Old Liberal Bishop of Spokane Bars Priests from Abortion Protests

Some people don't GET +Cupic. What's not to get? Old Liberal Bishops do Liberal things. They obscure the true nature of the abuse-hoax while writing for faux-Catholic magazines like America. They persecute conservative priests. They build ugly churches and promote ugly art and music. They engage in Liturgical abuses and favor Communion in the hand.

In this case, the Bishop is not allowing his priests to pray at the slaughter houses, which is also like the Cardinal Schönborn who prohibited Auxiliary Bishop Laun of Salzburg from being at a pro-life event in Vienna and stabbed Austrian pro-lifers in the back. He also doesn't favor a change in Austria's abortion laws.

They also love sex education to destroy the innocence of children with. Bishop Cupic employs the controversial, if inaptly named, "Virtus" program. Bishop Vasa remains critical, at least, of these alleged virtue programs.

He has also cancelled Eucharistic Adoration.

What's with the ugly graphic?

"Educating" over five million children.



It was really difficult to listen to the flaccid and legally appropriate language of this administrator.

Rome Expects Certain Conditions For Reconciliation With SSPX

Edit: apparently there will be ground rules the SSPX will be expected to follow in its resistance to the principles of Vatican II. It's interesting to note, and worth repeating, that many allegedly Catholic Bishops in good standing with the Vatican don't actually follow many principles outlined in the Vatican documents themselves.

This should be interesting.

Also taking into account the concerns and the issues presented by the SSPX regarding the integrity of the Catholic faith considering the hermeneutic of rupture of the Second Vatican Council with respect to Tradition – mentioned by Pope Benedict XVI in his Address to the Roman Curia of December 22, 2005 – the CDF maintains that a fundamental basis of full reconciliation with the Apostolic See is the acceptance of the Doctrinal Preamble which was delivered during the course of today’s (Wed., September 14th, 2011) meeting. This preamble enunciates some of the doctrinal principles and criteria for the interpretation of Catholic doctrine necessary to guarantee fidelity to the Magisterium of the Church and sentire cum Ecclesia (thinking with [the mind of] the Church), while at the same time leaving the theological study and explanation of particular expressions and formulations present in the texts of the Second Vatican Council and of the Magisterium that followed it open to legitimate discussion.

In the course of the same meeting, some elements were proposed regarding a canonical solution for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, which would follow the eventual and hoped-for reconciliation.

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New York Times Continues Its Unholy Crusade Against the Church

Edit: You can't even arrest Roman Polanski and hold the French Government accountable while liberal European politicians are still promoting sex with minors. But perhaps the Catholic Church's time has come?


Here's the article:

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

Human rights lawyers and victims of clergy sexual abuse filed a complaint on Tuesday urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate and prosecute Pope Benedict XVI and three top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity for what they described as abetting and covering up the rape and sexual assault of children by priests.

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Pope Benedict XVI has been named in a court complaint.

The formal filing of nearly 80 pages by two American advocacy groups, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, was the most substantive effort yet to hold the pope and the Vatican accountable in an international court for sexual abuse by priests.
“The high-level officials of the Catholic church who failed to prevent and punish these criminal actions,” the complaint says, “have, to date, enjoyed absolute impunity.”

Penance in Latin at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore

In the Papal Basilica of Saint Maria Maggiore in Rome, Penance is heard in Latin. Father Jan Raffaele de Brabandere of the Dominican Order offers the languages of French, Italian, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian in the Basilica and the basic language of Latin for all the faithful from the world, who perhaps have a great need on their Rome pilgrimage for the purifying Sacrament of reconciliation and the forgiveness of sins.

Fr. de Brandadere, aged 1928, is residing directly at the Basilica, belongs to the 108 Dominicans active in the Holy City. At the Basilica, he is the Penitentiary and Almoner, and in addition serves as high ranking Prelate of the Papal Household. The doctoral Church Musician is also famous for his compositions in church music.

Text: Orbis catholicus/Giuseppe Nardi, from the German.

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Le Figaro Says "Integristes" Are Reconciling with Rome

Edit: at least this anti-Catholic paper isn't as hostile as the usually dependable Tornielli. Integraliste is much more accurate and appealing than "Lefebrian".

