W Million Prayers for Pope Benedict

MANASSAS, Virginia, JULY 20, 2010 (Zenit.org).- A "spiritual bouquet" campaign collected more than 1 million prayers for Benedict XVI, which have been delivered to the Vatican, according to the apostolic nuncio in the United States.

The spiritual bouquet -- a pledge to offer a certain number of prayers for a specified intention -- was sponsored by the Cardinal Newman Society.

http://www.zenit.org/article-29948?l=english
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Muslims Murder Christians Found Not Guilty of Blasphemy in Pakistan

[Catholic Culture] Two Pakistani Christians acquitted of blasphemy charges were murdered on July 19 as they left the courthouse.

A police officer who accompanied them was injured in the attack. Rashid Emmanuel and his brother, Sajid Emmanuel, had been arrested on July 4 after pamphlets critical of the Mohammed had been distributed. The brothers had grown up in a Catholic family; Rashid had recently become a Protestant pastor.

Following the murder of the brothers, some Christians took to the streets in grief and anger. "Emotional tension was high, there was some shouting, stone throwing against Muslim shops," said Father Khalid Rashid Asi, vicar general of the Diocese of Faisalabad, Pakistan's third largest city.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6964
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USCCB Addresses Social Media

By Mark PattisonCatholic News ServiceWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a set of guidelines for using social media, especially as social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter continue to gain in popularity."Social media are the fastest growing form of communication in the United States, especially among youth and young adults," the guidelines say. "Our church cannot ignore it, but at the same time we must engage social media in a manner that is safe, responsible and civil.""My hope is that they'll be a useful resource to people, especially to dioceses and parishes that are interested in using social media," said Helen Osman, USCCB secretary for communications, in a July 19 interview with Catholic News Service.

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1002979.htm
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Pope in Danger from Muslims in England

by Matthew Archbold Monday, July 19, 2010

[NCR] I've been saying recently that Pope Benedict XVI is heading into enemy territory in "Post-Christian" England.

Sadly, I may be more right than I imagined. A member of British Parliament says he fears violence at an open air mass with Pope Benedict XVI after an Islamic publication called Muslims to attend the Mass to convert Catholics and "tell the Pope in no uncertain terms what Muslims think of his evil slanders against the last Prophet of God and his message."

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/is-the-pope-in-danger/
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Vienese Pastor Auctions Confessional on E-Bay

According to Kath.net a Vienese Pastor wants to auction off his confessional on e-bay. The pastor wrote, "a buyer could make it into a play-house for children, for a personal sauna or even build a bar".


The communications office of the Archdiocese of Vienna says that the sale of these objects is not accebtible.


Kath.net says the offer has been stopped, but you can still make an offer on it. One of the last offers, says kath.net was for 666,66 €.


As one commentor said, "these confessionals are beatiful, who could be so tasteless.".


The pastor maintains that he has "rennovated" his confessionals and has built a conference room which will no doubt reflect his minimalist approach to aesthetics, if his comments about what to do with this confessional are any indication.

http://www.kath.net/detail.php?id=27443

http://wap.ebay.at/Pages/ViewItem.aspx?aid=270609336090&ebayref=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.at%3A80%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D270609336090%26autoredirect%3Doff&sflag=1


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Poles Greet Homosexuals with Hurled Bottles and Eggs

Editor: 93% of Poles think homosexuals shoulkd not adopt children. Perhaps we shouldn't be imposing decadent liberal culture on the pristine Polish way of life?


[Asianews] About 2,000 police officers, some clad in riot gear, were on hand to provide security. Eight people were detained for attacking police officers, reports said.

People trying to block the parade hurled eggs and bottles at the marchers and Catholic groups distributed pamphlets to parade-goers with an image of Jesus Christ saying: "I have not come to condemn but to redeem.
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Patriarch Kyrill Says Pope Gives Cause for Hope

Edit: there were many years when the Moscow Patriarchate was in union with Rome when Constantinople wasn't. Now it is the Patriarch who gives cause for hope.


**Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kyrill I. praised the Pope and spoke of the "complete agreement" of the Catholic and Orthodox Church in many public and moral questions: the Pope gives reason for hope.**

Kiev/Moscow (kath.net/KNA) The Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kyrill I praised Pope Benedict because of his moral values. The bearing of this Pope "gives us reasons for optimism", said the Moscow Patriarch on Monday.

The "complete agreement" of the Catholic and Orthodox churches in many public moral questions enables them to work together in making Christian values strong, especially in international organizations.

Kyrill I also mentioned that in the Catholic Church in the later half of the 20th Century has seen reinforced liberal tendencies which give the Orthodox Church cause for concern. So, Benedict XVI. is frequently criticized by liberal theologians, but also by the Western media. The Patriarch also dubbed the Protestant stance on homosexuality as "very dangerous". "Sinful elements" are given entrance, he said. To this Kyril also criticized the women's ordination practiced in Lutheran circles.

The interview with Kyrill I. was released at an all Ukrainian TV-broadcast in the run-up to his Partriarchal visit to the country on the 20th to the 28th of July.

(C) 2010 KNA Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur GmbH. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Swiss Bishop Gets Local Church Out of "Gay Pride"

Editor: what, a Swiss Bishop setting himself up for the hatred of the world?

<I> The Catholic Church bans the participation in "Zurich Pride" - Liturgy - Zurich Canton Church had even participated in the organization commitee of the homosexual parade and even supported it financially.</i>

(Kathnet, Chur) The Catholic Church has participated in the so-called "Zurich Pride" in the past - services are banned as the "Tagesanzeiger" reported. Auxiliary Bishop Eleganti defended his decision with the argument, that the Church must be concerned about what message it wants to deliver.

It could hardly support the cause of the CSD (Christopher Street Day) annual gay pride festival. What will not be effected is "the spiritual outreach to the individual Homosexual". +Eleganti holds the view of seeking to engage the effected persons in discussion.

It is clear that the Roman Catholic Church had ignored the questionable activities of the Zurich Canton Church, which would openly and benevolently accompany the gay event and has even supported it financially for two years. [How'd you like your parish supporting these things? It just might, you know]

Already in 2004 the Catholic (!) Church Community of Peter and Paul participated in the organization commitee of the CSD-association where it appointed Vicar Martin Stewen. Via Auxiliary Bishop Marian Eleganti this event has been STOPPED and Vicar Stewen has reluctantly removed himself from the commitee. His opinion was that this will have been, a lost "a pastoral chance" for the Church in Canton Zurich . "For the loss to the Church is greater than for the gay and lesbian scene," said Stewen.

More humorously in this context is government official Markus Notter's appearance at the CSD-Liturgy, where he hoped the next speaker for the coming year would be a Bishop who'd have the courage to "speak at Zurich Pride".

Original:
http://www.kath.net/detail.php?id=27418
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Another Marian procession after centuries in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

VATICAN CITY (AP) July 14, 2010 - There will be a procession of the statue of Our Lady of Leeuwarden, the first in 500 years, in early October in the Frisian capital. The procession with the statue is the culmination of the Month of Mary, organized by the Titus Brandsma Parish in Leeuwarden. This was announced today by the Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden in a story in the Fries Dagblad.

500 years ago
This year, five hundred years ago, a solemn procession was held through the city. Around 1510 there was a cult dedicated to the image.

