The new Bishop of Eisenstadt has in any case aligned himself more or less against Priestly marriage and the theologically non-existent women's ordination.
[kreuz.net Eisenstadt] For the new Bishop of Eisenstadt, Msgr Zsifkovics, there are three points which are especially important: the proclamation of the Gospel, new missionary initiatives and to emphasize the vocation of all.
He said this in an interview with his Diocesan Paper 'Martinus'.
Speaking about celibacy and theologically non-existent woman's ordination, the Bishop is trying to engage in a "respectful disposition in the discussion".
"Respect for this reason, because behind there are one or several concrete persons, with their life and faith story" -- he chirped in old liberal-sentimentalist style for the position of the enemies of the Church.
First as second he calls for respect for the teaching of the Church.
A Married Priesthood will Never fill the Church
Msgr Zsifkovics turned against a pragmatic view of Celibacy.
Priestly marriage will not bring with itself "a flowering of pastors".
Celibacy would only be understood by the faithful.
It is a "high ideal", his life composed "complete and whole on the existence of God".
"Not without further" changeable?
In the theologically non-existent woman's ordination the Bishop said that there is a long tradition, which could "not without further alteration".
At the same time he pointed to the writing 'Ordinatio Sacerdotalis' by Pope John Paul II in the year 1994. This document explained that the Church can not approve woman's ordination under any circumstances.
This had the status of a document formulated Dogmatically which the Bishop described as having "high binding character".
The Bishop doesn't want to stir any hopes, "from which I must basically suppose that they must lead some to disappointment."
Msgr Zsikovics explained quickly about his thankfulness for women, who've played an enormous roll in the Church.
The True Link
He rejected a link between celibacy and those rare occurrences of homosexual-violations.
"It is neither a purely Church problem, nor fundamentally linked with an unmarried state."
The real -- not mentioned by the Bishop -- link exists between the Sodomy-Clergy tolerated by the official Church and those perpetrated homosexual violations.
Adultery is a Mortal Sin
For the question of giving communion to adulterers, the Bishop said that he knows supposedly the "Suffering" of this shameless sin out of Pastoral experience.
"It can and may without out a doubt be said that the Church agonizes over the answer that is given."
As an answer the Bishop named neither contrition, nor penance or confession.
He only said that, "the fundamentals, model and ideal must hold."
Men do not use the dismissing of these ideals, rather their conservation.
"I am however also certain that in connection with the separated and remarried, the Church has much concern, it will not be patronizing toward them, rather offer them real help."
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© Bild: katholisch.at, Pressefoto
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Catholic Culture Discusses Decadent Benedictine Abbey
Editor: No one should have to shell out the kind of money they pay to attend a school where no integrity can be found at the core of the school's values. St. John's University alleges to be Catholic, and yet, students who matriculate from the school invariably leave what little faith they had behind at some point before graduation.
Up to this point, there's been vary little criticism directed at the school, and few people have made the obvious connection between sexual abuse and the Abbey's extremely modernist and decadent situation.
It is also a good time of the year to remember Josh Guimond, a student who disappeared from St. John's without a trace, leaving behind a sorrowing father and many questions which seems to have done nothing to challenge the integrity and responsibility the Abbey has for its permissiveness toward homosexuality and lack of theological rigor.
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Up to this point, there's been vary little criticism directed at the school, and few people have made the obvious connection between sexual abuse and the Abbey's extremely modernist and decadent situation.
It is also a good time of the year to remember Josh Guimond, a student who disappeared from St. John's without a trace, leaving behind a sorrowing father and many questions which seems to have done nothing to challenge the integrity and responsibility the Abbey has for its permissiveness toward homosexuality and lack of theological rigor.
[Catholic Culture] In reading my commentary on the scandal at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, MN (Wolves among the Sheep: The Collegeville Affair), some may conclude that I stretch things a little when I suggest that it is likely that the students have been misled concerning the issues at stake (gay marriage, homosexual behavior, protesting Church teaching, etc.) by some who serve at the Catholic colleges in question (the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University).
So let’s look more closely at what can be gleaned on this precise point from the news reports. First, after Archbishop Nienstedt refused communion to the students who approached wearing rainbow sashes in protest of Church teaching, the spokesman for St. John’s University, Michael Hemmesh, told the press that school officials had no comment. What? No support for the archbishop? No reiteration of Catholic doctrine? No comment at all on the behavior of their own students?
Second, the apparent spokesman for the students, Elizabeth Gleich, told the press that the students’ complaint is with the Church’s hierarchy, and with Nienstedt in particular, and not with the colleges: “We have found a welcoming community here. The last thing we want to do is create something divisive within our community.” Now let us speculate for a moment on what the difference between the hierarchy and the colleges might be. Is it that the hierarchy is constantly saying hateful things about those with homosexual inclinations? Does the hierarchy seek to drive those with homosexual inclinations out of the Church?
No, it is difficult to see any other possible conclusion than that the hierarchy upholds Catholic teaching and the colleges in question do not. In other words, the hierarchy teaches clearly that homosexual inclinations are disordered, that homosexual acts are sinful, and that gay marriage is a contradiction in terms which can only undermine the Church’s teaching on life, love and the sacrament of matrimony—even while welcoming those with homosexual inclinations and supporting them in their efforts to live chastely as Christ demands. But if this is so, then the colleges must teach something to the contrary, or at least remain silent in order to make gay and lesbian students, and their supporters, feel more comfortable with their inclinations and their sins.
Now it also turns out that Gleich is identified as a theology major at St. John’s University and as Vice President and a board member of People Representing the Sexual Minority (PRiSM), a gay advocacy group at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University. Thus, one of the clubs at these ostensibly Catholic schools (a club currently listed as such on the CBSJU website) is an advocacy group for gays. This situation is hardly uncommon, but what does it imply about university patronage?
Recent polls have shown that American Catholics favor same-sex unions of one type or another by more than three to one. This is, after all, the new cultural norm. Yet the Catholic hierarchy has made clear that this is incompatible with Catholic doctrine. In a highly relevant related matter, a study conducted by researchers at Mississippi State University earlier this year suggested that coeds were more promiscuous at Catholic colleges than the secular norm (and markedly more promiscuous than at evangelical schools). (Note: This would not have been the case at the newer crop of Catholic colleges which been deliberately founded or transformed over the past 40 years to put “Catholic” back into Catholic education.) Is there a pattern here?
Tellingly, the Mississippi State researchers concluded that “moral communities” exercise some restraint on sexual activity, but that “our findings might instead suggest that not all religiously affiliated colleges and universities constitute ‘moral communities.’” Somebody, then, is repeatedly sending contrary signals to Catholics, including students at Catholic schools. Even given mainstream media support for gay marriage, we would be very foolish indeed to conclude from the Minnesota episode that there are not a considerable number of such “somebodies” in Collegeville.
I’ll close by reminding everyone what this is all about. It is not a question of enforcing Church “rules” for their own sake. The question is simply this: Who really demonstrates love? Is it the person who conceals reality to accommodate those who flee from God into various unrealities of their own devising? Or is it the person who offers patient correction in an effort to bring the lost home to Christ? We might also ask which approach is easier and which approach leads to true happiness and eternal life. The answers are seldom the same. Catholic colleges that cannot articulate the difference effectively, both in the classroom and in the larger ambience [ambiance] of community life, are in serious need of reform.
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Brazilian President Promises to Reconsider Accord With Vatican
Brazilian President Luiz "Lula" da Silva has threatened to review the government's agreements with the Church if Catholic leaders continue to question his likely successor's stand on abortion.
Brazilian prelates have been critical of Dilma Rousseff, the front-runner in presidential elections that will be held on October 31, because of her support for legal abortion.
Gilberto Carvalho, the president's personal secretary, said that Lula might call for a review of pacts with the Church—governing issues such as support for parochial schools-- if the criticism continued.
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Brazilian prelates have been critical of Dilma Rousseff, the front-runner in presidential elections that will be held on October 31, because of her support for legal abortion.
Gilberto Carvalho, the president's personal secretary, said that Lula might call for a review of pacts with the Church—governing issues such as support for parochial schools-- if the criticism continued.
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John Paul II's Beatification at Crucial Moment
Madrid, Spain, Oct 7, 2010 / 02:02 pm (CNA).- During a visit to Spain this week, the postulator of Pope John Paul II's cause for beatification noted that the process is currently at a crucial moment as miracles attributed to the late pontiff's intercession are being investigated.
In an interview with the newspaper La Razon, Father Slawomir Oder said the process "has not been blocked" as some media reports have indicated. "The only thing I can say is that the canonical process must continue," he said. "We have reached the end of the first phase which deals with his heroism and virtues, and now we must initiate the process dealing with miracles.
When it is finished, the Church will be able to lay out the process for his beatification," the priest said.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/postulator-says-john-paul-iis-beatification-process-in-crucial-phase/
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In an interview with the newspaper La Razon, Father Slawomir Oder said the process "has not been blocked" as some media reports have indicated. "The only thing I can say is that the canonical process must continue," he said. "We have reached the end of the first phase which deals with his heroism and virtues, and now we must initiate the process dealing with miracles.
When it is finished, the Church will be able to lay out the process for his beatification," the priest said.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/postulator-says-john-paul-iis-beatification-process-in-crucial-phase/
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Sarkozy Seeks to Confirm Collaboration With Catholic Church
VATICAN CITY, OCT. 8, 2010 (Zenit.org).- French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Benedict XVI today to confirm constructive collaboration with the Catholic Church, after differences that have arisen in recent months.
A communiqué issued by the Holy See affirmed the "joint desire to maintain permanent dialogue at various institutional levels, and to continue constructive collaboration on matters of mutual interest."
Some positions assumed by Sarkozy's government have caused a distancing of French Catholics who supported the president in the 2007 elections.
http://www.zenit.org/article-30590?l=english
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A communiqué issued by the Holy See affirmed the "joint desire to maintain permanent dialogue at various institutional levels, and to continue constructive collaboration on matters of mutual interest."
Some positions assumed by Sarkozy's government have caused a distancing of French Catholics who supported the president in the 2007 elections.
http://www.zenit.org/article-30590?l=english
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Jesuit Revolutionary: Incense Was Enemy Number 1
When the readings of the Old Testament are replaced by readings of Karl Marx. Jesuit Father Edmund Runggaldier has now brought to light background information about Jesuit Education of the 68-Generation
Munich-Innsbruck (kath.net) The Jesuit priest Edmund Runggaldier has illustrated the 68 Generation, for the benefit of the official news of the Jesuits of the German Province. Edmund Rundggaldier, the current professor at the Theological Faculty of the University of Innsbruck currently, was from 1966 to 1968, a novice in St. Andra in Austria. Then he studied philosophy in Pullach near Munich till 1970. There he experienced, according to his own report, a kind of cultural revolution and the awakening of a "delayed inner-Catholic revolution". He avowed himself that sometimes there were excesses among the Novices and Scholastics and he was fully involved. "I was an active, almost a fanatical participant in that revolution: we have formally destroyed Iconography with Nazarene Style", wrote Runggaldier.
Especially explosive are his thoughts on liturgy. "We were combative and missionary especially in the 'renewal' of the Liturgy, that means in the dumping of things that were in our eyes impeding ballast. Incense was enemy number 1," he openly acknowledged. Then he explained that experiments were undertaken in the Jesuit College in Innsbruck in "authentic" Eucharistic Celebrations in the setting of a mirror. These celebrations were, in any event forbidden by the superior. Although, the readings from the Old Testament and the Letters of Paul were replaced by those of Marx or the philosophy of Existentialism. "I was thrilled as the classical Codices which were then still studied in the Scholastic sense critically degraded." Self-critically Ruggaldier then asked how he had come from "Novice" to "Iconoclast" and why one with such an enthusiasm and with such a fanaticism throw overboard a Philosophy tried over centuries, or to be won over by modern Existentialism and a one sided political philosophy.