Une réunion historique doit se tenir mercredi matin à Rome entre le Saint-Siège et Mgr Fellay, leader des lefebvristes, laquelle pourrait aboutir dans les semaines qui viennent à leur réintégration dans l'Église catholique.

Au Vatican, les rendez-vous les plus importants ne sont pas les plus spectaculaires. Mardi matin, dans les bureaux les plus discrets de la cité, ceux de la Congrégation pour la doctrine de la foi, va se tenir une rencontre absolument...

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Litigious, Pro-Homosexual Mexican Bishop Thumbs Nose at Local Critics

Edit: Mexico has a petulant and grandiose Prelate running the show who doesn't agree with the Church's teachings. He's so bad his people have even protested outside the Chancery against him. Of course, that's almost unheard of in the United States probably owing to the fact that there aren't enough Catholics to have a decent protest, but we digress.

His Lordship was called to Rome for an investigation recently.

Since then he's claimed already that he wasn't reprimanded by the Vatican in El Universal for his support of a group that promotes homosexuality called, Noe Ruiz or any of the other egregious things he's been accused of doing.

The Bishop is also promoting the abolishing of the Church's teaching on the sin of abortion at Lifesite.

When the local laity protested against this Old Liberal, as was reported by Whispers, this deeply spiritual and humanitarian crusader for civil rights threatened to sue them.

Catholic Snooze Media and Old Liberal Bishop Go After Another Conservative Priest

Bishop "Conversation"

Edit: oh yeah, these conservative celebrity priests should be made to pay the legal bill and help subsidize that failed and heavily government subsidized Liberal ecclesiology.    It's not bad enough that these Bishops want your tax money to be paid to their "charity" boondoggles, campaigning for Democratic Party or Socialist agendas and their CINO Universities, but they want the funds you may have been sending to more worthy Catholic causes too; whether that's EWTN, or what have you, that are more or less not completely under their collectivist thumbs.  Check out Bishop Zurrek's underwhelming "Cathedral. "

 Remember how you have those wonderful quartz rocks that are ugly on the outside but fabulous and beautiful on the inside?  This Cathedral isn't one of them.  +Zurek went all out to disedify on this one.  While the Bishop is trying to horn in on the incomes of conservative priests.  Who's holding the Bishop accountable?

Church in the Round with Altar-Nave.

Not surprising.  It's  sickening to watch while the Judases line up to stand in the gauntlet, eager to deal out lashes and buffets where they can, as if they're following a script somewhere. Watch the feeding frenzy begin, like at the Cankerous.

On the other hand, other people have been trying to call these Bishops to accountability and transparency with respect to the preachment of the Catholic Faith for years.

Interestingly, it's the incompetence and gross malfeasance of many Bishops in the United States that people like Frank Pavone exist.  Many people are justifiably reluctant to give their money to the highly subsidized AmChurch with its global warming awareness, support for Socialism and promotion of homosexuality.

Now these Bishops are eager to dip into the till.  Feast your eyes as the specious Catholics of the faux Catholisphere crow about obedience, being docile to the word of God and all that.

As usual, these Liberal prelates have no right to expect obedience when they themselves are disobedient.

Here's Father's official statement at Lifesite:

I am very perplexed by this demand. Despite that, because I am a priest of the diocese of Amarillo, I will be obedient and report there on the appointed date, putting the other commitments that are on my calendar on hold until I get more clarity as to what the bishop wants and for how long. Meanwhile, I continue to retain all my priestly faculties and continue to be a priest in "good standing" in the Church. [You and Father Roy Borgeois and the brothers Barrigan or the Cardinal on the Danube for example, so you're in good company.] The bishop does not dispute this fact. Rather, he has said that he thinks I am giving too much priority to my pro-life work, and that this makes me disobedient to him. He also has claimed that I haven't given him enough financial information.

Now, although Bishop Zurek is my Ordinary, he is not the bishop of Priests for Life. Each of our staff priests has his own Ordinary, and the organization has an entire Board of Bishops. We keep them all informed of our activities, and of our financial audits.