October
The procession starts in October at the St. Boniface Church and ends at the Saint Dominic Church. The route will also pass through part of the medieval procession, the Oldehoofsekerkhof. This cemetery was formerly the location of the parish church of St Vitus, which the statue of Our Lady of Leeuwarden once adorned.

De Korte
Bishop Gerard de Korte of the Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden will make a so-called Marialof, a prayer in honor of Mary.

Exhibition
Also during the Month of Mary, the Leeuwarden parish church of St Dominic will be holding an exhibition of other Marian images and statues from the other parishes in Friesland.

Boston Archdiocese vs. Bloggers

Editor: The following will be a link to a blog engaged in a dialogue with the Boston Archdiocese, which is now trying to engage bloggers in "dialogue". It's a much better tactic than ignoring them, or trying to say negative things about them that aren't necessarily true, like when they call bloggers, "uninformed", "meanspirited" and things like that.

[Bryan Hehir Exposed] Those following the blog know that we have had the pleasure of comments by Boston Archdiocese Vicar General, Fr. Richard Erikson and a request for dialogue.  A post by Paul Melanson at La Salette Journey entitled, "Constructive Criticism or Condemnation" prompted us to now tell you exactly what has resulted from our interaction with him.  Today's blog was written last night and in our review queue ready for posting when we received an email back from the Vicar General first thing this morning.   Advance apologies for the level of detail.  Grab a cup of iced tea, iced coffee, or lemonade and read on.When Fr. Richard Erikson was  first named Vicar General in 2006, we were impressed by his background—former St. John's Seminary instructor, and U.S. Air Force Lt. Col and chaplain for seven years who had been deployed to Ballad, Iraq to minister to injured soldiers at the center of the insurgency and most attacked sector in Iraq for a 40-day tour.  What was not to like about this person coming back to Boston? 

But, now four years later, well, we'll just say something about being in the Boston archdiocesan hierarchy must get to people and wear them out after a while.

Read more:

http://bryanhehirexposed.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/response-from-boston-archdiocese%e2%80%99s-vicar-general-fr-erikson/
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Latin Mass Saved My Priesthood: Zenit of All Places

DENTON, Nebraska, JUNE 8, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Since the Second Vatican Council, Catholics have been attending Mass said in their native tongue. Today, Latin references are completely foreign to some, and lingering memories to others.

http://www.zenit.org/article-29545?l=english
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Woman, Lutheran Bishop in Germany Resigns over Sex Abuse

Maria Jepsen was elected bishop in 1992 The bishop of Hamburg - the world's first female Lutheran bishop - has resigned amid criticism of her handling of a sex abuse case. Maria Jepsen stepped down saying her credibility had been contested. She denies having known before May this year about a priest in the town of Ahrensburg who reportedly sexually abused boys and girls in the 1980s.

Several cases in Germany form part of sex abuse scandals that have hit the Roman Catholic Church recently.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10667687
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Unhelpful Sr. Anne Doesn't Like New Vatican Rules on Abuse

Editor: Liberals won't like this because they don't want to admit that their sexual abuses and abuses of the Faith are close kindred.

American religuous are in denial.

Sr Anne Flanagan writes:

"What is it with the Vatican?" people are asking in a huff. "Do they really think it's helping matters when they put the sexual abuse of children together with women's ordination and classify them both as 'crimes'?! Why bother issuing a 'new' document at all?"

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/religion_theseeker/2010/07/sister-anne-flanagan-vatican-statement-should-have-been-two.html#more
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World Cup Winner to Go on Spanish Pilgrimmage

Editor: he leads the way. Who's coming with?

http://www.catholicvoteaction.org/americanpapist/index.php?p=7882

H/t; Ut Unum Sint
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Pope Says Mass Privately Says Bishop Fellay

*Bishop Fellay says, " the Holy Father celebrates the old Mass privately" and that an Italian Bishop has said he will leave the Church if he celebrates it publicly. Bishop Fellay said this in a speech at the 2010 priestly ordinations.*

(Kreuz.net) Pope Benedict XVI. And his secretary George Gaenswein celebrate the old Mass. This is according to the General Superior of the Society of Pius X, Bishop Bernard Fellay, in a speech in the 8th of July in the Brazilian city of Bahia..

You can listen to the speech on the page '4shared.com' under user 'fbmvm'.

This celebration will not be done because of inner-Church resistance against the old Mass.

Msgr Fellay also mentioned in his talk an example of the battle against the Roman Rite.

At a priest conference in Italy reported a priest, that his bishop had threatened to leave the church if the Pope ever publicly said the old Mass.

Msgr Fellay: "The Bishop leads a war against the old Mass." Simultaneously, he sees a line of good Bishops and priests,

At least the heart is in the right place said Bishop Fellay about Benedict XVI., that he has a Catholic heart and loves tradition, but suffers from a progressivist understanding.

Benedict XVI. is trying to save the Vatican Council at any price.

The Bishop also said that part of the Roman Curia and the neoconsevative led State-Secretariat have torpedoed traditional initiatives of the Pope.

As an example the Bishop described the traditionally restored Trappist Abbey of Mariawald in the German Alps.

The Pope had already permitted them to retirn to the old discipline and liturgy. Actually the secretary of State has intentionally set the Decree aside.

Indeed the Bishop sees also that there are a great number of Prelates in the Curia who are well-disposed to the Societ Pius X. In the Cathedral of St. Peter's there are 20 old Masses celebrated daily.

*Three Examples for the Decline*

Finally, Msgr Fellay illustrated the decline of the Church since the Vatican Council with a few examples.

He cited a chancellor of the Diocese of Trier. He has made known that 80% of the priests in the diocese deny the real presence of Christ in the Host.

In the Diocese Langres in north-east France every priest is entrusted with 60 parishes.

In the United States the number of religious men and women have shrunken to 10% of their original numbers.

Source;: http://www.kreuz.net/

http://www.kreuz.net/article.11538.html
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The Vatican Lists Women's "Ordination" as An Ecclesiastical Crime

Editor: All the Vatican does is restate simple truths, things it has always taught, and this provokes a fury of indignation and spleen from professional victims groups and leftist scribblers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7892666/Vatican-says-women-priests-a-crime-against-faith.html
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Monarchy in UK Blog

Editor: This is a good post on the questionable nature of our apparently legitimate republican governments and the Monarchy, of course, we're certain that Monarchy is the divinely ordained government and is also the government of England and the Catholic Church.

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*Lefties And Monarchy*

'What is truth?' asked Pilate, before sacrificing Him as a King, complete with crown of thorns, under the words 'Jesus, King of the Jews'. Pilate questioned Truth, and without waiting for an answer positioned himself above it, the Roman governor with the temporal power to crucify an innocent man for the sake of a baying crowd of perjurers. Christ, crucified as King, because earthly power chose to believe in the absoluteness of only itself.

Something of a theological beginning, and for such anti-social manoeuvres I hereby apologise most wholeheartedly. Now, before I go on, I ought to say that I am absolutely not arguing that the Bible suggests one particular form of government or social ordering is any better than any other. I'm not saying it doesn't, either; more that I'm nowhere near knowledgeable enough to pronounce one way or the other.

