Pope Benedict has criticized religious instruction in Germany in his book "Light of the World": "The Bishops must reconsider here how Catechesis can be given a new heart and a new face.
Rome (kath.net) Pope Benedict has directed severe criticism against religious instruction in Germany in his new book, "Light of the World". Peter Seewald asked the question how it is possible that with the responsibility falling at the end of the day to the Diocese that the children might know Buddhism, but on the other hand know almost nothing of the fundamentals of Catholicism: "That is a question which I've also asked myself. In Germany every child has nine to thirteen years of religious instruction. How so little can come from that, as it is expressed here, is inconceivable. The Bishops must reconsider here how Catechesis can be given a new heart and a new face."
Benedict also criticized Catholics in official positions, who live by their Catholic confession [if nothing else]. Peter Seewald posed the following question: "Even in the ecclesiastical media there is the infestation of a 'culture of doubt' valued as chic. Whole editorial staffs take up the usual uncritical catch words critical of the Church. Bishops follow their media advisers, who recommend a shallow course, so that their liberal image won't suffer any damage. Whenever a religious book is removed from the main line of goods by the still large church owned media concerns -- it is then not problematic, to speak still about the New Evangelization?" The answer of Pope Benedict is clear: "These are all phenomena which one can only view with sadness. That these are so-called Catholics employed in official positions who live from their confession as Catholics, but whose flowing springs of Faith are in public almost completely silent, effectively in single drops. We must really therefore strive that it becomes otherwise. I observe in Italy -- where there are fewer institutional ecclesiastical businesses --, that initiatives do not occur for that reason, because the Church built something as an institution, rather because the people were themselves faithful. Spontaneous outbreaks don't come from an institution, rather they come from an authentic Faith."
The letter published on 13. July by a fifteen year old student about abuses in religious education in a school in the Archdiocese of Salzburg have made an enormous echo with the readers of kath.net, who have been moved to write us. Kath.net will then continue to publish further reports about religious instruction in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Kath.net asks its readers: How is it with the religious education of your children? How are things with your religion teacher? -- Please send us any short reports to redaktion@kath.net! We would like to publish these extracts as well.
Read the original at kath.net...
Friday, November 26, 2010
Patriarch's meeting with Pope getting nearer - Metropolitan Hilarion
Moscow, November 26, Interfax - The meeting between the Moscow Patriarch and the Pope is getting nearer each day, the Russian Orthodox Church said.
"Each day brings us closer to this meeting between the Pope and Patriarch," head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, told journalists in Moscow."Right now we are not prepared to make known the date, nor are we engaged in any concrete preparations for the meeting, but we are certainly getting closer to it. It is a calendar and astronomical fact," he said.
The work carried out by the Russian Church with the Catholic Church is aimed "improving the general climate and achieving a higher level of mutual understanding," he added.
Back to original...
British bishop agrees to drop 'far-right' lawyer < German news | Expatica Germany
Editor: Checking on the effectiveness of this attorney. In Bishop Williamson's defense, it must be said that this attorney might be exceptional at getting his clients a fair shake in the German Courts when it comes to these kinds of cases.
British bishop agrees to drop 'far-right' lawyer < German news | Expatica Germany
Additionally, it seems that the hiring of this particular attorney was a good idea in terms of Bishop Williamson's defense. He's been very effective. Here's a response from Ignis Ardens forum:
Yes, he has handled such cases: This is from a friend of mine:
British bishop agrees to drop 'far-right' lawyer < German news | Expatica Germany
Additionally, it seems that the hiring of this particular attorney was a good idea in terms of Bishop Williamson's defense. He's been very effective. Here's a response from Ignis Ardens forum:
Yes, he has handled such cases: This is from a friend of mine:
Dear friend,
I am following the news regarding the upcoming hearing of appeal. The decision to employ Wolfram Nahrath was a good one. Nahrath is the only one who dares to submit factual evidence as evidentiary motions in such trial. And he is very versed and defended recently Kevin Kaether. The court dropped eventually the case in order not have official witnesses being questioned.
The bishop, no doubt, is a hero. The higher echelons of SSPX are a despicable bunch, unfortunately.
May Jesus be with the bishop in the months to come.
