Kath.net's Exclusive Interview of Archbishop Zollitsch's Victim

Rather than finding answers and deeds in accordanced with what was agreed upon when a clerical abuse victim made his abuse known, the victim has only been lied to and slandered by the Shepherds who were supposed to protect the children.

As with other cases, like in the United States, Liberal Prelates use their positions of trust to protect clerical homosexuals, even putting them in contact with children again after they'd been credibly accused for abusing them in the first place.

Let's not forget either how this political in-fighter stabbed his colleague, Bishop Mixa, in the back by helping liberals in Augsburg to circulate information and set Bishop Mixa up for a fall back in Rome. Unfortunately, Pope Benedict is sending Bishop Mixa to the minor leagues, but we predict he will be back.

But I Hope the Suffering I Experienced Was Not Pointless

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N.N. was abused many times forty years ago by a priest of the Catholic Church -- Now he has made a complaint in Rome against the perpetrator and against Archbishop Zollitsch -- N.N. in an exclusive Kath.Net exclusive interview about his tragic story.

Kath.Net: You were repeatedly abused 40 years ago by Father G., a Catholic priest, and have also already spoken to the media. What has happened since these media reports?

N. N.: After my revelations in 2006 as 2010 nothing I know of happened. Neither the Archdiocese of Freiburg nor the Mehrerau Abbey have initiated criminal or law procedures yet against the priest's Office, so he continue had dealing with children and young people. This was an intolerable state for me so I had to ask the offender to resign in March of this year. Although I several times asked them to do so, Freiburg and Mehrerau has searched previously not actively other victims and witnesses, how it has acted for example, the Diocese of Basel immediately after becoming aware thereof. Basel has responded exemplarily, and even researched victims found who'll come forward.

Fribourg has also failed to understand the life cycle of the author of these attacks. Tedious, I had to take the facts together. Many questions remained concerning the Diocese of Freiburg and the Mehrerau Abbey of the supposedly sequestered offender or to the old Abbot Kassian Lauterer remained unanswered until today with the interview (interrogation) of the offender . Abbot Anselm claimed that he had made a means message with regard to the offender, he won't give details. Now he announces forced to conduct internal investigations, the results announced but before conclusion of the investigation: Neither Abbot Kassian Lauterer nor Archbishop Zollitsch are guilty in this affair.

Kath.NET: The culprit in 2006 confirmed your accusations. How important was it for you?

N.N.: The former abbot Kassian has forwarded a letter from me to the offender and this has given me the fact in writing at the 9.12.2006. That was very important for me and for that I must be grateful to the offender, I had replaced the incidents for forty years. I wanted to a personal discussion with the offender. In the following call to a phone appointment with Father G. had credibility and he tried to make excuses till I could no longer take his excuses. This man is ill and you would have to save yourself much foer both him and me, if those responsible 1968, 1971, 1987, 1992, 2006, or even 2010 -- had acted differently also as regards their fiduciary duty.

Kath.Net: in connection with the abuse you Mehrerau Abbey and the Archdiocese of Freiburg you're accusing now that they had known of the abusing offenders and still employed them. You have made even a criminal complaint against Archbishop Zollitsch. Why?

N.N.: The criminal charges against Archbishop Zollitsch were several reasons. On one I got the message to the March, 19 2010 from the Diocese of Chur, the offender was sequestered and anonymous. It remains open whether he will withdraw the procedure or the Church keeps him hidden, perhaps to to prevent the full extent being known. In various interviews and press releases and websites, Freiburg made several wrong, misleading and defamatory statements. Requests for correction came to Freiburg nor as a call to the reply - it was the only course remaining to me. Therefore I have filed criminal charges of defamation against the persons responsible for the Archdiocese.

Because Freiburg on the other hand even played a questionable role in the restoration of the offender in 1987 and tried to hide facts, remained even idle, contains incorrect information in Birnau, I have complaint also suspected of complicity to the abuse or aid / omission mentioned against the risk of the limitation period. The proceeding also interrupts the statute of limitations.

Unfortunately, alleged statements made by me have been spread then in many press releases, which I never made. Only when I was confronted this, have I given more content of the complaint so I will be quoted correctly. I've been accused of sensationalism by the Archdiocese. Although Freiburg knew the exact contents of the complaint, they responded to the press allegations instead. [This is par for the course and reminds us of the interference and stonewalling engaged in by liberal prelates in the United States like Cardinal Mahony, Cardinal Bernardin and Archbishop Weakland]

"A reproach is including specifically": thus Dr. Zollitsch took 1987–1992 gross negligence in purchase, a priest known as pädokriminell comes in his diocese with the churches in its responsibility children in contact. (..) Dr. Zollitsch has helped thus taken and actively a gross risk of the parish in order to affect victims and witnesses by the mere unbehelligte presence of the offender. "

Freiburg and Mehrerau tried only to withdraw to the Christian religious law of non-responsibility of the offender in Birnau even though they know that my allegations of responsibility for the parishes Nußdorf and Deisendorf are addressed. We victims (myself are now three more known by name) and their families were not members of Mehrerau Abbey, but the Archdiocese of Freiburg as inhabitants if Nußdorf.

Kath.Net: the Archdiocese of Freiburg you accuse also, it has deliberately spread untruth relating to your case. What are you accusing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of here?

N.N: Freiburg represents itself in untrue statements, presenting misleading facts and manipulating facts in attempts to discredit me as a victim. Fribourg has deceived me in 2006 in a telephone conversation, that they would examine the facts, instead it was only "the Abbot agreed." Fribourg has provided false information regarding the stay and the activities of the offender in the Archdiocese of Freiburg. It is said there was the debate with the offender, I call for such a debate for several weeks – in vain. It is said you have offered me help. Until today I have offered little concrete help despite getting demands. I only made an offer to call. Contrary to what was otherwise said I was ready to ask but then experienced a loss of legal assistance or mediator for the interview. Just because it has not been granted me, there was no debate - Freiburg and the Abbot of Mehrerau which can afford the luxury of a crisis management agency. [He doesn't answer the question, but these points are all too familiar.]

Kath.Net: Abbot Anselm of Mehrerau Abbey has defended Archbishop Zollitsch after the revelation of the incident, explaining Zollitsch to have known nothing and had not made use of the paedophile priest. What do you say to that?

N.N.: This accusation occurs as mentioned by me. As Archbishop Zollitsch knew the true content of the complaint (legal), he could have said simply that he is not accused of me. Instead he tried such opinions to create a false impression and distract from the actual - also moral - responsibility. The opinion by Abbot Anselm relates solely to Birnau and the Teutonic Knights legal jurisdiction. Abbot Anselm ignores the actual charge, responsible for the pastoral care and the parishes Nußdorf and Deisendorf.

Kath.Net: before a few days have now in Rome filed suit against the abuse priests but also against Archbishop Zollitsch and Abbot Anselm of Mehrerau Abbey. What is the aim of this action or what would you do?

N.N: I was assuming that such a procedure had been initiated in 2006 by the authorities. Because this was not done I had requested such a procedure at the official of the Archdiocese of Freiburg middle of April 2010, and got the message that I could not initiate such a procedure and that the Abbot and the current place of residence of the priest should contact my competent Bishop. Which was not possible because the offender is seculded and his place of residence was not named for me by the Church. Therefore I have filed a complaint to the Vatican.

My allegations against the Archdiocese of Freiburg and Archbishop Zollitsch are shown as also in the criminal complaint. Also Zollitsch has violated as Archbishop in 2006 in my view since until today he has repeatedly and continued against his own guidelines adopted in 2002. He is no longer credible because he does not follow what he promises in his speeches and is damaging to the reputation of the Church.

Abbot Kassian I accuse further offset the priest despite knowledge of pederastic criminals' predicate offences for decades and came in continued contact with children and young people and only allowed further crimes. He has also since 2006 done nothing and concealed the true extent from me.

Kath.Net: how close is your current relationship with the Catholic Church?

N.N.: My relation was distant in the last years, and that's how I feel after what I had to experience the last 20 weeks, anger, hatred, powerlessness, despair, frustration and disappointment. Even "beautiful things" like my favorite opera Parsifal in which I am confronted with religious motives, burden on me and I can no longer enjoy the Church, above all Archbishop Dr. Zollisch and Abbot Anselm, are still unbelievable for me. The fine words of enlightenment will, change and aid for the victims are in sharp contrast to the experience: I feel powerless again, helpless, abused. I have but also sporadically receive encouragement and assistance from the Catholic Church. I had the impression that I am taken seriously by the Diocese of Basel.

Kath.Net: keeping it possible that you someday really that can handle these terrible events in your childhood, find inner peace and what should the offender or the Church do to to help you here?

N.N.: What happened cannot be undone. I hope that the suffering I experienced at that time and today was not futile, not pointless. The offender, the participants of the Church must provide the truth and their criminal, seat and also moral responsibility. When really a reorientation in the Church, but also in society and family, away from off looking to HIN looking when victims are no longer as an outsider, troublemakers of often hypocritical community branded, I hope to find peace.

Kath.NET: Can you really by thinking you will forgive the offender today day from your deepest heart?

N.N.: I can say today that I must first know the whole truth. From the offender. I call for the debate with him for weeks. However, the offender is not reachable.

