Moscow, October 13, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said the situation with religion in some countries, including Europe, reminds him of the times of militant atheism in the Soviet Union.
"I am deeply convinced that modern civilization is making the same mistake as the Soviet Union. It doesn't matter very much why you are removing faith from pubic life. The final result, as engineers say, is the same: you get dismantling of religious consciousness," the Patriarch said while meeting with German President Christian Wulff in Moscow on Wednesday.
The Russian Church has lived for decades in a country where the official ideology was the ideology of atheism, "where churches were destroyed, crosses were removed from churches to be used for some secular purposes, where religious life was squeezed out of public life and could only be manifested in private, intimate life."
The people who made such policies "have very good intentions and acted on the basis of their convictions, and their convictions were very humanistic: to build a just prospering society, good future, where people would be happy and would have everything they wanted to have, but religion, those crosses on churches were getting in the way," the Patriarch said.
"It scares me that something illogical is now taking place in some countries, including in Western Europe. No one is saying that the Christian presence should be removed for the sake of a good future, but they are using a different philosophy: they want to remove crosses from schools and religion from public life in the name of human rights," Patriarch Kirill said.
He thanked Germany for "defending the legality of the presence of traditional Christian values in societal life on many issues."
Patriarch Kirill said philosophies come and go and Christian faith has existed for 2,000 years and it "formed the spiritual and cultural foundation of Europe."
"For this reason, we believe we now need to speak loudly about it, because we have a right to do that, we have lived for many years in a country that drove God from public life and we know the consequences of that," the Patriarch said.
Patriarch Kirill said the current "phenomenal revival of religious life in Russia and the other former Soviet republics is largely a reaction to that past."
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
A large group of Islamists convicted in Uzbekistan
Tashkent, October 14, Interfax - An extremist organization has been exposed in south Uzbekistan, and 14 of its members have been convicted, a representative of the Uzbek police told Interfax on Thursday.
The Islamic Jihad Union was operating in the Surkhandarya Region bordering on Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, he said.
The 14 members of the organization, including two women, "were found guilty and sentenced to various prison terms," he said.
The convicts distributed books and other material they had received from abroad to appeal for Jihad.
"They aimed to break the territorial integrity of the Republic of Uzbekistan, to change the constitutional system and to build a Caliphate," he said.
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The Islamic Jihad Union was operating in the Surkhandarya Region bordering on Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, he said.
The 14 members of the organization, including two women, "were found guilty and sentenced to various prison terms," he said.
The convicts distributed books and other material they had received from abroad to appeal for Jihad.
"They aimed to break the territorial integrity of the Republic of Uzbekistan, to change the constitutional system and to build a Caliphate," he said.
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Cardinal Thanks Muslims for Bringing God Back to Europe
Photo of Mechanical Jacobins that were burned by Muslims
(Reuters) - A senior Vatican cardinal has thanked Muslims for bringing God back into the public sphere in Europe and said believers of different faiths had no option but to engage in interreligious dialogue.
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But!
Muslim convert to Catholicism tells pope Islam is not inherently good
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Muslim-born journalist baptized by Pope Benedict XVI at Easter asked the pope to tell his top aide for relations with Muslims that Islam is not an intrinsically good religion and that Islamic terrorism is not the result of a minority gone astray.
As the Vatican was preparing to host the first meeting of the Catholic-Muslim Forum Nov. 4-6, Magdi Allam, a longtime critic of the Muslim faith of his parents, issued an open letter to Pope Benedict that included criticism of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
In the letter, posted on his Web site Oct. 20, Allam said he wanted to tell the pope of his concern for "the serious religious and ethical straying that has infiltrated and spread within the heart of the church."
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H/t: CFN
Photo: AP
Very Good News: a New Priest for SBC
A priest with faculties has been established at the SBC Center. This is very good news, indeed.
Very Good News: a New Priest for SBC
Mexican-born Archbishop Named to San Antonio
A Mexican-born bishop from Chicago will head the Archdiocese of San Antonio, keeping intact the 31-year string of Hispanic archbishops and recognizing the explosive growth that Hispanic Catholics represent nationwide.
The Most Rev. Gustavo Garcia-Siller, 53, will replace Archbishop José Gomez, who left six months ago to lead the Los Angeles archdiocese next year. His installation service is set for Nov. 23 but a location has yet to be announced.
Garcia-Siller currently serves as a regional administrator for the largest district in the Archdiocese of Chicago with 79 parishes, and is the archdiocesan liaison for the Hispanic community.
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The Most Rev. Gustavo Garcia-Siller, 53, will replace Archbishop José Gomez, who left six months ago to lead the Los Angeles archdiocese next year. His installation service is set for Nov. 23 but a location has yet to be announced.
Garcia-Siller currently serves as a regional administrator for the largest district in the Archdiocese of Chicago with 79 parishes, and is the archdiocesan liaison for the Hispanic community.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Crypto-Fascist Goldberg Trashes Sobran
Neocon Liar Jeffrey “Dr. Goebbels" Goldberg Dishonors the Memory of Joseph Sobran
by Michael Hoffman | www. RevisionistHistory.org | Oct. 13, 2010
Jeffrey Goldberg is the Israeli agent who is currently national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine. He helped engineer America’s invasion of Iraq based on the propagation of Goldberg’s well-publicized lie, published in the March, 2002 issue of The New Yorker and broadcast on NPR’s "All Things Considered” in February, 2003, that Saddam Hussein was an ally of the alleged 9/11 terror group, Al Qaeda. Now Goldberg is lying again. In a column published Oct. 12 on the website of The Atlantic magazine, Goldberg indicts the eminent Catholic historian and philosopher Joseph Sobran as a “Nazi.” This craven and despicable defamation had to wait until Sobran was dead and could no longer sue for libel.
