In total to the end of the "Holy Year" an estimated ten million people will have visited the city.
Madrid (kath.net/KNA) In Santiago de Compostela ten thousand people celebrated the Feast of St. Jakob (James). The Spanish King, Juan Carlos, held his traditional speech on the day of the Spanish Patron Saint. The Archbishop of Santiago, Julian Barrio Barrio, celebrated the central Liturgy in the Cathedral.
Pope Benedict XVI sent greetings from Castelgandalfo to the assembled pilgrims. Pop musicians Sting and Mike Oldfield gave concerts in the early evening at the place of pilgrimage.
The celebration was the highpoint of the current "Holy Year". This has been celebrated since the 12th Century continuously when the feast of St. Jakob's falls on the 25th of July falls on a Sunday. The next time will be in 2021 -- before 1993, 1999 and 2004.
Juan Carlos asked St. Jakob for help and assistance in current difficulties. He mentioned among others the financial crisis and the barbarity of terrorism. Archbishop Barrio prayed for among others for the governing powers and the pursuit of the common good and the ethical and moral renewal of society.
Pope Benedict XVI announced he wanted to conclude the pilgrimage in Santiago in November. He intends to step in the "path of our life" in the footsteps of the Apostles establishing a sign of Faith, Hope and Love. Benedict XVI wants to visit for his second Spanish visit near Santiago de Compostela and nearby Barcelona on the 6th and 7th of November.
For "Xacebo 2010" the Spanish Tourism Authority and the Pilgrimage Bureau in Santiago de Compostela figure new record numbers. In total, by year end, about 10 Million people will have visited the city. 240,000 of this number are also pilgrims, who take at the least the traditional last 100 kilometers on foot, alternatively, the last 200km distance covered by bicycle. The last highest estimate was 180,000 pilgrims in the "Holy Year" of 2004.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
CCCR Billboard Campaign and Parish Presence in St. Paul and Minneapolis
[St. Paul- Minneapolis, USA] The Catholic Campaign for Church Reform has been active in the Archdiocese for a while, it features Michael Bayly and others and has a stock presence in the more liberal parishes like, Our Lady of Grace, where dissident, pederastic and homosexual promoters are normatively presented. They've managed to get together some money for a billboard campaign, but Archbishop Nienstedt has already said that they are not associated with the Archdiocese as Orate Fratres blogreports:
The billboard proclaiming a September, 18th, 2010, "Synod of the Baptized" stands just off a major throughfare leading to the archdiocese-a mere 3 miles away.
The church reform group responsible for purchasing the billboard ad is the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform. A local coalition of long-frustrated individuals belonging to various national dissident organizations now banded together. Their ultimate goal is to create greater schism within the church as they organize for what their calling the American Catholic Council to be held in Detroit, Michigan, in 2012.
Archbishop Nienstedt has previously found it necessary to warn the Catholic faithful concerning CCCR and the organizations' non-affiliation with the Archdiocese of Mpls/St.Paul or the universal Roman Catholic Church. He had this to say about the group back in 2007:
Last year, we looked at Our Lady of Grace and a defensive Dennis McGrath passed the buck then. Is it possible that Archbishop Nienstedt will close these parishes down? Certainly, Our Lady of Grace would not be a significant architectural loss if it were closed.
"Women" Up in Arms About Latest Vatican Document
ANALYSIS: The Vatican must no longer be granted immunity from equality legislation, in the name of liberty, equality, and even the Gospel, writes MARY CONDREN
THE VATICAN’S recent Normae de Gravioribus Delictis document prescribes automatic excommunication for anyone involved in the ordination of a woman. In according greater penalties to those who “attempted” women’s ordination than to clerics who abused children, it has further shocked many loyal Irish Catholics, prompting them to inquire about the theological reasons why the Roman Catholic Church objects to women’s ordination.
A Vatican document issued in 1976 set out some of these arguments clearly.
1. That incarnation took place in the male sex and therefore women were excluded from the priesthood
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THE VATICAN’S recent Normae de Gravioribus Delictis document prescribes automatic excommunication for anyone involved in the ordination of a woman. In according greater penalties to those who “attempted” women’s ordination than to clerics who abused children, it has further shocked many loyal Irish Catholics, prompting them to inquire about the theological reasons why the Roman Catholic Church objects to women’s ordination.
A Vatican document issued in 1976 set out some of these arguments clearly.
1. That incarnation took place in the male sex and therefore women were excluded from the priesthood
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Diocese Expresses Concern Over Jackson Labs
Editor: Whatever happened to that part about gaining the whole world and losing the soul? Ave supporters seem content to broke unsavory and contradictory associations for an allegedly superior "Catholic" education. In their quest for these accolades, are they willing to challenge the local ordinary whose job it is to be a guardian of orthdoxy in his See?
Friday, July 23, 2010
AveWatch is reporting that the Catholic Diocese of Venice, which covers Collier County and Ave Maria Town, is planning on issuing a statement in its parishes and diocesan newspaper, expressing concern about the Jackson Labs plan. Here is an excerpt from the statement: Jackson Laboratory's purported association with and openness to human embryonic stem cell research causes the Diocese of Venice concern. Of particular note is a public statement made by the company that they are, "not willing to rule out doing human embryonic stem cell research" (Naples Daily News, April 10, 2010). ...... While encouraging and supporting biomedical research which respects innocent human life and advances the common good and in keeping fully with the Teachings of the Catholic Church, the Diocese of Venice has ethical and moral concerns as regards the potential activities at the proposed Jackson Laboratory facility. Economic growth and development are not the only components which impact the life of a community. An organization which truly respects the rights of all human beings could and should "rule out" human embryonic stem cell research. This is precisely because it involves the destruction of innocent human life and consequently, affects the community. Without such an understanding, the plan of Jackson Laboratory, as it has been reported, presents difficulty for the Diocese of Venice in Florida. It's good to see the Diocese raising concerns. Fumed by Thales at 7:47 AM. 9 puffs of smoke. Diocese of Venice Expresses Concern Over Ave Maria Jackson Laboratory »
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following statement was released today by the Catholic Church's Diocese of Venice (Florida). Tom Monaghan's Ave Maria Town and University are located in the Diocese. ********** While the Catholic Diocese of Venice in Florida is aware of the potential economic benefits of any company coming to the region, there are other questions which have a profound moral and ethical impact that must also be considered. Indeed, moral and ethical questions are at the very core of what constitutes truly authentic human and economic development. Authentic human and economic development, in keeping with the Teachings of the Catholic Church, highlights not only the 'wants' of life, but more profoundly, the 'oughts.' This is also the case with regard to The Jackson Laboratory's proposal to operate in Collier County. Jackson Laboratory's purported association with and openness to human embryonic stem cell research causes the Diocese of Venice concern. Of particular note is a public statement made by the company that they are, "not willing to rule out doing human embryonic stem cell research" (Naples Daily News, April 10, 2010).
