Benedict XVI lands in Portugal, addresses sex abuse crisis aboard papal plane Date: 2010-05-11 13:38:28 May 11, 2010.
Aboard the papal plane in route to Portugal, Pope Benedict XVI candidly addressed the sex abuse crisis. The pope linked the crisis with the religious persecution indicated in Fatima's third secret. He told reporters the clerical abuse scandal represents "the greatest persecution of the church," but said it was born from sins inside the church, not outside. The pope called the crisis "truly terrifying" and said the Church must seek profound penance, pardon and justice. This is the pope's first trip to Portugal since he was elected pope. His four day trip kicked off in Lisbon and ends in the city of Porto May 14th.
http://www.romereports.com/palio/modules.php?t=Benedict-XVI-lands-in-Portugal--addresses-sex-abuse-crisis-aboard-papal-plane&name=News&file=article&newlang=english&sid=2082
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Modernist Bishop in Scotland blocks Immemorial Mass
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall
How sad to hear that plans to celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall – parts of which date back to 1137 – were recently blocked by the Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen, the Rt Rev Peter Moran. Sad but not surprising, since the Bishops of Scotland seem united in their determination to throw up as many obstacles as possible to the implementation of Summorum Pontificum.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100039754/a-historic-latin-mass-in-the-cathedral-of-the-orkney-isles-blocked-by-the-catholic-bishop/
How sad to hear that plans to celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall – parts of which date back to 1137 – were recently blocked by the Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen, the Rt Rev Peter Moran. Sad but not surprising, since the Bishops of Scotland seem united in their determination to throw up as many obstacles as possible to the implementation of Summorum Pontificum.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100039754/a-historic-latin-mass-in-the-cathedral-of-the-orkney-isles-blocked-by-the-catholic-bishop/
Germany's First Woman Bishop and Drunk Driver Praises Pill in Catholic Cathedral
After resigning because of a drunk driving conviction, this awesome figure is now doing credit to Catholic Germany.
Former Protestant leader Margot Käßmann caused a stir at Munich’s interfaith gathering Thursday night by describing the birth control pill as “God’s gift” – in a Catholic cathedral.
•Christians gather for interfaith congress - Society (13 May 10)
Speaking at the Cathedral of Our Dear Lady, which is the Munich Catholic Archbishop’s own cathedral and one of the most important Catholic churches in Germany, Käßmann warned against demonising birth control.
Contraception, including the pill, is forbidden under the Catholic Church’s strict moral code.
“We can however also see it as God’s gift, for it is about the preservation of life, of freedom, which doesn’t have to immediately degenerate into pornography, as much as the sexualisation of our society is, of course, a problem.
Former Protestant leader Margot Käßmann caused a stir at Munich’s interfaith gathering Thursday night by describing the birth control pill as “God’s gift” – in a Catholic cathedral.
•Christians gather for interfaith congress - Society (13 May 10)
Speaking at the Cathedral of Our Dear Lady, which is the Munich Catholic Archbishop’s own cathedral and one of the most important Catholic churches in Germany, Käßmann warned against demonising birth control.
Contraception, including the pill, is forbidden under the Catholic Church’s strict moral code.
“We can however also see it as God’s gift, for it is about the preservation of life, of freedom, which doesn’t have to immediately degenerate into pornography, as much as the sexualisation of our society is, of course, a problem.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
ACLU Attack wins Important Ruling against Vatican: They must defend Themselves in Court
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Vatican has failed in its attempt to maintain its immunity from liability lawsuits. Further court rulings next week will demonstrate how the Vatican will defend itself.
Despite this unprecedented situation, Jeffrey Lena, the Vatican's U.S. lawyer remains confident that he will prove that the Vatican was not responsible for the sex-abuse of its American Bishops.
This is not only a victory from Jeffry Anderson who intends on holding the Vatican accountable for the abuses that took place.
It should be easy to provide examples of how Bishops and Priests have often refused to obey the Vatican in the past. It would be interesting to see if the Vatican will make this point as it is, after all, the truth. Most Catholic institutions, seminaries, hospitals and schools do not follow Vatican directives, especially as regards the hiring of homosexuals in the priesthood, or allowing abortion procedures in their hospitals, for example.
