Wednesday, January 19, 2011

One Third of Aachen Diocese's Real-Estate May be Sold

Disintegration in record time. In the Diocese of Aachen every third church building will be put up for sale. The Catholic Faith has long ago been bartered away.

(kreuz.net)On Monday the General Vicar, Manfred von Hotum of Aachen is unveiling the Diocesan support project with the beautiful name "Church Property Management".

This was reported by the Diocese of Aachen.

In the Diocese of Aachen there are over 900 churches as well as 450 rectories and parish offices.

Actually, there isn't enough money for the support of the buildings.

The Diocese would need 18 million Euro. There's a ten million dollar shortfall.

In other words: over a third of the ecclesiastical structures must be closed down in the near future.

The General Vicar explained that the Diocese must economize because of significantly "declining donations by the faithful" in previous years and the narrowing church tax income.

The number of the rectories have already been slashed in the Diocese of Aachen.

Since last year there were still 71 so-called church communities.

All of these "church communities" is decreed over several churches, rectories, pastoral bureaus and chapels.

With that there is the question about which these guildings are not being used for.

As a "good example" for this conversion, consider the former Parish church of St. Josef in Aachen.

It is used today as a burial church.

Even the church of St. Mary in Düren has a new purpose. The rectory here was integrated into the church building.

Actually the plans of the Diocese go still further.

Unoccupied rectories will be closed.

Where small communities don't need a rectory, a corresponding space could be set up in the church and the community center could be sold.

Churches that are seldom used will be put on the real-estate market.

"We're going to take these churches into serious and lengthy consideration" -- said a conciliatory General Vicar.

It is conceivable could be closed for fifteen to twenty years, "till a suitable solution is found."

In other words: One will wait to sell the churches, till there won't be fear of any more resistance from the remaining Catholics against the desecration of God's house.

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The Leftists Are All About Sexual Abuse: Another Jesuit Liberal Accused in Belgium

He is an Old Liberal Secular Jesuit and Green Party Member. That he is also guilty of sexual abuse, suits his political convictions very well.

(kreuz.net) The Belgian media bosses have their next abuser who is supposedly associated with the Church arena.

It is a question of the Old Liberal, left-leaning, civil Jesuit, Father Luc Versteylen (83).

Before his entrance into religious life the later left-ideological figure was a member of the extreme-right 'Verbond der Deutsche Natinonaal-Solidaristen' which had existed till 1941.

In May 1970he founded an organization in the area of Viersel -- which belongs to the north Belgian community of Zandoven -- under the name of "Leven in de Browerij", Life in the Brewery" a leftist, so-called "alternative-Christian society of life".

It was established in a former brewery. It was made up of a class of fourteen year olds, who belonged to the Jesuit-run Xavieriuscollege in Borgerhout near Antwerp.

In this milieu there were various -- at the time decisively left-extremist -- moved to pedegogical adventures and sexual shamelessness.

Here was one of the first 'green' --ideological parties in Europe. They called themselves 'Agalev'.

The extreme-left Flemmish homosexual and abortion party "Groen!’ also arose here.

The anti-Church media are as expected completely enthused about all of this.

Actually in the Community of Life it was -- then held for normal-- to initiate two abuse of two fifteen and sixteen year old sexually mature boys.

In an open letter Father Versteylen answered the charges, that he had in those times "engaged in a quest for a new relationship to the body" surely gone to the limits.

He insists, however, that he never crossed the line and insists that he never intentionally hurt a person through his conduct.

The left-Jesuit is, after the extreme-left Fr. Francoi Houtar (85) and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe of Brügge, the third suspected sexual predator, who without exception, belong to that left- and homosexual friendly wing of the Church whom the media bosses love to celebrate.

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Marking week of prayer, Benedict XVI cites four 'pillars' for Christian unity

Vatican City, Jan 19, 2011 / 12:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Improving the unity of Christians today requires the same elements that united the first apostles in Jerusalem, Pope Benedict XVI said Jan. 19.

Pope Benedict met with pilgrims to Rome in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall for his weekly general audience. In observation of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Jan. 18-25), he based his message on "the gift of full communion."

Christians take part in the week of prayer for unity "to bear witness to the profound ties that unite them and to invoke the gift of full communion," said the Pope.

"They devoted themselves to the Apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers" is the theme of this year's prayer week for the unity of Christians. Pope Benedict said that this passage from the Acts of the Apostles offers a vision of four characteristics that defined the first Christian community in Jerusalem "as a place of unity and love."

In the teaching of the apostles, in fraternal communion, in the breaking of bread and in prayer are four "pillars" that continue to be the foundation of Christian life and build Church unity, he explained.

Every effort to increase unity must involve increased faithfulness to the teaching of the first Christians, the apostles, the Pope said. "Even today," he explained, "the community of believers recognizes the norms of its own faith in that reference to the teaching of the Apostles."

Fraternal communion was "the most tangible expression of unity between disciples and the Lord, especially for the outside world," he pointed out.

Belgium extradites sex-abuse priest wanted in Canada

BRUSSELS — A convicted Belgian-born priest who faces complaints of sexual abuse in Canada was expelled Wednesday, sent back to Montreal when police discovered he had taken Canadian nationality and had lived illegally in Belgium for years.

Eric Dejaeger, 63, a Flemish priest who worked as a missionary with Inuits in the 1970s, was escorted by police on a 10:30 am (0930 GMT) flight from Brussels airport, and was to be handed over to Canadian authorities on landing, foreign ministry spokeswoman Katrien Jansseune said.

Dejaeger, who was sentenced in 1990 to five years behind bars for the rape of eight children before being released after 18 months, had returned to live in Belgium after nine new sets of victim allegations came forward in 1995.

He was living in Blanden, in northern Flanders, and escaped extradition following a 2001 Interpol arrest warrant because he retained Belgian nationality at the time.