People knowledgeable of stem cell research and therapy are aware that adult stem cell research has led to more medical advances and promise than that of human embryonic stem cell studies. The Catholic Church does support research using adult stem cells taken from a variety of sources. However, as is well known, since work on human embryonic stem cells involves the destruction of innocent human life, the Church does not approve of such research. While encouraging and supporting biomedical research which respects innocent human life and advances the common good and in keeping fully with the Teachings of the Catholic Church, the Diocese of Venice has ethical and moral concerns as regards the potential activities at the proposed Jackson Laboratory facility. Economic growth and development are not the only components which impact the life of a community. An organization which truly respects the rights of all human beings could and should "rule out" human embryonic stem cell research. This is precisely because it involves the destruction of innocent human life and consequently, affects the community. Without such an understanding, the plan of Jackson Laboratory, as it has been reported, presents difficulty for the Diocese of Venice in Florida. Sincerely, Bob Reddy Diocese of Venice in Florida Communications Department 941-486-4701 ***
[END OF STATEMENT]*** According to a National Catholic Bioethics Center analysis done for Ave Maria developer Tom Monaghan, the contraception and human embryonic stem cell work of Jackson Laboratory presents "no moral obstacle" because "it is impossible to cooperate with an evil that is not taking place" at Jackson. Ave Maria School of Law's President and Dean, Eugene Milhizer, endorsed Jackson Laboratory's practices as "consistent with the Catholic Church's teaching on different life issues" (audio).
Ave Maria University President Nick Healy, who just returned from a trip to Jackson's headquarters in Maine, was quoted in the Naples Daily News as saying "If they [Jackson] were to locate here [in Ave Maria district] I think there would be very considerable benefits to the entire area. They will bring well-paying jobs and so on. It will help real estate in the town." (4/10/2010) In May, two months after the Ave Maria Jackson Laboratory deal was announced, a Florida Weekly magazine reporter asked if anyone had requested that the Laboratory refrain from research offensive to Catholics within the planned Ave Maria district facility. The Jackson official stated that nobody had asked for any such assurance (audio). http://avewatch.com/?p=1444
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Hans Küng’s Malthusian Moment
by Samuel Gregg D.Phil.
[Acton Institute] In April, the world received yet another global missive from the 82-year-old Swiss theologian, Fr. Hans Küng. Perhaps the world's most famous Catholic dissenter from Catholic teaching, Fr. Küng's "open letter" to the world's Catholic bishops contained his usual critique of the papacy and his now-tediously familiar prescriptions for changing the Catholic Church.
Almost 31 years ago, Rome and Germany's Catholic bishops stripped Küng of his license to teach as a Catholic theologian because, by Küng's own admission, he does not believe in some central tenets of the Catholic faith. Some would say Rome's action was merely an exercise in ensuring truth in advertizing. This has not stopped Küng, however, from continuing to exhort Catholicism to adopt the path followed by many mainline Protestant confessions in the West since the 1960s. As George Weigel has noted, Küng's letter is full of misrepresentations and shoddy logic. Moreover, Küng seems oblivious to the sociological fact that those Christian communities which have embraced paths similar to that which he advocates for Catholicism are in a state of terminal collapse. Devoid of doctrinal coherence, they are often led by clerics for whom God's existence and Christ's Divinity are open questions, whose conception of morality is as relativistic as your average lefty-secularist, but who purport to know with absolute certainty that the world is headed for a climate change-driven apocalypse.
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[Acton Institute] In April, the world received yet another global missive from the 82-year-old Swiss theologian, Fr. Hans Küng. Perhaps the world's most famous Catholic dissenter from Catholic teaching, Fr. Küng's "open letter" to the world's Catholic bishops contained his usual critique of the papacy and his now-tediously familiar prescriptions for changing the Catholic Church.
Almost 31 years ago, Rome and Germany's Catholic bishops stripped Küng of his license to teach as a Catholic theologian because, by Küng's own admission, he does not believe in some central tenets of the Catholic faith. Some would say Rome's action was merely an exercise in ensuring truth in advertizing. This has not stopped Küng, however, from continuing to exhort Catholicism to adopt the path followed by many mainline Protestant confessions in the West since the 1960s. As George Weigel has noted, Küng's letter is full of misrepresentations and shoddy logic. Moreover, Küng seems oblivious to the sociological fact that those Christian communities which have embraced paths similar to that which he advocates for Catholicism are in a state of terminal collapse. Devoid of doctrinal coherence, they are often led by clerics for whom God's existence and Christ's Divinity are open questions, whose conception of morality is as relativistic as your average lefty-secularist, but who purport to know with absolute certainty that the world is headed for a climate change-driven apocalypse.
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Muslims Rioting in France: Mainstream Media Fail
Al Jazeera has reported that the police are receiving automatic weapons fire, and the BBC is whitewashing the thing as well, showing white bystanders watching the thing going on since July 17th.