Kath.Net: thank you very much for the interview!

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Traditional Priest Assualted in Fulda, Germany

German. [kreuz.net] Last Friday in the night a Fulda Priest Aloysius Winter (78) was assaulted in his home. The suspect left the priest tied up in his bedroom and ran away. Nothing was stolen. A parishioner noticed in the morning, that the priest was not at Mass and alerted police. Since an emergency operation, Fr. Winter is in a coma. He is very hovering close to death.

Father Winter is the former Rector of the Theological faculty in Fulda and began in 2003 with the authorization of the Bishop of Fulda, Msg Heinz Joseph Algermissen to celebrate the Immemorial Mass of All Ages.

Homosexual Jailed For Abusing Young Men in Australia

The ABC article takes a jab at celibacy and wonders why the Catholic Church didn't do anything sooner. Moreover it fails to mention that this man was a homosexual. These ACLU, Progressive types don't care about child-abuse, they will reach for the closest weapon, the most convenient one with which to beat the Catholic Church. Never lose sight of that. Of course, this happened on Cardinal Pell's watch.

CHA probably feared government more than bishops, says Miami archbishop :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

CHA probably feared government more than bishops, says Miami archbishop :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Modernist Benedictines Continue to Die Without Replacements

ST. JOSEPH, Minn. — Sister Mary David Olheiser and Sister Helenette Baltes professed their vows together in 1936 as two of the 21 new sisters to join the Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict that year. At the time, their central Minnesota Roman Catholic monastery was overflowing with youth and energy.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sister Mary David Olheiser, 92, and Sister Helenette Baltes, 94, were reunited after 62 years. Sixty-two years later, the classmates and old friends are together again. St. Benedict is taking St. Bede back into its fold. The smaller group is facing demographic realities by closing its Wisconsin monastery and moving 29 remaining sisters back to Minnesota.

"It's just a blessing," said Baltes, 94, of her reunion with the 92-year-old Olheiser.

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The Anti-Federalists, the Oil Spill, and the Catholic Church

There are lessons of wisdom to be found in every folly, however painful the extraction. The ongoing, almost comic bungling efforts and non-efforts of the federal government dealing with the oil spill in the gulf is no exception. The most important political lesson is both conservative and Catholic.

The conservative lesson? When dealing with a local problem, a strong national government will invariably act for its own self-preservation, push its own national agenda, and entangle the hapless locals in its own morass of bureaucratic confusion. Insofar as possible, let the local folk do it. They're the best judges of their own particular situation.

For conservatives, this is the wisdom of the Anti-Federalists, those forgotten founders of America who best understood the dangers of increasing federal power at the expense of state and local government. The Anti-Federalists were the stubborn conservative folk who allowed for ratification of the Constitution only if there were a strong Bill of Rights to protect state and local life against encroachments of the federal government.

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Not a Good Choice: Basel Should Get a Good Bishop Out of This

Pope Benedict XVI has chosen Bishop Koch for the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, replacing another German speaking Archbishop. A lot has been said about this appointment that portrays the new office holder as a good choice, but it's hard to see how this could be the case since many of his public acts and statements put him so squarely against the incipient reform Benedict XVI is said to be accomplishing.

Father Z says this is a good appointment (and perhaps it is), but he certainly isn't as he says, "Another man closely tied to Pope Benedict" which seems to have been something else when we looked at it earlier today, something more affirmative and less neutral... Perhaps Father Z corrected himself, or we misread the blog, wait, here it is,

Archbishop Koch is known to be in the theological orbit of Papa Ratzinger.

Known by whom? It seems apparent to everyone, including the embatteld orthodox priests of the Basel Diocese that this man will not be missed and is in no way in the theological orbit of Pope Benedict, that is, if we assume that Pope Benedict is a restorer of Tradition. In any event, Kreuz.net tells a different, more interesting, tale. These sorts of appraisals in the English speaking world seem to happen frequently. It certainly happened in the case of the allegedly conservative Cardinal Schonborn. We've noticed that many of his supporters have grown silent.

What's more than clear is that there are appointments which are unsatisfactory to conservatives, and there are those appointments unsatisfactory to the old liberal Catholics, Catholics who believe the Church needs to change with the times. Is this Pope Benedict's way to isolate an absentee Bishop with controversial theological positions by promoting him to an increasingly irrelevant position?

Perhaps this is an effective downgrade for the Pontifical Council?

So the tragic praxis will continue in Rome, to perpetuate a betrayal of trust against the Holy Father.

Msgr Koch worked at first as a Pastoral Lay Assistant in spiritual care.

After his ordination in June 1982 he later received a doctorate for Dogmatic and Moral theology from the Catechetical Institute in the central Swiss city of Luzern.

Later he was active as the old liberal honorary professor for Dogmatics, Ethics, Liturgical Science and Ecumenical Theology at the University of Luzern.

In his lectures he portrayed the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the fundamentalist corner because of his theological positions.

In 1995 Msgr Koch was selected as the successor of the fallen Basel Bishop Hansjörg Vogel. Because of his contentious theological positions the Vatican hesitated a long time with the announcement of his appointment.

Bishop Koch set himself in the Swiss Bishops Conference against the course of reform of the former Bishop of Chur, Msgr Wolfgang Haas.

Msgr. Koch is till today a partisan of women priesthood. He is a declared enemy of celibacy.

In the last fifteen years he was hardly interested in his bankrupt Diocese and not first among these his orthodox priests, who were completely isolated there.

Instead of that he was gladly occupied in the lecture circuit.

In the Diocese of Basel the following title is circulating for the information by the Roman authorities about Msgr Koch: "Old Liberal Alcoholic Follows Cardinal Kasper".

The next Bishop of Basel will have a very difficult inheritance.

In a letter to all Ministers, which was sent by mail today, writes Bishop Koch, that his Diocese is already vacant on July 1st and he would be called to Rome.

The Pope appointed an Apostolic Administrator to the Diocese of Basel at the same time on June 30th

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Meanwhile, Bishop Mixa is being given some time out for a while till the smear campaign launched against him by the old liberals in Augsburg cools down, at AP.

Bishop Trautman Endorses the Primacy of Personal Sentiment and Continues to Attack Legitimate Reform

Bishop Trautman reminesces about how wonderful it was to be at the Vatican Council and how much it embodied his vision for the Church. Considering the many things Bishop Trautman believes, contrary to Catholic teaching and practice, perhaps this isn't exactly a ringing endsorsement for Vatican II, but rather a condemnation.

The people who are fighting to go back to Latin, for example, had a wonderful experience when Mass was in that language. They're saying they met the Lord that way, and they're trying to keep that form, not understanding that the form and language of the liturgy is never an absolute. Only God is absolute, and there are different ways we express our love and our prayer.

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New Swiss Bishop Head of Christian Unity

Vatican City, Jun 30, 2010 / 12:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Speaking with journalists at the Holy See's Press Office on Wednesday, Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi, said that more nominations can be expected to follow Wednesday's bombardment of resignations and appointments to different positions within the Church's Roman Curia.

Wednesday's flood of appointments included Cardinal Marc Ouellet being announced as the new prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and the naming of Archbishop Rino Fisichella as head of the just created Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization.

The Vatican's "voice" said that he expects the appointment of Swiss Bishop of Basel, Kurt Koch to the presidency of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity to happen on Thursday as he mentioned had been indicated within the Vatican previously.

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Coptic Liberal Writer: Egypt's Copts Are a Buffer against the Islamization of the Country

Coptic Liberal Writer: Egypt's Copts Are a Buffer against the Islamization of the Country

Bishop Cupich is New Bishop of Spokane: Writes for America Magazine

It's not perhaps as timely as what's in AmPapist, but we know that the new Bishop of Spokane, Cupich, wrote an article for America Magazine on the 12 things he supposedly learned from the sex abuse crisis. There's not a single word about doctrinal orthodoxy. Since most of the perpetrators are doctinally heterodox, wouldn't it be a good idea to make sure that priests are properly formed before you ordain them. Perhaps being serious about the Church's canonical rules against ordaining homosexuals.

When he was bishop in Nebraska he discontinued Eucharistic Adoration.

Talking about Touching Program.

EU Continues to Back Communist Activista in Banning Cross in Italy

The Red Finn responsible for this case is an Italian citizen of Finnish prominence who is decidedly interconnected with influences beyond the Pale.

The Italian government has appealed a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg that would remove crucifixes from Italian public schools.

The government made its appeal today before the Grand Chamber of the Court, in a case that the Vatican and many European nations will be watching closely.

Ten other countries signed on to show their support for Italy in the case, several of them Orthodox strongholds, including Greece, Russia and Cyprus.

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Alleged Reds nabbed in Cambridge? What went wrong?

Alleged Reds nabbed in Cambridge? What went wrong?

Yet Another Modernist Priest Charged with Sexual Abuse in Boston: Thank you Cardinal Sean!

The gay friendly program which Bishops of the USCCB inaugurated called, "Talking About Touching" has scored another victory. It might help protect the Bishops from legal action and undesirable media attention in the future which might question what they've done to prevent abuse, but clearly, it doesn't stop heresy and it also doesn't stop abuse from happening when it occurs. In fact, it can be argued that it is a form of abuse in itself in that it challenges the right of parents to educate their children, does not teach Catholic sexual morality and robs children of their innocence.