It seems that Goldberg, his pal Greenberg, and a network of apologists for Israeli war crimes, had their ox gored when the New York Times published an obituary for Mr. Sobran which did not stigmatize him with the obligatory “Holocaust denier” Newspeak, preferring to describe him with the more moderate term, “Holocaust skeptic.”
This minor deviation from the approved script unleashed the hounds of Holocaust halachic correctness, in this case on the Times and on the memory of the deceased. Exploiting the Newspeak mechanisms of the imposed word “Holocaust,” the following fallacy has been advanced by Mr. Goldberg: "Imagine an obituary of a public figure who had denied that World War I had taken place. Or that fifty percent of the Civil War battles we know to have occurred did not, in fact, occur, and that there had been no slavery in the antebellum South.”
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Only Suckers Pay Church Tax in Austria
The Austrian old liberals have it good: the Bishops feed them by hand -- and are released on demand even from church fees.
[kreuz.net] It is an open secret that the church-hating organization 'We are Church' are put under wraps by the Austrian Bishops.
This was stated in Vienna by the sitting Hans Peter Hurka -- the president of the society -- in an e-mail yesterday to his supporters.
Hurka explained in his correspondence about a "great expectation (trust fund)", that his society had concocted last year.
The goal of this fund is according to Hurkas words, "for the quiet, individual exit from the Church in solidarity to advocate for reforms in the Church."
Under his desire old liberal reforms Hurka understands a further undercutting of the decadent Conciliar Church beneath the dictates and dogmas of the world.
Even his newest project receives support from the Austrian Bishops by Hurka, an expectant enemy of the Church:
"In conversations with the financial chambers of the Diocese there would be from now on a stipulated intermediate step" -- he said, pleased.
His planned trust fund can be applied partly or wholly pay church fees - with the agreement of the ordinariate -- directed for a supposed development project.
The paid fee can in any event can be redeemed for Church-tax.
- The collection which -- infiltrated by left extremists == Austrian Caritas for the flood catastrophe in Pakistan.
- A collection of the stone rich western media bosses cuddling with Austrian Bishop Msgr Werin Kräutler (71), of Xingu in Brazil.
- A collection of the world enriched Viennese development 'assistance -clubs'.
For Catholic projects the old liberals are well known for giving nothing to Catholic causes.
The paid dough will be from the fund -- less the allowable expenses of six euro per calendar year -- forwarded to the selected project.
Members of 'We are Church' will serve expense free.
The anti-Church organization apportions a remittance for the appropriate financial department.
This then reduces the church contribution fee by the amount transferred to by the trustee.
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[kreuz.net] It is an open secret that the church-hating organization 'We are Church' are put under wraps by the Austrian Bishops.
This was stated in Vienna by the sitting Hans Peter Hurka -- the president of the society -- in an e-mail yesterday to his supporters.
Hurka explained in his correspondence about a "great expectation (trust fund)", that his society had concocted last year.
The goal of this fund is according to Hurkas words, "for the quiet, individual exit from the Church in solidarity to advocate for reforms in the Church."
Under his desire old liberal reforms Hurka understands a further undercutting of the decadent Conciliar Church beneath the dictates and dogmas of the world.
Even his newest project receives support from the Austrian Bishops by Hurka, an expectant enemy of the Church:
"In conversations with the financial chambers of the Diocese there would be from now on a stipulated intermediate step" -- he said, pleased.
His planned trust fund can be applied partly or wholly pay church fees - with the agreement of the ordinariate -- directed for a supposed development project.
The paid fee can in any event can be redeemed for Church-tax.
- The collection which -- infiltrated by left extremists == Austrian Caritas for the flood catastrophe in Pakistan.
- A collection of the stone rich western media bosses cuddling with Austrian Bishop Msgr Werin Kräutler (71), of Xingu in Brazil.
- A collection of the world enriched Viennese development 'assistance -clubs'.
For Catholic projects the old liberals are well known for giving nothing to Catholic causes.
The paid dough will be from the fund -- less the allowable expenses of six euro per calendar year -- forwarded to the selected project.
Members of 'We are Church' will serve expense free.
The anti-Church organization apportions a remittance for the appropriate financial department.
This then reduces the church contribution fee by the amount transferred to by the trustee.
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Sending Strange Signals: America's Oldest Basilica
In a fit of urban renewal, this once poorly attended inner-city parish has been brightened and made comfortable for the childless children of the upper-middle class and others.
The pastor insists that this Purple Dinosaur hue, which shares a certain resemblance to his erroneous theological opinions, isn't for any particular feast on the Roman Calendar, it's supposedly for Breast Cancer Awareness month.
We've heard from certain sources that a correction is under way since Saturday. This is clearly a message of being of the world and not in it. The people who run this parish clearly don't have their feet on the ground at all.
The Pastor of this parish insists, amid all of the liturgical abuse and his soft-shoe doctrinal routine that he's against homosexuals being married, but he doesn't want to be quoted. Surely, he was forced to fire his 'artist in residence' who has been visible in the media lately for her "brave" dissent from the Church's teachings. We think the people who attend Mass here and use this facility have a right to know the truth about the Catholic religion, even if it sends them down the street to the Episcopalians.
Photo; taken October 12 of this year.
Bill Buckley Was Secretly Contemptuous of his Irish Catholic Readership
From Peter Brimlow's essay at Vdare there's some interesting and possibly unnecessary details about Sobran's personal life and habits, which were not too scathing anyway, but what was interesting was his mention of how Bill Buckley, his employer at Natinoal Review, had fired him for outing his contempt for conservative Irish Catholics.
