colloquium, the School of Nursing, the Politics Department, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, and curiously, the Theology and Religious Studies Department.
The three speakers at the forum’s Wednesday event, “Bringing Home the right to Health: Critical Interventions in Women's Health Care,” are Lori Freedman, visiting scholar at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at UCSF; Destiny Lopez, executive director, ACCESS, Oakland; and Eve Zaritsky, a physician at Oakland Kaiser, and the medical director of the Women's Community Clinic, San Francisco.
At UCSF, Professor Freedman works as a research associate at the ANSIRH (Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Heath) think tank. ANSIRH’s “Later Abortion” Web page says: “This website is dedicated to the memory and spirit of Dr. Tiller and is a resource for women, clinicians, researchers and journalists who want to learn more about later abortion care.” The reference is to notorious partial-birth abortionist Dr. George Tiller who was murdered in 2009. ANSIRH spearheaded the “Second Trimester Abortion Initiative” which “…promotes a strategic vision for securing access to and provision of second trimester abortion care in the United States,” and provides a list of clinics that provide what they call “Later Abortion.”
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Media Abuse of Pope's Brother
Everybody used corporal punishment. Will secular schools repay students for their negligence?
What's worse is the desperation with which the collective media is engaging this problem, they couldn't find a great deal of sexual abuse associated with the Msgr Ratzinger's school, so they want to harp about the alleged physical abuse.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6282UR20100309
What's worse is the desperation with which the collective media is engaging this problem, they couldn't find a great deal of sexual abuse associated with the Msgr Ratzinger's school, so they want to harp about the alleged physical abuse.
[Reuters] Rev. Georg Ratzinger, 86, made the comments to a German paper following charges of sexual and physical abuse in Catholic schools in the pope's native Bavaria. Sexual abuse scandals have also rocked the church in the United States and Ireland.
"Pupils told me on concert trips about what went on. But it didn't dawn on me from their stories that I should do something. I was not aware of the extent of these brutal methods," Ratzinger told the Passauer Neue Presse.
"If I had known about the excess of force he was using, I would have said something ... I ask the victims for forgiveness," said Ratzinger who led the "Regensburger Domspatzen," or Regensburg Cathedral Sparrows, the official choir for the Regensburg diocese, from 1964 to 1994.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6282UR20100309
Monday, March 8, 2010
Papal Nuncio Blames High Suicide Rate to Japan's Atheism
[Chiesa] One suicide every 15 minutes, in the most efficient country in the world. An exclusive survey analyzes the reasons. The bishop and the nuncio: there is an absence of faith in a personal God, in a people that honors eight million gods
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
Hospitals in Midlands on Pope assassination alert ahead of his UK visit
HOSPITAL security chiefs in the Midlands have been put on alert for an assassination attempt on the Pope.
Benedict XVI is expected to visit Coventry and Birmingham when he makes his first historic visit to Britain in September.
Now security bosses at Birmingham City Hospital have revealed they would deal with any assassination attempt because of their expertise in dealing with bullet injuries because of gang crime.
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Former Nuntio Publicly Attacks Pope Benedict
This ex-Nuntio despises [1] the direction the Papacy is going under Benedict's leadership, particularly in regard to his recent naming of the conservative Archbishop Leonard as the new Primate of Belgium [2]. Considering the Archbishop's steady hand in the face of secularist criticism and a lawsuit by homosexuals, it does give some indication of the reason for the Nuntio's hostility to the appointment.
[Translation from Kathnet]Karl-Josef Rauber is the Nuntio emeritus of Switzerland and openly violates the papal silence "Sub secreto pontificio" in conjunction with Episcopal appointments.
In a firey interview, which appeared in the last edition of the Italian paper, "Ill Regno",the German Archbishop Karl-Josef Rauber, till just recently the Apostolic Nuncio in Belgium and Luxemburg, turned with harsh criticisms against his superior and countryman, Joseph Ratzinger.
"For anyone, who has the occupation of the Office of the Papacy, it's no small thing." said the experienced Vaticanist, Sandro Magister, in the Italian paper, "L'Espresso" in a related commentary.
His intention to criticize the Pope has deep roots; they go back to the time when Ratzinger was a professor in Regensburg and Rauber was sent by him, to be engaged in his behalf in Rome. Archbishop Rauber's intention then was to challenge his conservative disposition.
The position worsened as Rauber became Nuntio in Switzerland. He complained in the interview, that the then Cardinal-Prefect of the Congregation of the Faith had denounced him "four times" to the Secretary of State, because he was openly criticizing the discipline of celibacy and had spoken poorly of some Bishops.
King Juan Carlos Signs the Abortion Bill Into Law
SPAIN, March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, has signed a bill into law legalizing abortion on demand for the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy.
The law, which was recently passed by the Spanish Congress and Senate, also declares abortion as a "right," allows minors as young as 16 to obtain abortions without their parents' consent, and requires abortionist and homosexualist education in the nation's schools.
The king, a professed Catholic, ignored pleas from a number of theologians and pro-life activists to withhold his signature from the bill, which would have prevented it from being promulgated and applied.
The law, which was recently passed by the Spanish Congress and Senate, also declares abortion as a "right," allows minors as young as 16 to obtain abortions without their parents' consent, and requires abortionist and homosexualist education in the nation's schools.
The king, a professed Catholic, ignored pleas from a number of theologians and pro-life activists to withhold his signature from the bill, which would have prevented it from being promulgated and applied.
Here's a Secretary of State, but from a Century Ago
One interesting thing is how Magister depicts the Secretariat during the time of John Paul II, as being bypassed and having his office left in a shambles. Cardinal Sodano always seemed like a saturnine figure in the Curia and a man who would certainly attempt to undermine the Holy Father if not the Papacy and Catholicism itself.
[Chiesa]Here's a Secretary of State, but from a Century Ago.
[Chiesa]Here's a Secretary of State, but from a Century Ago.
Former Concentration Camp Vandalized in Linz
Abuse was scrawled on the outer wall of the Mauthausen camp near Linz overnight and no culprits had been found, Michael Tischlinger, head of the provincial anti-terrorism police, told the Austrian Press Agency.
"Such a desecration is not a prank, the culprits had a select target," said Willi Mernyi, head of the Mauthausen Committee which helps oversee the site where around 100,000 people died during Nazi rule in Austria in 1938-45.
"There is an active far-right scene in Upper Austria that does not even shrink away from vandalizing a former concentration camp," Mernyi said in a statement.
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"Such a desecration is not a prank, the culprits had a select target," said Willi Mernyi, head of the Mauthausen Committee which helps oversee the site where around 100,000 people died during Nazi rule in Austria in 1938-45.
"There is an active far-right scene in Upper Austria that does not even shrink away from vandalizing a former concentration camp," Mernyi said in a statement.