Rioters were protesting a man who was shot by police when he was evading arrest in Grenoble.
Information from Maid of Albion and Atlas Shrugs.
Rioters were protesting a man who was shot by police when he was evading arrest in Grenoble.
Information from Maid of Albion and Atlas Shrugs.
Father Greeley Health Update
Wishing Father Greeley a swift recovery and the good of his soul.
http://www.agreeley.com/
Health update 03/17/10 from downtown Chicago
Father Andrew Greeley and family wish to express their profound gratitude to all who have kept him in their prayers. On his behalf, we ask for your continued prayers for him and for all victims of traumatic brain injury and their families.
We express our thanks to the skilled medical personnel, caregivers, and rehabilitation therapists who have cared for and encouraged him during this difficult time. We will continue to work so that, in spite of his injury, he can enjoy a quality of life in keeping with his imagination, intelligence, and service to his Church and community.
Through the years, we have observed first hand his deep commitment to his friends, academic colleagues, readers, fellow priests, and parishioners. We know that Fr. Greeley blesses you for your concern. Happy Easter to all!
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New Belgian bishops' spokesman argues same-sex 'marriage,' women priests
Editor: there's often a real divide between the spokesmen and the men they claim to work for.
Friday, July 23, 2010
[Rorate Caeli] André Bishop Joseph Leonard and the Episcopal Conference of Belgium has appointed Jürgen Mettepenningen as their spokesman, effective August 1, according to Osservatore Vaticano.
Mettepenningen, who has earned a doctorate in theology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven), has written in a published book that:
1. The Church has opened the priesthood to women; 2. The Church must recognize same-sex "marriage" and is currently discriminating against them by not recognizing it; and 3. "Considering that the phrases used during the celebration of the Eucharist must be refreshed, he justifies this position by the fact that we cannot, in his words, 'preach a message of life in a dead language.'"
Rorate Caeli...here.
Friday, July 23, 2010
[Rorate Caeli] André Bishop Joseph Leonard and the Episcopal Conference of Belgium has appointed Jürgen Mettepenningen as their spokesman, effective August 1, according to Osservatore Vaticano.
Mettepenningen, who has earned a doctorate in theology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven), has written in a published book that:
1. The Church has opened the priesthood to women; 2. The Church must recognize same-sex "marriage" and is currently discriminating against them by not recognizing it; and 3. "Considering that the phrases used during the celebration of the Eucharist must be refreshed, he justifies this position by the fact that we cannot, in his words, 'preach a message of life in a dead language.'"
Rorate Caeli...here.
Study Linking Child Abuse to Homosexuality Causes Uproar
A recent study and survey, linking childhood abuse and homosexuality, have the medical community – and gay activists – in an uproar.
Researchers from the University of Otago found that homosexual identity and tendencies are linked to a higher likelihood of negative childhood experiences.
However, psychologist Dr. Bill Maier said it’s important to understand that the research is correlation, not causation.
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Researchers from the University of Otago found that homosexual identity and tendencies are linked to a higher likelihood of negative childhood experiences.
However, psychologist Dr. Bill Maier said it’s important to understand that the research is correlation, not causation.
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Priest Romance Novelist Recovers From Head Injury: Chicago Boy's Club
Father Greeley says that Cardinal Bernardine was at least as heterosexual as he is, but will Father Greeley have the Windy City Gay Men's Chorus come play at his wake?
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[Renew America] As Father Andrew Greeley continues to recover from a serious head injury suffered earlier this month, I thought I'd feature images from two of his (out-of-print) non-fiction books — Confessions of a Parish Priest (paperback edition), from 1986 and 1987; and Furthermore! Memories of a Parish Priest, from 1999 and 2000.
Interestingly, in Confessions (page 131), Father Greeley made some rather keen observations about a certain segment of the clergy — observations that proved all too accurate a decade-and-a-half later.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
[Hardtalk BBC Newschannel]
S. The Church of England for example in this country is taking a rather different view. They believe there has to be some flexibility. The church has to be a reflection of society's values to a certain extent and therefore we see women priests, women vicars, and there's obviously in some parts of the Anglican Communion, women bishops.
N. Certainly.
S. Some of their vicars are also prepared to sanction gay unions. That church is showing flexibility. Is the Catholic church not going to have to do the same eventually? N. I don't know. Who knows what's down the road? S. Well I'm just asking you. You're rather an important player in the Catholic church. What do you believe it should be? N. No no. There's no doubt in my mind that our first call is to faithfulness and not to sucess. And if faithfulness involves that kind of shrinking then so be it. But it's not as if the church has policies and then focus groups then tries to re-shape so that it captures the mood of the day or the wind and therefore gets momentum behind it. That's not simply the way the Catholic Church understands itself.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8783344.stm
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S. The Church of England for example in this country is taking a rather different view. They believe there has to be some flexibility. The church has to be a reflection of society's values to a certain extent and therefore we see women priests, women vicars, and there's obviously in some parts of the Anglican Communion, women bishops.
N. Certainly.
S. Some of their vicars are also prepared to sanction gay unions. That church is showing flexibility. Is the Catholic church not going to have to do the same eventually? N. I don't know. Who knows what's down the road? S. Well I'm just asking you. You're rather an important player in the Catholic church. What do you believe it should be? N. No no. There's no doubt in my mind that our first call is to faithfulness and not to sucess. And if faithfulness involves that kind of shrinking then so be it. But it's not as if the church has policies and then focus groups then tries to re-shape so that it captures the mood of the day or the wind and therefore gets momentum behind it. That's not simply the way the Catholic Church understands itself.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8783344.stm
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New 7th Century Roman Frescos Ready for Public Viewing in September
The soon to be revealed Byzantine Fresco in the Roman Basilica of Saint Sabina should be ready for public viewing in September.