I don't particularly like Irish-American Catholics either, it's a mixed bag. What I particularly hate is their knee-jerk Americanism and hypocritical embrace of the Catholic Church without embracing Her doctrines and moral imperatives, largely due to the vicious tutelage of the Irish-American Bishops who were generally more interested in building an American Empire than they were in saving souls.
Sean Hannity himself is a wonderful example of this as he was hounded out by Father Eutener for his immoral beliefs about birth control, so perhaps we understand Buckley's discomfort with the Irish Catholics, but read Sobran's essay anyway.
I don't particularly like Irish-American Catholics either, it's a mixed bag. What I particularly hate is their knee-jerk Americanism and hypocritical embrace of the Catholic Church without embracing Her doctrines and moral imperatives, largely due to the vicious tutelage of the Irish-American Bishops who were generally more interested in building an American Empire than they were in saving souls.
Sean Hannity himself is a wonderful example of this as he was hounded out by Father Eutener for his immoral beliefs about birth control, so perhaps we understand Buckley's discomfort with the Irish Catholics, but read Sobran's essay anyway.
Concentration Camp in Green : Greens Attack SSPX in Bundestag
It's right on time that the German Bundestag takes up the battle against the Society of St. Pius X using the tried and true methods of before.
[kreuz.net] The faction of the German Melon-Party 'Greens' have brought a 'modest proposal' to the Bundestag.
This was reported by 'German Bundestages'.
The 'green' Antichristians would like to bring to disclosure, if the German government would acknowledge the application of "extremist views of the Society of Pius X".
The Society of St. Pius X is an internationally active organization of traditional believers. The 'Greens' would like to portray them as Anti-German enemies of the State.
In fact the Society has opposed the Germanization of the Catholic Liturgy and the introduction of National principles into the Church.
The 'green' faction asks, if the Government if the views of the extremists indicate that the Society of St. Pius X stand in whole or in part, in an endeavor to pursue them in contradiction with the alleged "free-democratic foundations of the Bundesrepublik of Germany."
The free and democratic foundations of Germany guarantee -- at least theoretically -- the free practice of religion.
The Bundesrepublik of Germany is the successor organization of the Third Reich of Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler (+1945).
The 'Green'-Extremists also want to know, which knowledge the Bundesregierung has on that, if and to which extent the State Courts for the protection of the Constitution, have nothing else better to do, than to monitor the Society of St. Pius.
The Catholic Church was already spied upon systematically by collaborators of the 'Secret State Police'.
The 'Green'-Party, their own Pedophile-Walz notwithstanding, swept over Germany this spring for self-declared child molesters as Congressmen in their ranks. [The legitimization of sexual activity with children has been attempted by the German Government, read here and especially here.]
In the 80s the 'Greens' promoted the legalization of Child-rape or the abolition of compulsory school attendance.
Link to original...kreuz.net
[kreuz.net] The faction of the German Melon-Party 'Greens' have brought a 'modest proposal' to the Bundestag.
This was reported by 'German Bundestages'.
The 'green' Antichristians would like to bring to disclosure, if the German government would acknowledge the application of "extremist views of the Society of Pius X".
The Society of St. Pius X is an internationally active organization of traditional believers. The 'Greens' would like to portray them as Anti-German enemies of the State.
In fact the Society has opposed the Germanization of the Catholic Liturgy and the introduction of National principles into the Church.
The 'green' faction asks, if the Government if the views of the extremists indicate that the Society of St. Pius X stand in whole or in part, in an endeavor to pursue them in contradiction with the alleged "free-democratic foundations of the Bundesrepublik of Germany."
The free and democratic foundations of Germany guarantee -- at least theoretically -- the free practice of religion.
The Bundesrepublik of Germany is the successor organization of the Third Reich of Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler (+1945).
The 'Green'-Extremists also want to know, which knowledge the Bundesregierung has on that, if and to which extent the State Courts for the protection of the Constitution, have nothing else better to do, than to monitor the Society of St. Pius.
The Catholic Church was already spied upon systematically by collaborators of the 'Secret State Police'.
The 'Green'-Party, their own Pedophile-Walz notwithstanding, swept over Germany this spring for self-declared child molesters as Congressmen in their ranks. [The legitimization of sexual activity with children has been attempted by the German Government, read here and especially here.]
In the 80s the 'Greens' promoted the legalization of Child-rape or the abolition of compulsory school attendance.
Link to original...kreuz.net
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Local Minneapolis Priest Threatened with Excommunication: +Schönborn's Malice Spreads
In a letter to a local Minnesota paper, Father Michael Tegeder recently insisted, on October 3rd, upon demonstrating his resistance to Church teaching on homosexuality in defense of one of the Basilica of St.Mary's long-time (at least 12 years) promoters of sodomy, Lucinda Naylor. He isn't just "out on a limb" of dissidence, he's been steadfastly resisting Catholic teaching throughout his priestly career and it's amazing that he, like many other Priests, administrators, communications directors and teachers in the Archdiocese continue to hold their jobs and bloat the Archdiocese's payroll and will eventually have to be taken care of when they have to mercifully retire.
According to Father Tegeder, Archbishop Nienstedt had threatened him with interdict and excommunication already for the "cremation garden" at his (sinfully minimalist) suburban church. In response Father Tegeder provided the Archbishop with documentation suggesting he had complied with the Church's rules regarding burial of the dead; said practices and customs are, no doubt another victim of post-conciliar ambiguity. There seems to have been no repercussions for this priest who insults the company he works for and his boss with impunity, but he's been doing it for a long time and while it hasn't gone undocumented or unnoticed by others more vigilant than the Archdiocese's disciplinary authorities, it has certainly gone unpunished, with the predictable result that the perpetrator can set alternative standards for others to follow and inevitably be confused about.