Here's the story from the Catholic Snooze Service:

Father Pavone (CNS file)

By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father Frank Pavone, one of the country's most visible and vocal opponents of abortion, has been suspended from active ministry outside the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas, over financial questions about his operation of Priests for Life.

The suspension was made public in a Sept. 9 letter from Amarillo Bishop Patrick J. Zurek to his fellow bishops across the country, but Father Pavone told Catholic News Service that he was returning to Amarillo and planned to continue functioning as a priest there.

"My decision is the result of deep concerns regarding his stewardship of the finances of the Priests for Life (PFL) organization," Bishop Zurek wrote. "The PFL has become a business that is quite lucrative which provides Father Pavone with financial independence from all legitimate ecclesiastical oversight."


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Here are some pictures and music to give you some feel for what kind of man Bishop Zurrah is.  His vestments, pectoral cross and Liturgical postures demonstrates a definite Gather influence which is always a bad sign:



Photos stolen from Liturgical Pimpernel.

The East German Stasi Spied on Father Ratzinger

Benedict XVI

Yesterday Like Today:  Spies Againts the Church

Germany.  This weekend the "Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk' reported on surveillance of the then Fr. Joseph Ratzinger by the Stasi.  The Church historian Josef Pilvousek discussed this with the German 'Katolische Nachrichtagentur', that the information has been known for years.  Practically ever high ranking citizen from the West was under the gaze of the Stasi -- "above all representatives of the Church."  The Stasi had at least a dozen unofficial collaborators assigned to the present Pope.  There was a Benedictine priest from Trier and several journalists under surveillance in the Bundesrepublik. The individual reports have been almost completely destroyed.

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Romanian Orthodox Patriarch Comes to Austria and Luxemburg

[Basilica News Agency] His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church pays, these days, a canonical visit to the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Germany, Austria and Luxemburg. Today, 10 September 2011, His Beatitude met the community of the Orthodox Romanians in Munich, as well as many Bavarian officials.

Friday, 9 September 2011, in the evening, the Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church, accompanied by His Eminence Teofan, Metropolitan of Moldova and Bucovina, was met at the airport of Munich by a delegation of the Romanian Orthodox Church of Germany, made up of His Eminence Serafim, Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Germany, Central and Northern Europe, and His Grace Sofian Brasoveanul, Assistant Bishop to the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Germany, Austria and Luxemburg. Some other hierarchs of our Church who had come to Munich for the event joined them: His Eminence Laurentiu, Metropolitan of Transylvania, and His Grace Macarie, Bishop of Northern Europe. Cardinal Marx, Catholic Archbishop of Freising and Munich was also present at the airport meeting the delegation. Today, His Eminence Iosif, Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Western and Southern Europe, and His Eminence Archbishop Ioan, Bishop of Covasna and Harghita joined the delegation.

According to deacon Teodor Gradinaciuc, correspondent of Trinitas Radio station, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel met cardinal Reinhard Marx, at his residence. They discussed about the relationship between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church as well as about the good collaboration, already present, manifested through the support that the Catholic Church gives to our Church by granting spaces for prayer and other facilities.

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The Double Game of German Bishops

Church is intimately linked with child murder 'pro familia'

Why do articles from "Organized Sexual and Family Planning Advisors in the DDR" from the lobbying publication of an abortuary chain appear in the required reading of a Catholic Motherhood counsellor.

(kreuz.net) On September 5th the pro-lifer Markus Miller posed an open question to Cardinal Joachim Meisner on this website ‘direktzu.kardinal-meisner.de’.

Miller's question involved the website of the 'German Work Circle for Youth, Marriage and Family Counseling."

In the work circle the German Bishops' Conference cooperated with the German Abortion Firm 'pro familia'.

Why?

On the list given by Miller is a list of literature.

They were put together by the 'pro familia' directed collaborators of the associated counseling facilities.

Millers question to Cardinal Meisner was:  "For what reason do articles like "Organization of Sexual and Family Planning Counselors in the DDR" from the 'pro familia magazine'  -- which is itself operating itself as a 'pro familia Lobbying paper' --  appear as  required reading of German pregnancy counselors and even in 'esperanza' -- a co-worker with your Archdiocese?"

"What will you personally do?"

