Edit: Hecker was engaged in vigorous polemics against orthodox Catholic figures like Father Müller. It's unfortunate that organs of disinformation like Mirus' neocon commerce website continue with institutional blessings.
[Catholic Culture] The Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee is reviewing reports of a miracle which, if verified, could advance the cause for beatification of Father Isaac Hecker.
Bishop Richard Stika has appointed a commission to investigate the reported miracle, the diocese announced. No further details about the reported miracle have been disclosed. "The inquiry is highly unusual and is the first time any kind of Catholic religious miracle has been investigated in the Diocese of Knoxville," the diocese said in a press release.
Father Isaac Hecker (1819-1888), the founder of the Paulist Fathers, devoted himself to evangelization through preaching, public speaking, and the media. Born in New York, he entered the Catholic Church in 1844 and was ordained a Redemptorist priest in 1849. Tireless in his work to convert Americans, he was expelled from the religious order, but won the support of Pope Pius IX, who authorized him to found the Paulists. Later he became a key figure in the Americanist controversy—although his supporters insisted that Father Hecker never held the views condemned by Pope Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae. [He was mentioned by name.]
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=22634
Catholic Culture, New Advent, EWTN and their kind of ProteCatholicism is poison for souls. Their roadmap of error will guide you to Hell. Do not accept their false theology and phony beatifications. That includes especially ChurchMiltantTV because the Devil's coup de grace always begins with pride.
ReplyDeleteFlee from these confused Catholics with their compromised Catholicism as you would a burning building. Run as though the Devil were on your tail. Because it is.
When Mother Angelica went on EWTN and said "The Church used to preach a HERESY called Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus" that did it for me with them.
DeleteSurprise! Surprise! They have cooked the sanctification books to CONanise the Councils. Now after the gutting of the process by JP II in 1983 anyone can be sanctified - even godless talmudic jews. It's coming sooner or later with these disorientated rotters at the helm .
ReplyDeleteGod forbid anyone should love and admire America. Too many vaticanistas are just jealous of the contributions of my country. And afraid because the U.S. has just as good or better Christian culture than the Church. Anyone else notice that Catholics in the U.S. had to go to the civil court system to get something done about the abuse problem ?
ReplyDeleteThere were many homosexual priests who preyed on adolescent boys. There is also sexual abuse in Protestant communities and wherever grown men like adolescent boys, and to a similar degree.
DeleteYou know, I'd do the ritual smashing my face on the floor in apologies over that but YOU are the lucky poster who trotted that old scandal out one time too many! Yessiree, thanks to YOU, NO ONE will ever be able to criticize the Church on that score ever again! Free at last! Thank you, fellow American!
There are horrific levels of sexual abuse which go unpunished in other areas of the culture, but when compared to the rare cases in the Catholic Church, nobody cares. Another dimension of this thing is that sexual abuse, when it is brought to light in the Catholic Church, the perpetrator is invariably a progressive. When a Paulist is guilty of sexual abuse, people don't care if he's a progressive, which all Paulists are, but that he's a Catholic. Even though an abusive, Liberal priest probably doesn't believe in God let alone the claims of the Catholic Church, people summon up all the exaggerated images of the evil Jansenistic sadist with a ruler stalking the aisles of a classroom.
DeleteNot as rare in the lib-mod church as you suggest Tancred. However, if they ever have that public inquiry into child abuse in state education and care homes then what has been going on in the church will seem like a tea party in comparison. The UK and USA are sitting on a powder keg of child abuse in their own backyards. They know it too because they are complicit in it concealment.
DeleteWhat heresy did he hold and promote? To my recollection nobody got too upset about him until French evangelists turned his methods into a model and perhaps took it in directions the Vatican wasn't entirely comfortable with. Pope Leo XIII (I think -- too late to look this stuff up) did write an encyclical about Americanism as a sort of proactive measure, and in a day when communication across the Atlantic was not what it was today. It didn't mention Hecker. If the answer is "Americanism," that's like saying "Modernism." It lacks precision needed to this particular discussion. He went around evangelizing a lot of Protestants in a Protestant country. Anything else? Now, a saint? I have no clue.
ReplyDeleteHecker was an exponent of the American Romantic School, like its Continental counterparts, the thing that gave us things like the Spirit of Vatican II and Karl Rahner, who was a direct intellectual heir to Father Moller at the University of Tubingen and his Symbolik.
DeletePeople who have a contempt for Scholasticism are always bad.
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