Of greater interest is his reliance on Cardinal Schönborn as an improvised shield quoted here from NCR:
In his letter, Tegeder said it was "most scandalous" that Nienstedt "comprised his office with the use of anonymous money." He said the campaign leaves the impression "that political funding is at work here."
He also cited comments last spring, reported in the German press and in the British Catholic publication The Tablet, by Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, who told an interviewer that the church "should give more consideration to the quality of homosexual relationships. A stable relationship is certainly better than if someone chooses to be promiscuous." The Tablet also reported that the cardinal said lasting gay relationships deserve respect.
++Schönborn, as Tegeder noted, is a close friend of Pope Benedict XVI and a principal author of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
In an interview Oct. 4 with NCR, Tegeder said he had received overwhelmingly positive response to his letter, but had not yet received any reaction from Nienstedt.
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Photo: Taken in the spring of 2008 of America's First Basilica in Downtown Minneapolis
Turkey: Bartholomew I Sees Hope For the Ecumenical Patriachate: And Reunion
Patriarch Bartholomaios I hopes for the re-opening of the Seminary of Chalki by 2011 -- 15 Diaspora-Metropolitans of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, including Metropolitan Staikos of Austria, have Turkish citizenship.
Constantinople (kath.net/KAP) Bartholomaios I, Greek-Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, sees signs for an improvement of the situation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Turkey. In an interview with "Kathpress" on Monday afternoon in the Phanar in Istanbul he said, it is very certain, that the Seminary in Chalki will be reopened in 2011. Bartholomew referred to the most recent address of the Turkish Vice Prime minister Bülent Arinc, who had explained in a TV-Interview, that Chalki must be re-opened again, because Christians in Turkey had the right, to educate their own Clergy and Theologians.
Chalki was closed in 1971 by the Turkish Authorities in a train of prohibitions against private Schools. While private Universities were in the mean time, however, allowed for a long time to open, the same did not apply to Chalki. The reopening of the Seminary belongs also to the central requirements by the EU of Turkey in connection with discussions for entry to the EU.
After 40 years it has been pressing on time, to address their own priest shortage by educating them again, said Patriarch Bartholomew I. He is much more optimistic than earlier, that the Turkish Government will finally make the way for reopening free.
As another very positive signal on the side of the Turkish Government the Patriarch cited that the Turkish Government has reinstated the citizenships of 15 Metropolitans of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, who are active abroad; among them is also the Metropolitan of Austria, Michael Staikos.
According to a Turkish proposal the Patriarchal Office may only be occupied by one of Turkish citizenship. Not least because they were in any case only 15 more Bishops for the office in question, of whom 11 are already over 70 years old.
Recognition of Ecumenical Dialogue
The Patriarch did not want to directly address the most recent full assembly of the Catholic-Orthodox Dialog commission, which was held in Vienna and took place without substantial progress. He has still not been informed over the particulars of the Dialog. He reinforced, however, the desire of the Orthodox to travel further along the way of Ecumenism, till the full unity of the Church is finally reached.
He also reinforced this assertion with the consideration that the Orthodoxy
was resolved in its own Synod in the Phanar, to take up the dialogue again, following when the 2000 Full Meeting of Baltimore was put on ice.
But not only with the Catholic Church, we also strove for dialogue with the Reformed and Oriental churches, said Bartholomew I.; The same is also valid for relations to Islam and to Judaism. What especially leads to this dialogue, is that it requires a sound education, and therefore, the re-opening of Chalki, maintains the Patriarch.
Positive Signals and Unresolved Problems
As a positive signal, observers also recently noted the willingness of the Turkish authorities that the Orthodox Church henceforth once a year -- on the 15th of August -- may celebrate a church service in the Cloister Church of Sumela south of the Black Sea City of Trabzon. There were 1,500 Christians who came to Sumela for the first Mass in 88 years. Patriarch Bartholomew I. presided. The church was despoiled since the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1922 and became thereafter a cultural monument.
The Turkish Minister President Tayyip Erdogan had rejected pressure from nationalist circles critical of the service. Turkey has nothing to lose if a thousand or two thousand Christians were to come and celebrate their Service, Erdogan was quoted as saying by the Turkish media.
A great problem remains still in the unresolved question of the rights of recognition of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul. The Turkish authorities recognize neither the title of the Ecumenical Patriarch, nor the responsibility of the Patriarchate for entire Orthodox world. They officially view Bartholomew I. merely as the highest Pastor of the few thousand remaining Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey.
While in any event the already small number of Greek Orthodox faithful in Turkey is conceived as consistently sinking, around 3,5 Million believers in parts of Greece as well as in the Diaspora in North- and South America, Middle and Western Europe and Australia are directly under the authority of the Patriarchate.
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Constantinople (kath.net/KAP) Bartholomaios I, Greek-Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, sees signs for an improvement of the situation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Turkey. In an interview with "Kathpress" on Monday afternoon in the Phanar in Istanbul he said, it is very certain, that the Seminary in Chalki will be reopened in 2011. Bartholomew referred to the most recent address of the Turkish Vice Prime minister Bülent Arinc, who had explained in a TV-Interview, that Chalki must be re-opened again, because Christians in Turkey had the right, to educate their own Clergy and Theologians.
Chalki was closed in 1971 by the Turkish Authorities in a train of prohibitions against private Schools. While private Universities were in the mean time, however, allowed for a long time to open, the same did not apply to Chalki. The reopening of the Seminary belongs also to the central requirements by the EU of Turkey in connection with discussions for entry to the EU.