Rather, I think that passage in the Bible speaks about power in a way that still resonates today, that in a society reconciled with relativisms the only response to the question 'What is truth?', will be one similar to Pilate's; 'whatever the powerful decide it to be.'

http://michaeltmerrick.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/lefties-and-monarchy/
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Russian Police Probe Orthodoxy or Death T-Shirts

Police probe "Orthodoxy or death!" t-shirts While anti-religious artists are being persecuted, police are investigating Christian t-shirts depicting a skull captioned "Orthodoxy or death!" on suspicions of hate crime, Kommersant reports.

Prosecutors are demanding to ban the t-shirts on grounds that they incite religious hatred. But the Union of Orthodox Icon-bearers, which has rallied against gay parades and publicly burned Harry Potter books, says they never meant to incite hatred.

A spokesperson for the Moscow Patriarchate doesn't see anything offensive in the t-shirts, telling Kommersant that they reflect the wearer's "personal position."

http://www.mn.ru/news/20100715/187933113.html
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Fewer Go to Church in Poland

Statistics collected over all of Polish territory in all the parishes during last three months of 2009 reveal a slow revival of frequenting the Mass in 2009, going from 40.5% of the country's 38 million  inhabitants in 2008 to 41.5% in 2009.  However, they confirm a "a slow but steady decline" in assistance at Mass in the country's 44 dioceses over the last decade, a decline that is as high as 9.2% in certain regions.  Fr. Witold Zdaniewicz, director of the Polish Institute of Statistics, has specified that between 43% and 46% of Polish went to the church regularly during the period from 1991 – 2007, adding that if he guesses right the present tendency to drop will continue.

http://www.dici.org/en/news/poland-fewer-and-fewer-catholics-practicing/
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New Syro-Malabar Bishop for India

(14 Jul 10 – RV) On Wednesday Pope Benedict XVI has erected an Apostolic Exarchate for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in the United States and appointed Father Thomas Naickamparampil as its first bishop. The pope also appointed him Apostolic Visitator for the Syro-Malankara Catholics in Canada and Europe.

The erection of the exarchate and appointments were publicized in Washington, July 14, by Msgr. Jean-François Lantheaume, Chargé d'Affaires, at the apostolic nunciature in the United States.

Father Naickamparampil is a priest of the Major Archiepiscopal Eparchy of Trivandrum, India.

H/t: Pewsitter

http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=408135
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Chinese Diocese Vacant For Years Gets New Bishop

Bishop Yang Xiaoting being ordained Holding degrees from US and pontifical universities, Father John Baptist Yang Xiaoting, 46, was ordained coadjutor bishop of Yan'an (Yulin) diocese on July 15 with both papal approval and government recognition.

The new bishop obtained a doctorate from a pontifical university in 1999, the first mainland priest to attain such a qualification since religious activities were revived in the late 1970s.

Bishop Louis Yu Runchen of Hanzhong presided over the ordination, which took place at the rural Xiaoqiaopan church, Jingbian county in the presence of seven Vatican-approved bishops.

http://www.ucanews.com/2010/07/15/china-bishop-with-pontifical-doctorate-ordained-in-yanan/
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Exodus of Thousands of Anglicans Expected as CoE Sinks

Editor: As the CoE continues to die from the deletirious effects of modernism, there are still those in the Catholic Church's leadership who continue to promote and shield it.

LONDON (CNS) -- The largest Anglo-Catholic group in the Church of England is expecting an exodus of thousands of Anglicans to Catholicism after a decision to ordain women as bishops without sufficient concessions to traditionalists.

Stephen Parkinson, director of Forward in Faith -- a group that has about 10,000 members, including more than 1,000 clergy -- told Catholic News Service in a July 13 telephone interview that a large number of Anglo-Catholics are considering conversion to the Catholic faith.

His comments came after the General Synod, the national assembly of the Church of England, voted at a meeting in York to approve the creation of women bishops by 2014 without meeting the demands of objectors.
http://www.uscatholic.org/news/2010/07/anglicans-expect-exodus-after-church-england-oks-women-bishops
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Bishops Seek More Government Funding for Education in Australia

Bishops call for greater commitment from the government that a re-elected ALP govermnent would maintain funding in real terms for Catholic schools, says the Australian.A review set up by Julia Gillard as education minister, headed by businessman David Gonski, is reviewing funding arrangements for government and non-government schools from 2013.

Commission chairman Bishop Greg O'Kelly said Ms Gillard and Education Minister Simon Crean have promised no school would lose "a dollar of funding" as a result of the review, but there is no commitment that funds would rise in real terms to cover growing costs, the report adds.

http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=22406
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Chicago Seminary Contemplates Integrating Faculty With Heretical Sects

Editor: Considering that most priests formed since the Vatican Council either don't understand the Catholic Tradition, or hold it in contempt, wouldn't it be a good idea to educated the ignorant with scholastic tools, and give some form of Catholic sensitivity training to the others?

Priests and alleged instructors of Catholic thought should be required to have 120 hours of Catholic sensitivity training which will include Aristotle's Logic "refresher" followed by an intensive basic philosophy course and an introduction to Theology from the Summa.

It would be nice to make continued employment contigent upon passsing and completing this course which would require memorization of the Athanasian Creed and signing and swearing the anti-modernist oath. Those who fail at this may simply go to work for the Unitarians or what's left of the Episopalians.

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CHICAGO A Chicago seminary plans to pioneer a new way to train clergy in the context of many faiths other than their own.

Meadville Lombard Theological School, a Unitarian Universalist seminary in Hyde Park, Ill., hopes to join Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Catholic and Protestant institutions to train clergy together, including offering some shared courses where there is common ground. Andover Newton Theological School, a United Church of Christ seminary in the Boston area, is the only partner so far.

Leaders say the interreligious approach heralds the future of theological education and could save financially strapped seminaries nationwide.

"We live in an era when religious tribalism affects us every day," said the Rev. Peter Morales, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. "We need to learn to appreciate the traditions out of which we come and to live in an atmosphere of acceptance that goes way beyond tolerance. A seminary like this can help lead the way."

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/14/2084732/chicago-seminary-hopes-to-join.html
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Father McrBrien of Notre Dame Says Exorcisms Are Dumb

Editor: Perhaps this is proof positive that Father is not only heretical, but possessed as well. He's eager to remind his readers of the *real* problems in the world which make a conference on exorcism by the US Catholic Bishops a laughable thing.

One of Father's correspondents squeels, "exorcism in 2010?". It may be difficult at this point to distinguish the genuine fear and gayity with contempt for the Church's power over evil.

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[National Catholic Reporter] Many years ago, when the [i]National Catholic Reporter[/i] was a young newspaper, it ran a feature in the left-hand column of Page 1 that highlighted embarrassingly dumb items that had recently appeared in parish bulletins and other ecclesiastical documents.

If that feature were still active, I would have an entry to submit.

http://ncronline.org/blogs/essays-theology/conference-exorcism-will-make-your-head-spin
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The Passion of Louis XVI: for Bastille Day

Editor: The execution of the King of France was one of history's great injustices. Here is his passion as recounted by the priest who accompanied this christ-like figure.