Rome (KNA.net/KNA) The soon to be revealed Byzantine Fresco in the Roman Basilica of Saint Sabina should be ready for public viewing in September. As the Italian Newspaper "Il Tempo" (Tuesday) reported, the painting together with the new museum of the Basilica will be open for the public. In the exposition rooms there will be antique finds and Christian art as well as a statue of Saint Domenic in the school of Arnolfo di Cambios (13th Century).
The Fresco found during restoration is from the 7th Century and shows Mary with the Christ-child, the Apostles Peter and Paul as well as the Martyr Sabina and Serafia. Additionally, two clergymen are portrayed in contemporary clothing, this enabled the dating of the 2,80 m high and 4,35 m wide paintings. The fresco comes from a little documented epoch of Roman art in which the Greek culture was dominant.
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Rome (KNA.net/KNA) The soon to be revealed Byzantine Fresco in the Roman Basilica of Saint Sabina should be ready for public viewing in September. As the Italian Newspaper "Il Tempo" (Tuesday) reported, the painting together with the new museum of the Basilica will be open for the public. In the exposition rooms there will be antique finds and Christian art as well as a statue of Saint Domenic in the school of Arnolfo di Cambios (13th Century).
The Fresco found during restoration is from the 7th Century and shows Mary with the Christ-child, the Apostles Peter and Paul as well as the Martyr Sabina and Serafia. Additionally, two clergymen are portrayed in contemporary clothing, this enabled the dating of the 2,80 m high and 4,35 m wide paintings. The fresco comes from a little documented epoch of Roman art in which the Greek culture was dominant.
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German Archbishop Zollitsch Cleared of Criminal Charges
Just because they won't take you to court and throw you in jail doesn't mean that you weren't guilty of malfeasance.
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BERLIN [AP] — German prosecutors say investigators have found no proof that would justify holding the country's top Roman Catholic cleric responsible for hiring a priest known to have sexually abused minors.
Prosecutor Christoph Hettenbach says in a statement released Wednesday that the investigation into Freiburg Archbishop Robert Zollitsch has been closed.
The southwestern city of Konstanz had been investigating an unidentified complaint that alleged Zollitsch was responsible for hiring a priest in 1987 known to have sexually abused minors. Zollitsch now heads the German Bishops Conference and at the time was in charge of human resources at the Freiburg diocese.
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British deacon launches website to protect the Pope :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
British deacon launches website to protect the Pope :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
Lancaster, England, Jul 23, 2010 / 08:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A new website has been created to defend Pope Benedict XVI from media attacks ahead of his arrival in Great Britain this coming September. The site aims to offer information to provide the Pope with protection using prayer, truth and law.
Protectthepope.com went live this month as a project of a permanent deacon of England's Diocese of Lancaster, Nick Donnelly, and his brother Stephen. Deacon Donnelly also writes for the Catholic Truth Society and the diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Voice of Lancaster.
The website, the deacon explained in the first entry from July 12, "has been developed in response to the unprecedented level of hostility and misinformation disseminated by the mainstream media and new media."
Lancaster, England, Jul 23, 2010 / 08:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A new website has been created to defend Pope Benedict XVI from media attacks ahead of his arrival in Great Britain this coming September. The site aims to offer information to provide the Pope with protection using prayer, truth and law.
Protectthepope.com went live this month as a project of a permanent deacon of England's Diocese of Lancaster, Nick Donnelly, and his brother Stephen. Deacon Donnelly also writes for the Catholic Truth Society and the diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Voice of Lancaster.
The website, the deacon explained in the first entry from July 12, "has been developed in response to the unprecedented level of hostility and misinformation disseminated by the mainstream media and new media."
Nearly Half of European Council Countries Support Italy in Crucifix Case
By Hilary White
ROME, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – To date, 20 European countries have declared their support for Italy’s religious freedom in the case of Lautsi v. Italy, known around the world as “the Crucifix case.” This number, made up mostly of Eastern European and former Soviet bloc countries, comprises nearly half of the Council of Europe’s 47 member states.
The case, in which the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Italy must remove all crucifixes from public schools and offices, has resulted in widespread protests in Italy and around Europe.
The governments of Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania, Malta, Monaco, Romania, the Russia Federation, and San Marino, have submitted formal briefs to the court. The governments of Albania, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine have openly criticized the initial judgment.
Support for Italy’s Catholic heritage has also come from non-Catholics. Patriarch Cyril of Moscow and all Russia has spoken of the case as “unifying the Christian Churches” against the advance of secularism, while the Metropolitan (Bishop) Hilarion Alfeyev has proposed a Constitution “of a strategic alliance between Catholic and Orthodox,” aimed at defending the Christian tradition “against the secularism, liberalism, and relativism that is prevalent in modern Europe.”
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ROME, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – To date, 20 European countries have declared their support for Italy’s religious freedom in the case of Lautsi v. Italy, known around the world as “the Crucifix case.” This number, made up mostly of Eastern European and former Soviet bloc countries, comprises nearly half of the Council of Europe’s 47 member states.
The case, in which the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Italy must remove all crucifixes from public schools and offices, has resulted in widespread protests in Italy and around Europe.
The governments of Armenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania, Malta, Monaco, Romania, the Russia Federation, and San Marino, have submitted formal briefs to the court. The governments of Albania, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine have openly criticized the initial judgment.
Support for Italy’s Catholic heritage has also come from non-Catholics. Patriarch Cyril of Moscow and all Russia has spoken of the case as “unifying the Christian Churches” against the advance of secularism, while the Metropolitan (Bishop) Hilarion Alfeyev has proposed a Constitution “of a strategic alliance between Catholic and Orthodox,” aimed at defending the Christian tradition “against the secularism, liberalism, and relativism that is prevalent in modern Europe.”
