Call to Disobedience
The Zeitgeist ones want a lobby for the adulterous. On the contrary the adulterers don't have any interest in this lobby.
(kreuz.net, Linz) Yesterday the dissident assocation "Pfarrer-Initiative' held their General Convocation.
This was reported by the anti-Church newspaper 'Der Standard' today.
Most Stayed at Home
At the General Convocation which took place on Sunday of all things, so only a fifth of the five hundred charter members of the group showed up.
Those present decided to expand the board from eleven to eighteen members.
At a press conference they announced the Zeitgeist concerns yesterday evening, that they intend to hold in disobedience.
They denounced the idea that this is "out of fun and games" -- rather allegedly out of "love of people".
Vienna's Cardinal Pays for His Inactivity
The head of the wheechair reform, Fr. Helmut Schüller wants next to agitate the Parish Council.
They are rebelling against the planned destruction of Vienna's parish structure.
Fr. Schüller expects to organize a meeting for next spring for that reason.
Gentrify the Church
The anti-Church newspaper 'Die Presse' reports that the Disobedience Initiative will stop talking about the laity.
They have invented the term of "Kirchenburger" (Church Citizen).
Additionally the wheel chair reformers want to demand women's ordination in contradiction to the Gospel.
Talk up Adultery
They want to define adultery as a "second marriage".
The same immoral conception must also apply for a third or a fourth marriage and function for bigamy too.
In any case Fr. Schüller wants to "lobby" for adulterers.
The problem: adulterers don't have any interest in the Church.
Link to kreuz.net...
Monday, October 22, 2012
Uruguayan Bishops Consider Excommunication After Abortion Ruling
Montevideo (kath.net/KNA) The Catholic Church in Uruguay has considered the excommunication of Parliamentarians according to the news daily 'El Observador' (Thursday), which is being invoked because of the new abortion law. "The automatic Excommunication succeeds if a person directly supports abortion, and this is direct support", said the release of the General Secretary of the Uruguayan Bishops' Conference, Bishop Heriberto Bodeant.The Senate of Uruguay passed a controversial abortion law on Wednesday. Uruguay is, like Cuba and Guyana the third country in Latin America, which has legalized the termination of pregnancy in the first twelve weeks. 17 of 31 Senate members voted for the new ruling. The decision was accompanied in the last weeks with a heated social debate.
The Bishops' Conference of the country spoke against the legal initiative of the governing left-leaning Party Frente Amplio. A statement of the capital Archdiocese of Montevideo spoke of a "sad day for Uruguay" on Thursday.
Link to kath.net...
Summorum Pontificum: A Source of Priests and Religious Vocations -- Interview With Abbé Claude Barthe
Abbé Barthe who is one of the driving forces for the execution of the Una cum Papa Nostro Pilgrimage and gave Alberto Carosa of Vatican Insider the following interview.
Abbé, there are requests of your person from several sides. Would give us a brief resume of your education and vocational path?
I was born in Fleurance in 1947 in south western France. My priestly vocation went back to my Catholic childhood. I studied at the Catholic Institute of Toulouse as a Diocesan seminarian. The post-Concliar Revolution forced me therefore to leave the seminary. I then received a degree in History and Jurisprudence. I felt so bound tot he traditional liturgy, that I entered into the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X in Econe. In 1970 I was ordained a priest by Archbishop Lefebvre. I belonged then to the "hard" wing of the Traditionalists, but I became increasingly Roman and finally a diocesan priest. Today I am an instructor in the subject of Liturgy in a seminary of Tradition. One could also say that I am a "published priest" because of my numerous, perhaps too numerous books and articles.
How did this idea of a pilgrimage of Tradition take place and how were you selected as the pastoral assistant?
The idea of a pilgrimage and for a Traditional Mass in St. Peter's Basilica for the "People of Summorum Pontificum", as well as the diocesean and also the communities, along with the SSPX, has been in existence for about a year in the so-called Roman circles of the "Reform of the Reform", who really see in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, a supporting pillar for true Liturgical renewal. Because of the very diverse roles of a Pastoral Assistant they probably thought of me, because I was seen as a party follower who sees "unity in all living powers", a kind manner of border runner between all directions of Tradition.
On the 10th of September you held a press conference, which announced the Pilgrimage. Could you tie together some of the central aspects?
In the first line I wanted to establish that it would be a pilgrimage of thanksgiving. The pilgrims will offer above all a thanksgiving Mass in the extraordinary form and and as support for the Holy Father on the 5th Anniversary of the promulgation of the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, which is generally known to have come into power on September 14th, 2007. For many diocesan -- and religious priests who offer their daily sacrifice of the Mass in the extraordinary form, it acted like a spiritual victory, even for the faithful who -- still sadly too few -- parishes, who could feel joy at this Liturgy and its mysticism. One can say that in this decision by Benedict XVI. an entire Summorum Pontificum-people was created. This people will thank him for this.
And how about the other aspects?
I must say that it also will act as a recognition of loyalty to Peter. The second reason is to announce our love for the Church and our loyalty to Peter, just as and especially in this current time of a bitter and difficult situation. We are full conscious that the efforts, which the Pope has confronted has been difficult. The Traditional Roman Mass, especially the High Mass, will always be a wonderful sign of faith of the Church as Mater et Magistra: it is this Liturgical recognition which we bring to expression at the tomb of the Apostle, for the successor of Peter. It will be a gift and a plea. We will especially offer a gift to God, to ask him for graces for the reigning Pope, in order for him to continue his wonderful work, which he has completed since the beginning of his pontificate, especially today in the midst of cross and trial.
The pilgrimage is taking place along with the opening of the Year of Faith, is there a relationship between the two events?
Naturally. Our pilgrimage will also express our participation in the mission of the Church. Would would like to introduce the contribution of the always youthful traditional Liturgy for the New Evangelization, which the Holy Father is asking for during the Year of Faith. It is clear that this is an initiative with the support of a large number of families, and that it is a source of increasingly larger numbers of religious and priestly vocations, something, which has shown itself as proven to extremely valuable in the Western world at present.
It appears that has not sufficiently considered this completely other vocations "crisis", which the institutes of Tradition are experiencing, in which they are forced to refuse those waiting for priestly office because of a shortage of places and facilities, a crisis which is the exact opposite of the Diocesan.
I would even say that one must especially stress this point. By the grace of God, the Traditional Liturgy promoted without filling all the holes, there has been a significant growth in vocations in certain countries like France and the USA -- still, the phenomenon could widen itself. In France for example there are 710 diocesan seminarians against 140 seminarians (50 from the SSPX) in seminaries of Tradition, this corresponds to 16%. This relationship also effects those who are ordained to the priesthood. This year there were 21 new priests of tradition against 97 diocesan priests. Additionally there has been a complete transformation and realignment of the diocesan clergy. The young dicoesan priests and the seminarians of the diocese are drawn to both forms of the Roman Rite and say this quite openly. It is not to underestimate if the same goes for Ffrance, that a third of the diocesan priestly candidates could be described as candidates for Summorum Pontificum. "Le petit people", as one says in the French, the simple faithful, stand by the Holy Father to follow the mission of the Church.
How do you explain the criticism and irritation about the pilgrimage, which has come from certain circles?
I can tell you that I have recommended that the organization committee is formed around Una Voce, because it works for unification, which is held int he world of Tradition as "neutral" and therefore liable to have the least criticism. The conflicts and directions within the groups of Tradition considered, it seemed a good idea, to support them first by a hastily established committee, in order to avoid jealousies and rivalries. Some critics appeared from the worry in the success from it that a new organization could be created, which would encompass the entire world of Tradition. If that had been our intention, we would surely have already succeeded to make the earth square. I think that around the earth in the meantime have the understanding that we have solely organized a modest organizational committee for this event, which will direct the pilgrimage and dissolve on the evening of the 3rd of November.
What message do you want to finish this interview with?
I don't want to finish with theological words, but with those which the faithful can understand that the Holy Mass on the 3rd of November is a giant "parish Mass" of Catholics from the whole world, who come in order to be together with the"Universal Pastor", to pray with the Pope. They want want to be together for him and to pray with him in the Gregorian Latin Liturgy, which out of their very own understanding is a community Liturgy.
Abbé Claude Barthe was born in 1947 in the Archdiocese of Toulouse, studied at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse from 1964, where he acquired a degree degree in history and in civil law. In the post-Conciliar upheaval he adopted traditionalist positions and entered the seminary of the Society of St. Pius X . in Econe Switzerland. In 1979, he was received by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the SSPX priest. Because of sedevacantist positions he was expelled from the SSPX in 1987. He was among the founders of the magazine Catholica, which he edited for several years and is one of the sharpest critics of the Church crisis, the brilliant theologian and liturgist the took a teaching position at the seminary of the Institute Bon Pasteur. After years of a canonically unclear status, Barthe approached together with the founders of the Institute Bon Pasteur increasingly to Rome and finally returned back to full unity with the Holy See. In 2005 the canonical status was finally resolved by a decision of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, and he was issued a Celebret. He now teaches Liturgy at the seminary of the Institute of Christ the King and High Priest. Abbé Barthe has written many books that are not available in English.
Link to Katholisches original....
Interview: Alberto Carosa/Vatican Insider
Translation into German: Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Wikicommon
Translation English: Tancred
News -- Dominican Order Explosive Growth for Tradition
Text: Order of Preachers Vocations/Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Order of Preachers Vocations
Another Collegeville Predator Pleads "Not Guilty" to Molestation
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| Minored in "Theology" at St. John's University |
Edit: This story seems very fitting in light of the present accusations against Jimmy Saville and others in the entertainment industry. Remember when Cory Feldman said that "pedophilia was Hollywood's #1 problem?". Here's a little something to add some substance to that.
"I was surrounded by them, literally... They were everywhere like vultures."
An alumnus of the St. John's University, Mathew David Feeney, run by the Monastery of St. John's Abbey, according to Pine Curtain, was recently accused of sexually abusing two boys he promised would go to Hollywood in the capacity of his talent agency, Walden Entertainment.
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (KMSP) - A Minnesota talent agent accused of molesting two brothers who wanted to become actors was booked into jail early Tuesday, one day after a nationwide warrant was issued for his arrest. Matthew David Feeney, 43, turned himself in at the Washington County Jail at 5:45 a.m. Tuesday to be held on $200,000 bail.