Egyptian MP Says Copts Face no Persecution, Blames Mossad

The People's Assembly launched a scathing attack against the European Parliament accusing it of disseminating false reports about the "repression of Christians" in Egypt, reports Gamal Essam El-Din Egyptian MPs, belonging to the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) and opposition, opened fire on the Brussels-based European Parliament, accusing it of interfering in Egypt's internal affairs.

Speaker of the People's Assembly Fathi Sorour told MPs in a session on Monday morning that he condemned the way in which the European Parliament had "tried to exploit the attack which hit the Two Saints Church on the New Year's Eve in order to imply that there is a systematic policy of repression against Coptic Christians in Egypt". Sorour said that in a meeting with a delegation from the Bundestag (German parliament) yesterday, he had stressed that "the terrorist attack against the Alexandrian church targeted Muslims and Christians alike and the European Parliament's statements about repression of Christians in Egypt are entirely unfounded"

Supporting Sorour, senior NDP MPs accused the European Parliament of propagating lies about Egypt. Abdel-Ahad Gamaleddin, NDP spokesman in the People's Assembly, insisted that "the European Parliament's statement claiming that Coptic Christians face persecution shows how most European institutions are completely ignorant of the situation in Egypt."

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Homily of Father Nichols on "Primiz" Mass of Father Andre Burnham

We are, at this Mass, on a cusp, or boundary, or threshold. What I have in mind is in the first place the ritual calendar we're using. We are on the cusp between, on the one hand, the Christmas season, which celebrates the Theophany, the manifestation of God the Word as a human being to other human beings, and, on the other hand, so-called 'Ordinary Time', a time which is far from ordinary because it consists in the telling of his story, the story of the public ministry of the Christ as it unfolds in all its dramatic action. Appropriately, then, today's Gospel-reading points both backwards and forwards, and its key is the identification of Jesus as the 'Lamb of God'. Twice, actually, within a few verses of the Fourth Gospel, when the Baptist wants to identify who Jesus is, to locate him (so to say) on the map of salvation geography, these are the words he comes up with. The best explanation of that, I think, is that John the Baptist is rehearsing what it was his cousin told him. At the Baptism, the heavens were opened for Jesus, and in the open heavens he saw… well, what did he see? He saw himself as the Lamb, sent by the Father to make the atoning sacrifice which will reconcile to the Father Israel and all the world, and bring humankind home to the Father's house. Jesus would go on to comport himself in just this fashion in his public ministry, in the strength of the Holy Spirit whose descent on him in the form of a dove verified what it was, in the opened heavens, that he saw. The Lamb of God: that is the One we follow, it is how the God-man wishes to be known and loved. He came to make sacrifice for us. That is the impetus that drives his ministry forward till it reaches its climax in the Paschal Mystery of his Death and Resurrection. It is the attitude in which he still stands before the Father, showing the marks of his now glorious wounds. And it is why the continuing sign of that sacrifice – the Mass – is the true centre of the Christian religion.

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Anglican Bishop Questions Elton John's Suitability as Father

The former Bishop of Rochester, Dr. Michael Nazir Ali has raised ethical and moral concerns over the artificial insemination of an American woman to produce a child for Sir Elton John and his civil partner, David Furnish.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Bishop Nazir Ali questioned the wisdom of the arrangement and its baleful consequences for the child: Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John.

"I believe that surrogacy, inevitably, introduces a 'third' party to the legal parents," the bishop said and "will affect the welfare of the child, psychologically and in other ways."
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Fidelity of Syrian Catholics Recognized by Pope

Cardinal Consecrates Cathedral in Aleppo

ROME, JAN. 17, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is thanking the Catholic community of Syria for its "fidelity to the Lord and to his Church and fidelity to the Bishop of Rome and to his ministry as Successor of Peter." The Pope affirmed his gratitude in a message sent to the community by his secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

The message marked Saturday's consecration of the cathedral in Aleppo by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches. "The Holy Father is well aware of the fidelity of the Catholic community of Syria," the message stated, as reported by L'Osservatore Romano. "He thanks the community for this fidelity and for its prayer for the fruitfulness of his service of the truth and of unity."

http://www.zenit.org/article-31487?l=english
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Chinese Christian Discuses One-Child Policy

In an interview with Aid to the Church in Need, Bob Fu, a student leader at Tiananmen Square who subsequently became a Protestant pastor and fled China, discusses the realities of police repression and forced abortion in the People's Republic of China. Fu is the founder and president of the China Aid Association. "When you want to have your first child after marriage," he recalls, "you are required to get a pregnancy permission card-- a yellow card before your wife can legally get pregnant-- otherwise you are arrested and are forced to have an abortion.

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Monday, January 17, 2011

Walter Cardinal Kasper in Restlessness

Absolutely full schedule: The Cardinal Emeritus Kasper is working hard again, scientifically in Rome. Right now he's writing a book about the Catholic Church.

Rome [kath.net/pm] After his Emeritization as Cardinal Walter Cardinal Kasper is a much sought after and honored man, who is again working in the fields of Theological science.

The occasion of his release from his service to the Office of Unity had brought him to a discussion in London at Lambeth Palace and to a formal meal in Church House. Participants will also be Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the former Archbishop of Westminster London, and its current occupant, Vincent Nicols, as well as other invited and distinguished guests.

His twenty honorable doctoral degrees will grow by two more this year: In January St. Joseph's in Philadelphia, PA, and in February at the Universidade Católica Portugese, Lissabon, Portugal.

In February Cardinal Kapser must complete two important events. On the 21st of February will be the Paul Wattson lectures in San Francisco, California, and on 22 February in Sacramento California, will be a lecture on the current ecumenical situation.

Next to his Roman and international obligations, Cardinal Kasper is returning to his theological work. At the moment he is fulfilling an old plan and desire still from his Tübingen times and is working on a new book, which is entitled, "Catholic Church".