After 40 years it has been pressing on time, to address their own priest shortage by educating them again, said Patriarch Bartholomew I. He is much more optimistic than earlier, that the Turkish Government will finally make the way for reopening free.
As another very positive signal on the side of the Turkish Government the Patriarch cited that the Turkish Government has reinstated the citizenships of 15 Metropolitans of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, who are active abroad; among them is also the Metropolitan of Austria, Michael Staikos.
According to a Turkish proposal the Patriarchal Office may only be occupied by one of Turkish citizenship. Not least because they were in any case only 15 more Bishops for the office in question, of whom 11 are already over 70 years old.
Recognition of Ecumenical Dialogue
The Patriarch did not want to directly address the most recent full assembly of the Catholic-Orthodox Dialog commission, which was held in Vienna and took place without substantial progress. He has still not been informed over the particulars of the Dialog. He reinforced, however, the desire of the Orthodox to travel further along the way of Ecumenism, till the full unity of the Church is finally reached.
He also reinforced this assertion with the consideration that the Orthodoxy
was resolved in its own Synod in the Phanar, to take up the dialogue again, following when the 2000 Full Meeting of Baltimore was put on ice.
But not only with the Catholic Church, we also strove for dialogue with the Reformed and Oriental churches, said Bartholomew I.; The same is also valid for relations to Islam and to Judaism. What especially leads to this dialogue, is that it requires a sound education, and therefore, the re-opening of Chalki, maintains the Patriarch.
Positive Signals and Unresolved Problems
As a positive signal, observers also recently noted the willingness of the Turkish authorities that the Orthodox Church henceforth once a year -- on the 15th of August -- may celebrate a church service in the Cloister Church of Sumela south of the Black Sea City of Trabzon. There were 1,500 Christians who came to Sumela for the first Mass in 88 years. Patriarch Bartholomew I. presided. The church was despoiled since the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1922 and became thereafter a cultural monument.
The Turkish Minister President Tayyip Erdogan had rejected pressure from nationalist circles critical of the service. Turkey has nothing to lose if a thousand or two thousand Christians were to come and celebrate their Service, Erdogan was quoted as saying by the Turkish media.
A great problem remains still in the unresolved question of the rights of recognition of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul. The Turkish authorities recognize neither the title of the Ecumenical Patriarch, nor the responsibility of the Patriarchate for entire Orthodox world. They officially view Bartholomew I. merely as the highest Pastor of the few thousand remaining Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey.
While in any event the already small number of Greek Orthodox faithful in Turkey is conceived as consistently sinking, around 3,5 Million believers in parts of Greece as well as in the Diaspora in North- and South America, Middle and Western Europe and Australia are directly under the authority of the Patriarchate.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Philosophy Professor Says All Forms of Sexual Immorality Must be Confronted to Oppose Abortion
August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Among advocates of homosexual "marriage," one of the more popular statements from Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning Proposition 8 is that the state is obligated to "treat its citizens equally, not to 'mandate its own moral code." In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com, however, writer and philosopher Dr. Edward Feser pointed out that Walker's ruling is not neutral and, in fact, imposes its own moral code. He also called on conservatives to begin defending the whole spectrum of traditional sexual morality in the public sphere.
"If Christians and conservatives are not prepared to defend traditional sexual morality in general, then they are going to lose the battle over 'same-sex marriage,'" he said. "And that means that they are going to have to be prepared to criticize homosexual behavior itself, as well as sex outside of marriage, divorce, pornography, and all the rest."
"The other side is motivated by a moralistic fervor, and they frame the debate in terms of rights, justice, compassion, and so forth. That sort of rhetoric cannot effectively be countered except with equal and opposite moral force."
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"If Christians and conservatives are not prepared to defend traditional sexual morality in general, then they are going to lose the battle over 'same-sex marriage,'" he said. "And that means that they are going to have to be prepared to criticize homosexual behavior itself, as well as sex outside of marriage, divorce, pornography, and all the rest."
"The other side is motivated by a moralistic fervor, and they frame the debate in terms of rights, justice, compassion, and so forth. That sort of rhetoric cannot effectively be countered except with equal and opposite moral force."
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Svetlana Medvedeva commemorates victims of Polish airplane crash in Smolensk Cathedral
Smolensk, October 11, Interfax – Svetlana Medvedeva visited the Assumption Cathedral late on Sunday and thus finished her trip to Smolensk.
After memorial events at the Katyn memorial complex Russian President's spouse visited the cathedral in company with president's representative plenipotentiary to the Central Federative District Georgy Poltavchenko, governor of the Smolensk Region Sergey Antufyev and Bishop Feofilakt of Smolensk and Vyazma.
Bishop Feofilakt told Medvedeva dramatic story of the church and mentioned artifacts kept in it, then Medvedeva participated in the divine service held to commemorate 96 passengers of Tu-154 crashed on April 10 when landing on the Severny airdrome.
Medvedeva lit the candle before the Smolensk icon of the Mother of God Hodigitria (She who shows the way) and gave the bishop an icon of St. John the Theologian as a present.
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After memorial events at the Katyn memorial complex Russian President's spouse visited the cathedral in company with president's representative plenipotentiary to the Central Federative District Georgy Poltavchenko, governor of the Smolensk Region Sergey Antufyev and Bishop Feofilakt of Smolensk and Vyazma.
Bishop Feofilakt told Medvedeva dramatic story of the church and mentioned artifacts kept in it, then Medvedeva participated in the divine service held to commemorate 96 passengers of Tu-154 crashed on April 10 when landing on the Severny airdrome.