He is scheduled to appear in court at 10:30 a.m. on two felony charges of criminal sexual conduct -- one for engaging in sexual contact with a 9-year-old boy and a second for abusing a 15-year-old boy while in a position of authority.
The criminal complaint states that Feeney met the brothers through Walden Entertainment in Bloomington, where he is the owner and casting director who works to secure acting roles in movies and television.Presently, the accused homosexual pederast has pled not guilty. He was previously charged in Aitken County for sexual abuse. The complicity of Sterns County law enforcement officials, allowed him to escape prosecution for 11 other possible cases and his sentence down to a misdemeanor and he was turned him loose on probation to be a threat to others.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Cardinal Woelki Rejects Homosexual Prize
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| Berlin's New Cardinal Woelki |
He has "clearly and unmistakably affirmed that homosexual activity 'is not ordered in itself', transgressing against the natural law and for that reason can not be accepted according to our convictions in our faith." On this he's making "no cutbacks in any way". Substantial and powerful firms belong to the Association Against Homophobia, like German Football Association (DFB), Deutsche Bank and the German Trade Union Association (DBG).
Foto: Kardinal Woelki – Bildquelle: Martin Lohmann / LohmannMedia
Russians Overwhelmingly Support Forming Religious Militias
So, they're not just naming submarines after Saints and making films celebrating reactionary political figures, the Russians are taking it to the streets as it were. To be sure there will be much hand-wringing in the West. Or will there be?
It's really not much of a stretch to go from this to forming military units to provide security, medical and material support for Christians in the Holy Land, is it?
Moscow, October 18, Interfax - The majority of Russians questioned in an opinion poll expressed support for a proposal to organize Orthodox Christian militias for the declared purpose of protecting holy sites.
The idea was backed by 66% of respondents in a survey carried out by the All-Russia Center for Public Opinion Studies (VCIOM) last month.
The initiative to form militias for patrolling city streets, put forward in August by the leader of the Holy Russia organization, had the widest support among respondents who support the ruling Yedinaya Rossia (United Russia) party - 71%, - among those are older than 45 (70%), those who are poorly educated (73%), those living in cities with populations of more than a million and those not using the Internet (72%), VCIOM experts told Interfax.
New Testimonies About Alois Irlmaier
The Third World War
(kreuz.net) The Bavarian well builder Alois Irlmaier (+1959) was a exceptionally gifted seer.
The website 'alois-irlmaier.de' documents testimonies about him.
The Testimony of a Woman
Among others, there was a woman (65) who had visited Irlmaier a dozen times between 1954 -1957 in the Bavarian town of Piding population, 5,300, near the Austrian border.
She reports that Irlmaier made many predictions which have since been confirmed.
Precise Descriptions
Irlmaier talked about a third world war, according to her report.
This would be preceded by a lapse of faith. Before that there will be a single currency.
In the year of the war's start the Bavarians will be able to mow already in March.
The event will be let loose when things go haywire in the middle east.
After the third world war, things will be so warm in Bavaria that oranges and limes can be grown in Piding.
Credit Cards and Mobile Telephones
According to the woman's information Irlmaier mentioned a "card board" that people would pay with.
He mentioned also a 'Zuban-box'. 'Zuban' was a cigarette factory in Munich, which manufactured filtered, filterless and cigarillos.
Irlmaier added: The "people speak closely in the Zuban-box -- to play with it."
Snowflakes on the Watzmann
The website also cited a man in Berchtesgaden, whose family had befriended Irlmaier.
The man reported that Irlmaier talked about the large snow cap on the Watzmann mountain near Berchtesgaden which lasts year round.
When this cap can no longer be seen, then the great darkness will follow.
In the mean time, the cap is almost impossible to see in summer.
Warnings About the Euro
A man from Siegdorf near Traunstein in upper Bavaria reports that Irlmaier had been asked about the introduction of the D-Mark, how it would be as new money.
Irlmaier is to have then said, that the new currency was ok.
But he warned about what would come after.
Media Blitz Against Boy Scouts of America Has Raised Tempo
The most effective way of intimidating private organizations which don't yield to official narratives about human sexuality, science, politics and so on, will be systematically attacked.
Edit: there's a significant amount of media pressure being applied to the Boy Scouts of America which has policies against homosexuals. It's a standard pattern that anyone can detect as various organizations and blogs which don't toe the line with respect to accepted sexual and social norms, can face public humiliation and even criminal charges as is the case with the German Catholic site 'Kreuz.net' who is being accused of "inciting hatred" under German law. But it's not just religious organizations which refuse to conform like the Catholic Church but civic youth organizations like the Boy Scouts. Neither Scoutmasters, the Scouts themselves, may be homosexual, for as the oath which Scouts take insists a Scout is "morally straight."
This amount of hysteria directed at a private, voluntary organization like this causes one to wonder about the rate of abuse in organizations which enjoy the approval of the media complex. (Girl Scouts, Brownies, Gay Straight Alliance, etc...)
Despite this welcome intransigence from the Boy Scouts, there is more than media pressure that can be brought to bear, as it was used recently to such great effect in the case of Father Guarnizo . Even Catholic resources were brought to bear on a Catholic priest who had a legitimate cause and in fact, an obligation, to refuse a public sinner Holy Communion. The local ordinary, Cardinal Wuerl, even came down on the side of the public sinner and feelings. Some might say that it shows that the Catholic Church is divided, but others, more well informed, should say that there are those in charge who have opposing agendas.
As is the case, the media is playing its usual manipulative cards invoking false charity in the name of an all-inclusive relativism. It's similar to the accusations leveled against Father Guarnizo above, that he wasn't pastorally sensitive or acting beyond his authority. It may be that Cardinal Wuerl would refuse Communion to Bill Clinton if he presented himself for the Sacrament, but we feel that not only is the Cardinal far afield in his understanding of the Sacrament, although for perfucntory reasons he may be willing to follow rubrics and canons, a special interest victim group will always trump Catholic practice.
But this isn't the case with the Boy Scouts of America, and given that they are unwilling to bend to media pressure. Other weapons are being brought to bear upon the somewhat isolated boys' organization, and it is incidentally, the abuse -hoax, which has also been very effective at intimidating, humiliating and even destroying Catholic authorities who try to resist the status quo. Cardinal Law comes to mind. As we're eager to point out, Cardinal Law was very outspoken about pro-life and insulted the Clintons during a politically charged homily at St. Patrick's Cathedral during the funeral of Joseph Cardinal O'Connor. It's true that the Cardinal of Boston was not an ideally orthodox shepherd, but the damage claims and sex abuse accusations against his Diocese were not significantly larger than those faced by Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles. The only discernable difference is the fact that Cardinal Mahony was an Old Liberal, who favored homosexual causes and very much a darling not only of the media, but the Hollywood elites themselves.
The Boy Scouts aren't perfect, but they oppose the agenda by "discriminating" against those afflicted with the disorder of homosexuality. as Canon 4358 of the Catholic Church reads is a "disordered state". If the Boy Scouts fell in lockstep, does anyone believe that they would be facing the barrage of articles now appearing in the media, accusing them of covering up child abuse.
The media has been abusing children for years and the silence is almost deafening.
In any event, if an organization refuses to bend to media pressure, then it will have to be systematically discredited, and what better way of discrediting an organization than by showing how it is harmful to children and is less than responsible about how it handles sex-abuse. (Of course, ignoring the complicity of a certain unhealthy sexual "orientation" in all of this.)
Now, they're calling this attack "the perversion files", here, Psychology Today, here, coverups, here, more coverups, 5,000 expelled from Boy Scouts in Palm Beach since 1958, Telegraph, Fox, Overwhelming interest in abuse crashes website, Disturbing Instances of Abuse, even Al Jazeera is gloating, and so on.
The data is forthcoming, but it's a pretty safe bet that your children are safer with a Scoutmaster than they are with the teachers in public schools.
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| photo: www.BoyScouts-NCAC.org |
Edit: there's a significant amount of media pressure being applied to the Boy Scouts of America which has policies against homosexuals. It's a standard pattern that anyone can detect as various organizations and blogs which don't toe the line with respect to accepted sexual and social norms, can face public humiliation and even criminal charges as is the case with the German Catholic site 'Kreuz.net' who is being accused of "inciting hatred" under German law. But it's not just religious organizations which refuse to conform like the Catholic Church but civic youth organizations like the Boy Scouts. Neither Scoutmasters, the Scouts themselves, may be homosexual, for as the oath which Scouts take insists a Scout is "morally straight."
This amount of hysteria directed at a private, voluntary organization like this causes one to wonder about the rate of abuse in organizations which enjoy the approval of the media complex. (Girl Scouts, Brownies, Gay Straight Alliance, etc...)
Despite this welcome intransigence from the Boy Scouts, there is more than media pressure that can be brought to bear, as it was used recently to such great effect in the case of Father Guarnizo . Even Catholic resources were brought to bear on a Catholic priest who had a legitimate cause and in fact, an obligation, to refuse a public sinner Holy Communion. The local ordinary, Cardinal Wuerl, even came down on the side of the public sinner and feelings. Some might say that it shows that the Catholic Church is divided, but others, more well informed, should say that there are those in charge who have opposing agendas.
As is the case, the media is playing its usual manipulative cards invoking false charity in the name of an all-inclusive relativism. It's similar to the accusations leveled against Father Guarnizo above, that he wasn't pastorally sensitive or acting beyond his authority. It may be that Cardinal Wuerl would refuse Communion to Bill Clinton if he presented himself for the Sacrament, but we feel that not only is the Cardinal far afield in his understanding of the Sacrament, although for perfucntory reasons he may be willing to follow rubrics and canons, a special interest victim group will always trump Catholic practice.
But this isn't the case with the Boy Scouts of America, and given that they are unwilling to bend to media pressure. Other weapons are being brought to bear upon the somewhat isolated boys' organization, and it is incidentally, the abuse -hoax, which has also been very effective at intimidating, humiliating and even destroying Catholic authorities who try to resist the status quo. Cardinal Law comes to mind. As we're eager to point out, Cardinal Law was very outspoken about pro-life and insulted the Clintons during a politically charged homily at St. Patrick's Cathedral during the funeral of Joseph Cardinal O'Connor. It's true that the Cardinal of Boston was not an ideally orthodox shepherd, but the damage claims and sex abuse accusations against his Diocese were not significantly larger than those faced by Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles. The only discernable difference is the fact that Cardinal Mahony was an Old Liberal, who favored homosexual causes and very much a darling not only of the media, but the Hollywood elites themselves.
