Collegeville: NON SERVIAM

One of the Monks at this venerable institution once said, quoting Milton, "Better to rule in Hell than to serve in heaven." In another professor's mouth, it might have been a case of dramatic posing to capture the attention of the class, but you always got the sense he was rooting for the bad guys, and as subsequent events would have it, he was.




Father Ruff, OSB wrote,

Humility and complete dependence upon God are very good things. Jesus spoke often of them. The problem is that kneeling for Communion suggests, rather, complete dependence upon a clergyman who feeds you like a child. There is nothing in the teachings of Jesus to even hint that Christians should have this childish attitude toward ordained authorities in their community.

Link to Kneeling Catholic, here.

A Jesuit Advocate for Russia

Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit: American Jesuit's Process Of Canonization Continues

Bill Donahue Defends Neocon Thinktank Manager

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds to an article posted on the website of today's National Catholic Reporter by Michael Sean Winters that is highly critical of Father Robert Sirico, president of the Acton Institute:

Let me first acknowledge that I consider Father Robert Sirico to be a great priest and a great friend. Anyone who knows him can testify to the depth and sincerity of his faith, as well as to his great sense of humor.

In 2007, I gladly defended Father Sirico against an attack from the right that appeared in Culture Wars; the author, Thomas J. Herron, has since passed away. Now Father Sirico is being attacked from the left by Michael Sean Winters. The central issue in both cases is the same: Sirico's gay activist years before he became a priest.

Winters tells us that in the early and mid-1970s, Sirico, who had quit Catholicism at the age of 13, became a minister and performed gay marriages. Then he had a conversion: he came back to Catholicism and eventually became a priest. No one, including Winters, has ever even hinted that he hid his past from those who accepted him back and ordained him. So what's the point? The point is that Winters, a Catholic dissident, is unhappy that Sirico is not in rebellion against the teachings of the Catholic Church. That's true, and that is why he doesn't write for the National Catholic Reporter.

What seems to be bothering Winters the most is the prominence which Father Siricio has achieved, especially his appearances with Raymond Arroyo on EWTN. One can almost hear Winters say that if only the orthodox Catholics who watch EWTN learn that Sirico was once a gay-friendly guy, they'll throw him under the bus. Wrong. Orthodox Catholics actually believe in redemption.

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Listen to the Radio Interview with Randy Engel, authoress of "Rite of Sodomy" and the late Tom Herron.

H/t to Tom at AQ.

England: 3 More Anglican bishops Want to Be Catholic

Now after Bishop John Broadhurst three more Bishops of the Anglican Church want to cross over to the Roman Catholic Church.

London [kath.net/idea/red] Now there are already four Bishops of the Anglican Church crossing over to the Roman Catholic Church. They are against women in the office of Bishop. The general Synod had opened the way for the ordination of female Bishops in July. The official Bishop John Broadhurst (Fulham, Suffragen of London Diocese), Andrew Burnham (Ebbsfleet) and Keith Newton (Richborough) as well as the retired Bishop Edward Barnes desire, according to information at the "Times", to make use of the possibility, afforded to Anglicans, to form special Ordinariats within the Catholic Church. The Vatican published an "Apostolic Constitution" in the previous year.

Broadhurst attacked the General Synod in the middle of October with bitter words: They are "fascist in their behavior" on the day in which they pushed the opponents of women's ordination over the edge, Kath.net reports. The 68 year old presided over the conservative group "Forward in Faith". According to the Times, 58 year old Newton will be Superior of the new special Diocese.

According to press reports numerous Anglicans are considering to follow them. The St. Peters Community in Folkestone (Southern England) had already decided on crossing over at the end of September.


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“Conscience, dimm'd or by its own
Or other's shame, will feel thy saying sharp.
Thou, notwithstanding, all deceit remov'd,
See the whole vision be made manifest.
And let them wince who have their withers wrung.
What though, when tasted first, thy voice shall prove
Unwelcome, on digestion it will turn
To vital nourishment.
DANTE · GÖTTLICHE KOMÖDIE · HIMMEL XVII


How the beasts of the wood till now shy but snarl and tear

Upon abrupt fire and when the earth quakes
They seek to crowd themselves neighborly:

So in a home split upon the cry WAR they close on their opponent ... one breath

of the unknown empathy pervades
from layer to layer and a confused premonation
What well begins ... for a moment

Grasp from the wordly high shower
Forget the cowardly year mop and bauble
The people saw yourself greeat in their need

They came to the settler on the mountain:
'you stand so calmly at these monsters?"
Who said: this chill was the most noble...!
I'm long accustomed to what shakes you.
I have sweat the long red sweat of fear
as one plays with fire.. my tears
foretold weeping... Today I find no more
Most of what happened no one saw...
The darkness first belongs to him no one sees.
For ye suffer it pressing from outer mass...
These are the signs of fire . not the deed.
Upon this fight as you feel it I take no part.

