Liechtenstein Votes Against Proposed Abortion Law

Bern (kath.net/KNA) In Liechtenstein abortion remains illegal even for the future. At a popular vote on Sunday about 52 percent of the 36,000 citizens voted against the legalization of pregnancy termination, 47.7 percent voted to allow abortion within the first twelve weeks.

In Liechtenstein, abortion is illegal is punishable with up to a year of confinement, if it is undertaken abroad.

Archprince Alois von Liechtenstein had shown himself to be explicitly against the initiative and promised to cast his veto and refused to sign it into law. The reason for his opposition lay in that the proposed form did not merely address fetuses in the first twelve weeks, but could allow for it in cases of handicapped children all the way up to the point of birth.

Even the goevrnment and parliament of Liechtenstein had spoken out against the text of the poll.

Various political parties proposed a further challenge in the text in the event that it were rewritten. Abortion is still punishable in any case, even if only, it is undertaken by Lietchtenstein.

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Rome and Moscow Patriarchate Moving Closer Together

Edit: Believe it. It's going to happen.

The Ortodhox Church

 In recent days, the Russian Metropolitan Hilarion has been trying to "unblock" the historic face-to-face meeting with Russia's Patriarch. He may succeed, as long as Ukraine does not become a "Roman" patriarchy

Giacomo Galeazzi Vatican City A direct intervention, an unmediated contact. With his call to the Vatican in recent days, the chairman of the Department for External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk has placed himself at the forefront of an unexpected attempt to accelerate dealings between the Holy See and the Patriarchate of Moscow. He made a clarification which was not on the agenda, to facilitate the meeting between Benedict XVI and the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill. An historic "face to face" meeting that now seems less distant.

Moscow is laying out its request: if the Vatican resolves the issue of the Ukraine, the historic meeting between the Pope and the Russian Patriarch will finally be able to take place. During the present pontificate, relations have improved considerably between the Church of Rome and the bulk of Orthodoxy, represented by the Russian church. Both are increasingly in agreement about wanting to deal with what they consider to be the prime duty of Christians in Europe: a new evangelization of all those who are far from the faith. It is for this purpose that the Pope has decided to devote a specific Office of the Roman Curia to the new evangelisation.

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Danube Cardinal Threatens Austrian Dissidents

Editor: the Archdiocese Canon Lawyer already laid down the ground rules.  Now the disobedient ones have to decide whether they want to risk losing their income, their benefits and their offices.  


Try to imagine the Austrian police forcibly removing them from their parish offices by force.  That would be a sight to behold.


What happens to employees who attack the leadership of a corporation?  Usually they quit and go work for other companies.  We understand that the Church of Satan is looking for new hires.

By Michael Shields

VIENNA | Sat Sep 17, 2011 2:47pm BST

(Reuters) - The head of Vienna's Roman Catholic community ruled out sweeping changes demanded by dissident priests and said there could be "serious conflict" if they defied Church teaching on celibacy or give communion to remarried divorcees.
Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn said he would not lead his diocese into a schism with leaders in the Vatican by letting priests flout Church rules after a group of priests issued a "Call to Disobedience" manifesto to try to press reform.
In weekend interviews with Austrian radio and television, Schoenborn backed celibacy for priests, limiting ordination to men and preserving marriage as a life-long commitment.

H/t: Pewsitter.

Archbishop of Canterbury Delivers the Smackdown on Prime Minister

Edit: David Cameron is trying to fill the shoes of the Fisherman and run a fast one past the Archbishop of Canterbury, but he's not having it, the exchange as follows:

The Archbishop of Canterbury is not particularly disposed to 'huge rows', but he's not very happy about this proposal. And there are one or two Anglican bishops who are disposed to rows, and one or two more in the Roman Catholic Church, not to mention a couple of thousand in other Christian denominations and religions. Mr Cameron is of the opinion that ‘if our Lord Jesus was around today he would very much be backing a strong agenda on equality and equal rights, and not judging people on their sexuality’.

When he uttered those words, His Grace begged to differ, saying that if Our Lord Jesus were around today, there is nothing at all to suggest that he would be remotely interested in talking about ‘equality’ or ‘rights’: he would be preaching the gospel, in season and out, and calling on people to repent of their sin and prepare for the coming of the Kingdom.