The Boy Scouts aren't perfect, but they oppose the agenda by "discriminating" against those afflicted with the disorder of homosexuality. as Canon 4358 of the Catholic Church reads is a "disordered state". If the Boy Scouts fell in lockstep, does anyone believe that they would be facing the barrage of articles now appearing in the media, accusing them of covering up child abuse.
The media has been abusing children for years and the silence is almost deafening.
In any event, if an organization refuses to bend to media pressure, then it will have to be systematically discredited, and what better way of discrediting an organization than by showing how it is harmful to children and is less than responsible about how it handles sex-abuse. (Of course, ignoring the complicity of a certain unhealthy sexual "orientation" in all of this.)
Now, they're calling this attack "the perversion files", here, Psychology Today, here, coverups, here, more coverups, 5,000 expelled from Boy Scouts in Palm Beach since 1958, Telegraph, Fox, Overwhelming interest in abuse crashes website, Disturbing Instances of Abuse, even Al Jazeera is gloating, and so on.
The data is forthcoming, but it's a pretty safe bet that your children are safer with a Scoutmaster than they are with the teachers in public schools.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Who Conducted the Sex-Abuse on Children?
The Sexual Ideologue Kinsey
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| Alfred Kinsey House in USA © gemeinfrei, en.wikipedia |
(kreuz.net) The US American sex ideologue Alfred Kinsey (+1956) found pedophiles in the USA and from abroad to abuse children.
He ordered them to violate infants and children because through this he could allegedly come by a normal "child sexuality".
There was a total of between 317 and 2035 infants and children were victims of Kinsey.
Many of these crimes against children -- oral and anal sex, sexual intercourse and abuse -- was committed on behalf of Kinsey and his research.
"Technically Trained Assistants"?
Kinsey has evaluated them in his tables and diagrams.
"Table 34" on page 181 of his book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" contains the allegedly scientific records of "multiple orgasms in adolescents before puberty."
The table contains records of infants at the age of five months, whose "orgasms" were measured by "technically trained assistants" with stop watches.
That is the basis for sexual maturation of children
A four year old child is apparently was measured having an orgasm 26 times.
Till today sexual pedagogues, pedophiles and those sympathizing draw on this supposed data, in order to determine that children have homosexual, heterosexual or bi-sexual inclinations and for that reason requiring "safer-sex" education.
The data is regularly used therefore to "prove" that children are already sexual at the time of birth.
Manipulated Results
Kinsey's team operated behind closed doors.
The subjects of the study were forced to give the desired answers to their sex questions.
That is how three quarters of the research data was secretly suppressed.
Finally he based his findings were based on the manners of the "normal man" on questions with men, of which over 86 percent had abnormal sexual encounters.
Of the men with abnormal sexual encounters belonged 200 sexual psychopaths, 1,400 who had committed sexual crimes and hundreds of criminals, hustlers and promiscuous homosexuals.
Prostitutes instead of normal women
Only a few women were ready to answer the questions of the Kinsey team.
For that reason he graded the subjects all women, who lived longer than a year with one man as "married".
The data about prostitutes and other women of unconventional life were assessed in the data as "normal house wives".
No one asked questions
How was it possible that a dry, scientific tome could become a best seller and neither a scientific reporter nor a scientific researcher questioned where the children came from who participated in the sexual experiments.
In his book on men Kinsey indicted the crying of infants, who still couldn't speak as "orgasms".
In actually they were screams, to writhe from pain, swooning and crying fits.
Who were the child abusers?
Who conducted these sexual experiments on children? Where were the parents?
In none of the thousand and more national and international book readings was Kinsey questioned about this.
Instead of this, he was described by the homosexual US author Gore Vidal (+2012) as "the most famous man of the century".
Kinsey was the mann who the homosexuals and the pedophile movement has much to thank for their progress.
The author is a Communications Researcher, author and President of the 'Institute for Media Education' in Sacramento in California. She was the adviser for American Justice, Education and Health authority.
2013 Catholics and Orthodox Will in Holy Land Will Celebrate Easter Simultaneously -- Soon in the Whole World?
The Holy See has allowed the various rites the freedom to celebrate with the Gregorian or the Julian calendar. The Catholics Bishops of the Holy Land have thus concluded, in order to strengthen the Christian unity in places, where the son of God was born on earth, lived and died on the cross, to follow the Julian Calendar which the Orthodox Christians also use.
From Gregorian to Julian Calendar
The ecumenical gesture which has significant importance also has to do with questions which are significant to members of the Latin and Oriental rites.
Lent, Easter and Pentecost will be celebrated according to a decree published yesterday by the Latin Patriarchate, according to the Julian Calendar, and thus was a suggestion triggered by the Bishops' Synod for the Near East in 2010. The decision addressed the paradox of different feast times in the same territory, and with that the element of division which has reached even into families.
The Ruling is Valid for 2013 ad experimentum
The decree will be issued ad experimentum only for the year of 2013. In 2014 in any case, the dates for Easter fall on the 20th of April and without any help, together on the same day. Til the year 2015 the Latin Patriarchate and the Holy See will meet for a final ruling. The Catholic Bishops of the Holy Land are prepared to give their agreement to a lasting adoption of the Julian Calendar and have expressed the wish that Rome may grant canonical approval.
In Israel, Palestinian Areas, Jordan and Cyprus the Western and Eastern Churches Celebrate Together
For the year of 2013 the ruling will effect the Catholic parishes of Israel, Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Cyrpus and then the complete sphere of influence of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. There will be at least two exceptions in 2013. The parishes of Jerusalem and Bethlehem will celebrate according to the Gregorian Calendar during Easter on the 31st of March.
Exceptions exist in the Holy Sites of Jerusalem and Bethlehem because of the complicated legal system
Both exceptions are dependent upon the legal status quo, which date back to an Ottoman decree which certified the exact times the various confessions would use the various sites. These ordinances are expected to change in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, yet are at present unforeseen where the various confessions are eager to fight for every centimeter and every minute in the Holy Site. For the Catholic pilgrims who will visit the Holy Land and want to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem or Bethlehem, nothing will change.
The sign, which has been established by Catholics for the coming year, will be highly visible for the Christians in the Near East. In the Holy Land the divisions between Christians is clearly visible. It is not seldom that there is evidence of physical animosity between the confessions. The Latin Patriarchate wants to make a gesture of good will with this one-sided step and express the desire that for the faithful, whose families, might celebrate the feast at the same time.
Benedict XVI's desire For Worldwide Easter Between Orient and Occident
Pope Benedict XVI. has expressed many times the hope that Catholics and Orthodox will come to an accord for the celebration of the feast of Easter. The Holy Land represents the first step for that.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Sizemore Insights
Link to original Katholisches...
"You Know That We're Not Supermen"
The New General Prior of the Carthusians
"I sensed a powerful desire, to be useful to the Church and fellow man. I was also very drawn to the Apostolate."
(kreuz.net) Dom François-Marie Velut O. Carm has been the General Prior of the Carthusians since the 21st of September.
The cleric was born on the 30th of December 1948 as Michel Velut in Champagne in north east France.
He spent his childhood in this area as well -- in the small seminary of the 61,000 population city of Troyes.
Master's Degree in Paris
Then he studied in the Sorbonne and in the Paris 'Catholic Institute'.
There he earned a Master's Degree in Philosophy.
The subject of his work: "The Concept of Person in Christological Conflict of the 4th and 5th Centuries."
Entrance to the Carthusians
As Brother Micheal, he finished his 19th year with the Brothers of Charles Foucauld.
In 1989 he entered the Novitiate of the Grand Chartreuse at the age of 40.
There he made his solemn profession in 1996 as Dom François-Marie.
Relocation to Portes
On June 4th, 2001, Do François-Marie was relocated to the Charterhouse of Portes -- between Genf and Lyon.
On the 28th of September 2001, the monks there elected him Prior.
He then become a successor to Dom Étienne Descamps, who had held this office for 28 years.
After his election to Prior of Portes, he gave an interview to 'Voix de l' Ain':
How did you take your election to be Prior of Portes?
with a lot of fear -- but in the end there were enough signs to recognize the will of God. I only have to accept it.
As Procurator [General Secretary] of the Order, I already knew the house a bit. The canonical visitations which take place every two years, gave me a passing understanding about the expectations which exist in every Carthusian house.
In the Church there is a serious priest shortage. Isn't there some other way you would hae been more useful?
I sensed a powerful desire, to be useful to the Church and fellow man. I was also very drawn to the Apostolate.
In order to understand, it has to be taken at the level of faith, otherwise I'm only conscious that what I say, can only scandalize in view of the priest shortage.
We are all conscious of this: what was more awakening, is the radical step of total self-donation to God. This decision makes no sense unless it is looked at with the light of faith, if one believes in the value of prayer and a life given by God.
We feel as members of a family, who are conscious of our place int he Church, that Christ operates through others, through those who have abandoned themselves to the apostolate or in contact with His suffering. Everyone in his role.
You Carthusians, who have turned your entire lives to Christ and consider his work: How can you not be troubled by the evil, suffering, wars, which tear the world apart and the terror attacks?
This question disturbs teh whole world. We Christians ascribe them to human freedom.
It is not God, who will all of this. That is a part of our great plan of love, which human freedom is considered almost in a scandalous way.
Did He not allow his Son to be crucified? This concern for human freedom is the secret of the crazy love of God for men, a mystery, which excels us all.
We believe, that the eternal life of every person has more meaning for God than the earthly life and that the suffering, if it is the way of salvation, has a reason.
A great good can come from all the evil.
From a human perspective, what I'm saying here can excite indignation.
The evil and the suffering is also an opportunity for overcoming, love, generosity, devotion and universal brotherhood.
This answer to the evil through the good is a work of God's grace.
These acts are the purview of every human nature in his own frailty, his own responsibility.
You are preparing for the nine hundred year anniversary of the death of St. Bruno, your founder: What value do you see in this day?
We celebrate October 6th as the day of Bruno's birth into heaven, his entrance into eternal life.
That is an opportunity for us to find new strength and to deepen it, for which we are grateful to him -- for the charism of our vocation in the arms of today's Church, this way of life, which he founded and has continued to live in the course of the centuries.
