Iraq: Hope and Fear Among Christians

First Communion in Baghdad -- Attacks on Church in Kirkuk

München-Baghdad (kath.net/KIN) Despite the dangerous security situation in Baghdad, the same as it was before, over 40 children have celebrated their First Holy Communion in the capital of Baghdad. For Christians it is life threatening, just as it was before, to be seen on the streets of the Iraqi capital. Therefore, the parish must rent a bus to take the children to their communion instruction at the Church.

A young seminarian from Baghdad, who must be anonymous for security reasons, instructed the children during their preparation and sent "Kirche in Not" photos of their instruction for the First Communion.

He says that the children are preparing with "great seriousness and full of joy" in expectation of their reception of the Body of Christ. About the difficult situation of the Christians in Baghdad he says: "This is our home and we will not be driven from it!" The First Communicants are "seedlings of peace" for Iraq. "Christ is our joy and our hope, his message can change our society," explained the Seminarian.

Since the intervention of the "Coalition of the Willing" into Iraq in 2003, Christians have been caught between two fronts in a bloody civil war between Sunnite and Shi'ite militias. Representatives of the Church have stated since, that they are neutral bystanders in this conflict and are working for a peaceful and democratic Iraq.

For that reason there are always more terror attacks on Christian institutions. In this month alone, there have been three attacks on Churches in the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Altogether there were at least 13 people wounded as well as Church and outlying buildings severely damaged. Last monday the Syrian-Catholic St. Ephraim Church in Kirkuk was the target of a car bomb attack. No one was injured, there the security personnel were quickly informed of a suspicious automobile and were able to save the priest and the parish.

Many Christians have left their homes out of fear. Archbishop Louis Sako from Kirkuk reports that in the last two weeks, five families have gone away. Actually the government takes the protection of Christians very seriously. It actually has promised to provide guards for the Churches, says Archbishop Sako, but no one can guarantee that there won't be more explosions.

"Kirche in Not" supports the peace work of the Iraqi Bishops and helps with additionally, to sustain Parishes of the Land and provide pastoral care.

The organization requests its supporters for their prayers for Christians in Iraq and donations for the Church there:

Receiver: Kirche in Not
Account Number [Konto]: 215 20 02
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LIGA Bank München

Password: Iraq

Kirche in Note Donation Site, here..

Growing Number of Catholics Push for a Return of the Immemorial Mass

Ellie Arkin doesn't speak Latin, so upon entering Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Madison on a recent Sunday, the 21-year-old UW-Madison student opened a Latin-to-English translation book provided by the church.

For the next hour, she and many of the other parishioners followed along in the book as the Mass unfolded mostly in Latin.

For centuries, this was the only way Catholics around the world experienced Mass. Reforms ushered in by Vatican II in the 1960s largely eliminated Latin Mass, but now, across the country and in the Madison Catholic Diocese, traditionalists are seeking its comeback.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/article_5ff07426-cc16-11e0-8af0-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1VsjGsSyr

H/t: Stella Borealis

"Disobedience": Proposals are a 'False Path' says Retired Heiligenkreuz Abbot

Gregor Henckel-Donnersmarck in the "Kurrier" -- Interview:  Making a point of view, in order to get people's attention, is "not right".

Vienna (kath.net/KAP) Retired Cistercian Heiligenkreuz Abbot Gregor Hencke-Donnersmarck describes the Pastors' Initiative as a "wrong path". "A deficit in Faith will not be corrected in more pastors," so says +Henckel-Donnersmarck in an interview with the daily "Kurier" on the (20th. August) It would be more important to the message to baptised and confirmed people; "there, where the priest can't get there. There is no prohibition against preaching, rather there is even a mandate," said the Abbot.

The question isn't whether priests should marry or women should be priests: "it is on the capacity for modern people to believe", says the Cistercian +Henckel-Donnersmarck

The Heiligenkreuz Abbot fears in general that in Euroope, people have lost the sensus for the Faith: "chasing after them, to give a point of view, only to get their attention, is also not right," says Henckel-Donnersmarck. "We have a message, which we must hold to."

Church is a "very indulgent authority, but it still isn't a democracy at heart", insists Hecnkel-Donnersmarck with a glance to the "Discussion on Disobedience". "We should speak of the important themes like th Sacraments and Jesus Christ in these difficult pastoral situations."