But Mr Cameron doesn't do that kind of Jesus.

Here's the article and some of the back ground. Link is here in a very scathing article by Cramner.

Government to legislate for 'gay marriage'

It has been announced that the Coalition is to press ahead with legislation to permit 'gay marriage'. It is to be preceded by a consultation, but the purpose of such a consultation is unclear when the decision has already been taken a priori to legislate for the change. A consultation which does not consult cannot be a consultation. But then a marriage which does not marry cannot be a marriage.

Ht: GLF

Linz Bishop Crucifies Pastor for Being too Catholic

Edit: What should be familiar to you, dear reader, is that there is a movement afoot throughout the universal Church to remove and squelch voices that are Catholic on the part of Bishops and administrators who themselves, seem ashamed of Him in their actions and omissions. There's an article from earlier this summer on this particularly showtrial.

This priest has the simple but apparently controversial message that Christ must be born within us.

Remember when Bishop Nourrichard showed up in Thieberville with a Rainbow Chasuble to remove a most loyal and beloved priest who had brought the village back to Christ almost like another Cure de Ars?

It's open season on Catholic priests and they're being destroyed, usually administratively, by their superiors despite managing very successful ministries. Sometimes these Bishops have the benefit of some salacious accusations, other times, there are accusations of financial irregularities.

This is no different, except for the Bishop of Linz, who probably orchestrated a campaign against Father Wagner when he was named Auxiliar Bishop in Linz last year, it is enough that this apparently holy and much loved priest actually teaches the Catholic Faith.

Some traditionalists will complain that this priest favors the Divine Mercy devotion and says the New Mass. Who cares?

This priest doesn't even say the Immemorial Mass of All Ages and the Old Liberals hate him.


His church was full. His parish board stands behind him. He has never celebrated the Old Mass. Actually he had three Old Liberal enemies in his Parish. That was enough for the Bishop Ludwig Schwarz, to plant a knife right in the back of his priest.

Fr. Skoblicki © gloria.tv

(kreuz.net, Kopfing) The scandal-Bishop Ludwig Schwarz of Linz wants to crucify the unconnected and effectively beneficial Pastor of Kopfing, Fr. Andreas Skoblicki, on the 15th of October.

This was reported on the videosite 'gloria.tv'.

The 2.000 population community of Kopfing in Innkreis is located not far from the Bavarian state of Passau.

Father Skloblicki has worked since 2003 in Kopfing. No earlier than last year, the Diocese had extended his service to 2014.

Now the soul thirsty priest has been sent into the desert.

This Polish clergyman has not been accused of having done anything wrong.

On the contrary: he is considered especially soul thirsty. His church is even full on workdays.

According to 'gloria.tv' he's brought young families and youth back to the church.

The Accusation: The Pastor Puts the Faith Above Everything

This summer three Old Liberal Kopfinger retirees started a slander campaign against the priest with the help of the powerful media concerns.

These divisive grey hairs repeated the familiar prayer wheel in countless interviews, that Fr. Skoblicki the pastor is supposedly "divisive".

At the end of August they circulated a letter in Kopfing.

There the central claim was made that Fr. Scoblicki, "holds faith in God as more important than peace in place."

'Gloria.tv' says these Old Liberal Divisives are not practicing Catholics. They don't even hold Catholic teaching.

Bishop Rules Against the Parish Board

The Parish Board of Kopfing is unanimous behind the Pastor.

As a committee for dismissal was held, it responded immediately.

Yesterday delegates from the Parish Board traveled to the 1.400 population village of Geinberg, 44 kilometers to the southwest of Kopfing, where the Bishop is having a visitation.

There they will attempt to turn this unscrupulous Bishop around.

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Anti-Catholic Mouthpiece Invokes Vatican II: Don't they Always?

Edit: What does Foxman do for a living?


ADL Urges Vatican To Ensure Anti-Jewish Sect Accepts Teachings Of Vatican II Before They Are Welcomed Back

New York, NY, September 16, 2011 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) urges the Vatican to ensure that a breakaway Catholic sect which teaches anti-Judaism will be required to accept the church's official positive teachings about Jews and Judaism before they are fully accepted back into the Roman Catholic Church.       