Carol McKinley reports that Father Boutin from the Boston Archdiocese was arrested for assault at Canton Park, known as a homosexual meeting place. Father Boutin is an advocate of women's ordination, reads America Magazine, likes "Praise and Worship", moreover, he's a priest of Cardinal Sean who is turning out to be a Cardinal Mahony of the East.

Vatican ceremony honors Schnurr

Vatican ceremony honors Schnurr

The Church Will be Pilloried: Belgium

Editor's Comment: Considering the growing strangeness of the atmosphere, the rebelliousness of the Austrian Clergy, there are some other dark clouds. Many are crying for blood and are willing to strike down laws to get at the institution they are increasingly mischaracterizing as evil.

Freemasons -- against the Church?

The battle surrounding the police raids against the Church in Belgium is more heated -- Christian Democrats: The searches could be a masonic plot. The current investigating judge Wim De Troy is close with the leading freethinkers.

Brussels [Kath.net/KNA] In Belgium the director of the independent commission for the investigation of the abuse accusations by church employees, Peter Adriaenssens, was interviewed for five hours long by the judiciary. The child psychiatrist is a witness for the work of the commission and the dossiers under examination, reported the Belgian media on Tuesday. Further discussions will follow this week. The commission had decided to offer their resignations against the progress of the authorities. In the confiscation of the dossiers of abuse victims the members saw a breach of trust.

In the mean time, the battle over the reasonableness of the progress of judiciary on its major raid against Church property was very sharp on Tuesday. Abuse victims held the searches and seizures irresponsible. Liberal and Socialist politicians secured themselves against critics from the Vatican.

In broadcaster "Radio 1" the sociologist Jan Hertogen (63) who was abused as a young man maintains that the authorities have compromised data privacy and laws regarding personal privacy. He has brought his case to the knowledge of the commission, but did not want in any way the engagement of the judiciary. He made his complaints against the Adriaenssens-Commission, because they had not exactly protected his documents. He hopes to persuade the commission, in their own part, to proceed against the judiciary authorities.

The Flemmish Minister Jo Vanderuzen warned of a loss of trust by the victims. They had the choice, to turn to the judiciary or not. This decision must be condemned. Church authorities are exploring at the moment legal steps against the police action.

The liberal politician Denis Ducarme and the scholastically aligned Bruno Tuybens called the Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere, to demand [verlangen] respect from the Vatican for the political and legal institutions of the land. They reacted with that to the sharp criticism from the Vatican to the actions of the authorities. Vanackere dismissed the notion that he had invited the Nuncio, Archbishop Giacinto Berloco, personally to an "oopen and constructive conversation".

The attorney of Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Fernand Keuleneer, expressed doubt on the legality of the raid. It is not admissible to indiscriminately confiscate dossiers and then initially to ascertain after if they contain any incriminating documents, he said to "The Antwerp Gazette". The house searches have awakened the impression, that the Church will be pilloried.

Editor's Note: If this had been in the United States happening to just about any other organization, there would be an outcrry about the absolute absence of due process. Could this be a way for Cardinal Daneels to walk away without taking responsibillity for destroying the Church of Belgium through years of neglect and cooperation with evil? Of course, it isn't an accident that Belgium is about
to divide itself in parts.

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The Eroticism of the Church of England

There are really two Church of Englands. One is found in the headlines, and features women bishops and the privileges of establishment. The other is found on the streets, and features a flotilla of clergy, in parishes across the land, attempting to care, to preserve, to bless. If you ever go to church, it is striking how little the one has to do with the other. But it's this difference that BBC 2's new sitcom, Rev, appears to have realised and exploited to witty, and moving, effect.

Tom Hollander plays Adam Smallbone, new to a mixed London parish. And although the press previews wrote about the storyline in the first episode that concerned "school whores" – parents who appear in church to get little Sebastian or Sophie into the local church school – the element that struck me when I watched on Monday was the eroticism associated with priests.

Sex, and sexuality, featured a lot. There's the woman in the congregation who is rumoured to orgasm during good sermons. There's the slippery, local MP who imagines that Smallbone has women chasing him all the time. And then there's Smallbone's wife. When he comes on to her, at the end of the day, she retorts: "If you think you're going to shag me in your dog collar…", and advises him to go next door and bash the bishop

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Another Reflection on Poll Data: Sweden's Monarchy

This Norwegian Monarchist has identified something about polls, especially when it comes to Monarchy. There are a lot of them and they often contradict each other, and more often than not, although this is not what the blogger maintains himself, they espouse hostillity to the Monarchy.

Cardinal Schönborn Buries Pornographer

The late Hans Dichant, editor of the street-magazine, 'The Crowns Times' [Die Kronen Zeitung] was known for his docility to the Cardinal's concerns, and the Cardinal praised his paper for being "friendly" to the Church in Austria, but little to no mention of the pornographic adds there, or indeed, the support Dichant gave to the late hyper-nationalist and Freemason, Jörg Haider. [Ewald Stadler maintains as much in 2007 in his lecture on Masonry in Linz.]

This is especially interesting in light of the Cardinal's high level meeting with the Holy Father, the Secretary of State and Dean of the College of Cardinals. Mercifully, Whispers in the Loggia mentioned Cardinal Schoenborn's pro-homosexual statement, which he wasn't required to retract, apparently, here, that the Church:

"should give more consideration to the quality of homosexual relationships," and that "a stable [same-sex] relationship is certainly better than if someone chooses to be promiscuous."

Father Z, here.

Here's what Kreuz.net had to say:

A Pious Work

When the the powerful die, everyone is there: The Viennese Cardinal has commended to God the dead promoter of depraved Porn and Prostitution Publications throughout the Land.

[Kreuz.net] On Saturday the Viennese Archbishop, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, celebrated the Requiem for Hans Dichant (89).

The deceased was the editor and owner of boulevard paper "Crowns Times" [Die Kronen Zeitung].

With a circulation of over 800,000 sales it is an example of the most widely read newspapers in the land.

Cardinal Schönborn wrote for the turn style paper regularly and vacuous Sunday meditations.

Those close to the deceased took their place in the foremost rows of the St. Stephen's Cathedral which was separated from the rest of the church by a cord.

There was a strict ban on photography and film.

Only the photojournalists of the 'Crowns Times' [Die Kronen Zeitung] were allowed to light up the area of the ceremony.

The rest of the journalists had to be satisfied with seats way in the back.

The entire decadent Austrian politically prominent found themselves at the beginning as "honored guests".

Absent were the members of the anti-Church "Green" extremists and the officially fallen from catholicism, President Comrade Heinz Fischer.

Cardinal Schoenborn found positive words for the deceased as was generally expected.

The super-rich Dichant is said "to have been for the generation of Charity and Service".

It had been "not self-evident", that he found room for the Gospel in his porno and prostitution paper.

"He burned through the rest of the pages of the paper" -- the Cardinal let himself tear out an embarrassing comment.


He seemed not to care if he was ridiculed

After the death of "his employer" Cardinal Schoenborn had pulled together the heads of some jounrnalists, "in which he ostentatiously evaluated the positive role of the "Kronen Times' as if it belonged to media sanctity."

This was Michael Fleischhacker of the anti-Church paper 'Die Presse' on Sunday in a commentary:

"That he wrote in a paper, which as part of its profits as the largest broker between prostitutes and their customers, bothered the Cardinal only decidedly less than the civilized critique of his thesis for "Intelligent Design", which he heard about in some of the media.

For the Cardinal the Homo Sapiens was not just the end product of a Godless effect of random evolutionary processes, rather the crown of creation -- Fleischhacker correctly summarized:

"The Homo austriacus emerged, and was really completely without intelligent design, much more so the Creature of the 'Krone'."

At the burial service Fleischhacker found countless advocates for this marriage, especially among the attending politicians: "accommodating, soberly ascetic, resistant to truth."

Dichand had "fashioned" these human types "with power, grown great in affection and put on back on the right way by the withdrawal of love."

Fleschhacker understands: "That they are gathered at this religious service, in order to bid farewell to the man in a religious framework, who has made them, what they are, it is not for them to bring reproach."

At the same time the journalist weighs illusions: "It would nevertheless be ripe for such a thing as evolution in Austria now."

He added: "Perhaps the Viennese Cardinal can leave this to the subject of his beliefs on creation. At least it would be a pious work."

Muslim prayers every Friday in Belgian Church

Muslim prayers every Friday in Belgian Church

ACLU Operative Wins SIgnificant Legal Victory Against Catholic Church

Jeffrey Anderson is a vulgar ex-Lutheran who finds that eastern mysticism "speaks" to him. He meditates. He's also a significant contributor to the ACLU and the Democratic Party.

He's frequently said that he wants to put Pope Benedict on the stand, but the thing that keeps on getting missed is the confluence of interests he has with liberal priests and Bishops like Cardinal Schoenborn within the Catholic Church, and 500 of his priests who want a church more to their own making rather than the one which has been passed down to us through the Apostles.

He's an advocate for sweeping away what he calls "Medieval Secrecy", and the male domininated hierarchy.

