Cardinal Sarah Calls in Faithful to Pray Novena to Our Lady for Bishops

Cardinal Robert Sarah calls on the faithful to pray for the bishops "at this difficult time".

The Prefect of the Roman Congregation for Worship and the Order of the Sacraments, Robert Cardinal Sarah, supports the novena "Marie qui fortifie les évêques" published by the French publisher Life editions, literally "Mary, who strengthens the bishops" "Mary, strengthening the bishops". Cardinal Sarah calls on the faithful to help prayerfully with their pastors, especially in these difficult times.

The imprimatur for the publication of the novena was given by Bishop Marc Aillet of Bayonne, Lescar et Oloron. The cardinal from Guinea refers to St. Paul, who in a few words expressed what the apostolic ministry of the bishop is:

"As servants of Christ, we should be considered and administerers of the Mysteries of God" (1 Cor 4: 1).

On the day of his episcopal consecration, the new bishop is turned upside down by the Gospel who has just been anointed with the christening oil. He receives a ring as a sign of his apostolic authority, which he always has to bear as an expression of the special, permanent and final bond and his unity with the Church

In the middle of the priesthood, the new bishop, as successor to the apostles, also wears the miter. It is the symbol of his supreme pastoral responsibility in the service of the people of God, with that very special holiness of the shepherd offered as a sacrifice for the salvation of souls. In prayer, each priest prays for the bishop every day. The faithful should also pray for their bishops and for all the bishops and ask the Lord to shape them on the model of great bishops and intercessors, such as St. Augustine, St. Charles Borromeo, St. Francis de Sales.

Finally, the new bishop receives the pastor's staff of the shepherd, because from now on his whole life shall serve the service and salvation of the souls entrusted to him by Jesus, the Good Shepherd, to guide them to the "green pastures" as it is described in Psalm 22, on which the grace which springs from the heart of our Lord Jesus Christ springs forth like living water.

"We understand at once that the episcopate is a heavy burden requiring untiring pastoral care ... a burden that can cause great fatigue, especially spiritually. Before serious decisions have to be made, the bishop is alone before God, which is why on certain days he can feel a very heavy and indescribable loneliness. The task of the bishops is therefore immense: in the West because of the complex situations of de-Christianization (...) "

"Above all, there are many bishops who live in real emergencies: material distress, sometimes with dioceses where misery reigns, and of course moral distress in all the countries where Christians are maltreated or even persecuted because of their faith. This is especially true of the countries under the rule of Islamic law and totalitarian communism.

"The bishop finds great comfort and strength in the prayer of his people, which rises like a pleasant fragrance to the throne of God. Pray for the one who has been commissioned to lead the people of God, true to the spirit of wisdom and the abundance of divine graces, faithful to the duties, fulfilling g his episcopal ministry in the present context of a Church plagued by persecution and the pains of relativism and indifference. The initiative of the "Novena Maria,” which strengthens the bishops, not only seems to me to be excellent, but indispensable. It reveals the intimate and inseparable union of the shepherd and the Christian people in the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

“May the Mother of the Church, Mother of the Believers and Shepherds, help us, enlighten us, guide us and lead us to the Heart of Jesus pierced for our sins! Because she was the first disciple of our Redeemer, the Virgin Mary, Redemptoris Mater - the Mother of the Redeemer - teaches us in the meditative prayer of the Rosary to listen to Him and trust Him despite all obstacles. She teaches us to pray to Jesus, her beloved Son, gradually to enter into His familiarity and to fully love and serve Him humbly.

“I wholeheartedly bless this initiative in trusting Our Lady, Mother of the Church, whom Holy Bishop Charles Borromeo has called as 'Our Lady of Good Counsel'. "

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Picture: Riposte Catholique

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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324 Cardinals and Bishops and Summorum Pontificum -- The Silent Victory March of the Traditional Liturgy

[Katholisches] Since the coming into force of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI. in 2007,  324 Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church have celebrated the Holy Mass in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite or have attended such (those before the effective date are not covered).

Since our last publication of the directory beginning of January 2012 , which contained the names of 254 cardinals and bishops,  70 high prelates were also added.

A largely self-evident situation with the Motu Proprio and the "Old Mass" is had by the bishops in France, the USA and Australia, where many pastors already celebrated even in the traditional form of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass or such attended and offered the Sacraments.

In German-speaking countries, some bishops seem  more reluctant to do so. Among the currently reigning diocesan bishops in the Federal Republic of Germany,  only four have celebrated the Holy Mass in the extraordinary form or attended such, of which, however, only two have been added in recent months.  In Austria and Switzerland, alas, still only one. The Principality of Liechtenstein looks completely different because, as the only bishop in the country, Archbishop Wolfgang Haas promotes the right of both forms of the Roman rite equally.

The Spanish blog Acción Liturgica has published the following list, also supplementing and correcting some information. Thank you for any information on additions and corrections.