Never will the Seer be thanked... he meets scorn
And stones . he speaks calamity -- anger and stones
When it came on. Accumulated crime
Named from every compulsion and joy - concealed
Human waste to crave larval expiation..
What are a hundred thousand murders to HIM
Before murder of life itself? He won't enthuse
in domestic virtue and of whichever malice.
Here the wife has her complaint -- the wealthy burgher.
The gray beard and honest blame rather than random bullet
In the opposing parts of our sons' and grandsons'
glazed eyes and mangled bodies.

HIS office is praise and - distantly prayer and atonement
He loves and serves along his way. The youngest
The dearest he sends out with every good wish..
They know what drives her and what she values..
They come to no name -- no order.
HE grasps deep horror. The powers
he calls not fable. Whoever understands his prayers:
Want to warn us against too easy a solution
And from the worst -- before the scandal of blood!> Tribes
which they perpetrate are haplessly eradicated
If their best good is not sent into exile.

Joy is not seemly: no triumph will be
Only many will perish without worth..
Of the creator's hand rest arbitrarily escapes
Formlessness of lead and tin - frame and pipe.
Who himself laughs if false hero tales
From the former like mush and clump
Who saw his brother sink - who in the shameful
Rumpled earth lived like vermin..
The old god of battle is no more.
Feeble worlds enfeever themselves to end
in the bluster. Only the juices are holy
Still untainted squirting -- a whole current.


Where is the man who represents himself? the word
That is only valid for the later tribunal?
Mock King with a stage crown -
Trustee - dealer - clerk -- paid and whistled.
Also limited in securitized order: tumbling -
Then threatening confusion .. there emerged supported
From his stock colorless pre-ordered home
The most sallow of our cities a forgotten
Unartful old man... who found the advice of the hour
And saved what the gesticulative proclaimed
Finally brought to the precipice: was enough...
But could not save it from the worst enemy.

>Did you fail to see such a mass of victims
And power of everything?< These are also over there.
The necessary work of duty remains blunt and dull
And victim rise not in wicked time..
Abundance (Menge) is value - truly aimless - makes no symbol -
Has no consciousness - What do the wise ask?
Sie fall in nattering and wellfare -- humanity
And raise high the most horrible carnage.
After spittle lowest courtship: drool
Meanest dishonor! ... and even what it hunts
slinking to nuzzle even as it were be raised
Fearful of some future face.

And what bloats like spirit! Such tender tumour
has away its being ... Like bad fruit
tastes the talk of reviving marriage
In withering tone. Who was old yesterday
Doesn't return home as young and who speaks rightly
And errs at last falls in the deepest madness.
Aberqitz says: >We'll learn that for next time.<
Ah this on the other hand is otherwise!... for that prepares
Only the fullest repentance: most inner sense.
None today call and mean to guide
Notices as he reaches to destiny -- no one
Descries a mere gleam of the sunrise.

Very few wonder that so many die
As that so many dare to live. Who is online
with the century may only see ghosts.
He helps himself -- child and fool: >You had wanted it.<
All and none - is the quick decision.
He lies -- crook and fool: >This time the Kingdom of
Peace surely beckons.< The deadline elapses: they must
Wait again till the ankle to the knee
In the must of a great cellar ... but then a budding
shot forth - that has no false eye:
He has the eye of fate of terror
Whose iron joints Gorgons don't turn to stone

In both camps no though -- atmosphere
Near it is ... Here: care only hucksters
Who are already selling to another... only to be
What one reviles in the other and to betray in himself
>A people is dead when their gds are dead<
Behind: a knock from the past antecedes
Of pomp and virtue -- while passion for utility
Wants calm breathing... in the lap of the lightest
Intuition no weak twinkle - that the disdained
What was was fruitful was destroyed - that perhaps
A >>Hate and abhorrence of human kind<<
Brings salvation a second time.