What this case should provide to the public is not so much an insight into how the Vatican was necessarily irresponsible, but it should show how little control the Vatican has over its subordinate. Actually, it might be argued that the Federal and State governments, since they regulate much of Catholic plant, has a great deal more responsibility and liability for what goes on in Catholic institutions in the United States.
In the meantime, this decision will provide Jeff Anderson with a gap to attack the Church following an agenda which has at its heart not so much the redress of victims, but an attack on the moral authority of the Church. It's not justice that they're after, but the undermining of the doctrines of the Church which the modern world finds so offensive: its teaching on homosexuality, abortion, divorce and euthanasia.
Like the Nazis of the 30s, Jeff Anderson and his politically correct ACLU contacts and other associates are bent on driving the Church out of the public sphere and curtailing its influence even more than it already has been curtailed and delimited in this country.
Here's a response on his preparative suit to attack Cardinals Bertone, Sodano and the Holy Father. He may have an opportunity to subpoena the Holy Father yet.
Despite this unprecedented situation, Jeffrey Lena, the Vatican's U.S. lawyer remains confident that he will prove that the Vatican was not responsible for the sex-abuse of its American Bishops.
This is not only a victory from Jeffry Anderson who intends on holding the Vatican accountable for the abuses that took place.
It should be easy to provide examples of how Bishops and Priests have often refused to obey the Vatican in the past. It would be interesting to see if the Vatican will make this point as it is, after all, the truth. Most Catholic institutions, seminaries, hospitals and schools do not follow Vatican directives, especially as regards the hiring of homosexuals in the priesthood, or allowing abortion procedures in their hospitals, for example.
What this case should provide to the public is not so much an insight into how the Vatican was necessarily irresponsible, but it should show how little control the Vatican has over its subordinate. Actually, it might be argued that the Federal and State governments, since they regulate much of Catholic plant, has a great deal more responsibility and liability for what goes on in Catholic institutions in the United States.
In the meantime, this decision will provide Jeff Anderson with a gap to attack the Church following an agenda which has at its heart not so much the redress of victims, but an attack on the moral authority of the Church. It's not justice that they're after, but the undermining of the doctrines of the Church which the modern world finds so offensive: its teaching on homosexuality, abortion, divorce and euthanasia.
Like the Nazis of the 30s, Jeff Anderson and his politically correct ACLU contacts and other associates are bent on driving the Church out of the public sphere and curtailing its influence even more than it already has been curtailed and delimited in this country.
Here's a response on his preparative suit to attack Cardinals Bertone, Sodano and the Holy Father. He may have an opportunity to subpoena the Holy Father yet.
Roman Catholic Girl Refuses to Don Muslim Headress and is Punished
A Roman Catholic schoolgirl has been labelled a truant after she refused to wear a headscarf during a compulsory trip to a mosque.
Amy Owen, 14, and fellow girl pupils at a Catholic secondary school were told to cover their heads and wear trousers or leggings out of respect for their Muslim hosts.
But when her mother objected, saying she did not want her daughter to 'dress as a Muslim', she received a sternly worded warning letter from the headmaster saying she had no choice.
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Amy Owen, 14, and fellow girl pupils at a Catholic secondary school were told to cover their heads and wear trousers or leggings out of respect for their Muslim hosts.
But when her mother objected, saying she did not want her daughter to 'dress as a Muslim', she received a sternly worded warning letter from the headmaster saying she had no choice.
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Another Austriann Bishop has problems with Celibacy
Of course it's all probably just a misquote, but he's not the only Bishop who has a problem with Catholic teaching. There was Bishop Ray Lucker who airing his frequent opposition to Church teaching. But he wasn't as forthcoming as the late Bishop Shanon, another "reluctant" dissenter who did everyone a favor and resigned.
More Bishops should resign if they want to rock the boat in the middle of a storm.
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More Bishops should resign if they want to rock the boat in the middle of a storm.
A leading Austrian bishop has called on the Church to drop its celibacy requirement for priests.
Bishop Paul Iby of Eisenstadt told Die Presse newspaper that it should be up to priests to decide whether they want to live a celibate life, and that he would welcome it if married men could be ordained, said an AP report in the Herald Sun.
