Swiss Catholic Priest Blesses Aberrosexual Couple

Switzerland: "The form of this blessing was not significantly different from a wedding," said the responsible priest - Catholic News Agency "kipa" refers in its report to the Synod of Bishops on Marriage and Family.

Bürglen (kath.net) Wendelin Bucheli, Catholic priest in Bürglen / Diocese of Chur, has announced the blessing of two lesbian women in the village church. "Its form is not that significantly different from a wedding", Bucheli explained to the "Urner Weekly". He was first asked to and had then dealt with the question of blessing same-sex unions, he did this by speaking with a fellow Jesuit priest. The crucial question for him was: "Can I carry out blessing in the name and will God?" But, "today, there are animals, automobiles and even weapons blessed. Why should we not bless a pair that wants its path together with God?" said the priest according to "Urner Weekly." According to "Radio Pilatus" the pastor had not informed the diocese of Chur.

The international Catholic press agency "kipa" also reported this blessing ceremony for a gay couple. According to 'kipa', the the pastor had informed the whole parish team, the churches and the parish council about it, all are supposed to have supported his decision. "Kipa" explained in the concluding paragraph under the subheading "What the Synod of Bishops Told," continues: "In the Final Declaration on October 18th of the Synod of Bishops on Marriage and Family it is said that, men and women with homosexual inclinations are to be treated with kindness and sympathy.' There should be avoided any form of unfair discrimination' against them. The question is, what pastoral approach is appropriate in the concrete situation in light of the Church's teaching, which meant that it gives no foundation 'to produce between homosexual unions and the plan of God on marriage and family analogies, and not in another sense.'" The "kipa" is co-financed by the Catholic Church of Switzerland, but according to their self representation they work in editorial independence.

In a comment in "Urner Weekly" you can read in that "a majority of Catholic bishops had recently approved at the family Synod in Rome, an opening towards homosexual people." The "Urner weekly" interpreted this as a positive signal that encourages "Pastoral assistants like Venelin Bucheli to open their arms to take care of all Catholics. And that's good!

When Benedict XVI Breaks His Silence and Corrects His Successor

Pope Benedict XVI in Great Britain 2010

(Rome)   Since the end of February 2013  Benedict XVI who is in the unprecedented situation of an emeritus pope, has engaged more and more often in recent times in taking up his feather to send public messages. These messages appear as corrections to mistakes, without mentioning the originator by name. The corrections relate to the dialogue with atheists, criticism of Cardinal Kasper and praise for his opponent Cardinal Burke, publicly expressed joy over the traditional rite over which Pope Francis has kept silent till now, in clear criticism of his successor. Benedict XVI. sent four messages   in the month of October alone. A brief synopsis.

Greetings to the Proscribed "Ecumenism of Return"

The most recent example is a greeting message on the fifth anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, with the establishment of Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans who have returned in full unity to the Catholic Church. Benedict XVI.'s message came to the Ordinary of the oldest of these Personal Ordinariates, that for England and Wales Our Lady of Walsingham. With this the emeritus pope sent four messages in the month of October alone.

Benedict XVI. has broken his silence more frequently of late.  For example, to say that in the Church that each renunciation of the truth is "fatal" for the promulgation of the Christian faith. Strong, clear words in a rich dialectical angle  appropriate to these times that more or less engage in nice talk and allow everything. The emeritus pope is especially saying that the program so proclaimed by his successor Pope Francis in Gaudium Evangelii, namely, that it does not convey the joy of the Gospel. 

Francis' Praise for Benedict: "Discrete" - But  his predecessor is not so silent 

"He is discreet, modest, does not want to interfere," said Pope Francis recently about his predecessor, Benedict XVI. The occasion was the blessing of a bust, which has been dedicated to the German Pope. "I can feel it, as if I had a grandfather in the house, because of his wisdom. It does me good to hear him. And he encourages me very much," said the reigning Pope with perhaps a not wholly accurate comparison, especially since Francis will be 78 years old in a few weeks  and so belongs to the same "grandfather generation" as Benedict XVI..

Occasionally, this much is known,   Benedict XVI.  is in the role of a  "cloistered monk" as he himself says, advises, comments and contacts the reigning Pope with his view of things. Not much is known about it,  but it is all done with the utmost discretion. But it was announced that Benedict XVI. sent his Argentine successor a four-page commentary on the controversial interview in the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica  which appeared on 19 September 2013.

The content of the comment is not known. However, one can imagine the polite and respectful tone of the dense criticism. The words can not have been missed   for  lack of clarity. What is between the two popes, brings us ever to absurdity, are exchanged subject to a strict confidentiality.

Francis - Benedict: Different "Dialogue" with Atheists

Sometimes Benedict XVI breaks. his monastic seclusion and is visible. From his message to the Coetus Internationalis Summorum Pontificum on the occasion of the Third International pilgrimage to Rome of Tradition, he explains that he does so  only at the request and invitation of the reigning Pope. The most recent example was his participation on 19 October at the beatification of Pope Paul VI. There has been no word  if  Benedict was moved by these performances.

He breaks silence  but occasionally in written form, has his say and does so with the clarity of language and thought that is usual for him. It never involves mere polite words or meaningless collections of words, as the written messages of some ecclesiastical dignitaries seem to be.

The first of these public written statements of Benedict took place last fall coinciding with the "dialogue" of Pope Francis with the atheists Eugenio Scalfari, Benedict XVI replied to another atheist, Piergiorgio Odifreddi (see . Benedict XVI Responds to Atheists Piergiorgio Odifreddi: "Your Religion Mathematics Remains Empty" ). While Francis' interview with Scalfari is controversial in form and content, and as it later turned out,  Scalfari had formulated their responses with the pope's approval,  Benedict significantly answered atheism. Scalfari could triumphantly concur at the end of the conversation that because the Church supposedly renounced Her mission to convert others to Christ and lifted the subjective conscience to the highest standard, while Benedict XVI. showed his "interlocutor"  Odifreddi that the "religion of mathematics remains empty" and defended the Catholic Church and the priesthood against the "sport" of the irreligious, who furthermore, try to put the clerical state generally under the shadow of child abuse and homosexuality.