We do think of this man every day and wish him all the very best.
The Pope Talks About Duty and the Good, Everyone Else is Fixated Upon Condoms
Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?
Auguste Comte
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| Augustus Comte Founder of Sociology |
One of the German blogs made the following citation, and it verily touches on the media contortion of past few days, and as with his Regesburg speech, it was twisted, misinterpreted and projected upon by various malcontents, ne'er-do-wells and perhaps a few decent people who were struck by the way the media handled this. Many people, too many people, have more faith in the infallibility of the media than they do the Pope, but I should hope that we here at least would give His Holiness more than the benefit of the doubt:
Die bloße Fixierung auf das Kondom bedeutet eine Banalisierung der Sexualität [...]
Papst Benedikt XVI. in “Licht der Welt”
It translates into: The very fixation on the condom means a banalization of sexuality [...]
Pope Benedict XVI in "Licht der Welt"
Media stolen from, here.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Does One Have to Obey the Disobedient Bishops?
"On the practical level it is often the case that the appeal of Papal instructions are not used by the pastor locally."
(kreuz.net) "How should pastors acquit themselves, when -- as it is mostly -- universal Church and particular-legal regulations contradict one another?"
Fr. Hendrick Jolie (46) asked this question in an interview for the most recent edition of the Catholic monthly 'Kirchliche Umschau'.
Father Jolie is a pastor in the Diocese of Mainz.
The clergyman is remainded then, that is at least in theory the particular law is subordinate to the universal: "On the practical level it is often the case that the appeal of Papal instructions are seldom used by the Pastor locally."
And what did the Cardinal say?
An example of this for Father Jolie is the incorrect translation of the words of consecration in the Novus Ordo Eucharistic Celebration.
The corrections that were ordered by the Pope four years ago have been thoroughly ignored by the old Liberal Bishops.
For this reason, the German 'Network of Catholic Priests' -- in whose executive committee Father Jolie sits -- had written to the Roman Congregation for Divine Worship.
They asked the Prefect of the Congregation, Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, to answer the question, "how we should conduct ourselves in this inner conflict".
Tactical Chess Move
'Kirchliche Umschau' suggests that Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller of Regensburg recently pled for an implementation of the Papal wish.
Father Jolie held the push of the Bishop for a compromise, which the German Bishops and the Pope would consider a loss of face:
"Without wanting to step on Bishop Müller, the question is in any case allowed, why is it that it's been four years since this proposal has come to the table."
And: "Why then these wordy explanations, when in any case, the new edition of the German Missal has already been tendered by Rome?"
For Father Jolie this progress is not understandable: "There the 26 Diocesan Shepherds to complete a newly revised Missal -- in which the they have a hearing where "for the many" [as the Pope asked] is not, rather it remains "for all" still -- and finally one of these Bishops publishes an explanation in which he pleads for another translation of the words of consecration."
Fr. Jolie comments: "Here it appears -- if I may put it politely -- that there is not only a communications problem within the German Bishops Conference."
Link to the original German, at kreuz.net....
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| Should You Obey the Pope More than the Bishops? |
Fr. Hendrick Jolie (46) asked this question in an interview for the most recent edition of the Catholic monthly 'Kirchliche Umschau'.
Father Jolie is a pastor in the Diocese of Mainz.
The clergyman is remainded then, that is at least in theory the particular law is subordinate to the universal: "On the practical level it is often the case that the appeal of Papal instructions are seldom used by the Pastor locally."
And what did the Cardinal say?
An example of this for Father Jolie is the incorrect translation of the words of consecration in the Novus Ordo Eucharistic Celebration.
The corrections that were ordered by the Pope four years ago have been thoroughly ignored by the old Liberal Bishops.
For this reason, the German 'Network of Catholic Priests' -- in whose executive committee Father Jolie sits -- had written to the Roman Congregation for Divine Worship.
They asked the Prefect of the Congregation, Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, to answer the question, "how we should conduct ourselves in this inner conflict".
Tactical Chess Move
'Kirchliche Umschau' suggests that Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller of Regensburg recently pled for an implementation of the Papal wish.
Father Jolie held the push of the Bishop for a compromise, which the German Bishops and the Pope would consider a loss of face:
"Without wanting to step on Bishop Müller, the question is in any case allowed, why is it that it's been four years since this proposal has come to the table."