He is our father, our founder, our model, our teacher. He has given us an example of total resignation: to long for fruitfulness, he decided to give up the illusory joys and the passsing riches of this fleeting world, in order to take up the search for God alone.
That is at the time that he refused to become Archbishop of Reims and instead became a hermit.
He gave us an example of heroic obedience, as he answered the Pope's call -- despite the danger of his his brother's dispersing.
He gave us the example of a complete obedience to the Spirit, as he refused to become Archbishop of Reggio. His words and his example call to us during our daily life: They might be an encouragement and inspiration, in our way in the moments of trial, hesitation and temptation, in order to continue ever more radically in our devotion to the Lord.
They know that we're not supermen. We have shortcomings. We are only humble Christians.
The isolation and the time of test in the desert brings us closer to men.
Link to kreuz.net...
Friday, October 19, 2012
Historic Bells Stolen from Swiss Church
Wynau (kath.net) In the last week a bell was stolen in Wynau Canton, Bern without a trace. The police are investigating say media reports, persons unknown. The evangelical reformed church community is shocked.
The historical bells one which was poured in 1554, the other from the year 1450 were long out of service. Since the 70s, they were placed on pedestals in front of the church. This last week both bells disappeared in the night. An eyewitness had seen men load the bells in a truck and quickly alerted the police. The perpetrators could not be investigated since then. It is suspected that this was done by a ordinary metal thieves.
Link to kath.net...
Related: Swiss Military Prepares for Unrest.
The historical bells one which was poured in 1554, the other from the year 1450 were long out of service. Since the 70s, they were placed on pedestals in front of the church. This last week both bells disappeared in the night. An eyewitness had seen men load the bells in a truck and quickly alerted the police. The perpetrators could not be investigated since then. It is suspected that this was done by a ordinary metal thieves.
Link to kath.net...
Related: Swiss Military Prepares for Unrest.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
China's Church is "true" and Prays For an End to "Infidelity" in Other Countries -- Letter to Bishops' Synod
"I greet you who are able to participate in the Synod and venerate the tomb of St. Peter," wrote Bishop Li Jingfeng in his message. "It pains me very much that your voice could not be heard in the Chinese Church." The Peking regime is now allowing the participation of any Bishop in the Synod, neither those loyal to the regime, nor those who are true to Rome Bishops, of the underground Bishops are not to be discussed. "I will tell you that our Church in China, especially the laity, has shown the piety and uprightness of the early Christians since the beginning of 50 years of persecution." The Bishop of Fengxiang continued with a view to the situation in the Church in other parts of the world: "I pray fervently and constantly to the almighty God, that our piety, our faithfulness, our persistence may heal the tepidity, the infidelity and worldliness, which is the situation of dissipating openness and freedom abroad. In the year of faith you may be able to fathom why our faith in China has preserve red with such purity in your debates in the Synod. It is as the great Chinese philosopher Lao Tse said: "As disaster brings new flowering, thus disaster is hidden in tepidity.' The Church outside of China is infected with inertia, infidelity and the secularization of the Faith even of many clergy. In the Church in China, the laity are as pious as the clergy", said Bishop Li Jingfeng in his letter to the Synod.
Bishop Lucas Li Jinfeng has presided over the only Diocese in the Peoples' Republic of China for several years, which is the only Diocese associated to the underground Church loyal to Rome. In 2004 Msgr. Li Jingfeng was officially recognized by the regime in a moment of relaxation of relations between Rome and Peking without signing the infamous act of submission and joining the regime's Bishops. His Diocese has experienced several waves of persecution since then, in which priests were abducted, cloisters stormed and dissolved. The last incarceration Bishop Li Jingfeng has suffered was in Autumn 2001.
Text: Asianews/Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Asianews
Link to katholisches...
The German Bishops Ally With Child-sex Advocate Volker Beck to Destroy "Kreuz.net"
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(kreuz.net) The Old Liberals have aligned themselves with those who despise the Church, in order to badger Europe's largest Catholic site.
Today the German homosexual-broadcaster 'domradio.de' of the Diocese of Cologne has insulted 'kreuz.net'.
It maintains that the German Breakaway Bishops have "prepared a quick end" for the popular site.
These measures have created a free-advertising effect for the internet bastion 'kreuz.net'.
Tell me, who are you going with?
The 'domradio.de' article cited a letter from the Secretary of the German Bishops' Confrence, Father Hans Langedorfer, to the homosexual, church-hater, college dropout, Comrade Volker Beck.
The Old Liberal priest affirmed the church-hater: "It must be a common goal to bring a quick end to this site."
Comrade Beck hates 'kreuz.net', because the site regularly pillories his inhuman politics.
Father Langendorfer and his Child Murdering Friend
In 2007, Father Langendorfer's new friend insulted the current landlord of 'domradio.de' -- Joachim Cardinal Meisner -- repeatedly as a "self-justified preacher of hate".
First, on October 1st he accused the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Reinhold Cardinal Marx of "shamelessness" and "inhumanity", because he had defended marriage.
In 1988 Comrade Beck argued for a "partial decriminalization" of child molestation.
On the German lockstep direction Stalingrad
Another enemy of 'kreuz.net' is the lapsed Catholic and abortion politician, Comrade Claudia Roth (57).
She demanded according to information from 'domradio.de' a widening of the manhunt for the "man behind the site".
The Old Liberal Bishops the one who hates Bishops to take up "reinforced internal researches".
Matthias Kopp, the speaker for the Church-tax Bishops, saluted the Antifa-Neonazi-Comrade: Such outcries shouldn't be required.
They Covered up the Pedophile
Comrade Roth hates 'kreuz.net', because the site has exposed her Church-hate and her inhuman politics for years.
The Church-hater is a consultant with the infamous association 'Humanistische Union'.
In the past she has denied the pedophile intrigues in this group.
You May Not Criticize the Antifa-Neonazis
In September of 2006, Comrade Roth insulted the Pope for his apparent association with freedom of speech.
It is not acceptable, "if Benedict XVI" wants "to take away the freedom of speech from critics of religion" -- he heckled.
Because for Comrade Roth, freedom of speech ends when left homoseuxal- and abortion parties are criticized.
"Faschistoid Move"
In February of 2007 Comrade Roth described the former Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg as a "cold warrior".
In October of the same year he insulted him as a "crackpot, separatistic hyper-fundy from Augsburg".
A speaker of the Diocese of Augsburg accurately described these abuses as "fascistoid moves".
Comrade Roth's selection of words recall "in a horrifying way the propaganda campaigns of the National Socialists against the Catholic Church."
Link to kreuz.net...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The People Want the Old Church Back
The people want the old Church back -- Society of St. Pius X on the Street -- Stormtroopers Attack a Funeral Procession -- "Homosexual" insult every normal person -- An errant fringe group
The People Want the Old Church Back
Germany. In many parts of the parishes there is now as before difficulties for the acceptance of the Second Vatican Council. The Essen Dogmatic theologian, Ralf Miggelbrink said this for the Catholic weekly 'Tag des Herrn' in the Diocese of Dresden-Meissen, Erfurt Gorlitz and Magdeburg. In the hearts of people, the Pre-Conciliar still endures, the Dogmatic theologian says: "Many a pastor, who had collected a lot of money from their communities in order to saw up a linden wood high altar during the 70s, has produced harm which still has an effect."
Society of Pius X on the Street
Germany. Last week about 150 Catholics prayed in front of the baby-slaughter organization 'pro familia' in Saarbrucken. This was reported by 'pius.info'. The human butchery is part of the international child-murder firm 'Planned Parenthood'. The human rights activists prayed the way of the cross for the unborn and drew along with candle light and torches through Saarbrucken. They carried signs which had messages like: "God's Fifth Commandment: You should not kill" or "Abortion is Murder and therefore a serious sin".
Occupation Troops Attack a Funeral Procession
Occupied Palestine. This Wednesday Israeli occupation troops attacked a Palestinian funeral procession in the 13,000 population city Beit Ummar -- eleven kilometers north west of Hebron. This cause injury to some of the funeral guests. The coordinator for the local people's committee against the building of the wall and new settlements, Mohammad Awad, reported to the news agency 'WAFA', that near the city cemetery, troops attacked the procession. They fired tear gas grenades and noise bombs amid the people. The inhalation of gas caused most of the injuries.
"Homosexual" insults every normal person
Germany. Whoever reviles police officials as "homosexuals" will not be charged with a criminal offense. The decision of the court of Tubingen went according to the anti-Church news site 'n-tv.de'. The concept "homosexual" is apparently not damaging to the reputation or degrading but value-neutral. The accused had insulted a police official as "homosexual", "dirty ...." and "fairy". For the last two insults and further infractions like assault with bodily harm the accused was fined with a fine of 1,350 euros.
An errant fringe group
"A very strong presence, in the armor of Our Lord, against the homosexual minority, who are treated as if they were a significant part of our society, and not as an errant fringe group. Keep it up, continue to expose the lies of those who are lost, so that they can be brought to truth."
From a missive to Europe's largest Catholic site 'kruez.net'
Link to source...kreuz.net...
The People Want the Old Church Back
Germany. In many parts of the parishes there is now as before difficulties for the acceptance of the Second Vatican Council. The Essen Dogmatic theologian, Ralf Miggelbrink said this for the Catholic weekly 'Tag des Herrn' in the Diocese of Dresden-Meissen, Erfurt Gorlitz and Magdeburg. In the hearts of people, the Pre-Conciliar still endures, the Dogmatic theologian says: "Many a pastor, who had collected a lot of money from their communities in order to saw up a linden wood high altar during the 70s, has produced harm which still has an effect."
Society of Pius X on the Street
Germany. Last week about 150 Catholics prayed in front of the baby-slaughter organization 'pro familia' in Saarbrucken. This was reported by 'pius.info'. The human butchery is part of the international child-murder firm 'Planned Parenthood'. The human rights activists prayed the way of the cross for the unborn and drew along with candle light and torches through Saarbrucken. They carried signs which had messages like: "God's Fifth Commandment: You should not kill" or "Abortion is Murder and therefore a serious sin".