The Jesuit professor explained then, that one encouraged the oversimplification and use of a fundamental biblical message. "What counted, was -- completely in the sense of the Reformation -- the origins, the ipsissima vox des Herrn." According to his opinion of what took place then was a philosophic approach between the Catholic students -- and Student Camps (Like Highland or Catholic Youth Camps) and the Marxism. For Runggaldier combined extensively the roots and the driving force. "We were especially convinced by the necessity of protecting persistent renewal i.e., permanent revolution, against untruth and alienation.," he wrote in illustration.
For his enemy image was "true Christendom" which belonged to consumer and capitalist liberalism. Things that were alienating were valued then as "subjective forms" an "internalized spirituality." "It was not the subjective well-being that counted, rather the reality itself, the pure original message of the Gospel, the expression of the motives of political affairs, finally the restructuring of Church and Society. Questions like: How do you feel? were strange to us." Some Jesuits left the order or resigned who were under the "pressure of the high ideals". Finally, explained Runggaldier, that he does not want to distance himself from the fundamental motivations of the movement. "The careful abolition of all that, what was held to be secondary in the Rite, which were in any case mistakes. Man needs sustenance for his senses in liturgical execution. The word and nature alone can be hard for a man to taste. Ignatius knew that we ignored it back then", so concluded the Jesuit Father.
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Munich-Innsbruck (kath.net) The Jesuit priest Edmund Runggaldier has illustrated the 68 Generation, for the benefit of the official news of the Jesuits of the German Province. Edmund Rundggaldier, the current professor at the Theological Faculty of the University of Innsbruck currently, was from 1966 to 1968, a novice in St. Andra in Austria. Then he studied philosophy in Pullach near Munich till 1970. There he experienced, according to his own report, a kind of cultural revolution and the awakening of a "delayed inner-Catholic revolution". He avowed himself that sometimes there were excesses among the Novices and Scholastics and he was fully involved. "I was an active, almost a fanatical participant in that revolution: we have formally destroyed Iconography with Nazarene Style", wrote Runggaldier.
Especially explosive are his thoughts on liturgy. "We were combative and missionary especially in the 'renewal' of the Liturgy, that means in the dumping of things that were in our eyes impeding ballast. Incense was enemy number 1," he openly acknowledged. Then he explained that experiments were undertaken in the Jesuit College in Innsbruck in "authentic" Eucharistic Celebrations in the setting of a mirror. These celebrations were, in any event forbidden by the superior. Although, the readings from the Old Testament and the Letters of Paul were replaced by those of Marx or the philosophy of Existentialism. "I was thrilled as the classical Codices which were then still studied in the Scholastic sense critically degraded." Self-critically Ruggaldier then asked how he had come from "Novice" to "Iconoclast" and why one with such an enthusiasm and with such a fanaticism throw overboard a Philosophy tried over centuries, or to be won over by modern Existentialism and a one sided political philosophy.
The Jesuit professor explained then, that one encouraged the oversimplification and use of a fundamental biblical message. "What counted, was -- completely in the sense of the Reformation -- the origins, the ipsissima vox des Herrn." According to his opinion of what took place then was a philosophic approach between the Catholic students -- and Student Camps (Like Highland or Catholic Youth Camps) and the Marxism. For Runggaldier combined extensively the roots and the driving force. "We were especially convinced by the necessity of protecting persistent renewal i.e., permanent revolution, against untruth and alienation.," he wrote in illustration.
For his enemy image was "true Christendom" which belonged to consumer and capitalist liberalism. Things that were alienating were valued then as "subjective forms" an "internalized spirituality." "It was not the subjective well-being that counted, rather the reality itself, the pure original message of the Gospel, the expression of the motives of political affairs, finally the restructuring of Church and Society. Questions like: How do you feel? were strange to us." Some Jesuits left the order or resigned who were under the "pressure of the high ideals". Finally, explained Runggaldier, that he does not want to distance himself from the fundamental motivations of the movement. "The careful abolition of all that, what was held to be secondary in the Rite, which were in any case mistakes. Man needs sustenance for his senses in liturgical execution. The word and nature alone can be hard for a man to taste. Ignatius knew that we ignored it back then", so concluded the Jesuit Father.
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Catholics Overwhelmingly Affirm Homosexual "Marriage"
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=7858
[Catholic Culture] Catholics form a relatively low percentage of participants the Tea Party movement, have similar views to most Americans on abortion, and overwhelmingly support the legal recognition of homosexual unions, according to a survey published by the Public Religion Research Institute. The survey found that 14% of Tea Party participants are white Catholics, and another 4% are Latino Catholics-- a lower percentage total than the 22% of Americans who are Catholic. The survey also found that 26% of white Catholics, and 18% of Latino Catholics, say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports abortion, while 38% of white Catholics, and 26% of Latino Catholics, are less likely to vote for a pro-abortion candidate. Overall, 30% of Americans are more likely, and 35% are less likely, to vote for a pro-abortion candidate. In addition, the survey found that Catholics overwhelmingly support legal recognition of homosexual unions. 41% of white Catholics, and 46% of Latino Catholics, support same-sex marriage, while an additional 36% of white Catholics, and 22% of Latino Catholics, support same-sex civil unions. Only 19% of white Catholics, and 30% of Latino Catholics, are faithful to Catholic teaching, which opposes the legal recognition of homosexual unions. Overall, 37% of Americans support same-sex marriage, 27% support civil unions, and 33% oppose the legal recognition of homosexual unions. In 2006, only 26% of Americans supported same-sex marriage.
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[Catholic Culture] Catholics form a relatively low percentage of participants the Tea Party movement, have similar views to most Americans on abortion, and overwhelmingly support the legal recognition of homosexual unions, according to a survey published by the Public Religion Research Institute. The survey found that 14% of Tea Party participants are white Catholics, and another 4% are Latino Catholics-- a lower percentage total than the 22% of Americans who are Catholic. The survey also found that 26% of white Catholics, and 18% of Latino Catholics, say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports abortion, while 38% of white Catholics, and 26% of Latino Catholics, are less likely to vote for a pro-abortion candidate. Overall, 30% of Americans are more likely, and 35% are less likely, to vote for a pro-abortion candidate. In addition, the survey found that Catholics overwhelmingly support legal recognition of homosexual unions. 41% of white Catholics, and 46% of Latino Catholics, support same-sex marriage, while an additional 36% of white Catholics, and 22% of Latino Catholics, support same-sex civil unions. Only 19% of white Catholics, and 30% of Latino Catholics, are faithful to Catholic teaching, which opposes the legal recognition of homosexual unions. Overall, 37% of Americans support same-sex marriage, 27% support civil unions, and 33% oppose the legal recognition of homosexual unions. In 2006, only 26% of Americans supported same-sex marriage.
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Bishop Fellay: Rome is Divided: Some Love, Many Hate the Society's Work
In fact the Society of St. Pius says there are two parties in Rome: "One always has to ask, who will have the last word" -- explained the Society's Head in an Exclusive interview.
[kreuz.net] Today Bishop Bernard Fellay -- the General Superior of the Priestly Society of St. Piux X -- on the occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary Jubilee of his Society.
He did this in the context of an exclusive interview with French Pius-Portal 'La Porte Latine'.
The Society of Pius X was recognized in 1970, November 1, by the then Bishop of Freiburg in Switzerland, Msgr Francois Charriere (+1976).
A little stream of light in the darkness
In terms of Church history, the last forty years has been a "painful epoch of decadence".
In this time the Church has lost its influence on the temporal world and of Nations.
The "Small work" of the Society was a "stream of light in the midst of darkness, an oasis in the wilderness a small life boat in a great shipwreck."
Msgr Fellay explained that the expansion of the Society " because of the absence of priests" is not frantic.
In more recent time the Society has received various requests from Africa: "but it is difficult for us to respond because we do not have enough workers for the vineyard."
The General Superior also expanded upon this by saying that the Society, if it had more priests, would also expand a great deal in Asia.
As in War
Msgr Fellay was also approached by some, who in the course of the years were turned away.
He compares this experience with a war -- "as when men fall under fire to the left and the right."
For himself he has no other choice than to continue the fight: "War has an unbelievably hard side -- our time is for those who have fallen without grace."
The Bishop insists that the pain is great -- "as well for those who leave us as for us, who see them go, without the possibility of holding them back."
Many Contacts
On the other side there has been, by the information from Bishops, numerous contacts between the brotherhood and other areas of the Church:
"No moment passes that some seminarian, priest or religious doesn't come knocking."
It also happens -- even if more seldom -- even already Bishops and entire Religious orders have written, "who give us their sympathy and even still other manifestations."
The Episcopal Wall
The majority of Ecumenism-Bishops against the Society has hardly gone on unaltered this year:
"The Society has been vilified by the great majority of the Bishops and treasured by a small herd of souls who have remained true."
For Msgr Fellay it is a "beautiful illustration of the degree of the past crisis."
Rome Divided
In Rome states Bishop Fellay, "there is a certain change" in the disposition to the Society -- "which still does not have a great effect."
"It seems to me that our work is valued by some, while the others hate it."
This divided disposition to the Society makes the relationship difficult: "One always wonders who will have the last word."
The Roman Mind
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The Bishop is asked about the danger that the Society is beginning to return to its original situation:
"There is without a doubt a danger that becomes enclosed in a practical autonomy," -- answered the Bishop.
"So we work to broaden our field of view and to widen the care of the faithful, to whom we speak of the Roman Church."
For Msgr Fellay it is very important to retain the Roman mind: "Our independence on Rome must not only be symbolic, rather it must become concrete."
Cautious Optimism
As far as the negotiations with Rome and the Society Msgr Fellay explains with a view on its progress that they probably not be led to a surprising break to a solution to the immediate problem:
"There are two mentalities, but the will, to enter into a discussion on theological novelty, is there."
"Even when the development is long, the fruits of it could be promising."
Msgr Fellay sees in Rome a "seemingly clear will", to correct the past situation.
As well as in doctrine, as in Morals and Discipline, there are numerous agreements in the evaluation of the past difficult crisis.
Condemnation of the Pastoral Council is put off for later
In Rome, according to Msgr Fellay's mind, there is a tendency to downplay the guilt for the past calamity on the Vatican Council.
For that reason Msgr Fellay proposed to concentrate on the unalterable teachings of the Church and to delay a direct condemnation of the Second Vatican Council for a later time.
His particular mission to priests and faithful on the even of the Fortieth Jubilee of the Society is: "Truth!"
He proceeds: "The truth is the guarantee for the future." Truth in the small is the guarantee for truth in great things.
The faithful should also not let themselves be discouraged, "if the battle must still last longer, as it now appears."
"On the contrary, be stubborn and work continue with the work to renew the Church."
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[kreuz.net] Today Bishop Bernard Fellay -- the General Superior of the Priestly Society of St. Piux X -- on the occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary Jubilee of his Society.
He did this in the context of an exclusive interview with French Pius-Portal 'La Porte Latine'.
The Society of Pius X was recognized in 1970, November 1, by the then Bishop of Freiburg in Switzerland, Msgr Francois Charriere (+1976).
A little stream of light in the darkness
In terms of Church history, the last forty years has been a "painful epoch of decadence".
In this time the Church has lost its influence on the temporal world and of Nations.
The "Small work" of the Society was a "stream of light in the midst of darkness, an oasis in the wilderness a small life boat in a great shipwreck."