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY: Cardinal Walter Brandmüller (former President of the Pontifical Commission of Historians), Ackermann (Bishop of Trier), Dick (retired auxiliary bishop of Cologne), Hanke (Bishop of Eichstätt), Mixa (retired bishop of Augsburg), Ostermann (em . Auxiliary Bishop of Münster), Overbeck (Bishop of Essen), Ziegelbauer (former Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg), Zdarsa (Bishop of Augsburg)

AUSTRIA: Cardinal Stickler (+2007), Laun (Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg), Louis Marie Black (Bishop of Linz)

SWITZERLAND: Farine (Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg), Genoud (Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, +2010), Huonder (Bishop of Chur), Perisset (Apostolic Nuncio in the Federal Republic of Germany)

LIECHTENSTEIN: Haas (Archbishop of Vaduz)

EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Nsue Edjang (Bishop of Ebebiyin)

ARGENTINA: Baseotto (retired Bishop Castrense de Argentina), Fenoy (Bishop of San Miguel), Laise (retired Bishop of San Luis), Sánchez Sorondo (Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences)

AUSTRALIA: Cardinal Pell (Archbishop of Sydney), Coleridge (Archbishop of Camberra), Hart (Archbishop of Melbourne), Hickey (Archbishop of Perth), Wilson (Archbishop of Adelaide), Elliot (Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne), Grech (Bishop of Sandhurst , +2010), Jarret (Bishop of Lismore), Long (Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne), Mathys (Bishop of Armidale), Porteus (Archbishop of Sidney), Prowse (Bishop of Sale), Tomlinson (Bishop of Sandhurst)

BELGIUM: Leonard (Archbishop of Brussels-Malines, primate of Belgium), Harpigny (Bishop of Tournai)

BENIN: N'Koue (Bishop of Natitingou)

BRAZIL: Pena (retired Archbishop of Niteroi), Rezende Dias (Archbishop of Niteroi) Taveira Correa (Archbishop of Belem do Pará), Tempesta (Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro), RIFAN Areas (Bishop of the Apostolic Administration of San Juan María Vianney) Bergamin (Bishop of Nova Iguaçu), Canindé Palhano (Bishop of Senhor do Bomfim), Costa Souza (Bishop of Rio de Janeiro), Da Silva (retired auxiliary bishop of Fortaleza), Da Silva Brito (Auxiliary Bishop of Rio de Janeiro), Ferreria Paz (Bishop of Campos), De Castro honem (Weibischof of Rio de Janeiro), Fontes de Matos (Bishop of Palmira dos Indios), Guimaraes Gomez (former Bishop of Campos), Gouvea Matosso (Bishop of Nova Friburgo ), Marchiori (Bishop of Apucarana), Monteiro Guimaraes (Bishop of Garanhuns), Lopes de Faria (retired Bishop of Diamantina, +2009), Paixao (Auxiliary Bishop of Salvador-Bahia), Pestana Filho (retired Bishop of Anápolis, + 2011), Romer (former Auxiliary Bishop of Rio of Janeiro), Silva Matthes (retired Bishop of Franca), Sivieri (Propriá Bishop of Sergipe), Soares da Costa (Auxiliary Bishop of Aracaju), Stringhini (Bishop of Franca, now Bishop Mogi das Cruzes) Ubiratan Lopez (Bishop of Itaguai)

CHILE: Cardinal Medina Estévez (Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship), Piñera Carvallo (retired Archbishop of La Serena), Duarte Garcia de Cortazar (Bishop of Valparaiso), Bishop González Errazuriz (Bishop of San Bernardo)

CHINA: Cardinal Zen (former Archbishop of Hong Kong), Cardinal Tong Hon (Bishop of Hong Kong)

DENMARK: Kozon (Bishop of Copenhagen)

FRANCE: Cardinal Barbarin (Archbishop of Lyon), Cardinal Ricard (Archbishop of Bordeaux), Cardinal Ving-Trois (Archbishop of Paris, former Chairman of the French Episcopal Conference), Aubertin (Archbishop of Tours), Bacqué (titular archbishop, nuncio to the Netherlands ), Carré (Archbishop of Montellier), Cattenoz (Archbishop of Avignon), D'Ornellas (Archbishop of Rennes), Le Gall (Archbishop of Toulouse), Madec (Archbishop Emeritus of Toulon), Maillard (Archbishop of Bourges), Thomazeau (Archbishop of Montpellier), Aillet (Bishop of Bayonne), Aumonier (Bishop of Versailles), Bagnard (Bishop of Belley-Ars), Batut (bishop of Lyon), Beau (Weibischof of Paris), Boivineau (Bishop of Annecy) Bonfils (retired Auxiliary Bishop of Nice and Apostolic Administrator of Ajaccio), Brouwet (Auxiliary Bishop of Nanterre, now Bishop of Lourdes) Casts (Bishop of Lucon), Centène (Bishop of Vannes), De Dinechin (Bishop of Paris), De Kerimel (Bishop of Grenoble), Delmas (Bishop of Angers), Dubost (Bishop of Evry), Dufour (Bishop of Limoges), Fikart (retired Auxiliary Bishop of Paris), Fort (Bishop of Orleans), Fréchard (retired bishop of Auch ), Gaidon (retired Bishop of Cahors, +2011), Gaschignard (Bishop of d'Aire-Dax), Guillaume (Bishop Emeritus of Saint-Die), Kalist (Bishop of Limoges), Kratz (Auxiliary Bishop of Strasbourg), Le Begue de Germiny (Bishop of Blois), Lebrun (Bishop of Saint-Etienne), Mathieu (Bishop of Saint-Die), Nahmias (Auxiliary Bishop of Paris, now Bishop of Meaux), Pansard (Bishop of Chartres), Rey (Bishop of Frejus-Toulon), Riocreux (Bishop of Pontoise), Scherrer (Bishop of Laval), Séguy (former Bishop of Autun), Wintzer (Bishop of Poitiers)

GABON: Mvé Engone (Archbishop of Libreville), Bischof Madega (Bishop of Port-Gentil, now Bishop of Mouila)