The Vatican announced earlier this week that in order for The Society of St. Pius X to gain full reconciliation with the church, SSPX must accept some core church teachings, but they have not been made public.

         

It was unclear from news reports and Vatican statements whether the landmark reforms of the Second Vatican Council and subsequent Vatican teachings -  which reversed nearly 2,000 years of church-based anti-Semitism, repudiated the deicide charge against Jews, and called for positive and respectful interfaith relations - were included among these latest requirements.

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Call to Obedience in Austria Grows to 180 Priests and Religious

Edit: never mind the insignificant "Call to Disobedience".  Most of those priests will think twice when their bluff is called. 

The media has not covered the "Call to Obedience" at all.

There are about one hundred eighty priests and religious who've signed the "Call to Obedience" and there are a little less than two thousand signers.

Histrionic Gomorrah Bible Finished

Looks Like a Graphic Novel

Edit: You've heard of a Navarre Bible, a Jerusalem Bible, right? Here's the Gomorrah Bible.  You regents and alums from Collegeville never thought you could be made to pay for the transformation of your own culture into a toilette, did you?

As Badger Catholic wrote:

Oil rigs and AIDS? Yeah, I was hoping for something a bit more appropriate too. Too bad, this could have been something really exciting even if it did incorporate modern themes. How does such a fantastic project get so out of touch.

The Badger Catholic: Historic Collegeville Bible is finished

The Poodle: A Most Royal and Warlike Animal

Moustache at Marengo

Edit: an old industrialist once known to the editor told the story of an American Water Spaniel who was his hunting companion.  He maintained that these were the best dogs for most purposes, especially hunting.  They are a kind of Poodle, mid-range in size, fairly high strung, extremely intelligent and loyal to their owners.  While he was hunting in a lowland area, he noticed some geese landing on the edge of the water ahead.  In order to get a better shot, he wanted to get closer to the edge of the water.  So, quietly and silently, he crawled through the tall grass.  He felt something at his boot behind him, and turned to see his faithful dog imitating him, making its way, low to the ground just like his master.

Poodles are used mostly as water dogs for hunting, but they're also excellent war dogs who accompanied the ancient Germans into Europe and even went on Crusade.  It's understandable that people would find comparison to this fine and noble animal, favorable.

Napoleon Bonaparte himself loved this breed.  It's easy to see why:

Known for fierce loyalty, fearlessness and intelligence, the war poodles were known to take part in battles on behalf of their regiments even without specific training for the task. In his memoirs Napoleon praised a poodle who died at the battle of Marengo, licking the face of his fallen Grenadier master. Another poodle named Buff accompanied Lt. Col.Chestmaster during the Peninsula War, while the poodle Moffino got sadly separated from his master while crossing the Berezina River in the Russian campaign. Moffino then traveled from Russia to Italy to find his corporal master, and they were gladly reunited.

One of Napoleon’s enemies, the Duc d’Enghein, took his poodle Mohiloff – a gift from the king of Sweden – with him to prison at the fortress of Vincennes. The dog stayed with his master even as he was shot at dawn and had to be forcibly removed from his grave. The commander of Vincennes adopted Mohiloff, and had him stuffed after he died. A poodle named Moustache became the mascot of a regiment of grenadiers whose standard the dog rescued from the battlefield at Austerlitz. He is also credited with detectiing an Austrian spy and saving a detachment of his company from a surprise attack.

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Photo also from Poodle Breed Guide.

First photo from, here.

FSSPX is Determining Legal Steps Against German Politician

Volker Beck, Typical German Politician

Stuttgart/Berlin (kathnews) The Society of Saint Pius X is looking into various avenues toward legal steps against Budestag Representative Volker Beck.    He portrayed the Society publicly as a "hardcore-antisemitic and antidemocratic sect" and called it a "scandal" that a "German Pope" would seek to "close ranks"  with their "historical forgetfulness".  Furthermore, Beck addressing the Holy Father said that in showing "patience with the Society of Pius" will also show still more patience for "an ideology of inequality within the Catholic Church".  This ideology degrades "Jews, Muslims, Homosexuals and emancipated women, to people of second class", so says the delegate on his internet site.