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Famous French Trappist Abbot is Dead
In France on the 12th of July the famous Trappist Abbot, Dom André Louf (80) has died. He published countless spiritual works. The late Abbot was born in 1929 in Löwen. In October 1947 he joined the Trappists of Mont de Cats (Katsberg) in French-Flanders. From January 1963 to November 1997 he was the Abbot of the Cloister. Afterward he became a hermit living with the Sisters. Because of health problems he was returned to his mother monastery.
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Maryknoll Ends Support For School of Americas Watch
Maryknoll ends financial support of School of Americas Watch
Posted on July 23, 2010
by Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
Excommunicated Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois’ support for the ordination of women to the priesthood has cost the School of the Americas Watch $17,000 in funding annually from his religious order.
Citing Father Bourgeois’ continued involvement with the advocacy organization that has worked for 20 years to close the U.S. Army’s Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, the order’s superior general said in a recent statement it did not want to appear to support the priest’s views by supporting SOA Watch.
“The decision is not intended to be punitive and is not designed to put pressure on Father Bourgeois or on the SOA Watch organization and its activities,” Maryknoll Father Edward Dougherty, superior general, said. “Maryknoll continues its solidarity with the people of Latin America and the Caribbean, and is unambiguous in its support of the goals of the SOA Watch.”
Father Dougherty met with Father Bourgeois May 24 to convey the society’s decision.
Maryknoll spokesman James McCullough said the order was not pressured by church officials to end the SOA Watch funding.
Father Bourgeois was excommunicated “latae sententiae” — automatically -– in 2008 for not recanting his public statements supporting the ordination of women. The church teaches that, for several fundamental reasons, the church is unable to ordain women. Although he was excommunicated, Father Bourgeois remains a member of the Maryknoll community.
Hendrick Voss, SOA Watch’s communications coordinator, said the economic hit is significant on the SOA Watch’s $360,000 annual budget.
“We have had a good relationship with Maryknoll since the School of Americas Watch started,” Voss told Catholic News Service. “So we were saddened that Maryknoll would let the personal opinions and personal observations of Father Roy lead to a cut in funds.”
Father Bourgeois, who founded SOA Watch in 1990, first gained the attention of Vatican officials after participating in a reported ordination sponsored by Roman Catholic WomenPriests Aug. 9, 2008, in Lexington, Ky. In a meeting with his Maryknoll superiors after the ceremony, he received a canonical warning related to his role. At the time, Father Bourgeois said he had no intention of participating in any other such event.
He has maintained that his beliefs are based on his understanding of justice and equality as expressed in the Gospel and has repeatedly called on the church to turn away from the “sin of sexism.” In new norms issued July 15 the Vatican declared the attempted ordination of women major church crime.
The school, which trains soldiers from throughout Latin America, has been targeted for closing by SOA Watch, which was founded after the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and their housekeeper and her daughter on the campus of the University of Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador, by members of country’s military. SOA Watch has tied graduates of the school to atrocities in Latin America.
Voss said efforts are under way to raise money to cover the lost funding. The organization has raised more than $4,000 toward the effort to date. The loss will not affect plans for thousands of people to gather for the annual vigil Nov. 20-21 at the gates of Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga., calling for the school’s closing, Voss said.
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Posted on July 23, 2010
by Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
Excommunicated Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois’ support for the ordination of women to the priesthood has cost the School of the Americas Watch $17,000 in funding annually from his religious order.
Citing Father Bourgeois’ continued involvement with the advocacy organization that has worked for 20 years to close the U.S. Army’s Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, the order’s superior general said in a recent statement it did not want to appear to support the priest’s views by supporting SOA Watch.
“The decision is not intended to be punitive and is not designed to put pressure on Father Bourgeois or on the SOA Watch organization and its activities,” Maryknoll Father Edward Dougherty, superior general, said. “Maryknoll continues its solidarity with the people of Latin America and the Caribbean, and is unambiguous in its support of the goals of the SOA Watch.”
Father Dougherty met with Father Bourgeois May 24 to convey the society’s decision.
Maryknoll spokesman James McCullough said the order was not pressured by church officials to end the SOA Watch funding.
Father Bourgeois was excommunicated “latae sententiae” — automatically -– in 2008 for not recanting his public statements supporting the ordination of women. The church teaches that, for several fundamental reasons, the church is unable to ordain women. Although he was excommunicated, Father Bourgeois remains a member of the Maryknoll community.
Hendrick Voss, SOA Watch’s communications coordinator, said the economic hit is significant on the SOA Watch’s $360,000 annual budget.
“We have had a good relationship with Maryknoll since the School of Americas Watch started,” Voss told Catholic News Service. “So we were saddened that Maryknoll would let the personal opinions and personal observations of Father Roy lead to a cut in funds.”
Father Bourgeois, who founded SOA Watch in 1990, first gained the attention of Vatican officials after participating in a reported ordination sponsored by Roman Catholic WomenPriests Aug. 9, 2008, in Lexington, Ky. In a meeting with his Maryknoll superiors after the ceremony, he received a canonical warning related to his role. At the time, Father Bourgeois said he had no intention of participating in any other such event.
He has maintained that his beliefs are based on his understanding of justice and equality as expressed in the Gospel and has repeatedly called on the church to turn away from the “sin of sexism.” In new norms issued July 15 the Vatican declared the attempted ordination of women major church crime.
The school, which trains soldiers from throughout Latin America, has been targeted for closing by SOA Watch, which was founded after the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and their housekeeper and her daughter on the campus of the University of Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador, by members of country’s military. SOA Watch has tied graduates of the school to atrocities in Latin America.
Voss said efforts are under way to raise money to cover the lost funding. The organization has raised more than $4,000 toward the effort to date. The loss will not affect plans for thousands of people to gather for the annual vigil Nov. 20-21 at the gates of Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga., calling for the school’s closing, Voss said.
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Jesuit Drag Show
Jesuitical 11: Jesuits and Drag Shows The American Catholic July 22, 2010
Part 11 of my ongoing survey of the follies of many modern day Jesuits. Santa Clara University, a Jesuit University in Santa Clara California, describes its mission:
"As a Jesuit, Catholic university, we are committed to faith-inspired values and educating leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion who will help fashion a more just, humane, and sustainable world."