Occupation Troops Attack a Funeral Procession
Occupied Palestine. This Wednesday Israeli occupation troops attacked a Palestinian funeral procession in the 13,000 population city Beit Ummar -- eleven kilometers north west of Hebron. This cause injury to some of the funeral guests. The coordinator for the local people's committee against the building of the wall and new settlements, Mohammad Awad, reported to the news agency 'WAFA', that near the city cemetery, troops attacked the procession. They fired tear gas grenades and noise bombs amid the people. The inhalation of gas caused most of the injuries.
"Homosexual" insults every normal person
Germany. Whoever reviles police officials as "homosexuals" will not be charged with a criminal offense. The decision of the court of Tubingen went according to the anti-Church news site 'n-tv.de'. The concept "homosexual" is apparently not damaging to the reputation or degrading but value-neutral. The accused had insulted a police official as "homosexual", "dirty ...." and "fairy". For the last two insults and further infractions like assault with bodily harm the accused was fined with a fine of 1,350 euros.
An errant fringe group
"A very strong presence, in the armor of Our Lord, against the homosexual minority, who are treated as if they were a significant part of our society, and not as an errant fringe group. Keep it up, continue to expose the lies of those who are lost, so that they can be brought to truth."
From a missive to Europe's largest Catholic site 'kruez.net'
Link to source...kreuz.net...
German Homo-SS Bites Granite
Good luck, German homosexuals: The world is still far away from supporting your brown struggle against truth and freedom.
(kreuz.net) The police of the former Nazi Capital of Berlin have broken their teeth on the Catholic site 'kreuz.net'.
The one responsible for the Christian-hunt at the command of the brown homosexuals is the German Censor Policeman Philip-Henrik Költzsch.
German Mind-Snoops are at Work
Several days ago Költzsch contacted the current server company for Europe's largest Catholic site, 'kreuz.net'.
He described himself as a subordinate of the homosexual lobby:
"Here [in muzzle-Germany] an investigation is being conducted regarding public incitement to hate (§ 130 Strafgesetzbuch) by reason of, among other things, contents offensive to homosexuals by the web-presence of 'kreuz.net'.
The kind of National Socialist law in the preceeding paragraph being cited by Költzsch is illegal according to international legal standards.
The official censor also mentioned paragraph 95 of the German criminal code and demanded from the server company a "handing over of the complete available dates about the owner of the site, inclusive of payment dates and the IP-addresses of the last ten logins and exact times and data for the time zone."
The Basket
The firm answered the inquiry with a legal lesson: "According to the German 'Telemedia laws', an internet service provider "may" grant information, however it must not."
Paragraph 95 of the Criminal Code Order is subject to a requirement of judicial decree.
Only in "imminent danger" may a prosecutor order distrainment.
The Cold Shower
But that's not all.
The firm informed the muzzle official also, "that we are not a BRD (German) registered company and thusly do not fall under German law.
And: "We don't back up communications - payments and other information in any way."
The firm had to disappoint the Homo-SS: "Even if we wanted to we couldn't provide any information."
Link to kreuz.net...
(kreuz.net) The police of the former Nazi Capital of Berlin have broken their teeth on the Catholic site 'kreuz.net'.
The one responsible for the Christian-hunt at the command of the brown homosexuals is the German Censor Policeman Philip-Henrik Költzsch.
German Mind-Snoops are at Work
Several days ago Költzsch contacted the current server company for Europe's largest Catholic site, 'kreuz.net'.
He described himself as a subordinate of the homosexual lobby:
"Here [in muzzle-Germany] an investigation is being conducted regarding public incitement to hate (§ 130 Strafgesetzbuch) by reason of, among other things, contents offensive to homosexuals by the web-presence of 'kreuz.net'.
The kind of National Socialist law in the preceeding paragraph being cited by Költzsch is illegal according to international legal standards.
The official censor also mentioned paragraph 95 of the German criminal code and demanded from the server company a "handing over of the complete available dates about the owner of the site, inclusive of payment dates and the IP-addresses of the last ten logins and exact times and data for the time zone."
The Basket
The firm answered the inquiry with a legal lesson: "According to the German 'Telemedia laws', an internet service provider "may" grant information, however it must not."
Paragraph 95 of the Criminal Code Order is subject to a requirement of judicial decree.
Only in "imminent danger" may a prosecutor order distrainment.
The Cold Shower
But that's not all.
The firm informed the muzzle official also, "that we are not a BRD (German) registered company and thusly do not fall under German law.
And: "We don't back up communications - payments and other information in any way."
The firm had to disappoint the Homo-SS: "Even if we wanted to we couldn't provide any information."
Link to kreuz.net...
Father Schmidberger: There Isn't Much More to be Expected From the Pope
Father Franz Schmidberger: Volte Face in the Vatican
"What use is the Motu Proprio to the Old Liturgy if a year thereafter, one of the worst opponents of this Liturgy is given a key position?"
(kreuz.net) There are rumors that in the case of the regulation of the Society of St. Pius X that a certain western European country will have its ambassador to the Holy See threatened with resignation.
This was explained by Father Franz Schmidberger, Mathematician and German District Superior of the Society in an interview with the Catholic monthly 'Kirchliche Umschau'.
The Vatican Appeared Satisfied with the Answer
The clergyman recapitulated the most recent history of the negotiations of the Society with the Vatican.
On the 16th of March the CDF attempted to give an ultimatum to Society General Superior, Bishop Bernard Fellay, to accept the Dogmatic Preamble of September 14th.
Thereupon Bishop Fellay published a dogmatic text, which stressed the persistence of the Society in the Catholic position:
"The proposal of Msgr. Fellay went as far as we could, to satisfy the side of the CDF's position, and on the other side not to give up any of our positions."
The text found, according to Schidberger, "clearly the approval of the Holy Father and also the agreement of the Congregation for Doctrine and the Faith".
Pressure Was Put on the Pope
Then there came an unexpected change of position: Bishop Fellay received a new text on June 13th frot he CDF.
The new demands contained within were described by Father Schmidberger as "very surprising".
The Pope was not made happy happy, according to the CDF, with a subsequently specified interview, which Msgr Fellay gave on the recognition of the the Society.
At the same time, there was probably pressure put on the Pope.
Not Acceptable
The new demands bound the recognition of the legitimacy of the New Liturgy.
That was not acceptable according to Father Schmidberger: "How can one recognize a Liturgy as legitimate, which flees from the Catholic Faith and not to it?"
The second demand touched upon the Pastoral Council: The Society many only still discuss particularities of the Council.
They must then -- against their convictions -- attempt to reconcile it with the continuity of the earlier Magisterium.
Bishop Fellay had answered this text according to the statements of Father.
The Pope Speaks and Negotiates With a Forked Tongue
Father Schmidberger believes that the appointment of the heterodox Archbishop Gerhard Luwig Müller as guardian of the Catholic Faith was responsible for a change of course toward the Society in the Vatican.
He also criticized the appointment of Archbishop Arthur Roch as Secretary of The Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments:
"What is the point of a Motu Prorprio about the Old Liturgy, if you appoint one of its worst opponents to a key position, which will counteract the Traditional Mass?"
Catholic, Roman Catholic
However, Father Schmidberger decisively rejects any separation with Rome.
He cited the founder of the Society, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre: "Neither Liberal nor Modernist, nor schismatic, rather Catholic, Roman Catholic!"
This devise of the Archbishop called for almost a daily tightrope walk for the society in view of the Church crisis.
A Pilgrimage for Lefebvrists?
The future of the negotiations with the Vatican would be dependent upon Archbishop Augustine Di Noia and his scope of negotiations.
Father Schmidberger discerns then that the Society still has to remain in its current position of misunderstanding.
He appealed to the faithful, not to be bitter toward the Holy See, rather to preserve love.
Some prelates in and out of the Curia have pleaded for the Society: "They have recognized how important the effect of the Society in the official area would be."
Father Schmidberger thinks: "Would the consideration not have value, if it meant the pastoral care of a pilgrimage or another seminary?"
The Errors Are Finally Discussed Openly
Father Schmidberger can't imagine a renewal of the Excommunication of the Society.
At the same time he insists that Msgr Muller is "really not our friend".
He demands the acceptance of the the errors, which have led to the Conciliar and post-Conciliar decline.
The recognition of the Society would mean for the ecclesiastical confession, that certain expressions are to be corrected and requires the Traditional Mass for the healing of its members.
Father Schmidberger expects little of the Pontificate of Benedict XVI.: "Humanly, since his last personal decisions in Rome, there is not overly much to be expected."
Link to kreuz.net...
"What use is the Motu Proprio to the Old Liturgy if a year thereafter, one of the worst opponents of this Liturgy is given a key position?"
(kreuz.net) There are rumors that in the case of the regulation of the Society of St. Pius X that a certain western European country will have its ambassador to the Holy See threatened with resignation.
This was explained by Father Franz Schmidberger, Mathematician and German District Superior of the Society in an interview with the Catholic monthly 'Kirchliche Umschau'.
The Vatican Appeared Satisfied with the Answer
The clergyman recapitulated the most recent history of the negotiations of the Society with the Vatican.
On the 16th of March the CDF attempted to give an ultimatum to Society General Superior, Bishop Bernard Fellay, to accept the Dogmatic Preamble of September 14th.
Thereupon Bishop Fellay published a dogmatic text, which stressed the persistence of the Society in the Catholic position:
"The proposal of Msgr. Fellay went as far as we could, to satisfy the side of the CDF's position, and on the other side not to give up any of our positions."
The text found, according to Schidberger, "clearly the approval of the Holy Father and also the agreement of the Congregation for Doctrine and the Faith".
Pressure Was Put on the Pope
Then there came an unexpected change of position: Bishop Fellay received a new text on June 13th frot he CDF.
The new demands contained within were described by Father Schmidberger as "very surprising".
The Pope was not made happy happy, according to the CDF, with a subsequently specified interview, which Msgr Fellay gave on the recognition of the the Society.
At the same time, there was probably pressure put on the Pope.
Not Acceptable
The new demands bound the recognition of the legitimacy of the New Liturgy.
That was not acceptable according to Father Schmidberger: "How can one recognize a Liturgy as legitimate, which flees from the Catholic Faith and not to it?"
The second demand touched upon the Pastoral Council: The Society many only still discuss particularities of the Council.
They must then -- against their convictions -- attempt to reconcile it with the continuity of the earlier Magisterium.
Bishop Fellay had answered this text according to the statements of Father.