As to the question if anything new can be permitted in the Church, the Abbot referenced Pope Benedict XVI: There is a development in the Church with "strong, new impulses". There remains though an "unalterable message". One should not bow to new fashions or allow themes push their way in, "which have nothing directly to do with the Faith".

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Micheal Voris Criticizes WYD Spain's Immodesty and Americanism

CNA will hopefully print some kind of retraction.  We'll look for it when it comes.  Here is Mr. Voris's explanation of what happened.

Link pdf, here...

Here's what Voris has to say about Americanism and WYD, here.

Phoenix diocese cathedral won't allow girl altar servers

Edit: going against the Zeitgeist in this way will bring about a substantial increase in vocations to the religious life and priesthood. Nice to see this excellent Bishop continuing to challenge the wisdom of the world.

Nothing Wrecks Solemnity Like Feminism

[Arizona Public] Girls no longer will be allowed as altar servers during Mass at the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, SS. Simon and Jude.

The Rev. John Lankeit, rector of the cathedral, said he made the decision in hopes of promoting the priesthood for males and other religious vocations, such as becoming a nun, for females.

Made up primarily of fifth- through eighth-graders the altar-server corps in American churches has included girls since 1983 in many places. Girls and boys regularly serve together at churches throughout the Phoenix Catholic Diocese.


Phoenix diocese cathedral won't allow girl altar servers

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Traditionalist Bishops Celebrate the Immemorial Mass With 1500 WYD Pilgrims

(Madrid) Msgr. Marc Marie Max Aillet,  the Bishop of Bayonne, Lescar and Orlon since 2008 in France will celebrate the Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form at the Parish Church of San Eduardo in Madrid with more than 1500 youth.  This church has been allocated to the youth who are attached to Tradition from France.  The Bishops of Bayonne and Frejus-Toulon have been celebrating Holy Mass in the Tridentine Rite.

In addition, young Catholic pilgrims who are bound to Tradition also use the churches of the Terceer Monasterio de la Visitación (Salesians)and the parish church of San Francisco de Sales.

Msgr Le Gall on August 19th

Bishop Marc Aillet is close to the Community of St. Martin.  His priestly ordination took place in 1982 at the hands of the great Cardinal Giusseppe Siri.  Before his consecration as Bishop he was the General Vicar of the Diocese of Frejus-Toulon, which is known for its closeness to Tradition.  Msgr Aillet promotes the Rite in his Diocese.

[Update] on August 19th, 2011, Msgr Robert Le Gall, Archbishop of Toulose celebrated the Old Rite at the parish church of San Francisco de Sales.  The Benedictine Msgr Le Gall is a famous Liturgist and was named to the tradition rich French Archdiocese in 2006.  In 1992 he founded the Groupe de Chevetogne for the collaboration of Catholics and Orthodox.  Archbishop Le Gall is the Chairman of the Liturgical Commission of the French Bishops Conference.

Translated from German which was translated from Messa in Latino/Giusseppe Nardi

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Nearly Two Million Kneel in the Mud For The Eucharistic Lord

Edit: despite the rain, many of these people will remain throughout the night to adore the Blessed Sacrament.

Another Accusation Against Father Dan Ward at Collegeville

Fr. Dan Ward

Edit: What lies are there which continue to be revealed as the Modernist Monastery's decaying and dying structures spread their contagion.  Monks who do not believe or practice the Church's teachings on sexual morality and personal conduct are protected and continue their collective task as agents of demoralization?

In the battle against what we call Cultural Marxism there are almost no active or coordinated opponents of this that we know of, although it's much discussed. All of the combatants are isolated from one another, linked by a common experience or an understanding of Cultural Marxism and its effects.  Cultural Marxism is dangerous because it teaches that there are no personal sins, only collective ones and it stands by it central dogma that "there is no such thing as objectivity or truth".  The term is better understood by its links especially to the Frankfurt School and Modern Psychoanalysis. But despite all of the evidence and warnings around and about, there is practically no response from the churches, indeed, they are often proponents of Cultural Marxism. While  Pope Benedict will decry the "Dictatorship of Relativism" there are all too few religious leaders in the Catholic Church who take him seriously; a diabolical delusion has certainly taken hold. An individual who finds himself confronted by its various manifestations doesn't know where to turn; he can seek legal aid, but it's an uphill battle, because one of the hallmarks of this social disease is that it's extremely difficult to make a coherent defense against it, because many people won't accept reasoned defenses, so far have its inroads been made into education where the values of truth and honor have been replaced by Social Justice and uncritical "tolerance". Some even  turn to their churches for counsel against this ideology, but in many cases, their church has long ago succumbed, and the Cultural Marxist will have been long in place, spreading the spiritual and intellectual torpor and demoralizing the society at large.