Note to Overcome the Crisis in the Church Ignored Magisterium

 Benedict XVI. also broke his silence last March in connection with a book about Pope John Paul II. The former Prefect of the CDF  prefect  particularly emphasized the encyclical Veritatis Splendor from the year 1993 on moral issues and the declaration Dominus Iesus in 2000 "on the unicity and universality of redemption by Jesus Christ and the Church"  and recommended not only their thorough study, but to learn the content. Benedict XVI. then named   key documents of the recent Papal Magisterium, pointing to the two most ignored and disregarded **documents** within the Church. Benedict's note thereby designates a barometer for the state of the Church and provides instruments, that can provide the remedy.

So Benedict is not confined to prayer  and sacrifice. He responds not only to atheists, but also offered advice to the Church. 

In October,  the same four messages followed, three short but dense  messages and a longer message.

Message to Strengthen Tradition: Traditional Rite not "Fashion"

The first bears the date of October 10 and was sent to the above mentioned Coetus Internationalis Summorum Pontificum, which organized the pilgrimage of tradition to Rome founded in 2012, with the aim to show the solidarity of traditional Catholics with the Pope and celebrate the traditional Rite in St. Peter's Basilica at the  most visible church in Christendom at the tomb of the Prince of the Apostles, Peter and the tombs of the popes. High-ranking cardinals participated. This year  Cardinal Raymond Burke participated who has become, in the course of the Synod of Bishops on the Family, a spokesman for the defense of the marriage sacrament and the Catholic teaching on marriage. In addition, Cardinal Burke Cardinals George Pell [Who was ill] and Walter Brandmüller were present, who are also among the cardinals who publicly opposed the "New Mercy" of Cardinal Walter Kasper obviously supported by Pope Francis.

Pope Benedict XVI. stressed the importance of the traditional rite in his message. A more meaningful gesture so, especially since Pope Francis has so far not publicly expressed anything contradictory or unofficially, but in the majority, however, has sent negative signals. Quite different from his predecessor: "I am very happy that the usus antiquus now lives in full peace in the Church, even among the young, with support and the celebration by great cardinals."  A single sentence with a huge message. Benedict XVI.'s observers  especially noticed the choice of words. The emeritus pope has   no longer speaks using his Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum definition  where the Old Rite is called the  "extraordinary form" of the Roman Rite, but speaks of "usus antiquus". He so used that definition, not as it is represented tradition and enhanced the traditional rite so well with Motu proprio, rather, he actually raised it to its rightful position. Benedict XVI. is too wise a man not to weigh the importance of words exactly.

This includes the statement that he is "happy" about the fact that the youth are finding the traditional Rite. A clear response to his successor, without mentioning this of course, who commented at the ad limina visit of the Czech Bishops in February, not being able to understand how young people love and appreciate the old Rite could and  in this context of spoke of mere "fashion", therefore,  which should not "do not pay so much attention." During his stay in Brazil for World Youth Day, the Pope referred to traditional  Catholics as Pelagian ideologues. What the Church leader said exactly, remains unclear. The two statements, taken together, seem to have recognized a "ideological" reservation against the traditional Rite by the Pope. 

Praise for Cardinal Burke and the Opponents of Cardinal Kasper

Another important statement can be found in Benedict's short message, that when he was "happy" estimates that the "usus antiquus" is supported and celebrated by "great cardinals". Words that can be construed as a fairly unambiguous partisanship against Cardinal Kasper and the "opening arguments". Above all, it is an expression of the highest appreciation for Cardinal Burke, one of those church leaders, whom Pope Francis will not only deny any role in the Roman Curia, but also the leadership of a diocese.

While Pope Francis would dearly love to shoot the American Cardinal  to the moon,  but is not too sloppily inaccurate that at least he would like to  banish him to a lonely monastery on a remote island,  Benedict XVI.  honored him as a "great" cardinal (see Malta exiles? Final Papal Purge of Cardinal Burke? ).

"Any Waivering from the Truth is Fatal" for the Mission, Faith and Church

The second message was sent by Benedict XVI. at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, which named the ballroom after the emeritus pope. The ceremony for the naming took place on 21 October, but Benedict XVI. did not take part in it. He gave the reason in the greeting message of 19 October. In his place,  he sent Curia Archbishop Georg Gänswein, his personal secretary to offer  greetings.

Amazingly, the University did not publish the message on its website. Neither did the Osservatore Romano , which only made a brief note of the event. Thus it was held under lock and the text was finally made ​​public only on 23 October, with the approval of Benedict and thanks to the Vaticanist Armin Schwibach.

The Pontifical University, the University Mission of the Catholic Church par excellence, since it is under the Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which is also known as Propaganda Fide.

Here Benedict XVI expressed the central message, that any waiver from the truth of the Christian mission, faith and  Church is "fatal". The German Pope spoke of the doubt, which threatens the principle of the mission ad gentes  today. The emeritus pope contradicts the convenient thesis,  that one could replace  mission through a "dialogue of equals" between religions and this convenience to abandon mission and conversion, justified by the "common commitment to peace". To put it crudely: Most important is that the people do not beat their heads against the wall, everything else is secondary.