The Society Publishes a Statement

For this reasno the Society published a statement on Thursday:  "Volker Beck has demonstrated once again that he isn't mature enough for a pluralistic society like Germany."  Furthermore the proposal continues "whoever reproaches others for fundamentalism, runs the danger, of adopting fundamentalist theses.   That appears to be the case with the convinced Green-ideology of Beck."

One could ignore such defamations, it said in the statement.  "In view of the damage, which such statements in any case may effect in a wide public, the Society of St. Pius X has decided to address a legal media adviser to see how to proceed and attempt further legal steps."  The statement regarding Volker Beck's comments are from Father Andreas Steiner FSSPX, he is responsible for the publicity and media work of the Society in Germany.

"Whoever has himself lost respect for the estimation of the opinions of other citizens, must have their capacity to democracy put to a test.  That will be accomplished in the case of Beck,"  shows the Society to be decided.  The delegate will be expected in the meantime to withdraw his statements and apologize for them.

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Bishop Zurek Tightens His Grip on Pro-Life Organization's Money

Edit: That's what this is all about.  It's about maintaining the power of the heavily subsidized official AmChurch and its agenda.

“This is patrimony of the church. It belongs to the church. People give their money over the understanding that it goes to the church or church auspices and programs and ministries.”

Questioning the finances of Pavone’s charities doesn’t mean there’s a crisis, Waldow said.

Shouldn't you at least be Catholic first, if you're going to lay claim to Catholic funds? But there is a crisis of confidence in the Bishop's orthodoxy.  More people should call for accountability from this Bishop and others like him, because they accept money under the auspices of defending and teaching the Catholic truth, and often, they won't bother to stop local "Catholic" Colleges in their Diocese from destroying the Faith of Catholic students, or stop pastors from perpetrating Liturgical abuses and teaching heresy.

Actually, the only time most Bishops are interested in discipline is when they need money and also, coincidentally, are in a position to destroy someone who promotes Catholic teaching.

[amarillo.com] Amarillo’s Roman Catholic bishop called for financial transparency not only from Priests for Life, an anti-abortion group commanding millions in annual contributions, but also from two other nonprofits associated with a popular pro-life priest.

Bishop Patrick J. Zurek has demanded that the Rev. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, produce documentation for how donations have been handled by the Staten Island, N.Y., charity’s affiliates Rachel’s Vineyard and Missionaries of the Gospel of Life, said Monsignor Harold Waldow, vicar of clergy for the Diocese of Amarillo.

Zurek has tethered Pavone indefinitely to Amarillo, cutting him off from full-time pro-life work because of a protracted dispute over financial stewardship accelerated by an apparent clash of wills.

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Berlin's Archbishop Defends the SSPX Against Politician

Archbishop Woelki

Germany. Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki of Berlin has defended the SSPX against the Bundestag-homo, Comrade Volker Beck. 'Katholische Nachrichtenagentur' reported on this. The bugged out Comrade had slandered the Society as a "hardcore anti-Semitic and anti-Democratic Sect". In reality the father of the founder of the Society was murdered by Germans like Volker Beck in the Second World War. Msgr Woelki believes that the talks with the SSPX are important. The unity of the Church is a high priority for the Church. It doesn't mean that the Pope identifies with the views of all of the members individual statements. The homosexually disturbed Beck may apparently criticize the Pope: "would that there was more differentiation and less polemics, would be adequate," said the Archbishop.

Link to kreuz.net....

Meanwhile, the SSPX are considering legal action against Beck, although the complaint will likely rest on some of the principles the SSPX is supposed to be fighting against, like pluralism, for example.

Correction:  sometimes with all the homosexuals running Germany, including the Mayor of Berlin, it gets confusing to say nothing of disconcerting.

Papal Visit Reveals the Ugly German

Cardinal Walter Brandmüller is holding a mirror to the German Pope-hate media. The German Pope-hate delegates must consider the shortfall it will have abroad.

(kreuz.net) The president of the anti-Democratic German 'Green' extremists, Miss Claudia Roth (56) has sent word.