Santa Clara, I assume as part of that mission, has long hosted annual drag shows on campus hosted by a recognized student group sophomorically calling itself GASP (Gay and Straight People for the Education of Diversity). Here the group is listed under the Women's and Gender Studies Program of the Santa Clara website. The video at the start of the post was taken at the 2010 drag show. These events are not obscure affairs, but are celebrated on campus. Here is a story about the 2007 drag show which appeared in The Santa Clara, the official student newspaper: May GASPED and GALA have your attention, ladies and gentlemen — or ladies dressed as gentlemen — or gentlemen dressed as ladies? The 6th annual Santa Clara Drag Show will be breaking down gender stereotypes left and right, say participants and organizers, tomorrow, May 4, at 8 p.m. in the California Mission Room. Downstairs Benson Center will be transformed into an eccentric staging area full of students dressed in drag. Along with the usual lip-syncs and dances, there will be some new elements that organizers hope might make you think. Representatives from Gay & Straight People for the Education of Diversity and Gay and Lesbian Alliance, as well as from Santa Clara Community Action Program, say they have worked hard to ensure that this year's show incorporates more elements of education about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual/two-spirited and queer/questioning communities. This year, skits and interviews about the history of transgender prejudice that will be incorporated into the show. Though James Servino, program coordinator of GASPED, said Santa Clara has a history of support for the LGBTQ community, the support is not absolute. "Santa Clara students are aloof to this community unless they actually know and associate with a gay or lesbian person," he said. Go here to read the rest. I think for many Jesuit centers of higher learning in this country, their dissent from Church teaching has entered the arena of self-parody.
http://the-american-catholic.com/2010/07/22/jesuitical-11-jesuits-and-drag-shows/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmericanCatholic+%28American+Catholic%29
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Berlusconi Breaks Story About Three Homosexual Priests
A gay priest sex scandal has rocked the Catholic Church in Italy today after a weekly news magazine released details of a shock investigation it had carried out.Using hidden cameras, a journalist from Panorama magazine - owned by Italian Prime Minister and media baron Silvio Berlusconi - filmed three priests as they attended gay nightspots and had casual sex.
Today there was no immediate comment from the Italian Bishops Conference and the Vatican - which has been rocked by a series of sex scandals involving paedophile priests since the start of the year.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1297083/Gay-priest-sex-scandal-undercover-Berlusconi-reporter-films-clerics-gay-clubs.html#ixzz0uWEpt0mj
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
MORAL MATTERS: SIN WITHIN THE CHURCH IS BORN IN SEMINARIES
Editor: A seminary professor has recently nroken his silence to say, as he retires, that the formation at Maynooth Seminary is poor. Here is an article written earlier which was posted on AngelQueen. Here's the link.
http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32684
[Irish Daily Mail Monday, May 17, 2010.]
By Dr Mark Dooley
I am not in the habit of writing this column in anger, for nothing stymies moral clarity more than senseless fury. But there times when anger is morally justified, such as when we encounter injustice or corruption. Even Christ, whose message of love is the cornerstone of Christianity, could not restrain his rage when he discovered the desecration of the temple in Jerusalem. We in Ireland are currently witnessing a similar, if not much worse form of desecration. As I wrote in this newspaper last Wednesday, Irish seminaries are hotbeds of serious moral decay which is devastating the Church in this country. Their culture is one which rejects piety and holiness in favour of religious laxity and moral confusion. This is resulting in priests who, as I wrote, barely believe in the doctrine they are ordained to promote. Once again, in other words, the temple has been hijacked by those Christ banished from its courts. This time, however, they are not in the business of changing money and selling doves, but of prostituting their priestly principles to an ideology which runs contrary to their faith. That is the source not only of my anger, but of the deep frustration felt by scores of seminarians who must live with this problem while preparing for the priesthood. I know that, not only because I have had the pleasure of lecturing some of them over the past number of years at NUI Maynooth.
In recent days, I have also been inundated with letters of support from many more who found my article to be a source of comfort and consolation. These are courageous young men who, like me, believe that the seminary system is the fundamental cause of the crisis in the Church. As one seminarian put it, 'if Ford has a problem with cars, there is only one place they go to root out the fault: the factory.' The Pope knows this, which is why he said en route to Fatima this week that the greatest threat to Catholicism 'is born of sin within the Church.' That sin begins to fester at the moment of formation, and has the potential to destroy some priests and the unfortunate parishes in which they are placed.
Let me spell it out as clearly as I can: very few who enter the seminary system in this country stay the course. According to one individual, of the fourteen who started in formation last year, only eight remain. Why? Not, as you might imagine, because they revealed themselves to be lacking in sanctity. In many cases, it is because they were deemed too devout! [!] Another seminarian passionately laments that he is not allowed to kneel during Mass. In the course of his studies, certain 'priestly' professors have informed him that there is 'no such thing as transubstantiation [the conversion of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ], <<Remember the earlier comment by Bishop Fellay where he said 80% of the priests in the Trier Diocese no longer believe in Transubstantiation? It's part of the problem how many are in denial.>> and that he should not look to Rome as 'they don't know anything.' Worse still is the fact that those who wish to uphold the old devotions, such as the Rosary, are frowned upon. All are taught that the Eucharist should not be taken literally, but is a mere 'memorial' of an historical event. This means that the Holy Mass should be interpreted, not as the moment when Christ crosses the barrier between time and eternity, but as a simple 'gathering' of the 'community.' Those who object are either sidelined or shown the door. Those, in other words, who consider the priest an alter Christus, or another Christ, are driven from its potential ranks, or made to suffer for the sin of simply longing to make manifest their Lord. Meanwhile, others whose lifestyle is a travesty of the priestly life are made to feel at home. As many seminarians have confirmed, excessive drinking and dubious sexual practices in the seminaries are simply overlooked. How on earth can the Catholic Church in Ireland recover when the very people charged with training our future priests are doing such damage? It seems perfectly obvious to me that the only way you are going to counter this catastrophe is by forming priests in the image of Christ. But that, to their great shame, is precisely what Irish seminaries are refusing to do, seeing it as a retrograde step. That is why the 'apostolic visitations' promised by Pope Benedict in his recent pastoral letter to the Irish people cannot happen too soon. And they must begin right at the heart of the rot, in those places which punish the pure and reward the reckless. They must start by listening to those brave former students of mine, who have had to live in fear for simply wanting to imitate Christ. In the meantime, the Irish bishops must stop turning a blind eye to what is going on in their seminaries. They must follow Diarmuid Martin, and show moral courage in eliminating 'the narrow culture of clericalism' which has poisoned the prospects of so many potentially great Irish priests. And they must do so fast, before their decades of unforgivable inaction results in the complete extinction of Irish Catholicism.