With such an attitude, however, the Church would move away from what the first Christians did, is to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. Benedict XVI. disagreed especially with the equality of religions,  which are just different expressions for something, that God had, ultimately for people ,is not really detectable in any case and that the religions simply represent just attempts of detecting and thus are only variations of the same reality. "This renunciation of the truth seems realistic and useful for the peace among the religions of the world. And yet it is fatal to the faith.  Because the faith loses its binding character and its seriousness, if everything is reduced to ultimately interchangeable icons that are able only to point distantly to a point of  access for the inaccessible mystery of godliness. "

Once again Dominus Iesus and again Cardinal Walter Kasper

Also in this opinion swings unspoken declaration of Dominus Iesus which provoked fierce criticism outside but also within the Church in the Holy Year 2000, because it stood in the way of  the attitude of capitulation, as it was called by the late legal philosopher Mario Palmaro, in parts of the Church and it was perceived by these accordingly as annoying and cumbersome, who want to embrace all religions and ideologies, because they want to throw away their own job and no longer believe in the final analysis of their own faith. This form of the apostasy in the Church is not a new phenomenon, but occurs today more than ever, without being previously addressed within the Church.

Among the fiercest critics of Dominus Iesus  were included Cardinal Edward Cassidy, then chairman of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and his successor in that office, Cardinal Walter Kasper, who again is unastonishingly part of the circle again.  Even more amazing and worrying is that Cardinal Kasper under Pope Francis became the papal house theologian, relied on by the reigning Pope and aligns himself to his theology that he ebulliently praised as "theology on his knees"  last February 21 in the cardinal consistory ,

Clear Order of Mission Against "Waivering From Mission"

Above all, Benedict XVI replied. in concise and clear language to the confusing designs of Pope Francis with a no to proselytism and a mission without conversion (see No to conversions, Yes to Mission - the Pope Contradicts Himself? as If "dialogue process" is confused with "missionary going out" ) , Statements, which he made, inter alia, in the dubious first interview of atheist Scalfari. As mentioned, the answers come from  Scalfari's pen, but he sent them to the Pope before going to press and received the imprimatur from  his secretary. Answers that were never denied by the Holy See, and can hardly be doubted in their authenticity of content, especially since the Pope has repeated them in other contexts.

In the end, Benedict XVI. makes the title of the Apostolic Exhortation by Pope Francis, Gospel gaudium, his own, albeit in a somewhat modified form of content. Whoever has received the "joy" of faith, could not do otherwise, as they pass through life. The Emeritus grasped this "going out", which is so important to the reigning pope,  in its slightly different context, namely that it is without  an actual or apparent renunciation of the truth, which could be "fatal  ".

Benedict affirms "Non-Negotiable Values" Against Incomprehension of His Successor

The third message even bears the date of August 4, but was released on 23 October. It is a letter Benedict sent to the the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger -Benedikt XVI. ,attending a meeting organized by them in Medellin in Colombia, called "Respect for Life, a Way for Peace".

In this letter, Benedict XVI underlined the "unconditional respect of the created in the image of God and thus equipped with an absolute dignity of human life". For this reason, said Benedict, "the theme of peace and the issue of respect for a human life of faith in God the Creator are bound to be the true guarantee of our dignity."

Benedict XVI.  affirmed without any ifs and buts, a renewed commitment to the non-negotiable values, which his successor Francis has "never understood" in his own words and about which he has remained silent for long months of his pontificate and does it in the public at large effectively to this very day (see A Non-Negotiable Pope - Francis Smashed Another Key Element of Benedict XVI. ).

Personal Ordinariate Serves an Important Task

The fourth message, also dated 10 October, but only now published, was written by  Benedict XVI. in German. Seat of the ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is the "Bavarian chapel" in London, which then reminds us of the former Duchy's  diplomatic representation of the Kingdom of Bavaria in England. A symbolic connection between the Ordinariate and the Bavarian Pope.

Benedict XVI. writes that the Personal Ordinariates serve an "important job in the whole of the Church of God".

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
image: AsiaNews

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Islamist Planned Bomb Attack on Vienna Train Station

VIENNA. A fourteen-year-old Turk has been arrested in Vienna for preparing a mass murder The prosecution alleges that  young people were plotting a bomb attack on the Vienna West train station or other public place. As the police said, the young Turk had admitted to have secured detailed plans for a bomb on the internet and started preparing.

The boy, who has lived in Austria for eight years, was under surveillance of security agencies since October. They have  noticed an increasing radicalization of  Turks living in Sankt Pölten.  By his own account he had also planned to travel to Syria to join the terrorist Islamic State (IS).Currently, the terror suspects are in custody.

According to research by the ORF of the first contact of youth with the IS-radical fighters on social networks comes about. On platforms such as Facebook or Ask.fm they were introduced to  propaganda. Around 2,000 people residing here in Austria are openly committed to the radical Islamic ideology of the IS.   Almost half claims to originate from Chechnya. Another quarter has immigrated from the Balkans. (FA)

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Francis Calls Old Catholics to Reconciliation

Pope Francis wants that Catholics and Old Catholics should approach each other more. However, the differences in terms of the Magisterium and ethical issues are difficult to overcome.

Vatican City (kath.net/KNA) Pope Francis wants that Catholics and Old Catholics should approach each other more. At a meeting with bishops of the Union of Utrecht on Thursday in the Vatican, he admitted, the differences in the Magisterium and ethical issues are difficult to overcome. In the past, both sides had committed "serious sins and human failings." They require mutual forgiveness and a way of reconciliation, "an encounter towards friendship, from friendship towards brotherhood, from brotherhood towards unity."

Catholic and Old Catholic Church could, according to the Pope's words, work together to overcome the spiritual crisis that has befallen the individual and European societies. But they would have to set an example together a credible witness of the Gospel.