Medvedeva lit the candle before the Smolensk icon of the Mother of God Hodigitria (She who shows the way) and gave the bishop an icon of St. John the Theologian as a present.
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Persecuted Chaldean Iraqis Find home in East Tennessee
Chaldean Catholics, native to Iraq, are fleeing their home country to avoid persecution. WBIR News reports that many Chaldeans are tortured and murdered for their beliefs.
An estimated 100,000 Chaldeans are in the United States, and about 100 are in East Tennessee. More are on their way.
Bishop Ibrahim Ibrahim of the St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Chaldean Diocese and the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville are hopeful about establishing a mission for the Chaldean immigrants.
Tennessee Diocesan Paper, here
An estimated 100,000 Chaldeans are in the United States, and about 100 are in East Tennessee. More are on their way.
Bishop Ibrahim Ibrahim of the St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Chaldean Diocese and the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville are hopeful about establishing a mission for the Chaldean immigrants.
Tennessee Diocesan Paper, here
Pope Has Received Message from Ahmadinejad
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Pope has received letter from Ahmadinejad
(AP) – 1 day ago
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI has received a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The Vatican did not release the contents of the message. But the website of the Iranian presidency said Saturday that Ahmadinejad had called for cooperation by "divine religions" against secularism.
The website said he also thanked Benedict for his stance against a Florida pastor who had threatened to burn the Quran on the 9/11 anniversary. The pope and other Christian leaders urged the pastor to reconsider his plans, which he eventually called off.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the pontiff received the letter during a brief meeting with one of Iran's vice presidents at the end of his weekly general audience Wednesday.
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Pope has received letter from Ahmadinejad
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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI has received a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The Vatican did not release the contents of the message. But the website of the Iranian presidency said Saturday that Ahmadinejad had called for cooperation by "divine religions" against secularism.
The website said he also thanked Benedict for his stance against a Florida pastor who had threatened to burn the Quran on the 9/11 anniversary. The pope and other Christian leaders urged the pastor to reconsider his plans, which he eventually called off.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the pontiff received the letter during a brief meeting with one of Iran's vice presidents at the end of his weekly general audience Wednesday.
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Columbus Day: No Apologies
by Joe Hargrave
Few days provide so great an occasion for an orgy of self-hatred (among the white elites) and faux moral outrage as Columbus Day. But long before communists, socialists, and their fellow-travelers seized control of our educational institutions and rewrote the history of the Western civilization – a revision which is force-fed to most students in our public reeducation centers – Columbus was celebrated as a great explorer and a daring adventurer who undertook great hardships to undergo the voyage that would lead to the discovery of the New World. Pope Leo XIII, on the 400th anniversary (1892) of that famous voyage, wrote of Columbus in Quarto Abeunte Saeculo:
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Few days provide so great an occasion for an orgy of self-hatred (among the white elites) and faux moral outrage as Columbus Day. But long before communists, socialists, and their fellow-travelers seized control of our educational institutions and rewrote the history of the Western civilization – a revision which is force-fed to most students in our public reeducation centers – Columbus was celebrated as a great explorer and a daring adventurer who undertook great hardships to undergo the voyage that would lead to the discovery of the New World. Pope Leo XIII, on the 400th anniversary (1892) of that famous voyage, wrote of Columbus in Quarto Abeunte Saeculo:
By his toil another world emerged from the unsearched bosom of the ocean: hundreds of thousands of mortals have, from a state of blindness, been raised to the common level of the human race, reclaimed from savagery to gentleness and humanity; and, greatest of all, by the acquisition of those blessings of which Jesus Christ is the author, they have been recalled from destruction to eternal life.
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The Church Can't Make Mothers out of Fathers: Bishop van Elst Critical of Ephemeral Zeitgeist
The Bishop of Limburg found joyful words against woman's ordination, for celibacy and criticized the adaption of the ephemeral Zeitgeist.
[kreuz.net] Bishop Franz-peter Tebartz-van Elst stood critically against "commonly accepted proposals for modernization".
He explained this on the 1st of October for three journalists of the newspaper 'Nassauische Neu Presse' which was very hostilely inclined to the Bishop.
The Priest Functions as a Father
The Bishop spoke forcefully against the effort to the theologically impossible ordination of priestesses.
For: The priest has a father function within the community: "The Father is the Father, the Mother is the Mother."
The Church is then for that reason not in a position to ordain women priests.
Jesus had made men to be his Apostles, thereon the Church buttresses itself.
The question if women may be priestesses is no question of adequacy -- rather a question of the concrete pattern of Jesus.
In answer to a - stupid - request the Bishop explained that God loves women exactly as much as men. It is also important that women participate in the Church.
So he was occupied with a few positions concerning women.
Relative to the priesthood the Bishop was clear: "Those who are to become Priests, it is to say, they will be called by the Church."
There is no right, therefore, to be a Priest: "That doesn't just go for women, rather for men as well."
Journalists have Problems with Celibacy
The obligatory question about the abolition of celibacy was not answered so directly by Msgr Tebartz-van Elst:
"Many priests to live and are aware that they have then decided to devote their lives to God."
The Bishop contradicted the theory, whereon celibacy is a reason that today so few young men want to be priests.
He reproved the communities - and pastoral ministers, who have children and stay away even without celibacy.
"The reason for the priest shortage is much more in the secularization of life. Many people could imagine a life without God."
Secularization means Wordly
As a further reason for the priest shortage he identified lack of support, whereby the decision to become a priest can be hindered.
Thus he proposed: "We need evidence of Faith."
[kreuz.net] Bishop Franz-peter Tebartz-van Elst stood critically against "commonly accepted proposals for modernization".