"The King, finding himself seated in the carriage, where he could neither speak to me nor be spoken to without witness, kept a profound silence. I presented him with my breviary, the only book I had with me, and he seemed to accept it with pleasure: he appeared anxious that I should point out to him the psalms that were most suited to his situation, and he recited them attentively with me. The gendarmes, without speaking, seemed astonished and confounded at the tranquil piety of their monarch, to whom they doubtless never had before approached so near. The procession lasted almost two hours; the streets were lined with citizens, all armed, some with pikes and some with guns, and the carriage was surrounded by a body of troops, formed of the most desperate people of Paris. As another precaution, they had placed before the horses a number of drums, intended to drown any noise or murmur in favour of the King; but how could they be heard? Nobody appeared either at the doors or windows, and in the street nothing was to be seen, but armed citizens - citizens, all rushing towards the commission of a crime, which perhaps they detested in their hearts. "We are arrived,if I mistake not." The carriage proceeded thus in silence to the Place de Louis XV, and stopped in the middle of a large space that had been left round the scaffold: this space was surrounded with cannon, and beyond, an armed multitude extended as far as the eye could reach.

As soon as the King perceived that the carriage stopped, he turned and whispered to me, 'We are arrived, if I mistake not.' My silence answered that we were. One of the guards came to open the carriage door, and the gendarmes would have jumped out, but the King stopped them, and leaning his arm on my knee, 'Gentlemen,' said he, with the tone of majesty, 'I recommend to you this good man; take care that after my death no insult be offered to him - I charge you to prevent it.'… As soon as the King had left the carriage, three guards surrounded him, and would have taken off his clothes, but he repulsed them with haughtiness- he undressed himself, untied his neckcloth, opened his shirt, and arranged it himself.

The guards, whom the determined countenance of Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis and Queen of France the King had for a moment disconcerted, seemed to recover their audacity. They surrounded him again, and would have seized his hands. 'What are you attempting?' said the King, drawing back his hands. 'To bind you,' answered the wretches. 'To bind me,' said the King, with an indignant air. 'No! I shall never consent to that: do what you have been ordered, but you shall never bind me. . .'

The path leading to the scaffold was extremely rough and difficult to pass; the King was obliged to lean on my arm, and from the slowness with which he proceeded, I feared for a moment that his courage might fail; but what was my astonishment, when arrived at the last step, I felt that he suddenly let go my arm, and I saw him cross with a firm foot the breadth of the whole scaffold; silence, by his look alone, fifteen or twenty drums that were placed opposite to me; and in a voice so loud, that it must have been heard it the Pont Tournant, I heard him pronounce distinctly these memorable words: 'I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I Pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.'

He was proceeding, when a man on horseback, in the national uniform, and with a ferocious cry, ordered the drums to beat. Many voices were at the same time heard encouraging the executioners. They seemed reanimated themselves, in seizing with violence the most virtuous of Kings, they dragged him under the axe of the guillotine, which with one stroke severed his head from his body. All this passed in a moment. The youngest of the guards, who seemed about eighteen, immediately seized the head, and showed it to the people as he walked round the scaffold; he accompanied this monstrous ceremony with the most atrocious and indecent gestures. At first an awful silence prevailed; at length some cries of 'Vive la Republique!' were heard. By degrees the voices multiplied and in less than ten minutes this cry, a thousand times repeated became the universal shout of the multitude, and every hat was in the air."

References:    Cronin, Vincent, Louis and Antoinete (1975); Edgeworth, Henry in Thompson, J.M., English Witnesses of the French Revolution (1938, Memoirs originally published 1815).

Cited from:

"The Execution of Louis XVI, 1793," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (1999).

Editor: No one should ever forget those of Henry's loyal subjects who fought fiercely to defend their country against the immoral depredations of the Republic.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
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Anglican Bishops May Become Nuns: Damian Thompson Strikes Again

Male bishops could become Anglican nuns, under Synod proposals I thought this was a spoof at first, but it seems not: a General Synod working party is exploring whether the Church of England's male bishops can join religious orders previously reserved for women. In other words, become Anglican nuns.

As usual, the Synod's topsy-turvy ecclesiology is a mystery to me, but I gather that the idea is that bishops would be entitled to take vows in orders of nuns so that they can provide special episcopal oversight to the sisters. It's a typically ingenious Anglican response to the forthcoming ordination of women bishops.

"There will be jokes about bishops in wimples, but having bishop-nuns would introduce a degree of mutual cooperation that could make the introduction of women bishops much smoother," says my Synod source.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100047249/church-of-england-bishops-will-be-allowed-to-become-nuns-according-to-synod-source/
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Solidarity Priest Dies

Editor: Why don't famous Jews receive criticism for their anti-Catholic remarks when they die?

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: July 14, 2010 WARSAW (AP) - The Rev. Henryk Jankowski, a Polish priest who gained prominence in the 1980s by supporting Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement but later saw his reputation marred by anti-Semitic remarks and an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of a minor, died on Monday in Gdansk. He was 73.His death was announced by Pawel Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdansk. Mr. Adamowicz did not give a cause of death, but Polish news reports noted that Father Jankowski had battled diabetes for years.

Father Jankowski, who was the parish priest for the St. Brygida church in Gdansk, came to national prominence when he celebrated Masses for shipyard workers striking under Mr. Walesa's leadership - resistance that paved the way for Communism's eventual demise in Poland. He was one of many priests who waded into dangerous waters to support Solidarity's struggle for freedom against Communist rule.

Father Jankowski's reputation took a battering in the years after Communism's collapse because of anti-Semitic remarks he made. During one homily, for instance, he said that members of "the Jewish minority cannot be tolerated in the Polish government."

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/world/europe/14jankowski.xml
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Court Rejection of 'Doma' Dangerous Say Bishops

07:32 pm / WASHINGTON D.C., Jul 13, 2010 (CNA/EWTN News).- After a federal judge in Massachusetts rejected a congressional act that recognized marriage as being between one man and one woman, the U.S. bishops' chairman for the Defense of Marriage responded by emphasizing that the state does not have the authority to redefine the vital institution, since marriage existed before the state.

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Church of England Paves Way For Women Bishops

The Church of England national assembly decided Monday that women should be allowed to become bishops, making only minor concessions to theological conservatives who have threatened to break away over the issue, the Associated Press reports. Dioceses will now consider the draft law, which would leave it up to individual bishops to allow alternative oversight for traditionalists who object to serving under women bishops.

The dioceses must report back by 2012 and a final vote by the ruling body, the General Synod, will still be needed, but supporters say a milestone has been passed.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/faith/2010/07/church_of_england_paves_way_fo.html
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New Life at Russian Seminary

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (CNS)—Just off First Red Army Street in central St. Petersburg, down the road from an ornate Russian Orthodox cathedral, it's easy to miss a building that represents the future of Russian Catholicism.

Built in the late 19th century, four stories high and painted a yellowish gold, Mary Queen of the Apostles Seminary displays few signs of the Catholic faith flourishing inside.

Instead there are signs of Catholicism's centuries-long struggle in Russia.Father Markus Nowotny, the German-born rector of the seminary, points to the building's lone external cross, which faces, oddly enough, away from the street.

http://www.americancatholic.org/news/report.aspx?id=2828
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Belgian Cardinal Cleared of Porn Charges

BRUSSELS, Belgium, JULY 12, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The Brussels public prosecutor's office confirmed Friday that Cardinal Godfried Danneels, retired archbishop of the city, did not download pornography to his computer.