The delegation of the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht is led by the Bishop of Utrecht Joris Vercammen. He described the theological differences between Catholics and Old Catholics in his address to the Pope, according to the transcript as "intra-Catholic problems". The Old Catholic Church recognizes the unique position of the Pope, "in the whole Church". But they believe that the Bishop of Rome would have had an even higher moral authority, had he included in the Synodality the bishops, those who represent their respective local Catholic churches, said Vercammen. The papacy yet plays an "extremely important" role in ecumenical development.

The Old Catholic churches were established with the exception of the long-standing Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands, after the First Vatican Council (1870). The main points of conflict were the dogmas of papal infallibility and the primacy of his jurisdiction over all bishops. (C) 2014 Catholic News Agency KNA GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Bishops' Synod According to "Civiltá Cattolica" -- Conclusions on the Mood of the Kasper Camp?

(Rome) The Roman Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica offers a review  in its new edition of the Synod of Bishops on the Family. The author is the editor in chief, Father Antonio Spadaro personally. The report provides interesting conclusions on the Post-Synodal mood in the camp of Cardinal Walter Kasper. The tenor of the essay is moderate and balancing, however, it takes the side of Kasper's "opening". Since the magazine can only appear with imprimatur of the Vatican, and since Father Spadaro belongs to a small familiar circle of the Pope, it is worth a thorough analysis of the text that gives a view to the papal office. Such an analysis can be jolting at this point at best. But this should be done.

Unique Civiltà Cattolica

The Roman Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica is one of a kind, whose knowledge only explains its significance. Appearing since more than 150 years previously, the magazine has the status of a semi-official organ of the Holy See. All contributions will be submitted to the Vatican Secretariat of State prior to their publication and require a license to print. Accordingly, there is at least some indication of the official line of the Vatican can be drawn from the contributions. The connection between the journal and the Holy See has been reinforced, since in the history of the Church for the first time a Jesuit has assumed the Chair of Peter. The Civiltà Cattolica is publishes  only contributions by Jesuits. The election of Pope Francis created a new synergy between Father Antonio Spadaro, editor since the edition from 1 October 2011, and the head of the church.

In September 2013, the magazine published a controversial interview with Pope Francis. The interview was conducted by Father Spadaro. It was published simultaneously by the Civiltà Cattolica , Vatican Radio , and many Jesuit magazines in different languages ​​around the globe. Maximum attention was the goal. It is among several, the only interview so far granted by the Pope to a church-owned magazine.

"A Church on the Synodal Way"

Since then, Father Spadaro has belonged to familiar circle with the Pope and his magazine which also provides strategic planning, such as preparation for the Synod of Bishops on the family showed. On the eve of the Synod  the magazine published an essay that supported the "opening" thesis of Cardinal Walter Kasper.

In the latest edition of Civiltá Cattolica (issue no. 3945 dated 1 November 2014 p 213-227) is titled "A Church on the Synodal Way. The Pastoral Challenges to the Family" a summary of the Synod of Bishops from the pen of Father Spadaro appeared, which offers insight into the post-synodal assessment at the highest ecclesiastical level. It could speak to the part of a hangover,  reading  in certain formulations the anger  over a failed "realignment" of the Church's marriage and morality. In this regard, Father Spadaro is not squeamish, himself, as personally appointed by Pope Francis Synod took part in the Synod.

Anger at Partly Failed Synod

Pope Francis with Father Antonio Spadaro

The paragraph 52 of the Relatio Synodi put the standing of remarried divorcees in the center of attention, for whom Cardinal Kasper had formulated "new ways"  and promoted it with thinly veiled support from Pope Francis. But  paragraph 52 did not receive a qualified majority under the Synod Fathers. The vote was "un certo senso in anomala, perché è come se 74 padri su 183 avessero voluto negare persino la registrazione della discussione di fatto vissuta," said Father Spadaro, that the same carries a need to assign blame. The vote was as it were was "abnormal", just as  74 of 184 synod fathers even denied the actual discussion. Harsh words, which reveal that anger which must have been triggered by the missed two-thirds majority in the immediate presence of the pope.

"Different Church models" become visible at the Synod, but also different cultural backgrounds, "even in contradictory traits" which are dependent on which country or continent of the synod fathers, said Father Spadaro. The not forget to pick up an exclamation from the Kasper-party from the first day of the Synode, of a secret code when he writes, "there was a really 'conciliar' air that filled the Synod Hall."

Between "Full Adult Maturity" and Immaturity

He does not evaluate the opposing content but formally that occurred in the debate opposing views and speaks of "serenity and openness", which would not indeed made, the discussion less hard, but "on the contrary, it made it possible to live a real dynamic that by no means, Verwirrung'ist, but 'freedom': two terms that are never to be confused, do not want to brave live full adult maturity you ". One related to a synod pretty strange-looking formulation, will not recognize it as a benevolent nod to the progressive concept of "mature Christians". In the opposite conclusion seems to be saying, Father Spadaro, that a refusal to discuss Kaspers "opening", a lack of "full adult maturity" would be.

The possibility of merit or formal inadmissibility of position, as they know each jurisdiction in a particular case such as manifestly contrary to church doctrine and order, is not considered by Father Spadaro.

The editor of the Jesuit magazine places the emphasis elsewhere, as when he insists that Pope Francis is to have "confirmed the correctness of the synodal process... From which one could not have expected a complete agreement". Father Spadaro quoted in this context, the "climate" of the so-called Apostolic Council of Jerusalem in Acts, where there had been a "great debate."

"Without Ever Calling the Truth of the Marriage Sacrament into Question" and Yet ...

This "direct confrontation face to face," said the Civiltà Cattolica, was what the Pope had desired of the synod, for he knew that all would be guided by the "good of the Church, the family and the suprema lex of the salus animarum." This made a discussion   ​​possible without ever providing the basic truth of the marriage sacrament in question: the indissolubility, the unity, the fidelity and reproduction, that is, the openness to life.