And: "Why then these wordy explanations, when in any case, the new edition of the German Missal has already been tendered by Rome?"
For Father Jolie this progress is not understandable: "There the 26 Diocesan Shepherds to complete a newly revised Missal -- in which the they have a hearing where "for the many" [as the Pope asked] is not, rather it remains "for all" still -- and finally one of these Bishops publishes an explanation in which he pleads for another translation of the words of consecration."
Fr. Jolie comments: "Here it appears -- if I may put it politely -- that there is not only a communications problem within the German Bishops Conference."
Link to the original German, at kreuz.net....
The First Thanksgiving Was in New Spain
[Marian Horvath, TIA] I have been asked to comment on Thanksgiving, the national holiday commemorating the first successful harvest season of the grim Protestant pilgrims of New England.
“It just doesn’t seem right to celebrate the prospering of a Puritan sect that established a Calvinist theocracy in the Massachusetts Colony that would mercilessly persecute Catholics,” one reader argued.
Such Catholics, gathered around their laden Thanksgiving tables enjoying the company of family and friends, should know a quite consoling fact of American History: the first Thanksgiving on U.S. soil was Catholic.
Read further, TIA....
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Case David Berger: Homosexually Disturbed Braggart
Now he has finally had his short lived media fame, about which he can only dream as the writing director of the dust covered magazine he rode into the ground, 'Theologisches'.
(kreuz.net) The fallen Catholic and self-adulating sodomite, David Berger, is once again on tour.
Presently, he's let himself be passed off from gossip magazine to gossip magazine. This week, he was celebrated by the German church-hate magazine 'Spiegel".
The homosexually disturbed man named his price, as he explained for the hate-magazine that the old Mass had been the "gateway drug" to the Church: "At 17 I was with the Society of Pius X in Lower Bavaria."
His present public problem with theological and spiritual superficiality was already by then a big problem: "What I experienced there, was the fascinatingly aesthetic baroque dream with gold leaf and pillow lace."
He wasn't able to figure himself out for a long time: "first it later became clear to me, what I had to do there, and the dream became more and more a nightmare."
Berger insinuated with this revelation to his homo-decadent double life.
Homo-neurotics are psychologically very consumed by self-pity, victim rolls and attended by projections.
Berger is no exception.
As a theological double agent he given stick "much more" being put in a supposedly inhuman position -- he laid in with a round of wailing.
Then he played on the German heartstrings telling about the most famous politician of the land: "So, Hitler was praised in that he interned homosexuals in concentration camps where they died."
The dramatic climax: "At some point, I just couldn't stay silent any more."
The scandal journalist who was following all of this took it all in.
Berger portrayed himself before the clueless public of the mass media as a despised primadona.
"Whoever wants to make a career in the Catholic Church must lately, since the entrance of Pope Benedict XVI be anti-modern" --- is his misleading supposition.
He is said to have criticized the "rather progressive and left" church politics of Father Karl Rahner († 1984: "So I could make myself noticeable."
Berger left no doubt then that he was from the beginning a liar and crook, and his double life went with a double moral.
Then he poured himself in a stream of braggadocio: that he portrayed himself as an "expert" in the medieval thinker Thomas of Aquinas and was invited by almost all "extreme right-wing groups:
"I had contact with the Sedevacantists, the Society of St. Peter, the TFP, Una Voce, Opus Dei and the Servants of Jesus and Mary."
These groups were very careful, who they invited -- said Berger and stands as living proof for this assertion:
"They have very noble accomodations, sometimes they stay in former castles put at their disposal, or they meet in fancy hotels."
Old men will then smoke thick cigars, drink expensive red wines and good food: "It is a parallel world, in which one will deplore the modern."
The 'Spiegel' is only modestly interested: "And what isdiscussed?" --- the journalist asked, driving the discussion on.
Berger continued his conspiracy theory: "one talks about the supposed Jewish world domination".
Then he became interested in " the question, how the Church can allow woman's libbers, Freemasons and homosexuals."
Again, this homosexually insane man continued to contradict himself: So he set aside his previous role as the poor homosexual victim and insisted as if for the first, that his perversion had been "career enhancing".