GREAT BRITAIN: Cardinal O'Brien (retired Archbishop of Edinburgh, Primate of Scotland) Conti (Archbishop of Glasgow), McDonald (retired Archbishop of Southwark), Longley (Archbishop of Birmingham), Kevin (former Archbishop of Southwark) Arnold (Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster), brain (Bishop of Salford), Cunningham (Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle), Davies (bishop of Shewsbury), Doyle (Bishop of Northampton), Drainey (Bishop of Middlesbrough), Gilbert (Bishop of Aberdeen) , Hopes (Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster), Kenney (Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham), McGough (Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham), McMahon (Bishop of Nottigham), Moran (retired Bishop of Aberdeen), Pargeter (retired Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham), Sherrington (Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster), Stack (Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster), Williams (Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool)

HAITI: Gayot (retired Archbishop of Cap-Haitien, +2010)

ITALY: Cardinal Antonelli (retired Archbishop of Florence), Cardinal Bagnasco (Archbishop of Genoa, President of the Italian Episcopal Conference), Cardinal Bartolucci (former choirmaster of the Sistine Chapel), Cardinal Caffarra (Archbishop of Bologna), Cardinal De Paolis (Director of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs), Cardinal Piovanelli (retired Archbishop of Florence), Cardinal Poggi (former Papal Librarian, +2010), Cardinal Scola (archbishop of Milan), Accerbi (Titular Archbishop Prelate of the Sovereign Order of Malta), Appignanesi (em . Archbishop of Potenza), Bassetti (Archbishop of Perugia), Berloco (Titular Archbishop, Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium), Betori (Archbishop of Florence), Boccardo (Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia), Brugnaro (Archbishop of Camerino-San Severino), De Magistris (Major Penitentiary Emeritus), Fisichella (Archbishop Curia, President of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization), Molinari (Archbishop of L'Aquila), Negri (Bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, now Archbishop of Ferrara), Pozzo (Archbishop Curia, Pontifical Almoner) Ambrosio (Bishop of Piacenza), Cancian (Bishop of Città di Castello), Cerrato (Bishop of Ivrea), Giovanetti (retired Bishop of Fiesole), Giusti (Bishop of Livorno), Lambiasi (Bishop of Rimini), Miglio (Bishop Ivrea, now Archbishop of Cagliari), Mistrorigo (retired Bishop of Treviso), Oliveri (Bishop of Albenga-Imperia), Rabitti (retired Archbishop of Ferrara), Raspanti (Bishop of Acireale) Ravignani (retired Bishop of Trieste) , Reali (Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina), Sigismondi (Bishop of Foligno), Scanavino (Bishop of Orvieto), Tardelli (Bishop of San Miniato), centimeters (Bishop of Verona)

IRELAND: Martin (Archbishop of Dublin), Magee (Bishop of Cobh), Moriarty (retired Bishop of Kildare y Leighlin)

CANADA: Roussin (Archbishop Emeritus of Vancouver), Miller (Archbishop of Vancouver), Prendergast (Archbishop of Ottawa). Blais (Auxiliary Bishop of Quebec) LaRocque (retired Bishop of London, Ontario) Lemay (Auxiliary Bishop of Quebec)

KAZAKHSTAN: Schneider (Auxiliary Bishop of Astana)

COLOMBIA: Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos (President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei), Lopez Hurtado (Bishop of Girardot), Ramirez Gomez (former Bishop of Garzon)

CROATIA: Pozaić (Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb)

LITHUANIA: Bartulis (Bishop of Vilnius)

MEXICO: Sandoval Iniguez (retired Archbishop of Guadalajara), Suárez Inda (Archbishop of Morelia)

MONACO: Barsi (Archbishop of Monaco)

NIGERIA: Cardinal Arinze (Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship), Ochiagha (retired Bishop of Orlu), Tochukwu Ukwuoma (Bishop of Orlu)

NEW ZEALAND: Meeking (retired Bishop of Christchurch)

NETHERLANDS: Punt (Bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam), Van Burgsteden (retired Bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam)

PARAGUAY: Livieres (Bishop of Ciudad del Este)

PHILIPPINES: Lagdameo (Archbishop of Jaro), Palma (Archbishop of Cebu), Escaler (retired Bishop of Ipil), De Gregorio (Administrator of the Apostolic Prelature of Batanes), Hobayan (retired Bishop of Cazarman), Tobias (Bishop of Novaliches ), Vergara (Bishop of Pasig)

POLAND: Cardinal Dziwisz (Archbishop of Krakow), Cardinal Nycz (Archbishop of Warsaw), Golebiewski (Archbishop of Breslau), Zscysinski (Archbishop of Lublin, + 2011), Balcerek (auxiliary bishop of Poznan), Czaja (Bishop of Opole), Depo (Bishop of Zamosc Lubaczow, now archbishop of Czestochowa), Dziuba (Bishop of Lowicz), Gorny (Bishop of Rzeszów), Małysiak (retired auxiliary bishop of Krakow), Mizinski (Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin), Pieronek (retired Auxiliary Bishop of Sosnowiec ), Rys (Auxiliary Bishop of Cracow), Stobrawa (Auxiliary Bishop of Opole), Szkodon (Auxiliary Bishop of Krakow)

PUERTO RICO: Corrada del Rio (Bishop of Mayaguez), Torres Oliveira (former Bishop of Ponce)

RUSSIA: Pezzi (Archbishop of Moscow)

SLOVAKIA: Bezák (retired Archbishop of Trnava)

SLOVENIA: Cardinal Rode (retired Archbishop of Ljubljana, em prefect of the religious congregation.)

