Editor: The Brimfield Police released a video of an intoxicated priest on line after a DUI arrest. Understandably, you can be reported when you've broken the law, to the media, but this has gone too far. Is there no reason why the Diocese and the Eparchy shouldn't be demanding an apology and settlement for damages from the City of Brimfield for releasing video footage of the priest, and giving a misleading and calumnious report of the priests's behavior.
[Ohio News: theblaze] OH Priest Delivers Wild Drunken Rant After Arrest: offers to be 'Sexual Slave' When police arrested a local priest in Brimfield Township, OH Sunday night for driving drunk, they never expected to be threatened and propositioned. But that's exactly what happened. Father Ignatius Kury was arrested after police found him lying down in the back of his car on the side of the road. His blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit. That's when police took him to the local jail and put him in a cell while he sobered up. That's also when he started ranting wildly: "I sum it up as unusual at best," Brimfield Township Police Chief David Blough told WJW-TV. The station explains: Police rolled a video tape of the incident to protect themselves and use it as evidence in court.
"Because of the fact that one of my officers walked by the holding cell and he was exposing himself," said Chief Blough. Kury is heard on the tape saying, "I'll give you a sermon on the mount." According to Chief Blough, the priest's rant lasted over 20 minutes during which he threatened and propositioned officers. Kury is heard saying, "I'll pay you whatever you want. What do you want? Want me to give you a [expletive]? Is that what you want?" "Do you want me to be a sexual slave?" Eventually, Kury was released on bond.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/oh-priest-delivers-wild-drunken-rant-after-arrest-offers-to-be-sexual-slave/
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
Irrelevance of Pope's Remarks
Edit: Perhaps people don't know, or care, for a couple of reasons. One is that effectively, despite these ecumenical efforts, Jewish figures seem more hostile to Catholics than they ever were. See the media coverage the Pope has been getting, for example. Secondly, is probably that these gestures and ststements are fairly meaningless. If Catholicism is true, don't Jews have to forsaake their false religion, after all?
So, if it doesn't matter to "youth", perhaps it's because the substance of both religions have been degraded in people's minds by the very ecumenical gestures being ignored in the first place. People don't care about Catholicism or Judaism because they are largely perceived as hypocritical social service organizations, and who can blame them when there are prelates like Cardinal Sean roaming around?
[Ynetnews] Jewish and Roman Catholic leaders reviewing their dialogue over the past four decades expressed concern on Wednesday that younger generations had little idea of the historic reconciliation that has taken place between them.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4037705,00.html
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So, if it doesn't matter to "youth", perhaps it's because the substance of both religions have been degraded in people's minds by the very ecumenical gestures being ignored in the first place. People don't care about Catholicism or Judaism because they are largely perceived as hypocritical social service organizations, and who can blame them when there are prelates like Cardinal Sean roaming around?
[Ynetnews] Jewish and Roman Catholic leaders reviewing their dialogue over the past four decades expressed concern on Wednesday that younger generations had little idea of the historic reconciliation that has taken place between them.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4037705,00.html
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Friday, March 4, 2011
Thieberville Revolt Against the Modernists Continues
Editor: You'll remember the situation the village of Thieberville in Evreux, France, where a courageous people circle around their beloved shepherd against a clerical wolf who arrives to confront them in a rainbow chasuble. Their struggle was even covered favorably by the Economist. Well, now they're being threatened with interdict. Probably not a bad idea at this point for them to approach the SSPX.
Agence France-Presse
Posted at 03/02/2011 8:10 PM
Updated as of 03/02/2011 8:10 PM
EVREUX, France - A rural French priest and his flock are facing excommunication after the Vatican became involved in his two-year battle to remain in the parish, the local bishop told AFP on Wednesday.
Father Francis Michel, 62, has been the priest in Normandy's Thiberville in north-western France for 24 years. The priest, who often says mass in Latin, has the support of his parishioners and local officials, mayor Guy Paris said.
The simmering conflict between the priest and the archbishopric came to a head after the Vatican's Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura in December rejected Michel's appeal against an order he go to another parish. \
Read further...
H/t: secretman at AQ
Agence France-Presse
Posted at 03/02/2011 8:10 PM
Updated as of 03/02/2011 8:10 PM
EVREUX, France - A rural French priest and his flock are facing excommunication after the Vatican became involved in his two-year battle to remain in the parish, the local bishop told AFP on Wednesday.