Madame Comrade supports the dim Pope-hate delegates, who plan on staying away for Pope Benedict XVI's speech in the Bundestag.

She said this for the newspaper 'Berliner Morgenpost'.

The paper belongs to the media concern of 'Axel Springer AG' with a yearly income of 2.9 Billion Euro.

They think decadence is reality

With a glance at themes like feminist-ideology and state preferences for the homosexually disturbed the politicians believe that it would do the Pope " a good turn" and will, "taste after coming to Berlin, what reality is in year 2011."

With "Reality 2011" Madame Comrade means the moral, religious, spiritual and social decadence in Germany. The Land belongs has the lowest number of births world wide.

In any even, the lady is going to hear the Papal address at the Bundestag.

She is happy, however, that the -- money heavy media boss inspired --- "lively debate going on".

Courageous Cardinal

German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, who lives in Rome, has criticized the Pope-hate delegates for the 'Bild' -newspaper:

"The Delegates of the German Bundestag must be conscious of the effect this type of protest will have abroad" -- he admonished.

They will reinforce "the image of the ugly German" by their behavior.

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What Distinguishes You From Helmut Schüller, Lord Bishop?

Humbug: "There is no right to any kind of "disobedience", but if one believes that the Church doesn't want blind obedience, there is but an act with solidarity in the midst of wide fields of pastoral possibilities."

(kreuz.net) "I refuse to use the polemical word "disobedience" when it comes to discussing the Pastors' Initiative."

Bishop Egon Kapellari of Graz said this on the 7th of September for the Austrian anti-Church news 'Standard'.

Msgr Kapellari appealed that the whole Church should be viewed thus: "The global Church is anything but at rest."

He bent the ear of the anti-Church magazine: "We would be pleased-- especially when it comes to the media -- 'if the successes received more attention."

Because: "A Church, that is presented as weaker than She is, can not help society any better."

Church schools, kindergartens and hospitals are more sought after than ever before.

But: "The Song of Songs of displeasure is sung in the Church and society."

There is enough cause for tears, but not so much reason to complain.

Only no clarity

"We accept the indissolubility of a sacramental marriage without a doubt" -- explained the Bishop.

Yet at the same time he let loose the following antithesis: "One must proceed with sympathy and sensitivity with the various biographies of remarried divorced."

One may not simply reject someone at the "communion rail", but rather should talk to them individually, in order to heal their wounds.

The 'Standard' did not let themselves be impressed by the Bishop's pastoral drivel:

"But if you know that there are remarried divorced in your diocese receiving Communion, as Bishop, you have to intervene, no?"

Msgr. Kapellari coiled himself up: He has had many discussions with those affected by separation and always seeks them out, to help them, "with boundaries for life and otherwise to learn that they are not strangers in their Church."

Weighty Norms that Aren't Valid

Here the Episcopal chat hit a wall: "What do you make of Helmet Schüller. Are you also "disobedient", if you don't undertake this?" -- asked the newspaper.

Again, Msgr Kapellari turned a pirouette: "There is no right to any kind of "disobedience", but if one believes that the Church doesn't want blind obedience, there is an act with solidarity in the midst of wide fields of pastoral possibilities."

The 'Standard' offered in return that the Faith then gets undermined by "substantial leeway".

Msgr Kapellari flew into humbug:

"In every society there are weighty norms, which one may not allow to be undermined. There are, however, also tensions which are very humanly understandable when it comes to translating this to those affected by the horizon of praxis."

"I won't let myself be locked down"

At the intimation that the media sponsored "Pastors' Intiative" will have foreseeable and longstanding structural consequences, he let the cat out of the sack:

"I won't generally say for sure, if anyone has been led to be counterproductive, that one should, as it is said, be thrown out of the community.

He repeated himself: "I won't let myself be locked down, as to how far Pastor Schüller may go."

He would like "to keep everyone in the boat".

He would like to invite, "that no one should be boring into the hull of the ship, but pay more attention to the wind in the sails."

No Tricks?

The 'Standard" tried to play up the Mini-Pastors' Initiative: "Umpteen priests have signed the Call already."

Msgr Kapellari countered: "The Call only consists of a Board of Directors."