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The USCCB Wishes to Ignore the Problems and Silence the barking Watchdog
Michael Hichborn has a coherent case for the fact that, Episcopal and offical denials notwithstanding, CCHD continues to promote anti-Catholic Catholic causes and organizations.
You can sign his petition, here.
These organizations, which you'll find in the shadow of any major non-profit organizations, Unions, Government and so forth, are not elective. If you go to a University, some of your fees will go to promote them and their anti-Catholic aims. They are like persistent tumours and I find the efforts of various mouthpieces appaling. Which raises the second point; the defenders of the USCCB and the CCHD really have no coherent answer for this, but they are content to wait for the problem to go away if they ignore the problem, and the people trying to draw attention to it long enough.
And additionally, it's time, since so much has been revealed today about Father Maciel, the predatory founder of the Legionaires of Christ, to think about the legacy of Cardinal Bernardin and his "seamless garment" which fostered this viper and put it to the breast of American Catholicism. We found Bernardin mentioned on the Dad29 blogsite and are happy that there are many others who are aware of legacy afforded us by these politicizing prelates who were nothing but wolves.
You can sign his petition, here.
These organizations, which you'll find in the shadow of any major non-profit organizations, Unions, Government and so forth, are not elective. If you go to a University, some of your fees will go to promote them and their anti-Catholic aims. They are like persistent tumours and I find the efforts of various mouthpieces appaling. Which raises the second point; the defenders of the USCCB and the CCHD really have no coherent answer for this, but they are content to wait for the problem to go away if they ignore the problem, and the people trying to draw attention to it long enough.
And additionally, it's time, since so much has been revealed today about Father Maciel, the predatory founder of the Legionaires of Christ, to think about the legacy of Cardinal Bernardin and his "seamless garment" which fostered this viper and put it to the breast of American Catholicism. We found Bernardin mentioned on the Dad29 blogsite and are happy that there are many others who are aware of legacy afforded us by these politicizing prelates who were nothing but wolves.
Bishops call for renewal of Britain- Catholic Herald Online
At least the British Bishops are getting it.
Bishops call for renewal of Britain- Catholic Herald Online
Bishops call for renewal of Britain- Catholic Herald Online
Rep. Stupak prepared to strike down healthcare reform over abortion :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
It's amazing that the only sacrament Liberals have, abortion, will be used to defeat their quest for the philosopher's stone with which they desire to put in the crown of their welfare state, Socialized Medicine. We know Stupak would vote for the Bill if it didn't have Abortion funding in it, because he's a good liberal, but now, in a fit of strangest and sudden loyalty to a principle of love, he is standing fast against the massive perfidy of liberalism.
Rep. Stupak prepared to strike down healthcare reform over abortion :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
Rep. Stupak prepared to strike down healthcare reform over abortion :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
Santo Subito, Questions about the late Pope's Legacy
John Paul II's sainthood has now been pushed back to October, but it's still going to happen, apparently. It seems fitting to discuss the impending Sainthood of the first Polish Pope in the background of the latest allegations against his favorite order, The Legionaires of Christ and their founderMaciel. The photo shows him with a panama hat and civilian clothes. I know that traditionally Mexico's anti-clerical government wouldn't allow priests to wear clerical attire in public, but priests who appear in public out of uniform always raise our suspicions. (You get the impression that they are actors who've exited the stage and have taken off the persona with their makeup.)
There has been some attempt in the PR area to excuse the late Pope's apparent incapacity to deal effectively with the tidal wave of child abuse which happened on his watch, by pointing at his life under Communist governments. It's true that Communists did then and still do persecute Catholic leaders and the Church as a whole on this basis, but we'd like to think that JPII could have been more proactive in dealing with these monsters, even if they are just one small part of the degeneracy of our civilization at large. See, many of us have a strong sensation that our late Pope didn't do all he could to fight the spirit of the age, and succumbed to it more than he fought it.
Ultimately, the Maciel scandal will no-doubt hang heavily on the impending canonization of this long-lived Pope. We'd like to think that the Church will do whatever is true, whatever public opinion happens to be.
There has been some attempt in the PR area to excuse the late Pope's apparent incapacity to deal effectively with the tidal wave of child abuse which happened on his watch, by pointing at his life under Communist governments. It's true that Communists did then and still do persecute Catholic leaders and the Church as a whole on this basis, but we'd like to think that JPII could have been more proactive in dealing with these monsters, even if they are just one small part of the degeneracy of our civilization at large. See, many of us have a strong sensation that our late Pope didn't do all he could to fight the spirit of the age, and succumbed to it more than he fought it.
Ultimately, the Maciel scandal will no-doubt hang heavily on the impending canonization of this long-lived Pope. We'd like to think that the Church will do whatever is true, whatever public opinion happens to be.
Latin Mass in Anchorage starting This Saturday
Unfortunate that it's on Saturday. Not conducive to normal parish life, but it's a beginning after all.
CatholicAnchor.org
CatholicAnchor.org
Beginning Saturday, March 6, 7:30 p.m., Holy Family Cathedral will regularly celebrate the extraordinary form of the Mass, more commonly known as the Tridentine Mass. The Saturday evening Mass will be a vigil Mass which will fulfill the Sunday obligation for Mass.
The Tridentine rite – which is said in Latin – was the standard Roman Catholic liturgy before the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). In his July 2007 apostolic letter, Pope Benedict XVI reasserted its wider usage.
Young men interested in serving at the Mass should contact Father Vincent Kelber at 276-3455.
Rutger's University is Training Abortion Clinic Escorts
It's not a good thing.
NLG Clinic Defense Project: Clinic Escort Training Clinic Escort
https://camlaw.rutgers.edu/webapps/rulawnews/publish.php?item_id=722
NLG Clinic Defense Project: Clinic Escort Training Clinic Escort
Training Monday, March 8th, 6:15-7:30pm. Room 105. Representatives from the Philadelphia Womens Center will conduct a training in clinic escorting; providing women in need of abortion an escort through anti-abortion protests and observing protesters to ensure they follow the law. Participants in the training will have an opportunity to join the NLG's Clinic Defense Project.Publish Date:02/23/2010Copyright: Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyRutgers School of Law – Camden, 217 North Fifth Street, Camden, NJ 08102 856-225-6375
https://camlaw.rutgers.edu/webapps/rulawnews/publish.php?item_id=722
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Muslim Groups, Anti-Catholic Groups at Midwestern "Catholic" Girl's University
Can Heretics, Infidels and Reprobates share the same Campus?
Saint Catherine's University has long had a reputation for promoting non-Catholic agendas. It hosts socialist Alinskyite programs that promote abortion and birth control and homosexuality like, MPIRG (Minnesota Public Interest Research Group), or check out their facebook organizing group aligning themselves boldly with Planned Parenthood and NARAL. It also has pro-homosexualist groups. Now, in an efffort to be extremely all-inclusive of everything but actual Catholicism, they're hosting an Islamic Group whose goal is to promote and explain Islam and extend "peace". Since Islam admittedly spreads peace by the sword, I wonder if they'll attack the Homosexual groups and individuals on campus?