Father Francis Michel, 62, has been the priest in Normandy's Thiberville in north-western France for 24 years. The priest, who often says mass in Latin, has the support of his parishioners and local officials, mayor Guy Paris said.
The simmering conflict between the priest and the archbishopric came to a head after the Vatican's Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura in December rejected Michel's appeal against an order he go to another parish. \
Read further...
H/t: secretman at AQ
Polish Church Gets Back its Property Stolen by the Communists
Poland: The Polish State will return property stolen from the Church by the Communists. The current State Commission ruled on this after a twenty year study. The final ruling was made on Wednesday. The Church will receive 65,000 Hectares [160,615 Acres] of Land and 36 Million Euros back.
It's about 251 square miles, or about 20 Percent of the land area of Luxembourg.
Link to kreuz.net...
Image from, here. It's in the comments section in a discussion about the meaning of Communism.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
The Portal -- CDF Says the Goal of Ecumenism is Unity with the Catholic Church
In an interview with The Portal-- a new publication devoted to the ordinariate of Anglican communities received into the Catholic Church-- an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith emphasized that the goal of ecumenical dialogue is the restoration of full communion between non-Catholic Christians and the Pope.
“The ordinariate is very important to the Holy Father,” said Father Hermann Geissler, the Austrian priest who leads the Congregation’s doctrinal office. “The ordinariate promotes unity and is a powerful instrument for unity, it will help Christians to be evangelists.” Noting that “we must cooperate and grow together,” the priest said that the Church will be enriched by the Anglican patrimony of music.
“The goal of the ecumenical movement is complete visible union with one Christ and with Peter in one Church,” Father Geissler emphasized.
Read further, here.
“The ordinariate is very important to the Holy Father,” said Father Hermann Geissler, the Austrian priest who leads the Congregation’s doctrinal office. “The ordinariate promotes unity and is a powerful instrument for unity, it will help Christians to be evangelists.” Noting that “we must cooperate and grow together,” the priest said that the Church will be enriched by the Anglican patrimony of music.
“The goal of the ecumenical movement is complete visible union with one Christ and with Peter in one Church,” Father Geissler emphasized.
Read further, here.
Video of the Egyptian Army's Attack on St. Bishoy Monastery
We'd reported on the death of a Coptic Priest who recently died from multiple stab wounds last month on the twenty third, well, here's the video documenting the related attack on the Bishoy Monastery walls.
These people have a sense for patience and hope as they sang Kyrie Eleison as Egyptian Army APCs battered down the protective wall surrounding their Monastery.
H/t: DG for video.
These people have a sense for patience and hope as they sang Kyrie Eleison as Egyptian Army APCs battered down the protective wall surrounding their Monastery.
H/t: DG for video.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Theology Professors Are Completely Irrelevant: Celibacy Memorandum
Manfred Lutz about the Theology-Memorandum: The great intellectual debate in German takes place without Theology professors in place.
Rome (kath.net) The famous psychiatrist and Catholic theologian Manfred Lutz rejected the suggestion in an interview with "Radio Vatican", that he had encouraged the authors of the controversial Theology Memorandum to leave the Church and become protestants. "That really didn't happen. What I -- psychologically actually -- found very interesting: I wrote an article for the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung in the beginning of February which was intentionally unpolemical in an admittedly polemical debate and finally made the impression, that really wasn't the case. The people understood even an unpolemical article in a polemical debate, polemically."
Lutz insisted during the interview that the Theological Memorandum is about power and powerlessness. "I believe that theology professors in Germany have a lot of power -- if they really are at once professors, they could actually do, what they want, and teach, what they want. They don't know anything else. On the other said there is the problem that these professors, that theology professors are not taken seriously an more. They are completely irrelevant. The great intellectual debate in Germany is taking place without theologians present. They are not being cited in the big papers and in talk shows either, the talk shows want Catholic positions and so they invite the Bishops."
For the theologians, it is certain that themes in the Church do not appeal to young people, but here we have an entire generation always bringing up the same concern. Lutz said of this: "I think this is the conservatism of the progressives in the Catholic Church". For the psychiatrists there are two conservative milieus in the Church. The one conserves that which they call "the Catholic". "And the other is always against, but always has proposals which the people well know they won't eke through. Then one can be hardened in
conservatively in a complaining ritual, and nothing changes."