Msgr Fellay explained that the expansion of the Society " because of the absence of priests" is not frantic.
In more recent time the Society has received various requests from Africa: "but it is difficult for us to respond because we do not have enough workers for the vineyard."
The General Superior also expanded upon this by saying that the Society, if it had more priests, would also expand a great deal in Asia.
As in War
Msgr Fellay was also approached by some, who in the course of the years were turned away.
He compares this experience with a war -- "as when men fall under fire to the left and the right."
For himself he has no other choice than to continue the fight: "War has an unbelievably hard side -- our time is for those who have fallen without grace."
The Bishop insists that the pain is great -- "as well for those who leave us as for us, who see them go, without the possibility of holding them back."
Many Contacts
On the other side there has been, by the information from Bishops, numerous contacts between the brotherhood and other areas of the Church:
"No moment passes that some seminarian, priest or religious doesn't come knocking."
It also happens -- even if more seldom -- even already Bishops and entire Religious orders have written, "who give us their sympathy and even still other manifestations."
The Episcopal Wall
The majority of Ecumenism-Bishops against the Society has hardly gone on unaltered this year:
"The Society has been vilified by the great majority of the Bishops and treasured by a small herd of souls who have remained true."
For Msgr Fellay it is a "beautiful illustration of the degree of the past crisis."
Rome Divided
In Rome states Bishop Fellay, "there is a certain change" in the disposition to the Society -- "which still does not have a great effect."
"It seems to me that our work is valued by some, while the others hate it."
This divided disposition to the Society makes the relationship difficult: "One always wonders who will have the last word."
The Roman Mind
\
The Bishop is asked about the danger that the Society is beginning to return to its original situation:
"There is without a doubt a danger that becomes enclosed in a practical autonomy," -- answered the Bishop.
"So we work to broaden our field of view and to widen the care of the faithful, to whom we speak of the Roman Church."
For Msgr Fellay it is very important to retain the Roman mind: "Our independence on Rome must not only be symbolic, rather it must become concrete."
Cautious Optimism
As far as the negotiations with Rome and the Society Msgr Fellay explains with a view on its progress that they probably not be led to a surprising break to a solution to the immediate problem:
"There are two mentalities, but the will, to enter into a discussion on theological novelty, is there."
"Even when the development is long, the fruits of it could be promising."
Msgr Fellay sees in Rome a "seemingly clear will", to correct the past situation.
As well as in doctrine, as in Morals and Discipline, there are numerous agreements in the evaluation of the past difficult crisis.
Condemnation of the Pastoral Council is put off for later
In Rome, according to Msgr Fellay's mind, there is a tendency to downplay the guilt for the past calamity on the Vatican Council.
For that reason Msgr Fellay proposed to concentrate on the unalterable teachings of the Church and to delay a direct condemnation of the Second Vatican Council for a later time.
His particular mission to priests and faithful on the even of the Fortieth Jubilee of the Society is: "Truth!"
He proceeds: "The truth is the guarantee for the future." Truth in the small is the guarantee for truth in great things.
The faithful should also not let themselves be discouraged, "if the battle must still last longer, as it now appears."
"On the contrary, be stubborn and work continue with the work to renew the Church."
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New Appointment of Archbishop Mauro Piacenza
Archbishop Mauro Piacenza was ordained by that of the Lion of Orthodoxy, Cardinal Siri, from Genoa.
Radio Vatican...
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French Bishop Participates in Womens' Ordination
Editor: some of you will recall this Bishop from the time he tried to destroy a traditional parish in his diocese which resulted in the "Revolt of Thiberville". His unnatural taste for such destruction continues.
This summer a French Bishop showed what it means , in contrast to the Society of St. Pius, to remain in "full communion" with the Pope.
[kreuz.net] Bishop Christian Nourrichard (62) of Evreux has participated in the ordination of eleven men and 13 women to Anglican orders.
This was reported by the French District Superior of the Society of Pius X, Father Regis de Cacqueray, on the 15th of September in a broadcast.
Evreux is a city with a population of 50,000 in Northern France.
Msgr Nourrichard has been office since 2006. From January 1995 his Diocese had been headed by the notorious Bishop Jacques Gaillot.
The Anglican ordinations were officiated by the retired Bishop of Salisbury, David Stancliffe (67).
Salisbury is a city of 50,000. It is located 150 kilometers south west of London.
Entrance as a Catholic Bishop
Msgr Nourrichard appeared at the consecration simulation in a choir robe with alb, stole, pluviale, mitre and pectoral cross. He was accompanied in any case by two Lutheran Bishops.
At the event 13 women and 11 men were ordained as Anglican ministers.
IN 18 September 1896 Pope Leo XIII (1903) had declared in his Bull "Apostolicae Curae", that Anglican orders are "null and void".
The news of the Diocese of Evreux reported the participation of the Bishop in this ceremony without criticism.
The readers were not informed about the invalidity of the "ordinations".
The Bishop of Evreux and his Diocese are reported, in "full communion" with the Apostolic See.
Ecumenism only with the Enemy
"How could believers understand that it is impossible to ordain women, when a reigning Bishop honors such a ceremony with his presence?" -- asked the French District Superior in a commentary:
"How could the believers understand that the Anglican ordination is invalid, if Msgr Norrichard participates in it?"
For the district superior the moral pursuits are such, that strive to admit the Faith, and to celebrate worthily the Sacraments and the Church teaching as well as the the singularity of the remedy in the face of such inconsistency "in the motive of healthy pride".
Father Cacqueray reviewed in his commentary the words of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre during the priestly ordination of the year 1988: "We find ourselves in a state of emergency".
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Debate: Is the internet weakening the Catholic Church? | CatholicHerald.co.uk
they have reason to be concerned< so make a diversion.
Debate: Is the internet weakening the Catholic Church? | CatholicHerald.co.uk
Debate: Is the internet weakening the Catholic Church? | CatholicHerald.co.uk
The Barney Basilica Attacks: Defiant Liberal Catholics in Minneapolis
When St. Paul was talking about a "light on the hill" this wasn't what he had in mind. Rather, it's the kind of edifice that says something very definitive in an ambiguous way about what the Priests of the Archdiocese have long said about the importance of "sexual orientation". Instead, they tell us that there are other issues that are more pressing, like their heavily subsidized "social justice" ministries.
There were reports of a downtown Basilica in the News. Some people were wondering why the Basilica is "Purple". The last time we'd seen these lights was in the Spring of 2008. The Pastor, perhaps thinking that no one would remember the last time these lights were on, insists that they are glowing on behalf of "Breast Cancer Awareness", hardly a suitable use for a church, but then, Breast Cancer Awareness Month's color is pink, not purple. Purple is a color favored by homosexual activists.
But what of Father Bauer's alleged purpose? What other things do purple lights remind us of? Lucinda Naylor, Pro-Homosexual activist, catechist, Jaqueline of All Trades and former "artist in residence" whose degenerate and disturbing art adorn the walls of this most patrician of buildings?
This is the same parish that has a booth at the Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis every year for the last 10 years.
The Basilica's Rector will never give a Sermon in condemnation of homosexuality, but he needs to. There are so many places he could be a pastor, why must he insist on maintaining this hypocrisy? Instead, he will continue as a termite, destroying the doctrinal beams and walls that support the Church.
Photos from the Spring of 2008 the last time the Basilica staff under the leadership of its Rector decided to gay things up a bit.
St. Mary’s College of California to present controversial homosexual-friendly play on campus
[California Catholic Daily] Rehearsals for a play “revolving around issues in the gay community” have begun at St. Mary’s College of California in Moraga, a Christian Brothers institution in the Diocese of Oakland.
“The cast for the play has been selected and rehearsals are in session,” reports the Oct. 5 edition of The Collegian, the campus newspaper. The play in question, “Angels in America,” will debut at Saint Mary's LeFevre Theatre on Nov. 11, the student newspaper said.
“Tony Kushner premiered the play in 1991 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for ‘Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,’” reported the Collegian. “The plot deals with many concerns the gay community has to face such as religion, reputations, relationships, AIDS and closeted sexual orientation.
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“The cast for the play has been selected and rehearsals are in session,” reports the Oct. 5 edition of The Collegian, the campus newspaper. The play in question, “Angels in America,” will debut at Saint Mary's LeFevre Theatre on Nov. 11, the student newspaper said.
“Tony Kushner premiered the play in 1991 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for ‘Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,’” reported the Collegian. “The plot deals with many concerns the gay community has to face such as religion, reputations, relationships, AIDS and closeted sexual orientation.
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More News From Modernist Abbey & Friends
Home of the World's Ugliest and Most Expensive Bible
Following a rebuke from Archbishop Nienstedt, a Pro-Homosexual monk held a Mass for those school and abbey sponsored miscreants and publicity seekers. Insightful comments about priest who held Mass at Modernist Abbey "on a cold day in Hell" and his friends "down in da cities at other allegedly Catholic locales", here and here.
Photo: Abbey-Roads
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
A Wave of Destruction: Numerous Desecrations of Sanctuaries in France
This year 323 hallowed Catholic sites have been desecrated. All of this happens under the pall of unholy silence.
[kreuz.net] Since the 1st of January 2010 there have been 140 Catholic cemeteries and 183 Catholic churches and chapels desecrated.
Bruce Hortefeux (52), French Interior Minister, said this in a conference on the 22nd of September.
The reason for the Minister's explanation was the violation of almost twenty Catholic graves in teh 2,700 population community Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan in Western France.
Hotrefeux in his presentation explained, that such incidents are "insufferable".
Actually till now the French State has done almost nothing to raise the consciousness of the violence against Catholicism.
Since the Minister's conference the chapel of Notre-Dame de Lourdes in the port city of Bastia in the North of the Island of Corsica was damaged.
There was urine on and around the altar. Images of Mary were thrown headlong into basins of water.
Already in April an appointee from the French National Assembly, Calude Bodin (58), had established a study group, to investigate the incidents. The group was finally approved in June.
On the 1st of October, 'Osservatore Romano' praised Bodin's inditiative.
Link to original, kreuz.net...
[kreuz.net] Since the 1st of January 2010 there have been 140 Catholic cemeteries and 183 Catholic churches and chapels desecrated.
Bruce Hortefeux (52), French Interior Minister, said this in a conference on the 22nd of September.
The reason for the Minister's explanation was the violation of almost twenty Catholic graves in teh 2,700 population community Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan in Western France.
Hotrefeux in his presentation explained, that such incidents are "insufferable".
Actually till now the French State has done almost nothing to raise the consciousness of the violence against Catholicism.
Since the Minister's conference the chapel of Notre-Dame de Lourdes in the port city of Bastia in the North of the Island of Corsica was damaged.
There was urine on and around the altar. Images of Mary were thrown headlong into basins of water.
Already in April an appointee from the French National Assembly, Calude Bodin (58), had established a study group, to investigate the incidents. The group was finally approved in June.
On the 1st of October, 'Osservatore Romano' praised Bodin's inditiative.
Link to original, kreuz.net...
Papal Primacy: Russia Leads the Resistance
[Chiesa] ROME, October 6, 2010 – While the Eastern Churches are slowly approaching the convocation of the pan-Orthodox "Great and Holy Council" that should finally unite them in a single assembly after centuries of incomplete "synodality," the other journey of reconciliation, which sees the East in dialogue with the Church of Rome, is also taking small steps forward.
The object of this dialogue concerns the only real sticking point dividing Catholicism and Orthodoxy, the primacy of the pope.
The latest evidence came a few days ago, in Vienna, where from September 20 to 27 the joint international commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church met as a whole, precisely on the universal role of the bishop of Rome during the first millennium of Christian history.