"It should be at the discretion of every priest whether to live in voluntary celibacy or in a family," Die Presse quoted Bishop Iby as saying.
He also said that eventually the ordination of women should be considered.
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A Catholic Website leaves Germany
[Kreuz.net]The Website 'katholisches.info' has moved its editorial office to the United States. This was reported today on its website.
The Weimar born and today living in Munster author, Jens Falk (43) has closed his office effective immediately.
Falk is a self-employed Publisher, Graphic designer and IT-Consultant. He is married and is close to the SSPX.
The Editor must take radical steps to avoid the "increasingly poor climate" for press and freedom of expression in Germany.
The on-line magazine received a warning for a report it had written about a play called, "Mein Koerper gehoert mir!" (My body belongs to me). The site 'katholisces.info' protested against this, that German compulsory education would make it impossible for innocent children to avoid it.
Columbian Doctor Suspended for refusing to perform Abortion
Bogotá, Colombia, May 12, 2010 / 05:59 pm (CNA).- Colombia's Attorney General, Alejandro Ordonez Maldonado, recently called on the country's Constitutional Court to protect the fundamental rights of Dr. German Arango Rojas, who was suspended for refusing to perform an abortion on a minor with a disability despite the demands of her parents. Maldonado warned that the doctor's fundamental rights to fair justice, equality and due process were violated. After Rojas refused to perform the abortion, the National Medical Ethics Tribunal suspended him and ordered him to pay damages to the girl's family.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/colombian-doctor-convicted-for-not-performing-abortion-on-minor/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/colombian-doctor-convicted-for-not-performing-abortion-on-minor/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29
Jim Martin and John Allen: the two Faces of Benedict's Orthodoxy
[The Open Tabernaclke] I find it instructive to read Fr. Jim Martin's fine statement about Pope Benedict's recent remark to reporters that the abuse of children by Catholic clerics is "truly terrifying," side by side with John Allen's declaration that Benedict's address at the Cultural Center of Belém in Lisbon was a "tour de force" for what Allen calls "affirmative orthodoxy."
Allen finds Benedict seeking to strike an "optimistic" note about the church's encounter with contemporary culture. He notes that Benedict's address stresses the need for dialogue between the church and secularism; the need to move towards positive appraisal of various cultures and worldviews with the recognition that they can enrich the church; and the need to retrieve Vatican II's positive appraisal of the Enlightenment and the Reformation.
http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/john-allen-on-affirmative-orthodoxy-and-jim-martin-on-price-of-restorationism-two-faces-of-benedict/
Allen finds Benedict seeking to strike an "optimistic" note about the church's encounter with contemporary culture. He notes that Benedict's address stresses the need for dialogue between the church and secularism; the need to move towards positive appraisal of various cultures and worldviews with the recognition that they can enrich the church; and the need to retrieve Vatican II's positive appraisal of the Enlightenment and the Reformation.
http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/john-allen-on-affirmative-orthodoxy-and-jim-martin-on-price-of-restorationism-two-faces-of-benedict/
New Priests Older, one is Game developer
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A former NASA engineer, a PlayStation video game developer and widowed deacons are among the 440 men in the ordination class of 2010.
The average age of the men who will be ordained in June is 37, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. More than half are between the ages of 25 and 34, and 11 of them are age 65 or older.
The center conducted a national survey of ordinands for the Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Hindus Attack Catholic church
BANGALORE, India (UCAN) — A Catholic church in Karnataka has been attacked and its statues damaged a Church official has said. Catholics in Honnavar, a costal town in Uttara Kannada district, found the windows of their parish church's grotto broken and several statues damaged on the morning of May 12. "It follows a clear pattern of anti-Christian" incidents this state has witnessed since the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party government came to power, said Father Adolf Washington, the Bangalore archdiocesan spokesperson.
http://www.ucanews.com/2010/05/13/suspected-hindu-extremists-attack-church-in-karnataka/
http://www.ucanews.com/2010/05/13/suspected-hindu-extremists-attack-church-in-karnataka/
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Pro-Abortion Monastery is Dying of the Cancer of Modernism
The President of the American-Cassian Congregation of Benedictines, Abbot Timothy Kelly O.S.B. is suffering from cancer. He was the Abbot of St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. This of course, raises thoughts as to who will carry on as the old Monks go on to their just reward.