For Lutz it is clear that everyone who has signed, actually knew that celibacy won't be overthrown by the debate. "And thus that we are now thoroughly angry about this, that which can't be overthrown, things aren't going to get better. Everyone knows that. One can hardly hardly exchange more arguments in the hope that the other side will take that as a real argument and not an attack. If they looked through the Memorandum once, psychologically: then the discussion would be worked out and pummeled into the Church, which isn't very fun, then to speak with such aggression." A dialog always begins on one side. Always begins with one speaking to another person, and the more meaningfully he does it, the more respectful he does it, the more the other will have the desire to answer. So begins the dialog", concluded Lutz with certainty.
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Rome calls thinking behind Theological Memorandum, "provincial"
[Catholic Vulture] German Bishops Respond to Memorandum.
Rome (kath.net) The famous psychiatrist and Catholic theologian Manfred Lutz rejected the suggestion in an interview with "Radio Vatican", that he had encouraged the authors of the controversial Theology Memorandum to leave the Church and become protestants. "That really didn't happen. What I -- psychologically actually -- found very interesting: I wrote an article for the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung in the beginning of February which was intentionally unpolemical in an admittedly polemical debate and finally made the impression, that really wasn't the case. The people understood even an unpolemical article in a polemical debate, polemically."
Lutz insisted during the interview that the Theological Memorandum is about power and powerlessness. "I believe that theology professors in Germany have a lot of power -- if they really are at once professors, they could actually do, what they want, and teach, what they want. They don't know anything else. On the other said there is the problem that these professors, that theology professors are not taken seriously an more. They are completely irrelevant. The great intellectual debate in Germany is taking place without theologians present. They are not being cited in the big papers and in talk shows either, the talk shows want Catholic positions and so they invite the Bishops."
For the theologians, it is certain that themes in the Church do not appeal to young people, but here we have an entire generation always bringing up the same concern. Lutz said of this: "I think this is the conservatism of the progressives in the Catholic Church". For the psychiatrists there are two conservative milieus in the Church. The one conserves that which they call "the Catholic". "And the other is always against, but always has proposals which the people well know they won't eke through. Then one can be hardened in
conservatively in a complaining ritual, and nothing changes."
For Lutz it is clear that everyone who has signed, actually knew that celibacy won't be overthrown by the debate. "And thus that we are now thoroughly angry about this, that which can't be overthrown, things aren't going to get better. Everyone knows that. One can hardly hardly exchange more arguments in the hope that the other side will take that as a real argument and not an attack. If they looked through the Memorandum once, psychologically: then the discussion would be worked out and pummeled into the Church, which isn't very fun, then to speak with such aggression." A dialog always begins on one side. Always begins with one speaking to another person, and the more meaningfully he does it, the more respectful he does it, the more the other will have the desire to answer. So begins the dialog", concluded Lutz with certainty.
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Link to kath.net...
Rome calls thinking behind Theological Memorandum, "provincial"
[Catholic Vulture] German Bishops Respond to Memorandum.
Satan's Navy: UK Ship on Last Rescue Mission Before Scrapping
No, it's not the Black Pearl, it's not Charon's barge, it's a relatively modern ship of the Royal Navy, cruising to the aid of British nationals in Benghazi Libya. MI-6 Agent Aleistar Crowley would have been so pleased, but what would Nelson have thought? Here's the story as told by the 'American Spectator.'
H/t: Pewsitter
[American Spectator] The present Cumberland also made the headlines when, in obedience to the diktats of political correctness, a Satanist chapel was installed to accommodate the proclivities of a Satanist crewmember. No, I am not making this up -- it is not exactly a cheerful thought that in the new, non-discriminatory Royal Navy a Satanist might get his finger on a certain red button. (By way of contrast, I toured one of the last British cruisers, HMS Tiger, some years ago. The sentence in polished brass letters on the ceremonial rum-cask: FEAR GOD; HONOUR THE QUEEN, stuck in my mind.) The phrase "What would Nelson have said?" has been used in so many headlines to stories about Naval cuts and other scandals that it has become a cliché, but in this particular case it seems a reasonable question.
H/t: Pewsitter
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Renew America Slams Pizza King, Cardinal Bevilaqua and the Exorcist
RENEW AMERICA Is taking on the old guard of the Pizza King and his court Inquisitor, Father Eutener. Remember when Father took on old neo-Conservative Hannity on Fox News to general applause? Well, anyone can play that note once or twice and get a reputation for orthodoxy, conservatism and even holiness. Unfortunately, the Renew America commentator attacks Father Eutener as not "orthodox". We're sorry to hear that, we're a little incredulous, but the commentator is spot on about the Pizza King and his Old Liberal Bishop, the unctuous and highly educated Cardinal Bevilaqua.