The irony of all of this is, despite Jeff Anderson's appropriation of the semitic victim myth is the clear resemblance his legal attacks share with Goebels attempts to destroy Catholic education in Germany.

Cardinal Reprimanded by the Pope

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 28, 2010 (Zenit.org).- In the Church, only the Pope can level accusations against cardinals. This was the clarification made today by the Vatican at the conclusion of an audience between Benedict XVI and Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna, Austria.

The meeting took place between the two to discuss statements made by the cardinal regarding the investigation of his predecessor, Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër, who resigned in 1995 amidst allegations of sexual abuse.

Cardinal Schonbörn made comments to journalists April 28 that were interpreted by the media as an accusation against Cardinal Angelo Sodano's treatment of the investigation. It was understood from his statements that he believed that the then secretary of state, under Pope John Paul II, had blocked the inquiry for "diplomatic reasons."

Benedict XVI received first Cardinal Schönborn, a former student of his, to discuss the situation. The two were then joined by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who is now the dean of the College of Cardinals, and the current secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

The Vatican communiqué confirmed that in the second part of the meeting, "some widespread mistakes were clarified and resolved in part derived from some expressions of Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, who expressed his displeasure over the interpretations made."

The note then continued, "It is reminded that in the Church, when it is a question of accusations against a cardinal, the competence belongs only to the Pope; other entities can have a consultative function, always with due respect for the persons."

Furthermore, the statement clarified the interpretation of the word "chiacchiericcio," which had been used both by Benedict XVI during his homily on Palm Sunday, and subsequently by Cardinal Sodano, when speaking of the sexual abuse crisis. The word in English has been translated by the media as "petty gossip," but the Vatican has translated it as "gossip."

The word, the Vatican clarified, "has been interpreted erroneously as a lack of respect for the victims of sexual abuses, for whom Cardinal Sodano has the same sentiments of compassion and condemnation of the evil, as he has expressed in several interventions of the Holy Father. That word, pronounced in Benedict XVI's Easter address, was taken literally from the papal homily of Palm Sunday and referred to the 'courage that does not let itself be intimidated by the gossip of prevailing opinions.'"

The Vatican also reported that Cardinal Schönborn "wished to clarify the exact sense of his recent statements on some aspects of present ecclesiastical discipline."

In March, it was widely reported in the Austrian press that the cardinal believed it time to reconsider celibacy in the Church. A spokesman later clarified that the cardinal considers it time to reconsider the "formation of the clergy."

Lutheran Pastor Defends Pope Benedict

By Patrick B. Craine

April 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As Pope Benedict XVI faces media accusations over his handling of the sexual abuse crisis in the Church, Lutheran theology professor John Stephenson has issued some “ecumenical thoughts” in defense of the pontiff, and has called on Lutherans to offer prayers for the pope.

On the blog of Logia, a Lutheran journal of theology, Dr. Stephenson points out that the secular media has been attacking Pope Benedict XVI since at least 1985 when The Ratzinger Report, a book-length interview with him conducted by Vittorio Messori, was published.

He describes Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, even before he was pope, as “a favourite target of the unbelieving world’s impassioned hatred for Christ Jesus our Lord and the members of His mystical body.”


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England's Famous Angels and Los Angeles Cathedral

Roman Catholic Imperialist says that men do not name their sons after bad Popes. Perhaps it's easier to think that no bad Cathedral ever inspired a moving tribute or a song. Here's a song that mentions the Cathedral of Los Angeles, because England doesn't get famous Angels.

Could the songwriter have actually seen Los Angeles Cathedral, or is he talking about St. Vibiana's?

Can someone send a runner
For a guardian a runner
For the guardian I lost today?

Can someone send a runner
For the guardian I lost today?

Can someone send a runner
For a guardian a runner
For the guardian I lost today?

Can someone send a runner
For the guardian I lost today?

You must be somewhere in London
You must be lovin' the life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Go and marry (?)

I don't even think to make
Never even think to make
You don't even think to make corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need
Minor singin' airheads come through England
Minor singin' airheads come for me

Sorry I'm a headache
I am sorry I'm a headache
But a guardian is lost today
The National England lyrics found on http://www.hibeamlyrics.com/england-lyrics-the-national.html

Sorry I'm a headache
But a guardian is lost today

Sorry I'm a headache
I am sorry I'm a headache
But a guardian is lost today

Sorry I'm a headache
But a guardian is lost today

You must be somewhere in London
You must be lovin' the life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Go and marry (?)

Never even think to make
Never even think to make
Never even think to make corrections

Never even think to make
Never even think to make
Never even think to make corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need
Minor singin' airheads come through England
Minor singin' airheads come for me

Try to be nice stay the night with the sinners
Try to be nice stay the night with the sinners
Try to be nice cos we're desperate to entertain

St. Mary's Basilica Has Display at "Gay Pride" Event: Minneapolis

There were quite a few people at the event, and as it takes place in the shadow of the Catholic St. Mary's Basilica, it isn't hard to imagine that there's a certain amount of pressure to participate in an event which ostensibly works for the legitimization of homosexuality.

The local ordinary, Archbishop Nienstedt prevented the offensive "Pride Liturgy" from taking place under Church auspices at St. Joan of Arc Parish this year, where it usually occurs. But that didn't stop the Basilica from maintaining its own decade long presence at the "Gay Pride" event where it is present at a booth showing various churches where it is to be assumed that homosexuality is tolerated. There is a placard on a rainbow cloth covered table displaying the Basilica's name with some literature advertising its upcoming "Block Party" and this card reaching out to those gay Catholics, "alienated and hurt" by the Church.



Unlike a protestant minister whose presence was objected to by the organizers of this event -- they were unable to obtain a restraining order, the Basilica on the other hand is happily present with its own representative to make a show of its cheerful participation at this event, which doesn't seem to include an objection to the principles entertained by the event or the sin of sodomy. The aforementioned protestant minister was forbidden a booth, but he was there holding a placard and handing out Bibles all the same. He at least made it clear where he stood on the issue. One wonders what the homosexuals are afraid of when it comes to people disagreeing with their "lifestyle", and one also wonders why they haven't attempted to have the Basilica presence eliminated as well, unless of course, the Basilica approves at least tacitly as to what's going on.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines scandal as follows:

2285 Scandal takes on a particular gravity by reason of the authority of those who cause it or the weakness of those who are scandalized. It prompted our Lord to utter this curse: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea."86 Scandal is grave when given by those who by nature or office are obliged to teach and educate others. Jesus reproaches the scribes and Pharisees on this account: he likens them to wolves in sheep's clothing.87

We'll leave it to you to decide whether this falls under the category of scandal.

As we approached the tent, as if to point out the ostensible reason for the presence of these churches at this event, a barker called out to the passing patrons asking, "are you sexually gifted, if you think you are, ask your partner".

In the past, people associated with the Basilica have said that this was an association independent of the Parish. One of the volunteers affirmed that the Basilica has been present at this event for at least 10 years and that he is uncertain whether or not Archishop Nienstedt is aware of this. We were told that this display wasn't there last year, but perhaps, like a dog to his vomit.

We asked for the person volunteering for the Basilica. We were told it was Roger Pare who is part of an office at the Basilica at least since 2008 which is for "Catholics Coming Home". [pdf file p. 10] Since this volunteer is mentioned in the Basilica Bulletin alongside of one of its "ministries" we're not clear as to how this is an unofficial presence if that's what they are going to say.

Archbishop Dolan prevented one of his churches from participating in this weekend's worldwide "gay" festivities. We're not certain why the Archdiocese wasn't aware of this.

US Supreme Court Rejects Vatican Immunity

Editor Note: It's unclear what Justices Thomas or Scalia have to say about this.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider whether the Vatican has legal immunity over the sexual abuse of minors by priests in the United States, allowing a lawsuit filed in 2002 to go forward.

U.S.

The nation's highest court, asked to rule on a U.S. appeals court decision that cleared the way for the lawsuit to proceed, rejected the Vatican's immunity appeal without comment.

The lawsuit, filed by a plaintiff identified only as John Doe, claimed he was sexually abused on several occasions in the mid-1960s when he was 15 or 16 by a Roman Catholic priest named Father Andrew Ronan.

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Archbishop Dolan Bans Parish's Official Presence at Homosexual Event

New York (CNN) -- This year, as for the past 12 years or more, parishioners from St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church have marched under their church banner in New York's colorful Gay Pride parade.

But this year, there was a difference.

Their banner was blank, missing the name of the church.

New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan asked the church's pastor to keep St. Francis' name out of the picture.



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Is There an Indefinite Hold on the Beatificaiton of John Paul II?

His Pontificate was more Papal self-promotion than it indicated concern for the problems and the decline of the Church. Besides that his promoters feared the media more than God.


[kreuz.net] There are Delays up until now, and an end to the beaten-with-whip Beatification of John Paul II (+ 2005).

