Thursday, April 22, 2010
Revolutionary San Fransisco Prepares to Rob Catholic Church
Evil liberals inciting liberalism within and liberals outside rigging the courts to steal, which is what Communists have historically done. Communists generally don't produce anything, but they like caviar, premium vodka and living above the law like the Czars. Since they don't fear God, they are capable of any shameful act to keep themselves in power and they detest any alternative source of moral authority outside of the party, so the Church is always in their way; an accusing finger pointing at them from the ages with an authority that's impossible to ignore or erase.
“Threatens to confiscate substantial Church assets devoted to religious purposes”
San Francisco archdiocese sues over county tax levy
“Threatens to confiscate substantial Church assets devoted to religious purposes”
San Francisco archdiocese sues over county tax levy
“The Archdiocese of San Francisco has filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court to challenge the attempt by County Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting to impose a transfer tax on an internal reorganization of the family of Archdiocesan corporations,” said a news release posted on the archdiocesan website April 21.
The lawsuit stems from a decision by the San Francisco Transfer Tax Appeals Board to uphold an estimated $14.4 million in property-transfer taxes levied against the Archdiocese of San Francisco by Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting.
The levy, described by the assessor’s office as “the second largest transfer tax event in our city’s history,” stems from the internal transfer within the archdiocese in 2008 of 232 pieces of property. Ting determined that the transfers were the equivalent of “sales” and therefore subject to property taxes.
The Naked Communism of Earth Day
By Alan Caruba
It is no accident that April 22, Earth Day, is also the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, an acolyte of Karl Marx, the lunatic who invented communism as an alternative to capitalism.
Earth Day is naked communism.
To begin, it substitutes a worship of the Earth, Gaia, for the worship of God, creator of the universe and the instructor of moral behavior for mankind.
The Earth does not demand a moral code of personal behavior. Indeed, the lesson it teaches is "the survival of the fittest "and an indifference to suffering. The "natural events" mankind fears most all involve the potential for significant loss of life and for injury.
The Earth is a beautiful place, but it is utterly merciless. Man has learned to adapt to it and, by adapt, I mean to use its resources to build shelter and protection from it, to plant and harvest crops from it, and to domesticate some of its species while hunting and fishing for others for food.
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Orthodoxy Vindicated: The Real Reason Archbishop Favalora of Miami was made to Resign
Eric Giunta April 21, 2010
Orthodoxy vindicated: the real reason Archbishop Favalora of Miami was made to resign
By Eric Giunta
Today is a glorious day, one for which Catholics should rightly be proud. The Bishop of Rome has responded to years of documented moral and financial mismanagement of the Miami Archdiocese by Archbishop John Favalora. On April 20, the Holy See compelled Favalora to tender his resignation "in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law," in the words of the official Vatican press release.
The canon in question reads as follows:
Archbishop Favalora is a mere eight months away from his 75th birthday, upon which Catholic canon law would have required him to submit his resignation, that he might step down from office with the customary grace and dignity. Rome, it seems, didn't care to afford him that courtesy. And for good reason: Favalora did not resign "because of ill health"; he himself has admitted so. So, what "grave cause" could have possibly required an Archbishop to tender his resignation well before the customary date?
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Orthodoxy vindicated: the real reason Archbishop Favalora of Miami was made to resign
By Eric Giunta
Today is a glorious day, one for which Catholics should rightly be proud. The Bishop of Rome has responded to years of documented moral and financial mismanagement of the Miami Archdiocese by Archbishop John Favalora. On April 20, the Holy See compelled Favalora to tender his resignation "in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law," in the words of the official Vatican press release.
The canon in question reads as follows:
A diocesan bishop who has become less able to fulfill his office because of ill health or some other grave cause is earnestly requested to present his resignation from office.
Archbishop Favalora is a mere eight months away from his 75th birthday, upon which Catholic canon law would have required him to submit his resignation, that he might step down from office with the customary grace and dignity. Rome, it seems, didn't care to afford him that courtesy. And for good reason: Favalora did not resign "because of ill health"; he himself has admitted so. So, what "grave cause" could have possibly required an Archbishop to tender his resignation well before the customary date?