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The object of this dialogue concerns the only real sticking point dividing Catholicism and Orthodoxy, the primacy of the pope.
The latest evidence came a few days ago, in Vienna, where from September 20 to 27 the joint international commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church met as a whole, precisely on the universal role of the bishop of Rome during the first millennium of Christian history.
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
With Alb and Stole: He Didn't Have His Rubber Ducky
A priest in the Diocese of Regensburg played Church Captain in an inflatable boat during Mass. For the Novus Ordo Eucharistic Celebration is an empty euer, which must be filled with just about anything.
[kreuz.net] Recently, Pastor Wolfgan Stowasser presided over a youth Eucharist in the Village of Altmannstein -- in the Upper Bavarian County of Eichstaett.
This was according to the regional news 'Donaukurier' on the 20th of September.
Fr. Stowasser has looked after six parishes in the newly established pastoral area Altmannstein.
The Parish Union belongs to the Diocese of Regensburg, which is led by facade-conservative Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller.
Entertaining Events for the Indifferent
The Motto of the Youth Mass reads "We'll be more".
Around 300 partly advanced in years appeared for the New Mass.
The "central theme" through the introduction was the expression that all believers sit in a boat -- said the 'Donaukurier'.
During the event -- supposedly to preach --- Fr. Stowasser played in a sketch.
For this he posted in the place of a Novus Ordo table (altar), a bright red rubber boat.
In alb and stole the Minister -- together with some of the youth from the six parishes -- into the inflatable boat.
The high=point of the deeply grounded teaching piece consists in this, that the boat's occupants are shown, wanting to go in different directions.
But wait, there is a happy end: they all agree to a direction, around the Church together, paddling to the altar-table:
"That's the way with the Parish Union" -- explained Fr. Wolfgang Stowasser to the 'Donaukurier' the moral of the story.
He was described in the paper as the "Captain".
For the collection the Pastor didn't collect money, rather he distributed "friendship bands".
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Pioneer of Natural Family Planning is Dead
Despite his spectacular success he was held in scorn and discounted his entire life because of his Catholic Faith.
(kreuz.net) The Austrian Doctor, Professor Dr. Josef Rötzer, died yesterday at 91 years of age.
This was according to the old liberal website, 'kathweb.at'.
Rötzer was born in Vienna on the 21st of March 1920.
After grammar school and Gymnasium, he began his education in Medicine in his home town in 1941.
In the year 1945 he married Margareta Kramann (2006). the pair had four children.
In the year 1947 he received his doctorate at the Pathological Anatomical Institute at the University of Vienna. There he was active till 1949.
From the 1st of January 1951, he was the official doctor in the State of Upper Austria in a town with a population of 12,000.
In this period he observed the fertile and infertile times in the woman's reproductive cycle. Upon coming to this conclusion, he evaluated the cycles of 300,000 women.
This helped him to develop a natural and inexpensive method, to prevent pregnancies about as proficiently as the physically toxic operative anti-child pill.
The cash bloated chemical industry understandably took no joy in Rötzer's findings.
On the basis of his research findings the Austrian Bishops financed him from the 1st of September 1966 till the 31st of December 1974 to give him a leave of absence from his official doctor's service.
So that Rötzer could conduct further scientific research in his special area.
In the year 1986 he founded the "Institute for Natural Family Planning".
In December 1992 the Austrian President conferred upon the doctor the title, "Professor".
Now his daughter Elisabeth works in the 'Institute for Natural Family Planning". She also publishes the corresponding publication.
Bishop Klaus Küng of Saint Pölten recalled for news agency 'Kathpress' that Rötzer because of his Catholic stand, "suffered many a setback in his work".
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(kreuz.net) The Austrian Doctor, Professor Dr. Josef Rötzer, died yesterday at 91 years of age.
This was according to the old liberal website, 'kathweb.at'.
Rötzer was born in Vienna on the 21st of March 1920.
After grammar school and Gymnasium, he began his education in Medicine in his home town in 1941.
In the year 1945 he married Margareta Kramann (2006). the pair had four children.
In the year 1947 he received his doctorate at the Pathological Anatomical Institute at the University of Vienna. There he was active till 1949.
From the 1st of January 1951, he was the official doctor in the State of Upper Austria in a town with a population of 12,000.
In this period he observed the fertile and infertile times in the woman's reproductive cycle. Upon coming to this conclusion, he evaluated the cycles of 300,000 women.
This helped him to develop a natural and inexpensive method, to prevent pregnancies about as proficiently as the physically toxic operative anti-child pill.
The cash bloated chemical industry understandably took no joy in Rötzer's findings.
On the basis of his research findings the Austrian Bishops financed him from the 1st of September 1966 till the 31st of December 1974 to give him a leave of absence from his official doctor's service.
So that Rötzer could conduct further scientific research in his special area.
In the year 1986 he founded the "Institute for Natural Family Planning".
In December 1992 the Austrian President conferred upon the doctor the title, "Professor".
Now his daughter Elisabeth works in the 'Institute for Natural Family Planning". She also publishes the corresponding publication.
Bishop Klaus Küng of Saint Pölten recalled for news agency 'Kathpress' that Rötzer because of his Catholic stand, "suffered many a setback in his work".
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What About Other Victims of Abuse?
(www.RemnantNewspaper.com) There was a time not so long ago when a man's apology meant he was actually sorry for having caused harm or injury to another. Even a child knew that it didn’t do much good to apologize just because he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Eddie Haskell-types may have given it the old college try but that was the joke: “Gee Mrs. Cleaver, I’m really sorry and that’s an awfully nice dress you’ve got there!” Real world parents, like real world judges, knew that a defendant’s expression of deep regret was typically part of his plea bargain, not his defense.
That’s not quite how it is anymore. Everyone these days seems to be demanding apologies front, left and center. The world’s become like a gigantic kindergarten, in fact, where Teacher (usually the media) spends most of her time extracting apologies by demanding little Johnny say he’s sorry to little Mary or else, and little Susie and Billy do likewise
Even the Pope is expected to deliver one of these highly publicized apologies every time he lands in a new country. But hasn’t he already apologized, over and over again? How many times must he repeat the apology? And who decides when enough is enough? These apologies are becoming the media centerpiece of papal visits, seemingly designed to parade the sins of the Church up one side of the street and down the other, crippling her moral authority in the process.
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That’s not quite how it is anymore. Everyone these days seems to be demanding apologies front, left and center. The world’s become like a gigantic kindergarten, in fact, where Teacher (usually the media) spends most of her time extracting apologies by demanding little Johnny say he’s sorry to little Mary or else, and little Susie and Billy do likewise
Even the Pope is expected to deliver one of these highly publicized apologies every time he lands in a new country. But hasn’t he already apologized, over and over again? How many times must he repeat the apology? And who decides when enough is enough? These apologies are becoming the media centerpiece of papal visits, seemingly designed to parade the sins of the Church up one side of the street and down the other, crippling her moral authority in the process.
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Archbishop Nienstedt Refuses Communion to Homosexuals at Modernist Abbey
Everybody knows that St. John's isn't the place to go if you want authentic Monasticism, orthopraxis, orthodoxy, beautiful architecture, or even if you want to get an education in the Catholic Faith. You can't get any of that at St. John's, on Septembeer 26th, Archbishop Nienstedt slammed the door on a school approved Sodomy group by refusing them Holy Communion. Not even St. John's own BLOG had anything to say about it.
This is the first time we've ever seen St. John's so publicly reprimanded. It's been a long time a'comin. How about the heads of the faculty department on pikes in front of the Chancery, your Lordship?
Link to Star for further reading...
H/t: Spirit Daily
This is the first time we've ever seen St. John's so publicly reprimanded. It's been a long time a'comin. How about the heads of the faculty department on pikes in front of the Chancery, your Lordship?
[Minneapolis Star and Tribune] Twin Cities Archbishop John C. Nienstedt, leading a student mass at St. John's Abbey recently, refused to give communion to members of a gay and lesbian college student group who were wearing rainbow buttons in a sign of solidarity.
The conflict between the archbishop and students from the Roman Catholic St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict occurred during Sunday night mass in Collegeville, Minn., on Sept. 26.
The action came as Catholics throughout Minnesota have been sent hundreds of thousands of DVDs from the state's bishops in support of a ban on gay marriage
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H/t: Spirit Daily
Turkish Authorities Considering the Reopening of Hagia Sophia for Christian Worship
The director of the state sponsored Islamic Research Center has made a new proposal toward reopening buildings for religious purposes.
Ankara [kath.net/KAP] In the newly burning conflict surrounding Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, a leading adviser of the Turkish Religious Office has proposed that the historical Church should be open for Muslim prayers on workdays and for Christian Liturgies on Sundays. This could go a long way to solving the tug of war surrounding the Hagia Sophia which won't just be a comprise, said Mehmet Akif Aydin, director of the State sponsored Research Center (ISAM), to "Zaman" (Tuesday). One such solution would also reinforce the bonds between Muslims and Christians and the readiness of both faith communities to coexist more peacefully.
Although the Hagia Sofia has not been used for more than 80 years for religious purposes, more recently attempts of Islamic and Christian groups have advocated prayers or religious services under her domes.
The Church, built in the Fourth Century was for a millennium, the most important Church in Christendom. After the sack of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottomans it served another 500 years as the most important mosque in the Ottoman Empire.
In the Turkish Republic the building served as a cultural monument since 1934. In order to avoid inter religious conflict, it has been since then no longer permitted to be used for religious purposes -- neither Christian nor Muslim.
Copyright 2010 Katholische Presseagentur, Wien, Österreich Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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What Do the GLBT Agenda, Pro-Abortion Politics, and Marxism Have to Do With Boston Social Justice Conference?
Revelations about the featured speakers at the
Boston Archdiocese’s Social Justice conference this coming Saturday are getting worse every day, and more and more Catholics from across the country are sounding the alarm bells as part of our “Boston Catholic Tea Party” protest. Today we hear more about support for gay activism and Marxism by the two featured speakers, Fr. James Massaro and Fr. Bryan Hehir, respectively. Yes, we said Marxism. Read on to see details of Fr. Hehir’s infamous talk in the “Matthew, Marx, Luke, and John” series at the left-leaning, Marxist-oriented Institute for Policy Studies. Could the Boston Archdiocese possibly pick two worse speakers to place on the speaking podium? Click on the FedUp button now to sign out letter of complaint to the Holy See.
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Boston Archdiocese’s Social Justice conference this coming Saturday are getting worse every day, and more and more Catholics from across the country are sounding the alarm bells as part of our “Boston Catholic Tea Party” protest. Today we hear more about support for gay activism and Marxism by the two featured speakers, Fr. James Massaro and Fr. Bryan Hehir, respectively. Yes, we said Marxism. Read on to see details of Fr. Hehir’s infamous talk in the “Matthew, Marx, Luke, and John” series at the left-leaning, Marxist-oriented Institute for Policy Studies. Could the Boston Archdiocese possibly pick two worse speakers to place on the speaking podium? Click on the FedUp button now to sign out letter of complaint to the Holy See.
Read further...Hehir Exposed
Liberal Media Insist Archbishop Nienstedt's DVD Too Political
Editor: Once again demonstrates the weakness of the democratic process. Moral laws should not be subject to a plebiscite.
The following story also covers homosexuals engaging in frankensteinian efforts to have children by surrogate mothers. Homosexuals, generally more well-to-do than most, are willing to pay substantial amounts to have a child, as much as $30,000 for carrying a child to term.