The authorities' clarification, however, comes after the "Het Nieussbald" newspaper accused the cardinal of using pornography.

In fact, authorities affirmed that a pornographic picture on the cardinal's computer was downloaded automatically.

http://www.zenit.org/article-29864?l=english
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Catholic Stalwarts Promoting the Infallible Church

ROME, July 12, 2010 – For a few days a new volume by Romano Amerio has been in Italian bookstores, the third of the author's "opera omnia" being published by Lindau. Amerio, who died in 1997 at the age of 92 in Lugano, Switzerland, was one of the greatest Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century.

A philologist and philosopher of the first rank, Amerio became known all over the world for his book first published in 1985 and translated into multiple languages, entitled: "Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century."

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1344019?eng=y
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Irish Policemen Shot Ahead of Orange March

Three police officers were shot and injured in overnight riots in Belfast during an annual celebration often marked by violence between Catholics and Protestants.

The disturbances happened near bonfires lit by pro-British Protestant groups each year to burn Irish flags and photos of politicians from Catholic backgrounds who want a united Ireland.

As violence erupted shortly before midnight, crowds of up to 200 people threw gasoline bombs and other objects. Independent police watchdog the Northern Ireland Policing Board said violence was directed at police.
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Protestants Rally in Irelamd

(CNN) -- The summer marching season has long been an annual flashpoint between Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic communities, despite the peace process which has brought stability to the province in recent years.

At least 27 police officers were injured in overnight clashes in Belfast, including three hit by shotgun pellets, on the eve of July 12, known as "The Twelth" by Protestants who march to celebrate the victory of English king William III over his ousted Catholic predecessor James II in 1689.

The violence was blamed on dissident republicans; groups such as the Real IRA and Continuity IRA who oppose the 1998 Good Friday peace settlement and power-sharing deal negotiated and signed by mainstream republican leaders such as Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/07/12/northern.ireland.marching.season/
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Sudanese Bishop Fights for the Faith

WASHINGTON — In the 1980s, when Bishop Macram Max Gassis was appointed to head the Diocese of El Obeid, Sudan, he found a people devastated by a grinding civil war and brutal oppression.

The diocese covers almost half of Sudan — the 10th largest nation in the world by area. Bishop Gassis's flock had a difficult time getting things like education and clean water. Three decades later, as Bishop Gassis welcomes his Coadjutor Bishop Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria, formerly a priest of the Archdiocese of Khartoum, Sudan's capital, his people no longer have reason to believe that Providence passed them by.

The diocese is now home to what human-rights activists describe as a vibrant "civilization" thriving within a nation that remains a battleground for radical Islam.

http://www.ncregister.com/register_exclusives/the_pulse_of_sudan/
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Venezuelan Cardinal Denounces Socialism

ROME, JULY 9, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela, is denouncing the government's attempts to install a Marxist Socialist regime through "unconstitutional" and "illegal" methods violating the rights and will of the people.

Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino underlined the need to speak publicly, to voice "my conscience as a Venezuelan and as archbishop of Caracas, given the reality that we are experiencing.

"He wrote a statement, issued Wednesday, denouncing "the danger that is threatening our beloved homeland."

http://www.zenit.org/article-29851?l=english
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Dictatorship of Relativism: Catholic Professor Fired

Professor Howell is a victim of the "Dictatorship of Relativism" which Pope Benedict XVI warned of. This is an egregious violation of constitutional rights and overt censorship of speech unpopular to the Cultural revolutionaries who have grabbed the reigns of Western society. Warning to all who hold that truth exists in an age which has followed the pied piper of relativism.

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Schools' Furious About Bishop Running Things

[BBC] Bishop Donal McKeown is head of the Commission on Catholic Education Catholic grammar school principals are said to be furious at a bishop's response to their opinions on planned radical changes.

In a strongly worded email, the head of the Commission on Catholic Education, Bishop Donal McKeown, described the grammar schools' reaction as "blinkered and defensive". The Catholic Heads Association's draft response to the plans, including the phasing out of academic selection was passed to school governors. It is understood Bishop McKeown was consulted as chair of three different Belfast grammar schools.

According to BBC NI Education Correspondent Maggie Taggart, he sent a stinging response objecting to the draft document and asking for it to be changed. Bishop McKeown said he was "shocked and disappointed" at the tone of the school heads' response which he felt dealt too much with academic selection.

He also described the document as a "martyr text". Bishop McKeown has not commented on the leak of his e mail.

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Presbyterians Table Same-Sex Propsal: Mpls

EF: Who cares, Presbyterianism is dead, right?

For the Rev. Ray Bagnuolo, the Presbyterian Church's decision to table a landmark proposal permitting same-sex marriage was a slap on the face. For the Rev. Clark Cowden, it was a measured response to a potentially divisive issue.

The U.S. Presbyterian Church's vote to sidestep the potentially explosive issue of same-sex marriage at its convention in Minneapolis this week reflected deep divisions within the church and the need to drum up broad grass-roots consensus, observers say.

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Romanian King Has Support Among the Youth

King Michael of Romania has some support in his country among the youth, here.

“Finding God after Atheism” - Dr. Sally Severino’s journey

“Finding God after Atheism” - Dr. Sally Severino’s journey

Sexual Abuse by Mental Healthcare Professionals is Worse Than in the Catholic Church

You can find everything in the Mental Health field. You can find fraud, lies, deceit, sexual depravity and coverups. You can find everything, perhaps, except Mental Health.

It would seem clear that in a profession where at least 25% (in England) of Mental Healthcare Professions would admit to having sexual contact with their clients and patients has some serious problems with credibility. Many abusive practitioners attempt to hide behind the term consenting adults, or even attempt to portray their sexual abuse as therapeutic. Many of you will remember how a California psychologist destroyed an order of California IHM Nuns, who irresponsibly encouraged them to explore themselves sexually by abandoning all of their "repressive" ideas.

Despite the obvious problems with Psychologists, who generally lack a coherent moral system and often reject such things as nonsensical, many anti-Catholic bigots would prefer to hold the Catholic Church exclusively responsible for the sexual abuse of minors, despite the epidemic level of dishonesty, corruption, sexual abuse and coverup in the Mental Healthcare Profession.

We've always argued that sexual abuse is generally perpetrated by people with a progressive ideological persuasion, they are materialists and therefore are unwilling to admit the objectivity of absolute moral imperatives as handed down to the Jews in Sinai in the form of the Decalogue (The 10 Commandments). Undoubtedly, if you regard these things as legendary fairytales, you're very likely to also go your own way when you think no one's looking, and even transgress the clear ethical directives of your own field, as many psychiatrists and psychologists do. They don't fear God or His laws. So, those priests who also are guilty of these crimes are of the same persuasion and in counseling those who come to them for help, often go by the same materialist assumptions, and use the same tactics as Mental Healthcare Professionals.