In this particular case, we have a Modernist Monastery -- whose legal counsel is a credibly accused predator, Father Dan Ward -- which is a widely trusted institution,  thought to be forthright in its mission, but we discover not only that they are false, but when questioned about unjust and plainly immoral behavior, they will  dismiss and deflect the concerns.  Some victims have even  found themselves being threatened.  All of this has happened at Collegeville. Their very profession as religious is itself a walking contradiction where they are permitted and frequently  promote homosexuality, sexual depravity and Social Justice in the name of the Catholic Religion and their profession as Benedictine Monks.

This philosophical attack, classically represented by Collegeville's monastics, has been with us for a long time. For Modernism has been a problem in the Catholic Church dating long before its actual condemnation by St. Pius X in his encyclical Lamaentabili Sane. Despite this condemnation and the perpetual condemnation of the Church for the false doctrines promoted at Collegeville. Modernism and its manifestations in the aforementioned Liberal schools of thought, has as their roots, the continental philosophical, humanist tradition expressed by Empiricist, Nominalist and Atheist thinkers of the last three Centuries.

Those seedlings which have shot up from fragile seeds of error have chocked out the furrows of a once plentiful field and turned them into an overgrown wasteland, increasingly remote to the principles which guided the organization in the first place.

St. John's has numerous complaints against it, including against its leadership, notably Abbot Eidenschenk who would interview his novices in the nude. These accusations stretch back decades but most have taken place in the eighties and indicate that from the top down, there was a culture of homosexual depravity to also include also Abbot Timothy Kelly who was himself responsible for disciplining these individuals and seems to have looked the other way because he too was as corrupt as the men being accused.  It's also a matter of fact that someone in administration was tampering with the personal files of the various accused.

St. John's attorney, Father Dan Ward, has also been substantially accused of being a homosexual predator. When one of his victims approached the Abbot, Jerome, he was told to "grow up".

This account will be familiar to some. Many left-leaning, homosexual clergy have talked about the importance of "being sexually mature".

It is interesting to note that Father Dan Ward was the man responsible for stage handling the mostly ineffective and now defunct Institute for Sexual Trauma [Interfaith is always a bad sign.  There's only one true Faith.] which was apparently set up for the fox to watch the chickens.  His other activities, when he's not betraying the Catholic Faith, include helping women religious avoid living their lives in a legitimate fashion as director of the Resource Center for Religious Institutes..  This article is from Catholic Culture entitled, "In Denial". 

Here's the most recent report about Father Dan Ward's alleged sexual activities from the Pine Curtain:

Fr. Dan Ward believed that a well-rounded and mature monastic needed to have an open-minded view of sexuality. The conversation started to become more physical as he began to be aroused by the topic.[Sounds familiar]

I rejected his advances and strong sexual initiatives.

I immediately left his room and went and got sick.

The next morning I went to see XXXXXX and told him of the incident. His response simply was to get over it that Father Ward has great power … [He does actually.  He runs a well-endowed non-profit]  and if I wish to continue being a monastic I would just have to accept his behavior.

I spoke to XXXXXX privately about the encounter. He told me it was a confessional issue and I needed to grow up and deal with my sexuality.

[Webmaster's Note: This is an excerpt from the fourth statement received from a victim of Dan Ward's misconduct. Excerpts from the first three statements are available here.]

Note that the complaining monk's counselor didn't deny that Father Ward is what he is, but that you just have to live with it.

Pine Curtain, here. 

We Still Remember

 Josh Guimond, 20, left a small card party at friend Nate Slinkard's Metten Court apartment on the St. John's University campus in Collegeville, MN sometime around midnight on November 9, 2002. His friends believed he was just making a trip to the bathroom, but when he did not come back after 15 minutes, they assumed he had just walked back to his dorm room at St. Maur House. It was a three minute walk, but he never made it home. He has not been seen since. While there was some drinking at the party, friends say Josh Guimond was not inebriated when he left.

General Superior of the SSPX Called to Rome

Edit: the following has been translated from the Society Website of Germany and he requests prayers. This was previously reported by Mundabor.

The General Superior and his two assistants, Father Niklaus Pfluger and Father Alain-Marc Nely have been invited to a special meeting in Rome on 14. September 2011.