One of the couple insists that opposition to this attempts to deprive his father of grandchildren, but he's depriving his children of a normal family life and a mother. It is against Church teaching for many reasons, not least of which is the injustice to the children that they will have no emotional with their children.
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The following story also covers homosexuals engaging in frankensteinian efforts to have children by surrogate mothers. Homosexuals, generally more well-to-do than most, are willing to pay substantial amounts to have a child, as much as $30,000 for carrying a child to term.
One of the couple insists that opposition to this attempts to deprive his father of grandchildren, but he's depriving his children of a normal family life and a mother. It is against Church teaching for many reasons, not least of which is the injustice to the children that they will have no emotional with their children.
Four weeks before voters head to the polls, Catholic bishops in Minnesota have raised an issue that has largely taken a backseat to the economy and jobs this election season, renewing calls for a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
While such advocacy by religious groups is not uncommon, never before has the message come in the form of a DVD mailed to all Catholic households in the state. And, some say, never before has such a campaign appeared so political.
Because one candidate in the state's three-way race for governor, Republican Tom Emmer, opposes same-sex marriage, the church's message and its timing amount to an unambiguous endorsement, critics say.
The anonymous donation to the archdiocese that funded the production of more than 400,000 DVDs has also stoked questions about the proper role of religious institutions in the political process.
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Monday, October 4, 2010
Tremendous Growth of the Fraternity of St. Peter
New statistical revelations, those which show the progressive development of the Priestly Society of St. Peter.
by Armin Schwibach
Rome (kath.net/as) The Priestly Society of St. Peter (FSSP) belongs to ecclesiastical realities, which is demonstrating tremendous growth. This was the finding of a statistical poll published on the 1st of October. The Society at this moment has 376 members (Priests: 223; Deacons: 8; Seminarians and Postulants in the first year: 145). The average age from the 34 nations shows an aggregate of 36.
The FSSP is in four continents, 16 Countries and 113 Diocese. They possess 48 canonically erected houses, 16 personal parishes and 197 Mass locations. They've shown to have ordained an average of 12 Priests per year.
The Priestly Society of St. Peter was founded on 18 July 1988 as a clerical society of Apostolic Life. This means it operates as a society of Catholics Priests without vows, which operates on a Mission in the world. The Mission is twofold according to the Society: first the education and consecration of Priests in the use of the traditional liturgy according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite; second is for these priests to take up pastoral efforts in their area, in the service of the Church.
In the year 2008 Pope Benedict XVI. erected a personal parish for the faithful, who are attached to the Old Mass. The Apostolate of the Society of St. Peter in Rome was at that moment settled in the small church of St. Gregory dei Moratori in the immediate vicinity of the mausoleum of Augustus and the Ara Pacis on the Tiber. The church was built in the first years of the 16th Century and is dedicated to St Gregory the Great -- Patron of Masons. It was built by the Brotherhood of Masons, to which belonged also the stucco workers, sculptors and relief painters, near the (destroyed during the renovation of the city) Tiber harbour "della Ripetta", where the manual laborers lived and worked in times past.
Already in the last years the Apostolate of the Society of St. Peter has experienced tremendous growth. the small church shows itself as more than unusual, especially as it is the faithful, predominantly of young people but also a growing number of baby buggies to make allowance for.
In the founding document of the Roman Personal Parish (dated from the Feast of Easter 2008) in accordance with Art. 10 of the Motu Proprio "Summorum Pontificum" the corresponding reads: "According to the request of the Cardinal Vicar, by order of the Holy Father, that in the central sector of Rome, in the 1st District, in a suitable church, namely in the church of SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini [...] should a personal parish be established to provide for the pastoral care of all traditional believers, who belong to the Diocese."
From the many Diocese in which the Society is active, the Roman Apostolate is the sixteenth worldwide and the first in Europe, which was established as a Personal parish. The parish churches of Ponte Sisto, of the Campo de' Fiori and Via dei Giubbonari (Piazza Trinità dei Pellegrini, 1; Pfarrei: Via dei Pettinari 36/A, I-00186 Rom; Tel: +39-0668300486; Email: trinita@fssp.it) were not only obliged to serve as a home for communities offering the Old Rite, rather they also have the task of providing a point of contact where pilgrims and students can learn and be immersed in the beauty and depth of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
Link to kath.net...
Link to FSSP Video, here.
"Catholic" Charities Gets 66% From Government
Catholic Charities rakes in more than 3.83 Billion, and they spend more than that.
We always thought Catholic Charities was a bad idea. No wonder the Bishops like this hush money. Don't talk about the Catholic Faith too much, or at all if you can help it, and we'll keep you on the gravy train, they seem to say.
Read rest of article at Forbes...
100 Years of Darkness: A Terrible Day for the World
You've heard about the novel about solitude? Who cares? The real terrible story is the fall of the Portuguese Monarchy in 1910 and its Centennial. Remember to say a prayer for a Catholic King. As Catholics we once prayed for the amity of Christian Princes. Let us pray for the restoration of legitimacy in government and a restoration of the Rule of Christ the King.
Read about it at Royal Monarchy Blog...
Dramatic increase in Scottish Mass attendance since Holy Father’s visit
By admin, on October 4th, 2010
The Edinburgh Evening News reports that since Pope Benedict’s one day visit to Scotland there has been a dramatic increase in attendance at Sunday Mass.
Local priests told the local newspaper that some Masses over the weekend, the first since the Pope concluded his state visit, had been standing-room-only, with some crowds even spilling out into the streets.
Fr. Michael Henesy, a priest at the large parish of St. Patrick’s in the Old Town, said he believed the reinvigorating effect would continue beyond the immediate impact of the visit. “People were commenting on the increase of our congregation at the weekend,” he said. “The visit overall has been a tremendous boost for us and will have a lasting effect.”
The Evening News reported that “hundreds more” parishioners, and possibly new inquirers, were attending Masses at Catholic churches around Edinburgh.
Read further at Protect the Pope...
The Edinburgh Evening News reports that since Pope Benedict’s one day visit to Scotland there has been a dramatic increase in attendance at Sunday Mass.
Local priests told the local newspaper that some Masses over the weekend, the first since the Pope concluded his state visit, had been standing-room-only, with some crowds even spilling out into the streets.
Fr. Michael Henesy, a priest at the large parish of St. Patrick’s in the Old Town, said he believed the reinvigorating effect would continue beyond the immediate impact of the visit. “People were commenting on the increase of our congregation at the weekend,” he said. “The visit overall has been a tremendous boost for us and will have a lasting effect.”
The Evening News reported that “hundreds more” parishioners, and possibly new inquirers, were attending Masses at Catholic churches around Edinburgh.
Read further at Protect the Pope...
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Defying the Vatican, Catholic Women Claim Priesthood
H/t: Pewsitter. Time Magazine does this sort of thing on purpose. They can always be counted on for this level of editorial fecklessness.
Defying the Vatican, Catholic Women Claim Priesthood
Defying the Vatican, Catholic Women Claim Priesthood
Polish Government Plans Shutdown of 'Radio Maryja"
Editor: Earlier we saw that the Polish government was ready to vote on a proposal to enthrone Christ the King of Poland. The proposal was defeated earlier with the help of the Bishops, but it might be passed this time, without the Bishop's approval.
Now, the government is threatening to close down 'Radio Maryja' and a former Polish Prime Minister offers his thought as to why.
Catholic Radio is to Disaappear
Link to original, kreuz...
Now, the government is threatening to close down 'Radio Maryja' and a former Polish Prime Minister offers his thought as to why.
Catholic Radio is to Disaappear
Poland [kreuz.net] The National Advisory Board is ready to destroy the Catholic broadcaster 'Radio Maryja'. That was according to Polish politician and former Prime Minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, on Friday in an interview with 'Radio Maryja', the government is in "panic for fear of the truth", which the radio station transmits. The Supervisory Board maintains that 'Radio Maryja" uses advertising. That is, however, forbidden because of the non-profit status of the broadcaster.
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Is There Going to be a Consistorium For Christ the King?
[kreuz.net] The Papal Bureau for liturgical ceelbrations reported a Mass to be said for the 20th and 21st of November on the Feast of Christ the King. This is according to the Italian Website, 'Messainlatino.it' The Pontifical Office was not previously planned in the liturgical calendar of the Pope. 'Messainlatino.it' has determined from this that the Pope will hold a Consistorium on the 2oth of November in order to give a ring to the new Cardinals on the Feast of Christ the King.
Original report from, here...
Original report from, here...
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Small-minded Provincial Catholicism Celebrates its Resurrection
First the old liberal fat cats set an Anti-Catholic revolution loose. Then they complain that they have been lumped in with the revolution.
[kreuz.net, Chur] Bishop Vitus Huonder (68) of Chur has been canonically, practically driven out of half of his diocese by non-designated community consultants.
For the notorious church-hate journalist Michael Meier there is no reason to raise the hue and cry in the Zurich regional paper 'Tagesanzeiger'.
Behind the decision there is a yearlong battle between the Zurich State-Church, which controls the Church-Tax, and the Bishop of Chur.
The battle escalated, as the Church-Tax Board adopted an Anti-Catholic church measure.
There it reads: "No priest can be selected as pastor, the Church Community selects the Deacon, the assistant pastoral leader person with the function to direct the community for a term of three years."
The Bishop Strikes Back
Msgr Huonder has actually replaced these illegal regulations now through a new "Guidelines for Sacristies".
They dismiss -- in agreement with Church law -- lay theologians and community leaders.
Simultaneously the Bishop wants more Parishes bound to their sacristies according to the German Model by 2018.
This direction will supersede proposals by the Bishop and also of the community elected pastors.
Those assigned to the Sacristy as employees and princely rewarded lay theologians will be called in the new concept "Pastoral Assistants".
They will be exclusively named by the Bishop or his successor.
"The popular vote is not required" -- cried Meier.
The Strategy of the Fat Cats
Markus Arnold -- an earlier State-Church fat cat in Zurich -- may whine to the 'Tagesanzeiger' and threatens to take legal steps against the Bishop.
Actually, a Zuricher Judge of the Canton Government waves this aside: "Bishop Huonder does according to canon law probably what, what he wants, even if it goes against Church Order."
In reality the tinkering of the Church Order stands in contradiction to worldwide Church Law.
The Jurist propose that the Zurich State Church might select pastoral assistant persons as community leaders independently of the Bishop and in opposition to Church Law.
Speaker Makes Plain
Bishop Huonder's communication's director, Prelate Christoph Casetti, cited Meier's article in his statement for the 'Tagesanzeiger'.
The Bishop has not allowed for any right of election in his "Guideline for Sacristies": "That happens time and again after votes that developments carry on running" -- avowed the Prelate.
It will come sooner than later to Priest selection, because there is "not a large selection" any longer.
The Parishes would rather select a Pastor, because they must share with other communities.
[kreuz.net, Chur] Bishop Vitus Huonder (68) of Chur has been canonically, practically driven out of half of his diocese by non-designated community consultants.
For the notorious church-hate journalist Michael Meier there is no reason to raise the hue and cry in the Zurich regional paper 'Tagesanzeiger'.
Behind the decision there is a yearlong battle between the Zurich State-Church, which controls the Church-Tax, and the Bishop of Chur.
The battle escalated, as the Church-Tax Board adopted an Anti-Catholic church measure.
There it reads: "No priest can be selected as pastor, the Church Community selects the Deacon, the assistant pastoral leader person with the function to direct the community for a term of three years."
The Bishop Strikes Back
Msgr Huonder has actually replaced these illegal regulations now through a new "Guidelines for Sacristies".
They dismiss -- in agreement with Church law -- lay theologians and community leaders.