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Jesuit is a Dirty Word: Campy Faux Jesuits Make it so
This is the kind of interlocutor that gets sickening. In modern Greek, the word for boogeyman is Jesuit. Greek mothers feared the Jesuits because it was averred by their folk traditions that Jesuits would steal their more clever children to be brought to be educated as eventual members of the Order in far of lands; not even Opus Dei gets press this bad. Whether this is true as is claimed, by Communist writer and author of "The Last Temptation", Nikos Kazantzakis, who claims to have been the object of a kidnapping attempt by Jesuits himself, it certainly makes you wonder.
The Jesuits don't just have a reputation for casuistry, they have a reputation for deception and unmanly and purely ornamental distinctions whose object is objuscation. So, when writers like this following gentleman rear their schoastic heads in the press to defend the insidious, we begin to wonder if there isn't more than a little truth to Greek wives tales and warnings about Jesuits who will steal your children.
Just a word about the following article. The author warns against aattacks against the Jesuits by the "sadly right-wing". Such slurs, often preceeded by the word "sadly", like "right-wing", conjure up a liberal (see Modernist) grandmother warning his readers that there are these strange troglodytes out there who aren't moderate, intellectual, urbane, New York Tims reading, gay-friendly Jesuits who have paranoid hangups and the like.
Undoubtedly, this overeducated siren is going to warn us of the boogeymen on the "right" whose concerns for orthodoxy and puritanical morality are vain, and certainly don't apply to the Jesuits, who, despite fielding some of the most pernicious theologians, university faculties and priests since the Protestant Revolt, really aren't the baddies that those overzealous "rightists" make them out to be.
Your first warning should be to callout such a perpetrator as a man with an agenda. Maybe such a poo-poo writer has a vested interest, maybe hes part of the problem?
Putting Intellectualism Into Catholic Politics
by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo
The Jesuits don't just have a reputation for casuistry, they have a reputation for deception and unmanly and purely ornamental distinctions whose object is objuscation. So, when writers like this following gentleman rear their schoastic heads in the press to defend the insidious, we begin to wonder if there isn't more than a little truth to Greek wives tales and warnings about Jesuits who will steal your children.
Just a word about the following article. The author warns against aattacks against the Jesuits by the "sadly right-wing". Such slurs, often preceeded by the word "sadly", like "right-wing", conjure up a liberal (see Modernist) grandmother warning his readers that there are these strange troglodytes out there who aren't moderate, intellectual, urbane, New York Tims reading, gay-friendly Jesuits who have paranoid hangups and the like.
Undoubtedly, this overeducated siren is going to warn us of the boogeymen on the "right" whose concerns for orthodoxy and puritanical morality are vain, and certainly don't apply to the Jesuits, who, despite fielding some of the most pernicious theologians, university faculties and priests since the Protestant Revolt, really aren't the baddies that those overzealous "rightists" make them out to be.
Your first warning should be to callout such a perpetrator as a man with an agenda. Maybe such a poo-poo writer has a vested interest, maybe hes part of the problem?
Putting Intellectualism Into Catholic Politics
by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo
"Jesuit" has a clone word: "Jesuitical." The dictionary definition of Jesuitical reads: "practicing casuistry or equivocation; using subtle or oversubtle reasoning; crafty; sly; intriguing." As a graduate of Jesuit schools several times over, I categorically reject the insidious reduction of the intellectual traditions of Jesuit education to selfish intrigue. Resentment of Catholic intellectuality and of the Jesuits' approach to defending the faith betrays the complainers' own limitations. Sadly, the Society often gets attacked not only by left-leaning secularists who resent loyalty to doctrine but also by right-wing [Do such things exist?] Catholics who think that defense of the faith precludes respect for one's opponents.
If any of this description sounds too remote from daily experience, consider a current 30-second promo for Hardball, a political commentary show on MSNBC hosted by Chris Matthews, a Jesuit product from the College of the Holy Cross. The TV ad features the voice of Mr. Matthews explaining the premise of his interviews. He uses phrases like "when they try something on me," or "when they use an argument that has been successful with others" noting his intention to "nail them." He says he derives satisfaction from this process of confronting opinion with facts and propaganda with logic. Needless to say, this is considered "Jesuitical" by some and the exercise of Catholic intellectualism by the rest of us.