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Purgatory Still Exists, Says Pope: Chiesa

ROME, January 17, 2011 – In illustrating the life of Saint Catherine of Genoa, at the general audience last Wednesday, Benedict XVI took the thought of this saint as a point of departure to explain what purgatory is.

During the second half of the 15th century, the time of Catherine, the contemporary image of purgatory was like the one depicted above. It was the mountain of purification sung of by Dante in the "Divine Comedy."

That purgatory is a physical place is a very ancient conviction, which endured until recent times.

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Against "hi-jacking" of King "Legacy"

Atlanta, Ga., Jan 17, 2011 / 02:12 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On the observance of Martin Luther King Day, African-American leaders noted the slain civil rights figure's Christian position on cultural issues like abortion and sexual ethics. Illinois religious and political leaders also organized to challenge the "hijacking" of the civil rights movement by homosexual political activists

Athens goes on security alert for trial of suspected militants

Reporting from Athens —

Law enforcement snipers will watch from rooftops. Motorists will be checked at roadblocks across Athens. And at the courthouse, inside a maximum security prison on the eastern outskirts of the Greek capital, hundreds of plainclothes officers will patrol surrounding streets to shield against militant attacks.

Riot police armed with percussion grenades and tear gas will also be on alert as part of the security measures planned for the trial scheduled to begin Monday of 13 suspected members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, a militant anti-authority movement known as SPF.

"We are prepared for everything," said Athanassios Kokkalakis, spokesman for Greece's National Police.

The accused — 12 men and a teenage girl — are charged with terrorism counts related to a series of attacks on Greek politicians, which caused no fatalities or serious injuries. Under a new terrorism law, the defendants will be tried by a three-member panel of judges instead of a jury to avoid intimidation. Nine of the defendants, who are in custody awaiting trial, face up to life in prison if the court determines that their alleged activities could have resulted in the deaths of their targets. The remaining suspects, who remain at large, will be tried in absentia, officials said.

Hindus, Jews Ask Pope to Abandon Double Standards on Roma Apartheid

Hindus and Jews claim that Pope Benedict holds double standards on the issues of Roma (Gypsy) apartheid in Europe.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed; and Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich, prominent Jewish leader in Nevada and California in USA; in a statement in Nevada today, said that despite their repeated requests, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI had not come out openly to support the 15-million European Roma who faced apartheid conditions. But in a message for "19th World Day of the Sick, 2011", posted on Holy See's website on January 15, Pope says (as per Zenit.org translation): "...know how to recognize and serve him also in those brothers who are poor, sick, suffering and in difficulty, who have need of your help".

http://www.sify.com/news/hindus-jews-ask-pope-to-abandon-double-standards-on-roma-apartheid-news-international-lbrladcacaj.html

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Blog Latest Post RSS * Recent * Featured * American Papist Church Law says Permanent Deacons, all clerics, are obliged to abstain from sex, notes Canonist Edward Peters

[vote america] I have been struggling to decide the appropriate way to help bring this issue before the Church’s attention.

Canon Lawyer Ed Peters

This little point, illustrated my father Canon Layer Ed Peters, has huge potentially consequences for many thousands of men already serving as permanent deacons in the United States (and around the world), and it also promises to impact the growing number of married Anglican and other protestant clergy coming into the Church through the ordinariate established by Pope Benedict and similar, previous provisions.
Simply put: the law of the Church says that permanent deacons, because they are clerics, are obliged to observe “perfect and perpetual continence.” In simple terms, permanent deacons are obligated by law to refrain from sexual relations with their wife once they are ordained.

H/t: EENS Blog

Ukrainians to build an Orthodox church in Antarctica

Kiev, January 14, Interfax - Church-chapel of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will be built in Antarctica this spring.

"When we send polar explorers to the South Pole we don't ask about their confession. But every person can have a wish to stay alone, to pray. Why don't we build a church?" Director of the National Antarctic Scientific Center Valery Litvinov was quoted as saying on Friday by the Ukrainian Segodnya.ua website.

It is not the first Orthodox church on the ice continent: Russian carpenters built a 15-meter Orthodox church from Siberian cedar in 2004 that is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

"When you pray there you get unspeakable impressions. It is zero altitude, but you have such a feeling that the church almost fly above Earth," Archbishop Augustine of Lvov and Galicia and said as he had celebrated a Liturgy in the church in 2007 and is going to consecrate the Ukrainian chapel in spring.

The chapel is made in Chili and is much smaller than the Russian church. It will be sent to Antarctica late in March with a new group of polar explorers. Works on building and installing the chapel will be paid by philanthropists. Byelorussians intend to erect the similar chapel on the continent as they plan to open their base in Antarctica this year.

Besides, Ukrainians will present Russian church of the Holy Trinity a bell cast by the Donetsk metallurgical plant. According to the polar expedition head, Chili customs officers were perplexed to find the bell in their luggage. Besides, they found salo (traditional Ukrainian lard - IF) in their luggage while bringing food in the country is subjected to $300 fine. Customs officers appeared to be believers and turned a blind eye to salo and the bell.

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Rector of St. Paul Seminary Retiring From Post

Fr. Baer’s Farewell
On May 12, 2010 friends and benefactors of Saint John Vianney College Seminary gathered to bid farewell to Fr. William Baer. After eleven years as Rector of Saint John Vianney, Fr. Baer has returned to parish life at Transfiguration in Oakdale, MN.

Fr. Baer leaves quite a legacy at Saint John Vianney. In his years as Rector, Fr. Baer instituted the Seminarians’ pledge and prayer – “Men in Christ. Men of the Church. Men for Others”. A total of 475 seminarians took the pledge and studied at Saint John Vianney under his guidance. Enrollment more than doubled
during his tenure as Rector.

Fr. Baer will also be remembered for starting the “Last Chance Mass” at the University of St. Thomas, a Sunday evening tradition, where over 300 students and neighbors attend Mass in the Saint John Vianney Chapel.