We'd commented earlier last month about Pizza King's retirement from Ave Maria. I guess he's starting to take a bite out of donations to Swamp Thing University which just got accreditated this year.
We're not excited about the old party line. He was hiding child abusers, he was hiding his homosexual collaborators, no doubt. Philadelphia has a strong liberal presence, that's nothing new.
Lord, O' Lord, how long must we suffer under the rule of Americanist Prelates? Here's what Howlingly Abusrd has to say from AQ. It is hard to believe he could have been unaware, and the author of the article did say people would come around and say "he's not all that bad". It's becoming increasingly difficult to defend churchmen. When you don't demonstrate that you really believe what you profess to advocate, it gets even harder, and then get children involved who are preyed upon by your homosexual friends, well.:
The dementia of the cardinal, not recognizing people, might explain
not spotting deviants and flamers at his own seminary.
And enabling a control freak with bad taste in architecture.
Part of the problem is money though, enabling someone who is obviously a kook, who no serious Catholic scholar in his or her right mind
would have submitted to, were it not for the corrupting influence of money and the false promises behind it.
It's not like it's just one demented Cardinal who doesn't recognize his attorney or mother.
You have a whole subculture of dementia and corruption with seminary professors, theologians and bioethicists making up excuses
for eugenic Jackson Labs and talking about ecumenical "dialogue" with secular humanist science dorks and nerds,
as if this will be a new Spring Time while pedophiles and deviants pose as priests in the archdiocese
and when the Cardinal actually served on a panel for the USCCB on
the "protection" of children and young people.
You can't walk through a modernist seminary and then say you were totally surprised to discover there were fruitcakes
and perverts pretending to be priests in your diocese.
Unless you're blind or suffering from dementia.
Or unless you're a convert unfamiliar with the subculture of deviants in that diocese.
The Cardinal may have a valid excuse. Alzheimer's, dementia, or whatever. That doesn't excuse the other enablers.
You simply CANNOT allow someone, even a deranged control freak,
to BUY a Catholic university. That's not how Catholic higher education
is supposed to work.
There's NO chapter on that in Newman's Idea of a University or in
Ex Corde Ecclesiae.
It was virtually unheard of until this recent era in Americanist modernism.
And despite the horrible example of certain other modernist Catholic institutions,
that idea should have been resisted and opposed by those calling themselves orthodox and conservative Catholics.
But maybe there should be an encyclical or motu proprio on what should happen when a kook or a deranged control freak seizes control of a Catholic university.
And on the procedures for how to remove such people from involvement with Catholic education.
Read on:
AVE MARIA, Florida- Following a long and painful investigation of the sexual abuse of children in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, a Grand Jury has issued a final report stating that they have no doubt that Cardinal Bevilacqua's "knowing and deliberate actions during his tenure as Archbishop also endangered thousands of children in the Philadelphia Archdiocese." This endangerment included vulnerable and poor immigrant children from the Hmong community — an alarming fact, considering Bevilacqua's experience, having served as Director of the Migration and Refugee Office in the Diocese of Brooklyn.Read further...
Photo stolen from Dusty.
Old Liberal Benedictines Continue to Die Out
“Dramatic drop in their membership”
With no new vocations in more than 20 years, Benedictine sisters in San Bernardino diocese decide to close monastery, move on
After 45 years in existence, the Benedictine sisters of Holy Spirit Monastery in Grand Terrace (near San Bernardino) have announced they are moving out of their monastery and leaving the area.
“On January 31, 2011, I received formal notice from the Sisters of Saint Benedict of Holy Spirit Monastery in Grand Terrace that they, as a religious community, had made the decision to close their Monastery in that city,” wrote San Bernardino Bishop Gerald Barnes in a Feb. 7 letter posted on the diocesan website. “This comes after many years of faithful and devoted presence here in our Diocese of San Bernardino.”
“The sisters explained to me that the dramatic drop in their membership has left them with only six sisters at Holy Spirit Monastery, most of whom are already retired,” said Bishop Barnes’ in the letter. “This fact alone affects significantly their financial position since a Monastery relies on the income generated by the sisters’ full-time ministries. It has also been very difficult to accomplish all of the jobs required to function as an independent monastery.” Read further, here.
Youth Vandalize the Church and Urinate in Holy Water Fonts
A group of youth (13-16 years) have vandalized a church in the Archdiocese of Freiburg and among other things, destroyed the statue of St. Antonius.