SPAIN: Cardinal Cañizares Llovera (Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship), Martínez Sistach (Archbishop of Barcelona), Herranz Casado (. Curia, Archbishop, em-President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts), Navarrete Cortés (former rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University, +2010) Rodriguez Plaza (archbishop of Toledo and primate of Spain), Ureña Pastor (Archbishop of Zaragoza), Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru (Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts) Cases Andreu (Bishop of Canarias), Fernández González (Bishop of Cordoba), Iceta Gavicagogeascoa (Bishop of Bilbao), Yanguas Sanz (Bishop of Cuenca)

SRI LANKA: Cardinal Ranjith (Archbishop of Colombo)

CZECH REPUBLIC: Baxant (Bishop of Leitmeritz)

HUNGARY: Farhat (Nuncio to Austria), Lajos Varga (Auxiliary Bishop of Vac)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Cardinal Tree (Major Penitentiary Emeritus), Burke (Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura), Cardinal Egan (retired Archbishop of New York), Cardinal Foley (Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, +2011), Cardinal George (Archbishop of Chicago), Cardinal Levada (Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation), Cardinal O'Malley (Archbishop of Boston), Cardinal Wuerl (Archbishop of Washington), Aquila (Archbishop of Denver), Brown (Titular Archbishop of Aquileia and Apostolic Nuncio in Ireland) Brunett (Archbishop of Seattle), Carlson (Archbishop of Saint Louis), Coackley (Archbishop of Oklahoma), Di Noia (Curia, Archbishop, Vice President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei), Hugues (retired Archbishop of New Orleans), Kevin (em . Archbishop of Southwark), Kurtz (Archbishop of Louisville) Myers (Archbishop of Newark), Nienstedt (Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minneapolis), Pilarczyk (retired Archbishop of Cicinnati), Sartain (Archbishop of Seattle), Vigneron (Archbishop of Detroit ), Wenski (Archbishop of Miami), Backer (Bishop of Birmingham), Bambera (Bishop of Scranton), Barre (Bishop of Allentown), Bevard Bishop of Saint Thomas), Blair (bishop of Toledo in Ohio), Boyea (Bishop of Lansing), Bruskewitz (retired Bishop of Lincoln), Burbidge (Bishop of Raleigh), Callahan (Bishop of LaCrosse), Conley (Auxiliary Bishop of Denver), Conlon (Bishop of Joillet) Cordileone (Bishop of Oakland, now Archbishop of San Francisco), Corrada (Bishop of Tyler), Cummins (retired from Oakland), D'Arcy (Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend), Daniels (Bishop of Grand Falls), Dewane (Bishop of Venice), Di Lorenzo (Bishop of Richmond), DiMarzio (Bishop of Brooklyn), Doran (Bishop of Rockford), Etienne (Bishop of Cheyenne), Farrell (Bishop of Dallas), Finn (bishop of Kansas City), Foley (former Bishop of Birmingham), Gainer (Bishop of Lexington), García (Bishop of Monterey), Hermann (Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis), Hurley (Bishop of Grand Rapids), Keleher (retired Bishop of Kansas City), Kicanas (Bishop of Tucson), Loverde (Bichof of Arlington), Madera Uribe (former Bishop of Fresno), Matano (Bishop of Burlington), McFadden (Bishop of Harrisburg), McManus (Bishop of Worcester), Morlino (Bishop of Madison), Murphy (Bishop of Rockville Centre), Nevares (Auxiliary Bishop of Phoenix), Olmsted (Bishop of Phoenix), Paprocki (Bishop of Springfield in Illinois), Perry (Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago), Provost (Bishop of Lake Charles), Reiss (Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit), Rhoades (Bishop of Harrisburg) , Rice (Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis), Ricken (Bishop of Green Bay), Sample (Bishop of Marquette), Serra setting (Bishop of Paterson), Silva (Bishop of Honolulu), Slattery (Bishop of Tulsa), Timlin (retired bishop from Scranton), Tobin (Bishop of Providence), Waltersheid (Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburg), Van Johnston (Bishop of Springfield in Missouri).

There are also the bishops of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X: Fellay, De Galarreta and Tisier de Mallerais since early 2009, and thus after the adoption of the motu proprio by order of Pope Benedict XVI., the Excommunication of 1988 was withdrawn from them by the Bishops' Congregation.

The most recent publication in January 2012, Williamson was also counted, but his status is completely unclear since his discharge from the SSPX.

Text: Accion Liturgica / Giuseppe Nardi
Picture: Una Voce Mallorca

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Liberation Theology Will Get a Boost if Cardinal Turkson

Edit: right now, he’s the most favored to be the next Pope. This article identifies some of his political views which are in line with Liberation Theology and Marxist thinking. Right now Cardinal Turkson is the overall favorite to be next Pope according to Paddy Power, despite attempting to take himself out of the running by telling the press what he’ll do when he becomes Pope.

There is a world where it is possible to ‘wipe the tears from the eyes of those who suffer injustice‘. So says the man tipped by many to become the 294th successor to St. Peter as Pope and spiritual leader of the world’s one billion Roman Catholics.

Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, who currently serves as president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, is a renowned champion of the poor and marginalized.

In a lecture at Durham University Centre for Catholic Studies two years ago, Cardinal Turkson argued that:

“…despite the naysayers, economic resources do exist that could help wipe the tears from the eyes of those who suffer injustice, who lack the basics of a dignified life, and who are in danger from any deterioration in the climate.”