Thus, for instance, a Jesuit-trained debater would have a field day with the yesterday's Tea Party placard against Health Care Reform (HRC): "Keep your government hands off my Medicare!" The underlying premise of this slogan holds that government-run programs are harmful, while the current Medicare program needs no fixing. But Medicare IS a government-run program, so exposing this contradiction in the opposing argument destroys the position. Conclusion: If the objections to HCR are faulty, the so too is opposition to HCR.
Did He Confess his Wicked Ways?
On Saturday the Italian Prime Minister received Holy Communion on the tongue before a camera.
[Kreuz.net]on the 17th of April the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (73) received Holy Communion on the tongue.
He's caused quite a bit of controversy, since, thankfully, but we can't help that the press is enjoying his discomfort a little too much. What's especially jarring is the cavalier way that he has campaigned in the past for a rules change, as if he were addressing a memo for he Pope, "oh, yes, Papa, you must change the rule for refusing communion to lechers."
[Kreuz.net]on the 17th of April the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (73) received Holy Communion on the tongue.
He's caused quite a bit of controversy, since, thankfully, but we can't help that the press is enjoying his discomfort a little too much. What's especially jarring is the cavalier way that he has campaigned in the past for a rules change, as if he were addressing a memo for he Pope, "oh, yes, Papa, you must change the rule for refusing communion to lechers."
German bishop offers to quit
AP)BERLIN — A German bishop is offering his resignation after a flap over allegations of physical abuse and financial misconduct, his hometown newspaper reported Wednesday.
Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday evening offering to resign as bishop and as Germany's Roman Catholic military chaplain, the daily Augsburger Allgemeine reported, without citing sources.
He wrote that the "continuing public discussion" about him had "seriously burdened priests and the faithful," according to the report. Diocese officials could not immediately be reached for comment late Wednesday night.
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Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday evening offering to resign as bishop and as Germany's Roman Catholic military chaplain, the daily Augsburger Allgemeine reported, without citing sources.
He wrote that the "continuing public discussion" about him had "seriously burdened priests and the faithful," according to the report. Diocese officials could not immediately be reached for comment late Wednesday night.
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George Weigel's Open Letter to Hans Küng
Dr. Küng:
A decade and a half ago, a former colleague of yours among the younger progressive theologians at Vatican II told me of a friendly warning he had given you at the beginning of the Council’s second session. As this distinguished biblical scholar and proponent of Christian-Jewish reconciliation remembered those heady days, you had taken to driving around Rome in a fire-engine red Mercedes convertible, which your friend presumed had been one fruit of the commercial success of your book, The Council: Reform and Reunion.
This automotive display struck your colleague as imprudent and unnecessarily self-advertising, given that some of your more adventurous opinions, and your talent for what would later be called the sound-bite, were already raising eyebrows and hackles in the Roman Curia. So, as the story was told me, your friend called you aside one day and said, using a French term you both understood, “Hans, you are becoming too evident.”
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A decade and a half ago, a former colleague of yours among the younger progressive theologians at Vatican II told me of a friendly warning he had given you at the beginning of the Council’s second session. As this distinguished biblical scholar and proponent of Christian-Jewish reconciliation remembered those heady days, you had taken to driving around Rome in a fire-engine red Mercedes convertible, which your friend presumed had been one fruit of the commercial success of your book, The Council: Reform and Reunion.
This automotive display struck your colleague as imprudent and unnecessarily self-advertising, given that some of your more adventurous opinions, and your talent for what would later be called the sound-bite, were already raising eyebrows and hackles in the Roman Curia. So, as the story was told me, your friend called you aside one day and said, using a French term you both understood, “Hans, you are becoming too evident.”
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Papal Tears Over Abuses O.K. but Reforming Seminaries as induction Centers for Lavenders is More Important. More.
By Tom Roeser
Tears and Sympathy.
Pope Benedict as a pristine scholar and theologian has his work cut out for him—and it has nothing to do with theology…but tightening up on administration. News the other day that he had tears in his eyes when meeting with families of those abused by pedophile priests was stirring: but turning “reform” over to the same-old, same-old Italianate curia with comme-si, comme-sa, approach to change is going to stir cynicism and will, frankly, wreck his papacy which has an enormous possibility for good in the world.
Does it take a long time to crack down on the insouciant seminary rectors? You bet. It’s like fumigating a nest of roaches from a house. But just to test, there’s one thing that can happen with the snap of a finger—that is making a decision on L’Osservatore Romano the sometimes official, sometimes not official publication that causes great consternation over why the Pontiff of 2 billion churchgoers can’t straighten out the publication which misleads Catholics daily.