It's interesting that in the last few weeks since the passing away of Father Paul Marx, founder of the pro-Life organization H.L.I., that the current Abbot made a very controversial statement about the infamous "seamless garment" which he insisted mendaciously, was what Father Paul was all about.
Not even lies will save you from death and the terrible judgement of God.
Considering St. John's poor performance in Catholic fidelity, especially as regards birth control and abortion, it's ironic that they are dying out. Could it be because they've contributed to the spiritual moribund atmosphere of the surrounding culture, that those vocations who might have otherwise come to their doors were aborted? Sources in Rome say that Collegeville is top heavy and will die out; it's days are numbered.
Just how much did Bishop Listeki have to do with resignation at MU?
Marquette University faculty is demanding to know why their president, Father Robert Wild, withdrew a major job offer to an openly gay professor from Seattle. A faculty member who attended the meeting told NewsBuzz that Wild informed a roomful of senior faculty members that Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki influenced his decision to withdraw it. Listecki has a reputation as a bishop who aggressively enforces traditional Catholic doctrine.
Wild met with department chairs in the College of Arts and Sciences after he announced that Jodi O’Brien, who is currently on sabbatical from Seattle University, also a Jesuit Catholic university, wouldn’t become their next dean as expected. The revelation ignited a firestorm of criticism. Students and faculty speculated that pressure from university donors, the school’s Board of Trustees or even Catholic officials prompted Wild’s sudden reversal.
According to one chair who spoke on condition of anonymity, Wild told the professors attending the meeting, “The Archbishop had expressed an opinion on the matter that had a considerable bearing on his opinion.” The chair says professors asked Wild “to give an account of how the decision was made,” particularly the Archbishop’s involvement, but the president wouldn’t describe the process in detail.
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Wild met with department chairs in the College of Arts and Sciences after he announced that Jodi O’Brien, who is currently on sabbatical from Seattle University, also a Jesuit Catholic university, wouldn’t become their next dean as expected. The revelation ignited a firestorm of criticism. Students and faculty speculated that pressure from university donors, the school’s Board of Trustees or even Catholic officials prompted Wild’s sudden reversal.
According to one chair who spoke on condition of anonymity, Wild told the professors attending the meeting, “The Archbishop had expressed an opinion on the matter that had a considerable bearing on his opinion.” The chair says professors asked Wild “to give an account of how the decision was made,” particularly the Archbishop’s involvement, but the president wouldn’t describe the process in detail.
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Vatican Official thanks the World Press for its Coverage of the Abuse Scandal
By John-Henry Westen
VATICAN CITY, May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to Vatican Radio on May 3, Richard Rouse, an official at the Pontifical Council for Culture, thanked the world press for its coverage of the sexual abuse scandal. Asked about the Vatican’s handling of the abuse scandal coverage in the press, Rouse said, “I want to take this occasion of World Press Day to thank the press for what they’re doing. It is of extreme importance that the press continue to help all the people involved in this situation to move forward.”
“We’ve got to say that as the Vatican, we’ve got to thank people for what they’re doing,” Rouse added.
Rouse added, however, that the Vatican must also urge corrections in media coverage where needed. “We’ve also got to say: hang on a second, sometimes things are getting a little out of proportion,” he said. Even then, however, it should be a “gentle correction.” “But first of all thanks,” stressed Rouse.
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VATICAN CITY, May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to Vatican Radio on May 3, Richard Rouse, an official at the Pontifical Council for Culture, thanked the world press for its coverage of the sexual abuse scandal. Asked about the Vatican’s handling of the abuse scandal coverage in the press, Rouse said, “I want to take this occasion of World Press Day to thank the press for what they’re doing. It is of extreme importance that the press continue to help all the people involved in this situation to move forward.”
“We’ve got to say that as the Vatican, we’ve got to thank people for what they’re doing,” Rouse added.
Rouse added, however, that the Vatican must also urge corrections in media coverage where needed. “We’ve also got to say: hang on a second, sometimes things are getting a little out of proportion,” he said. Even then, however, it should be a “gentle correction.” “But first of all thanks,” stressed Rouse.