In any event he never made an ecclesiastical career as a little teacher of religion.
Actually, that wasn't what impeded the ne'er do well to lag in moist, homosexual daydreams: "In clerical circles one can always who by making pointed glances, hugs, caresses on the arm and excessively long holding of the hands that one doesn't only treasure my work" -- he projected.
He laments his unfulfilled desires: "and insists that many prelates are homosexually inclined, and have surely offered their assistance to help with new positions of employment and assistance."
But in reality the religion teacher Berger will never occupy any other ecclesiastical office.
(kreuz.net) The fallen Catholic and self-adulating sodomite, David Berger, is once again on tour.
Presently, he's let himself be passed off from gossip magazine to gossip magazine. This week, he was celebrated by the German church-hate magazine 'Spiegel".
The homosexually disturbed man named his price, as he explained for the hate-magazine that the old Mass had been the "gateway drug" to the Church: "At 17 I was with the Society of Pius X in Lower Bavaria."
His present public problem with theological and spiritual superficiality was already by then a big problem: "What I experienced there, was the fascinatingly aesthetic baroque dream with gold leaf and pillow lace."
He wasn't able to figure himself out for a long time: "first it later became clear to me, what I had to do there, and the dream became more and more a nightmare."
Berger insinuated with this revelation to his homo-decadent double life.
Homo-neurotics are psychologically very consumed by self-pity, victim rolls and attended by projections.
Berger is no exception.
As a theological double agent he given stick "much more" being put in a supposedly inhuman position -- he laid in with a round of wailing.
Then he played on the German heartstrings telling about the most famous politician of the land: "So, Hitler was praised in that he interned homosexuals in concentration camps where they died."
The dramatic climax: "At some point, I just couldn't stay silent any more."
The scandal journalist who was following all of this took it all in.
Berger portrayed himself before the clueless public of the mass media as a despised primadona.
"Whoever wants to make a career in the Catholic Church must lately, since the entrance of Pope Benedict XVI be anti-modern" --- is his misleading supposition.
He is said to have criticized the "rather progressive and left" church politics of Father Karl Rahner († 1984: "So I could make myself noticeable."
Berger left no doubt then that he was from the beginning a liar and crook, and his double life went with a double moral.
Then he poured himself in a stream of braggadocio: that he portrayed himself as an "expert" in the medieval thinker Thomas of Aquinas and was invited by almost all "extreme right-wing groups:
"I had contact with the Sedevacantists, the Society of St. Peter, the TFP, Una Voce, Opus Dei and the Servants of Jesus and Mary."
These groups were very careful, who they invited -- said Berger and stands as living proof for this assertion:
"They have very noble accomodations, sometimes they stay in former castles put at their disposal, or they meet in fancy hotels."
Old men will then smoke thick cigars, drink expensive red wines and good food: "It is a parallel world, in which one will deplore the modern."
The 'Spiegel' is only modestly interested: "And what isdiscussed?" --- the journalist asked, driving the discussion on.
Berger continued his conspiracy theory: "one talks about the supposed Jewish world domination".
Then he became interested in " the question, how the Church can allow woman's libbers, Freemasons and homosexuals."
Again, this homosexually insane man continued to contradict himself: So he set aside his previous role as the poor homosexual victim and insisted as if for the first, that his perversion had been "career enhancing".
In any event he never made an ecclesiastical career as a little teacher of religion.
Actually, that wasn't what impeded the ne'er do well to lag in moist, homosexual daydreams: "In clerical circles one can always who by making pointed glances, hugs, caresses on the arm and excessively long holding of the hands that one doesn't only treasure my work" -- he projected.
He laments his unfulfilled desires: "and insists that many prelates are homosexually inclined, and have surely offered their assistance to help with new positions of employment and assistance."
But in reality the religion teacher Berger will never occupy any other ecclesiastical office.
Clarification About the Pope's Statement in German Press
Editor: kreuz.net's original title was "Condom-Pope Provokes a Sloppy Discussion. So, they've taken this statement to heart and run with it. We've never been real certain about where kreuz.net stands on a lot of things, but one thing, they've always been reliable about the information and news. Perhaps this is one of those rare times when they're wrong? In any event, the insult to his person will make it hard for us to justify translating their articles in the future and we'll certainly be more vigilant.