He should decide that either the publication is in fact the official publication of the Church whereby he fires the editor and puts somebody charge who will see that the newspaper reflects the straight words from the papacy…or that it is not and severs unofficial connection with it. There—that shouldn’t be too hard, should it? If the pope does that, he will convince people that as an administrator he means business. If he doesn’t, well we’ll just have to wait for a successor to do a job which should be remarkably easy.
Tears of contrition are fine but insufficient if they are just a one-day news story and the seminaries go on welcoming lavenders as incipient priests—for while it’s highly politically incorrect—even politically dangerous-- to say it, they are the root cause of the problem.
http://blog.tomroeser.com/2010/04/thoughts-while-shaving-papal-tears-over.html
Tears and Sympathy.
Pope Benedict as a pristine scholar and theologian has his work cut out for him—and it has nothing to do with theology…but tightening up on administration. News the other day that he had tears in his eyes when meeting with families of those abused by pedophile priests was stirring: but turning “reform” over to the same-old, same-old Italianate curia with comme-si, comme-sa, approach to change is going to stir cynicism and will, frankly, wreck his papacy which has an enormous possibility for good in the world.
Does it take a long time to crack down on the insouciant seminary rectors? You bet. It’s like fumigating a nest of roaches from a house. But just to test, there’s one thing that can happen with the snap of a finger—that is making a decision on L’Osservatore Romano the sometimes official, sometimes not official publication that causes great consternation over why the Pontiff of 2 billion churchgoers can’t straighten out the publication which misleads Catholics daily.
He should decide that either the publication is in fact the official publication of the Church whereby he fires the editor and puts somebody charge who will see that the newspaper reflects the straight words from the papacy…or that it is not and severs unofficial connection with it. There—that shouldn’t be too hard, should it? If the pope does that, he will convince people that as an administrator he means business. If he doesn’t, well we’ll just have to wait for a successor to do a job which should be remarkably easy.
Tears of contrition are fine but insufficient if they are just a one-day news story and the seminaries go on welcoming lavenders as incipient priests—for while it’s highly politically incorrect—even politically dangerous-- to say it, they are the root cause of the problem.
http://blog.tomroeser.com/2010/04/thoughts-while-shaving-papal-tears-over.html
A Call to Action in Minneapolis
CALLING ALL BAPTIZED CATHOLICS AND CHRISTIANS!
If you demand womens ordination, married clergy, and openly-partnered homosexual clergy, and believe the Vatican and this Pope are covering up child-abusing priests...the time for you to act is now!
There's still time! Fr. Michael Tegeder, Pastor of St Edward's Catholic Church in Bloomington MN., the Society of Jesus - The Jesuits, and Call To Action cordially invites to to attend the Spring Planning Meeting today at;
St Edwards Catholic Church
9401 Nesbitt Avenue South
Bloomington, MN 55437
(952) 835-7101 fax: (952) 835-0156
for Call To Action, Minnesota, which are sponsoring the Synod of the Baptized to be held September 17, 2010.
See the link for registering -
http://cccrmn.org/v2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=63
We are happy that the Jesuits have given their support to our cause! We thank Fr. Roger Haight, S.J. for coming today
Don't forget we will be having study group meeting here throughout the summer, (please join!) and we will also be sponsoring the Synod Debriefing here at St. Edwards too. see the link for more information -
http://www.cccrmn.org/v2/index.php?option=com_gcalendar&view=gcalendar&Itemid=84&gcalendarview=month&year=2010&month=10
PLEASE CONSIDER ATTENDING - WE CAN CHANGE THE CHURCH!
Michael Tegeder - mtegeder@stedwardschurch.org
952-835-7101
http://www.calltoaction-mn.org/
http://www.cccrmn.org/v2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=63
New Bishop Blames Devil for Lawsuits
New bishop once blamed devil for abuse lawsuits [He probably still does, if he's a Catholic]
By CHRISTOPHER WILLS (AP) – 18 hours ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A Chicago bishop who once blamed the devil for sexual abuse lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church and proposed shielding the church from legal damages has been named to lead an Illinois diocese.
Thomas Paprocki, an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Chicago, was announced Tuesday as the church's ninth bishop of Springfield.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said it was disappointed with Paprocki's promotion.