After Father Spadaro complained that part of the Synod Fathers, in his opinion, even wanted to "deny", that there had been a discussion about the remarried divorcees, he expresses his satisfaction at the fact that the subject in the concluding message is still present, which was matched as a whole and was adopted with 158 votes against 174. It says: "That's why we  considered  the pastoral care and access to the sacraments by remarried divorcees in the first part of our synodal path." This quote is the only set in italics throughout the paper and singled out, which also emphasizes  at the same time, the attitude which occupies Father Spadaro Civiltà Cattolica.

Praise for the Relatio Post Disceptationem with "Fresher and More Contemporary Language"

Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of the Civiltà Cattolica

Father Spadaro praises the controversial Relatio post disceptationem with exactly that diction which  Cardinals Kasper, Schönborn and Marx used both inside and outside of  the Synod. "In general we can say that the Relatio has included the recognition of the positive elements in the non-perfect family forms and the problematic situations." It will say that it "recognizes the positive in the imperfect situations." Father Spadaro used key words in this context like  "real life", "real life", "real story". That is to say that  the "Relatio was meant to reveal a Church with its energies more aimed to sow as much grain as possible rather than uproot weeds."

Then the Jesuit goes into raptures: "Although it is  temporary, the text was still deepening and correcting, it was cause for  some the joy of a fresher 'and more contemporary language'". The merit of the disputed document was, according to Father Spadaro, that it "has introduced the concrete existence of the people, rather than abstract talk about the family, as it should be." This positive  aspects of the "concrete existence of the people" is not limited merely to   "affirmation of couples in civil marriages, the situation the remarried divorcees and their eventual access to the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist, mixed marriages, the cases of nullity, the situation of homosexual people, the challenge of the declining birth rate and education."

Rejection of the "Gradualism" -- Rejection of Preconciliar Concepts?

For Cardinal Schönborn, and then also other represented new "gradualism", writes Father Spadaro, the positions of the working groups have the "courage to knock on forbidden doors" (Circulus Anglicus A) for the  service of "total rejection of the principle of that 'gradualism' inspired by the Second Vatican Council" (Circulus Gallicus B). Given a largely intra-Church  enforced taboo of any criticism of the Council, which is considered a priori "positive", the editor wants to signal the impression with his reference to the Second Vatican Council  that the critics of the gradualism thesis are wrong, whether they are anti or  Preconcilar, who probably equate any "gradualism" as equally bad. In passing it should be mentioned that the Circulus Anglicus A at the named position actually says something quite different and only "a member", as was expressly stated, which is  "imposed" by the statement above.

The conclusion is also interesting that the Relatio post disceptationem, according to its portrayal by Civilità Cattolica  "Cardinal Peter Erdo assisted with in the editing by Special Secretary Msgr. Bruno Forte, as the Ordo Synodi" was prepared. The Relatio was developed on the basis of speakers who approached the General Secretariat of the Synod before the beginning.

No less interesting, that the Commission's final message already met, as the working groups only began their work and thus their work could not be taken into account. The Commission originally consisted solely of members were sympathetic to the Kasper-thesis. Just when Kasper's "African accident" during the Synod, it meant that Pope Francis had to calm the troubled waters,  of which  Spadaro knew nothing to report, two members were reordered.

From Non-Transparent Transparency and Other Misappropriations

In the publication of voting results of the individual paragraphs "Francis  made the whole process transparent, by the reading and assessing the facts, open to the faithful, even those that were difficult to interpret."Father Spadaro mentioned, however, not a word of the displeasure of not a few Synod Fathers who justly criticized a lack of transparency, and accused the Synod management's selective transparency which is supposed to have  favored Kasper's party. Thus, the interventions of the Synod were not disclosed contrary to the earlier synods and thus practiced the opposite of transparency. The publication of the results of individual votes and not only the final result was made because Kaspers position had a slight, though not a sufficient majority. Had this not been the case,   this "transparency" would not have been offered.

"This whole process has made necessary the publication of materials ( Relatio and Relationes the working groups) for a larger external participation outside the Synod" said Father Spadaro, who does not mention that the publication of Relationes only reluctantly took place after a rebellion  was carried out in   the synod.  Instead, it says in the article: "It should not be concealed that the publication of all discussion documents was considered by some as risky, because it provided a picture of the Church in its variety of different positions." No word on the publication or non-publication was not only a matter of expediency, but reflected a substantive conflict, because the defender of the Church's marriage and morality in the non-publication now recognized the gravity their position, with the counter-position of Cardinal Kasper a monopoly should have been secured, as had already been lead by example with Pope Francis   at the Cardinal Consistory in February.

So it goes without saying that Father Spadaro raised an accusation of "manipulation" even so little as the mention of how Carinal Burke's  expressed criticism, still  during the Synod,  that Pope Francis had "done a lot of harm" by his attitude in the overall question. Nor is criticism of Cardinal Kasper primarily by the African Synod, addressed. Instead, he praises that Pope Francis ordered the publication also of those parts that did not receive a majority.

"Bold Pastoral Decisions"

Father Spadaro emphasized innovations like the  "positive elements" in civil marriage and unmarried cohabitation,  cohabiting couples would be recognized in the assumed part of the final report and the situation had been a "courageous pastoral decisions." This also means that Father Spadaro unmistakably represents an "opening" of the Church toward homosexuals. He didn't  even begin a word of  criticism of sinful homosexual behavior, but explicitly states that the "welcome attitude" a usage which comes close to  meaning  "whoever is also able to legally oppose unjust and violent discrimination". Homosexuals are named only to be defended  from  criticism.

Father Spadaro reported that  three paragraphs to the remarried divorcees and homosexuals were indeed rejected, not without mentioning that they have still got  "a clear majority". He assumed those who spoke in defense of the Church's moral teaching and on marriage opposed to the truth, "to be less inclined to pastoral acceptance of these people."