This is according to Vaticanist Andrea Tornielli on the website of the Milan Newspaper 'Il Giornale' under the Titel: "Of >>santo subito<<>>saint never<<" The beatification process has made no progress. In the Vatican there is a devise, "there's no hurry". Officially there's a problem with the miraculous healing, which is attributed to the intercession of the late John Paul II. Tornielli explained, that the expected 2011 Beatification has probably fallen in the under water. One of the Vatican's expert medical consultants has questioned according to, 'Il Giornale', the supposed healing of a French Nun, Sister Marie-Simon-Perre (49). So, the postulator for the beatification, Prelate Slobomir Oder, is required to submit a new supposed wonder. According to reports by Tornielli he would rather -- in the face of the countless miracle reports -- the agony of the choice. For Tornielli there is no doubt that the be.beatification process of John Paul II., has experienced "in these immediate months" a noticeable delay. These are not only because of the technical problems in connection with the miracle. Countless voices in the Vatican would like no unnecessary speed in time, the countless shadows and suspicions made visible by important prelates in the close to John Paul II. In the Vatican it was for a decade an open secret that Pope John Paul II had significantly neglected his daily duties in the daily operation of the Church. Often one speaks of a "polish inefficiency", which made its presence behind the walls of the Vatican known. Tornielli identified as a small example the handling of the abuse cases under John Paul II. He meant in the first line the decades'long foreseeable giant scandal around the founder of the Legionaries of Christ. The most recent case struck the Archbishop of Naples, Crescenzio Kardinal Sepe. He was an unquestionable favorite of John Paul II and is said to have served in his time as Missions Congregation as Prefect where he was implicated in questionable financial transactions. Read original...

Editor: There were already reports that this was supposed to have happened back in AApril 2 of this year.

Belgium Case

The Fall of the Belgian Church

From the desk of Alexandra Colen on Thu, 2010-06-24 23:26
In Belgium, today, police searched the residence of the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and the crypt of the Archbishop’s cathedral in Mechelen. They were looking for evidence of cover-ups in the ongoing investigation into widespread pedophilia practices within the Belgian church in the decades during which Cardinal Godfried Danneels was Archbishop. Danneels retired in January of this year.

Police also confiscated 450 files containing reports of pedophile offences by members of the clergy, that had been submitted to an investigation committee which was established within the church to deal with pedophilia cases.

Since the revelation in April that Cardinal Danneels’s close friend and collaborator, Mgr Roger Vangheluwe, the Bishop of Bruges, had been a practicing pedophile throughout, and even before, his career as a bishop, victims have gained confidence that they will be taken seriously, and complaints have been pouring in, both to the courts and to the extra-judicial investigation committee of the archdiocese. The new archbishop Mgr. André-Joseph Léonard, has urged victims to take their case to the courts.


http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4471

Maronite Monk Beatified in Lebanon

KFIFAN, Lebanon – A Maronite monk was beatified by the Vatican on Sunday before a huge gathering of the faithful in northern Lebanon, an AFP reporter said.

Archbishop Angelo Amato, special envoy of Pope Benedict XVI, read the papal decree bestowing the title of "blessed" on Estephan Nehmeh (1889-1938), who devoted his life to "meditative prayer and unlimited service to the poorest."

The beatification of the monk, a member of the most powerful Christian church in Lebanon, was approved after doctors appointed by the Holy See in 2007 certified the "miraculous" cure of his niece, Sister Marina, from cancer.

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Former Conservative MP Anne Widecombe to be Ambassador to Vatican

In a move designed to stress a commitment to the Catholic Church, the Coalition has decided that the former Conservative MP would represent a suitably high-profile appointment.

William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, is understood to have endorsed the nomination, which will be sent to the Vatican for final approval before an announcement is made later in the summer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7856193/Ann-Widdecombe-lined-up-as-ambassador-to-the-Vatican.html
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Bulgarian Bishop: Gay Parade Stands for Depravity, Shame

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is praying for the “repentance” and “sobering up” of the participants in the Sofia Pride gay parade, said Saturday in a sermon Plovdiv Bishop Nikolay.

Nikolay, who is the youngest of all Bulgarian bishops, condemned the third Sofia gay parade as an expression of depravity and sin.

“God's scripture says that these are death sins, it is shameful to even talk about them, not to mention demonstrating them in such an overt way in the downtown of the capital before the eyes of the moral people and children. Let's watch out to protect our children from the depravity, sin, and evil,” declared the bishop.

“Our law is the Bible. As we can see European laws contradict Christian laws to a great extent. The Holy Church can give people the way to counteract against this spiritual virus,” he said shortly before the taking place of the 3rd annual gay pride parade in Sofia.

Plovdiv Bishop Nikolay is known for his hardline statements, including claiming that the holding of the 2009 concert in Sofia of US pop star Madonna caused God to punish the Bulgarian nation with the sinking of a tourist boat in the Ohrid Lake a few days later, in which 15 Bulgarian tourists perished.


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Church to celebrate feast of Sts. Peter and Paul :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Church to celebrate feast of Sts. Peter and Paul :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Pope Benedict points to St. Jean Vianney as model for charity workers :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Pope Benedict points to St. Jean Vianney as model for charity workers :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Bishop Mixa Wants Another Diocese

In his most recent visit to Rome Bishop Mixa asked for a Diocese of his own, away from his old-liberal intrigue diocese.

[kreuz.net, Augsburg] Bishop Mixa is said to have asked Pope Benedict XVI for a new Diocese.

The weekly magazine 'Focus' reported this in its day's press report.

The publication has in recent times produced more canards and has proven itself in Church affairs as not well-informed.

The source of the new information is unclear.

Msgr Mixa informed of his intention to visit Rome in the second week of June by letter.

He addressed the letter to the old-liberal Prefect of the Bishops' Congregation, Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re.

Bishop Mixa also indicated, that he has no alcohol problem and also is guilty of no sexual improprieties.

Slander-Dossier of German Bishops Even More in the Mist

The most recent slanders, which his pure colleagues presented as a "Secret Dossier" to the media, insist the contrary.

The Bishop unfortunately is alcoholic and has coerced two priests with homosexual advances -- the German slander-bishops maintain in the public without evidence.

In contrast to the journalists of the newspaper 'Frankfurter Allgemeine' and 'Suddeutsche' - who fight in the jaw match against teh Bishop on the front most line -- Msgr Mixa and his Attorney of the slandering "Secret Documents" would have clearly appreciated this.

At least at this point 'Focus' has some clarity on the Papal audience for next week.

According to information from 'kreuz.net' Bishop Mixa did was not admitted to a clinic in Basel for alcohol extraction.

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Roger Ebert and the Happier Days

Posted By Brother André Marie On June 26, 2010

Film critic and columnist Roger Ebert penned a column for his blog at the Chicago Sun-Times, My Vocation as a Priest [1]. It’s a benevolent, slightly sentimental look at his Catholic upbringing. At one time, he considered the priestly vocation. But it turns out he was one of those, “whose mother had the vocation” — to use the words of an old priest I knew. Not only did Roger Ebert not become a priest, he lost his Catholic Faith outright. Certain aspects of his column — well written, as one would expect — show the glories of pre-Vatican II American Catholicism in all their splendor. For instance, he pays tribute to the Church’s aesthetic aspect when he says:
In my childhood the Church arched high above everything. I was awed by its ceremonies. Years later I agreed completely with Pauline Kael when she said that the three greatest American directors of the 1970s–Scorsese, Altman and Coppola–had derived much of their artistic richness from having grown up in the pre-Vatican Two era of Latin, incense, mortal sins, indulgences, dire sufferings in hell, Gregorian chant, and so on. Protestants and even Jews were victims, I suppose, of sensory deprivation.

Other passages show that those “Good Old Days,” [2] of American Catholicism, supposedly such a high-water mark for the religion, were not all they were cracked up to be. The Dominican teaching Sister who was dogmatically permissive, the seminarian who uttered a glaringly stupid remark about hell and Dante as he dragged on a cigarette: these were signs that the iconic Catholicism of the era had splotches on it, bad ones.

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Vatican names Belgian bishop's successor amid abuse scandal < Belgian news | Expatica Belgium

[Expatica Belgium] The Vatican on Friday named a successor to the bishop of Bruges in Belgium, Roger Vangheluwe, who resigned after admitting child sex abuse.

In a statement, the Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI named Jozef De Kesel in place of 73-year-old Vangheluwe, who resigned in April after admitting sexually abusing a boy for years.

De Kesel was until now the bishop of the Bulna diocese and auxiliary at the Mechelen-Brussels archdiocese near Brussels, the Belgian Catholic Church headquarters raided by police on Thursday amid fresh accusations of child sex abuse.

The raid, involving dozens of officers and investigators, followed a string of accusations "denouncing abuse of minors committed by a certain number of Church figures," prosecutors said.

Vatican names Belgian bishop's successor amid abuse scandal < Belgian news | Expatica Belgium

Saint Benedict Center Wins Judgement Against Zoning Restrictions

NH church receives more than $1.1 million over unconstitutional zoning restrictions

ADF-allied attorney secures one of largest zoning settlements in U.S. history from town of Richmond officials who called church’s moral positions ‘abhorrent’

RICHMOND, N.H. — Friday, June 25, 2010 — An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney has secured a $1.15 million settlement on behalf of Saint Benedict Center of Richmond in a lawsuit over the town’s unconstitutional zoning restrictions. The center contended officials singled it out for discrimination after certain officials expressed their view that the church’s moral positions on matters such as abortion and homosexual behavior are “abhorrent.”