Despite the fact that there are all too many Catholic Priests who are infected with a materialist point of view, eager to reduce the Church to a merely man-made institution, we'd still submit that people are more safe in the confines of the present institutions of the Catholic Church, as bad as they are throughout the world, than in the hands of a profession containing a group of men and women who will admit that they engage in sexual contact with their patients at a rate from 10%-25%. [Psychiatric Rape: Assaulting Women and Children] here:

* A woman is statistically at greater risk of being raped while on a psychiatrist’s couch than while jogging alone at night through a city park.
* In a British study of therapist-patient sexual contact among psychologists, 25 percent reported having treated a patient who had been sexually involved with another therapist. [Of that number, 1 in 20 were children, and this was admitted]
* A 2001 study reported that one out of twenty clients who had been sexually abused by their therapist was a minor, the average age being 7 for girls and 12 for boys. The youngest child was three.

Sexual Abuse by Healthcare Professionals, pdf file, here.

Here's a list of links with various news stories related to sexual abuse by Healthcare Professionals related to abuse of children or vulnerable adults:

A child psychologist at a Long Island preschool admitted yesterday that he paid for kiddie porn and stored it on his home and office computers, authorities said.
Peter Mies, 57, of Northport was arrested and promptly pleaded guilty to child-porn possession as part of a prearranged deal with prosecutors, read more.

MIDDLETOWN -- — A 63-year-old former Bristol school psychologist pleaded guilty Monday to sexually abusing a female resident of a Clinton group home where he worked part time.

James Sullivan made the third-degree sexual assault plea before Middlesex Superior Court Judge Robert L. Holzberg. He faces a minimum of nine months and a maximum of two years in prison based on recommendations agreed to by his attorney, a state prosecutor and Holzberg. Sullivan is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 6 after a pre-sentence inquiry by a state probation officer.

Sullivan was accused of sexually assaulting the 45-year-old woman in her room in July 2000, at a time that he was the only staff member on duty. Police said the charges were based on forensic evidence found at the scene and interviews with the woman and staff at the home, which they declined to identify to protect the woman's identity. Staff members reported the woman's complaints the day after the incident, police said, and Sullivan was immediately suspended from his job. Read further...

TROY -- A 32-year-old psychologist Wednesday pleaded not guilty this morning to felony charges of raping a 14-year-old Tamarac High School freshman on days she was counseling him.

Jennifer A. Hastings of Sand Lake was arraigned before Judge Patrick McGrath. She and her attorney, Steven Coffey, did not comment after the court appearance. Hastings, who quit her $52,426-a-year job as a court-assigned counselor for the teenager, is free on bail.

Last Friday she was indicted by a Rensselaer County grand jury on second-degree rape and criminal sex act felony charges and endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree sexual abuse misdemeanors. Police said the relationship turned sexual during September and October last year. Trysts allegedly occurred at the Brunswick school, in a parking lot across Route 2 from the school, in Schodack and Colonie motels and at Hastings' Sheer Road home.
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Psychologist has computer with porn, 51, Moorehead City, exploiting children, read further.

Psychologist gives an emotionally vulnerable 19 year old female enough Oxycodone to kill herself, here.

Psychologists covering up for molester colleague, on-line forum, here

Aug. 2--The Livonia child psychologist accused of setting up a sexual rendezvous near Atlanta with an 11-year-old girl whose mom he met on the Internet has pleaded guilty. The mom was an undercover agent. Charles Bruce Fraelich, 58, is scheduled for sentencing Sept. 27 in an Atlanta federal court. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a fine of up to $500,000. He was charged with one count of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of using the Internet to attempt to coerce and entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. He entered his plea July 20. His attorney Paul Kish would not comment on the case Tuesday. Fraelich is... read further...

[True Crime] Claude Foulk was executive director of the Napa State Hospital in
California, a mental institution that dealt with insane and sexually
violent criminals. He oversaw 2,300 employees and 1,200 patients --
while being a sexual predator himself, read further...

[Huffington Post] LOS ANGELES — The executive director of a Northern California mental hospital was arrested Wednesday for investigation of molesting his foster child for more than a decade.

Napa State Hospital Director Claude Edward Foulk, 62, was arrested at the hospital after a five-month investigation by Long Beach police.

The hospital fired him after he was charged Tuesday with 35 felony counts, punishable by up to 280 years in prison, read further...

[the age]A psychologist is believed to be the first Victorian to plead guilty to downloading child pornography, following a a nationwide police swoop earlier this year.

James Anton Provan, 38, is charged with one count of possessing child pornography after 114 sexually explicit images were found on a computer at his home.

Provan used a credit card to access three child pornography websites and was detected by an investigation involving US authorities, federal and Victorian police, the Heidelberg Magistrates Court heard read further...

[August 27, 2009] VICTORVILLE - A terrible story of child abuse in San Bernardino County where a former school psychologist has been found guilty of sexually and physically abusing his son over 18 years.

A jury Wednesday convicted 47-year old Richard J. Swank of a dozen felony counts, read further.

[Psychcrime] The February 24th arrest of Claude E. Foulk, [listed already above] the (former) executive director of California’s Napa State Psychiatric Hospital on 35 felony counts of molestation involving a former foster child is, on its own, shocking. However, this kind of conduct by psychiatric and mental health “professionals” is, unfortunately, rather common. Here is a partial list of some of the more notable such cases:

On December 13, 2001, Indiana elementary school psychologist Stephen T. Serino was found guilty of 26 counts of child molestation and was later sentenced to 90 years in prison. He had molested the son of a family friend 15 times over two years, beginning when the boy was 11 years old, while acting like “a father figure to the boy.” Serino, who conducted psychological assessments in several school districts, was concurrently prosecuted in a neighboring county for sex acts with two minors, one of whom was a student he had assessed and later took the troubled student to his home, where he violated him. He was sentenced in September 2002 to 140 years prison. Hendricks County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Stephanie LeMay-Luken, referring to his first sentence, said, “I can guarantee that when he is released, if he is alive, he will commit the offense again. He is a serial pedophile.”

Source: “Molester’s term in prison reduced,” The Indianapolis Star, November 21, 2003 and “Man found guilty on child sex charges,” The Indianapolis Star, August 24, 2002 and “Serino receives 385 years in prison, Linton Daily Citizen, December 28, 2001.

Alan J. Horowitz: On July 27, 1992 New Jersey psychiatrist Alan J. Horowitz was criminally convicted of sexually abusing an 9-year-old boy who had been his patient and given a sentence of 10 to 20 years in prison. In addition to this case there were also charges that he sodomized three boys and sexually abused a girl between the years of 1990 and 1991. Horowitz had been convicted of sexual abuse once before in Maryland in 1983 for sexually molesting two brothers, aged 8 and 12. He was given a five-year suspended sentence on that case. A review of Horowitz’s background revealed that he had a 20 year history of sexual abuse incidents with young patients starting as far back as 1971 while a young medical resident at Duke University. Horowitz tried to justify his crimes by stating that he was a “normal pedophile” and that he had not used force on the children.


In September 1998 Michigan psychologist Stephen Viola, pleaded guilty to sexually touching two young boys he was counseling. The circuit judge sentenced Viola to six months jail, telling him he should have followed the first rule of the Hippocratic Oath, which states, “First, do no harm.” His license was also revoked and he was prevented from reapplying for it for three years. As required by his plea, Viola also registered himself with Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry.

Source: Jessie Halladay, “Psychologist sentenced in sex case,” Times Herald, 5 September 1998.