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Alice von Hildebrand Critiques Christopher West
If the above title sounds a little "inside baseball" to you, a (very, very, very brief) explanation. Alice von Hildebrand is a Catholic philosopher and theologian, and also the widow of Dietrich von Hildebrand, a prominent philosopher and moral theologian active in the anti-Nazi resistance, whose ethical analysis was greatly admired by Pope John Paul II.
Christopher West is an American writer and popular lecturer known mainly for his exegesis of John Paul's "Theology of the Body," a look a human sexuality and sexual morality. Thus a critique by the redoubtable Alice von Hildebrand, even a polite one, is noteworthy.
A sample: Christopher West is convinced that prior to Theology of the Body—which he terms a "revolution"—Catholic teaching had presented "sex" as essentially dirty, betraying the true Christian understanding of sex. This is a thought Dietrich von Hildebrand would have strongly rejected. Accidental errors should never be identified with the Church's essential teaching. Every epoch has its dangers, which need to be addressed, but always in a way which remains faithful to Catholic tradition.
Read further: http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?entry_id=3133
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Christopher West is an American writer and popular lecturer known mainly for his exegesis of John Paul's "Theology of the Body," a look a human sexuality and sexual morality. Thus a critique by the redoubtable Alice von Hildebrand, even a polite one, is noteworthy.
A sample: Christopher West is convinced that prior to Theology of the Body—which he terms a "revolution"—Catholic teaching had presented "sex" as essentially dirty, betraying the true Christian understanding of sex. This is a thought Dietrich von Hildebrand would have strongly rejected. Accidental errors should never be identified with the Church's essential teaching. Every epoch has its dangers, which need to be addressed, but always in a way which remains faithful to Catholic tradition.
Read further: http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?entry_id=3133
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Ultimum to Illinois Over Catholic Studies Professor
[Quick Takes] The Alliance Defense Fund, which is representing Kenneth Howell in the controversy over his teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has given the institution an ultimatum: either assure in writing that Howell will teach his regular courses in Roman Catholic studies in the fall, or he will sue. The letter states that the university has violated Howell's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Howell has for years been an adjunct at Illinois, but he was recently told he would not have additional courses, following complaints over an e-mail he sent to students. His supporters argue that the e-mail was just an explanation of Catholic teachings on homosexuality and that punishing him for that would undercut the values of academic freedom. His critics argue that the e-mail reflected an attempt to indoctrinate students with faith, not teach them about a faith -- and some question the arrangement under which a Catholic center nominates and pays for adjuncts to teach courses on Catholicism at the university. Illinois officials have appointed a committee to study the academic freedom issues involved in the case.
But a letter sent by the Alliance Defense Fund Monday argues that the committee may be unfair to Howell. "We are concerned that the committee's investigation into this matter is tainted already with bias toward affirming the dismissal. President Michael Hogan commented that the purpose of the committee is to 'reassure ourselves there was no infringement on academic freedom here.' This remark gives us concern that university officials do not appreciate the gravity of the constitutional violations in this situation."
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/07/21/qt
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But a letter sent by the Alliance Defense Fund Monday argues that the committee may be unfair to Howell. "We are concerned that the committee's investigation into this matter is tainted already with bias toward affirming the dismissal. President Michael Hogan commented that the purpose of the committee is to 'reassure ourselves there was no infringement on academic freedom here.' This remark gives us concern that university officials do not appreciate the gravity of the constitutional violations in this situation."
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/07/21/qt
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Baronius Press Breviary is Almost Ready
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Breviary - Breviarium Romanum Latin-English Breviary [side-by-side] Flexible cover (Black Leather), 3-Volume Set, Size: 4.5" x 7", Item No: 5500
Many of you have been eagerly awaiting the release of the Roman Breviary which has been plagued with delays and we are very grateful for all the emails and prayers of support that we have received.We received good news from the Censor a few days ago - the Breviary has now been checked thoroughly.
The task of checking every word on three and half thousand pages is no small one especially as this work was performed very diligently. The Censor has requested that to be absolutely sure that the text is error free, it should undergo one final proofreading, which we are assured will be much quicker than the first checking process. We ask your continued prayers for this process, which is a requirement for liturgical books and also ensures that the text is accurate. When the Censor has satisfied himself that the text conforms to the Editio Typica, he will recommend that the Concordat cum originali be granted, and the Breviary will be ready to be sent to the printer. We understand that for many of you it has been a long and frustrating wait since we first announced that we would be undertaking this project several years ago. At the time, we never anticipated how much work was needed to bring this important text back into print. Now, with light at the end of the tunnel, we are confidently able to say that the wait is nearly over. Please pray for the Censor, and check back in a few weeks, when we expect to be making a further announcement. •It is based on the popular three-volume Collegeville Breviary in Latin & English, originally published in 1963.
•Follows the text and rubrics promulgated by Blessed Pope John XXIII – the form of the traditional Breviary approved in Pope Benedict XVI's Summorum Pontificum.