Really this song will not end with malediction. Some ear
Understand already my value of things and blood -
On kernel and seed...already I see some hands
Stretched against me - I say: o Land,
Too beautiful thou art to be trod and soil'd with foreign feet:
Where flutes play from the wild wood - from groves the rustling
Windharps play - where the dream still weaves
Untilled by till now faithless descendants ...
Where the ever-blooming mother has become overgrown
Decomposing white Kind at once revealing
Her true face ... Land of much promise
Still immanent -- so that it will never fail!

The youth call upon the gods.. Arise
As the eternal fills after days ...Rod
In storm clouds give to Him of the joyous heavens
The scepter and push away Longest Winter.
Who blew wan souls -- to the fragmented
In the fervent flitter as well.. Apollo leans
Close to Baldur: >Night still lasts a while -
But for this time the light does not come from the East.<
The battle is already decided in the stars: Victor
Remains who holds that talisman of his frontiers
And future's Master is who can change throughout years.

Archdiocese of Vienna: Caritas Director Michael Landau Oppposes Rome

The high ranking Church functionary of the Archdiocese of Vienna ignores Church teachings regarding the priesthood for women -- a few weeks ago, Landau was still on call as the Austrian Bishops conference's new Secretary.

Vienna, (kath.net) The Viennese head of Caritas Michael Landau had set himself against Rome in an interview with Austrian Television regarding celibacy and the ordination of women. Landau said regarding celibacy: "That was introduced at some point in the history of the Church, and can also at the same time be abolished in the same manner." The high ranking Church functionary of the Archdiocese of Vienna would like these things "much more open and more clearly" than they were discussed in the past. Also Landau can imagine the ordination of women to the priesthood. He believes that this would be at least "substantially changed" in the Church, if the Church opened the consecrated offices to women. Especially explosive on the question: Landau was a few weeks ago still on call as the new Secretary of the Austrian Bishops Conference. Kath.net came by this information by Episcopal circles. Also, according to the daily "Die Presse" Cardinal Christoph von Schönborn had even proposed Laundau as a possible Bishop.

Pope John Paul II has already clearly explained in "Ordinatio Sacerdotalis", that the Church will never allow "womans' ordination". It says in the document: "Although the teaching that priestly ordination is to be reserved to men alone has been preserved by the constant and universal Tradition of the Church and firmly taught by the Magisterium in its more recent documents, at the present time in some places it is nonetheless considered still open to debate, or the Church's judgment that women are not to be admitted to ordination is considered to have a merely disciplinary force.

Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church's divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful."

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You can e-mail Father Michael Landau, here: office@caritas-wien.at

Pro-Homosexual "Reorganization" of Latin Mass Community

When they first reported it, the local media said that Holy Trinity in St. South Paul was going to absorb St. Augustine's, where the Immemorial Mass of All ages is said for a growing and increasingly influential group of people. This wasn't too big of a deal, despite the fact that the Parish of St. Augustine spent a great deal of money restoring their parish a few years ago, but it's very close to Saint Augustine's which is one of the other Conciliar parishes that hosts one of the two of the approved locations for the Immemorial Rite of the Mass in the Minneapolis St. Paul area.

Now, the idea is to move the neighboring St. Augustine's parish to a rather dangerous area in St. Paul to Blessed Sacrament Parish. It's strange that they'd be considering this, since St. Augustine's, although it is a non-renovated (i.e., looks like a Catholic Church) Parish, doesn't have the same kind of problem with finance that some of the other parishes being slated for closing. In fact, the Latin Mass Community has grown, like others of its kind, from a few dozens over a decade ago, to well over 300 regular attendees, despite the birth of a new Latin Mass Center at Sacred Heart in Robinsdale on the far North side of the Metro Area.

It's hard not to view this reorganization by homosexual friendly Archdiocesan personnel cynically, but according to the Remnant, this is just a false alarm and they are to report on the fate of St. Augustine's, in the hands of wreckovating homosexual enabling clergy. These parish reorganizations are always opportunities for artistically inclined clergy and modernist cohorts to destroy the collective memories and what remains of the spirituality of Catholics remaining in the Diocese.

Someone would do well to investigate an effective way of hamstringing them when they are, as is often the case, less than Catholic. That someone is you. Hopefully, concerned individuals would do well to encourage well-healed donors who aren't really Catholic to find shelter in other "churches" and discourage other Catholic donors from giving money to the bloated and decadent Archdiocesan bureaucracy and giving it to more worthy causes. A well-catechized Catholic should know how to do this.

Keep an eye on the Remnant for further details. As of 16:00 hrs, there is nothing coming from the Remnant and they've removed the notification that this is a false alarm.