And took it back in the same moment: "But I wouldn't say it was not small."

For still: "But I would like to put it all in perspective, but not with Tricks."

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Cologne Cardinal Insults the Church

Edit: He's not the worst Cardinal in Germany, but he shouldn't be allowed to say things like this. Misrepresentation is almost a hobby with these people.

Heil Abuse-Hoax: Now the German Decadence Bishops have taken up the the theme, in which they give the opportunity to take a slimebath to everyone deserving or not.

(kreuz.net) Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne is walzting in the dirt for the media bosses.

He appeared on Ye Old Liberal Cologne 'Domradio' yesterday.


Excuse me? The Church is in a Glass House?

The Cardinal used an invitation by the media in Cologne for some cringing, creeping and groveling.

He described the last year of the media boss directed abuse-hoax, for these journalists, as an "Annus horribilis" -- horrible year -- for the Church.

The Church is now sitting in a glass house after the experience of this last horrible year --- maintains the Cardinal.


The Neo-Conservatives Have a Problem With Reality [Yes they do]

The sense of the Cardinal's words left him at a want for reality.

In an indescribable play of words on the abuse-hoax he complained to 'Domradio' that the Church "in view of the quest for truth sometimes held back by its own claims'.

For that reason its "for many in questionable positions, even the believability of our mission that has been battered."

Actually the real problem isn't with the abuse-hoax, rather it is with the neo-Conservative nomenclature, which Cologne's Chat Cardinal makes use.

This has compromised and water down Catholic reality for years with the invocation of the fatal Pastoral Council.

The goal of this thinning of reality is the laicization and phasing the Church into a society of decadence.

Hard Words are Only for the Defenders of the Truth


And furthermore, the Cardinal called the journalists present, not to be that, which the scope of their profession is -- namely "manipulators of the so-called public opinion."

In a fairly creepy way, the Cardinal looked the last defenders of Catholic truth in the face.

He first engaged in some flattery of the Pope. He is said to have taken "very much" on himself, in order to "bring home" the Priestly Society of St. Pius X.

Then he insisted -- in contradiction to what the Vatican actually said -- the qualification for the regularization of the Society:

If the Traditionalists "don't accept the Council, they must remain outside."

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© Pressefoto Erzbistm Köln

Will there be More Syncretism and Relativism at Assisi III?

Edit: The Pope didn't like the first Assisi events when they were held. Can it be that this event will be as scandalous as the last ones? Here is what was said at La Stampa. The Society of St. Pius representative is not happy with it, calling it a "Masonic" event. Let the SSPX continue its legitimate criticism.

Thre has already been an earthquake at Assisi in 1997. More important than the Vatican's reaction to the Society, what will God's reaction be?



By Catholic News Service

MUNICH (CNS) -- St. Francis of Assisi appeals to believers and nonbelievers alike because they long for a world where people see each other as brothers and sisters and where they recognize and respect creation as a gift to all, said the superior of the Franciscan convent in Assisi.

Conventual Franciscan Father Giuseppe Piemontese, custodian of the Sacred Convent of St. Francis, was one of eight religious leaders who spoke about "The Spirit of Assisi" during an interreligious meeting Sept. 11-13 in Munich. The meeting was sponsored by the Community of Sant'Egidio, a Rome-based lay movement.

To mark the 25th anniversary of Blessed John Paul II's gathering with religious leaders in Assisi, Pope Benedict XVI has convoked a new gathering in the Italian town Oct. 27.

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Alleged Assassin of Marxist Prelate Found?

Edit: Beatifying this man is a real loser. He wasn't so much a "voice for the poor" as the kath.net article states, he was an agent of Soviet Foreign policy in Central America.

Bodyguard of a high Military official is supposed to have shot the Archbishop of San Salvador during Mass.

San Salvador (kath.net/KAP) There has been a sudden turn in the 1980 case of the murdered Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero. According to media reports there has been a revelation about the identity of the suspected perpetrator after more than three decades.

According to the newspaper "Colatino" it was the act of a a former member of the Army. Marino Samayoa Acosta, then a Non-Commissioned Officer of the National Guard, is supposed to have shot +Romero in 1980 with a precision rifle during Mass.