The Pope Speaks and Negotiates With a Forked Tongue
Father Schmidberger believes that the appointment of the heterodox Archbishop Gerhard Luwig Müller as guardian of the Catholic Faith was responsible for a change of course toward the Society in the Vatican.
He also criticized the appointment of Archbishop Arthur Roch as Secretary of The Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments:
"What is the point of a Motu Prorprio about the Old Liturgy, if you appoint one of its worst opponents to a key position, which will counteract the Traditional Mass?"
Catholic, Roman Catholic
However, Father Schmidberger decisively rejects any separation with Rome.
He cited the founder of the Society, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre: "Neither Liberal nor Modernist, nor schismatic, rather Catholic, Roman Catholic!"
This devise of the Archbishop called for almost a daily tightrope walk for the society in view of the Church crisis.
A Pilgrimage for Lefebvrists?
The future of the negotiations with the Vatican would be dependent upon Archbishop Augustine Di Noia and his scope of negotiations.
Father Schmidberger discerns then that the Society still has to remain in its current position of misunderstanding.
He appealed to the faithful, not to be bitter toward the Holy See, rather to preserve love.
Some prelates in and out of the Curia have pleaded for the Society: "They have recognized how important the effect of the Society in the official area would be."
Father Schmidberger thinks: "Would the consideration not have value, if it meant the pastoral care of a pilgrimage or another seminary?"
The Errors Are Finally Discussed Openly
Father Schmidberger can't imagine a renewal of the Excommunication of the Society.
At the same time he insists that Msgr Muller is "really not our friend".
He demands the acceptance of the the errors, which have led to the Conciliar and post-Conciliar decline.
The recognition of the Society would mean for the ecclesiastical confession, that certain expressions are to be corrected and requires the Traditional Mass for the healing of its members.
Father Schmidberger expects little of the Pontificate of Benedict XVI.: "Humanly, since his last personal decisions in Rome, there is not overly much to be expected."
Link to kreuz.net...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI to Visit Ukraine?
Pope Benedict XVI may possibly visit the Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Kiev, Swjatoslaw Schwetschuk in the Ukraine.
Vatican City (kath.net/KNA) Pope Benedict XVI may possibly visit the Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Kiev, Swjatoslaw Schwetschuk in the Ukraine, according to him. The possibility about such a visit was already discussed for this year, said Schwetschuk on Monday in informal talks during the Bishops' Synod. With a view to the social importance it is being descried as a "delicate matter".
As to the question if the Pope might come to his country, Schwetschuk said: "I believe yes". The Catholics in Ukraine are awaiting Benedict XVI., says the head of the Greek-Catholic Church in Ukraine. The possibility of a papal trip to the Ukraine has been speculated upon for quite some time; an invitation has been extended by the Catholics united with Rome.
Link to kath.net....
Photo: C) 2012 KNA Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur GmbH. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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| Arcbishop Schwetschuk |
As to the question if the Pope might come to his country, Schwetschuk said: "I believe yes". The Catholics in Ukraine are awaiting Benedict XVI., says the head of the Greek-Catholic Church in Ukraine. The possibility of a papal trip to the Ukraine has been speculated upon for quite some time; an invitation has been extended by the Catholics united with Rome.
Link to kath.net....
Photo: C) 2012 KNA Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur GmbH. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
Bored by Synod: Cardinal Meisner Encourages Going to Confession More Often
"Since then, it hasn't been going forwards, but backwards."
Edit: in other words, it's not just going to confession, but having a good resolution to do something about your obligations and the state of your Diocese.
Nothing besides the Sacrament of Penance: Joachim Cardinal Meisner recommends going to confession more often -- instead of solving the problems in the Church.
(Kreuz.net) "We have sat here since the past week and have listened to the interventions from early morning until the evening -- which are very interesting."
The Neoconservative Cardinal Joachim Meisner Cologne reaffirmed this yesterday for his Old Liberal Flamer-Site 'domradio.de' [They were preaching out against the "sins" of homophobia, earlier and Cardinal Meisner hasn't done anything to correct them.]
When he was asked to explain "very interesting", he explained: "Everyone has the opportunity, to give an intervention. This makes the work a bit laborious.
Because: "Getting down to business" in discussion circles -- where the Germans stew in their own juices.
Bla-bla Isn't Enough
The Cardinal spoke of a "disappearing faith".
One has to ask "very seriously": "What have we done wrong?" -- he asked.
He described himself as a veteran of synods who has participated in ten such gatherings.
Only: "Since then, it hasn't gone forward, but backward." -- insisted the Cardinal soberly.
Certainly he could not bear the hard reality for long, but quickly got out of it by talking about the "Holy Ghost".
Despite which -- according to his own account -- the ten Bla-bla Synods he had gotten through, he still effused optimism: "I am of good hope that the Snod can have a good result."
More Penance?
His website attempted to hack back into it: "Can you talk about what has been done wrong up until now?"
Cardinal Meisner retreated: "I can only say what I've done wrong."
Or: "And that's something you must also ask yourself."
Here is a solution: "Are we going regularly to confession, that the sins of our life will be effaced and we will make room for the Holy Ghost?"
Fact: At least based on the situation of the Church in Cologne and in Germany it can be concluded that Cardinal Meisner isn't going to confession enough.
The Problem is not the World
He cited John Paul II: "The conditions in the secular society have become significantly more difficult."
Still, the problem isn't the world, but the priests and bishops who've become more worldly -- and its vanishing faith.
Link to kreuz.net...
Edit: in other words, it's not just going to confession, but having a good resolution to do something about your obligations and the state of your Diocese.Nothing besides the Sacrament of Penance: Joachim Cardinal Meisner recommends going to confession more often -- instead of solving the problems in the Church.
(Kreuz.net) "We have sat here since the past week and have listened to the interventions from early morning until the evening -- which are very interesting."
The Neoconservative Cardinal Joachim Meisner Cologne reaffirmed this yesterday for his Old Liberal Flamer-Site 'domradio.de' [They were preaching out against the "sins" of homophobia, earlier and Cardinal Meisner hasn't done anything to correct them.]
When he was asked to explain "very interesting", he explained: "Everyone has the opportunity, to give an intervention. This makes the work a bit laborious.
Because: "Getting down to business" in discussion circles -- where the Germans stew in their own juices.
Bla-bla Isn't Enough
The Cardinal spoke of a "disappearing faith".
One has to ask "very seriously": "What have we done wrong?" -- he asked.
He described himself as a veteran of synods who has participated in ten such gatherings.
Only: "Since then, it hasn't gone forward, but backward." -- insisted the Cardinal soberly.
Certainly he could not bear the hard reality for long, but quickly got out of it by talking about the "Holy Ghost".
Despite which -- according to his own account -- the ten Bla-bla Synods he had gotten through, he still effused optimism: "I am of good hope that the Snod can have a good result."
More Penance?
His website attempted to hack back into it: "Can you talk about what has been done wrong up until now?"
Cardinal Meisner retreated: "I can only say what I've done wrong."
Or: "And that's something you must also ask yourself."
Here is a solution: "Are we going regularly to confession, that the sins of our life will be effaced and we will make room for the Holy Ghost?"
Fact: At least based on the situation of the Church in Cologne and in Germany it can be concluded that Cardinal Meisner isn't going to confession enough.
The Problem is not the World
He cited John Paul II: "The conditions in the secular society have become significantly more difficult."
Still, the problem isn't the world, but the priests and bishops who've become more worldly -- and its vanishing faith.
Link to kreuz.net...
Diocesan Conference Hosts SSPX Italian Superior to Talk on Vatican II
Edit: Don Secci Alberto is a Diocesan Priest in Novara, Italy invites a surprise guest who held everyone enraptured by the clarity of his discourse and the Apostolic fire of his zeal. Here's a brief stab at some google translate with some editing for the ever dependable Messa in Latino blog. The following is an account of the Third Conference of Tradition in Verbania in the region of Piedmont, Italy:
We have received and published in the common perspective of "thinking with the Church". We thank the author for sending to us the article. AC
"To deny the very serious crisis in which we find the Church is to deny the evidence ... as a result, those who say things as they really are, is considered an enemy of the Church."
With these sorrowful words Don Secci Alberto opened the Third Conference of the tradition that took place, as planned, at the hotel "The Cloister" of Verbania. The conference room was packed with an audience and so the same Don Albert celebrated Holy Mass in the chapel at 17.30.
"While we deny the evidence" - continued the courageous priest of Ossola - "it often leads us to be astonished at the face we see in the mirror.
Coming to Verbania they listened to, for example, a radio interview with a Roman prelate. He went so far as to declare that ... this crisis has enabled the Church to provide, as always, the right medicine."
This medicine is called the Second Vatican Council. ... How do you get to this point?"
Shortly after he was presented, then the keynote speaker of the event was announced. A surprise came to the table and it was Don Pierpaolo Petrucci, the top guy of the Italian District of the SSPX: "We invited the Society of St. Pius X" - said Don Alberto - "because no one has in more than forty years of study and sacrifice, has been able to further investigate the reasons and meaning of this frightful crisis. The same Roman authorities, agreeing to discuss formally with the SSPX, have implicitly admitted that their positions are important and worthy of attention." [WOW!]
Don Pierpaolo Petrucci's summary then, in his clear speech about the historical reasons that led to the current situation: "The cause of all the troubles of the Church, throughout its history, is obviously Satan.
He, to act, however, needs of employees and always human, unfortunately, has found in the course of the centuries. "
He then summed up the history of heresies, and especially those that have plagued Christianity humanism forward.
"Luther, in practice, said: Christ yes, the Church no.
Then came the French Revolution and Liberalism have gone a step further: God yes, Christ no.
Finally, the atheistic Marxism: God is dead. "
Until the mid-nineteenth century all these heresies were rife in the world but the Church opposed it vigorously.
Then began a slow penetration, subtle and creeping into the Bride of Christ. St. Pius X was able to vanquish the modernism, the synthesis of all heresies, but after his death, the process continued slowly, until it explodes during and after the Second Vatican Council.
"Archbishop Lefebvre" - said Don Pierpaolo - "he told us, as indeed also stated, in the opposite perspective Card. Suenens, that the Council had been in 1789 the Church. In it imposed the three revolutionary motto: Liberté ( religious freedom), Fraternity, with ecumenism, Equality with the principle of collegiality. "
At the end of his speech, the Italian Superior of the SSPX has answered many questions presented by the most numerous and attentive audience.