Photo: Father John Bauer

Liberal Inbreeding at Vienese Diocesan Gathering: Pro-Homosexual Jesuit Praises Vienna's Cardinal

It's all so sad: The old Liberals have a new Hobby -- they've discovered that they really love the complaining and ado of victims.

[kreuz.net] Now it's clear, why the old liberal Vienese Cardinal has invited the old liberal Headmaster of the Berlin Jesuit School, Father Klaus Mertes, as as the speaker for the old liberal Vienese Diocesan Gathering. Father Mertes is a pope reviler and an apologist for homosexual fornication.

In Vienna he has the task of praising highly Christoph Cardinal Schönborn.

"For us in Germany, Vienna's outlook looks very encouraging" -- as he assigned himself as the speaker for an entire nation in his speech.

Germany has almost 82 Million inhabitants. According to information from the Germany Bishops' Conference there are 25 Million Catholics on paper.

With the sensitivity and respect of "one" who's been pursued from Germany, like "especially Cardinal Schönborn" in this -- anti=Catholic -- we "handled the storm", said the priest to about himself.

[As expected] His hymn of praise for the Cardinal, intoned agreement with the homosexual ideology in front of the 1,400 delegates from all Vienna parishes.

With an old liberal "communal penance" in the Stepensdom (St. Stephen's Cathedral), he explained the mechanism of the victim protection commission, the rapid disbursement of therapy- and damage payments and the the revision of Church guidelines were allegedly establishing "important accents" thanks to Cardinal Schönborn.

Critics accuse the Cardinal for not having the alleged abuses judged as criminal offenses, in accordance to the laws of the country.

In the supposed Victim Protection Commission, established by the Bishops there is a line of representatives are themselves enmeshed in actual child abuse cases.

But Father Mertes unperturbedly continued to discuss the Cardinal: "For that reason I'd like to thank you from my heart."[For putting possible sexual predators on these boards.]

The anti-Church media propaganda earlier this year was described by the naive Priest as "storm and cleaning".

The real problems, which the German conciliar Church in the past, which has led to bitter divides, the priest whisked under the table.

In place of this he directed people's attention to his favorite topic, the abuse cash cow, and promised the crowd to take this as a a real "opportunity".

He whipped up the cult of self-pity with sentimentality and promoted the "option for the poor" to transform into a "credible option for the victims"


Link to the original..kreuz.net...

A Church Space Devastated After the Counci,l Restored

The Diocese of Speyer have renovated a protestant Church for the old believers (traditionalists). The supper table is gone, the tabernacle is back, where it belongs, and the communion rail has been put up.

[kreuz.net, Speyer] Today the Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann (50) of Speyer blessed a new altar in the collegial church in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. The pontifical office with altar blessing begins at 5pm, according to the website of the Dicoese of Speyer.

Newstadt is located fifteen kilometers northeast of Speyer.

The collegial church has a protestantic and a Catholic part. They are have been separated from each other for 300 years by a wall.

In the course of the last years the church and especially the part belonging to the Catholic community -- renovated the choir.

After the Second Vatican the church head took the altar from the high altar and set up a dinner table.

Now the altar was put back in the place it had previously in the high altar.

In addition the high altar received again the original, in any case ripped out, tabernacle.

Finally a communion rail was erected again.

Further renovations include electric installations of pew heaters and a new paint finish.

In the distant future the Gothic comminition in the arches will be renovated.

From next week the old believing Community of the Diocese will celebrate the old Mass on Sundays and feastdays at 11:00.

Till now the traditionalists were housed in the parish church of St. Laurentius in Dirmstein -- 25 Kilometers from Newstadt.

TUMULT ERUPTS AS OMAHA BISHOP SHUTS DOWN ORDER AND EX-HEAD ALLEGES 'DRASTIC ACTION'

9Spirit Daily] On Friday Nadine Brown -- who, stripped of her "mother" title, is now considered laity -- broke her silence to tell Spirit Daily she was "totally shocked" at the developments. "We didn't know it was coming," said the former Intercessors' director, who converted to Catholicism from the Protestant faith in her twenties. "I was called in to the archbishop's for a meeting at 4:30 p.m. on September 30, when he presented me with a paper to sign. It wasn't really voluntary. It was a legal paper and it called for me to resign from the civil organization and turn everything over to the diocese."