Ersingen (kath.net) Youthful perpetrators have severely vandalized a Catholic church in the city of Ersingen (near Pforzheim) in the Archdiocese of Freiburg according to the "Pforzheimer Zeitung". The perpetrators first poured out the holy water and finally urinated in the holy water fountains. Otherwise, numerous objects in the church were destroyed. Among other things the statue of St. Anthony was ripped from its anchoring and another figure had its head cut off. The four youth estimated in age from 13 to 16 are being pursued by the police.
Read original, kath.net...
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Ersingen (kath.net) Youthful perpetrators have severely vandalized a Catholic church in the city of Ersingen (near Pforzheim) in the Archdiocese of Freiburg according to the "Pforzheimer Zeitung". The perpetrators first poured out the holy water and finally urinated in the holy water fountains. Otherwise, numerous objects in the church were destroyed. Among other things the statue of St. Anthony was ripped from its anchoring and another figure had its head cut off. The four youth estimated in age from 13 to 16 are being pursued by the police.
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Converting Mussulmen is Easy
Apparently Christians don't have the power anymore to be the light of the world. The alternative to the Gospel" Assissi-Meetings. by Blessed Fr. Charles de Foucauld (+1916)
(kreuz.net) It seems that the interaction with the Mussulmen consists in first civilizing them, then to instrict them and to finally make them human beings like us. When that's done, then their conversion will be done practically by themselves.
Because Islam can't withstand instruction.
The work here in Algeria -- as with all Mussulmen -- to be performed, consists in the work of moral uplifting:
- to bring them by all means to moral and intellectual heights.
- to grow close to them and maintain contact with them
- to bind with them in friendship
- to remove their antipathy towards us through daily and friendly interaction in conversation and change their view through the example of our lives.
- for an actual appreciation in instruction
- to instruct these souls completely in the whole of their lives and bring them up with help in school and college, that which is learned in school and college.
- teach them by way of daily and close contact, what is learned in the family.
- to become their family.
When this result is reached, then their disposition will be massively altered and their morals improved.
The commission of the Gospel will be easily procured.
From a letter to Fr. Caron in the year 1906.
From kreuz.net...
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| Blessed Charles de Foucaud |
(kreuz.net) It seems that the interaction with the Mussulmen consists in first civilizing them, then to instrict them and to finally make them human beings like us. When that's done, then their conversion will be done practically by themselves.
Because Islam can't withstand instruction.
The work here in Algeria -- as with all Mussulmen -- to be performed, consists in the work of moral uplifting:
- to bring them by all means to moral and intellectual heights.
- to grow close to them and maintain contact with them
- to bind with them in friendship
- to remove their antipathy towards us through daily and friendly interaction in conversation and change their view through the example of our lives.
- for an actual appreciation in instruction
- to instruct these souls completely in the whole of their lives and bring them up with help in school and college, that which is learned in school and college.
- teach them by way of daily and close contact, what is learned in the family.
- to become their family.
When this result is reached, then their disposition will be massively altered and their morals improved.
The commission of the Gospel will be easily procured.
From a letter to Fr. Caron in the year 1906.
From kreuz.net...
Latin is Better than English
Germany. The newspaper 'Deutsche Sprachwelt' is promoting at the beginning of World Mother Language Day; less English and more Latin instruction. The destruction of linguistic diversity damages also the German language -- explained the Chief of the paper. Latin is much better equipped than English to help learn other languages.
At kreuznet...
At kreuznet...
If Monarchy can Forward Liberalism, It'll Be Favorably Viewed in Films
Editor: I saw "God Save the Queen" on the wall the other day and saw how interwoven the punk rock rebellion of the mid-seventies and its message had become so intricately interwoven with the British Monarchy. The symbols became mutually supporting and John Lydon is suddenly a proud British Subject who "loves our Queen..."
Haven't you people heard of post-structuralism? Haven't you people heard of the free play of signifiers and signifieds?
Hollywood's ok with celebrating Monarchy and Nobility as long as it promotes a leftist agenda. Of course, no big surprise that The King's Speech was promoted by the lumpen-intellectuals at L'Osservatore Romano. If you're short on insight and Catholic belief, you can always make up for it by praising films that entered the limelight: Brokeback, Simpsons, or one of JP Two's favorites, Shakespeare in Love.
Here's a list of articles and sites featuring films with noble and monarchical characters that promote leftist agendas.