"It says to us that the Vatican is more interested in doctrinal purity than child safety — or at least that child safety isn't the No. 1 priority," said David Clohessy, SNAP's executive director.
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By CHRISTOPHER WILLS (AP) – 18 hours ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A Chicago bishop who once blamed the devil for sexual abuse lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church and proposed shielding the church from legal damages has been named to lead an Illinois diocese.
Thomas Paprocki, an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Chicago, was announced Tuesday as the church's ninth bishop of Springfield.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said it was disappointed with Paprocki's promotion.
"It says to us that the Vatican is more interested in doctrinal purity than child safety — or at least that child safety isn't the No. 1 priority," said David Clohessy, SNAP's executive director.
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It's Not the Abuse They Hate, It's the Church: SNAP Protests DC Latin Mass
Allegedly Catholic members of dissident and parasitical victim's group doesn't want a Traditional Latin Mass to be said in D.C., and have appealed to Archbishop Wuerl to do something about it. They don't like its celebrant either, whose only crime is having someone print a distorted story in the newspaper about his supposed "coverup" of sexual abuse by a priest. Cardinal Mahony has done more to promote and protect child abusing homosexuals than most other prelates out there, and he's perjured himself, but other than asking for Todd Tamberg, Mahony's Communicat's director, to resign, they haven't done much officially against Cardinal Mahony. It's impossible to say that SNAP treats all perpetrators of predation the same way. It's certainly done its part to obfuscate the distinction between pedophilia and pederasty and it also exhonerates homosexuality for its role in these crimes. If SNAP were honest, they'd be going after Homosexual Rights groups and the Democratic Party as well, but they're just part of the problem.
SNAP wants to change the Church to fit the world. They don't care about victims.
Cardinal's letter spurs protest in D.C. - Washington Times
Additionally, it's just been announced that Cardinal Hoyos will not be saying the Mass after all. Fr. Z has this to say about the news story, however:
SNAP wants to change the Church to fit the world. They don't care about victims.
A group of Catholic activists is demanding that Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl intervene to prevent Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos, 80, of Colombia, from celebrating a high Latin Mass on Saturday at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Cardinal Hoyos was exposed last week for lauding — in a 2001 letter — French Bishop Pierre Pican of Bayeux-Lisieux for refusing to denounce the Rev. Rene Bissey in that section of Normandy.
"This is the wrong man sending the wrong message at the wrong time," David Clohessy, executive director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) said Tuesday.
Cardinal's letter spurs protest in D.C. - Washington Times
Additionally, it's just been announced that Cardinal Hoyos will not be saying the Mass after all. Fr. Z has this to say about the news story, however:
Now I read in Columbia Passport:According to La Verdad, a regional Spaniard journal, the French bishop did not denounce the priest because he knew it by the first instance under the Sacrament of Confession. According to the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, a priest cannot denounce the matter that is given to him under the gravity of Confession. It includes crimes.
If the bishop was held to silence under the Seal, that could explain how he didn’t think he was able to denounce Fr. Bessey to civil authorities and later gave him an assignment.
When a priest or bishop is bound by the Seal he cannot reveal the contents of the confession to anyone by either word or action. He cannot act on the content of the confession. If there was nothing else apparent and known openly in Fr. Bessey’s record that would argue against his receiving an assignment, to refuse to give him an assignment would have raised questions about why, whether there was something wrong with him that people didn’t know about. It could have been perceived as a moral dilemma for the bishop.
It strikes me that this could in some way explain why Card. Castrillon would have penned such a letter. Furthermore, knowing that the issue was complex, he sought the advice of the Pope before sending it. At issue was a defense of the Seal of confession. The French bishop was not being praised for protecting a priest, a criminal priest, but rather for upholding the Seal of confession.
I muse about this because hitherto I had not seen in news stories on this issue any mention that the French bishop had first learned of the priest’s criminal behavior under the Seal of confession.
Questions remain.
If the Vicar General knew, and told the bishop, then the bishop had an independent source of information. Even in the case it is under normal circumstances still better for priests not to act on the content of a confession, but this was not a normal circumstance.
Why did the bishop consent to hear the confession of one of his priests? This is a perfect example of why a superior should not receive the confessions of those immediately under his authority: the superior runs the risk of having his hands bound and not being able to act.