Fr. Baer’s final gift to the seminary is a lasting one – a scholarship fund which was created in his honor to provide financial assistance to transfer students who join the seminary. Transfer students make up a third of each class of New Men, and traditional scholarship assistance for transfer students is very limited. An envelope is enclosed if you would like to donate to the scholarship fund, or make an unrestricted gift to the seminary.

You can read the entire Vianney News newsletter, with photos of Father Becker, Fr. Baer and the seminarians, HERE.

H/t: Stella Borealis

Gun control: Church firmly, quietly opposes firearms for civilians

Editor: once again, the USCCB is showing its color, RED. Interesting in light of neo-Con George Weigel's admission of a few days ago that Communists had indeed infiltrated the Church.

By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church's position on gun control is not easy to find; there are dozens of speeches and talks and a few documents that call for much tighter regulation of the global arms trade, but what about private gun ownership?

The answer is resoundingly clear: Firearms in the hands of civilians should be strictly limited and eventually completely eliminated.

But you won't find that statement in a headline or a document subheading. It's almost hidden in a footnote in a document on crime by the U.S. bishops' conference and it's mentioned in passing in dozens of official Vatican texts on the global arms trade.

Six Stabbed in brawl between students from West Catholic and Boys' Latin

By JULIE SHAW, BARBARA LAKER & REGINA MEDINA

Philadelphia Daily News

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FISTS AND feet flew outside a West Philadelphia Market-Frankford El station yesterday morning as two groups of high-school students battled each other, with at least one student bringing out a knife or other sharp object, as blood spilled on the sidewalk.

Five students from Boys' Latin of Philadelphia Charter School were stabbed or slashed, as was one from West Philadelphia Catholic High, during the melee about 7:30 a.m. on Farragut Street near Market, just outside the busy 46th Street Station.

At a school assembly yesterday, David Hardy, CEO of Boys' Latin, on Cedar Avenue near 55th in West Philadelphia, implored students not to retaliate. Four of the five kids stabbed had been accepted into college already.

Ex-Anglican bishops ordained as Catholics

Ex-bishops Broadhurst and Burnham were unhappy about the direction of the Anglican Church

Three former Anglican bishops, unhappy with the ordination of women, have been ordained as Roman Catholic priests at Westminster Cathedral.

Their ordination signals the inauguration of a special section of the Catholic Church for such Anglicans.
Keith Newton, Andrew Burnham and John Broadhurst will take up roles in the section known as the Ordinariate.
Father Newton has been chosen as leader of what is to be known as the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Friday, January 14, 2011

The end of a great era': Bishop Ward dies at 90

The term "churchman," as noted by Msgr. Francis Weber, is one used sparingly.

"It's a title that has to be earned," the archdiocesan archivist wrote in his Encyclopedia of California's Catholic Heritage. "It cannot be conferred. It signifies a person who towers above his contemporaries, one who personifies the ideals of the Christian commitment.

Sex abuse lawyer to sue Diocese of Clogher

THE DIOCESE of Clogher is to be sued in the US by clerical sex abuse specialist, lawyer Jeff Anderson, in connection with allegations of child sexual abuse in the early 1980s by a former Clogher priest.

Announcing the formation of a new London-based law firm, set up in partnership with solicitor Ann Olivarus, Mr Anderson said yesterday that the firm’s first joint case would be taken in Minnesota against a retired priest from the Diocese of Clogher.

The priest, now in his 80s, is alleged to have been a serial abuser who molested children in Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s and then in the US from the 1980s. In the case in question, taken in the US because the “John Doe plaintiff” is an American citizen, Mr Anderson is likely to argue the Diocese of Clogher is guilty of fraud because it sent the priest to a US diocese, despite knowing of his extensive history of child molestation in Ireland.

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

A Protestant Will Become President of the Papal Academy of Sciences

The main purpose of the academy consists in listening to the Pope's speech every year and nodding in a friendly way. That apparently means it could be a protestant or an abortion promoter.

Nobel Prize Winner Werner Arber (81)

(kreuz.net, Vatikan)Pope Benedict XVI has made the elderly Swiss Nobel Prize winnder Werner Areber (81) the president of the Papal Academy of Science, according to the Academy today.

The decadent Swiss Bishops Conference published the press release with congratulations.

But he's a protestant.

A Specialist in Enzymes

The new presidents of the Academy comes from the Community of Graenichen in the Swiss Canton Aarau.

In the year of 1965 he was appointed as a Professor at the University of Genf.

Since 1971 he's worked at the Biology Department of the University of Basel as a microbiologist and geneticist with bacteria.

In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize with two colleagues for the discovery of so-called restrictions enzyme.

The Old Liberal Bishops Celebrate

The Swiss Bishops Conference celebrated the "honorable appointment" -- especially because of its alleged "ecumenical significance".

The Church functionaries maintain that the "selection of those who are academically active scientists expressly on the basis of their scientific and ethical service, independent of Nation or Religious beliefs."

The Papal Academy of Science was founded 400 years ago by Pope Clemens VIII (1605).

They assemble eighty academics, who've been named by the Pope and are from among the most famous scientists of the entire world.

Initially, recently the Pope named the Brazilian abortion and homosexual ideologue, Miguel Nicolelis (49), as a member.

Kreuz.net...

Satanists desecrate cemetery in Zadar - General News - Croatian Times Online News - English Newspaper

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Unrepentant Thug Condemned -- Vienna Pro-Lifers Win Legal Battle

A milestone in the case law: For a year now law breakers in Vienna -- unapprehended by the police - - continued their dark work.

[kreuz.net Vienna] On Monday a Viennese district court condemned the thug Andreas T., who worked for the Viennese child murderer Christian Fiala. The criminals were found guilty of three crimes.

This was according to video site 'gloria.tv'.