Read further, here.
Mrs. Brown More surreptitious family bashing.
Young Victoria Liberal Victoria.
Elizabeth, Cate Blanchet. Celebrating one of the most murdering Queens in English history as an Enlightenment Saint.
The English Patient, assisted suicide, pacifism, miscegenation, religious indifferentism and portraying immoral situations in an amoral light.
The Madness of King George, egalitarian non-sense.
Gahndi, with Ben Kingsley, do-gooder pacifism.
Lord of the Rings, For feminism.
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| Ah, the Irony |
Haven't you people heard of post-structuralism? Haven't you people heard of the free play of signifiers and signifieds?
Hollywood's ok with celebrating Monarchy and Nobility as long as it promotes a leftist agenda. Of course, no big surprise that The King's Speech was promoted by the lumpen-intellectuals at L'Osservatore Romano. If you're short on insight and Catholic belief, you can always make up for it by praising films that entered the limelight: Brokeback, Simpsons, or one of JP Two's favorites, Shakespeare in Love.
Here's a list of articles and sites featuring films with noble and monarchical characters that promote leftist agendas.
Read further, here.
Mrs. Brown More surreptitious family bashing.
Young Victoria Liberal Victoria.
Elizabeth, Cate Blanchet. Celebrating one of the most murdering Queens in English history as an Enlightenment Saint.
The English Patient, assisted suicide, pacifism, miscegenation, religious indifferentism and portraying immoral situations in an amoral light.
The Madness of King George, egalitarian non-sense.
Gahndi, with Ben Kingsley, do-gooder pacifism.
Lord of the Rings, For feminism.
Swiss Bishop Fires Seminary Rector over Disagreement on Old Mass. Swiss Bishop Goes to Congregation of Bishops.
Editor: The traditional friendly Bishop of Chur is attempting to defend his position against the counter diocese, the bureaucratic councils that control the Church tax. He's going to Rome to defend the firing of a controversial his seminary rector. According to kreuz.net, one of the flash points between the two Bishops was the Old Mass. +Huonder is a strong advocate for the Mass of All Ages.
Will the Bishop Himself Resign?
The explosion of the Chur resignation has reached the Congregation of Bishops. There one learns: The slightest problems make Bishops who can't stop the decline.
(kreuz.net) Yesterday morning Bishop Vitus Huonder (68) of Chur directed comments to his fellow bishops, priests, deacons and pastoral assistants in an e-mail.
The letter stands in connection with the most recent resignation of the Rector of the Chur Seminary and General Vicar for the Canton of Graubünden.
"I sense there is great sense of dismay regarding the events of the last days in the entire Diocese" -- explained the Bishop: "I agree with that at this point too".
There have been different levels of "injury" that have taken place in the last months which had at once resulted in dismissal.
Msgr Huonder maintains that the Diocesan leadership has not succeeded in giving a "picture of unity" in this situation.
The Bishop did not mince words: "In the current hour I ask myself, what is to be done."
He has already contacted the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Francesco Canalini (74) and asked for advice.
He has even received an appointment in Rome:
"I will then have the opportunity to come to together with the Prefect of the Bishops Congregation in order to discuss the situation."
Msgr Huonder has pointed out that this is "not for the expediency" of the Chur "Old Liberal" priest council or the not more precisely "Council of Lay Female Theologettes, Lay Theologians and Deacons" to use this as an opportunity to engage in a palaver.
He wants to solicit the Roman Council in this case:
"I wanted to consult antecedently with the Congregation for Clergy about what I have undertaken in the given circumstances and will make known then about any further actions."
In conclusion he cited a word from Pope John Paul II († 2005)from his book, "Memory and Identity":
"What does forgiveness mean, if it does not call on the good which is greater than any evil."
Msgr Huonder invites everyone, "to see the good that is always and manifold and to appreciate the
the interconnectedness."
Link to article, kreuz.net, here...
Will the Bishop Himself Resign?
The explosion of the Chur resignation has reached the Congregation of Bishops. There one learns: The slightest problems make Bishops who can't stop the decline.
(kreuz.net) Yesterday morning Bishop Vitus Huonder (68) of Chur directed comments to his fellow bishops, priests, deacons and pastoral assistants in an e-mail.
The letter stands in connection with the most recent resignation of the Rector of the Chur Seminary and General Vicar for the Canton of Graubünden.
"I sense there is great sense of dismay regarding the events of the last days in the entire Diocese" -- explained the Bishop: "I agree with that at this point too".