The settlement payment–coming after two state court orders in favor of the church–marks one of the largest settlements in U.S. history involving the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, a federal law that protects churches from unequal treatment in land use disputes with local governments.

“Churches shouldn’t be singled out for discrimination and penalized by a city’s zoning restrictions because of their religious viewpoint,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Doug Napier. “It was right that Saint Benedict Center was compensated for years of unconstitutional restrictions that made it impossible to finish the construction of its church and school building.”

In enacting RLUIPA, Congress stated, “The right to assemble for worship is at the very core of the free exercise of religion. Churches and synagogues cannot function without physical space adequate to their needs and consistent with their theological requirements. The right to build, buy, or rent such a space is an indispensable adjunct of the core First Amendment right to assemble for religious purposes.”

In June 2007, Saint Benedict Center–a small, traditional Catholic congregation that has operated a monastery, convent, house of worship, and religious school in Richmond since 1989–filed suit against the town of Richmond after the town imposed more than 30 conditions upon SBC’s proposed new church and school building. A court determined in a summary judgment order last October that the conditions made completion of construction impossible and constituted a substantial burden on the church’s religious exercise under RLUIPA. The church noted to the court that the planning board chairman, who drafted several of the conditions, e-mailed other town officials about his disgust for the church’s religious teachings, stating that its stance on abortion, homosexual behavior, pornography, and divorce were “abhorrent.”

After the court issued an order that deferred a ruling on the problematic construction conditions, the town agreed to pay the church $1.15 million in monetary damages and attorneys’ fees, and the town’s board of selectmen agreed to a separate settlement that makes completion of the church and school building possible.

“Disagreement with an organization’s religious or political views should never motivate the government to impose special restrictions upon a church’s building project,” said lead counsel Michael Tierney of Manchester, one of nearly 1,700 attorneys in the ADF alliance. Tierney, who practices with the law firm Wadleigh, Starr and Peters, PLLC, filed and settled Saint Benedict Center v. Town of Richmond in the New Hampshire Superior Court for Cheshire County.

Pronunciation guide: Tierney (Teer-nee), Napier (Nuh-peer)
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.

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Setback for Fans of 'Homosexual Marriages'

The Court for Human Rights: Marriage between Homosexuals is not a public obligation.

Munich (kath.net) The European Court for Human Rights has decided on a complaint by two Austrian citizens, that states could not be forced to introduce gay marriage. This comes from a press conference of the Court on Thursday. Two homosexual men from Austria had complained, who were denied a civil marriage in 2002.

The Austrian administration had indicated, that a marriage can only be between a man and a woman. Then both men felt that their fundamental rights were injured and applied to the European Courts for Human Rights in Strassburg, (Klage Nr. 30141/04 vom 5. August 2004) to obliged Austria to a decision to marry them. This the Court refused to do. The States in Europe are not obliged to recognize marriages between homosexuals, said the judgement.

In the notice of the Court it reads: "THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DOES NOT OBLIGE STATES TO ENSURE THE RIGHT TO MARRY HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES".

The Court firmly established, that neither Article 12 (right to marry) nor Article 14 (law against discrimination) in connection with Article 8 (right to regard of private- and family life) is injured, if the right for homosexuals to marry is not broadened.

The decision, if the marriage only constitutes a bond between man and woman or on same-sex couples is deferred to the states. It is their decision, to judge the allowable limits for their society. The judge maintained clearly, hoever, that in states, in which the possibility for same-sex marriage exists, there is no obligation, to regard in every consideration such civil unions as marriages.

The judgement of seven judges in the assembled chamber, can be appealed for three months. If an appeal is entered and if the appeal will be reheard, the case will be brought before the high court which consists of 17 judges where the decision will be made.

With this court decision CSU-Politician Norbert Geis is resolved that his marriage and idea of faimly is not only in agreement with the basic law, but also in agreement with human rights. The SPD-Politician Klaus Wowereit had reprimanded Norbert Geis in November 2009 in a television appearance, that he has a reactionary conception of family and marriage. Geis sees that his idea of family and marriage, on the contrary, is in no way reactionary, he is of the opinion of the Courts: Geis is not only on the right side of constitutional law, but also on the side of the times and the right thinking case-law related to human rights.

For the governing mayor of Berlin, Wowereit has the current judgement still a further, immediate significance. The Berlin Senate had just a few days before decided on a bill for a federal initiative, which proposes to open marriage also to homosexuals.

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Statue of Stalin Being Removed in Bulgaria

The statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is seen after it was dismantled in his hometown of Gori, some 80 km west of Tbilisi, Georgia, 25 June 2010. Georgia dismantled the statue on 25 June 2010, two years after a defeat in a five-day war with Russia.

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Vietnam, Vatican meet this week

Vietnam, Vatican meet this week

Notre Dame Pro-Life Protester Suffers Heart Attack

By Kathleen Gilbert

SOUTH BEND, Indiana, June 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Thanks to the strain of being subjected to criminal prosecution on charges of trespassing, one of the 88 peaceful pro-life protesters arrested at the University of Notre Dame in May of last year recently suffered a heart attack. According to Dr. Therese Beste's doctor, she continues to suffer from post-traumatic stress related to the prosecuation.

The doctor's diagnosis has been submitted to the pro-lifers' defense lawyer as members of the group, known as the "Notre Dame 88," continue to face prosecution and a possible penalty of up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine.

Beste, a Michigan resident, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) that she travelled to Indiana in May 2009 because she was "horrified" to learn that Notre Dame, "Our Blessed Mother's University," would be honoring "the most pro-abortion politician in our nation." The university had invited Obama to give the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree.

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Mixa locutus -- causa finita?

The actual "Mixa File" is still not closed -- No clarification of the German Bishops' clarification -- Why the diocese has clearly the directives of the German Bishop's Conference.

Augsburg (kath.net) Even after the clarifications of the German Bishops Conference on Tuesday and the letter from Bishop Walter Mixa this Wednesday, the Causa Mixa is still leaving a number of questions unclear.

One question remains in connection with the clarification of the German Bishops Conference (GBC), which on Tuesday had affirmed the alleged "Secret Dossier" on Mixa. It says: "They affirmed that the documents and accusations against him in April 2010 had been passed on to Rome. Pope Benedict XVI acted upon this and accepted Bishop Mixa's resignation."

It is completely unclear on the one hand, if the accusation is to be seen as true, if there has been an orderly investigation and if it on the other hand, there is a causal connection between the Pope's decision and the accusation. One kath.net- inquiry to this theme led to Matthias Kopp, the speaker for the GBC, who gave the following answer: "Please understand that I can't answer your questions as if they were represented in a text of the presiding Bishops today."

It is certain that in the past week not one of the high-ranking Bishops of Germany knew of the "Secret Dossier" as kath.net was aware. Clearly, only the closest circle of the German Bishops Conference, some of the members of the Diocese of Augsburg and the Archbishop of Munich were privy.

It is as good as in the hand that the internal Church correspondence from this circle was directing the FAX and the South German Times. Bishop Mixa himself clearly knew nothing of this correspondence.

"That the press has access to the archive of the Vatican or the Papal Nuncio, is for the time being improbable. Therefore the source is especially nebulous like the reported occurrence," explained Mixa-Attorney Gerhard Decker on Sunday to kath.net. Even in the 3-sided-correspondence of Bishop Mixa to the Bishops Congregation, where all of these accusations are theoretically arising, it is not certain.

For more confusion yesterday as members of the Augsburg Diocesan administration and by Bishop Walter Mixa approved a "joint clarification" in a passage. "The Diocese will seek, while a final decision for the successor to the Bishop's office is not known, a temporary home for Bishop Emeritus Dr. Mixa. A confirmation is being sought with the Bavarian Bishops per their clarification of the current day." An explanation of the Bavarian Bishops is till now not forthcoming.

It is exiting that on the beginning of July that Bishop Mixa and Pope Benedict will meet. It's somewhat absurd in this relation to point to #3 of the joint clarification: "the invitation of the Holy Father to a meeting in Rome with Bishop Emeritus Dr. Mixa will happily proceed; his resignation and his circumstances will not be the subject of this discussion."

What the Pope will discuss with Bishop Mixa no one knows and whoever knows the Pope knows that he will surely not let himself be limited. How should this resignation with all its open questions not be a topic? It is clear from the 3-page-letter of Bishop Mixa to Rome, that this will be the motive for his visit.

Mixa's criticisms of the instigation of his colleagues stand out in the room like before: "It should have been brotherly. I should have been advised of a leave till all the accusations were thoroughly investigated. Instead they hurried to the Pope and showed the so-called abuse case like a trump, which de facto consisted of not more than six hand-written sentences of a highly dubious, scribbled memo.", he said to "Welt" a few days ago.

Even high-ranking Church officials of the Diocese of Augsburg refrain from criticism. They have, in the matter of the supposed abuse case about Bishop Mixa, clearly not followed the corresponding guidelines of the German Bishops Conference.

It is clear, that the "educational abuse" was already apparent to the Eichstaetter Pastoral Associate L. already on the 25th of March 2010 in Augsburg. In conjunction with the directives of the German Bishops Conference: "The accredited agent researches the circumstances and is the contact person for the law enforcement authorities."