For years Andreas T. had been paid by child butcher Fiala for that, to terrorize praying sidewalk counselors.

The comrades of the undercutting Vienese authorities who have stood till now always on the side of the psychoterrorists.

Actually now the judge had no choiceL: the attacks of Andreas T. were filmed with a hidden camera.

The Abortion Employees Were Violent

On Monday four offenses were handled. In reality Andreas T. had been responsible for countless offenses in the last years.

Thus he cut the rosaries of two praying sidewalk counselors. One of the attacks were filmed.

On the next day Andreas T. kicked against the back of a life defender's leg.

Two of those kicks were filmed with a camera.

The stricken life defender made a complaint about the injury he received on his back leg. A Doctor documented a bruise.

A fourth crime was reported as a theft: on the 15th of June 2009, Andreas T robbed the victim of his wallet, which he took from the life defender's jacket pocket, for a hidden camera.

He Lied to the Court

Despite the filmed data Andreas T attempted to deny the charges -- to the anger of the judge.

So he argued to the end that he hadn't stolen the gold purse.

His lie: the visible brown square wallet he said was a folded flier.

The judge did allow himself to be held as stupid: a theft of a wallet also goes to self-enrichment -- he explained to the contrary.

The website 'gloria.tv' shows excerpts immediately preceding the theft: they show how he takes a wallet from the life defender's jacket -- and not some flier.

On the video there are concidentally also excerpts, where Andreas T. steals yellow fliers from the jacket pocket -- a crime, that was not handled on Monday morning.

On the face of it the evidence must have finally implicated the terrorist in a kick.

Previous he had still stolidly insisted not to have trod on the leg of his victim, rather on an "object" before the leg.

The pained expression of his victim, explained the judge cynically, must have been from the "wind" hitting him.

The judge had to explain to the liar that a confession could serve as a mitigating factor.

Thereupon Andreas T. withdrew to consult with his lawyer.

Finally he insisted begrudgingly: "The video said that I had stepped on him, therefore I had probably stepped on him."

His defender encouraged him to more clearly state his confession. First he could then convince himself to tell the truth: "I did step on him from behind."

This confession forced by facts, begruding confession was greeted by the judge as mitigating. He gave failed, in any case, to give any contrition.

In aggravation he indicated that there were more punishable acts to come.

The judge condemned the thug to 100 daily rate for every 2 Euros plus legal costs.

Further, he was required to pay the life defender damages.

Kreuz.net... here.

Priceless Gothic High Altar of St. Nicholas in Aachen Destroyed

Now the Party is Over

The good God had recently decided to take a church, which had been recently recycled as a Party-Hall, out of circulation.

The Destroyed high altar in the Aachen City Church from
a press photo of the Diocese.

[kreuz.net, Aachen, Germany] In the night at the coming new year, a heavy fire in the gothic, medieval church St. Nicholas in Aachen, made its home.

The former cloister church has an apse which is fourteen meters high which is supported by twelve powerful pillars.

The priceless high altar with three paintings from the Rubens school, made for a real attention grabber.

The church pews were removed by the Dicoese of Aachen in 2002.

The space has been being used since by the Evangelical Communion and the Catholic Church and also for a so-called "City Pastoral".

The new years fire destroyed the 17th Century high altar completely.

The three altar paintings were a total loss.

The gothic high altar and the old lead glass winders were severely damaged.

The spreading of the fire to the roof was prevented by the fire department.

A destroyed window of the church led the police to suspect that the fire had been caused by a Silvesterrakete.

As recently as 29 October, the Bishop Heinrich Mussinghof of Aachen had celebrated his seventieth birthday.

The smoking feast was organized by a caterer and collected the Old Liberal Nomenklatura of the Diocese from hither and yon.

The Old Liberal Cardinal Lehmann of Mainz held a gala talk.

Also present were the president of the German Bishop's conference and the Old Liberal Archbishop of Freiburg, Msgr Robert Zollitsch.

Translated from German, here at kreuz.net...

Hundreds attend Mass to remember Arizona victims | ajc.com

Bishop Kicanas is canonizing everybody he can think of. How generous.

Hundreds attend Mass to remember Arizona victims | ajc.com

H/t: P-Hall

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

EGYPT: Death of church-bombing suspect while in police custody prompts protests

The death in police custody of a suspect in the New Year's Eve bombings that left 25 Coptic Christians dead and scores injured in Alexandria, Egypt, has triggered demonstrations in the most populous Arab country. Protesters have criticized Interior Minister Habib Adli over what they called the ministry's "brutal treatment and torture" of suspects

The Detour–A Review of ‘The Tourist’

Tucson Shooting Reveals Return to 1990s Mindset in America: Evil Liberals Are Blaming the Victims

Editor: The liberal media is more likely to blame in its valorization of a cult of violence and death in major motion pictures, academia, medicine and politics in general, which have far more cultural impact than do "conservative" talk shows.

The last time liberals had unrivaled political power, they ended up slaughtering millions of people after usurping the Russian Throne. So, in this case, conservatives like the Czar and his family were the victims of a liberal wealth confiscation scheme. Too impatient to rely on inflation, the liberals killed the Czar and his family in a remote place under cover of darkness.

Now they're blaming "conservatives" for something they've definitely influenced by their cancerous presence in motion pictures and music.

America has been going through something of a political time-warp in the aftermath of the Tucson massacre.
The public discussion again and again harkens back to the mid-1990s when the Oklahoma City bombing spurred the American elite to a lengthy discussion about the rise of radicals on the right. Reporters and analysts this week have endlessly reprised the arguments of 15 years ago.
Will President Obama's memorial speech at the University of Arizona evoke Bill Clinton's mix of sympathy and political accusation in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing? Is a toxic political climate to blame for setting off a madman? Are conservative opinion mongers to blame? [They're asking the wrong questions. Look within.]