There have been different levels of "injury" that have taken place in the last months which had at once resulted in dismissal.
Msgr Huonder maintains that the Diocesan leadership has not succeeded in giving a "picture of unity" in this situation.
The Bishop did not mince words: "In the current hour I ask myself, what is to be done."
He has already contacted the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Francesco Canalini (74) and asked for advice.
He has even received an appointment in Rome:
"I will then have the opportunity to come to together with the Prefect of the Bishops Congregation in order to discuss the situation."
Msgr Huonder has pointed out that this is "not for the expediency" of the Chur "Old Liberal" priest council or the not more precisely "Council of Lay Female Theologettes, Lay Theologians and Deacons" to use this as an opportunity to engage in a palaver.
He wants to solicit the Roman Council in this case:
"I wanted to consult antecedently with the Congregation for Clergy about what I have undertaken in the given circumstances and will make known then about any further actions."
In conclusion he cited a word from Pope John Paul II († 2005)from his book, "Memory and Identity":
"What does forgiveness mean, if it does not call on the good which is greater than any evil."
Msgr Huonder invites everyone, "to see the good that is always and manifold and to appreciate the
the interconnectedness."
Link to article, kreuz.net, here...
Sex-abuse Hoax Hits Sweden
Editor: just because something happens in Sweden, doesn't mean that the same liberalism which is evident in other parts of the Church won't yield the same kinds of problems, even if they are exceedingly rare as they are in this case. There was another report last year as Sweden joined the snowballing sex-abuse hoax with two, yes, count them two, cases. Now that number has skyrocketed to three as the forces of leftist intrigue throw their dwindling reserves and media resources into battle. Let's look at the numbers which tell a different story.
To put this into perspective, the Catholic Church in Sweden has, according to Nation Master, a total of 145 as of 2004. Back then, there were about 140,000 Catholics in Sweden. There are 200,000 today. Imagine a corresponding increase in the number of priests and that number of three perpetrators in thirty years gets increasingly more insignificant.
Three priests, even in liberal Sweden with its age of consent at 15 and its decadent and morally permissive climate, over a period of thirty years means this is a very rare occurrence of sexual abuse among clergy.
It's undoubtedly much higher in the Swedish educational system and among mental "health" professionals.
The following headline is further proof of the malice these people bear for Catholicism. Note that despite the fact that they could only conjure up three perpetrators, one who isn't a alive to defend himself, and another who's no longer a priest, they include ALL priests in the category of "paedophiles". Never mind that pedophilia is even rarer than pederasty. Pedophilia involves sex with children who haven't reached puberty, and pederasty, which involves the majority of these cases, with those who have reached sexual maturity and are pubescent. And these same people will never discuss the issue of homosexuality, because if this scandal shines a light on anything, it should shine a light on the plague of homosexuality itself and liberalism, two things which priestly perpetrators suffer from more than anything else.
But once again, the media isn't interested in making those distinctions, it's only interested in inciting hatred for the Catholic Church.
Read further, here.
H/t: AQ
To put this into perspective, the Catholic Church in Sweden has, according to Nation Master, a total of 145 as of 2004. Back then, there were about 140,000 Catholics in Sweden. There are 200,000 today. Imagine a corresponding increase in the number of priests and that number of three perpetrators in thirty years gets increasingly more insignificant.
Three priests, even in liberal Sweden with its age of consent at 15 and its decadent and morally permissive climate, over a period of thirty years means this is a very rare occurrence of sexual abuse among clergy.
It's undoubtedly much higher in the Swedish educational system and among mental "health" professionals.
The following headline is further proof of the malice these people bear for Catholicism. Note that despite the fact that they could only conjure up three perpetrators, one who isn't a alive to defend himself, and another who's no longer a priest, they include ALL priests in the category of "paedophiles". Never mind that pedophilia is even rarer than pederasty. Pedophilia involves sex with children who haven't reached puberty, and pederasty, which involves the majority of these cases, with those who have reached sexual maturity and are pubescent. And these same people will never discuss the issue of homosexuality, because if this scandal shines a light on anything, it should shine a light on the plague of homosexuality itself and liberalism, two things which priestly perpetrators suffer from more than anything else.
But once again, the media isn't interested in making those distinctions, it's only interested in inciting hatred for the Catholic Church.
Priests in Sweden join the ranks of "paedophiles"
The Catholic Church of Sweden confirms three suspected priests sexually abused children over the span of 30 years. [Wow, is that a lot?]