Of course, you wouldn't think that Father Z would be so shaken up, but there it is.
Slight amendation: here's Father Z's most recent contribution. We hope you find it entertaining.
Catholic commentators are trying to correct the fact, that the Pope talked about a male prostitute in a weak-headed interview. Pressesplitter.
The decadent majority as a measure of the moral.
Swiss Television: Mr. Seewald, do you see the Pope as having completely made a change of the Catholic sexual morality?
Peter Seewald: "The Pope made it clear that he knows that the greater part of them do not practice the provisions of the Church, for which problem he foresees a need for reform: "That is one of the greatest challenges. (…) That many have newly considered this area, so that it must be said anew again, is right."
Eldorado of Dirty Fantasies
"In the original Benedict referred to condoms in individual cases, 'occasionally when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be the first step to a moralization'. In the English version, it is translated as 'male prostitute', in the Italian version it was clear that it was a [female] prostitute. Now Vatican 'experts' are hot about whether or not this is a validation for homosexual prostitution."
From an article of the website of the regional 'Südewestpresse".
The Pope and his Speaker entertain the idea of Transvestites
"I have asked the Pope personally if there were an important and serious ground for why he chose to mention a prostitute. He told me: >>No. The problem consists: that it is the first step, to take responsibility, to take consideration for the risk to the life of another with which one has a relationship.<< That means, whether one is a woman, a man or a transexual."
The speaker of the Vatican Press Service, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardo at a press conference in the Vatican today.
Being sold as private opinion - but purchased as new teaching
The Pope wanted to make it known that he understands the realities and ways of life. If for people in certain situations there is an foreseeable need to use condemns, then therefore, this is can be portrayed as a "first step to moralization .. and responsibility". Such expressions are not sensational, but what is really new, is that one has not yet today heard such a thing from a Pope. I am very interested to know if Pope Benedict will further develop these thoughts, if they will some day be worked into the formal teaching of the Church and what they will mean for pastoral praxis."
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg in a statement to today's book presentation in Rome
Condom as a Morlisator -- is that a fact?
"Perhaps the Pope has had a new view -- what it doesn't mean is that one can accept everything, that he says. We need however a more open, more sensible debate and more factuality."
Book author, Peter Seewald in an Interview with the Regional 'Badischen Zeitung".
Of course, you wouldn't think that Father Z would be so shaken up, but there it is.
Slight amendation: here's Father Z's most recent contribution. We hope you find it entertaining.
Catholic commentators are trying to correct the fact, that the Pope talked about a male prostitute in a weak-headed interview. Pressesplitter.
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| Press Conference For Presentation of "Light of the World" |
The decadent majority as a measure of the moral.
Swiss Television: Mr. Seewald, do you see the Pope as having completely made a change of the Catholic sexual morality?
Peter Seewald: "The Pope made it clear that he knows that the greater part of them do not practice the provisions of the Church, for which problem he foresees a need for reform: "That is one of the greatest challenges. (…) That many have newly considered this area, so that it must be said anew again, is right."
Eldorado of Dirty Fantasies
"In the original Benedict referred to condoms in individual cases, 'occasionally when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be the first step to a moralization'. In the English version, it is translated as 'male prostitute', in the Italian version it was clear that it was a [female] prostitute. Now Vatican 'experts'
From an article of the website of the regional 'Südewestpresse".
The Pope and his Speaker entertain the idea of Transvestites
"I have asked the Pope personally if there were an important and serious ground for why he chose to mention a prostitute. He told me: >>No. The problem consists: that it is the first step, to take responsibility, to take consideration for the risk to the life of another with which one has a relationship.<< That means, whether one is a woman, a man or a transexual."
The speaker of the Vatican Press Service, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardo at a press conference in the Vatican today.
Being sold as private opinion - but purchased as new teaching
The Pope wanted to make it known that he understands the realities and ways of life. If for people in certain situations there is an foreseeable need to use condemns, then therefore, this is can be portrayed as a "first step to moralization .. and responsibility". Such expressions are not sensational, but what is really new, is that one has not yet today heard such a thing from a Pope. I am very interested to know if Pope Benedict will further develop these thoughts, if they will some day be worked into the formal teaching of the Church and what they will mean for pastoral praxis."