St. Catherine's does have a Latin Club, however, as far as can be told, there's not actually a Catholic group, indeed, it's hard to say if there's any Catholicism there at all.
Saint Catherine's University has long had a reputation for promoting non-Catholic agendas. It hosts socialist Alinskyite programs that promote abortion and birth control and homosexuality like, MPIRG (Minnesota Public Interest Research Group), or check out their facebook organizing group aligning themselves boldly with Planned Parenthood and NARAL. It also has pro-homosexualist groups. Now, in an efffort to be extremely all-inclusive of everything but actual Catholicism, they're hosting an Islamic Group whose goal is to promote and explain Islam and extend "peace". Since Islam admittedly spreads peace by the sword, I wonder if they'll attack the Homosexual groups and individuals on campus?
St. Catherine's does have a Latin Club, however, as far as can be told, there's not actually a Catholic group, indeed, it's hard to say if there's any Catholicism there at all.
Nebraska Bishops, inlcuding Bruskewitz, Want to Extort Money from Taxpayers too
It's one thing to use your moral authority to exhort people to help care for people down on their luck, even if they break the law and come here illegally, but it's another thing entirely to use that influence to encourage lawmakers to pass laws to help extort the money from taxpayers and crow about how charitable you're being, and ironically, how uncharitable others are being who oppose your designs. Maybe these Bishops don't get it, but government isn't a solution.
Again, perhaps if Bishops were as concerned about real justice, real charities and doing their jobs, which is saving souls, perhaps more people might be moved to act charitably?
In any event, Bishops like Gumbleton and Wuerl advocate for this non-sense, so it's surprising to see apparently conservative Bishops engage in this shakedown routine as well.
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Again, perhaps if Bishops were as concerned about real justice, real charities and doing their jobs, which is saving souls, perhaps more people might be moved to act charitably?
In any event, Bishops like Gumbleton and Wuerl advocate for this non-sense, so it's surprising to see apparently conservative Bishops engage in this shakedown routine as well.
LINCOLN — Nebraska's Catholic bishops are turning up the heat on Gov. Dave Heineman to reverse his opposition to government-funded prenatal care for low-income, illegal immigrants.
In a letter Wednesday to the governor, Omaha Archbishop George Lucas, Lincoln Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz and Grand Island Bishop Thomas Dendinger expressed their “high level of concern and disappointment” with Heineman's position.
“This is an important and urgent pro-life matter,” the letter stated. “Denying prenatal coverage care in these circumstances of family poverty is an affront to human dignity and pro-life principles.”
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Peers Vote to Lift Ban on Gay Marriages in Churches
Knowing how litigious homosexuals are, this is likely to involve some lawsuits against the Catholic Church, like the one already threatening the last Catholic adoption agency in England, here.
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[BBC] Peers have voted to lift the ban on same sex couples holding civil partnership ceremonies inside churches.
The House of Lords agreed an amendment to the Equality Bill which would allow, but not compel, religious organisations to host the occasions.
Gay rights campaigners celebrated the change, but opponents said it could be impractical and undermine marriage.
Peers voted by a majority of 74 in favour of the amendment, which was not backed by the government.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
English Bishops Veering Away from Big Government
Perhaps there are many Bishops presently for who want to spend more time engaging in wealth confiscation as an abettor of liberal government, but they're increasingly departing from their liberal orthodoxy and getting some old orthodoxy. Perhaps they are going to become more concerned about saving souls as they are about promoting the same old Labour policies and extolling the mythical "common good"?
Perhaps they are starting to realize that collorating with Liberal governments don't serve their stated mission to save souls very well?
The Bishops Have NOT backed the Tories Yet -- but they are beginning to talk sense.
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Perhaps they are starting to realize that collorating with Liberal governments don't serve their stated mission to save souls very well?
The Bishops Have NOT backed the Tories Yet -- but they are beginning to talk sense.
[The Telegraph] The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales unveiled their pre-election briefing today and it’s a vast improvement on their traditional “let’s-throw-money-at-social-problems-and-you-know-which-party-that-means-voting-for” approach.
Choosing the Common Good questions the myth – yes, it uses the word “myth” – that the state can solve all our problems. In that respect it’s a big advance on 2004’s Taxation for the Common Good, a hymn to the public sector that could have been (and maybe was) dictated by Downing Street.
There are paragraphs that resonate with David Cameron’s “bottom-up” philosophy of community initiatives. Also, though this is not mentioned, Bishop Malcolm McMahon, who has the education portfolio, has given his blessing to the free schools initiative (rather to the alarm of doctrinaire Lefty Oona Stannard, head of the “Catholic” Education Service).
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Jesuit President of Loyola Marymount Resigns
More shakeups with the Jesuits. It seems that someone is listening and growing concerned with the flagrant abuses and integrity gaps. There are still quite a few more to go, but don't let anyone tell you that your righteous concerns don't matter.
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Jesuit Fr. Robert B. Lawton announced on Monday he will be stepping down as president of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles when the current academic year ends. Fr. Lawton has led the school since May 1999. During his tenure, he allowed pro-abortion commencement speakers, dissident theologians, and approved policies giving insurance coverage to the “registered domestic partners” of school employees, as well as offering school workers “enhanced contraceptive coverage.”
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The Vitriolic Defenders of CCHD
The defenders of CCHD are exactly what CCHD is accused of being.
One contributor at NCR spent a few paragraphs trying to exonerate the CCHD and the US Catholic Bishops and their staffs. He accused those concerned with CCHDs activities of engaging in an "unchristian witchhunt". Of course, Winters can't really address the reality of these claims, because he agrees with the anti-Catholic agenda himself and instead, vents his fury.
We thought we'd take a minute to look at him. We know he's a proponent of homosexual priests, here. He was happy when Obama came to Notre Dame to speak, here. George Weigel gave him the "McBrien Prize", which apparently, isn't a good thing, here
Link to CATHnews...
One contributor at NCR spent a few paragraphs trying to exonerate the CCHD and the US Catholic Bishops and their staffs. He accused those concerned with CCHDs activities of engaging in an "unchristian witchhunt". Of course, Winters can't really address the reality of these claims, because he agrees with the anti-Catholic agenda himself and instead, vents his fury.
We thought we'd take a minute to look at him. We know he's a proponent of homosexual priests, here. He was happy when Obama came to Notre Dame to speak, here. George Weigel gave him the "McBrien Prize", which apparently, isn't a good thing, here
Link to CATHnews...
NCR says Pope's Liturgist Won't Rule out Communion on the Toungue becoming Normative
In his interview with NCR, the Pope's liturgist will not rule out that communion on the toungue and kneeling won't become normative. Although some might despair on this point, the impetus is definitely heading in this direction, and we could well see, to the chagrin of many liturgists, that these practices, including the use of Latin and the Immemorial Mass may become more commonplace and sought after than their current unsatisfactory liturgical faire.