Finally Don Alberto Secci concluded its work inviting everyone to "pray and respond."
"Of course, we pray that every grace comes to us from Heaven, but we also have to respond with clarity: many priests, usually in private, admit many of the considerations that we have done, but then, perhaps for understandable reasons of respect for the authorities, they were not the courage to expose themselves in the first person.
But we have to pray and respond with the proper methods but react! "
-Marco Bongi
We have received and published in the common perspective of "thinking with the Church". We thank the author for sending to us the article. AC
"To deny the very serious crisis in which we find the Church is to deny the evidence ... as a result, those who say things as they really are, is considered an enemy of the Church."
With these sorrowful words Don Secci Alberto opened the Third Conference of the tradition that took place, as planned, at the hotel "The Cloister" of Verbania. The conference room was packed with an audience and so the same Don Albert celebrated Holy Mass in the chapel at 17.30.
"While we deny the evidence" - continued the courageous priest of Ossola - "it often leads us to be astonished at the face we see in the mirror.
Coming to Verbania they listened to, for example, a radio interview with a Roman prelate. He went so far as to declare that ... this crisis has enabled the Church to provide, as always, the right medicine."
This medicine is called the Second Vatican Council. ... How do you get to this point?"
Shortly after he was presented, then the keynote speaker of the event was announced. A surprise came to the table and it was Don Pierpaolo Petrucci, the top guy of the Italian District of the SSPX: "We invited the Society of St. Pius X" - said Don Alberto - "because no one has in more than forty years of study and sacrifice, has been able to further investigate the reasons and meaning of this frightful crisis. The same Roman authorities, agreeing to discuss formally with the SSPX, have implicitly admitted that their positions are important and worthy of attention." [WOW!]
Don Pierpaolo Petrucci's summary then, in his clear speech about the historical reasons that led to the current situation: "The cause of all the troubles of the Church, throughout its history, is obviously Satan.
He, to act, however, needs of employees and always human, unfortunately, has found in the course of the centuries. "
He then summed up the history of heresies, and especially those that have plagued Christianity humanism forward.
"Luther, in practice, said: Christ yes, the Church no.
Then came the French Revolution and Liberalism have gone a step further: God yes, Christ no.
Finally, the atheistic Marxism: God is dead. "
Until the mid-nineteenth century all these heresies were rife in the world but the Church opposed it vigorously.
Then began a slow penetration, subtle and creeping into the Bride of Christ. St. Pius X was able to vanquish the modernism, the synthesis of all heresies, but after his death, the process continued slowly, until it explodes during and after the Second Vatican Council.
"Archbishop Lefebvre" - said Don Pierpaolo - "he told us, as indeed also stated, in the opposite perspective Card. Suenens, that the Council had been in 1789 the Church. In it imposed the three revolutionary motto: Liberté ( religious freedom), Fraternity, with ecumenism, Equality with the principle of collegiality. "
At the end of his speech, the Italian Superior of the SSPX has answered many questions presented by the most numerous and attentive audience.
Finally Don Alberto Secci concluded its work inviting everyone to "pray and respond."
"Of course, we pray that every grace comes to us from Heaven, but we also have to respond with clarity: many priests, usually in private, admit many of the considerations that we have done, but then, perhaps for understandable reasons of respect for the authorities, they were not the courage to expose themselves in the first person.
But we have to pray and respond with the proper methods but react! "
-Marco Bongi
Monday, October 15, 2012
News Bytes -- Cardinal Lehman Refuses to Obey Rome
Cardinal Karl Lehmann makes joke -- 27 Pro-Lifers on the Abortion-Pillory -- Miracle Recognized -- Scotland: Homosexuals Insult Children -- That's What Americans Want
Cardinal Lehman's Little Joke
Germany. The Old Liberal Cardinal Karl Lehman of Mainz says he would like to see a "Reform" of the Vatican, to the anti-Catholic 'Deutschlandfunk': "The governing style must be changed." The Vatican apparently takes too much influence from the local church. As an example he criticized that the Vatican is "censuring pettily" the German Missal and the work of the hymnal "Gotteslob" [Divine Praise]. That is an "incursion in Liturgical law", which Cardinal Lehmann himself "isn't going to take".
27 Pro-Lifers on the Abortion-Pillory
Belgium. A combine of anti-life EU-Parliamentarians have published a list of Pro-Lifers. This was according to the Protestant news agency 'idea'. The Comrade Community self-importantly describes itself as "European Parliamentarian Forum for People and Development". It operates as a network, which is based upon the US-Slaughterhouse concern 'Planned Parenthood'. The list of those from the German-speaking world include Johanna Gräfin von Westphalen, Sophia Kuby, Tobias Teuscher, Gudrun Kugler, Paul Herzog von Oldenburg, Matthias von Gersdorff und Ewald Stadler.
Miracle Recognized
France. A healing, which took place in the year 1965 in the Marian pilgrimage shrine Lourdes, has been recognized as a miracle. It was then that the Mother of God healed a lame Salesian, Sister Luigina Traverso, from the Diocese of Monferrato in Northern Italy. The cloistered nun, born in 1934, suffered from a lame left leg. In Lourdes, she received a spontaneous healing. The international Commission of Physicians of Lourdes described the healing in November 2011 as unexplainable. Bishop Alceste Catella of Monferrato confirmed the miracle.
Scotland: Homosexuals Insult Children
Scotland. In Scotland even children are insulted as being "Nazis" or "fanatics", if they criticized homosexual liaisons. This was explained by a representative of the Scottish Bishops' Conference, John Deighan, recently in Brussels to the site 'lifesitenews.com' . Deighan's own 12 year old child was called a "Nazi". The inhuman homosexual network want for a very high level of antagonism against every critic, observes Deighan. Politicians in Scotland in fear of their careers do not dare to say any more against the homo-lobby.
That's What US Wants
"High ranking political members, the Syrian-Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo, Mar Gregorios, knows that the government, party and military will remain as a guarantee for stability and order. Only President Assad and his family must go. The Egyptian solution: the president goes, the military will govern and the old power structure will remain."
From an article on the 25th of September from the online-edition of 'Springer' news 'Welt' about the foreign terrorists being spun into a Syrian civil war.
Miracle Recognized
France. A healing, which took place in the year 1965 in the Marian pilgrimage shrine Lourdes, has been recognized as a miracle. It was then that the Mother of God healed a lame Salesian, Sister Luigina Traverso, from the Diocese of Monferrato in Northern Italy. The cloistered nun, born in 1934, suffered from a lame left leg. In Lourdes, she received a spontaneous healing. The international Commission of Physicians of Lourdes described the healing in November 2011 as unexplainable. Bishop Alceste Catella of Monferrato confirmed the miracle.
Scotland: Homosexuals Insult Children
Scotland. In Scotland even children are insulted as being "Nazis" or "fanatics", if they criticized homosexual liaisons. This was explained by a representative of the Scottish Bishops' Conference, John Deighan, recently in Brussels to the site 'lifesitenews.com' . Deighan's own 12 year old child was called a "Nazi". The inhuman homosexual network want for a very high level of antagonism against every critic, observes Deighan. Politicians in Scotland in fear of their careers do not dare to say any more against the homo-lobby.
That's What US Wants
"High ranking political members, the Syrian-Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo, Mar Gregorios, knows that the government, party and military will remain as a guarantee for stability and order. Only President Assad and his family must go. The Egyptian solution: the president goes, the military will govern and the old power structure will remain."
From an article on the 25th of September from the online-edition of 'Springer' news 'Welt' about the foreign terrorists being spun into a Syrian civil war.
Turkish Film About Fall of Constantinople Incites Hatred of Christians
(Beruit) The Turkish film, Faith 1453 tells of the dramatic, and for Christians traumatic, sack of Constantinople by the Mohammedan Ottomans in 1453. Constantinople which was the Capital of the Roman Empire for more than 1,100 years was with Rome the most important city of Christendom. The $17 million-dollar-film which drew enthusiasm in Turkey, incited hard critics from Christians in the Orient. The film has numerous historical errors and barbs of hate against Christians.
The film is to be shown in theaters in Beruit. The Christian community of the Land of the Cedars have thus called for a boycott They are calling it a "Propaganda film". The 160 minute production of the Turkish director Faruk Aksoy begins with a flashback to Mohamed in exile from Medina, promising his followers "eternal happiness" if they conquered the Byzantine capital. The Ottoman Sultan took up this prophesy of Mohamed symbolically, according to the film, and began his operations against Constantinople which had defied Islam for 800 years.
Politico-Religious Propaganda Film Far Removed from Historical Reality
The combination of religious prophesy and Ottoman conquest in the film clearly speaks to Turkish national pride, as sold-out theater sales since February show.
One historical appraisal praised the film, say critics, but didn't stand. The historical errors represented therein have rewritten the glorification of Islam and the Sultan's politico-religious leadership. With that the film is not only a historical, but also more in a poltical dimension. A political dimension which which occurs in the re-islamicization of Turkey and connected with the beginning of the 20th century's declining Ottoman Empire and Turkey as a great power in the Orient.
Rodrigo Khoury, the founder of the Christian Lebanese party Al-Machreq is among the first to see the film in a preview. The Lebanese Christians were shocked. He forwarded an introductory film review with a detailed explanation of historical errors to General Surete, the censor of the Lebanese government. Khoury addressed himself to numerous journalists, to allow the release of the film in the name of freedom of expression and art.
The Film Shows the Struggle Between Christian and Muslim Culture --- Christendom is a Grotesque Caricature
"The Film" says Khoury, "doesn't tell the struggle between two kingdoms, as the subtitle maintains, rather it's the struggle between two cultures, the Christian and the Muslim. The Christian culture is distorted as a grotesque culture and the origin of all evil, while the Muslim culture on the other hand as perfect, faultless and portrayed therefore as the superior culture." The young Christians of Lebanon are rejecting this film, because it "clearly calls for open hatred against Christians", says Khoury.
Father Abdo Abou Kassem is of the same opinion as the press agent for the Catholic Church in Lebanon. "The Christian religion will be disparaged through numerous and substantial historical errors, and unjustly portrayed." One scene shows, says the Catholic priest, how Sultan Mehmed (Mohammed) II entered the Basilica of Hagia Sofia and pushed among thousands of faithful, who had fled there in terror. The Sultan hugged and silenced then a child and explained that the conqueror will also be a protector. "As we know from the chronicles and the history, this is absolute fabrication. As the Sultan entered the largest church in the city, he gave the order to slaughter all of the Christians there, more than 3,000, and let his soldiers rape Christian women there as a sign of the occupation. The Basilica was then turned into a mosque," says Father Abdo.