•St Jerome's traditional Gallican psalter from the Vulgate is given in the text of all the hours.
•Scriptural texts in English follow the Confraternity translation (a 1940s revision of Challoner's Douai-Rheims Bible), which have been thoroughly revised to conform to the Vulgate text.
•Extracts from the Rituale Romanum (including the most commonly used litanies) given in an appendix.
•Contains Penitential Psalms and the Office for the Dead.
•Prayer card to include common prayers in Latin and English.
•A copy of Learning the Breviary will be included.
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'Summorum Pontificum' is Not in Effect in Regensburg, Germany
*A Bishop breaks his word; a Vicar General let it be disavowed -- monstrous. *
Confiteor at the old Mass (kreuz.net) German Website 'summorum-pontificum.de' published a report by Oskar Rauch under the title, "three years of Summorum Pontificum".
'Summorum Pontificum' is a Motu Propio by Pope Benedict XVI., with which he rehabilitated the old Mass.
Rauch has been working in the 42,000-soul city of Weiden -- 35 miles west of the Czech border -- for the implementation of the Motu Propio.
Weiden belongs to the Diocese of Regensurg.
There is no episcopal approval necessary for the old Mass.
In October 2007 Rauch presented the city's Dean, Fr. Andreas Uschold, a list with 30 signatures and asked for the offering of an old Sunday Mass.
After a week he was informed by telephone that the Diocese of Regensburg will permit this for once a month.
Rauch replied: "We've received nothing in writing from Regensburg; and if at all, only verbally. So the applicant never received anything in the hand."
The permission was linked to the condition that the Mass will be celebrated by a diocesan priest from Regensburg.
The present young chaplain of Nabburg -- who himself comes from Weiden -- announced himself ready to say the Mass on Sunday in the afternoon.
Rauch commented; "both limitations -- only once in a month and no priest from outside -- are not connected with or depedant on the Pope's permission.
"There is no reason why priests of the Society of St. Peter or other societies for the celebration of the old Mass with the Pope should be shut out."
*Two Sunday Masses "Unrealistic"*
The first monthly Mass fell on 25, November 2007.
Since this an average of 63 faithful
To the Holy Mass, although the times are not certain, and the start times vary.
At the same time, the idea to have a second Sunday Mass for those who wanted it was held by Rauch to be "mostly unrealistic."
In any event the alloted St. Sebastianskirche was well appointed. Otherwise the modern table is placed there and may not be moved to the side during Mass.
An indefatigable Jalm Herbst in 2009 got 110 faithful to sign a petition for a second Sunday Mass.
Deacon Uschold led the quest to Regensburg. The -- again verbal -- answer: Regensburg doesn't want a second Sunday Mass in Weiden.
The traditionalists wrote then in December 2009 Papal Commission Ecclesia Dei and requested assistance.
In January 2010 the Secretary, Prelate Guido Pozzo said that he hsd spoken with the Bishop of Regensburg, and was prepared to allow a second Sunday Mass.
*Regensburg Turns a Deaf Ear*
The joy of the Weidner traditionalists was premature: "For the Bishop of Regensburg was not repsonsive" -- said Rauch.
A telefax that was sent on February 2010 to Regensburg went unanswered.
"Five times I telephoned the ordinariat, yet never spoke to the General Vicar, Michael Fuchs who is responsible for Liturgical Celebrations.
An April e-mail also went unanswered.
In the mean time Rauch wrote the 'Ecclesia Dei' commission again. He wants to be informed of the shikanery and obstacles in the situation of the old Mass, with which the traditionalists of the Diocese of Regensurg have been comfronted.
Rauch told the facts: "a Bishop who breaks his word; a General Vicar who let it be disavowed -- monstrous.
According to the provisions of canon law a Bishop who is no longer obedient to the Pope is owed no obedience.
Original: http://www.kreuz.net/article.11563.html
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Priest's Life Story Inspires Conversion
Lima, Peru, (CNA/EWTN News) - The director of "The Last Summit," the documentary about the life of the Spanish priest and mountaineer, Fr. Pablo Dominguez, gave an interview to CNA's sister news agency, ACI Prensa, in which he reflected on the reasons for the success of his movie. He confirmed that negotiations are under way for the film to be screened in Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States.
For Cotelo, the overwhelming response of the film's numerous viewers –many of whom are reporting how the movie caused them to have a conversion- "owes itself to the magnetism God has on any person.""If Fr. Pablo's story is attractive," the filmmaker said, "it's because the love of his life also is.
The protagonist in Fr. Pablo's story, and of the movie, is God. Among all the famous actors and actresses in the world, there isn't a protagonist more attractive and attracting than God."
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=102818
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For Cotelo, the overwhelming response of the film's numerous viewers –many of whom are reporting how the movie caused them to have a conversion- "owes itself to the magnetism God has on any person.""If Fr. Pablo's story is attractive," the filmmaker said, "it's because the love of his life also is.
The protagonist in Fr. Pablo's story, and of the movie, is God. Among all the famous actors and actresses in the world, there isn't a protagonist more attractive and attracting than God."
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=102818
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Priest Says There's Excitement Ahead of Pope's England Visit
LONDON, ENGLAND, Jul 21, 2010 (CNA).- A priest in England's Catholic Diocese of Clifton says the upcoming papal visit has caused "great excitement" among those in the diocese, especially as more than 4,000 of its people will be able to see and hear Pope Benedict XVI. He also noted a "growing awareness" about how unique the beatification of Cardinal Newman will be.
http://m.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=20325
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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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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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Monday, July 19, 2010
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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[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
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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
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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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[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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**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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Saturday, July 17, 2010
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".
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http://www.kath.net/detail.php?id=27418
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<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".
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Another Marian procession after centuries in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
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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[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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Friday, July 16, 2010
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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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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*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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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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Thursday, July 15, 2010
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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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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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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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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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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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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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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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