Bishop Fellay's First Comments on Assisi III

Remarks on the Feast of the Epiphany during a sermon given at St. Nicolas du Chardonnet on the Solemnity of the Epiphany, January 9, 2011

After explaining the arrival of the Three Magi who traveled from the farthest ends of the pagan world to adore Our Lord Jesus Christ, Bishop Fellay contrasts this example of the Faith of the Magi with the unbelief of Herod and of the priests and the announcement of the World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi in October 2011.

In theory they know, in theory they believe. But in reality, do they believe? Do they really believe that Our Lord is God? Do they really believe that peace among men, among nations, is in His hand? Do they really believe in all the immediate, direct consequences of His divinity? …Are they all going, like the Magi, the Three Kings, to adore the true God and to look to Him for that peace and to ask Him for it? Are they going to the King of Peace: Rex Pacificus?

Oh, how history repeats itself, alas!

Link to SSPX site, here.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Saintly Bishop Bids His People Goodbye at End of Mass and Dies Shortly After

Brazil. [kreuz.net] This Saturday the emeritus Bishop Maneul Pestana Filho (82) of Anápolis died shortly after the celebration of Holy Mass. According to data from 'kathnews.de' he said at the end of Mass: "This is my last Holy Mass on Earth, the next will be in Heaven." The Bishop was ordained in 1952. In 1978 John Paul II named him the Bishop of Anápolis. In 2004 he retired for reasons of age. Bishop Pestana has shown himself to be right believing and supported Germany's Persecuted "Engelwerk".

Photo stolen from, here, Blogovikus.

Saarland in Germany Closes Two Schools of the SSPX

The Society of Pius X identifies the measures of Education Minister Klaus Kessler (Grüne) as "politically ideological" and will challenge them legally.

Saarbrücken (kath.net) The Education Ministry of Saarland has concluded that with the end of the current half of the school year, two Saarland schools, which are operated by the Society of Pius X, must conclude their operation. It falls upon the grade school in St. Arnual in Fechingen, according to SR-Online. The back ground for this is, according to Education Minister Kessler (Grüne), the long conflct related to the dormitory of the Heart of Jesus Realschule, which the Dom Bosco School Society must close in 2010.

The Dom Bosco School Society, both boards of the schools had declared during a press conference, it said "all of us are committed to exhaust all legal steps". The decision of the Education Ministry is being described as "ideologically political". The School Society explained in a statement on this that the Education Minister Kessler has already, as GEW-President, attempted "an illegal revocation of financial support and even the alteration of the Private School Laws" , "only so that he could close our schools. He slandered us in February 2009 as 'extremists in the area of education' and mischaracterized our manner of education with a description of St. Dom Bosco as a 'cane pedagogue', although these reproaches concerning this matter had shown themselves to be a slander campaign in 2007.

As predicted, the school will probably be closed by Green party radicals who have no business running a hat shop, much less a school system.

\Link to kath.net...

Police Pay: Anti-Homosexual Opinion was Legally Allowed

Great Britain: The representation of Biblical teachings on homosexuality as a sin are not grounds for arrest -- British police to pay 10,000 pounds in damages.

London [kath.net] The Baptist street preacher Dale McAlpine from Workington in Northwest England has received 10,000 pounds for his imprisonment by the police after his public declarations of the biblical teachings on homosexuality. This was according to Church News Notes this Friday.

McAlpine had explain that the Bible counts homosexuality as a sin to a passerby who asked him the question during his Evangelical demonstration, according to kath.net previously. A police official then arrested the preaching on the grounds of racially motivated offense, therefore an offense against the Public Order Act .(.
corresponds to the German anti-Discrimination Law)

McAlpine proceeded legally against the police and received support for that from other christians, who fear the restriction of freedom of expression. It did not go to trial. The police authorities conceded that the arrest and seven hour incarceration of the preacher was a violation of the preacher's human rights and agreed to pay the 10,000 pounds in damages.

From link to kath.net...

Pope donates $50,000 to help victims of Australian flooding

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ZENIT - Order Helps Descendants of Bethlehem Shepherds

Pope Wears Glorious Baroqe Vestments for New Year

Link to Fisheaters.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Papal Nuncio Killed in Ambush

BURUNDI: Tributes for papal nuncio killed in ambush

This happened on 29 December 2003.

Tributes have been pouring in for Michael Courtney, the apostolic nuncio to Burundi who was killed on Monday in an ambush south of the capital, Bujumbura.Pope John Paul II, in a telegram to the president of the Bishops' Conference of Burundi, Archbishop Simon Ntamwana, said he was "deeply saddened by the painful news", the Catholic news agency Misna reported on Tuesday. Speaking in Bujumbura on Tuesday, the apostolic nuncio to Uganda, Archbishop Christophe Pierre said the Catholic church would continue its contribution to the peace process.
"The killing of Courtney created an extreme sorrow among the Catholic church community, but I don't think relations between the Vatican and Burundi will stop at all; on the contrary, it is an opportunity to make more efforts in favour of peace in this country, as Michael Courtney did," he said.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=47849
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US Diplomat Beaten For Visiting Priest

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/07/us-diplomat-christian-marchant-is-beat-up-by-vietnamese-cops/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-w%7Cdl1%7Csec4_lnk2%7C194135US

Protests After Diplomat Is Beaten Up by Vietnamese CopsVietnamese police beat up an American diplomat and repeatedly slammed his legs in a car door after he tried to visit a high-profile dissident, according to U.S. officials.

Washington has made a strong protest over the treatment of Christian Marchant, a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. Marchant was roughed up on Wednesday outside a home for retired priests in the central Vietnamese city of Hue, where Catholic priest Rev. Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, 63, is being held under house arrest.