The bishop also could have found some other assignment than a parish for the priest, but that would not have solved the problem of having in the ranks of the presbyterate a criminal child molester.
In any event, perhaps I had merely missed the mention of the Seal in earlier reporting – in fact I haven’t followed this too closely because of other work. Maybe some of you saw it earlier.
But I think it is an important dimension to this story which needs to be clarified.
Discussion of the "boundaries" of the Seal comes into play.
Scottish Catholic Bishop to EU Leaders: Speak out When Vatican Says Something 'Stupid'
April 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic bishop of Aberdeen, in Scotland went on the attack on Friday, telling the EUobserver that EU leaders should speak out whenever the Vatican said something “stupid.”
Bishop Peter Moran, the bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland was reacting to comments made by the Vatican’s Cardinal Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, who told a press conference in Chile earlier this month that the sex abuse scandals among the clergy are more the result of homosexuality in the priesthood, not pedophilia or the discipline of priestly celibacy.
Moran told the EU Observer, “I would not like to think that there is any exaggerated deference by Christian leaders in Europe toward the Church authorities today. To put it very simply, if the Church says something that is wrong or stupid, even Christian leaders should have the courage to say: ‘No. I disagree with that. You are wrong. That was a stupid thing to say’.”
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Bishop Peter Moran, the bishop of Aberdeen, Scotland was reacting to comments made by the Vatican’s Cardinal Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, who told a press conference in Chile earlier this month that the sex abuse scandals among the clergy are more the result of homosexuality in the priesthood, not pedophilia or the discipline of priestly celibacy.
Moran told the EU Observer, “I would not like to think that there is any exaggerated deference by Christian leaders in Europe toward the Church authorities today. To put it very simply, if the Church says something that is wrong or stupid, even Christian leaders should have the courage to say: ‘No. I disagree with that. You are wrong. That was a stupid thing to say’.”
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
UK Solicitor Wants to Arrest Pope
LONDON-Plans to have the Pope arrested when he visits the UK will succeed because he is not a head of state, a solicitor has said.
Atheist authors Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens proposed the action against the Pontiff for his handling of child abuse scandals in the Catholic church.
The writers’ solicitor Mark Stephens said applications will be made to courts in the UK and the International Criminal Court for a warrant for Pope Benedict XVI’s arrest.
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Atheist authors Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens proposed the action against the Pontiff for his handling of child abuse scandals in the Catholic church.
The writers’ solicitor Mark Stephens said applications will be made to courts in the UK and the International Criminal Court for a warrant for Pope Benedict XVI’s arrest.
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Noonan vs. Haas: Power Games in Opus Dei
Dr. John Haas reacts to Peggy Noonan's call for new blood at Vatican
Philadelphia, Pa., Apr 19, 2010 / http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/dr._john_haas_reacts_to_peggy_noonans_call_for_new_blood_at_vatican/ (CNA).- In response to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Peggy Noonan in which she criticized the Catholic Church for the “second wave” of sex scandals and charged that the “old Vatican needs new blood,” one critic is saying that Noonan should “applaud” the Church for reforms instead of criticizing it.
Noonan's April 17 Wall Street Journal opinion column claimed that the latest sex abuse scandals surrounding the Church have appeared to settle down and that the Vatican is likely thinking that the “worst is over.”
Noonan then argued that as a “Catholic,” she feels that this is not a positive development since the “more relaxed the institution, the less likely it will reform.” After likening the recently reported scandals to what happened in 2002, Noonan states that the “old Vatican needs new blood” and that in particular, the Church needs a “woman's touch.”
Thread on AQ with interesting comments...here.
Philadelphia, Pa., Apr 19, 2010 / http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/dr._john_haas_reacts_to_peggy_noonans_call_for_new_blood_at_vatican/ (CNA).- In response to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Peggy Noonan in which she criticized the Catholic Church for the “second wave” of sex scandals and charged that the “old Vatican needs new blood,” one critic is saying that Noonan should “applaud” the Church for reforms instead of criticizing it.
Noonan's April 17 Wall Street Journal opinion column claimed that the latest sex abuse scandals surrounding the Church have appeared to settle down and that the Vatican is likely thinking that the “worst is over.”
Noonan then argued that as a “Catholic,” she feels that this is not a positive development since the “more relaxed the institution, the less likely it will reform.” After likening the recently reported scandals to what happened in 2002, Noonan states that the “old Vatican needs new blood” and that in particular, the Church needs a “woman's touch.”