The pro-Lifer informed the Cardinal also on the 'German Society for Counseling' with its HQ in Cologne.

There the butcher society 'pro familiia' appears right alongside Catholic organizations on the member list.

This institution participates with Cardinal Meisner's Archdiocesan Director for Marriage, Families and Life Counseling, Dr. Hanspeter Schmidt.

Miller's question: "How should we Christian pro-Lifers argue with any foundation, if our Church officially cooperates and overshadows with that the message of the sanctity of human life?"

And: "what do you want to do personally, in order to end the cooperation of the Church with 'pro familia' immediately?

Society with National Socialist Background

Miller also reformed the Cardinal  that Christian pro-Lifers receive massive attacks from 'pro familia'.

He explained also that 'pro familia' has a diabolical heritage of its founder and decades long president and old-Nazi, Hans Harmsen (+).

Harmsen made career of making propaganda during the Third Reich for the murder of  handicapped people.


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Pope's Brother Says Liturgical Reforms Were a "Slight Adjustment"

The brother of the Pope is giving prize details from the chronicle of his family from his interview book. In 1953 came the sudden report of the death of their father. 

(kreuz.net, Regensburg) Today the interview book "Mein Bruder, the Pope" of author Micheal Hesemann has arrived. Hesemann began the work in the spring during five sittings with the brother of the Pope, Prelate Georg Ratzinger (87).

In the book the Prelate denied the claim by author Gunther Grass, the SS-Volunteer, met with the Pope in their younger years. Grass is supposed to have invented this.  

Where are these students today?

Prelate Ratzinger described his little brother's love for teddy bears as a child. Both boys fought from time to time, but always quickly reconciled. About the time of his brother as a professor in Tubingen, Prelate Ratzinger said that there were "no turning points".

"It was during this time that his researches were clarified somewhat and systematized." The controversial book "Introduction to Christendom" is supposed to have brought many students from "unreal fantasies" to the right way.  

False Death Notice

In 1953, George and Joseph Ratzinger received a telegram that erroneously reported the death of their father. Both went immediately on a train to Trauenstein. When they arrived, they found their father alive, sitting in front of the house and shining his shoes.

Rigid Liturgy is the Real Problem

As far as liturgy Prelate Ratzinger says that the Pope desires a worthy and correct celebration. That is "in the present day a real problem".

There are many priests who believe they must add things and even change it here and there. He described the the post-Conciliar Liturgical Reform as "a slight adjustment".

The Prelate attacked the mass of his youth as "a Liturgy that was actually a bit rigid". It had supposedly become "much more inviting".

The Prelate hopes that his brother can be spared all of those health problems and still stand before the heavenly tester, "where we all must take our ex-Amens, to the final examination."

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Italy: Broadcaster Cancels Offensive Television Show

Edit: But it's fun for the whole family.

Because of  concerns about the religious feelings of Catholics the series was removed from the programming schedule.

Milan (www.kath.net/ KNA) In Italy, the state television broadcoaster "Rai uno" has cancelled the continuation of the German TV show "Um Himmels Willen" [ Heaven's Will] because of its offensiveness to Catholics.  In the middle point of the 40 minute television episode there was a blessing of two homosexual men in a church.

The director o the program Mauro Mazza, justified the decision with concerns technical programming, as reported by the Milan news "Corriere della Sera" (Thursday) . In order to bend to the concerns of the Catholic side it had to make an "uncustomary judgment" to cancel the the series.  Anna Paola, the delegate of the opposition Democratic Party reproached the television broadcaster of censorship and called for an investigation.   The German television series with Jutta Speidel and Fritz Wepper in the main roles ran in the midday program of "Rai uno" under the title "A Hurricane in the Cloister". 

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Hamburg Auxiliary Bishop: Christians Should Support Building Mosques

Editor: It is this last form of Communism which has given rise to the movement known as Interfaith, which consists of a common-denominator belief that leaves a Jew delighted, a Protestant contented, and a Catholic without an Apostles’ Creed. - Father Leonard Feeney

Auxiliary Bishop Jaschke says: "We Christians support the building of beautiful Mosques" "I find it within the realm of the possible that Christians can make a gift of a new Mosque to Muslims."