Simultaneously the Bishop wants more Parishes bound to their sacristies according to the German Model by 2018.
This direction will supersede proposals by the Bishop and also of the community elected pastors.
Those assigned to the Sacristy as employees and princely rewarded lay theologians will be called in the new concept "Pastoral Assistants".
They will be exclusively named by the Bishop or his successor.
"The popular vote is not required" -- cried Meier.
The Strategy of the Fat Cats
Markus Arnold -- an earlier State-Church fat cat in Zurich -- may whine to the 'Tagesanzeiger' and threatens to take legal steps against the Bishop.
Actually, a Zuricher Judge of the Canton Government waves this aside: "Bishop Huonder does according to canon law probably what, what he wants, even if it goes against Church Order."
In reality the tinkering of the Church Order stands in contradiction to worldwide Church Law.
The Jurist propose that the Zurich State Church might select pastoral assistant persons as community leaders independently of the Bishop and in opposition to Church Law.
Speaker Makes Plain
Bishop Huonder's communication's director, Prelate Christoph Casetti, cited Meier's article in his statement for the 'Tagesanzeiger'.
The Bishop has not allowed for any right of election in his "Guideline for Sacristies": "That happens time and again after votes that developments carry on running" -- avowed the Prelate.
It will come sooner than later to Priest selection, because there is "not a large selection" any longer.
The Parishes would rather select a Pastor, because they must share with other communities.
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Society of St. Pius X Celebrates in the Basilica of Lisieux
Different Bishop, different morals: In the last years the Society of Pius X has celebrated with thousands of faithful in open air High Masses behind the Basilica of Lisieux. Tomorrow the Faithful may use the Basilica.
[kreuz.net, Lisieux]Tomorrow afternoon the Society of Saint Pius X will celebrate the Old Rite in the Basilica of St. Lisieux.
The Society has published this on their French Website.
The yearly pilgrimage on foot to Liseux was organized from the Priory of the Society in the village Gavrus in Normandy.
the faithful -- accompanied by many children -- must kneel on the asphalt.
From 1988 to March this year the old liberal Bishop Pierre Auguste Gratien Pican (75) headed the Diocese of Bayeux-Lisiux.
His successor, Msgr. Jean-Claude Exechiel Boulanger (65), will open the Basilica to the Society for the Holy Mass tomorrow in Lisieux.
Single Exception in 2005
Already in 2005 the Rector of the Basilica allowed an exception and permitted the Society to celebrate in the house of God.
Back then, 2,500 pilgrims came to Mass.
The celebrant may also wear the vestments of the earlier Parisian Archbishopo Maurice Cardinal Feltin (+1975).
This ornament was used at the consecration of the Basilica.
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Image: kreuz.net photo of 2005 Mass where 2005 were participating at Lisieux.
Archdiocese of Vienna: Jesuit Priest Gets Platform for Pro-Homosexual Views
The "in good standing", not uncontroversial Jesuit priest in the periphery of "Apostle History 2010" gets an open mike - Mertes described Pope Benedict as "hard of hearing" and said that the Church suffers from homophobia.
Wien (kath.net) The "in good standing", but not uncontroversial Jesuit Klaus Mertes will receive an open mike in the last days of the event organized by the Archdiocese of Vienna 'Apostelgeschichte 2010" (Apostle History 2010) and intends to hold his impulsive lecture on the theme "But you will receive the power of the Holy Ghost". Mertes has been increasingly concerned over the media's revelations in the last months. That being said, he's mentioned Pope Benedict in an interview: "I have great respect for Benedict XVI., because he has no fear in the face of the truth of what has been revealed in the sexual abuse crisis. I wish that he could find in critics of the Church more love for the Church". Then the Jesuit stated that the Pope is "hard of hearing" and that God also speaks through the "secular world" to the Church.
At the end of January 2010 he became concerned with revelations of homosexuality. Mertes had criticized the Church's handling of homosexuality in connection with the abuse scandal at his own Berlin Canisius College (he's its Rector)as the abuse scandal then got the ball rolling in the Church and then he claimed: "The Church suffers from Homophobia. Homosexuality is silenced. Clerics with this inclination are uncertain if they will receive a fair hearing and still be accepted."
Mertes was especially critical also of the foundation of the "Work Group of Engaged Catholics in Union" (AEK). It is inconceivable to him how one can as a Catholic in the CDU, express <
Link to original, kath.net...
Pro Multis -- Translation of the 'Missale Romanum' Proceeds in Linz
Papal Commission met under the direction of Bishop Schwarz in the State Capital
Linz (kath.net/KAP) The review of the new translation of the Latin Missal (Missale Romanum) into German is the job of the Papal Commission "Quo Principia", which is shortly under the direction of the Linz Bishop, Ludwig Schwarz, not so much as otherwise in Rome, rather will meet at the Linz Seminary. Members of this Vatican Congregation for Worship and the Order of Sacraments are part of a Commission of academics assigned from diverse German speaking Universities and Diocese.
The new translation of the "Missale Romanum" comes from the Papal Commission "Ecclesia celebrans" under the direction of Cologne Bishop Cardinal Joachim Meisner. This work group generally comes together several times a year and develops translated elements for correction by "Quo principia". The work is done in parallel.
The Linz Diocesan Bishop is an authority in classical studies and was for that reason a leading collaborator at all levels of the development process. Based on this process, there should be a Missal which reflects on the one side the German language as spoken today, while on the other side staying true to the liturgical texts of the celebration of the Mass and expressing up to date language.
Linz (kath.net/KAP) The review of the new translation of the Latin Missal (Missale Romanum) into German is the job of the Papal Commission "Quo Principia", which is shortly under the direction of the Linz Bishop, Ludwig Schwarz, not so much as otherwise in Rome, rather will meet at the Linz Seminary. Members of this Vatican Congregation for Worship and the Order of Sacraments are part of a Commission of academics assigned from diverse German speaking Universities and Diocese.
The new translation of the "Missale Romanum" comes from the Papal Commission "Ecclesia celebrans" under the direction of Cologne Bishop Cardinal Joachim Meisner. This work group generally comes together several times a year and develops translated elements for correction by "Quo principia". The work is done in parallel.
The Linz Diocesan Bishop is an authority in classical studies and was for that reason a leading collaborator at all levels of the development process. Based on this process, there should be a Missal which reflects on the one side the German language as spoken today, while on the other side staying true to the liturgical texts of the celebration of the Mass and expressing up to date language.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
The Seed of John Paul II. Bears Fruit in Munich
Blasphemous Homosexual, divine services and inter-communion for dogs and cats: in the decadent former Archdiocese of the Pope, everything is possible.
By Christiane Strobl
[kreuz.net] Another Munich Parish has established that the dirty old liberalism of yesterday is more important than the living Catholic Faith, which men have believed for centuries.
It takes place at the Munich Parish of St. Paul. It occupies one of the most impressive churches in the city.
The Parish is located on the Ludwigvorstadt in the Teresienwiese - on the place where Oktoberfest happens every year.
The administrator of the Parish, secular priest Rainer Hepler, is also a collaborator of the "Art Ministry" of the Archdiocese of Munich. In his Church there are also sodomitical church services.
This was relocated from the suburbs to the city center first in the spring in 2010 by the order of the old liberal Archbishop Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising.
The authorization for this pastoral appointment in the Archdiocese comes from Secular Priest Manfred Rutsche, who is officially responsible for this horror.
From the side of the Archbishop, he enjoys the fullest trust. It pleases him that there are always more priests participating in his Queer Liturgy. Recently, one can discover noteworthy things from the Pastoral Administrator, Fr. Rainer Hepler's signed Pastoral Letter.
"May protestants participate in Communion?" read the philosophical question.
The answer was practically Catholic: "According to other opinions of many, the Eucharistic celebration of the separated confessions isn't presently possible."
Actually, then John Paul II. (2005+) has come to the field with his encyclical 'Ecclesia de Eucharista' in paragraph 45.
According to that this qualification is not applied "to individual persons belonging to Churches or Ecclesial Communities not in full communion with the Catholic Church."
In this case it goes namely for this reason, that "the intention is to meet a grave spiritual need for the eternal salvation of an individual believer, not to bring about an inter-communion which remains impossible until the visible bonds of ecclesial communion are fully re-established"
This is how Fr. Hepler comes to the practical knowledge: "The answer reads therefore in legitimate individual cases: yes."
Image: is from the website advertising this "Queergottesdienst", 'queergottesdienst.de'
Alan Dershowitz to Defend Pope
Editor; Strange days.
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TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Our guest, Alan Dershowitz is one of the foremost lawyers and jurists in the United States.
He's defended some of the most high-profile clients in recent history, including Claus von Bulow, Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson.
He's a distinguished defender of civil liberties, a widely-read commentator on the Arab-Israel conflict and a vocal supporter of Israel.
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Bishop Williamson to Appear in Court Against his Alleged Holocaust Denial Conviction.
Editor: kath.net is not friendly to Traditionalists very often, and their editors are almost invariably hostile to the FSSPX.One of the other news services had already covered the story in English, but kath.net is Catholic (and very reliable) and the other news service isn't, so we translated the article you see now.
Munich (kath.net/KAP) British Bishop Richard Williamson will stand before the court for the judgment he received from the Regensburg Court for sedition and "trivializing" the Holocaust. The appeal against the April fine of 10,000 Euro is set for the 29th of November. The speaker of the National Court of Regensburg, Johann Piendl, verified this for the German Catholic News Service, KNA. "I am pretty certain, that my client will participate", explained Williamson's attorney, Mattias Lossmann, on Thursday.
In April Williamson, who belongs to the Society of Pius X, which is not recognized by Rome [kath.net just had to throw that in there], has been living in London and had not personally appeared at his trial. Representatives of the Society had ordered him not to come. According to Lossman's estimate this will not happen again, because the Society had "not captured any good press".[For not allowing him to appear]
The Bishop, not recognized anywhere in the world, had an interview with a Swedish TV-Station where he estimated the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust at 300,000 and doubted the existence of gas chambers. The interview happened at the end of 2008 at a priest seminar of the Society in the Bavarian town of Zaitzkofen.
The Regensburg court evaluated it as a fact that Williamson had denied the Holocaust on German soil and also trivialized it. The Judge saw this and accorded that the Bishop with the publication of his ideas in Germany and that with these he attested that he had appealed to Germans. Williamson's attorney, Lossmann will appeal to his client's free speech, that this "had been denied". After the judgment he filed an appeal. The State Prosecutor also did the same, which now seeks a penalty in the amount of 12,000 Euros.
Link to kath.net...
Munich (kath.net/KAP) British Bishop Richard Williamson will stand before the court for the judgment he received from the Regensburg Court for sedition and "trivializing" the Holocaust. The appeal against the April fine of 10,000 Euro is set for the 29th of November. The speaker of the National Court of Regensburg, Johann Piendl, verified this for the German Catholic News Service, KNA. "I am pretty certain, that my client will participate", explained Williamson's attorney, Mattias Lossmann, on Thursday.
In April Williamson, who belongs to the Society of Pius X, which is not recognized by Rome [kath.net just had to throw that in there], has been living in London and had not personally appeared at his trial. Representatives of the Society had ordered him not to come. According to Lossman's estimate this will not happen again, because the Society had "not captured any good press".[For not allowing him to appear]
The Bishop, not recognized anywhere in the world, had an interview with a Swedish TV-Station where he estimated the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust at 300,000 and doubted the existence of gas chambers. The interview happened at the end of 2008 at a priest seminar of the Society in the Bavarian town of Zaitzkofen.