He explained this on the 1st of October for three journalists of the newspaper 'Nassauische Neu Presse' which was very hostilely inclined to the Bishop.
The Priest Functions as a Father
The Bishop spoke forcefully against the effort to the theologically impossible ordination of priestesses.
For: The priest has a father function within the community: "The Father is the Father, the Mother is the Mother."
The Church is then for that reason not in a position to ordain women priests.
Jesus had made men to be his Apostles, thereon the Church buttresses itself.
The question if women may be priestesses is no question of adequacy -- rather a question of the concrete pattern of Jesus.
In answer to a - stupid - request the Bishop explained that God loves women exactly as much as men. It is also important that women participate in the Church.
So he was occupied with a few positions concerning women.
Relative to the priesthood the Bishop was clear: "Those who are to become Priests, it is to say, they will be called by the Church."
There is no right, therefore, to be a Priest: "That doesn't just go for women, rather for men as well."
Journalists have Problems with Celibacy
The obligatory question about the abolition of celibacy was not answered so directly by Msgr Tebartz-van Elst:
"Many priests to live and are aware that they have then decided to devote their lives to God."
The Bishop contradicted the theory, whereon celibacy is a reason that today so few young men want to be priests.
He reproved the communities - and pastoral ministers, who have children and stay away even without celibacy.
"The reason for the priest shortage is much more in the secularization of life. Many people could imagine a life without God."
Secularization means Wordly
As a further reason for the priest shortage he identified lack of support, whereby the decision to become a priest can be hindered.
Thus he proposed: "We need evidence of Faith."
Belgrade: 20,000 Take to the Streets Against Homosexual Demonstration
20,000 March in the Streets of Belgrade against homosexuals imported from outside of Serbia who are attempting to bring Western pollution to their country.
The leader of the Milošević-Partei fights in vain against the imported homosexuals -- and against his own country.
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Eu Observer is saying that these protests are also demonstrating opposition to the EU.
The leader of the Milošević-Partei fights in vain against the imported homosexuals -- and against his own country.
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Eu Observer is saying that these protests are also demonstrating opposition to the EU.
Ethiopia: He Wrote "Jesus Is Lord" in Muslim's Koran
Christian Jailed in Ethiopia Accused of Desecrating Koran
Constitution flouted as he is jailed for two months in Muslim area without court appearance.
Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 Posted: 12:29:54AM
NAIROBI, Kenya (Compass Direct News) – A Christian in Ethiopia’s southern town of Moyale has been languishing in jail for two months after his Muslim business partner accused him of writing “Jesus is Lord” in a copy of the Quran, local church leaders said.
Tamirat Woldegorgis, a member of the Full Gospel Church in his early 30s, was arrested in early August after the Muslim co-worker in the clothes-making business the two operated out of a rented home discovered Woldegorgis had inscribed “Jesus is Lord” on some cloth, area Christians said.
Woldegorgis returned from a break one morning to find that the inscribed words had been cut out of the piece of cloth, the sources said. He then had the words set in the machinery of their tailoring business for inscription on clothing material, only to find later that the inscribed plates were removed from the machinery as well, they said.
Constitution flouted as he is jailed for two months in Muslim area without court appearance.
Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 Posted: 12:29:54AM
NAIROBI, Kenya (Compass Direct News) – A Christian in Ethiopia’s southern town of Moyale has been languishing in jail for two months after his Muslim business partner accused him of writing “Jesus is Lord” in a copy of the Quran, local church leaders said.
Tamirat Woldegorgis, a member of the Full Gospel Church in his early 30s, was arrested in early August after the Muslim co-worker in the clothes-making business the two operated out of a rented home discovered Woldegorgis had inscribed “Jesus is Lord” on some cloth, area Christians said.
Woldegorgis returned from a break one morning to find that the inscribed words had been cut out of the piece of cloth, the sources said. He then had the words set in the machinery of their tailoring business for inscription on clothing material, only to find later that the inscribed plates were removed from the machinery as well, they said.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Kapellari: Liturgy is, "Not Modelling Wax for the Individual"
Graz Bishop: 'Newly intensive efforts for the spirit and the form of Liturgy' necessary - Liturgy is not to be given over to the creative desire of individuals.
Brixen (kath.net/KAP) Does the Mass have a future? "Naturally", explained the Graz Diocesan Bishop Egon Kapellari on his Sunday Sermon in the Cathedral of Brixen on the close of the "International Brixen Symposium 2010", "because the Church has a future and because the Church and the Mass belong inseparably together.
In any case there will be starting today "newly intensive efforts about the spirit and the form of the Liturgy." Thusly, the religion may not be given over to the creative desire of individuals as a matter of fact: "Liturgy is not modeling wax at the disposal of individuals", said Kapellari.
Actually, however, the joys and sorrows of as many Catholics as possible should be explained and considered, said the Bishop, in view of the lowering numbers of the participants in Sunday Services.
He firmly believes in the promise of Jesus, that the powers of evil in the Church "while, powerful and damaging can never destroy it completely", said the Bishop. This of course does not say if the Church tomorrow will exist as a great majority or a small minority.
For centuries cut off from the outside world, the persecuted Christians of Japan, who had absolutely no priests any more to celebrate the Eucharist, had "lived on as a holy remnant".
"In general, however, it is valid that overall, wherever Catholics were a lasting presence, the Eucharist is always celebrated and will be celebrated in the future, even if in the course of history there are ever new challenges", said Kapellari.
Religious Services in the Courtyard of the Mass
In view of the sinking numbers of Sunday participants and that the young people stay away from the liturgy, warned the Bishop: this is the burning question, "if the threshold of the liturgy is not too high, its language too incomprehensible and if its music has too little heart". [Young people want a challenge....]