The Field Hospital, Which Besieges Itself

Finally, the Jesuit editor makes Pope Francis' repeatedly presented image of the Church as a "field hospital" his own: "Many people are injured, the ask of us who are near,  ask of us, what they asked Jesus: close, intimately close." It asks the question whether this is really all that the people of Jesus asked for and even more, if that is all that Jesus went to the people to do.  Above all he excluded that the "many injuries" and those who are assumed to hurt by them, including the question of whether the portrayal of the people is justified only from the vantage point of  "casualties" of human nature and the vaunted "real life". Probably not.

Nevertheless, it can not under Father Spadaro, hand out a sideswipe. He does not say to whom, but the addresses are well known. Because the image of the Church as a "field hospital" was "the opposite of a besieged fortress". After the election of Pope Francis  the finger was pointed at Benedict XVI.. This is not "just a beautiful poetic metaphor: an understanding of the mission of the Church coming from her and also showing the importance of the sacraments of salvation," it says in the article. The simple fact that no one can lay siege to himself, but can only be besieged by third parties and thereby the hostile intent is a prerequisite, which shows the instability of the comparison.

The Capacity for Wrong Questions

The battlefield today   has some challenges that affect the family. Spadaro describes among other things, "couples without a marriage certificate, which raises the question of the social institutionalization of its relations"; even more so "homosexual people wonder why they can not lead a life of stable affective relationship as practicing believers". The writer offers  no answer, but will indicate the need for significant action. Therefore, Spadaro addressed that he neither  wanted to oppose a non-institutional with an institution,  nor the wrong and thus misleading question of the fictional homosexual.

"In reality, however, the really deadly wound of humanity which is the real problem today is that people are finding it more and more difficult to go out from themselves and complete loyalty pacts with another person, even a loved one. It is this individualistic humanity, which is part of the Church. And the first concern of the Church must be, not to close the doors, but open them to provide the light that dwells within, go to a people go to meet, those who,  even though  they think they  need no salvation, often find themselves scared and hurt by life. If the Church is truly the mother, she must handle her children with "merciful love". "

"Synodical Way" is only "Just the Beginning"

No later than the last sentence you wonder in amazement, in which Church Father Spadaro actually grew up in and became a priest: "Some Synod fathers  question  whether there can be  a  sacramental economy, which envisages impossible situations, to  permanently exclude from access to the sacrament  of reconciliation? "

The "synodal way" has been trodden. This had been only "just the beginning", continues the editor of the Jesuit magazine. The course of the Synod of Bishops gave the Kasper camp an unexpected damper. This can be read out in Father Spadaro. According to a positivist view of reason, which is usually inherent to believers in progress, it seems that  the partial failure of the  Synod of Bishops is considered as a workplace accident and started to  factor tim in the "synodal way."

Sorrow, repentance, and penance  seem forgotten foreign words from a vocabulary of the dark past. Father Spadaro's review of the Synod of Bishops possessing a language in the restraint on emphasized text that he wants to give the impression of a moderate, balanced position, which he doesn't really possess.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
image: Wikicommons / Civiltà Cattolica / Gesuitinewsa
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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European Museum Association "L'Internationale" Holds Anti-Clerical Exhibition -- Currently in Madrid

(Madrid) A network of European museums of contemporary art is a misanthropic, blasphemous and anti-clerical exhibition. The exhibition can currently be seen under the name  "Un saber real instruments útil"  the Queen Sofia Museum in Madrid. The exhibition promotes abortion, insults Christianity and is hostile to the Catholic Church. "It would be reprehensible if a religious denomination would get money from the government to insult feminists", said Infovaticana. Equally reprehensible is the inverse conclusion that feminists get money from the Spanish government and the European Union (EU) to insult the Catholic Church.

The "valuable" pieces, currently shown in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia  include matchboxes illustrated with a call for violence: "The only church that illuminates is  burning. Support help! "

The Queen Sofia Museum, named after the former Spanish Queen Sofia, the wife of  King Juan Carlos I, who abdicated on June 19th, is holding an exhibition, which is funded by taxpayers' money, blasphemes the God, insults the Catholic Church, degrades human dignity, calls for anti-Christian violence and the murder of unborn children. Miguel Vidal started a petition on HazteOir, which prompts the museum director , Manuel Borja-Villel to close the exhibition.

The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1990. The headquarters is located in San Carlos Hospital in Madrid, which had been founded in the 16th century by King Philip II.

EU-Sponsored Church Hostility "in the Name of Art"

Was compiled by the exhibition  Croatian Curator Collective WHW What, How & Whom that holds exhibitions in the German-speaking world, especially in Austria. The Madrid exhibition was funded by the EU Culture Programme. The alleged "educational" approach of the exhibition recalls not coincidentally of the National Socialist "education programs". Nor that the Collective WHW put together an exhibition for a new European museum network called L'International (The International).

The  International Museums-  with its naming inspired by communistic nostalgia include the following six museums of modern art at: Moderna Galerija (MG + MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia); Museo nacional centro de arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS, Madrid, Spain); Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA, Catalonia, Spain); Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp (M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium); SALT (Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey) and Van Abbemuseum (VAM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands).

The exhibition is expected to be seen in all these museums soon. The Exhibition in Madrid is imbued with hostility toward Christians. An exhibition piece which criticized Islam,  would not only have been unsuitable for left and left-liberal Western states, but also for the Islamic Turkey.

Sacrilegious "Our Father" of Argentine Feminists

The exhibits feature a total of 30 artists and artist collectives. Among these there is also the Argentine feminist collective Mujeres publicas (Public Women). The "art" of Public Women is meant to attack the Catholic Church and to offend Christians and Christianity.