William Lee Fuchs, a North Carolina psychologist was sentenced in August 1995 to 21 years prison for 49 sex crimes involving children. One patient, who as a boy had been sent to Fuchs for counseling when his parents were going through a divorce, testified that at his second session with Fuchs, he broke down sobbing about his family situation. “He (Fuchs) began to hug me, caress me a man would a woman. He began to kiss my face and lips.” After that, he began to perform “oral sex on me.”

Source: Andrea E. Ashby, “Victim, dad of victim testify,” Daily Herald, August 7, 1995.

California psychiatrist James H. White was criminally convicted of drugging a male patient until he was unconscious then sexually molesting him and sentenced to nearly seven years in prison. Police discovered pictures and a videotape of the sexual molestation. White was released on bail pending his criminal trial when he fled the country. He was later captured in Texas with a 15-year-old boy. During the criminal trial yet another man came forward with allegations that White had adopted him out of a mental institution when he was 16 years old and then proceeded to sexually abuse him for nearly 20 years.

Source: “Doctor sentenced in sex case,” Star Free Press, January 10, 1991; Jim Carlton and John Hurst, “Camp’s Psychiatrist Held in Sex Inquiry,” Los Angeles Times, March 16, 1990.

Psychologist Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, who worked under contract for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services for 17 years and was a recognized adoption expert, was convicted on charges of sexually molesting his foster son for six years, starting the first day that the Department of Children and Family Services placed the then 8-year-old boy in Bourguignon’s home. He fled the U.S. prior to trial and was sentenced June 30, 1993 in absentia to 36 years prison. He was extradited back to the U.S. from Tunisia in 2004 to serve his sentence.

Source: “Counselor sentenced for foster son abuse,” Chicago Tribune, July 1, 1993 and “Hearing set for convicted child abuser,” Pioneer Press, January 29, 2004.

Robert Bruce Craft, a Georgia psychologist under contract to the state’s Department of Children and Family Services was sentenced to 20 years in prison in May, 2000, having been convicted of 99 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, 15 counts of felony child molestation and three counts misdemeanor sexual exploitation of a child. Craft was found to possess over 600 photos he had taken of children exposing their genitals. Twelve of his photographic subjects were children that were referred to him for treatment by the DCF. Though the Court of Appeals reversed 71 of the sexual exploitation convictions, they did not reduce the 20-year sentence.

Source: “Psychologist Convicted in Child Cases,” Fulton County Daily Report, March 27, 2000 and “Judge finds psychologist guilty jurist rules after defense declines to call witnesses in child sexual exploitation case,” The Augusta Chronicle, March 24, 2000.

On July 23, 1999 California psychiatrist Burnell G. Forgey pleaded guilty to five counts of molesting a teenage boy who was his patient. Forgey spent over a year in jail and surrendered his medical license. Forgey worked as a psychiatrist for troubled youth group homes and was arrested after police discovered that he and a registered sex offender named James Lee Crummel had drugged and forced a teenage patient to have sex with them on numerous occasions. Crummel had met Forgey when he was getting therapy from him and had been hired by Forgey to be his assistant. Forgey not only committed sex crimes himself but allowed a dangerous sex offender – with a rap sheet spanning decades of sexual assaults and murder against children – access to numerous vulnerable children and teenagers as he took Crummel along when he saw patients and allowed him unsupervised access to the children.

Source: Thao Hua, “Arraignment Postponed for Ex-psychiatrist,” Los Angeles Times, May 7,1998; Thao Hua and Scott Martelle, “Other Possible Molest Victims of Psychiatrist Are Being Sought,” Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1998; “Crummel,” City News Service, Sept. 17, 1999; John McDonald, “Doctor Sentenced in molestation,” The Orange County Register, July 24, 1999.

Psychologist Stephen Andrew Gilmore was sentenced March 9, 2004 to nine months jail and ordered to pay restitution of $10,000 to the victim, a girl he admitted sexually abusing, beginning when she was seven years old. Gilmore had been in a relationship with the girl’s mother from 1990 to 1993, living with them in Christchurch, New Zealand. Gilmore would get the seven-year-old to walk on his back for the purpose of massage and, after one such occasion, asked her to masturbate him, showing her how when she expressed reluctance. The judge revealed that the girl “became shut-down and reclusive” and began to had suicidal thoughts by age 12.

Source: “Psychologist jailed for abusing child,” New Zealand Herald, March 9, 2004.

On August 24, 2006, Texas child psychiatrist Donald Hughes entered a plea of guilty to charges of indecency involving young patients. Hughes is expected to receive five years in prison for each of three counts as part of a plea bargain. Hughes was first arrested April 22, 2004, and charged with two counts of indecency with a child after two patients alleged that he fondled them in April 2003. A third victim came forward later, after his mother read a news article about the first two allegations. He was sentenced September 5, 2006 to three five-year prison sentences.

Source: “Child psychiatrist gets prison terms,” Star-Telegram, September 6, 2006 and “Child psychiatrist enters guilty plea,” Star-Telegram, August 24, 2006.

On February 3, 2010, The Texas Medical Board indefinitely suspended child psychiatrist William Olmstead for failure to comply with terms of his Board-ordered probation, which required, among other things, that he submit to a psychiatric evaluation. Olmstead pleaded no contest in January 2009 to indecency with a child and was sentenced to six years deferred adjudication (meaning if he complied with terms of his criminal probation—which is unrelated to the probation of his license by the medical board—then the conviction would removed from his record). He was also placed on the sex offender registry. According to reports, he was charged after a young girl who lived next door said he’d molested her.

Source: “Board suspends medical license of child psychiatrist who is registered sex offender,” Dallas Morning News, February 4, 2010. Source, here for psychcrime.

Wily Cardinal of Vienna Defends New Neocatholic Bishop of Eisenstadt

EF: Bishop Paul Iby, defender of heterodoxy, replaced by upgrade Neoconservative, "Child of Vatican II", but Vienna's Cardinal is eager to defend him.

Pope Benedict XVI has posted this Friday Agidius Zsifkovics as the new Bishop of Eisenstadt -- unease in the Austrian church over SPÖ (Socialist Party Austria) "commentating" on the naming -- Greetings of the new Bishop on kath.net.

Eisenstadt (kath.net) Pope Benedict has announced this Friday that Aegidius Zsifkovics is to be named as the new Bishop of Eisenstadt. This was reported by the Vatican this Friday. Zsifkoics was born on 16 April, 1963 in Guessing (Burgenland). His priestly ordination fell on 29 June, 1987 in Eisenstadt. In the time between 1987 to 1988 he was the episcopal secretary and finally from 1992-1999 Chair of the Chancellery. Since 1994 he's been pastor in Wulkaprodersdorf and since 1996 director of the department for the pastoral care of Croatian people. From 1996 he was also an author for the Croatian church paper, "Glasnik". From 1 February 1999 to 9 July 2010 he was the General Secretary of the Austrian Bishops' Conference.

Unease in episcopal circles was felt on Friday in the connection with the Episcopal announcement and the Burgeland- SPÖ (Socialist Party) for the departing Bishop Iby as a "great churchman" who had shown himself as a tireless reformer, who also did not shrink in terror, to draw clear positions on explosive themes -- catchword celibacy. "I hope, that his successor in the episcopal office will continue in this open course," said Defense Minister Norbert Darabos this Friday.