"Fetih 1453" was released some weeks after protests against a short private film against Mohamed in Arabic lands. Because of a "blasphemous" disparagement of Mohammed and of Islam hundreds of thousands of Muslims in many states went to the streets. The protests which were at times violent, costed more than 50 human lives, among them the American ambassador in Libya and hundreds of wounded.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Asianews
Link to Katholisches ...
The film is to be shown in theaters in Beruit. The Christian community of the Land of the Cedars have thus called for a boycott They are calling it a "Propaganda film". The 160 minute production of the Turkish director Faruk Aksoy begins with a flashback to Mohamed in exile from Medina, promising his followers "eternal happiness" if they conquered the Byzantine capital. The Ottoman Sultan took up this prophesy of Mohamed symbolically, according to the film, and began his operations against Constantinople which had defied Islam for 800 years.
Politico-Religious Propaganda Film Far Removed from Historical Reality
The combination of religious prophesy and Ottoman conquest in the film clearly speaks to Turkish national pride, as sold-out theater sales since February show.
One historical appraisal praised the film, say critics, but didn't stand. The historical errors represented therein have rewritten the glorification of Islam and the Sultan's politico-religious leadership. With that the film is not only a historical, but also more in a poltical dimension. A political dimension which which occurs in the re-islamicization of Turkey and connected with the beginning of the 20th century's declining Ottoman Empire and Turkey as a great power in the Orient.
Rodrigo Khoury, the founder of the Christian Lebanese party Al-Machreq is among the first to see the film in a preview. The Lebanese Christians were shocked. He forwarded an introductory film review with a detailed explanation of historical errors to General Surete, the censor of the Lebanese government. Khoury addressed himself to numerous journalists, to allow the release of the film in the name of freedom of expression and art.
The Film Shows the Struggle Between Christian and Muslim Culture --- Christendom is a Grotesque Caricature
"The Film" says Khoury, "doesn't tell the struggle between two kingdoms, as the subtitle maintains, rather it's the struggle between two cultures, the Christian and the Muslim. The Christian culture is distorted as a grotesque culture and the origin of all evil, while the Muslim culture on the other hand as perfect, faultless and portrayed therefore as the superior culture." The young Christians of Lebanon are rejecting this film, because it "clearly calls for open hatred against Christians", says Khoury.
Father Abdo Abou Kassem is of the same opinion as the press agent for the Catholic Church in Lebanon. "The Christian religion will be disparaged through numerous and substantial historical errors, and unjustly portrayed." One scene shows, says the Catholic priest, how Sultan Mehmed (Mohammed) II entered the Basilica of Hagia Sofia and pushed among thousands of faithful, who had fled there in terror. The Sultan hugged and silenced then a child and explained that the conqueror will also be a protector. "As we know from the chronicles and the history, this is absolute fabrication. As the Sultan entered the largest church in the city, he gave the order to slaughter all of the Christians there, more than 3,000, and let his soldiers rape Christian women there as a sign of the occupation. The Basilica was then turned into a mosque," says Father Abdo.
"Fetih 1453" was released some weeks after protests against a short private film against Mohamed in Arabic lands. Because of a "blasphemous" disparagement of Mohammed and of Islam hundreds of thousands of Muslims in many states went to the streets. The protests which were at times violent, costed more than 50 human lives, among them the American ambassador in Libya and hundreds of wounded.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Asianews
Link to Katholisches ...
Obéissance or Explusion -- Bishop Williamson Receives Ultimatum
The relations between the General Superior and Bishop Williamson has been in a dive since the previous year. Williamson is the most famous and combative opponents of the General Superior and his efforts in preparing to reconcile with the Holy See. The seriousness of the quarrel was shown with the reconciliation talks between the Society and the Holy See was shown in Autumn of 2011, as Msgr. Fellay called all superiors of the Society to Albano Laziale, in order to inform them about the "Doctrinal Preamble" of the Holy See, and to discuss continued procedures. The General Superior demanded Msgr Williamson then not to participate in the Council. Actually, the insubordinate Bishop did not come to Albano Laziano near Rome. Since Spring of 2012, the General Superior told +Williamson not to give any more lectures, to act pastorally or to act in the distribution of Sacraments. At the General Chapter of 2012 Msgr. Williamson was again not invited.
Then the definitive moment of clarity took place, according to which Msgr. Williamson active in Brazil definitively against the will of the Society.
Because of Williamson's 2009 statements about the "Shoah", Rome was given observable stomach pains about a reconciliation with the Society and also to his recognition and acceptance as Bishop. The exclusion of +Willaimson from the Society did not directly affect the reunification talks with Rome, but would certainly be taken with lightening toward recognition. After that it became known that the other Bishops had written a severely critical letter against their General Superior and against unification with Rome, and the Congregation of the Doctrine and the Faith explained that the position of Bishop Williamson, Tissier de Mallerais and de Gallereta would be handled independently in a possible unification.
For the General Superior of the Society, there the question in any case is not the mental state of Rome, rather the continued disobedience which Bishop Williamson shows to date. The sedevacantist fringe of the Society has exerted a process of eroding on the Society for months. In the USA there is in place a new type of "Society", which is now describing itself as the "true" Society of St. Pius X. Its members insist that Msgr. Fellay is the legitimate successor of Archbishop Lefebvre, whom they never the less refuse to obey, and who wish to enact in miniature, the situation between the Society and Rome.
Link to katholisches...
News Bytes: The Rotten Fruits of the Council -- Will the Church Become a Mosque?
France: The Rotten Fruits of the Council -- Will the Church become a Mosque? -- Homosexual Bullying Bears Fruit -- Went off Quickly Without a Hitch -- Now Come the Clones
France. In 1961 -- a year before the start of the Pastoral Council -- 35% of the French went to the Latin Mass of the Roman Rite every Sunday. Fifty years later, after the start of the Second Vatican Council only 6% of the French -- at least once a month -- attend the New Eucharistic Celebration. This is from a study of the public opinion researcher 'Ifop'. In 1961 over 90% of Frenchmen were Catholic. Now about 80% are baptized. In all, about 30% of those under 35 are approximately 30% heathen.
Will the Church Become a Mosque?
France. One Church in the 27,000 population city of Vierzon in central France may become a Mosque. In the city there are six churches and 300 practicing Catholics. That's why the church, St. Eloi, built in 1955 will be sold. The buyer shows itself to be the "Union of Moroccans". It will transform the church into a Mosque. The Diocese of Bourges explained that it is still not decided to whom the will be sold off for peanuts.
Homosexual Intimidation Bears Fruit
Austria. On Saturday the Salzburg Auxiliary Bishop Andreas Laun celebrates his 70th birthday. On his jubilee, a homosexual website congratulated him. Msgr. Laun has refrained from commenting on the disorder. Recently he even expressed himself in friendly terms to homosexuals and spoke of a "loving interaction" with them.
Trial Went off Quickly Without a Hitch
Vatican. Was there secret fixing involved with the Pope-traitor Paolo Gabrielle? This question came from the anti-Church German weekly 'Zeit'. It is incidental that the actors of State Attorney and defense announced the judgment: "There will possibly be a verdict before the trial's end." Gabriele's attorney has praised the judgment as balanced. Also, there is still the big question if there is another suspect besides Gabriele. The Journalist Marco Ansaldo from the Italian news 'Republica' described the trial as a "fixed trial".
Now comes the Clone
Sweden. In this year there are two stem cell researchers, the Japanese Shinya Yamanaka and the Brit John Gurdon, who will win the Nobel Prize for Medicine. They are to receive the dubious honor for the back development of cells of a grown person from embryonic stem cells. For that it will no longer be necessary to grow and kill more children, in order to experiment with their cells. Archbishop Anton Losinger of Augsburg warned 'Munich Kirchenradio', that this may lead to the technique of making identical clones.
Link to kreuz.net...
France. In 1961 -- a year before the start of the Pastoral Council -- 35% of the French went to the Latin Mass of the Roman Rite every Sunday. Fifty years later, after the start of the Second Vatican Council only 6% of the French -- at least once a month -- attend the New Eucharistic Celebration. This is from a study of the public opinion researcher 'Ifop'. In 1961 over 90% of Frenchmen were Catholic. Now about 80% are baptized. In all, about 30% of those under 35 are approximately 30% heathen.
Will the Church Become a Mosque?
France. One Church in the 27,000 population city of Vierzon in central France may become a Mosque. In the city there are six churches and 300 practicing Catholics. That's why the church, St. Eloi, built in 1955 will be sold. The buyer shows itself to be the "Union of Moroccans". It will transform the church into a Mosque. The Diocese of Bourges explained that it is still not decided to whom the will be sold off for peanuts.
Homosexual Intimidation Bears Fruit
Austria. On Saturday the Salzburg Auxiliary Bishop Andreas Laun celebrates his 70th birthday. On his jubilee, a homosexual website congratulated him. Msgr. Laun has refrained from commenting on the disorder. Recently he even expressed himself in friendly terms to homosexuals and spoke of a "loving interaction" with them.
Trial Went off Quickly Without a Hitch
Vatican. Was there secret fixing involved with the Pope-traitor Paolo Gabrielle? This question came from the anti-Church German weekly 'Zeit'. It is incidental that the actors of State Attorney and defense announced the judgment: "There will possibly be a verdict before the trial's end." Gabriele's attorney has praised the judgment as balanced. Also, there is still the big question if there is another suspect besides Gabriele. The Journalist Marco Ansaldo from the Italian news 'Republica' described the trial as a "fixed trial".
Now comes the Clone
Sweden. In this year there are two stem cell researchers, the Japanese Shinya Yamanaka and the Brit John Gurdon, who will win the Nobel Prize for Medicine. They are to receive the dubious honor for the back development of cells of a grown person from embryonic stem cells. For that it will no longer be necessary to grow and kill more children, in order to experiment with their cells. Archbishop Anton Losinger of Augsburg warned 'Munich Kirchenradio', that this may lead to the technique of making identical clones.
Link to kreuz.net...
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