The Regensburg court evaluated it as a fact that Williamson had denied the Holocaust on German soil and also trivialized it. The Judge saw this and accorded that the Bishop with the publication of his ideas in Germany and that with these he attested that he had appealed to Germans. Williamson's attorney, Lossmann will appeal to his client's free speech, that this "had been denied". After the judgment he filed an appeal. The State Prosecutor also did the same, which now seeks a penalty in the amount of 12,000 Euros.
Link to kath.net...
Acting mayor against gay rallies in Moscow
Moscow, September 29, Interfax - Acting Moscow Mayor Vladimir Resin has said he will continue with Yury Luzhkov's policy of not authorizing gay pride parades in the Russian capital.
"I don't support that. None of them have contacted me," Resin told reporters on Wednesday commenting on the decision made by the prefecture of the Moscow Central District to allow a protest organized by gay activists on October 1.
This is the first protest organized by gay activists to be allowed by the authorities.
The official said the purpose of the protest as stated in the application is to call for a boycott in the use of Swiss Airlines due to an incident that occurred at Moscow Domodedovo airport on September 15, when Nikolay Alexeyev, Russia's most prominent gay rights activist, was seized by men he thinks were special security agents.
Link at Interrfax...
"I don't support that. None of them have contacted me," Resin told reporters on Wednesday commenting on the decision made by the prefecture of the Moscow Central District to allow a protest organized by gay activists on October 1.
This is the first protest organized by gay activists to be allowed by the authorities.
The official said the purpose of the protest as stated in the application is to call for a boycott in the use of Swiss Airlines due to an incident that occurred at Moscow Domodedovo airport on September 15, when Nikolay Alexeyev, Russia's most prominent gay rights activist, was seized by men he thinks were special security agents.
Link at Interrfax...
Catholic-Oriental Orthodox Dialogue Discusses Proselytism, Other Pastoral Issues Facing Their Churches
USCCB News Release
10-171
September 28, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON (September 28, 2010) —The United States Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Consultation held its 2010 meeting at the Passionist Spiritual Center in Bronx, New York, on September 20 and 21. The meeting, co-chaired by Catholic Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, New York, and the Right Reverend Chor-Episcopos John Meno of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, focused primarily on pastoral issues facing both churches.
They discussed the pastoral responses of the churches to proselytizing efforts—the seeking of converts from members of other Christian communities—of certain Evangelical and Pentecostal groups both in the United States and in the countries where these churches originated. From a Catholic perspective, Father Juan Luis Calderon of the Archdiocese of Newark gave a talk entitled, “The Follower, the Seeker and the Convert: Hispanics and Their Experience of God.” Additional reflections were offered by Father Daniel Findikyan, who focused on the Armenian Church, and by Father Yacob Ghaly, who drew on the experience of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, where such efforts have weakened this ancient church.
The members also heard a report from Brother David Carroll, FSC, on the policy of the Holy See regarding the Holy Land and the final status of Jerusalem. In his talk, Brother Carroll reviewed the history of this issue, the major negotiations that have taken place in recent decades, and the Holy See’s position, which advocates the preservation of the religious characteristics of Jerusalem, equality of rights of the communities of the three major religions found in the city, the preservation of the holy places, and freedom of worship and access to them for residents and pilgrims alike.
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10-171
September 28, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON (September 28, 2010) —The United States Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Consultation held its 2010 meeting at the Passionist Spiritual Center in Bronx, New York, on September 20 and 21. The meeting, co-chaired by Catholic Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, New York, and the Right Reverend Chor-Episcopos John Meno of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, focused primarily on pastoral issues facing both churches.
They discussed the pastoral responses of the churches to proselytizing efforts—the seeking of converts from members of other Christian communities—of certain Evangelical and Pentecostal groups both in the United States and in the countries where these churches originated. From a Catholic perspective, Father Juan Luis Calderon of the Archdiocese of Newark gave a talk entitled, “The Follower, the Seeker and the Convert: Hispanics and Their Experience of God.” Additional reflections were offered by Father Daniel Findikyan, who focused on the Armenian Church, and by Father Yacob Ghaly, who drew on the experience of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, where such efforts have weakened this ancient church.
The members also heard a report from Brother David Carroll, FSC, on the policy of the Holy See regarding the Holy Land and the final status of Jerusalem. In his talk, Brother Carroll reviewed the history of this issue, the major negotiations that have taken place in recent decades, and the Holy See’s position, which advocates the preservation of the religious characteristics of Jerusalem, equality of rights of the communities of the three major religions found in the city, the preservation of the holy places, and freedom of worship and access to them for residents and pilgrims alike.
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CBCP reminds Aquino about excommunication - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Editor: now this is how you handle CINO Politicians.
CBCP reminds Aquino about excommunication - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
CBCP reminds Aquino about excommunication - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Polish Bishops' Conference Refuses to Consecrate Poland to Christ the King
Polish Bishops' Conference: "The Kingdom of Christ is Not of this World"
Warsaw (kath.net/KAP) Poland's bishops are against the idea of a popular movement for the Consecration of Poland to Christ the King -- who take as their Motto: "Christ, King of Poland". This plan should be given up, said the president of the Polish Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Jozef Michalik, this Wednesday at the close of the Autumn Meeting of Bishops in Warsaw. The Kingdom of Christ is "not of this world".
In the concluding explanation the Bishops warn against the supposition, that the Entrhonement of Christ as the King of Poland, "will solve all problems". In place of this they propose, the deepening faith in Christ as the "King of the Universe". Michalik recognized the good intentions of the people's movement.
More than 1,000 people had demonstrated in Warsaw this weekend for a proclamation of Christ the King of Poland. They came with National flags and pictures of the Crowned Christ, King of Parliament from the Presidential Palace. "The Movement for the Sovereignty of the Polish People" had called this demonstration.
Already in 2006 the Church had criticized around 40 priests, who then proposing a Christ the King blessing of Poland. The proposal elicited no comment from the Parliament. The organizers explained that in 1656 Poland officially proclaimed the Mother of God as the "Queen of Poland".
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Msgr. Rifan Celebrates the Immemorial Mass of All Ages
Editor: He's celebrating the Immemorial at the Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro where there is a permanent Immemorial said. He was also received recently for his Ad Limina.
Check out the photos on New Liturgical Movement:
Msgr. Rifan
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Msgr. Rifan
Obama's faith assertion called 'politically driven' 'Too many black 'community organizers' gained power through churches'
President Obama's statement that he is a "Christian by choice" drew strong reaction on the Web, largely dividing responders into two camps: one supporting him and urging that he focus on programs that better the nation and another contending that asserting he is a Christian doesn't necessarily make him one.
"I wonder if our president believes God created the heavens and the earth in 7 days or if he thinks the Bible was fibbing," wrote griffin 76 on a Minneapolis Star-Tribune forum page. "I think I already know his answer based on his stances on abortion and homosexuality."
Added ceegee, "You can call me skeptical and a cynic, but too many black 'community organizers' gained their political power through the inner city churches. The church is a means to an end for people like Obama, Jackson Sharpton et al. Attending church is a convenience and seen as a way to network into the community. And one still has to ask why [Obama] attend[ed] Rev. Wright's fiery church for 20 years? I assert Obama's motivations for faith are selfish and political driven."
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=209301
"I wonder if our president believes God created the heavens and the earth in 7 days or if he thinks the Bible was fibbing," wrote griffin 76 on a Minneapolis Star-Tribune forum page. "I think I already know his answer based on his stances on abortion and homosexuality."
Added ceegee, "You can call me skeptical and a cynic, but too many black 'community organizers' gained their political power through the inner city churches. The church is a means to an end for people like Obama, Jackson Sharpton et al. Attending church is a convenience and seen as a way to network into the community. And one still has to ask why [Obama] attend[ed] Rev. Wright's fiery church for 20 years? I assert Obama's motivations for faith are selfish and political driven."
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=209301
Sleazy Republican Senate Contender Rides Abuse Bandwagon in Wisconsin
Editor: Even cheesy Republicans are getting into the game by aligning themselves with the professional victims' group SNAP. Courtesy of Badger Catholic, here.
Link to GB Gazette...
DE PERE — U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson has tried to comply with an advocacy group's request by urging the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay to be open in its investigation of alleged pedophile priests, but members of the group say that isn't enough.
The Republican asked the diocese on Wednesday to be transparent regarding decades-old allegations of child abuse among priests and particularly the Rev. John Patrick Feeney, who was sentenced to prison in 2004 for molesting two brothers in Freedom.
Johnson used to serve on the diocese's financial council and in January testified in Madison against the Child Victims Act — a Wisconsin bill aimed at making it easier for childhood sex abuse victims to sue their attackers — on behalf of the diocese, among other groups. Johnson's statements focused on the financial impact of the bill on nonprofits that serve minors.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Good News, Three Episcopalian Parishes Come to Rome
There are three parishes that are coming whole and entire to the Catholic Church in the USA. You can read about it here at the Anglo-Catholic.
Creation of New "Traditional" Society Within the Anglican Communion
With the news that there's a new Ordinariate (See article below) in the making, there's no small amount of skepticism in the air, and that is certainly felt in the coming formation of SSWSH (Society of Saint Wilfrid and Saint Hilda. The following coverage of the new establishment, which is meant as a kind of reserveration within the Anglican Communion which will appease the consciences of those Anglicans who:
1) Want to Object to the ordination of women.
2) Favor solemnity in their worship
3) Object to the Dogma of Papal Primacy
4) Don't want to lose their living (stipends) doing any of the above, even if they are inclined to Papal Primacy and Catholicism.
The page at "Thinking Anglicans" takes umbrage at their moral objections on grounds that are obscure, but they insist that one of the Society's namesakes, St. Hilda, was put in charge of men herself, although she couldn't have said Mass. Sorry.
It is important to remember at this point that Damian Thompson is presiding over the funeral of Archbishop Rowan's authority. Whatever you think of it, SSWSH, or Swish!!!, as it's called by some of it's detractors, the conference they've recently held had over 600 priest participants. This is nothing to sneeze at, whatever their motivations, they are at least concerned enough about the future of the Church of England to do something, anything, to maintain their integrity with the slightest amount of personal pain to themselves and their wives and children.
Too bad they abandoned clerical celibacy! It might have made this transition so much easier. In the meantime, the English people are completely disinterested in their established church as membership has declined to 33% according to one survey. Can it be that those who control the land, the churches and schools of the Church of England can be so out of touch to suppose that further accommodating themselves to the spirit of the age, that they will overturn this trend? At least SSWSH seems to understand that much.
1) Want to Object to the ordination of women.
2) Favor solemnity in their worship
3) Object to the Dogma of Papal Primacy
4) Don't want to lose their living (stipends) doing any of the above, even if they are inclined to Papal Primacy and Catholicism.
The page at "Thinking Anglicans" takes umbrage at their moral objections on grounds that are obscure, but they insist that one of the Society's namesakes, St. Hilda, was put in charge of men herself, although she couldn't have said Mass. Sorry.
It is important to remember at this point that Damian Thompson is presiding over the funeral of Archbishop Rowan's authority. Whatever you think of it, SSWSH, or Swish!!!, as it's called by some of it's detractors, the conference they've recently held had over 600 priest participants. This is nothing to sneeze at, whatever their motivations, they are at least concerned enough about the future of the Church of England to do something, anything, to maintain their integrity with the slightest amount of personal pain to themselves and their wives and children.
Too bad they abandoned clerical celibacy! It might have made this transition so much easier. In the meantime, the English people are completely disinterested in their established church as membership has declined to 33% according to one survey. Can it be that those who control the land, the churches and schools of the Church of England can be so out of touch to suppose that further accommodating themselves to the spirit of the age, that they will overturn this trend? At least SSWSH seems to understand that much.