Brown, who turns 81 next week and whose group specialized in deliverance, discernment, and "spiritual warfare" -- described the actions as "drastic" and asserts that "I've never, ever been disobedient to a bishop ever." She said that out of the fifty, forty sisters have gone with the archdiocese and are now being housed in a monastery just outside of Omaha while 11 others chose to return home or are staying with her in a motel. The former mother superior asserts that the canonical lawyer "was not interested in our charism," disapproved of receiving "words of knowledge," and that on the following Monday she was ordered to leave the premises by noon without being given any means of financial support. She also says she was threatened with excommunication if she left the diocese -- although that may now be allowed since the suppression has nullified vows.

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Window light campaign intended to ‘reclaim’ Halloween as Christian holiday :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Window light campaign intended to ‘reclaim’ Halloween as Christian holiday :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Growing Divide Seen in Worldview of Catholic Constituencies

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As in other recent election years, Catholic voting behavior is likely to resemble the voting of the population at large, but there is a growing divide in the political worldviews of various Catholic constituencies.

That was the conclusion reached by a panel of pollsters and academics convened by the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America, which found increasing divergence in the views of older and younger voters and Hispanic and white Catholics.

Introducing the Oct. 13 session at the National Press Club, John H. Garvey, the new president of Catholic University, said political pundits have predicted time and again that "the role of religion in public policy is changing or diminishing." But, he said, "religion and religious issues are still critical."

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Massimo Palombella New Director of the Sistine Chapel

Massimo Palombella New Director of the Sistine Chapel

Father Barron on Depressing Pew Survey

The Results of the Diocesan Reorginization

Editor: As predicted, none of the parishes closed were the parishes which host a spirit of rebellion against Catholic teaching. This reorganization was purely logistical and "honored" the integrity of the childless but wealthy homosexual-friendly communities and their deplorable counterparts in the suburbs.

For the most part, the parishes which were closed were part of dying parishes peopled by the descendants of the good people of eastern European descent.

We think it's safe to say that this Archdiocese is increasingly and inexorably moving toward an attempt at the liquidation of whatever remains of its sensus catholicus. This, really, is another sign of the fruits of Vatican II. Perhaps there will come a time when most people don't know about it, don't refer to it and don't care about it. Until then, we have the Catholic Faith, unspoiled, which we have a duty to learn, even if our Shepherds are bedazzled by large, ugly modern facilities and have consigned the spiritual welfare of their flocks to Godless academic professionals and impenitent homosexuals.

Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, remote and not so remote, real Catholics continue to pray their rosaries, make salutary sacrifices and encourage their children to vocations in the religious life or to foster large, wholesome, fruitful families.


Here's a link, here. Here's the story from the local neo-Marxist newspaper, here.

The priests who survived the atomic bomb | CatholicHerald.co.uk

Along with his fellow Jesuits, Fr Schiffer believed “that we survived because we were living the message of Fatima. We lived and prayed the rosary daily in that home.”

The priests who survived the atomic bomb | CatholicHerald.co.uk

The priests who survived the atomic bomb | CatholicHerald.co.uk

Along with his fellow Jesuits, Fr Schiffer believed “that we survived because we were living the message of Fatima. We lived and prayed the rosary daily in that home.”

The priests who survived the atomic bomb | CatholicHerald.co.uk

Bernard Fellay: "At a Pivotal Point"

Interview with Bishop Bernard Fellay – Nouvelles de Chrétienté, Sept.-Oct. 2010

The Society of St. Pius X is celebrating its fortieth anniversary. Is this the end of the wandering in the desert, as it was for the Hebrews in the time of Moses?

It seems to me that what we are experiencing resembles instead one of those expeditions of the scouts who catch a glimpse of the Promised Land, although circumstances do not allow the people to enter it. In order to avoid any misinterpretation of the image just used, I hasten to add that we declare just as firmly as ever that we are Catholics and that, with God’s help, we intend to remain that way. However for the Church as a whole this crisis does resemble a wandering in the desert, with one difference: the manna is quite difficult to find. There are encouraging signs, especially on the part of Rome; unfortunately they are quite mixed up in other very troubling matters. A few blades of grass in the desert….

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Cardinal Schönborn Would like "Structural Reform" in the Church

Vienna's Archbishop at the Diocesean Meeting: Perhaps in the last years we have been too afraid to accept new forms of cooperation in promotion and management of the direction of communities. Community direction by the laity -- New: Now with POLL! [There's an internet Poll...you probably can't vote on whether or not the Church should allow birth cotrol or not, yet...]