In a call to action, he added that the poor “benefit from champions in solidarity who believe that injustice can be reduced, that harmonious relationships can be fostered, that our planetary ecology can be made sustainable, that a world of greater communion is possible”.

In October 2011, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace he heads set out a radical critique of global financial arrangements, which skew wealth and power away from developing countries.

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Another Bishop with connections to Ghana is Bishop Terry Steib S.V.D. of the Diocese of Memphis Tennessee in the USA. Interestingly, the coat of arms shows a connection to Marxist causes of black power movement and East Germany.

It’s not surprising that this Bishop is a very enthusiastic supporter of aberrosexuality.

 Part of his coat of arms even has a red chicken, symbolic of the Convention People's Party of Marxist agitator  Kwame Nkrumah, who was backed by the Soviet Union. 

Here is a description of Bishop Steib’s coat of arms, since none of the examples on line can be blown up successfully to give a decent picture:

The arms of Bishop Steib feature a tri-colored field - black, red, and green - which recalls the Flag of the Black Liberation Movement [represented by the cockerel]; this in turn is based on the Flag of the nation-state of Ghana, whose independence in 1957 gave rise to the general decolonization of the African continent. The colors represent, respectively, the great people that has sprung from this land, the blood shed in its defense, and the green plains of Africa. [It looks a lot like the flag of Communist East Germany, too]

H/t to Jay’s Analysis 

254 Cardinals and Bishops Have Celebrated the Immemorial Since Summorum Pontificum

Edit: I know for a fact that Archbishop Nienstedt doesn't know how to say the Immemorial Mass of All Ages, but he has "celebrated" at them and shown his support on at least one occasion by being present in choir.   Some commenters have pointed this out.  Well, it depends on what you mean by "celebrates" Mass.  Technically, anyone can "celebrate" Mass. 

Since the Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificum of Pope Benedict XVI was put into effect in 2007 the following Bishops and Cardinals have celebrated the Immemorial Mass of All Ages.  The Spanish blog Acción Litúrgica has compiled the following list.

GERMANY: Cardinal Walter Brandmüller (President of the Papal Historical Commission), Dick (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cologne), Hanke (Bishop of Eichstätt), Mixa (Bishop Emeritus  of Augsburg), Ostermann (Auxiliary Bishop von Münster), Overbeck (Bishop of Essen)

AUSTRIA: Cardinal Stickler (+2007), Laun (Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg)

SWITZERLAND: Farine (Auxiliary bishop of Lausanne, Freiburg and Genf), Genoud (Bishop von Lausanne, Freiburg and Genf, +2010), Huonder (Bishop von Chur), Perisset (Apostolic Nuncio in the Federal Republic of Germany)

LIECHTENSTEIN: Haas (Archbishop von Vaduz)

ARGENTINA: Baseotto ( Bishop Emeritus  Castrense de  Argentina), Laise ( Bishop Emeritus  of San Luis), Sánchez Sorondo (Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy de Ciencias)

AUSTRALIA: Cardinal Pell (Archbishop of Sydney), Coleridge (Archbishop of Canberra), Hart (Archbishop  of Melbourne), Hickey (Archbishop of  Perth), Elliot (Auxiliary Bishop of  Melbourne), Grech (Bishop of Sandhurst, +2010), Jarret (Bishop of  Lismore), Porteus (Archbishop of  Sydney), Prowse (Bishop of  Sale)

BELGIUM: Leonard (Archbishop of Brussels, Primate of Belgium), Harpigny (Bishop of Tournai)

BENIN: N´Koue (Bishop of Natitingou)

BRAZIL: Pena (Archbishop of  Niterói), Taveira Correa (Archbishop of Belem do Pará), Tempesta (Archbishop of Río de Janeiro), Areas Rifán (Bishop of the Apostolic Administration of San Juan Marían Vianney), Bergamin (Bishop of Nova Iguaçu), Canindé Palhano (Bishop of Senhor do Bomfim), Da Silva (em. Auxiliary Bishop  von Fortaleza), Fontes de Matos (Bishop of Palmira dos Indios), Guimaraes (Bishop of Garanhuns), Lopes de Faria (em. Bishop  of Diamantina,+2009), Paixao (Auxiliary Bishop  of Salvador-Bahía), Pestana Filho (em. Bishop of Anápolis,+2011), Romer (em. Auxiliary Bishop of Río de  Janeiro), Silva Matthes (em. Bishop of  Franca), Sivieri (Bishop of Propriá-Sergipe), Soares da Costa (Auxiliary Bishop  of  Aracaju), Stringhini (Bishop of Franca)

CHILE: Cardinal Medina Estévez (em. Prefect of the Congregation for  Doctrine and the Faith), Piñera Carvallo (em. Archbishop  of La Serena). Bishop González Errázuriz (Bishop of San Bernardo)

CHINA: Cardinal Zen (em. Archbishop of  Hong Kong)

DENMARK: Kozon (Bishop of Kopenhagen)