Hamburg (kath.net/KNA) The Hamburg Auxiliary Bishop Hans-Jochen Jaschke discussed the building of new Mosques in Germany. At the same time he called on Christians to support the building of such things symbolically. "I find it within the realm of the possible that Christians can make a gift of a Mosque to Muslims -- as a sign of sympathy, neighborliness and religious solidarity," said the member of the German Bishops Conference for Inter religious Dialog to "Die Welt" in Hamburg on Saturday.

Perhaps it's possible to have a table with a verse from the Bible and the Koran. Perhaps a collection can be taken in the churches to provide financial support for a gift, said the Auxiliary Bishop. "We Christians support the building of beautiful Mosques," said the Auxiliary Bishop. Men must sense that faith has something to do with beauty and culture. Jaschke warned at the same time that the circle of Mosques that come to form a parallel world which is detached from parts of the city. Link to kath.net...

Foiled Bomb Threat: Pope Target?

Edit: Who would do such a thing?

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German Government's Pretexts Against Opus Dei Boy's School Struck Down

Brandenburger enemies of the Church can't oppose an Opus Dei School any longer with false pretexts.

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(kreuz.net) No luck for the enemies of the Church, those Brandenburger Comrades.

For years they've tried to sabotage the establishment of a Catholic boys preparatory school in Potsdam.

Potsdam is the capital of the Land of Brandenburg.

The president of the Land is the SPD-Comrade, Matthias Platzeck. He rules together with the people, democracy and church hating SED follower party 'Die Linke' [The Left].

Constitutions Stronger than Comrades?

According to a report from the news agency AFP the Constitutional Law has possibly overrule the Comrades against freedom.

Yesterday, the Educational Ministry of Brandenburg was overruled by the Supreme Court of Berlin-Brandenburg.

Education Minister for the Land is the seven time mother, Comrade Martina Münch (49).

Madame Comrade's ministry had fought against the judgment, whereby the application for the license for a boy's school was recently approved.

A parent's initiative which desires the school and is close to Opus Dei, had complained against a decision by the Comrades which denied a building permit.

Now the Ministry Will Need a New Excuse

The Education Ministry denied the application for licensing with a pretext, that a pure school for children can not allegedly substitute for a public school.

Laws related to education in Brandenburg assume that boys and girls are to be educated together.

Actually, the Supreme Court has come to another conclusion.

A boy's preparatory school [Jungengymnasium] is, according to the Constitution which guarantees the freedom of private schools able to be licensed even in the Land of Brandenburg.

Coeducation is not one of the principles governing school buildings.

It is also neither obvious nor assured that raising and educating boys or girls separately will not adversely effect equal opportunities or equal treatment.

If this principle of the proposed school concept is to be ruled against, is up to the Ministry to make a new motion.

Link to kreuz.net....

photo: © billerickson, Flickr, CC

Pope's Man in Austria Criticizes Dissidents and Bishops

Edit: This was the priest in Linz Diocese who was relentlessly hounded by the Liberals and set up by the Viennese Cardinal when he was named as Auxiliary for Linz. He's had the courage to criticize the Bishops in the past. It's too bad there aren't more like him.

The Windischgartner Pastor Gerhard Maria Wagner is critizing the Pastors' Intiative and the Bishops: In my view sometimes money plays too big a role with the Bishops, while courage plays a lesser role, for them to say: "This is the clear teaching of the Church".

Linz (kath.net) The famous Windischgarstner Pastor, Gerhard Maria Wagner, has dismissed the controversial Pastors' Initiative and stressed that it is time to declare the "Church's teaching". "In the case of remarried and divorced, for example, the Church has made clear stipulations, that it is not negotiable. That's actually also true of the other points of the Pastor's Initiative as well." As to the question if one may refuse these people Holy Communion during Mass, explained the Pastor, that it still may not be done. He would like, however, not to put anyone on the pillory. Afterward, he'd like to speak directly to the person. "The remarried and divorced person may be in the Church, but may not receive the Sacrament."