Bishop's Greetings on Kathnet

He describes himself as a child of the Vatican Council and promises to work without ideological bias, as well as the familiar approach to the ecumenism and a reminder of his own Croat heritage and experience as a pastor.

He didn't Defend the Linz Auxiliary Bishop like This!

This is the Proof: The old liberal Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna felt himself personally attacked and rushed to Eisenstadt for his named clone in whom otherwise would shun with an iron shod distance.

[Kreuz.net] The old liberal Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, had defended the current announcement of Msgr Zsifkovics as Bishop of Eisenstdt with a drawn sword.

The old liberal Cardinal took considerable and unusual umbrage over the neoconservative new Bishop.

There were "hard words" falling.

Most had no foundation in reality -- the Cardinal averred:

"I expressly repudiate the completely unqualified attacks, as they were hurtfully formulated by Professor [Fr] Paul Zuhlehner and Prelate Helmut Schuller.

Such 'distant diagnoses' could poison the Church's life" -- feigned the Intrigue-Cardinal.

It falls upon everyone, especially a newly named Bishop to receive good will.

The old liberal Cardinal compared the most recent naming indirectly to Father Gerhard Wagner as the Linz Auxiliary Bishop in January 2009:

"In this case the more conservative approach in the preparation of an episcopal announcement would be adhered to."

With "a more conservative approach" he means his personal involvement in the episcopal announcement of his country, by which a Catholic Linz Auxiliary Bishop's appointment could be impeded.

"The present Bishop of Eisenstadt is "a man of the middle", has written for a great Austrian Newspaper: So I have been collaborating with him for all of those years" -- exulted Cardinal Schönborn.

"Man of the middle" is the known self-identification of the old liberal faction for their own anti-Church functionaries.

The Cardinal is himself certain, that Bishop Zsifkovics, "will build bridges between the various mentalities, perceptions and lifestyles [EF says: Yeah] in the Church's domain.

He could on "build a good foundation lain by his predecessors [Msgr] Stefan Laszlo and [Msgr] Paul Iby."

Actually, Bishop Iby has left the Diocese of Eisenstadt in an indescribable Chaos.

Translation from kreuz.net, by EF...

EF says: The Cardinal is an enigma, but should it be so hard for Catholics to discern what he's doing? Perhaps not, but even a Pastor as clever as a serpent would be at greater pains to leave his sheep in no doubt about his love for Christ and willingness to die for the Church.

Archbishop Zollitsch Finally Apologizes for Covering Up

He comes clean, but he just might go to jail with Cardinal Daneels. Despite attempting to discredit one of his victims, this Prelate wants to stay. Like all of these apparent apologies, they lack teeth. A long sabbatical in Manheim prison might be a fitting tribute to justice.

BERLIN — Germany's top Roman Catholic bishop on Friday acknowledged mistakes in dealing with allegations against a priest who is believed to have molested boys over more than two decades.

Robert Zollitsch, Archbishop of Freiburg and head of the German Bishops Conference, said he should have checked more intensely into sexual abuse allegations coming from the priest's congregation in 1992.

The priest, who has not been named, is accused of molesting altar boys and other male youths when he worked in the town of Oberharmersbach from 1968 to 1991. Zollitsch was diocese staff manager at the time and responsible for priest placements.

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Bishop Carlson Says Pro-Abort Catholics May Not Receive

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, July 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a new column, Archbishop Robert Carlson takes to task those who argue that abortion is simply a political issue, pointing out that it is also a serious moral issue. He also makes clear that one cannot be a good Catholic and be "pro-choice."

"People who are casual about the sin of abortion and who choose to view it as a political issue rather than the serious moral issue that it is are guilty of violating the Fifth Commandment," he writes.

Human life is sacred, according to the archbishop, because "from its beginning until its natural end, it involves the creative action of God."

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Investigators suspect more victims of the Bishop of Bruges

Investigators suspect more victims of the Bishop of Bruges

Vatican Rebuke for Munich Archbishop Marx: Ettal Abbot and Prior Exonerated

The Vatican exonerated the earlier Abbot of Ettal and rebukes the Diocese of Munich: Abbot Barnabas has done everything, what was required by the situation. The naming of a successor is not to happen.


Berlin/Munich (kath.net/KNA) A Vatican Investigative Commission has, says the newspapers "Die Welt" and "Muenchner Merkur", (Friday)that the resigned management of the Benedictine Cloister Ettal has been exonerated of the abuse scandal. Both papers refer to a corresponding letter of the Roman Cardinal Prefect Franc Rode, who directs for the Monks the competent section in the Vatican. As the papers report, there had been an Apostolic visitation in the Cloister, that resigned order members had made no error in their handling of the Ettal sexual and physical abuse.

Neither Abbot Barnabas Bögle nor Prior Maurus Krass would have neglected a prescribed requirement to report. The Abbot did everything, "which was required by the situation". A renewed election of both ministers from their earlier offices is not required.

The Abbot and the Prior had been accused, that they had not reported to the competent Archdiocese of Muenchen-Freising in 2005 when they became aware of a new sexual abuse. According to the information the papers have the expert opinion of the Vatican is not associated with that of the view of the Archdiocese of Munich.

The letter from Rome had been delivered by Wednesday to the Cloister of Ettal, reported "Muenchner Merkur" further. Otherwise it would have been necessary to select a name Abbot by 31 July. The Monastic Congregation has appointed this directive. From the Cloister no one has wanted till now to discuss any of the new developments. There should be a press release on Friday.

The report brings a new rebuke for the ambitious Archbishop Marx at the same time in "Die Welt". There have been for a long while already critics of the administration of the Archiepiscopal Chair. So it was already made known in March, that the resignation of Barnabas and Maurus was to take place on the ground of a false accusation.

Report from Die Welt...

When Will People Take Action Against Anti-Catholic Bigots?

The following Op-ed piece condescends to implicate the Church in the malaise of sexual immorality which engulfs all of modern society. It's a persistent but convenient ploy to use children to further political and cultural goals.

[New York Times] When rolling scandal forced the American Catholic bishops conference to take action against pedophile priests, the prelates issued a tough policy requiring accused child molesters be reported immediately to secular authorities. This mandate finally acknowledged that crimes against children should take priority over bureaucratic church policies that served to cloak rogue priests and bishops in a fog of ecclesiastical evasion.

Eight years after the American church’s overdue order, it is shocking that Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican have not yet applied it to the worldwide Roman Catholic Church. The pedophilia scandal has erupted in other nations, leaving parents concerned about a repetition of the harrowing experience in America, where more than 700 priests had to be dismissed across a three-year period. Yet the Vatican is reportedly working on new “guidelines” — not mandates. They are likely to fall short of zero-tolerance and other requirements in the American church that parishes and communities be alerted to abusers.

It is becoming clear that, as a Vatican administrator for two decades, the future pope handled the pedophilia scandal with no great distinction. Church policy under his aegis was too often a study in confusion and frustration for diocesan authorities looking for firm guidance from Rome, according to an investigative report by Laurie Goodstein and David Halbfinger in The Times. Alarmed bishops in English-speaking nations put unusual pressure on the Vatican to have a secret meeting in 2000 to consider stronger countermeasures.

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