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Clergy Leave Knights of Columbus Over pro-choice event
May 11, 2010 PORTSMOUTH — Conflict between pro-life Catholic ideals and pro-choice advocates has hit home.
A pair of local reverends announced last weekend they would be withdrawing their membership from the local Knights of Columbus Chapter 140, a Catholic fraternal benefit society, after learning that a large pro-choice organization had rented space at a function center attached to the group.
During a Saturday afternoon service at St. James Church, the Rev. Michael Kerper made a brief prepared statement saying he and the parochial vicar, the Rev. Marcos Gonzalez, had chosen to resign from the local chapter in protest.
Kerper is pastor of Portsmouth's combined Corpus Christi Parish, which now has two churches, St. James and Immaculate Conception.
According to a statement provided to the Herald, Kerper's reasoning for leaving the Knights of Columbus was based on the group renting the Casey Function Center on Lafayette Road to a group known as the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, the nation's leading organization promoting public funding of abortion.
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A pair of local reverends announced last weekend they would be withdrawing their membership from the local Knights of Columbus Chapter 140, a Catholic fraternal benefit society, after learning that a large pro-choice organization had rented space at a function center attached to the group.
During a Saturday afternoon service at St. James Church, the Rev. Michael Kerper made a brief prepared statement saying he and the parochial vicar, the Rev. Marcos Gonzalez, had chosen to resign from the local chapter in protest.
Kerper is pastor of Portsmouth's combined Corpus Christi Parish, which now has two churches, St. James and Immaculate Conception.
According to a statement provided to the Herald, Kerper's reasoning for leaving the Knights of Columbus was based on the group renting the Casey Function Center on Lafayette Road to a group known as the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, the nation's leading organization promoting public funding of abortion.
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A Service for Europe Day at Westminster Cathedral
THE ACT OF PENITENCE
Let us bring before God our failures and weaknesses, those of our own hearts, and those of our nations: our pride, our self-seeking, the opposition séculaire which has hindered our unity and harmed our people; and let us confess our sins in penitence and faith, firmly resolved to keep God’s commandments and to live in love and peace with all.
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New Bishop for Lafayette Indiana
VATICAN CITY, 12 MAY 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Msgr. Timothy L. Doherty of the clergy of the diocese of Lafayette in Indiana, U.S.A., pastor of St. Catherine church in Dundee, and of St. Mary Mission church in Gilberts, as bishop of Lafayette in Indiana (area 25,455, population 1,296,384, Catholics 108,000, priests 98, permanent deacons 17, religious 81). The bishop-elect was born in Rockford, U.S.A. in 1950 and ordained a priest in 1976. He succeeds Bishop William L. Higi, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Father Fessio and Jimmy Akin defend Schönborn
Father Fessio once discontinued his relationship with the magazine, 30 Days because he felt the anti-war stance of the magazine and its focus on Freemasonry were not things that the average American would care about. Of course, considering the Church's long-standing Magisterial teachings against Freemasonry, and the prevalence and perniciousness of it in the US, you'd think that Father Fessio would take up the sword of 19th Century Ultramontane Jesuits against that scourge, right? Well, no. Father Fessio didn't see it that way. Very suspicious indeed.
So now, Father Fessio is going to step in and defend Cardinal Schönborn, here. Could it be that it's because Cardinal Schönborn has strong connections to Freemasonry, or perhaps it's more likely that Fr. Fessio has had a long-standing and intimate publishing relationship with the Scandal Cardinal? It's certainly a lot more likely than the excuses Akin and Fr. Fessio weave for the Cardinal.
Quasi liberals count on book sales to support their overarching activities. It's completely understandable that men like Fr. Fessio and James Akin would step up to defend the Cardinal, because that's the kind of men they are. Akin's a mercenary and will whip out his pen in defense of whatever, but Fr. Fessio's interests are more clear in this case as many will be quick to point out. These men count on the average pewsitter not recollecting things in the past, and relying on Cardinal Schönborn's reputation as an alleged conservative and engaging in a little intellectual razzle-dazzle and special pleading.