Pro-democracy campaigner Ly, who has served almost 15 years in jail for his activism, told Radio Free Asia that police wrestled Marchant to the ground as he approached the retirement home and then hustled him into a squad car. The Associated Press quoted an anonymous Washington official saying that officers repeatedly shut a car door on his legs
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He Resisted the Nazi Mainstream

"With his fight against National Socialism and Communism, Conrad Cardinal von Preysing was 'an example in faith and in struggle against dehumanizing ideologies even for today', said the Eichstaetter Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke at a ceremony for the book presentation in the upper-Bavarian Episcopal city: 'He had the courage not to trust the mainstream, but rather to obey God's will and to walk along a path straight to God.'"

From a report of the online-eduction of the 'Landshut News" on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Conrad Cardinal von Preysing of Berlin.

From kreuz.net...

77 percent of Flemish people think Archbishop Léonard is unsuitable

Alongside reports of a Convent where the nuns allegedly abused children is this story about Archbishop Primate of Belgium. It will be interesting to see if he resigns, but really, what are people objecting to? Once again, the sex-abuse hoax pollutes any clear understanding of what's going on here and the role that liberalism plays in this evil.

77 percent of Flemish people think Archbishop Léonard is unsuitable

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Bishop responds to 39% abortion rate

Last month the New York city health department released statistics that reported 39% of pregnancies were deliberately terminated. This week NY Archbishop Timothy Dolan held a press conference calling religious leaders to do something about it.
For his part Dolan rededicated Catholic commitment to providing alternatives to abortion.
“I re-affirm Cardinal John O’Connor’s promise of a quarter-century ago that every woman facing a difficult pregnancy will be provided with free, confidential help of the highest quality from the Archdiocese of New York,” said Archbishop Dolan.
“We are prepared to do everything in our power to help you and your unborn baby to make absolutely certain that you need never feel that you have no choice but an abortion.”
The Chiaroscuro Foundation, a non-profit organization, pledged $1 million in 2011 to promote alternatives to abortion in New York City.
Read more:
http://www.examiner.com/roman-catholic-in-anaheim/ny-bishop-responds-to-nyc-39-abortion-rate

WikiLeaks: US demanding our Twitter account info

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press

LONDON – U.S. officials have issued a subpoena to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to court documents obtained Saturday. WikiLeaks says other American Internet companies may also have been ordered to hand over information about its activities.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ordered San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. to hand over private messages, billing addresses and connection records of WikiLeaks founder JulianAssange and other alleged associates — including the U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of handing classified information to the site and a high-profile Icelandic parliamentarian.

Assange blasted the order, saying it amounted to harassment.

"If the Iranian government was to attempt to coercively obtain this information from journalists and activists of foreign nations, human rights groups around the world would speak out," he said in a statement.

Anglicans begin search for new bishop

Posted at 04:42 PM on Friday, Jan. 07, 2011

By Ron Orozco / The Fresno Bee

The area's Anglican community is taking steps to find a new bishop for the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. The current bishop, John-David Schofield, announced in 2009 that he plans to retire in October this year.

Schofield, who was elected bishop in 1988, helped lead a secession movement out of the U.S. Episcopal Church in 2007 amid debate over same-sex blessings; the consecration of a partnered gay priest, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, as a bishop; and how to interpret the Bible over such issues. Schofield led the former Episcopal diocese into the new Anglican Church in North America in 2009.

A Bishop Search Committee, with 17 members, was formed according to diocesan canons after Schofield announced his intention to retire. According to the diocese's website, key dates for the election, consecration and enthronem

Catholic Bishop Tobin lashes out at R.I. leaders for pushing gay marriage | Politics | projo.com | The Providence Journal

If only more Bishops would do these sorts of things...

Related: Bishop Tobin Strikes Again

Catholic Bishop Tobin lashes out at R.I. leaders for pushing gay marriage | Politics | projo.com | The Providence Journal

Anglicans Ablaze: Do We Really Need Bishops?

A legitimate question if your religion is a purely human construct, which it is in this case.

Anglicans Ablaze: Do We Really Need Bishops?: "By Robin G. Jordan “Do we really need bishops?” is a question that I hear from time to time. I have generally been reluctant to write an a..."

Elizabeth Anscombe wrote of birth control and morality.

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, the Catholic philosopher whose work on subjects from Aristotelian ethics to the perils of birth control is enjoying a renaissance, died 10 years ago this week in England, at 81. And obituary writers remembered what she wore.

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Elizabeth Anscombe wrote of birth control and morality.

The Telegraph wrote, “Clad in leopard-skin trousers and a leather jacket, she might sit in silence for minutes on end, puffing on a cigar, after one of her students had finished reading out an essay.”

And The Guardian : “For a time she sported a monocle, and had a trick of raising her eyebrows and letting it fall on her ample bosom, which somehow made her yet more daunting.”

Read remainder at NYTs, here...

Friday, January 7, 2011

Check out The Catholic Library Forum!

Check out this forum: http://thecatholiclibrary.proboards.com/ for catholicism discussion. Made by the publishers of this blog.

Largest Bell in the World at Cologne Cathedral is Silenced

Largest free swinging bell in the world: Shortly before the Epiphany Mass the clapper of the 24 ton bell -- The "decke Pitter" is the German Peace Bell.

The Most Famous Spires in Europe

Cologne (kath.net/KAP) Shock in the Cologne Cathedral: The bell known as "Decker Pitter" by the locals is silenced. On Thursday morning the clapper with a 3.24 Meter diameter and with a weight of 24 tons, the largest free swinging bell in the world, fell. The cause is still unknown. Possibly there was some material weakening in the structure connecting the clapper to the bell itself. No one was injured as the Cathedral Provost said to the Cologne "Express".

For that reason, at least till the repair of the Cologne Bell, the 21 ton St. Stephen's Cathedral bell is the largest free swinging, sounding bell in a church tower. Its 800 kilogram weight clapper will be replaced by a lighter 200 kilogram clapper.