As the newspaper reported, the son of the politician and Colonel Arturo Armando Molina, tapped his father's bodyguard to do the job -- he was President from 1972 to 1977. Samayoa is said to have been the best shot in his unit.


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Immemorial Rite Taught in Spanish Liturgical Institute

(Barcelona) At the Instituto Superior de Liturgia(ISLB)of Barcelona will include the Old Rite in its teaching plan for the academic year 2011/2012. The class for the Extraordinary [Sic] Form of the Roman Right is run by Don Parés Javier. In the lecture notice it is described as a course: "A knowledge of the contents as well as the Edition of the Missal of 1962 as well as other liturgical books, which are were published under the direction of the Second Vatican Council, is necessary for a new generation, especially as a comparative study of the books of the 'ordinary form' of the Roman Rite."

The Instituto Superior de Liturgia is the only institution of its kind in Spain. It was canonically erected in 1986 by the Holy See and is organized as a theological faculty of Catalonia. The students of the Institute come from all the Diocese of Spain and Latin America. The Director is Don Jaume González Padrós, who earned his degree at the Papal Athenaum of Sant'Anselmo in Rome in the subject of Liturgy. Don Gonzalez is an adviser of the Liturgy Commission of the Spanish Bishops' Conference.

Text: Accion Liturgica/Giuseppe Nardi
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Vienna's Canon Lawyer Foresees Action by Austria's Bishops Against Dissidents

Edit : "Depart from me you profitless servant." Apparently, there are some coming in, and there will be others going out.

The call of the Austrian "Pastors' Initiative" violates Canon 1373, says Viennese Canon Law expert to ORF-Radio.

Vienna (kath.net) Vienna's Canon Lawyer, Ludger Müller sees in the "Call to Disobedience" of the Austrian "Pastors' Initiative" a serious violation against the law of the Church.  "The heading is provocative in any case. It could fulfill the elements of a crime, namely the violation against Canon 1373,  which entails promoting to disobedience.

This crime is threatened with a "just punishment", whereby is prescribed the penalty of an interdict.  The interdict is so to say, a clear excommunication, therefore barring one from the Sacraments."  This said Ludwig Müller, professor of Canon Law in the Catholic Theological Faculty of Vienna in a broadcast on "Current Religion" for ORF-Radio  Ö1  Ö1 on the 8th of September.

Canon  1373 of the "Codex Iuris Canonici", of the legal book of the Roman Catholic Church, explains:

A person who publicly incites his or her subjects to hatred or animosity against the Apostolic See or the Ordinary because of some act of ecclesiastical authority or ministry, or who provokes the subjects to disobedience against them, is to be punished by interdict or other just penalties.

 Therefore, as regards the contents, the call is unsupportable, because it consists of a clear incitement  to  contravention,.  Müller views a need for action on the part of the Bishops.  As an initial step they have to address the accused Pastor in writing.

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Preamble for Reonciliation With SSPX Allows Critical Discussion of Vatican II

Edit:  It's time for the neo-Conservatives to start eating some crow.  Wait, you can actually criticize Vatican II and still be Catholic?  Wow.

After conferring the leadership of the Society of St. Pius X, it is likely this document will be signed as it will allow the SSPX to continue its measured and reasonable criticism of the Vatican Council Documents.

In the linked article below, Bishop Fellay describes a phone conversation he had with Cardinal Hoyos wherein the Cardinal admitted that +Fellay could have such reservations and level those criticisms while being Catholic at the same time.

Today, for the sake of objectivity, I must acknowledge that in the doctrinal preamble there is no clear-cut distinction between the inviolable dogmatic sphere and the pastoral sphere that is subject to discussion. The only thing that I can say, because it is part of the press release, is that this preamble contains “certain doctrinal principles and criteria for the interpretation of Catholic doctrine, which are necessary to ensure faithfulness to the Church’s Magisterium and to "sentire cum Ecclesia" [thinking with the Church]. At the same time, it leaves open to legitimate discussion the examination and theological explanation of individual expressions and formulations contained in the documents of Vatican Council II and of the later Magisterium.” There you have it; no more and no less.

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