The Spanish left would not put up with having to pay taxes and can then offend people in an exhibition with their own money.The exhibition Un saber real instruments útil (Really useful knowledge) promotes the feminist "Our Father" the Mujeres publicas, which states:

"El derecho a Concédenos decidir sobre nuestro cuerpo. Y danos la gracia de no ser ni ni madres Virgenes. Líbranos de la autoridad del Padre, del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo para que las que Seamos nosotras decidamos por nosotras. Ruega porque el poder judicial suyos no haga los mandatos de la Iglesia y ambos nos Libren de su misógina opresión. Venga a nosotros el derecho a cuestionar si it bendito el fruto de nuestro vientre. No nos dejes caer en la tentación de nuestros derechos no luchar por. Y el milagro de la concédenos legalidad del aborto en Argentina. Amén "

"Give us the right to decide about our bodies. And grant us the grace to neither be virgins nor mothers. Free us from the authority of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, so we are the ones who decide for us. Pray that justice does not follow the order of the Church and be free from  misogynist oppression. We come to the right to deny that the fruit of our body is blessed. Lead us not into temptation, not to fight for our rights. And grant us the miracle of legalization of abortion in Argentina. Amen ".

From "Mujeres publicas comes the feminist battle cry:

"The Pope is Argentinian and abortion is prohibited. If the Pope were a woman, abortion would be law. "

The petition against the blasphemous and anti-clerical exhibition with a request that the exhibition is addressed to the museum director and at the same time to the Spanish Government.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
image: InfoVaticna

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Bishops' Conference: Catholic Media Should not Criticize the Abortion Politics of the Government

General Secretary of the Bishops' Conference
Gil Tamayo

(Madrid) Catholic media should not criticize Spanish government because of their abortion policy. A corresponding statement to the media by the Spanish Bishops' Conference had been granted by the Secretary General and spokesman of the Episcopal Conference, José María Gil Tamayo, as InfoVaticana reported. The Spanish Bishops' Conference includes the COPE radio chain and the TV station 13TV.

Christian Democrats are the Abortion Party, but Catholic Media Should Be Silent

Not to be critical of the government of the Christian Democratic Partido Popular, although they had promised a restriction of the killing of unborn children through abortion and legal strengthening of the right to life in the last election and therefore won the parliamentary elections. The law was actually drafted by the Justice Minister and decided on last fall by the government.  Yet it never arrived in the  Parliament. Just last summer, the Minister of Justice assured that the Parliament will discuss the law in September. Instead, the ruling Christian Democrats caved in fear of a political dispute and withdrew the law. Justice Minister Ruiz Gallardón then resigned in protest. Right to Life organizations and Catholic voters are disappointed to appalled.

The Partido Popular justified the capitulation with a view to the next upcoming 2015 parliamentary elections, for which one would not waste the chances of re-election. Instead, the party of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is now experiencing an exodus of core voters, for the PP as the abortion party is no longer a legitimate voting choice.

Behind the scenes it seems to agreements between the General Secretariat, the Episcopal Conference and the Partido Popular have  agreed to keep the criticism on the back burner to prevent a return of the Socialist Party to power. The non-negotiable values that were championed Popes John Paul II. and Benedict XVI, were looked past.  That does not seem hard for some bishops' conferences to drop as  they had left the above mentioned popes in the stick in the fight against the barbaric mass murder of innocent children. The reigning Pope Francis facilitates looking away from Innocents, as he explained in an interview to have "never understood non-negotiable values," their formulation.

"On the  Pressure Scale of 0-10" Pressure Exerted is Only 2

As to the "right" to assassinate unborn children in many Western countries, including in the German-speaking world as "social consensus" is alleged that the Episcopal Conferences prefer to prioritize this "consensus".

According Info Vaticana , which relies on informants from the Catholic media COPE and 13TV, the Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference has given the media these instructions which is to largely hold back criticism of the government in matters of abortion. Literally Gil Tamayo said: "On the pressure scale 0-10, pressure 2".

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
image: InfoVaticana

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Abbot Primate of Klosterneuberg's Affront Against the Immemorial Mass and Cardinal Burke

Cardinal Burke Celebrating Mass of
All Ages in St. Peter's Last Saturday

(Vienna) The Votive Mass in the Traditional Rite with Cardinal Raymond Burke announced for November 5th, in the parish church of St. Leopold in Vienna Danube field-Floridsdorf was canceled.

Cardinal Burke will, as advertised,  celebrate a Pontifical Mass in the Old Rite on November 4th, for the Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo in the Church of St. Charles. The Immemorial Mass also announced for his stay in Vienna, the  Votive Mass of the Apostles Peter and Paul, however, was canceled (see report  5:11 .: Cardinal Burke celebrated in Vienna St. Leopold votive Mass in the Old Rite).

Rejection of the Traditional Rite and Aftermath of the Synod of Bishops?

Reasons for the rejection are not known, but they could have something to do  with the traditional Rite and aftermath of the Synod of Bishops on the family. The parish of St. Leopold Donaufeld is incorporated to the Augustinian Canons of Klosterneuburg. The Klosterneuburger Provost, Bernhard Backovsky is cited, who is, as is well known,  the current parish administrator and choir master of the Stift St. Leopold, forbade the celebration.

Bernhard Backovsky was elected in 1995 as  the 66th Provost and 17th  Lateran Abbot of the Stift. In 2002 he was elected Abbot General of the Austrian Augustinian Congregation of Canons. Since 2010 he has also been Abbot Primate of all Augustinian canons in the world.

What about "Open Discussion" and the "Full Peace of the Church" for the Usus Antiquus?

The prohibition by Abbot Primate Backovsky must be construed as an affront of rare hardness toward to the traditional Rite and one of the leading representatives of the Church. An unfriendly manner behind which are visible the veiled   fractures within the Catholic Church in Austria. This demonstrates the inability obey, and to accept the traditional Rite and  respect the opinions of others. Cardinal Burke and Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn stood at opposite position in the Synod of Bishops. A  ban on the Mass in the Old Rite is harsh paternalism to others, first of all, the celebrant, but also the faithful who want this.