The deep C of the sound in the Cologne Cathedral should have pealed shortly before the 10 O'Clock hour of the Feast of the "Coming of the Magi" [Epiphany] on Three Kings Day. The approximately one ton clapper fell around 9:30, it is said. It fell on the floor of the bell room and broke in two. The Cathedral authority will inform the public, through a report on Cathedral Radio, about the extent of the damages.

Since 1924 "The German Peace Bell"

The Bell was poured in Thuringian Apolda in 1923. It was consecrated on 30 November 1924 as the "German Peace Bell". The predecessor which was made from melted French rifles in 1873 was removed and melted down to make weapons in 1918. The "decke Pitter" is struck on high Catholic feasts, and has been rung for the city only after the end of the Second World War and the Reunification of Germany.

The "decke Pitter" has held its record title as the largest free swinging bell till today -- to the annoyance of the citizens of the US City Newport. There a would be patron financed the pouring of a 30 ton bell in France, which would have left the Peter's Bell in the dust. In any case there isn't a church tower which is stable enough.

The largest bell in the world overall was probably the "Zar Kolkol" in Moscow poured in 1734. It weighed 200 tons and is six meters high. It was never struck, because it was severely damaged by a fire at the bell smith.

Kath.net...here.

FSSP Church Consecration in Phoenix

From FE.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

God was behind Big Bang, universe no accident: Pope

By Philip Pullella

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - God's mind was behind complex scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident, Pope Benedict said on Thursday.

"The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe," Benedict said on the day Christians mark the Epiphany, the day the Bible says the three kings reached the site where Jesus was born by following a star.

"Contemplating it (the universe) we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God," he said in a sermon to some 10,000 people in St Peter's Basilica on the feast day.

While the pope has spoken before about evolution, he has rarely delved back in time to discuss specific concepts such as the Big Bang ...

The Motley Monk Blog: Even more fallout in response to Bishop Olmsted's ...

,Editor: this guy used to work for the McGovern campaign. He knows whereof he speaks. One thing's for sure, the CCHD [Catholic Campaign for Human Development] isn't Catholic.

The Motley Monk Blog: Even more fallout in response to Bishop Olmsted's ...: "Previous to the Christmas and New Year's holidays, the Archbishop of San Francisco, George Niederauer, announced his intention in Catholic S..."

Former pastor, Daniel L. Monk, found guilty of sexual abuse

NEWARK -- Despite attempts to delay, a 47-year-old former pastor was found guilty Wednesday of having sex with a 16-year-old congregant.

Daniel L. Monk, last known address 1025 Kelly Drive, Hebron, pleaded no contest and was found guilty of two counts of sexual battery, both third-degree felonies, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a first-degree misdemeanor. He could face up to 10 years in prison and a $21,000 fine for the offenses.

Between June and September, Monk had sex with a 16-year-old girl who was a congregant at Soul's Harbor Pentecostal Church, 12180 Lancaster St., Millersport, at her Hebron residence, Licking County Assistant Prosecutor Dan Huston said.

Monk told police he had counseled the girl before becoming a father figure ...

Fr. Dwight Longenecker on the founder of Miles Jesu: "The guy gave me the creeps from the start."

From Fr. Longenecker's blog:

http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/2011/01/miles-jesu-founder-dismissed.html

I'm pleased to report that the founder of Miles Jesu has been dismissed for 'totally unacceptable behavior'. I got to know the members of Miles Jesu when I lived in England. American Steve Ryan was the leader of the community of celibate, consecrated laymen. Steve is an intelligent, devoted and spiritual man who lived a very sacrificial life in service of the church. The guys at Miles Jesu organized the annual Path to Rome conference in London at which various converts to the Catholic Church were invited to speak. At a couple of the conferences the founder, Fr. Alfonso Duran turned up with his retinue. I have to say that the guy gave me the creeps from the start. My impression was of a sinister, power hungry leader of a cult.

However, this was simply my personal, subjective impression, and always wishing to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and not liking to accuse anyone of being a Catholic Darth Vader, I kept my opinions to myself. Nevertheless, I was not surprised a few years later to discover that Miles Jesu was under investigation, that my friend Steve Ryan had left the organization, nor that he was being persecuted and having false allegations made against him by those members who remained loyal.

The case is too much like the problems of the Legionairies and Fr. Marcel Marciel. Anyone associated with this kind of religious behavior will recognize that it is not only a problem with Catholicism. There are fundamentalist, Evangelical colleges, churches and other organizations that operate with the same cult-like mentality--demanding total loyalty and black listing and ostracizing those who criticize or leave the little fortress of faith. The problem is complex and is not only the blame of the domineering cult leader. Those who belong to such groups collude with the leadership, and a sick symbiosis of the dominator and those who wish to be dominated develops. Often those who follow such leaders desire the security and absolute certainty that comes with membership and the totally unacceptable demands for loyalty and mindless obedience that are part of the system.

The same problem can exist within marriages, families, parishes, schools and workplaces in a less extreme form. Anyone who demands total, unquestioned loyalty and anyone who wishes to submit themselves to such a regime or relationship is living out a frighteningly immature and irresponsible reaction to life's challenge. Such systems, wherever they occur, breed infantilism--not the proper child-like trust of the saint--but a diabolical counterfeit that controls and oppresses (and even more sickly) desires to be controlled and oppressed. Saints are not made in this way. All that results from such a life is spiritual, social and psychological abuse of a profound nature which produces not saints, but sad and stunted souls.

Finally, we should understand that those who are involved in this sick relationship are more often sick than evil. The dominator really thinks he is doing God's will and is simply exerting the necessary discipline to produce saints. The dominated really thinks he is doing God's will by living out a life of sacrifice and total obedience. Most often the great growth of such organizations, their ability to raise funds and attract followers and their undoubted good works make them difficult to criticize. Their deception operates at many different levels to both themselves and outside observers. Either way, sick or evil, such religious behavior has to be exposed and rooted out.