Thread on AQ with interesting comments...here.
Homosexual Jesuit Wrote Gay Play
It can't be, can it?
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“Very active in pastoral ministry to LGBTQ Catholics”
Homosexual-friendly priest named rector at Santa Clara University, will be religious superior of 40 fellow Jesuits on campus
By Gibbons J. Cooney
Special to California Catholic Daily
On March 22, Santa Clara University announced that Fr. Michael Zampelli, S.J., had been named the new rector to the Jesuit community of Santa Clara University. Zampelli was appointed by Fr. General Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., the superior general of the Society of Jesus in Rome.
“As rector of the second-largest Jesuit community in the California province of Jesuits, Zampelli will serve as the religious superior for his 40 fellow Jesuits on campus,” said a university news release. “His role is to support and serve them in living their personal, communal, and apostolic lives as Jesuits.”
Fr. Zampelli has served on the Santa Clara faculty since 1998, and is currently the Paul Locatelli Professor in the university’s department of theatre and dance. According to the press release, “Zampelli earned a Ph.D. in drama from Tufts University; M.Div/STM from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, an M.A. from Fordham University, and a B.A. from Georgetown University. Born and raised in Lawrence, Mass., his academic work has focused on the early modern Italian professional theatre and its relationship to religion.”
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44 Percent of Germans want the Old Mass
Catholic Knight reports similar numbers for the States, here.
The past running brutal Church persecution in Germany has also revealed, that the believers themselves are having a change of attitude about the means of healing for their religion.
At least 44% of practicing Catholics in Germany would regularly participate in an Old Mass, if the requirements of the Motu Proprio 'Summorum Pontificum' were established in their country.
This was reported by the French organization 'paixliturgique.com' today in an article.
The organization maintains, that a great part of the German hierarchy is hostile to the liturgical rapprochement desired by the Pope.
The Bishops are at pains to disparage the numbers of requests for the Use of the Motu Proprio.
Indeed, now 'paixliturgique.com' has launched a representative poll with the US opinion research institute 'Harris Interactive'.
The poll was held from the 18th to the 25th of February. 2,611 Catholic households in Germany with ages above 18 were questioned. Here are the questions and answers:
First Question: Do you go to Holy Mass?
Every Week: 5.9%
Once a Month: 4.1%
For a big Holy Day: 18.9%
Occasionally (e.g., weddings, funerals): 42.3%
Never: 28.8%
Second Question: Do you know, that the Pope has allowed two forms of Mass, a modern one with the people facing the priest and communion in the hand, and the traditional latin, with the priest facing the altar and Communion orally received on the knees?
Yes: 43.1%
No: 56.9%
Third Question: Would it be normal, if both forms were regularly celebrated in your community?
Normal: 50,6%
Not Normal: 24.5%
No Opinion: 24.9%
Fourth Question: Would you attend the old Mass, even if the new Mass were also celebrated nearby?
Answer of regular or monthly Massgoers:
-25 percent would participate every week.
-19 percent would participate once a month.
-9 percent would participate by great feasts.
-40 percent would occasionally [wow] participiate.
- 7 percent would never, [ever?] attend. [wow, only 7?]
The organization 'paixliturgique.com' maintains, that every fourth German who practices would attend the Old Mass every Sunday, if he had the opportunity in his community.
A further 19 percent would at least attend the old Mass once a month. That gives a total figure of 44 percent. [!]
In Germany 1,185,310 Catholics go to Mass every Sunday. A further 823,690 visit Church services at least once a month.
'Paixliturgique.com' informs, that this investigation in Germany yielded similar results in Paris, Versailles, Italy and all of France.
Opposition against the Old Mass is, with 25 Percent of all Catholics, in a decisive minority.
© Bild: birmingham_lms_rep, CC
The past running brutal Church persecution in Germany has also revealed, that the believers themselves are having a change of attitude about the means of healing for their religion.
At least 44% of practicing Catholics in Germany would regularly participate in an Old Mass, if the requirements of the Motu Proprio 'Summorum Pontificum' were established in their country.
This was reported by the French organization 'paixliturgique.com' today in an article.
The organization maintains, that a great part of the German hierarchy is hostile to the liturgical rapprochement desired by the Pope.