Marini told NCR, however, that Benedict’s style is to “propose” these practices so that they may be slowly “welcomed” into the life of the church, rather than imposing them by authority.
“It’s the style of the current pope to move forward not by imposing things, but proposing them. The idea is that, slowly, all this may be welcomed, considering the true significance that certain decisions and certain orientations may have,” Marini said.
Marini did not rule out, however, that such practices might be made binding at some future point.
“Whether sometime down the line, in the future, what the pope is presenting should become more of a disciplinary norm [for the whole church], we don’t know and can’t say,” he said.
More Disturbing News about the CCHD
What's really disturbing about this is that they've been doing this since the CCHD was founded and seem more concerned about being caught than actually doing something to put a stop to this.
Would it be too much to abolish the USCCB while we're abolishing the CCHD?
Would it be too much to abolish the USCCB while we're abolishing the CCHD?
by Deal W. Hudson
2/02/10
More startling evidence has been unearthed about the Catholic Campaign for Human development that shows a disturbing pattern of cooperation between the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and groups that advocate abortion and same-sex marriage.
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7604&Itemid=48
Some Disturbing News About Catholic Youth
March 2, 2010
There has been some disturbing news of late regarding young Catholics and their moral formation. First, 65% of Catholic young adults (18-29) believe that homosexual sex is either a moral good (!!) or morally meaningless. This is contrary to what the Church teaches on this subject. Look, if you want to believe gay sex is a good thing, fine, but that's not the Roman Catholic viewpoint, and actively engaging in such acts has always been viewed as a serious sin. So, these 'millenial' Catholics are conflating a serious sin with something morally good or ambivalent. This is a failure of formation, pure and simple. While the culture, influenced by a wealthy and highly effective lobby, has been shouting to the rooftops that homosexual activities are natural, normal, and even chic, the Church obviously has not gotten it's 2000 year teaching through to most young people. There are good signs however – these millenials are opposed to abortion and adultery. But not opposed to premarital sex. This brings me to the second, more concerning article – Catholic female college students, enrolled in nominally Catholic colleges, are far more promiscuous than students enrolled at non-religious colleges, and waaay more so than those enrolled at evangelical colleges that take their faith very seriously. This is like a punch to the gut, but it confirms what we've heard before. Catholic colleges, with a very few exceptions, are no longer places that support, defend, and strengthen the faith of its students, but have become wordly to an extent that they actively destroy the faith of those who enter under their rooves. It's important to note that this study was not conducted by an organization that may have an agenda, but by researchers at Mississippi State. The most damning statement of the study's authors: "our findings might instead suggest that not all religiously affiliated colleges and universities constitute 'moral communities." What does this mean? While Catholic colleges may call themselves Catholic, that is nothing more than a name, and those colleges do not constitute a moral center, or a center of the faith. There are exceptions, Wyoming Catholic College, Franciscan in Steubenville, Benedictine College in KS, even the University of Dallas still has a fairly vibrant Catholic ethos, despite Milam Joseph's worst efforts. But at all of the really famous Catholic colleges – DePaul, Loyola, Xavier, Boston College, Georgetown, Notre Dame, and many, many others – the Catholic faith is either an occasional appendage worn to attract donations, or has been shoved into a dusty closet never to be thought of, let alone talked about. Such is the fruit of the dreadful 'Land O' Lakes conference.' A vibrant system of faithful colleges was turned, intentionally, into a set of CINO institutions. All in the name of pride and prestige. Oh, and 80% of Catholic college students think contraception is A-OK, which may come from the universities, or their parents. Kinda hard to tell at this point.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The Jesuits get a New Provincial in Germany
A new man will step in to replace Fr. Stefan Dartman by the order of the Father General in Rome, Fr Adolfo Nicolás. He is Fr. Kiechle and works, in addition to being the head of the Manheim Jesuit Community, with troubled youth at the outreach organization "Open Door", here. His non-confrontational psychological approach to discernment and life's troubles no-doubt raises eyebrows, in one of the books he's authored, but looks essentially like a popular explanation of the Spiritual Exercises, here.
You might also think that this new assignment is the result of the abusive Jesuits at the German Prep-School and an unwanted resignation on the part of the current Provincial, but it's really routine to change Provincials every six years, so there's nothing untoward there.
You might also think that Father Kiechle, who looks like a layman and a liberal, seems to have a handle one of the things that really hobles the Catholic Church's German levites. Despite appearances to the contrary and his social work with youth in a social services organization and being a Jesuit, he has made some, if they are true, astonishing claims about the social climate in religious communities where cliques of homosexuals dominate, cf here:
A year ago, Stefan Kiechle, SJ, a novice master in Nuremberg (Germany), disclosed his experience on this point. In several German seminaries and within several orders 'homosexual hierarchies' exist, he said, which like all coteries that shun the light of the day work subversively and make others in the community dependent on them.
The document available is in pdf, above, and if it is accurate and true, would point to the new Jesuit provincial being a different, more responsible and accountable Jesuit.
Source from Radio Vatikan...
Battle lines in the liturgy wars | National Catholic Reporter
Battle lines in the liturgy wars | National Catholic Reporter
The one who's absent in this mention of "liturgy wars" by Tom Roberts at NCR is Fr. Virgil Michel OSB. He was a monk from what is now the fastest disintegrating monastery in the world, whose metastasizing (cancer causing) and energetic presence in education, economics, liturgy and philosophy during the 20s until his death in 1938 had tremendous consequences which we still experience today every time we enter what can be described as a Gathering Space or Catholic Community, with an altar-nave and worship completely unrecognizable to most of history's Catholics.
What's never discussed in this line is the historical nature of this catastrophe and some of the players, like Liturgist Dom Beauduin. His American counterpart, Michel, whose own reforming tendencies sought to remedy something he alleged was lacking in Catholic doctrine for which both monks were willing to violate Church law regarding the celebration of the Mass. Fr. Michel utilized "dialogue Mass" formats to encourage active participation, and he did this knowing full well it was illicit, but his cause was more important, that of realizing the social dimensions of the Mass for social-justice.
The Mass became a backdrop for Michel's polemicism in favor of Marxist causes, but more importantly, his interest in turning the Mass into an expression of an unprecedented or lost social justice dimension. Not only did Michel favor wealth confiscation and nationalization, but he believed in disobeying rubrics and committed mortal sins. It's a mortal sin to deliberately confect an illicit sacrament, which he cynically did. Some may try to argue culpability and want to excuse Michel for his "social justice" concerns, but this boarders on credulity when Michel's real concern is revealed. Like Judas, he really coveted the money of others and hated any form of inequality, as he said, writing in Commonweal just before his death,
At the heart of this is a refusal to obey, coupled with the adulation of the laity with which he attempted to instill a false sense of liberty. It's no wonder that the religious community to which Michel belonged is rapidly dying of old age and irrelevance.