As far as the theme "celibacy" is concerned, Wagner refutes the notion that it comes from the 11th Century. "We've also heard this heresy that celibacy comes from the 11th Century. There is research that show that this goes back to earlier times. The Church could alter it, however, if it wanted. But despite the various problems, which we have in the life form of celibacy, it is a guidepost. We must give witness of a priestly life, where joy is palpable." The pastor of Windischgarsten also clearly stated, that the Priesthood is not a theme to be discussed in the church any longer. "That is a dogmatically formulated fundamental dogma that priestly consecration is not possible for women. We can't do what Jesus never did. He was surrounded by women and demonstrated their importance. But at the Last Supper the basic framework was established counted only the twelve male Apostles participated, and we can't go back on that. Otherwise it is a 2000 year long tradition that only men are consecrated," he insists.

Wagner appealed to the Bishops as well, that this Pastors' Initiative must be addressed with what must be said. He would like to say to Helmut Schüller that he has lost his way, that this act will not "lead to the healing of the Church". "We have already had a Reformation and know what came of that. The "Call to Disobedience" is a real scandal. We have so much good in the Church but are stuck on these same tired themes." The pastor of Windischgarsten is also criticizing the Austrian Bishops. "in my view money plays a bigger role with the Bishops and less so the courage to say: "This is the teaching of the Church. Whoever can't abide by that, must find another faith community." He believes that the Church "will probably have to become smaller", so that it can become more "basic" in order to become "big again". "We need a clear witness that we don't fear the numbers", says Wagner. For people who persist in the Pastors' Initiative, he says, this is a real "fall from faith".

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Catholic Pros Are Setting up Conservative Prelate for a Fall

Edit: It wouldn't have anything to do with the conservative agenda of this Prelate, would it, that the usual assortment of pens need release their venom and "concern"?

They are, almost to a woman, usually silent about Liberal prelates and religious establishments. One USCCB representative almost gleefully states that talk of resignation is "premature". They haven't made enough molehills into mountains yet.

Left-wing Jihad against Finn examined by Father Z. .

KANAS CITY, Mo. — Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph released a report that criticized his supervision of a troubled priest, and recommended changes in his policies for addressing sexual misconduct.

Released Aug. 1, the report was commissioned by Bishop Finn, following the arrest of Father Shawn Ratigan, a diocesan priest, for possession of child pornography. The report summarized the findings of an independent investigation directed by former United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Todd Graves, who oversaw a team of attorneys, former prosecutors and Federal Bureau of Investigation officials.

The investigators concluded that the diocese’s response was flawed, in part because those seeking to report suspected sexual misconduct were directed to a single administrative office. Further, the report noted that Church officials failed to adhere to diocesan policy for both responding to allegations in a “timely manner” and consulting with the Independent Review Board. The report singled out Bishop Finn for his “[m]isplaced trust in Ratigan’s agreement to comply with restrictions,” once he was placed on administrative leave and ordered to stay away from children.

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Pope Well-Informed About "Crisis" in Austria Says Foreign Minister

Edit Almost no one in the media is talking about the many priests and laity who are obedient in Austria. The Austrian Foreign Minister, Micheal Spindelegger has said that during a private audience, Pope Benedict and he discussed the present "crisis" of the Catholic Church.

Vatican City (kath.net/KNA)  Bendict XVI has informed Foreign Minister Micheal Spindelegger about the present crisis of the Catholic Church in the Alpine Republic.  The Pope is very well informed about the situation of the Church in Austria, said Spindelegger after his audience in Rome on Wednesday. One theme was also the reform initiative of priests.  Benedict XVI invited the foreign minister to a quarter hour private meeting after the his weekly general audience.

Schindelegger won't name any details. "I have given my appraisal as an Austrian Catholic and the Pope has given his as Supreme Head of the Catholic Church", said the politician of the Austrian Peoples' Party (ÖVP).  Benedict XVI is very well informed about the Austrian sitiation.

At the end of July a group of clerics under the leadership of the former Archdiocesan Rector Fr. Helmut Schüller have declared their "disobedience" against Rome.  In a clarification the clergymen desire, among other things, that married men as well as women are permitted to be priests.  In the declarations it goes: "The Roman Refusal of long necessary Church reforms and the inactivity of the Bishops allow us, no, compel us, to follow our consciences and take indepdent action."  One must "give a sign" and oppose prohibitions from Rome.