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg in a statement to today's book presentation in Rome
Condom as a Morlisator -- is that a fact?
"Perhaps the Pope has had a new view -- what it doesn't mean is that one can accept everything, that he says. We need however a more open, more sensible debate and more factuality."
Book author, Peter Seewald in an Interview with the Regional 'Badischen Zeitung".
Pope's New Bishop in Basel is a Disaster
This is what happens to you when you study Wittgenstein, you turn into an eternal graduate student, then you make ridiculous and inflammatory statements to the press that aren't Catholic like the new Bishop designate of Basel just did.The drama continues, as the new Bishop of Basel says some wacky things, on rorate, here.
h/t: Ray from Minnesota at Stella Borealis.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Opus Dei Definitely Advocates Condom Use
It's not just crazy Jesuits who are at work undermining the Church's teachings, but Opus Dei members do advocate the use of condoms to avoid AIDS when the couples are married as Bishop Kung of St. Polten does, as well as Father Rhonmeir who is a leading figure in the philosophy department of the Opus Dei School in Rome, also see recent article in America.
They haven't exactly been hiding their views, but they haven't been getting any attention, but it's about high time they received some.
They haven't exactly been hiding their views, but they haven't been getting any attention, but it's about high time they received some.
Pope Announces the Selection of the Bishop of Basel
The old Liberal General Vicar of the Swiss Bishops' Conference is taking over the completely spiritually ruined Diocese of Basel.
(kreuz.net, Basel) Msgr Felix Gmür is the new Bishop of Basel, according to the Vatican Press Service.
Pope Benedict XVI, had assumed the choice of the Basel Cathedral on the Feast of the Nativity of Mary on the 8th of September.
Prior to that, Msgr Gmür worked as necktie priest and General Secretary of the Swiss Bishops conference.
A further speculation of the protestant journalist and church-hater Micheal Meier, that it would have been Dennis Theurillat (60), has proven itself to be false.
He Won't be a Second Bishop St. Thomas Becket
Msgr Gmür hales from Luzern. In May 1999 he was ordained a priest.
Previous to that - from 1997 to 2001 - he worked as the pastoral assistant and then as necktie [secular] priest of the Parish of St. Anton in Basel.
By 2004 he studied Biblical Science at the Jesuit University, the Gregorian in Rome.
Msgr Gmür received a Doctorate in Philosophy on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Aesthetic.
From 2004 to 2006 he was active for two years as a neck tie- Subregent in the old Liberal Seminary in Luzern.
For four years he has been the General Secretary of the Bishops Conference.
Msgr Gmür will be consecrated a Bishop on January 16th in Solothurn.
Basel is the largest Diocese in Switzerland with over one Million members.
Editor: We said that Basel would get a "good" Bishop out of this, well, we were wrong.
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| Necktie Priest, Father Gmür as Secretary on the Website of the Bishops Conference |
(kreuz.net, Basel) Msgr Felix Gmür is the new Bishop of Basel, according to the Vatican Press Service.
Pope Benedict XVI, had assumed the choice of the Basel Cathedral on the Feast of the Nativity of Mary on the 8th of September.
Prior to that, Msgr Gmür worked as necktie priest and General Secretary of the Swiss Bishops conference.
A further speculation of the protestant journalist and church-hater Micheal Meier, that it would have been Dennis Theurillat (60), has proven itself to be false.
He Won't be a Second Bishop St. Thomas Becket
Msgr Gmür hales from Luzern. In May 1999 he was ordained a priest.
Previous to that - from 1997 to 2001 - he worked as the pastoral assistant and then as necktie [secular] priest of the Parish of St. Anton in Basel.
By 2004 he studied Biblical Science at the Jesuit University, the Gregorian in Rome.
Msgr Gmür received a Doctorate in Philosophy on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Aesthetic.
From 2004 to 2006 he was active for two years as a neck tie- Subregent in the old Liberal Seminary in Luzern.
For four years he has been the General Secretary of the Bishops Conference.
Msgr Gmür will be consecrated a Bishop on January 16th in Solothurn.