Accordingly, the accredited agent of the Diocese of Augsburg, i.e. Cathedral Vicar Heinrich hasn't researched this. He has not to-date sought any contact with the suspected victim.

Even in another point the Diocese of Augsburg has clearly violated their own guidelines. The indifference to the complaint was a serious break of the valid directives on the part of the Diocese of Augsburg, as it states: "every complaint or claim of suspicion will be thoroughly investigated. Immediately after becoming aware of suspicion or an incident, the responsible party must commence investigating.
He conducts an interview with the accused, upon which he consults a lawyer. A protocol is to be followed during the interview, for which the responsible party is obliged to follow. With the (presumptive) victim respective his legal guardian will be contacted. According to the protocol, the incident will be assessed and established, how the victim is best to be helped and how to further proceed."

Fact: This did not happen in the Diocese of Augsburg at all. There was no interview with Bishop Mixa and there was no protocol, which would have been undersigned by the participants.

If the victim was approached, may be doubted, for the directives of the GCB states further: "The welfare of the Church goes first to the victim. The defense of the victim from further abuse or public release of information is to be especially avoided. There is also a responsibility for the welfare of the accused. He remains until proven otherwise, innocent. If it is found that the suspicion is groundless, the necessary steps will be taken to restore the good reputation of the person." Presently, there hasn't been any apology to Bishop Walter Mixa.

If one looks exactly at the directives of the GBC and the incidents in the Diocese in conjunction with the alleged victim, then it is clear, that the suppositions of the Diocese of Augsburg could not stand.

On the 16th of June a communication was made by the Diocese: "Those responsible in the Diocese have followed what is just and necessary and appropriate to the directives of the German Bishops Conference and the Freisinger Bishops Conference. The Diocese of Augsburg expressly denies that it had made public any accusations of abuse.

Otherwise the prosecuting attorney's initial inquest was not known at the of Bishop Emeritus Walter Mixa of the Diocese of Augsburg's signing of his resignation."

This supposition is in any event in complete contradiction to the kath.net copy of the original act of the State Prosecuting Attorney. From him it was clear, that the Diocese even previously must have known of the alleged abuse case.

In the kath.net memo concerned, by Augsburger Pastoral Assistant F., who advocated as a "representative for possible victims of sexual and physical violence", said elsewhere: "On March 25 2010 I have spoken about the case with Mr. Heinrich [Responsible Party for Abuse in the Diocese!]. Bishop Mixa had incidentally signed his resignation on 21 April 2010.

Even a Church critic like Alan Posener had stated in Cicero, that Mixa is being treated unjustly. Posener maintains, that Mixa has the same rights as every other Citizen has. "That belongs to his personal rights, which follow, that the worth of a man is unassailable." Fact: The actual "Acta Mixa" is not closed.

Freedom in Russia Before Stalin, Mao and Obama

Though the Russian absolutist monarchy was overthrown by shrill egomaniacs like Lenin about ten years before I was born, I know it better than I do any other absolutist monarchy. So let me give you a couple of examples from its public life.
The Soviet propaganda implied more and more insistently that the Soviet Russians were the world's superior race. But if they were, why didn't they come to power centuries earlier, and not in 1917? That was where the Soviet propaganda began to represent Russians who had lived in the pre-1917 regime as idiots because that was what the tsarist regime had allegedly made out of them to prevent the revolutionary overthrow of the "tsarist regime."

The secret opposition to the "tsarist regime" was on throughout the second half of the eighteenth century.

After tsarevich Constantine, who lived in Poland, had secretly renounced any claim to the imperial succession, his brother tsarevich Nicholas was crowned emperor of Russia. Nicholas was disliked, while Constantine had a big following in Russia ("Constantine and Constitution"). In December of 1825, Russian troops in St. Petersburg refused to take the oath of allegiance to Nicholas, who for hours tried his best to bring to reason the mutinous soldiers. When that did not work, he consented to use force, and a few rounds of grapeshot quelled the mutiny. The Decembrists (as they came to be called) demanded the abolition of serfdom and the attainment of some degree of representative government. The chief conspirators were arrested and interrogated by the emperor in person.

Let me draw a comparison with events closer to us. The Tiananmen rebels (alive by the end of the suppression of rebellion) numbered 11 people, and all eleven were shot on the spot. The Decembrists and the Tiananmen rebels both pursued a similar goal: constitutional government. But while all Tiananmen rebels caught alive were shot, some of the Decembrists were sent to a city named Chita. They reconstructed and repaired it to live in to their pleasure. Others began to work in mines in Siberia to have some food to stay alive.

Alexander Pushkin, regarded as the greatest Russian poet of the time, began his poem addressed to the rebels as follows:


In the depths of the Siberian ores,
Preserve your proud noble patience.
Your sorrowful toil will not be lost,
Nor will be your lofty aspirations.

Nekrasov lived to the age of 57, and he continued spreading his misery nationwide in his poetry and his magazines. He was never stopped and was never asked to make his literary mood less miserable. He died in 1878 while serfdom (slave ownership) had been abolished in 1861, but his mood of misery hardly changed.

On the other hand, no monarch was so showered with flattery as Stalin was — he was glorified as the source of everything valuable on earth:


In the broadest spaces of our wonder — country,
While to victories in war and in peace there is no end,
We composed a song so joyous
About our leader and great friend.

Stalin is our military glory,
Stalin is our youth and our highest flight.
Fighting with songs and with them winning,
Our people follow Stalin in peace as they do in fight!

Let us now take a glance again at the British monarchy. The queen is to talk with and approve the person presented to her to be Her Majesty's Prime Minister (a rough equivalent of the U.S. president) if she accepts him. He is presented to the queen by his party, which had a majority in general elections.

Usually information about a person's ability is obtained via written sources. But at a certain point, a live person has to be evaluated by his peers through his performance, especially when one is considered to be Her Majesty's Prime Minister. It is up to the queen to accept or reject the prospective candidate.

I suppose it would have taken the queen a minute or two to reject Obama. Many voters may be incapable of understanding the mind of a person running for president they are going to vote for. On the other hand, the queen engages in human dialogue, showing her an abyss between refreshing intelligence, extraordinary intelligence, and genius in understanding the civic and military realities. Thus, Winston Churchill was endorsed as the prime minister, and possibly his official appearance made Hitler leave Western Europe alone and attack Russia, which led to his defeat in Russia and suicide.

The Soviet propaganda pictured the Russian absolutist monarchy as the lowest degradation of human society. Yet Stalin's Russia was an abysmal jump downward, compared with the Russia of the time of Pushkin and Nekrasov.

A society is not the latest machine, in which everything valuable is preserved as much as possible. The Russian absolutist monarchy or the queen in Britain may be more useful than the futuristic dreams, of which Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, or post-1949 China were to consist.



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Former King Gyanendra to break his silence on his 63rd birthday

Former King Gyanendra to break his silence on his 63rd birthday

Poland Gets New Primate, Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk

Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk is quitting as apostolic nuncio to Poland and assume the duties of the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland on June 26.

On 8 May, the Pope Benedict XVI appointed Jozef Kowalczyk the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland. Kowalczyk’s episcopal enthronement will take place on 26 June in the cathedral in the central-western city of Gniezno, which has a similar status to Canterbury or Reims cathedrals in Great Britain and France.

During the celebrations of St. Peter and Paul’s Day, 29 June, Archbishop Kowalczyk will receive a pallium, an ecclesiastical vestment worn by metropolitans and primates, from the Pope.

Jozef Kowalczyk has served as the first apostolic nuncio to Poland since II WW for over twenty years. He negotiated with Polish authorities the text of the concordat signed in 1993

Until a new apostolic nuncio is appointed, the secretary of the nunciature Father Ionut Paul Strejac will act as charge d’affairs. (mg)

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Cardinal George promoting stronger relations between US, Cuba :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Cardinal George promoting stronger relations between US, Cuba :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

US bishops back Olmsted in Arizona abortion drama :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Could the USCCB be any more useless? It's high time this bloated bureaucratic shakedown operation were jettisoned for something more streamlined; and Catholic.

US bishops back Olmsted in Arizona abortion drama :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Consecration of Tridentine Altar in Moscow

On Sunday 20 June, Archbishop Paul Pezzi, the Ordinary of Archdiocese of the Mother Of God in Moscow, Russia, consecrated a refurbished wooden altar for the Extraordinary form of the Roman Rite. This altar is situated in the Big Chapel of the Moscow Cathedral of Immaculate Conception of The Blessed Virgin Mary. The consecration ceremony followed the 'usus antiquor.' After consecration of the altar, Fr. Augustine Dzenzel celebrated Mass in the Extraordinary Form. This is the first time since 1936, when the ruling Ordinary of this Archdiocese participated in the traditional Latin liturgy.

h/t: ggreg

Judge weighs Pride fest's request to keep preacher out | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ

He will not be able to legally distribute bibles at the Pride Festival.