This attempt address a contemporary gap in the Church's teaching by something that had been lost was Michel's mania, and it's the battle cry of every reformer who wishes to raise an injustice real or imagined to the level of infallibility, to the point where the agenda overrides obedience. Fr. Virgil Michel sought to make the liturgy more relevant to modern people, and in so doing, he broke the rules and it is this pattern which remains today. Rules are broken for the higher agenda of a more democratic and socially aware Church, which simultaneously vitiates the importance of personal sin in favor of corporate sin. Father Virgil Michel set the stage for many of the abuses which came about in the Second Vatican Council, and Fr. Godfrey Diekman continued his mission.
Suprisingly, Diekman felt things had gone too far, [and they had] but it's difficult to view his concern, since the results could have been foreseen, as they were, by men contemporary to himself and Fr. Michel who resisted their efforts at making an egalitarian and more participatory Mass, he writes according to Tom Roberts,
The one who's absent in this mention of "liturgy wars" by Tom Roberts at NCR is Fr. Virgil Michel OSB. He was a monk from what is now the fastest disintegrating monastery in the world, whose metastasizing (cancer causing) and energetic presence in education, economics, liturgy and philosophy during the 20s until his death in 1938 had tremendous consequences which we still experience today every time we enter what can be described as a Gathering Space or Catholic Community, with an altar-nave and worship completely unrecognizable to most of history's Catholics.
What's never discussed in this line is the historical nature of this catastrophe and some of the players, like Liturgist Dom Beauduin. His American counterpart, Michel, whose own reforming tendencies sought to remedy something he alleged was lacking in Catholic doctrine for which both monks were willing to violate Church law regarding the celebration of the Mass. Fr. Michel utilized "dialogue Mass" formats to encourage active participation, and he did this knowing full well it was illicit, but his cause was more important, that of realizing the social dimensions of the Mass for social-justice.
The Mass became a backdrop for Michel's polemicism in favor of Marxist causes, but more importantly, his interest in turning the Mass into an expression of an unprecedented or lost social justice dimension. Not only did Michel favor wealth confiscation and nationalization, but he believed in disobeying rubrics and committed mortal sins. It's a mortal sin to deliberately confect an illicit sacrament, which he cynically did. Some may try to argue culpability and want to excuse Michel for his "social justice" concerns, but this boarders on credulity when Michel's real concern is revealed. Like Judas, he really coveted the money of others and hated any form of inequality, as he said, writing in Commonweal just before his death,
"What blasphemy! As if there were anything really Christian about our modern capitalism."
At the heart of this is a refusal to obey, coupled with the adulation of the laity with which he attempted to instill a false sense of liberty. It's no wonder that the religious community to which Michel belonged is rapidly dying of old age and irrelevance.
This attempt address a contemporary gap in the Church's teaching by something that had been lost was Michel's mania, and it's the battle cry of every reformer who wishes to raise an injustice real or imagined to the level of infallibility, to the point where the agenda overrides obedience. Fr. Virgil Michel sought to make the liturgy more relevant to modern people, and in so doing, he broke the rules and it is this pattern which remains today. Rules are broken for the higher agenda of a more democratic and socially aware Church, which simultaneously vitiates the importance of personal sin in favor of corporate sin. Father Virgil Michel set the stage for many of the abuses which came about in the Second Vatican Council, and Fr. Godfrey Diekman continued his mission.
As described by the late Benedictine Fr. Godfrey Diekmann of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., one of 55 international liturgists who helped write the document, “It was a Magna Carta of the laity.” [Or is it really ecclesiastical liberals flattering unrepentant human nature?]
It might be reasonable to presume that with the world’s bishops and the pope signing off on liturgical reform, all would be set for the foreseeable future. But the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, a solemn pronouncement of the council, was also a political document. Its implications went far beyond what prayers people would say and when they would stand and kneel, or what motions a priest would make during the ritual.
The further-reaching implications had to do with ecclesiology, what kind of church we were becoming. It was clear in 1963 to then-Fr. Joseph Ratzinger what was at stake with the newly affirmed document. In what appear approving tones, Ratzinger wrote of the “decentralization of liturgical decision-making.”
Suprisingly, Diekman felt things had gone too far, [and they had] but it's difficult to view his concern, since the results could have been foreseen, as they were, by men contemporary to himself and Fr. Michel who resisted their efforts at making an egalitarian and more participatory Mass, he writes according to Tom Roberts,
Yet it must be noted that even Diekmann, as early as 1993, voiced concern that “in the liturgical movement, we have lost the sense of mystery, of the sacred.” While rejecting such “false props” as Latin, he said that the prior 30 years had seen an overemphasis on God as immanent and loving, creating at times a “feel-good” religion. He recommended restoration of “kneeling, genuflecting, bowing or even lying prostrate on the floor” as gestures that express “making ourselves small before God.” [Even his concerns take the infantilistic language and imagery of the post-conciliar ICEL translations, and the sentimental folk music.]
Monday, March 1, 2010
Fordham University Hosts the Immemorial Mass: Aftermath
It's easy to see that there was a lot of hostillity to this happening, and it's not hard to see why the staff wouldn't want this Liturgy celebrated on their property. Think of all the explaining faux Jesuits will be forced to do to stave off the obvious curiosity such an event has inspired?
Information on the celebrants and musicians can be found on this blog here:
http://hughofcluny.blogspot.com/2010/02/fordham-jesuits-ill-offer-solemn-mass.html
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The Solemn Traditional Mass returned to Fordham University this afternoon in appropriately splendid form. Music, vestments and ceremonial were, as expected, first rate. This liturgy was celebrated at the request of students and the sizable congregation of visitors and students (miraculous in the normal context of "campus ministry") evidenced the high level of interest. Fordham University has performed a valuable service - if the Traditional Mass can be celebrated there it should encourage efforts at other universities. We are aware of 4 insitutions of higher learning within the "tri-state area" - 2 "Catholic", 2 very well-known secular - where efforts to organize Traditional services so far have enountered the adamant opposition of the relveant Catholic chaplaincies. Perhaps the success at Fordham will inspire a renewed initiative to help them change their minds....
Information on the celebrants and musicians can be found on this blog here:
http://hughofcluny.blogspot.com/2010/02/fordham-jesuits-ill-offer-solemn-mass.html
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Does Your Parish Waste $$$ on Disposable Missalettes Every Year
It's not too hard to see the relationship between anti-Catholic causes and the ubiquitous and cheaply manufactured missal which parishes often purchase at the expense of thousands of dollars a year, but take a look at the people who also publish from these houses, and it's almost as offensive as the crummy artwork.