Britain could have an Ordinariate by new year | CatholicHerald.co.uk
[Guardian] Britain could have an Ordinariate by the end of the year, it emerged today.
Sources say that the Rt Rev Keith Newton, the flying bishop of Richborough and the Rt Rev Andrew Burnham, the flying Bishop of Ebbsfleet will take up the special canonical structure, which allows groups of Anglicans to come into full Communion with Rome without losing their Anglican identity, before the end of the calendar year.
Britain could have an Ordinariate by new year | CatholicHerald.co.uk
Sources say that the Rt Rev Keith Newton, the flying bishop of Richborough and the Rt Rev Andrew Burnham, the flying Bishop of Ebbsfleet will take up the special canonical structure, which allows groups of Anglicans to come into full Communion with Rome without losing their Anglican identity, before the end of the calendar year.
Britain could have an Ordinariate by new year | CatholicHerald.co.uk
Orthodox Church in Greece Publishes its Finances First Time Ever
Translation Interfax Article at Voices From Russia:
27 September 2010
Interfax-Religion
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For the first time in its history, the Archdiocese of Athens made public its budget, publishing on its website items of income and expenditure for the current year. According to the data released, income from rental property was 529,836 euros (21.97 million Roubles 721,651 USD 457,166 UK Pounds), whilst church activities earned another 400,000 euros (16.586 million Roubles 544,811 USD 345,138 UK Pounds), according to Greek.ru. The total amount of net income for the Archdiocese was 3,457,251 euros (143.354 million Roubles 4.709 million USD 2.984 million UK Pounds), and expenses were 3,454,220 euros (143.228 million Roubles 4.705 million USD 2.981 million UK Pounds). To date, 3,030 euros (125,608 Roubles 4,127 USD 2,615 UK Pounds) remain unspent.
27 September 2010
Interfax-Religion
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The German Kampf Against Catholicsm is a Social-hygenic Problem
That celibacy for priests ostensibly misleads, to procure through secret and unnatural relief of sexual drives, has been a trusted argument for more than 200 years.
[kreuz.net] At the end of June Journalist Patrick Bahners reported in the 'Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung' on a book by the Historian Manuel Borutta.
This was a dissertation about 19th Century Anti-Catholicism.
They were treated by the Berlin Historian Jürgen Kocka (69).
In the study, Borutta demonstrated, according to Bahners "a constancy, almost a complete invariance of historical points", which amaze the discourse of historical research.
That is to say: "That the celibacy of the priest misleads, in order to procure the secret and unnatural relief of sexual desires, has been a trusted argument for more than 200 years."
The Catholics do Not Feel the Common duty toward Reproduction
It is one of the services of Boruttas, to explain the perfidy of the historical arguments.
Borutta portrayed the Church in the Anti-Catholic polemic as a contrast to the liberal ideal of Civil Society.
He cited the Anti-Catholic German virologist Rudolf Birchow (+1902). For such was the nature of the Church's organization in its unnatural inclination
For the Church restrained a man from fulfilling his common natural inclination and self determination, activity and reproduction.
In reality Catholics have more children than other social strata.
Chief Ideologue Virchow
Virchow brings his authority as a Doctor and Natural Scientist into the mud-wrestling match against the Church.
He coined the concept of "Kulturkampf".
Already in 1848 the Virologist had determined that during the typhus epidemic, the poor, uneducated Polish Catholics would rather call their priest than a doctor.
"The construction of a causal Nexus between ecclesiastical power, collective ignorance and the transmission of infectious diseases appears to make the separation of State and Church as a social-hygienic precaution".
Manuel Borutta: "Anti-Catholicism". German and Italy in the Age of European Kulturkämpfe, New Edition, Volume 7. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010. 488 pages., Abb,., Price 60- Euro.
Manuel Borutta: „Antikatholizismus“. Deutschland und Italien im Zeitalter der europäischen Kulturkämpfe. Bürgertum, Neue Folge, Band 7. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010. 488 S., Abb., geb., 60,- [Euro].
[kreuz.net] At the end of June Journalist Patrick Bahners reported in the 'Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung' on a book by the Historian Manuel Borutta.
This was a dissertation about 19th Century Anti-Catholicism.
They were treated by the Berlin Historian Jürgen Kocka (69).
In the study, Borutta demonstrated, according to Bahners "a constancy, almost a complete invariance of historical points", which amaze the discourse of historical research.
That is to say: "That the celibacy of the priest misleads, in order to procure the secret and unnatural relief of sexual desires, has been a trusted argument for more than 200 years."
The Catholics do Not Feel the Common duty toward Reproduction
It is one of the services of Boruttas, to explain the perfidy of the historical arguments.
Borutta portrayed the Church in the Anti-Catholic polemic as a contrast to the liberal ideal of Civil Society.
He cited the Anti-Catholic German virologist Rudolf Birchow (+1902). For such was the nature of the Church's organization in its unnatural inclination
For the Church restrained a man from fulfilling his common natural inclination and self determination, activity and reproduction.
In reality Catholics have more children than other social strata.
Chief Ideologue Virchow
Virchow brings his authority as a Doctor and Natural Scientist into the mud-wrestling match against the Church.
He coined the concept of "Kulturkampf".
Already in 1848 the Virologist had determined that during the typhus epidemic, the poor, uneducated Polish Catholics would rather call their priest than a doctor.
"The construction of a causal Nexus between ecclesiastical power, collective ignorance and the transmission of infectious diseases appears to make the separation of State and Church as a social-hygienic precaution".
Manuel Borutta: "Anti-Catholicism". German and Italy in the Age of European Kulturkämpfe, New Edition, Volume 7. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010. 488 pages., Abb,., Price 60- Euro.
Manuel Borutta: „Antikatholizismus“. Deutschland und Italien im Zeitalter der europäischen Kulturkämpfe. Bürgertum, Neue Folge, Band 7. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010. 488 S., Abb., geb., 60,- [Euro].
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Boston College Dean Says Faith, "stance in history"
This Jesuit, Boston College educator is stuck in the radical past and still talks of the Church in outdated terms which emphasize "messiness" and "change". Scabrous and decrepit old dinosaurs like this are really out of touch with the Church of today, tomorrow and always.
Describing the people he characterizes as Catholics of yesteryear, he makes this statement:
What kind of man uses the word, "messiness"?
Link to the past at RNS...
Describing the people he characterizes as Catholics of yesteryear, he makes this statement:
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But faith is a stance in history; it doesn’t preserve us from messiness, or from change, including to religious institutions
What kind of man uses the word, "messiness"?
(RNS) For generations, thousands of Catholics—from archbishops to people in the pews—saw the Catholic Church as eternal, timeless, and unmoved by the tides of history.
But the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s unleashed a sea of changes—none more significant than the recognition that Catholicism has, and continues to be, shaped by historical events, argues the Rev. Mark Massa in a new book.
Massa’s intellectual history, “The American Catholic Revolution: How the `60s Changed the Church Forever,” describes how celebrating the Mass in English, butting heads with the pope on birth control, and priests protesting the Vietnam War opened new possibilities—and controversies—in the church.
Link to the past at RNS...
New finds in Romanov family killing case are grounds for new probe - Russian Imperial House
Moscow, September 28, Interfax - The new artifacts found in the Sverdlovsk Region have confirmed the need for a new investigation into the death of Nicholas II and his family, Alexander Zakatov, the head of the Romanov Family Chancellery, told Interfax.
"The new finds indicate that not everything has been investigated yet. For this reason, the investigation should be continued. There are still a lot of things that are unclear," Zakatov said.
The Romanov family is not ready yet to recognize the authenticity of the remains found near Yekaterinburg. In addition, the Romanov family are demanding the resumption of the investigation into the criminal case involving the killing of Russia's last emperor. The Investigations Committee of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office decided to close the investigation on January 15, 2009.
On Monday, it was reported that beakers believed to have been used to store acid to destroy the royal family's remains had been found in the Sverdlovsk Region.
Link to Interfax...
"The new finds indicate that not everything has been investigated yet. For this reason, the investigation should be continued. There are still a lot of things that are unclear," Zakatov said.
The Romanov family is not ready yet to recognize the authenticity of the remains found near Yekaterinburg. In addition, the Romanov family are demanding the resumption of the investigation into the criminal case involving the killing of Russia's last emperor. The Investigations Committee of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office decided to close the investigation on January 15, 2009.
On Monday, it was reported that beakers believed to have been used to store acid to destroy the royal family's remains had been found in the Sverdlovsk Region.
Link to Interfax...
Ukrainian Patriarch Complains about Catholic Cathedral Being Built
Editor: The double-standard continues. The Orthodox build churches in Catholic areas all the time and do so with impunity.
Read further...Interfax...
Odessa, September 27, Interfax - The Odessa Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church believes there is no grounds for building a Greek Catholic cathedral in the city and such plans have aggressive political backgrounds.
"It's quite evident that there's no ground for building a Greek Catholic church in Odessa. Odessa is an Orthodox city," the diocesan secretary Archpriest Andrey Novikov told Interfax-Religion on Monday.
According to the priest, initiators of the building have their own aim - proselytism, converting Orthodox believers in Unia.
"There is no visible presence of Greek Catholics in Odessa. Whom uniate preachers are going to attract to their parish? Certainly Orthodox Odessites - they will try to catch them in networks of Unia through various intricacies," the interviewee of the agency said.
Read further...Interfax...
Pro-Homosexual Activist Suspended at St. Mary's Basilica
Archbishop Nienstedt is serious about oppposing this non-sense and explaining the Catholic Faith. There's not much more to the story than what is cited below, but it is interesting that the "artist" who's been adorning the downtown Basilica with her creations for years has compared herself to Galileo.
Read further at Minneapolis Star and Tribune...
Local News Article from KMSP and Video:
With special thanks to the Knights of Columbus who helped make this all possible... although they were earlier justifiably accused of sending mixed messages this year by failing to oust Pro-Abortion and Pro-Homosexual politicians. Will this make it more difficult for such men to associate themselves with the Knights of Columbus? We hope so.
Course, goes without saying that this place has a booth at a "Gay Pride" event.
[Minneapolis, Star Tribune] Lucinda Naylor, a Minneapolis artist and part-time church employee, was suspended from her job over a protest sculpture using antigay marriage DVDs distributed by the Catholic church.
The Catholic church began to mail the DVDs to 400,000 Catholics in Minnesota last week. They argue for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in the state.
According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Rev. John Bauer, pastor of the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, made the decision to suspend Naylor, a 15-year employee.
Read further at Minneapolis Star and Tribune...
Local News Article from KMSP and Video:
[KMSP] Archbishop John Nienstedt announced Monday that every Catholic in the state will be mailed a DVD defending marriage as between one man and one woman, as he hopes to "rally the troops" around the Church's position on the divisive issue just six weeks before Election Day.
Nienstedt appears at the beginning of the eight-minute video, which was prepared by the Knights of Columbus, and will be mailed to the state's Catholics on Wednesday, paid for by a large donation, the archbishop told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Monday evening. The archdiocesan website lists the state's Catholic population at "approximately 800,000."
"Our target is basically our Catholic people," Archbishop Nienstedt said in an interview. "To remind them of what we believe and why we believe it and why it's so important that they believe it."
With special thanks to the Knights of Columbus who helped make this all possible... although they were earlier justifiably accused of sending mixed messages this year by failing to oust Pro-Abortion and Pro-Homosexual politicians. Will this make it more difficult for such men to associate themselves with the Knights of Columbus? We hope so.
Course, goes without saying that this place has a booth at a "Gay Pride" event.
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