 This is according to Father Franz Schmidberger of Germany in the forward to his next newsletter.

Here it is:

"Exactly in this sense we ask you to raise your prayers to heaven for the 14th of September. On this day, on the Feast of the Holy Cross, Msgr Fellay, our honorable General Superior, has been ordered to an audience by Cardinal Levada, the Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, in regard to the outcome of the two year doctrinal talks between the Holy See and the Priestly Society."

It is noteworthy that not only the General Superior, but the General Counsel of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X has been ordered to Rome: The General Counsel consists of the General Superior and his assistants.

The Society has established preparations with the Talks with the Holy See under the direction of Bishop de Galarreta which has been left in a very good climate.

It is generally understood that this meeting will turn to the canonical situation of the Society.

Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the Decree of Excommunication of 1988 on 21. January 2009. (Dekret nachlesen) Since then the Society is no longer "excommunicated", therefore the question of the canonical status is left unanswered all along.

Opponents of the Society of St. Pius X., above all the German Episcopate, have used this as a pretext in the recent past, to deny any collaboration with the Society. Recent examples are the First home Mass of Father Jeindle in the Diocese of Vienna as well as the national Pilgrimage to Altötting in July of this year.

All Catholics, who receive the Sacraments in the churches and chapels of the Society of St. Pius X in Germany, are requested to offer their prayers for this meeting on the Feast of the Holy Cross.

Link to the German District Website...

Will There be Justice For Cardinal Innitzer?

Time Magazine's Cover For Man of the Year 1938

[Kreuznet, Austria]. The Archdiocese of Vienna is working together with a Holocaust Museum in Washington, in order to accuse Austrian Church History. This was reported yesterday by the the news agency 'kathpress'. It concerns data being researched about the Viennese Cardinal Theodor Innitzer († 1955). The Prince of the Church supported the Anschluss of Austria to the German Reich. At that time he signed a declaration with "Heil Hitler" Actually, from October 1938 – during the time when Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler († 1945) was an internationally celebrated political figure – the Prince of the Church turned against the Nazi political movement. He preached in Vienna's Stephansdom: „Unser Führer ist Jesus Christus“[Our Führer is Jesus Christ]. Today's leadership in the Archdiocese of Vienna on the other hand, has collaborated for years with the Abortion-State.

Link to kreuz.net article...

Sudden Tempest at Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium Kills Five

Edit: Participants claimed to have experienced the "end of the world" at a rock festival on Thursday.  There were 65,000 on the field and it's a testimony to the mercy of almighty God that more weren't killed.

The storm came from nowhere and ripped apart two of the stages while the skies above became as black as the soul of a money lender.  Heavy gusts of wind set in and torrents of rain.

The promoters decided not to continue the event scheduled to last for three days.

"I have bruises all over.  Trees fell down. It was the end of the world" -- explained an eye witness for the Belgian journal "Le Soir"


No one paid much attention to the writing on the wall at last year's event

There was a palpable curse at the beginning of  the event last year.

The singer of the no longer existing British electro-pop group, "Ou Est le Swimming Pool", Charles Haddon, killed himself after his entrance.
He hung himself from a satellite mast in the parking lot. On the day before the sound engineer of another group suffered a heart attack.

The evil festival was planned by an obscure atheistic organization "Humanistic Youth" from the 14,500 person city Leopoldsburg in the vicinity of Hasselt.

It is a society which is devoted to promoting church-hate.

One of the more well-received groups is, for example, "Faith No More".

Link to kreuz.net...

Monastery Corporation Goes Into Insolvency

The Monastery in the Ardennes was founded personally by St. Bernard of Clairvaux himself.  Now the talk is of savings accounts.

Cloister Himmerod

(kreuz.net) 'The  Abbey Himmerod Corporation mbH' is bankrupt.

This was recently reported by the website of the Cistercian Cloister Himmerod.

On the 12th of August the Operation filed for insolvency at the district court of Wittlich.

The Cistercian Cloister Himmerod is located in the Ardennes. It was founded in the years 1134/35 by St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

It is located in the municipality of Manderscheid -- 56 kilometers north of Trier.

Today there are thirteen Monks living in the Cloister.

Since January the Cloister has been directed by an administrator, Father Stephan Senge.

It operates a museum with rotating art exhibits, a book and art store, a guest area, a guest and meeting hall.