Some parish priests are literally shoveling money into a sewer when they give money to gay-friendly organizations like Oregon Catholic Press, or Liturgical Press. The publications feature weird illustrations and musical arrangements. Imagine how much money could be saved if you just cancelled those worthless subscriptions and used the money to purchase beautiful veils for your tabernacle, or perhaps even a new gold ciborium for the Eucharistic Lord?
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Dutch Bishop Refuses Communion to Homosexuals
What the article by BBC doesn't tell you is that the Bishop Antoon Hurkmans of Den Bosch is backing up the priest who refused these people communion. It is confirmed by kathnet.
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Hun[BBC]dreds of Dutch activists have walked out of a Mass in protest at a Roman Catholic policy of denying communion to practising homosexuals.
On this occasion, the church, in 's-Hertogenbosch, had already decided not to serve communion, so the protesters left, shouting and singing.
The dispute began earlier this month when a priest in a nearby town refused communion to an openly gay man.
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Egyptian Court Acquits Muslims in Murder of Copt
CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Monday acquitted four Muslims accused of killing an elderly Christian, saying that testimony from witnesses had not established they were the murderers, a judicial source said.
The men were arrested in October after the elderly Copt was killed at his home in the southern village of Dairut.
They allegedly planned to attack the Copt's son, who was dating a Muslim girl and was rumoured to have circulated a CD with explicit pictures of her.
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The men were arrested in October after the elderly Copt was killed at his home in the southern village of Dairut.
They allegedly planned to attack the Copt's son, who was dating a Muslim girl and was rumoured to have circulated a CD with explicit pictures of her.
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The Case of Baoding and the Pope's Letter
The true story of Bishop Francis An Shuxin: imprisoned and tortured by the Communists, betrayed by Catholic authorities and sold out by Paul VI, this great Bishop kept his faith in the near absolute moral darkness of the 20th Century.
by Gianni Valente
[© Associated Press/LaPresse]
Baoding is not difficult to reach, by road or rail. It is less than 150 kilometers south of Beijing. The polluting industries were dismantled some time ago there, and they started making wind turbines and whatever was needed to derive energy from sun, wind and biomass. That is why reports in government newspapers extolled it as the capital of renewable energy, the Chinese model on the road to sustainable development. But for those who know even a little of the recent history of Catholics in China, Baoding is a place like no others. And for quite different reasons.
The name of the city in Hebei province, where currently less than one million people live, comes up often in the chronicles of Chinese Catholicism in recent decades as the epicenter of sensitive and controversial issues. It was in Baoding that in 1981 Bishop Joseph Fan Xueyan began to ordain bishops in clandestine fashion, outside the interference and control of the “patriotic” bodies imposed on the Church by the religious policies of the regime. An initiative approved after the fact by Pope John Paul II, and fraught with consequences. From there developed like lightning the network of “clandestine” bishops, those not recognized as such by the government, who set themselves at the head of that part of the Catholic Chinese – priests, religious, communities – which was unwilling to subject their ecclesial life to the control of the Party.
Thirty years later, Baoding again became the center of a controversy reminiscent in some ways of the way chosen at the time by Joseph Fan. Everything revolves around the case of a clandestine bishop who decided to come out into the open and to exercise his pastoral mandate by accepting procedures imposed by the civil authorities. His decision has triggered a storm of poisonous controversy that for months has been rending the Catholic communities of the region, and even involving the Vatican. The story is confused, and so far some partial and tendentious reconstructions put on the net by agencies and self-styled experts have encouraged misleading interpretations. But two documents, still ignored by the attacks of the western news agencies, throw full light on the concrete dynamics of the happenings and the reasons of the people involved. Showing up against the light the implications and the real contours of the larger issue that has opened around the case.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Germany's Green Party Wants Sex With Children
The authors of the paper want to know the implemented principle of non-punishable violence-free sexuality, even of sexuality between minors as well as adults.
The 'Greens' of the German Republic Nordrhein-Westfalen have made a resolution with the theme, "Sex With Children".
This was reported in the German magazine, 'Spiegel' on March 25th, 1985.
A 20 headed 'green' work group with the name "Sexuality and Mastery" is promoting the paper as part of the federal party conference in Luedenscheid on 9 March Manifesto resolution.
Alliance of Child Abusers and Homosexuals
The 'green' Child abuse group names its homo-perverse and child abuser membership, playfully, "SchuP" (The German slang for sodomite is "schwul")
As expected the 'green' Delegates subscribed to the content of the papers according to an almost three hour discussion with 76 to 53 voices - in any case, because of a still clarification hungry point of dissenssion only as a "Working Document".
The Main Points follow:
- Consensual Sexuality is a form of communication between humans of various ages, sexes, religions or races and free from every constraint.
- From that it is not acceptable to use sexuality, where 'violence and independence' are in play.
- Violence free sexuality may never be the object of criminal prosecution. There then all criminal statutes be eliminated, which threaten violence free sexual expression with punishment.
-The entire German sexual crimes law should be struck and rewritten and constituted under the aspect of the use of violence.
The 'Greens' Federal Committee will not Annul the Tenet.
The authors of the Paper want to know the implemented principle of non-punishable violence free, even sexuality between minors as well as adults.
Members of the child-abusing Nurenberg "Indiancommune" had already used a Green Party Congress in the year 1980 to recruit for "soft Sex" with children.
The national main committee suspended the Sex Resolution with forty to four voices because of "heavy doubts" only after 7 days.
The resolution was not waived, however.
Link to original Kreuz.net...
The 'Greens' of the German Republic Nordrhein-Westfalen have made a resolution with the theme, "Sex With Children".
This was reported in the German magazine, 'Spiegel' on March 25th, 1985.
A 20 headed 'green' work group with the name "Sexuality and Mastery" is promoting the paper as part of the federal party conference in Luedenscheid on 9 March Manifesto resolution.
Alliance of Child Abusers and Homosexuals
The 'green' Child abuse group names its homo-perverse and child abuser membership, playfully, "SchuP" (The German slang for sodomite is "schwul")
As expected the 'green' Delegates subscribed to the content of the papers according to an almost three hour discussion with 76 to 53 voices - in any case, because of a still clarification hungry point of dissenssion only as a "Working Document".
The Main Points follow:
- Consensual Sexuality is a form of communication between humans of various ages, sexes, religions or races and free from every constraint.
- From that it is not acceptable to use sexuality, where 'violence and independence' are in play.
- Violence free sexuality may never be the object of criminal prosecution. There then all criminal statutes be eliminated, which threaten violence free sexual expression with punishment.
-The entire German sexual crimes law should be struck and rewritten and constituted under the aspect of the use of violence.
The 'Greens' Federal Committee will not Annul the Tenet.
The authors of the Paper want to know the implemented principle of non-punishable violence free, even sexuality between minors as well as adults.
Members of the child-abusing Nurenberg "Indiancommune" had already used a Green Party Congress in the year 1980 to recruit for "soft Sex" with children.
The national main committee suspended the Sex Resolution with forty to four voices because of "heavy doubts" only after 7 days.