FRANCE: Cardinal Barbarin (Archbishop von Lyon), Cardinal Ricard (Archbishop of  Bordeaux), Cardinal Ving-Trois (Archbishop of París, President of the French Council of Bishops), Bacqué (Nuncio to Holland), D´Ornellas (Archbishop of Rennes), Le Gall (Archbishop of Toulouse), Madec (em. Archbishop of  Toulon), Maillard (Archbishop of Bourges), Thomazeau (Archbishop of Montpellier), Aillet (Bishop of Bayonne), Aumonier (Bishop of Versailles), Bagnard (Bishop of Belley-Ars), Batut (Auxiliary Bishop of Lyon), Boivineau (Bishop of Annecy), Brouwet (Auxiliary of Nanterre), Centène (Bishop of Vannes), De Dinechin (Auxiliary of Paris), De lmas (Bishop of Angers), Dubost (Bishop of  Evry), Dufour (Bishop of Limoges), Fikart (em. Auxiliary of  Paris), Fort (Bishop of  Orleans), Fréchard (em. Bishop of Auch), Gaidon (em. Bishop of  Cahors, +2011), Guillaume (em. Bishop of  Saint-Dié), Kalist (Bishop of  Limoges), Kratz (Auxiliary Bishop of  Straßburg), Lebrun (Bishop of Saint-Etienne), Mathieu (Bishop of  Saint-Dié), Pansard (Bishop of  Chartres), Rey (Bishop of Frejus-Toulon), Riocreux (Bishop of Pontoise), Scherrer (Bishop of Laval), Séguy (em. Bishop of  Autun), Wintzer (Auxiliary Bishop of  Poitiers)

GABON: Mvé Engone (Archbishop of  Libreville), Bischof Madega (Bishop of Port-Gentil)

Great Britain: Cardinal O´Brien (Archbishop of Edinburgh, Primate of Schottland), Conti (Archbishop of Glasgow), Kevin (em. Archbishop of Southwark), Longley (Archbishop of  Birmingham), Arnold (Auxiliary Bishop of  Westminster), Cunnigham (Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle), Doyle (Bishop of  Northampton), Gilbert (Bishop of Aberdeen), Hopes (Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster), Kenney (Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham), McGough (Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham), McMahon (Bishop of Nottigham), Moran (Bishop of Aberdeen), Sherrington (Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster), Stack (Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster), Williams (Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool)

HAITI: Gayot (em. Archbishop of Cap-Haitien, +2010)

CANADA: Roussin (Archbishop of Vancouver, em. 2009), Miller (Archbishop of  Vancouver), Prendergast (Archbishop of Ottawa). Blais (Archbishop of Quebec), Lemay (Archbishop of Quebec)

COLOMBIA: Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos (em. President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission)

CROATIAN: Pozaic (Auxiliary Bishop of Zagreb)

ITALY: Cardinal Antonelli (Archbishop of  Florence, em. 2008), Cardinal Bagnasco (Archbishop of Genoa, President of the Italian Bishops' Conference), Cardinal Bartolucci (em. Choir Master of the Sistine Chapel), Cardinal Caffarra (Archbishop of  Bologna), Cardinal De Paolis (Director of the Precture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See), Cardinal Piovanelli (em. Archbishop of Florence), Cardinal Poggi (em. Papal Library, +2010), Cardinal Scola (Archbishop of Milan), Accerbi (Titular Bishop, Prelate of the Sovereign Order of Malta), Appignanesi (em. Archbishop of  Potenza), Bassetti (Archbishop of Perugia), Berloco (Apostolic  Nuncio in Belgium), Betori (Archbishop of Florenz), Boccardo (Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia), Brugnaro (Archbishop of Camerino-San Severino), De  Magistris (em. Archbishop Pro-Major Penitentiary of Apostolic Penitentiaryr), Molinari (Archbishop of L´Aquila), Ambrosio (Bishop of Piacenza), Cancian (Bishop of Città di Castello), Fisichella (Curial Bishop, President of the Papal Academy for Life), Giovanetti (Bishop von Fiesole), Giusti (Bishop of  Livorno), Lambiasi (Bishop of  Rimini), Miglio (Bishop of  Ivrea), Mistrorigo (em. Bishop of  Treviso), Oliveri (Bishop of Albenga-Imperia), Rabitti (Bischop of  Ferrara), Ravignani (em. Bishop of  Triest), Reali (Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina), Scanavino (Bishop of   Orvieto), Tardelli (Bishop of San Miniato)

IRELAND: Martin (Archbishop of Dublin), Magee (Bishop of Cobh), Moriarty (em. Bishop of Kildare y Leighlin)

KAZAKHSTAN: Schneider (Auxiliary Bishop of Astana)

LITHUANIA: Bartulis (Bishop of Siauliai)

MEXICO: Suárez Inda (Archbishop of  Morelia)

MONACO: Barsi (Archbishop of  Monaco)

NIGERIA: Cardinal Arinze (em. Prefect for Divine Worship), Ochiagha (em. Bishop of  Orlu), Tochukwu Ukwuoma (Bishop of Orlu)

NEW ZEALAND: Meeking (em. Bishop of Christchurch)

HOLLAND: Punt (Bishop von Amsterdam)

PARAGUAY: Livieres (Bishop of  Ciudad del Este)

PHILIPPINES: Lagdameo (Archbishop of  Jaro), Escaler (em. Bishop of Ipil), De Gregorio (Administrator of the Apostolic Prelature of  Batan), Hobayan (em. Bishop of Cazarman), Tobias (Bishop of Novaliches)

POLAND: Cardinal Nycz (Archbishop of Warsaw), Golebiewski (Archbishop of Breslau), Zscysinski (Archbishop of Lublin), Balcerek (Auxiliary Bishop Poznań), Depo (Bishop of Zamosc-Lubaczow), Dziuba (Bishop of Lowicz), Gorny (Bisop of Rzeszów), Malysiak (em. Auxiliary of Krakow), Mizinski (Auxiliary Bishop of  Lublin), Pieronek (em. Auxiliary Bishop of Sosnowitz), Szkodon (Auxiliary Bishop of   Krakau)