The Bishops are at pains to disparage the numbers of requests for the Use of the Motu Proprio.
Indeed, now 'paixliturgique.com' has launched a representative poll with the US opinion research institute 'Harris Interactive'.
The poll was held from the 18th to the 25th of February. 2,611 Catholic households in Germany with ages above 18 were questioned. Here are the questions and answers:
First Question: Do you go to Holy Mass?
Every Week: 5.9%
Once a Month: 4.1%
For a big Holy Day: 18.9%
Occasionally (e.g., weddings, funerals): 42.3%
Never: 28.8%
Second Question: Do you know, that the Pope has allowed two forms of Mass, a modern one with the people facing the priest and communion in the hand, and the traditional latin, with the priest facing the altar and Communion orally received on the knees?
Yes: 43.1%
No: 56.9%
Third Question: Would it be normal, if both forms were regularly celebrated in your community?
Normal: 50,6%
Not Normal: 24.5%
No Opinion: 24.9%
Fourth Question: Would you attend the old Mass, even if the new Mass were also celebrated nearby?
Answer of regular or monthly Massgoers:
-25 percent would participate every week.
-19 percent would participate once a month.
-9 percent would participate by great feasts.
-40 percent would occasionally [wow] participiate.
- 7 percent would never, [ever?] attend. [wow, only 7?]
The organization 'paixliturgique.com' maintains, that every fourth German who practices would attend the Old Mass every Sunday, if he had the opportunity in his community.
A further 19 percent would at least attend the old Mass once a month. That gives a total figure of 44 percent. [!]
In Germany 1,185,310 Catholics go to Mass every Sunday. A further 823,690 visit Church services at least once a month.
'Paixliturgique.com' informs, that this investigation in Germany yielded similar results in Paris, Versailles, Italy and all of France.
Opposition against the Old Mass is, with 25 Percent of all Catholics, in a decisive minority.
© Bild: birmingham_lms_rep, CC
Yes, Indeed, the Holy Father is a Romantic
Mr. Pabst is right on when he criticizes Father Küng's program, here, at the Guardian, but the dissident's approach is not just a byproduct of a dying post-industrial age where diverse and often contradictory moral standards reside in close proximity with one another, producing the all-too predictable results of a civilization nearing if not immersed in its decline.
When he calls Pope Benedict a Romantic, he might miss the point that both Küng and the Pope are products of a Romantic School of Theology at the University of Tübingen, the spiritual descendents of Father Moehler who taught there in the mid nineteenth Century.
An article which explains this much more accurately is here from the Tidings, which describes Pope Benedict's theology as that of the Resourcement, getting back to the orgins, the Fathers and the pre-Tridentine Church. It's approach can be distinguished from the party to which many of his antagonists belong, which is thoroughly modernist in character. Indeed, this passage is instructive:
Not unlike much contemporary atheism, Küng's tirade owes more to ideology than to reason. His division of Catholicism (and other faith traditions) into a liberal, progressive and a conservative, reactionary wing is a modern, secular distinction that distorts the specificity of each and every religion. That's why Küng's pet project of building a "global ethos" is an abstraction from the unique character of diverse faith traditions – instrumentalising religion in the service of a dubious morality that amounts to little more than "being nice to each other"
When he calls Pope Benedict a Romantic, he might miss the point that both Küng and the Pope are products of a Romantic School of Theology at the University of Tübingen, the spiritual descendents of Father Moehler who taught there in the mid nineteenth Century.
An article which explains this much more accurately is here from the Tidings, which describes Pope Benedict's theology as that of the Resourcement, getting back to the orgins, the Fathers and the pre-Tridentine Church. It's approach can be distinguished from the party to which many of his antagonists belong, which is thoroughly modernist in character. Indeed, this passage is instructive:
Father Ford said another key event that alarmed Father Ratzinger just a few years after the council was the publication of "Infallible? An Inquiry" by his former colleague at Tubingen, Father Hans Kung.
"I was just appalled by Kung's book. It was more a trumpet blast than a serious work of theology," Father Ford said. However, he said, "it was picked up in popular circles" and for the next decade "it caused the wrong debate."
Father Ratzinger was made archbishop of Munich and Freising and a cardinal in 1977, and in 1979 he was involved in the decision of the Vatican, in conjunction with the German bishops, that Father Kung could no longer teach as a Catholic theologian.
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