The resolution was not waived, however.
Link to original Kreuz.net...
Green Politician-Priest Promotes Homosexual Nuptials
In the past week, there was some rumpus when Father Germain Dufour, a Capuchin priest in Belgium conducted a sacrilegious and invalid matrimony service on Valentine's Eve. Some people still think that Cardinal Daneels is still running Belgium and were he, we'd be sure that nothing would be done and nothing would be said.
A few weeks after his appointment on 25 January, true to his name, +Leonard, the new Primate of Belgium, has spoken out against the outrage of homosexuality and invited once again the ire of the leftist press and, no doubt, many of his own priests, comparing the condition to the dietary-psychological disorder anorexia.
There's nothing as of yet of any disciplinary action against the Green Party activist and pro-homosexual priest, Fr. Dufour, but we expect it to come soon.
A few weeks after his appointment on 25 January, true to his name, +Leonard, the new Primate of Belgium, has spoken out against the outrage of homosexuality and invited once again the ire of the leftist press and, no doubt, many of his own priests, comparing the condition to the dietary-psychological disorder anorexia.
There's nothing as of yet of any disciplinary action against the Green Party activist and pro-homosexual priest, Fr. Dufour, but we expect it to come soon.
Fr. Amorth: Pope battles Satanists in the Vatican
Father Amorth has long been a most credible voice on Italian occultism and the battle against evil which is something which many bishops and priests have relegated to a dungeon of superstion. Thanks to the Blueblog for getting translations of the original Italian interview. Father Amorth has also commented on the "smoke of satan" quote by Paul VI.
We'd like to think that this exhonerates Fr. Malachi Martin who's done so much to combat this evil and make it known.
It shouldn't be surprising to many Catholics that this is the case, but some people would be shocked and find such things hard to believe, of course, we must pray.
Link to article and full interview...
We'd like to think that this exhonerates Fr. Malachi Martin who's done so much to combat this evil and make it known.
It shouldn't be surprising to many Catholics that this is the case, but some people would be shocked and find such things hard to believe, of course, we must pray.
- The Pope is informed of this?
"Of course, he was informed" But he does what he can. It is something terrifying. Keep in mind also that Benedict XVI is a German pope, he comes from a nation resolutely closed to these things. In Germany, in fact, there are almost no exorcists, and yet the Pope believes [in them]: I had the opportunity to speak with him three times before, when He was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He believes, and how! And he spoke explicitly in public several times [about this]. He welcomed our association of exorcists (in October 2005, BEM); [at the time] he also delivered a fine speech, encouraging us and praising our apostolate. And let us not forget that the devil and exorcism, John Paul II also spoke a lot about it. "
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McNulty on Protestant Whiskey
Every once in a while we get these salient reminders that those of the Celtic race have made a decision at some point in their lives, however tacit, to join themselves to the proper Religion.
Cardinal Pell gives Tacit Approval to Sacrilege
You can't serve two masters.
ON FRIDAY nights, gay Catholics from across Sydney attend St Joseph's in Newtown. Like all Catholics, they take Communion during mass and tea after it.Link to original...
They have done so for years, with the quiet support of the deeply conservative Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell.
But this week St Joseph's gay ministry was threatened by a Catholic group set up on Facebook who vowed to stop its ''sacrilegious gay masses''.
Cardinal: Catholics, Mormons must defend religious freedom together
By Catholic News Service
PROVO, Utah (CNS) -- Catholics and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must continue to stand together as a "vital bulwark" against those in American society who want to "reduce religion to a purely private reality," the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told a historic gathering at Brigham Young University in Provo.
Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago spoke Feb. 23 on "Catholics and Latter-day Saints: Partners in the Defense of Religious Freedom" as part of the Mormon school's forum series. He was the first cardinal to speak at the university.
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PROVO, Utah (CNS) -- Catholics and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must continue to stand together as a "vital bulwark" against those in American society who want to "reduce religion to a purely private reality," the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told a historic gathering at Brigham Young University in Provo.
Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago spoke Feb. 23 on "Catholics and Latter-day Saints: Partners in the Defense of Religious Freedom" as part of the Mormon school's forum series. He was the first cardinal to speak at the university.
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Defender of Waterboarding Hears From Critics
By MARK OPPENHEIMER
[New York Times] There’s nothing unusual about partisans of the Bush administration defending waterboarding as a useful form of “enhanced interrogation.” Others will go even further, calling the technique “torture,” but saying it may be a necessary evil. What is a bit unusual is the case being made by Marc A. Thiessen, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.
In “Courting Disaster: How the C.I.A. Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack,” Mr. Thiessen, a practicing Roman Catholic, says that waterboarding suspected terrorists was not only useful and desirable, but permitted by the teachings of the Catholic Church.
This does not square, to put it mildly, with the common understanding of Catholic teaching. In the past month, Catholic bloggers and writers from across the political spectrum have united to attack his views, and to defend their own: that waterboarding is torture, and that Roman Catholics are not supposed to do it.
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[New York Times] There’s nothing unusual about partisans of the Bush administration defending waterboarding as a useful form of “enhanced interrogation.” Others will go even further, calling the technique “torture,” but saying it may be a necessary evil. What is a bit unusual is the case being made by Marc A. Thiessen, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.
In “Courting Disaster: How the C.I.A. Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack,” Mr. Thiessen, a practicing Roman Catholic, says that waterboarding suspected terrorists was not only useful and desirable, but permitted by the teachings of the Catholic Church.
This does not square, to put it mildly, with the common understanding of Catholic teaching. In the past month, Catholic bloggers and writers from across the political spectrum have united to attack his views, and to defend their own: that waterboarding is torture, and that Roman Catholics are not supposed to do it.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Dutch Priest Stands Up Against the Zeitgeist
This is amazing, and it's not something you'd expect from Holland which was once the showcase of the Church.
Protests against priest who refused communion to gay “prince”
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Protests against priest who refused communion to gay “prince”
The Dutch Catholic priest who withheld Communion last week from his town's openly homosexual Carnival “prince” was faced at Mass this Sunday with a protest from homosexual activists. Saying that he feared “sins” and “sacrilege,” the priest chose not to distribute Communion at all, reports Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews.com.
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Beauty Queen Accused of Wishing Death to Homosexuals
By Kathleen Gilbert
BEVERLY HILLS, California, February 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a flashback to last year's Miss California controversy, another California beauty queen has sparked protests for quoting a Biblical injunction against homosexuality to explain her view against gay "marriage."
The furor erupted when Lauren Ashley - the "Miss Beverly Hills" contestant seeking the title of Miss California USA - told the FOXnews.com blog Pop Tarts this week that she based her stance against same-sex "marriage" in the words of the Bible.
"The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman," said Ashley. "In Leviticus it says, 'If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.' The Bible is pretty black and white."