It is reported that the paedophile priests, one of whom is dead, sexually abused a collective of five children between 1940 and 1970, thus falling under that statute of limitation.
Stockholm Bishop Anders Arborelius said Saturday there could "be no redemption" for the three.
One priest molested two boys, another abused a girl for four years before she complained.
The third priest molested two girls, who were sisters, while in a relationship with their mother.
Read further, here.
H/t: AQ
Friday, February 25, 2011
Theological Memorandum: Kasper - "Students" Contradict Cardinal Kasper
Editor: Rome is just as disappointed with the Memorandum as Cardinal Kasper, calling it, "provincial". Really, it seems really infantile and moribund, like the ranks of Old Liberals themselves.
Theologian Hans Kessler, Eberhard Schockenhoff and Peter Walter insist: Cardinal Kasper's "Gotteskrise" serves "not only in society, rather also in the center of the Church itself".
Berlin (kath.net/KAP) In the debate surrounding the provacative Theology paper three students of the Curial Cardinal Walter Kasper have offered sharp criticisms of their former mentor. The Casper generated "Gotteskrise" serves "not only in society but also in the center of the Church itself", it was explained by theologians Hans Kessler, Eberhard Schockendoff and Peter Walter, who published a common statement for the "Frankfurter Rundschau" on Friday.
In the Catholic Church there is a "large brewing problem, which is not solved by non-engagement and progressive silence", so say the three Theologians. It may be hardly challenged "that the Church is in no way defined by a culture of freedom, like other social systems at least present themselves in the ideal". From "trust in the freedom of the individual" t is only apparent so long , "as it doesn't pull out all the stops".
Kessler is an emeritus Professor for systematic Theology at the Goethe-University Frankfurt: Schockenhoff [Moraltheologie] and Walter [Dogmatic] are professors at the University of Freiburg.
Kasper was "disappointed" by the Memorandum.
Kasper had turned against the "Mememorandum" of Catholic theologians in the middle of February, in which a list of reforms were proposed. The Curial Cardinal had explained that the call for another inner-ecclesiastical legal culture is surely right, the past church circle is however in consequence of the divine circle does not arise in the first line of Church law. The various questions are "the conviction of the Faith in the world of today": in place of "superficial adjusting parameters of celibacy", requires a "radical renewal" of this belief.
In total Kasper had explained two weeks ago that he was "overly disappointed" in the Memorandum of the Theologians. He missed in that a substantial contribation of theologians where he'd "expected more". No sensible person seriously contests that it "makes an acerbic break necessary with the Catholic Church".
Read original, kath.net...
Theologian Hans Kessler, Eberhard Schockenhoff and Peter Walter insist: Cardinal Kasper's "Gotteskrise" serves "not only in society, rather also in the center of the Church itself".
Berlin (kath.net/KAP) In the debate surrounding the provacative Theology paper three students of the Curial Cardinal Walter Kasper have offered sharp criticisms of their former mentor. The Casper generated "Gotteskrise" serves "not only in society but also in the center of the Church itself", it was explained by theologians Hans Kessler, Eberhard Schockendoff and Peter Walter, who published a common statement for the "Frankfurter Rundschau" on Friday.
In the Catholic Church there is a "large brewing problem, which is not solved by non-engagement and progressive silence", so say the three Theologians. It may be hardly challenged "that the Church is in no way defined by a culture of freedom, like other social systems at least present themselves in the ideal". From "trust in the freedom of the individual" t is only apparent so long , "as it doesn't pull out all the stops".
Kessler is an emeritus Professor for systematic Theology at the Goethe-University Frankfurt: Schockenhoff [Moraltheologie] and Walter [Dogmatic] are professors at the University of Freiburg.
Kasper was "disappointed" by the Memorandum.
Kasper had turned against the "Mememorandum" of Catholic theologians in the middle of February, in which a list of reforms were proposed. The Curial Cardinal had explained that the call for another inner-ecclesiastical legal culture is surely right, the past church circle is however in consequence of the divine circle does not arise in the first line of Church law. The various questions are "the conviction of the Faith in the world of today": in place of "superficial adjusting parameters of celibacy", requires a "radical renewal" of this belief.
In total Kasper had explained two weeks ago that he was "overly disappointed" in the Memorandum of the Theologians. He missed in that a substantial contribation of theologians where he'd "expected more". No sensible person seriously contests that it "makes an acerbic break necessary with the Catholic Church".
Read original, kath.net...
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