Judge weighs Pride fest's request to keep preacher out | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ

Young Wisconsin Catholics Come out in Force to Support Bishop Morlino

By Kathleen Gilbert

MADISON, Wisconsin, June 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Catholics in the diocese of Madison, WI are hitting back at negative media coverage of their bishop after he welcomed priests with the Society of Jesus Christ the Priest, a group renowned for their traditionalist liturgy and fidelity to orthodox Catholic teaching. Supporters note that, contrary to the picture painted by dissenting voices in the media, Morlino's focus on orthodoxy is increasingly popular with Catholic youth - even in the liberal stronghold of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Madison Bishop Robert Morlino, one of the most outspoken advocates for the unborn among the U.S. Catholic hierarchy, has defended the priests against criticism that the move represented a "step backward" and that the priests' approach is, in the words of one parishioner, “quite different than we have become accustomed to." Morlino heard parishioners from St. Mary's Parish in Platteville at an occasionally-heated meeting on Monday.

Despite media coverage focusing on dissenting voices, many were eager to voice support for their bishop - especially among pro-life Catholics.

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Occultism and Gnosticism Fill in the Void in the Czech Republic

Thanks to the deceits of Masonic associations fueling Czech Nationalism and the destructive presence of an impending Soviet menace, the Catholic Church has been sorely beaten in this once mostly Catholic nation.

After 1918, a Wilsonian Europe had no room for the Hapsburg Monarchy, and the deliberate elimination of the Hapsburg throne, put the altar of Christendom at the mercy of secular forces who saw it as a temporarily useful tool to be eventually phased out.

[Guardian] Czechs may not be very enthusiastic churchgoers but many of them easily accept the idea that fortune-tellers can predict the future, lucky charms bring good fortune or that the stars might influence their lives. Moreover, claims about Czech non-religiosity are also complicated by the growth of charismatic and evangelical movements in recent years. Even though the total number of evangelicals and charismatics is small, some of these denominations have multiplied their membership several times in the 10 years between the last two censuses.


Weak support for traditional church religion is partly a legacy of Czech nationalism of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century and its interpretation of the country's religious history. Catholicism, which was the major religion at that time, was seen as an Austrian import that forcibly replaced the "true" religion of the Czech nation – Protestantism. The denunciation of the Hapsburg monarchy and German language and culture (though, paradoxically, the German-speaking urban intelligentsia played a major role in the first wave of Czech nationalism) thus also included also a rejection of the Catholic faith. Nationalist anti-Catholic arguments appealed to many Czechs even though most of the population remained formally affiliated to the Roman Catholic church.

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Matteo Ricci moves closer to Sainthood

John Zmirak's polemical article at Insidecatholic, here:

If you don't know the story of Father Ricci's extraordinary mission to China, it's worth reading up on, for the light it casts on preaching the gospel to alien cultures. To summarize very briefly a controversy that would last for centuries, Father Ricci tried to "inculturate" Christian faith in China. Learning the Mandarin language, Chinese court customs, and finally adopting Chinese dress, Ricci mastered the nuances of Confucian philosophy and Chinese culture. Exploring the speculative works revered by that nation's scholars, Father Ricci found words in Chinese philosophy that could either refer to "the heavens" (i.e., the sky) or "Heaven" (the ordering principle in Creation) -- so Ricci chose to use them in the second, theological sense. In much the same way, St. Paul had told the Greeks: "For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you" (Acts 17:23).

Matteo Ricci moves closer

USCCB Media Blog: Truth be told?

That's it, fret about details and conceal the way things are. Hopefully, people who foolishly give money and support to the USCCB and their various Socialist agendas will cease doing so.

Considering that the USCCB receives over 33% of its budget from the Federal Government, it's not too difficult to imagine that they would be compromised.

No wonder they spend so little time working on souls, and a lot more time promoting Socialist agendas of wealth redistribution and pacifism.

USCCB Media Blog: Truth be told?

French Foreign Legion Chaplain Serves Troops in Afghanistan: Hard Core

June 21, 2010. This is just one of a thousand jumps by Benoît de Pommerol, the chaplain of the paratrooper brigade of the French Foreign Legion. He's lived with them for 10 years. His last destination was the war in Afghanistan.

Since he came to the Legion, de Pommerol hasn't hesitated to act like a soldier in order to better help them. That's why he trains with the legionaires.

A day in the Legion begins with Mass in a former Soviet bunker on a mountain east of Kabul.

Source: Le Figaro

And Rome Reports, here.

Jesuit Theology Professor and "Friend of Darwin" says Science and Religion Are Compaitable

In 2008, Haught received a "Friend of Darwin Award" from the National Center for Science Education. Additionally, in 2009, in recognition of his work on theology and science, Haught was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Louvain. Here.

Participants in dialogue between religion and science must work to dispel the notion that the two disciplines stand in total opposition to each other, said a theologian with the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University in Washington.

"Just like I have been trying to do my entire life, the dialogue should attempt to remove the false obstacles in the way of discussion, namely that religion and science are incompatible opposites," John Haught told Catholic News Service June 18.

The interview was prompted by a panel discussion hosted two days earlier by the Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion, which is part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Moderated by Jennifer Wiseman, the new director of the dialogue, the panel had four speakers who discussed the theme "Re-Envisioning the Science and Religion Dialogue." They reached an agreement on three basic principles: no name-calling, civility and a need to help develop an interest in science among the public.

One crucial viewpoint was missing on the panel: the Catholic perspective.

Haught has written 18 books on the subject, including "The Cosmic Adventure: Science, Religion and the Quest for Purpose," "God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution" and "Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution." He has been involved with religion and science dialogue for many years, teaching a course on the dialogue at Georgetown University.

"Many people still do not have a very deep understanding of the relationship between science and faith," he said, adding that many don't even have much interest in this relationship.

"Look at the numbers: 50 to 60 percent of Christians consider evolution and Christian faith incompatible," he said.

To Haught, most who believe in the conflict model of religion-science dialogue cannot explain why they think the two are irreconcilable.

Catholics who hold this view need "to get over it," he said. "There isn't any controversy about the reality of the evolution in the scientific community, so why in the church?"

As Pope John Paul II said in a message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Oct. 22, 1996, Catholics need to construct a theology that shows how divine knowledge, providence and wisdom can be affirmed because of evolution.

Pope Benedict XVI said in 2007 that evolution and the existence of God the creator should not be seen as two ideas in strict opposition to each other.

"Evolution exists, but it is not enough to answer the great questions," such as how human beings came to exist and why human beings have an inherent dignity, he said.

That is why the religion-science dialogue is so important, said Haught.

"If the Catholic Church wishes to remain with an appropriate understanding of God, then it must accept evolution," Haught said.

He suggested that the dialogue should reach out to the seminaries and schools of theology and show the importance of science education.

Even more than that, he said they should reach out to the people sitting in the pews. "It will be important to hold more available conferences and other opportunities for people to meet and discuss the topic."

The dialogue should focus on bringing people into contact with the whole body of theology and science, said Haught.

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Portland Catholic Diocese raises $42M | The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME

Portland Catholic Diocese raises $42M | The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME

Obama administration makes blitz of statements to advance LGBT ‘agenda’ :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Obama administration makes blitz of statements to advance LGBT ‘agenda’ :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Lawsuit in Philippines claims diocesan paper’s story was libelous :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Lawsuit in Philippines claims diocesan paper’s story was libelous :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Defenders respond to criticisms of CNA report :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

(CNA).- Controversy continues about the Catholic News Agency story on Cardinal Francis George’s criticism of the Catholic Health Association’s (CHA) actions during the health care debate. Defenders of CNA note the substance of the report is supported by other sources, while critics focus on the accuracy of several quotations.

At the U.S. bishops’ executive session last week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) president reportedly discussed the fallout resulting from CHA’s support for the health care legislation despite the bishops’ opposition. Among the bishops’ objections to the bill were that its abortion restrictions were insufficient.

Several bishops who wished to remain anonymous told CNA that Cardinal George charged CHA and other Catholic groups with providing “cover” for undecided legislators to support President Obama’s legislation. According to these sources, the cardinal clearly remarked that CHA president Sr. Carol Keehan and her colleagues were to blame for the passage of the bill. He said these groups’ actions also weakened the moral voice of the bishops in the U.S., caused confusion and wounded Catholic unity.

In response, USCCB Secretary of Communications Helen Osman criticized

Defenders respond to criticisms of CNA report :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Federal Police Raid Belgian Church's HQ

[Brussels] It will be interesting to see if this implicates Cardinal Daneels who assigned a lot of the predators to their positions of trust and protected them after it was found that they were guilty. There's nothing currently about what the police have found, but there should be a report shortly.

Father McBrien's Favorites: Notre Dame Classics: Dual Magisterium

Father Z has blogged about Father McBrien's favorite Bishops. Which reminds us. Are we really all Catholics in all this?

It's interesting how German Bishops Marx of Munich (an alleged "Baroque" Conservative who's eager for promotion) and Zollitsch (under investigation for child abuse) have stabbed Bishop Mixa in the back and deliberately leaked a dossier full of vague claims of homosexuality and alchohol abuse, while hanging him out to dry in public, talking about his 'alchohol abuse problems' and 'mental instabillity'.

These are not the ministrations of Catholics, but the tactics of Communists, especially the part about attacking Bishop Mixa's mental stability. (Note how Bishop Gerhard Mueller was passed over for Cardinal Kasper's job.)

Meanwhile, even NCR's golden haired boy John Allen can see there's a dual Magisterium.