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BEVERLY HILLS, California, February 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a flashback to last year's Miss California controversy, another California beauty queen has sparked protests for quoting a Biblical injunction against homosexuality to explain her view against gay "marriage."
The furor erupted when Lauren Ashley - the "Miss Beverly Hills" contestant seeking the title of Miss California USA - told the FOXnews.com blog Pop Tarts this week that she based her stance against same-sex "marriage" in the words of the Bible.
"The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman," said Ashley. "In Leviticus it says, 'If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.' The Bible is pretty black and white."
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The Jew, Jesus, Who Changed the Life of the Chief Rabbi of Rome
Chiesa
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He changed it so much that he had himself baptized in the Catholic Church. His book "Il Nazareno" has been reprinted and reviewed in "L'Osservatore Romano" by a Jewish scholar. And meanwhile, the second volume of the pope's "Jesus of Nazareth" is going to the printer
by Sandro Magister
ROME, February 24, 2010 – The first person he told that he had finished writing his book about Jesus was a Jewish rabbi, on the day after his visit to the synagogue of Rome, last January 18.
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Irish Priest Promises 15 Minute Mass During Lent
Irish Independent
By Tom Gilmore and Brian McDonald
Thursday February 25 2010
A PRIEST'S congregation has increased tenfold in a week -- thanks to a quickie Mass.
Despite the controversies which have rocked the church in recent years and the resulting fall-off in attendances at church services, Fr Michael Kenny has been packing them in at his Kilconly parish in Co Galway.
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By Tom Gilmore and Brian McDonald
Thursday February 25 2010
A PRIEST'S congregation has increased tenfold in a week -- thanks to a quickie Mass.
Despite the controversies which have rocked the church in recent years and the resulting fall-off in attendances at church services, Fr Michael Kenny has been packing them in at his Kilconly parish in Co Galway.
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Fr. Z says Fr. McBrien is a Liar and Promoting Disobedience
[This is simply mendacious. McBrien doesn’t choose to give reasonable consideration to those who think that the translations are good: such as the conferences of bishops who approved them.]
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/02/mcbrien-urges-priests-to-disobey-and-resist-translation/
Buddhism Comes to Catholic Monastery in South America
South American Monstery hosts relics of false religion, giving tacit approval to that religion and active promotion of the evils of freemasonry (religious indifferentism) or the idea that one religion is as good as any other.
Fatima Blog
http://fratres.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/fatima-blog-buddhist-relics-in-catholic-monastery/
Fatima Blog
Warning to Catholics
1. See – The facts
A world tour of Buddhist propaganda has now come to Peru. The news would have no greater significance if it were not, as was widely reported, the fact that the “tour” will include a visit to Cusco from February 26 to 28, during which relics of Buddha and some of his main followers will be exhibited in a certainly unexpected place: the Convent of Santo Domingo!
http://fratres.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/fatima-blog-buddhist-relics-in-catholic-monastery/
"Scholars" Ask Pope to Stop Canonization of Pius XII
This is too good. Sometimes company problems make themselves known in a definitive way. Personell at the Vatican should take note of the names of the signators of this inane and mendacious document and make sure that tenures get revoked and certain people get laicized.
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VATICAN CITY — Catholic historians and theologians are urging Pope Benedict XVI to suspend the sainthood process for the controversial World War II pontiff Pius XII until further research clarifies Pius' record during the Holocaust.
"Holy Father, we implore you, acting on your wisdom as a renowned scholar, professor and teacher, to be patient" with the sainthood cause, the academics wrote to the pope. "History needs distance and perspective to arrive at these conclusions."
The 19 scholars — 17 of them based in the United States — warned that prematurely moving Pius toward sainthood would disrupt Catholic-Jewish relations and make it harder for Catholic scholars to study Pius' legacy objectively.
Prominent signers included the Rev. John Pawlikowski of the Chicago Theological Union and Eugene J. Fisher, former associate director of the U.S. Catholic bishops' ecumenical office.
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CCHD Defunded in Green Bay
Wisconsin diocese withholding 2010 funds from CCHD :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
Wisconsin diocese withholding 2010 funds from CCHD :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
Another small step in kicking the Socialists posing as Catholics who are impeding the Church in its great commission.
Wisconsin diocese withholding 2010 funds from CCHD :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
Another small step in kicking the Socialists posing as Catholics who are impeding the Church in its great commission.
Green Bay, Wis., Feb 25, 2010 / 06:15 pm (CNA).- The Diocese of Green Bay in Wisconsin has chosen to withhold its annual funding of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) until further information has been gathered on allegations that recently surfaced.
The CCHD, which is under the jurisdiction of the U.S. bishops, has recently come under fire for alleged connections with a network of community organizations that have promoted homosexual causes and abortion advocacy. In response to recent allegations the CCHD subcommittee has been investigating claims.
Lutherans seeing fallout from gay clergy issue
If anything demonstrates the inherent weakness of protestantism, it's this, once again.
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But we have Cardinal Mahony too:
From Baltimore Sun Blog
While the Anglican church has gotten much of the attention relating to differences
over gay clergy, questions of embracing or condemning homosexuality are roiling many Protestant denominations. The Associated Press has a story about the debate within the nation's largest Lutheran denomination:
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But we have Cardinal Mahony too:
Knights of Columbus Study Youths believe Morals are Relative
But... the group specified as "Practicing" Catholics only go to Mass at least once a month including people who go during funerals. We're sure that people who are scrupulous enough to go to Mass every Sunday would be much more certain about absolute morality.
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In one of the defining works of his historic papacy, Pope John Paul II argued that if people -- believers and nonbelievers alike -- want true freedom and peace, they must accept the reality of "universal and unchanging moral norms."
"When it is a matter of the moral norms prohibiting intrinsic evil, there are no privileges or exceptions.
[chop]
"Practicing Catholics" were defined as "those who attend religious services at least once a month," explained Barbara Carvalho, director of the Marist Poll. This group included "Catholics who attend services more than once a week, once a week, or once or twice a month excluding weddings and funerals," she said.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Nepal pro-monarchy party protests in capital city
KATMANDU, Nepal – Thousands of supporters of Nepal's deposed king blocked the main government offices in the capital city and clashed with police Tuesday to demand a referendum on restoring the monarchy and the country's status as a Hindu state.
Supporters of National Democratic Party Nepal, the only group to openly support the monarchy, gathered in the heart of Katmandu and blocked roads leading to Singhadurbar, the complex that houses key government offices including the prime minister's office.
The supporters briefly scuffled with police who were trying to remove them from the area where protests are banned by the government. No major injuries were reported in the scuffle.
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Supporters of National Democratic Party Nepal, the only group to openly support the monarchy, gathered in the heart of Katmandu and blocked roads leading to Singhadurbar, the complex that houses key government offices including the prime minister's office.
The supporters briefly scuffled with police who were trying to remove them from the area where protests are banned by the government. No major injuries were reported in the scuffle.
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