The unpleasant incident raises questions about just how valid is this "open discussion", which Pope Francis advocated several times for the Synod of Bishops. And how is confirms the hope that Emeritus Benedict XVI. gave in his greeting message last Saturday: "I am very happy that the Usus antiquus now lives in full peace in the Church, even among the young, also supported and celebrated by great cardinals. "

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
image: MiL / Wikicommons

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Church and SSPX: Friend of the Pope Threatens Faithful Catholics With Excommunication

(Rome) There is a campaign in progress in Italy against the Society of St. Pius X.  The reason is there is a bishop's threat  that believers who receive the sacraments at the SSPX may be excommunicated. The initiative is in direct contradiction to the recent opening of Rome toward the SSPX led by Archbishop Guido Pozzo, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.  Rorate Caeli speaks of "double standards" and  "selective compassion."

The media campaign was triggered by a letter from the Bishop of Alban  from last October 14th to all pastors of his diocese. Bishop Marcello Semeraro informs his diocese about the SSPX and issued instructions. Albano is one of the suburbicarian bishoprics of Rome, whose nominal owners are the cardinal bishops of the Catholic Church, that is the highest ranking members of the Sacred College. The Cardinal Bishop of Albano is the former Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Cardinal Sodano.

Bishop Semeraro justified the "notification" because of queries  about the validity of sacraments by the SSPX, which were addressed to the Diocesan Curia. The seat of the Italian District of the Society is located in Albano.

"No canonical status", "no lawful exercise" of the priestly office

Bishop Marcello Semeraro

The bishop refers to the "benevolent lifting of the excommunication" of the bishops of the Fraternity by Pope Benedict XVI. on January 21, 2009. And to the letter to all the bishops of the Church from Benedict on 10 March 2009. Msgr. Semeraro places emphasis on the statement that the bishops of the Fraternity exerts no "legitimate" ministry in the Church (AAS CI, 2009, No. 4, p. 272) and the Society "has no canonical status" in the Church, which is why their priests can not exercise any office "lawfully" (AAS CI, 2009, No. 4, p. 710f).

Furthermore, the bishop refers to a pastoral letter by his predecessor, Monsignor Dante Bernini (1982-1999), which states:. "The Catholic faithful may not participate in the Masses or receive the sacraments provided by the Society.  Otherwise, this action would mean to break communion with the Catholic Church."

Faithful of the SSPX Are Not in Communion with the Church?

Bishop Semeraro draws the conclusion: "Therefore, each Catholic,  who solicits or receives the sacraments from the Society of St. Pius X, is  not in communion with the Catholic Church. A re-admission into the Catholic Church must be preceded by   an adequate personal  path of  reconciliation according to the competent episcopal ordinary".

Finally, the bishop regrets that some "options", presumably  relating particularly to children and young people, are "contrary to the pastoral orientation of the Italian Church and the Diocese of Albano."

The pastor should inform the faithful about this episcopal statement.

L'Espresso : "Pope forbids Lefebvrians to celebrate Mass"

The media, especially the weekly magazine L'Espresso, attacked the bishop writing with large headlines: "Pope Francis prohibits Lefebvrians from celebrating Mass". The subtitle: "The followers of an excommunicated, ultra-traditionalist  French bishop are now in the sights of Pope Bergoglio: one of his most faithful friends has forbidden the celebratiion of Mass and administeration of the sacraments. Whoever follows them, risks excommunication." The article whirls the truth, canon law and fictional conclusions into chaos.

The Career of the Bishop

Espresso credits a report that Bishop Semeraro is one of the closest confidants of Pope Francis. The bishop was appointed by Pope John Paul II. In 2004, He underwent a major upgrade under Pope Francis. In April of 2013 he was appointed secretary of the new Cardinal Council, to advise the Pope on the reform of the curia and the Church leadership (see Bishop Semeraro, C8-secretary . This C8-Council has been expanded by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to a C9 Council.  Bishop Semeraro handles the coordination of the Council. In the Italian Bishops Conference , Msgr. Semeraro performs the function of the media bishop and thus has the oversight of the bishops' conference part of daily Avvenire , the published first the "notification" to the priest.

The relationship between Bishop Semeraro the the SSPX has never relaxed. Last year the SSPX elicited an opinion against the Pope's travel to Lampedusa (see  Lampedusa was "Inclined to Progressive Simplification" of a Complex Question ). Similarly, the willingness of the SSPX to hold a funeral Mass for Erich Priebke, because Priebke was for reasons of political correctness, and annoyance for the Diocese of Rome that brought them great embarrassment (see Diocese of Rome Refused Erich Priebke Public Funeral - Political Correctness About Death? out and Priebke Coffin Spat Upon - The Hatred Must Know Boundaries, but  Catholic Subservience Also  ).

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
image: Wikicommons / NBQ

Pope Benedict Welcomes the Growth of the Ordinariate in England

Edit: Our Lady of Walsingham's enthusiastic laity has been patiently growing in body and soul.   This is especially fortuitous in light of recent developments in the Church of England which has drifted still further away.

Benedict XVI has welcomed the progress of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and has said he is “glad” that its church has been established on the site of the historic Bavarian embassy chapel in London. 

Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory’s in Warwick Street is situated where the Bavarian embassy chapel, which was pillaged during the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, once stood.

The Pope Emeritus made his comments in a letter to the Friends of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, in reply to Nicolas Ollivant, chairman of the Friends of the Ordinariate, who had written to the retired pope to express his gratitude for the gift of the ordinariate. He had also sent Benedict a brief history of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory’s.

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