PUERTO RICO: Torres Oliveira (em. Bishop of Ponce)

RUSSIA: Pezzi (Archbishop of Moscow)

SLOVAKIA: Bezák (Archbishop of  Trnava)

SLOVENIA: Cardinal Rodé  (Prefect em. for the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life)

SPAIN: Cardinal Cañizares Llovera (Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship), Martínez Sistach (Archbishop of Barcelona), Curial Bishop Herranz Casado, Navarrete Cortés (em. Rector of the Papal University of St. Gregory, +2010), Ureña Pastor (Archbishop of Saragossa), Fernández González (Bishop of  Córdoba), Iceta Gavicagogeascoa (Bishop of Bilbao), Yanguas Sanz (Bishop of Cuenca)

SRI LANKA: Cardinal Ranjith (Archbishop of  Colombo)

CZECH REPUBIC: Baxant (Bishop of  Leitmeritz)

HUNGARY: Farhat (Nuncio to Austria), Varga Lajos (Archishop of  Vácbish)

USA: Cardinal Baum (em. Apostolic Penitentiary), Burke (Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura), Egan (em. Archbishop of  New York), Foley (Grand Master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, +2011), George (Archbishop of Chicago), Levada (Prefect of the Congregation for Doctrine and the Faith), O’ Malley (Archbishop of   Boston), Brunett (Archbishop of Seattle), Carlson (Archbishop of  Saint Louis), Di Noia (Secretary for the Congregation of Divine Worship), Hugues (em. Archbishop of New Orleans), Kevin (em. Archbishop of Southwark), Myers (Archbishop of Newark), Nienstedt (Archbishop of  Saint Paul in Minneapolis), Pilarczyk (em. Archbishop of    Cicinnati), Vigneron (Archbishop of  Detroit), Wenski (Archbishop of    Miami), Backer (Bishop of   Birmingham), Boyea (Bishop of   Lansing), Bevard (Bishop of Saint Thomas), Blair (Bishop of   Toledo, Ohio), Bruskewitz (Bishop of Lincoln), Burbidge (Bishop of  Raleigh), Callahan (Bishop of LaCrosse), Conley (Auxiliary Bishop of  Denver), Cordileone (Bishop of Oakland), Corrada (Bischof  von  Tyler), D´Arcy (Bischof  von  Fort Wayne-South Bend), Daniels (Bischof  von  Grand Falls), Dewane (Bishop of   Venice), Di Lorenzo (Bishop  of  Richmond), Di Marzio (Bishop of  Bofrooklynn), Doran (Bishop   Rockford), Etienne (Bishop of Cheyenne), Farrell (Bishop of Dallas), Finn (Bishop of Kansas City), Foley (em. Bishop of   Birmingham), Gainer (Bishop of  Lexington), García (Bishop of    Monterey), Hermann (Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis), Hurley (Bishop of Grand Rapids), Keleher (em. Bishop of  Kansas City), Kicanas (Bishop of  Tucson), Madera Uribe (em. Bishop of Fresno), Matano (Bishop of Burlington), McFadden (Bishop of  Harrisburg), McManus (Bishop of    Worcester), Morlino (Bishop of  Madison), Murphy (Bishop of Rockville Centre), Nevares (Auxiliary Bishop of  Phoenix), Olmsted (Bishop of  Phoenix), Perry (Auxiliary Bishop of  Chicago), Provost (Bishop of  Lake Charles), Reiss (Auxilary Bishop of  Detroit), Rhoades (Bishop of   Harrisburg), Ricken (Bishop of Green Bay), Sample (Bishop of Marquette), Serratelli (Bishop of  Paterson), Silva (Bishop of Honolulu), Slattery (Bishop of  Tulsa), Timlin (em. Bishop of  Scranton), Tobin (Bishop of   Providence), Waltersheid (Auxiliary Bishop of   Pittsburg), Van Johnston (Bishop of   Springfield, Missouri).

Finally are still the Bishops of the Society of St. Pius X:  Fellay, De Galarreta, Tissier de Mallerais and Williamson.

Text: Acción Litúrgica /Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Jens Falk/Acción Litúrgica

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France's Liberal Bishops Defend Play While SSPX Atones

Edit: if you favor various forms of modern art like abstract expressionism, you are certainly disordered and perverse. Those who favor such forms of art prefer the esteem of the world to objectivity, and those who are relativists in aesthetics will be relativists in ethics as well. Is it any wonder that the Church in the world is in so much trouble with such Shepherds as the Archbishop of Paris?

About 1,000 Catholics participated in a demonstration in Rennes against one of them criticized as blasphemous play. Rennes (kath.net / CBA) Large parts of the city of Rennes in Brittany have been cordoned off by the police on Thursday evening for fear of riots. Like French media reports on Friday, nearly 1,000, mostly traditionalist Catholics, were participating in a demonstration against what is for them a blasphemous play at the National Theatre of the western French city. A counter-demonstration of 200 participants had also arrived. According to media reports, it remained peaceful throughout the evening, the play was half an hour late, but had been listed with no interference. At the rally against the play "On the concept of the face of the Son of God" by the Italian Romeo Castellucci, the traditionalists are largely related to an organization called "Civitas". The Archbishop of Rennes, Pierre d'Ornellas, had recently defended the work [Incredibly]. There was no hostility toward Christians in the play, however, but it is meant to provoke, he declared earlier this month. Those who protest against it are mistaken, in his perspective. D'Ornellas was represented, according to media reports on the performance, by a priest of his diocese. Bishop Raymond of the Breton diocese of Vannes has supported the protest against the play, on the other hand. Castellucci's play depicts Jesus as the backdrop in an oversized port of the scene of a son caring for his demented and incontinent by his father. Even in Paris there are rallies and vigils against the play. The traditionalist SSPX has also announced that it is having Masses said in reparation for these performances. One of the performances in Paris was interrupted by conservative Catholics. The French bishops' conference chairman, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois said on Wednesday that the bishops were in agreement that "verbal or physical violence certainly" should be rejected against anti-clerical works of art. Link to kath.net...