Basel is the largest Diocese in Switzerland with over one Million members.
Editor: We said that Basel would get a "good" Bishop out of this, well, we were wrong.
Christ is the Savior of the Jews
ROME, November 22, 2010 – [Chiesa] The anticipated book-length interview of Benedict XVI, "Light of the World," will be in bookstores on the five continents, in various languages, beginning on Tuesday, November 23.
On Sunday the 21st, various newspapers previewed some passages from it, provided for them by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, owner of the publishing rights.
But already on the afternoon of Saturday the 20th, a different preview of the book – with much more provocative passages – had been published by "L'Osservatore Romano." With an immediate splash in the global media.
Read further...
H/t: Pewsitter/Rorate
On Sunday the 21st, various newspapers previewed some passages from it, provided for them by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, owner of the publishing rights.
But already on the afternoon of Saturday the 20th, a different preview of the book – with much more provocative passages – had been published by "L'Osservatore Romano." With an immediate splash in the global media.
Read further...
H/t: Pewsitter/Rorate
Monday, November 22, 2010
Severed animal parts in New Rochelle may be tied to religious rites
A woman taking an afternoon stroll at Glenwood Lake Park in New Rochelle came upon a startling sight: a severed goat head surrounded by the heads of four roosters.
The grisly Nov. 12 discovery came days after the bodies of two decapitated rams, male sheep, were found Nov. 7 at Ward Acres Park. The heads lay nearby.
While no direct link between the two macabre discoveries has been made, investigators said the incidents were the latest in the Lower Hudson Valley linked to ritualistic practices, such as Santeria, an Afro-Caribbean religion that often uses animals for ceremonial sacrifices.
Read further...
The grisly Nov. 12 discovery came days after the bodies of two decapitated rams, male sheep, were found Nov. 7 at Ward Acres Park. The heads lay nearby.
While no direct link between the two macabre discoveries has been made, investigators said the incidents were the latest in the Lower Hudson Valley linked to ritualistic practices, such as Santeria, an Afro-Caribbean religion that often uses animals for ceremonial sacrifices.
Read further...
The Liturgical Picnic is At an End: Priest Says Mass Ad Orientem
(kreuz.net, Moosach) Already at the end of July Pastor Wolfan Lehner had put the altar-table at his church St. Michael in Moosach aside. The municipality is 27 Kilometers south-east of Munich.
The website 'merkur-online.de' reports that the Pastor had informed his parishioners of this change in his Christmas letter.
The Upper Bavarian Parish of Moosach belongs to the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.
Common Decision
At the end of July the Parish moved the wooden altar-table out of the Church for a concert.
After that the Parish decided to leave the furnishing for a probationary period in the Sacristy till January.
The Parish is very open to the high altar-- explained Fr. Lehner. There is no dictatorial style according to the motto: "We're doing this just so, right now!"
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At the same time the wooden altar-table contains no relics.
The table is not even consecrated: "For me as a priest, it is displeasing to consistently use an unconsecrated altar to celebrate the Eucharist" -- says Fr. Lehner.
Apparently, the Church has three fixed altars which were previously unused.
The Victim Priest is not an Facilitator
The liturgical alterations which took place after the repositioning seemed minimal to the pastor: "For the preparation of the gifts, the back side of the altar is used."
The site 'merkur-online.de' defamed the Holy Mass at the High Altar as "a peculiar sight" -- because the congregation, as in the old Liturgy, commonly face in the same direction.
Pastor Lehner explained to the paper, that at the Sacrifice, the priest is not a facilitator or the host of a celebration, who tries to motivate everyone to participate in the 'Praise of God'.
Much more, the celebrant is the first supplicant of the community, who "strengthens their backs".
The Pastor is An Opponent of Church's Language
The pastor wants to go communally with God. The disposing of the altar-table is a symbol of that beginning:
"The altar symbolizes a cross, therefore the community. But in our time, which which everything revoles upon the self, we need a break from the clogging."
The new reorientation shows the goal of the Parish: "a line to a fixed altar, a common way to God."
For the necessary return of the language of the Church, Fr. Lehner will not hear: "certainly not by me".
He has already 'held' [sic, abgehalten] Masses in Latin: "But that breaks down the communication with the community" -- he believes.
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