The signators desire that "good willed" faithful must not be refused Eucharist.  These are some remarried and divorced, members of other Christian churches and "case by case" even those who have left the Church.  In addition, these priests want educated laypersons as well as religious instructors to be able to preach and to be able to reduce the number of Masses they are required to celebrate because of the [alleged and manufactured] priest shortage.  Austrian Bishops have condemned this affront. [Even the Bishop of Linz]

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Mel Gibson to Make His Maccabees Film

Edit: Not really a shocker for anyone who reads this blog regularly. Mr. Gibson is continuing his creative pilgrimage by making something that will have something for everyone, including his detractors. There is as yet no word about how Protestants will feel about a Deuterocanonical book being the subject of his next religious film.

It will do something no religious film we know of has attempted before. It will be a Religious "Western" with Jewish cowboys as the good guys. A real showdown between good and evil.

EXCLUSIVE: It’s a project that will have everybody in Hollywood and beyond talking. I’ve learned that Warner Bros has set up an untitled drama that teams Gibson and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas on the telling of the heroic story of Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee. Eszterhas will write the script, and I understand that Gibson will collaborate with him. Maccabee teamed with his father and four brothers to lead the Jewish revolt against the Greek-Syrian armies that had conquered Judea in the second century B.C. Gibson has the first option to direct but will definitely produce the film through his Icon Productions banner. It’s understandable why Warner Bros would want to be back in business with Gibson, who was once a high-profile fixture there and who made a fortune for that studio with the Lethal Weapon series and other films.

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Auxiliary Bishop Responds to Sacrilegious Mass

Auxiliary Bishop Christopher James Coyne (53) von Indianapolis
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Edit:   This blog entry which we found on the controversial German website kreuz.net, contains an interesting report.  It consists of an Auxiliary Bishop responding to what for many Catholics is the mind numbing reality, banality and carnality of the modern Liturgy.   He did have a discussion with the priest.  At least he's admitting there's a problem, but perhaps he'd be better advised to address some of the root causes of the problem as well.  He also has a real aversion to being angry.  Perhaps Bishops need to start getting angry about these things, lest people start to become convinced that they're not all that concerned about it.

This morning I attended Mass rather than concelebrated [Concelebration is such a drag.]M ass.  Earlier in the week I was unable to find a Saturday morning Mass anywhere in the area so I was pretty much going to have to miss Mass today.  But late last night on the internet I found a church abut a half an hour away that had an 8:00 AM Mass.  This was doubly good for me because I wanted to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation if the priest had time after Mass since it and been a few weeks since my last confession.  But it was a little late to make any arrangement for concelebration. [Ugh.]

I left around 7:15 AM and got there in plenty of time to spend some time preparing for Mass and, hopefully, the Sacrament of Reconciliation. [Might as well say, Penance] When Mass began, the priest, a guy about my age, came out and said, "Hello," [to the empty pews] and then proceeded with the Mass. The only problem was he had forgotten the Sign of the Cross. Well, maybe he was just a little distracted. I think we did the penetential rite but I'm not sure. There was no "Gloria" so I was beginning to think we weren't going to be celebrating the Feast of the Transfiguration since it hadn't been mentioned yet but eventually we got there when he "prayed" a spontaneous opening prayer that did mention the Transfiguration.

Things kind of went downhill from there.  I'll spare you the details. I will say I'm pretty sure it was still a valid Mass even though he changed the words [proper form, matter and intention] of the Eucharistic institution - a lot, not just a few.  There is a theological practice of the Church called "Ecclesia supplet" ("the Church provides") where if a priest inadvertently forgets some of the words of the ritual form or changes them, the "Church" recognizes the good faith of those gathered and their right to valid celebration of the sacraments and provides sacramental validity in the case of a human error or priestly malpractice.  [But this was deliberate changing of the words] This is done for the sake of the people of God and not as an excuse for the sloppy or 'creative' celebration of the priest or bishop.  Even though the priest went way over the the line in terms of his 'creativity' this morning, I think the intention of those us who came to Mass was to celebrate the Eucharist as the Church intends and so it was.

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