Above all Kapellari warned against a rash accommodation of the expectations and criticisms, which lead quickly to discouragement and a "Liturgy" which might be "presumed too rigid, flat Liturgy, even banal". [Graz, are you ready to Rock?]
For young people, who know little of the nature of Liturgy, the threshold of the Mass must not be too flat: "But it can and should become for them and for other people, for whom Mass has become strange, church services that is to say are in the courtyard of the Mass", said Kapellari. There is place for a freer form of Liturgy, "which are not even Eucharists"
A New 'ars celebrandi"
In "waiting", til the Liturgy is discovered again by many, the Church must be present in the secular community through social engagement and "intelligent" discourse in "concert of public opinion"; equipped for the "long haul", "through the prayer of those, who participate for all in the heart of the Church in celebrating the Eucharist.
Using this means there must be a new Catechesis of Liturgy, which builds Christians "slowly but sustainably". From these means "a new ars celebrandi must be developed --even in conversation with culture and even with art of all kinds, after which so many year for," said the Bishop. The Brixner Symposium made an exemplary contribution to just such a conversation.
"Smaller, but purer and nobler"
At the closing Kappelari continued in his preaching "on the life of the Church as a whole": "Our Catholic Church is at the present moment, must go through fire and water, which at this time in Europe is in the grip of some crises, so to say - so may we hope - will proceed even if indeed smaller, but purer and nobler," said the Bishop.
"Christ will not leave his Church." This promise is never the less "no charter for sadness and a lack of imagination" or for "superficially permanent state of activity", rather a "seeking for a weatherproof, joyful and missionary Faith, which even under the current conditions is possible and in many cases a reality."
The "International Brixner Symposium 2010" has taken place from the 8th to 10th of October under the title "The Mass - Source of Life, Highpoint of Faith?" The lecture at the Cusanus Academy combines Science, Culture and Spirituality.
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Brixen (kath.net/KAP) Does the Mass have a future? "Naturally", explained the Graz Diocesan Bishop Egon Kapellari on his Sunday Sermon in the Cathedral of Brixen on the close of the "International Brixen Symposium 2010", "because the Church has a future and because the Church and the Mass belong inseparably together.
In any case there will be starting today "newly intensive efforts about the spirit and the form of the Liturgy." Thusly, the religion may not be given over to the creative desire of individuals as a matter of fact: "Liturgy is not modeling wax at the disposal of individuals", said Kapellari.
Actually, however, the joys and sorrows of as many Catholics as possible should be explained and considered, said the Bishop, in view of the lowering numbers of the participants in Sunday Services.
He firmly believes in the promise of Jesus, that the powers of evil in the Church "while, powerful and damaging can never destroy it completely", said the Bishop. This of course does not say if the Church tomorrow will exist as a great majority or a small minority.
For centuries cut off from the outside world, the persecuted Christians of Japan, who had absolutely no priests any more to celebrate the Eucharist, had "lived on as a holy remnant".
"In general, however, it is valid that overall, wherever Catholics were a lasting presence, the Eucharist is always celebrated and will be celebrated in the future, even if in the course of history there are ever new challenges", said Kapellari.
Religious Services in the Courtyard of the Mass
In view of the sinking numbers of Sunday participants and that the young people stay away from the liturgy, warned the Bishop: this is the burning question, "if the threshold of the liturgy is not too high, its language too incomprehensible and if its music has too little heart". [Young people want a challenge....]
Above all Kapellari warned against a rash accommodation of the expectations and criticisms, which lead quickly to discouragement and a "Liturgy" which might be "presumed too rigid, flat Liturgy, even banal". [Graz, are you ready to Rock?]
For young people, who know little of the nature of Liturgy, the threshold of the Mass must not be too flat: "But it can and should become for them and for other people, for whom Mass has become strange, church services that is to say are in the courtyard of the Mass", said Kapellari. There is place for a freer form of Liturgy, "which are not even Eucharists"
A New 'ars celebrandi"
In "waiting", til the Liturgy is discovered again by many, the Church must be present in the secular community through social engagement and "intelligent" discourse in "concert of public opinion"; equipped for the "long haul", "through the prayer of those, who participate for all in the heart of the Church in celebrating the Eucharist.
Using this means there must be a new Catechesis of Liturgy, which builds Christians "slowly but sustainably". From these means "a new ars celebrandi must be developed --even in conversation with culture and even with art of all kinds, after which so many year for," said the Bishop. The Brixner Symposium made an exemplary contribution to just such a conversation.
"Smaller, but purer and nobler"
At the closing Kappelari continued in his preaching "on the life of the Church as a whole": "Our Catholic Church is at the present moment, must go through fire and water, which at this time in Europe is in the grip of some crises, so to say - so may we hope - will proceed even if indeed smaller, but purer and nobler," said the Bishop.
"Christ will not leave his Church." This promise is never the less "no charter for sadness and a lack of imagination" or for "superficially permanent state of activity", rather a "seeking for a weatherproof, joyful and missionary Faith, which even under the current conditions is possible and in many cases a reality."
The "International Brixner Symposium 2010" has taken place from the 8th to 10th of October under the title "The Mass - Source of Life, Highpoint of Faith?" The lecture at the Cusanus Academy combines Science, Culture and Spirituality.
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Priestly Marriage Will Bring No Flowers
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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[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."
Original, kreuznet...
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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."
Link to original kreuz.net...
[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.
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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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photo 2: summuorum.pontificum.de
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.
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[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.
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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.
Read further...Hehir Exposed
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.
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