Editor: Go down and vote on the poll if you want. The question is: What do you say about the ideas of Cardinal Schoenborn?

Yes, I think they're good.

I don't care

NO, I don't find them so grand!

Access and vote on the Poll here, vote Nein.

Presently, 71% of Kathnet's readership of 302 voters so far is not pleased with the Cardinals ideas of pushing the laity into a greater position of prominence and forming "small communities".

Vienna (kath.net/PEW) "Now is the moment to undertake changes. In ten years we will only suffer more": The Cardinal said this on Thursday afternoon in the Viennese Stepensdom at the opening of the 3rd Diocesan gathering in the scope of the initiative "Apostle History 2010"; about 1,450 delegates from parishes, Catholic organizations and ecclesiastical societies took part. "now we have the opportunity, but also the calling, to be counted and form ourselves in this rapid transformative process of the Church," said the Vienese Archbishop. At the same time he also hinted that there will also be in the future Diocesan meetings, will help to shape this process of transformation and manage change.

A "structural reform" is necessary, insisted the Cardinal. In the many diocese of Europe it is already happening. In many cases it will be accomplished by a "grid plan": In the French Diocese of Caracassone from a decreed 250 Pastors there were 17, in the Diocese of Bayeux-Lisieux from 250 Pastors 50. A similar situation has occured in German Diocese. In Vienna there must be a "Master Plan": inspire a structural reform and give sense and direction". At issue is a "master plan" that recogizes the "master" -- Jesus Christ -- and is oriented on His plan for the Church of Vienna.

For Jesus is always gathering men to Himeself. This "gathering" the Bishop sees as his primary job as Bishop, says Schönborn. The fundamental question for the Parish, the Community, the Orders, the movements is: "gathering around Jesus". That means simultaneously also, always deeper to go "into the school of life of Jesus". In the more recent history of the Archdiocese of Vienna there are always to be seen "enduring effective elements" of this "school of life". The Viennese Archbishop explained inter alia the Activist Cirlces of Catholic Youth and Catholic Action, the "Mondo Miglore" -Courses of P. Riccardo Lombardi in Rocca di Papa, the "Cursillo" - movement, but also the "Movimenti", the Movement of Base Communities "or simply a lively Parish community life". Here lay "the" priority of the "Master Plan", the quest for new and old ways of education of the baptized and confirmed Christians to discipleship. This could mean "Community".

The 3rd diocesan gathering will end with a "mission celebration", acounced by the Viennese Archbishop. The "Mission" is an expression of the common priesthood of all the baptized. Schönborn: "All structural reforms live and die in the measure in which they have togetherness and mission from the start to the benchmark."

Cardinal Schönborn formulated a five point plan in his opening speech. It starts to begin with preparedness, to engage in the "secular world" and to turn to those people, "who are not entering to sanctuary, but are definitely near to Him". Christians must accept the "religious diversity" for a fact, especially Islam, "and there again especially the youth of the Muslims". One important place are the many Christian churches. The Viennese Archbishop actually said: "The second largest religious group in Austria is not Islam, rather Eastern Christianity. More than 500,000 Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Christians live in Austria, many especially in Vienna. It is in our vital interest, to seek them out, to help them -- even with churches and structures. Here one must be moved, in Christian solidarity".

At the same time Schönborn addressed the diversity within the Catholic Church. The foreign language Catholic Communities -- "who make the picture of Vienna so colorful" -- are to be approached. They are an important part of the "future of the Church". Already, a good quarter of the Catholics have a transient background. There are also, however, for the collaboration of Parish Communities "in all variants of gathering" like Parish societies, Pastoral outreach, Leadership forms of Communities and Parishes. The Viennese Archbishop said: "We are expecting intensive work here, which will mean some pain, but also many new opportunities". Perhaps he has also been reluctant in the last few years, to allow and encourage new forms of cooperation in Communities, says Schönborn. Positive experiences had encouraged him to proceed further in this way. It is validated by the experiences of the world Church with "small Christian communities" to learn under the direction of the laity.

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Orthodox Patriarch Condemns Homosexuality in Spanish Schools

By Hilary White

ROME, October 15, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has condemned a move by the Spanish government to insert what he called homosexual “propaganda” into school textbooks.

Patriarch Kirill said the Orthodox Church “would never fail to call a sin a sin.”

“I consider it very important to take into account the second article of the Protocol 1 of the European convention on human rights that stipulates that ‘the state shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religions and philosophical convictions.’”

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