So, in the case of Father Fessio, we have a defense which suggests that the Cardinal's remarks were taken out of context during an "off the record" interview when the Cardinal would have been off-guard. Surely, a seasoned Cardinal, despite his alleged openness to the press, he'd have to realize that such interviews have their dangers. His comments which smack of utilitarianism are, according to our jesuitical apologist, explained by an appeal to the Aristotelian, pursuit of happiness or eudaimonia. Even granting that is true, Fr. Fessio still attempts to explain away the Cardinal's comments on marriage (the Cardinal has said similar things before), or his remarks on homosexuality (again, he's said things before that were scandalous) and given an ear (and some legitimacy) to the Austrian Call to Action, hosted a depraved homosexual art show in his Cathedral, blessed a homo-sexual love-in and even permitted a funeral Mass for the same homosexual artist given by the DUI Rector of his Cathedral, while some of the homosexual's artwork still hangs in the St. Barbara Chapel, right here.
Then, the Father tries to explain away the Cardinal's attack as being a "criticism". Well, won't some people just stretch the truth to save their printing business?
Here's the original offending Tablett article, here.
So now, Father Fessio is going to step in and defend Cardinal Schönborn, here. Could it be that it's because Cardinal Schönborn has strong connections to Freemasonry, or perhaps it's more likely that Fr. Fessio has had a long-standing and intimate publishing relationship with the Scandal Cardinal? It's certainly a lot more likely than the excuses Akin and Fr. Fessio weave for the Cardinal.
Quasi liberals count on book sales to support their overarching activities. It's completely understandable that men like Fr. Fessio and James Akin would step up to defend the Cardinal, because that's the kind of men they are. Akin's a mercenary and will whip out his pen in defense of whatever, but Fr. Fessio's interests are more clear in this case as many will be quick to point out. These men count on the average pewsitter not recollecting things in the past, and relying on Cardinal Schönborn's reputation as an alleged conservative and engaging in a little intellectual razzle-dazzle and special pleading.
So, in the case of Father Fessio, we have a defense which suggests that the Cardinal's remarks were taken out of context during an "off the record" interview when the Cardinal would have been off-guard. Surely, a seasoned Cardinal, despite his alleged openness to the press, he'd have to realize that such interviews have their dangers. His comments which smack of utilitarianism are, according to our jesuitical apologist, explained by an appeal to the Aristotelian, pursuit of happiness or eudaimonia. Even granting that is true, Fr. Fessio still attempts to explain away the Cardinal's comments on marriage (the Cardinal has said similar things before), or his remarks on homosexuality (again, he's said things before that were scandalous) and given an ear (and some legitimacy) to the Austrian Call to Action, hosted a depraved homosexual art show in his Cathedral, blessed a homo-sexual love-in and even permitted a funeral Mass for the same homosexual artist given by the DUI Rector of his Cathedral, while some of the homosexual's artwork still hangs in the St. Barbara Chapel, right here.
Then, the Father tries to explain away the Cardinal's attack as being a "criticism". Well, won't some people just stretch the truth to save their printing business?
Here's the original offending Tablett article, here.
The Purification of the Catholic Church: Pravda
Ha-ha, you'd have to find out about all this on Pravda, wouldn't you? Not one single official Catholic voice that we know of will talk about this unpleasant fact.
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In 2005 Pope Benedict XVI issued a resounding call for reform in the Catholic church, saying, “How much filth there is in the church, and even among those ... in the priesthood.” This was widely interpreted as a reference to the sex- abuse scandal affecting the church's standing in North America and other parts of the world. However, the Pope’s exhortation was, in reality, directed more widely to the phenomenon of modernism that is poisoning the church at its core.
The sex abuse scandal involving priests is just the tip of the ice-burg - the visible part that has come to light. The real culprits of moral destruction are those in-house modernists who, since Vatican II, have encouraged sexual deviants to infiltrate the church and who, with the bishops’ approval, are still disseminating their modernist lies within various Catholic seminaries, schools and chancery offices.
While the bishops today lash out at the pedophiles - about 90% of which are actually homosexuals - they continue to harbor those in-name-only “Catholics” who are advancing a false spirit of Vatican II. Make no mistake - bishops would still be protecting pedaphiles had the sex abuse scandal not come to light through the pope’s hard determination and through world wide public scrutiny.
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