Bishops Need to Learn How to Rule

Voris says: The Crozier isn't only a tool to bring back a wayward sheep, it's also a weapon to beat the daylights out of wolves. We're pleading with the Bishops to protect the sheep and stop attacking the sheep who cry out for protection.

We need to hear Heaven and Hell are real and all religions are not the same.

German Ecumenism-Bishops Don't Want Dialogue with Traditionalists

Fr. Schmidberger in his Christmas Video Address

Fr. Franz Schmidberger:  Above all the old who  continuously try to revive the  promise of the "Spirit of the Council".  That means that the Conciliar ideology will sooner or later become obsolete.

[kreuz.net]  The Christ Child is the King of all times and lands.  This was what the German District Superior of the Society of St. Pius X,, Father Franz Schmidberger said this Holy Night in a video speech.

The timely and even more, eternal fate of every single person is dependent upon his connection to the Christ Child.

Fr. Schmidberger called all men to come and kneel at the Manger.

With the Old Liturgy The Traditional Faith Will Return

With a look back on the year of 2010 Father Schmidberger was especially happy about an "increasingly sizeable number of young priests and seminarians who love the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass".

Contacts with the work of the Society of St. Pius X and an enthusiastic interest with it is a felicitous indicator:

"With the growing interest in the Liturgy there is also a preparedness to promote the Gospel without reservations even in a secular society."

Many young seminarians would like to fill, to reduce the faith with a purely human "improvement mission" -- explained the priest.

Although a return to the values of the truth Faith is for many seminarians a heartfelt concern.

"Meanwhile it is for many in the old generation, who steadfastly persist in reviving the promises of the "Spirit of the Council'  -- contests the District Superior.

The proof is that the "Ideology of the Council" will be obsolete sooner or later.


German Bishops Ignore the Pope

In the video Father Schmidberger criticized the disposition of the majority of the German Episcopate:

"Many Bishops are still completely prejudiced against the work of Tradition of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre."

The lifting of the excommunications of January 2009 appeared as far as the Bishops were concerned to be "not to have arrived".

"The friendly hand shown by the Holy Father is almost completely ignored in Germany."

The discussions with Rome stand in complete opposition to the situation in Germany -- Fr. Schmidberger says:

"Although there are naturally still objective differences, the discussions are being held in a good atmosphere of mutual respect."

The perpedness to dialogue by the Bishops of Germany have a large backlog:


"It also touches us painfully that the same Shepherds have not amended the adulteration of the words of Consecration, although the Congregeation of Worship has already proposed this since October of 2006."

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The Bishop is Neither Manager Nor Bureaucrat!

Benedict XVI. on the Shepherd's Responsibilities of the Successors of the Apostles -- by Armin Schwibach/ Rome

Rome[kath.net/as] The Bishop is not a pure manager, he is not a bureaucrat or a simple moderator and organizer of the life of the diocese. Much more, he must be a "father, brother and friend" and be on the "Christian and human path", who knows he has to create, "an atmosphere of trust, acceptance, sympathy, but also uprightness and justice".

With these words Pope Benedict XVI. addressed a second group of newly ordained Bishops this morning, who participated in a course organized by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

In his speak the Pope adumbrated a proper life program, that has validity for every Bishop. For that he went to some "enlightening" words of St. Thomas Aquinas. "Authority" and "Love" as "caritas" are says Thomas the fundamental requirements for a Bishop, which is also defined in the Dogmatic Constitution of the Second Vatican Council, "Lumen Gentium". The Council explains: "A bishop, since he is sent by the Father to govern his family, must keep before his eyes the example of the Good Shepherd, who came not to be ministered unto but to minister,(comp. Mt 20,28; Mk 10,45) and to lay down his life for his sheep (comp. Joh 10,11).

Taken from among men and compassed with weakness, he can have compassion for them, who are in ignorance and error (comp. Hebr 5,1-2). He should not refuse to hear his subordinates, who he cares for like true sons and be exhorted work eagerly with them. For he will give an account for your souls before God (comp. Hebr 13,17), should you observe through prayer, preaching and cared for him with any kind of charitable work, the same for any, who are still not of the same flock and are yet really commended by the Lord.

That he is as the Apostle Paul the most sinful, he is ready, to preach the Gospel to all (comp. Röm 1,14-15) and encourage his faithful to missionary zeal. (Lumen Gentium, 27)

The assignment of Bishops, according to the admonitions of Benedict VI., may never be understood within a mentality, in which efficiency an effectiveness are understood as the the center points. The attention of the Bishops may not valid in the first line to consider "what is to be done"; it is much more necessary, "to always keep the ontological dimension, which stands on the basis of the functional dimension."

So the office of the Bishop is located "within a deep perspective of faith and not simply in a human, administrative or sociologically certain perspective".


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