AFter losses of more than 200.000 Euro during the years of 2008 and 2009, employees must be dismissed and special projects like the fish farm must be closed.

Unfortunately, these measures aren't sufficient.

The leadership of the Subsidiary Company of the Cloister foresaw after talking to Counsel, to apply for bankruptcy, in order to protect the Abbey from enormous debts.

The Monastic life of the Monks is not going to be effected by this step.

On Tuesday the website of the Cloister announced that events, guest invitations, reservations and all further dealings will take place in the customary and planned extent in Abbey Himmerod.

Link to kreuz.net...

Riots Against Pope's Visit Incited by the Reds

The Flag of God, King, Country and Tradition

lot of money to the Spanish Government and taxpayers, violence has ensued.  It's a familiar pattern. Actually, as Voris says, a lot more money is going in than going out and Coca Cola Company has picked up the expenses.  Here's the video, here.

The proud banner above with Salitire and Cross is the Carlist.  Carlistas have been fighting Communism in Spain for more than a century now.  There was no ambiguity intended and many thanks to the commenter who pointed it out.

Catholic News Agency had "no idea" It Isn't a Legitimate Non-Profit

Bad Mime !

Clarification: Shea says that we were "reactionary" [That's a Marxist term to describe conservatives, btw.] in suggesting this and attempted to tut-tut us, but the records actually show that EWTNs CNA failed four times successively to file their tax status for the government and there were occasions where they went weeks and months without a legal tax status. We even got it from his website. Oh well, what do you expect from a channel that advertises Billy Graham ads and is a Network Gone Wrong.

Voris overlooked this minor technicality for two years. Catholic Snooze Agency did this over four years.


Catholic News Agency had "no idea" about its own administrative shortcomings when it attempted to pillory Micheal Voris for not filing the non-profit status of RCTV for two years with the State of Michigan.

Stephen Fry says comments sections are the rat's cellar, but Mark Shea's com box had this gem by JC Kapla:

Hmmm…. I’m no Voris defender, but this is nothing but cheapshot journalism, so let’s see:

Catholic News Agency claims to be a 501(c)3 based in Englewood, CO, yet there is no record of them under that name or ACI Prensa in Colorado. In addition, there is no record of either one on any charity watchdog site, such as GuideStar or Charity Navigator.

A search for their address on Google turns up two other Catholic organizations apparently located in the same building: Christ in the City Missionaries and Association for Catholic Info.

No business records exist for Christ in the City Missionaries either, but they do exist for Association for Catholic Info.

A man by the name of Jorge Luna incorporated AfCI and his name appears on several AfCI documents. His name also appears several times on the Catholic News Agency website, so they appear to be connected.

http://www.google.com/search?q=jorge+luna+site:www.catholicnewsagency.com&qscrl=1

And what do you know!!! Lo and behold…

AfCI failed FOUR YEARS IN A ROW to file its annual report with the state of Colorado. It’s all right there on the State of Colorado’s website:

http://bit.ly/oTngLc

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/in-defense-of-michael-voris-and-simon-rafe/#ixzz1VUnZ0LlG

Hungary Isn't Banning the Anglican Church After All

Edit: after an exaggerated report from an England newspaper, a lot of people are keen to show you just how enlightened Hungary really is. That's too bad.

A story in the Church of England newspaper written by George Conger that Hungary has banned the Anglican Church in its country seriously distorts the facts.

Virtueonline spoke with Hungarian embassy officials in Washington, DC, today, who said that churches in their country are only being asked to re-register; they are not being banned. "Hungary's constitution supports religious freedom. Anybody can create a church and practice their faith all they are being asked to do is to register it with the state in order to be eligible for the benefits provided by the Act," an Embassy spokesman told VOL.

A statement VOL received from the embassy said that on July 11 the Hungarian parliament adopted the Act on the Right to Freedom of Conscience and Religion, and on the legal Status of Churches, Religious Denominations and ...

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Ortega Accused of Religious Pandering by Former Culture Minister

Edit: in a country where almost sixty percent identify themselves as Catholics, the Leftist President, Daniel Ortega, now enjoys the support of Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo who was critical of him when he ruled the country beginning in 79 when he toppled Somoza thanks to the benign neglect of President Jimmy Carter.

All is not well, however, Jesuit Ernesto Cardenal, former Sandista Minister of Culture publicly reprimanded by Pope John Paul, and Bishop Abelardo Mata are more cynical about Ortega's newly found faith in God.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Religious processions and chants have become common at the re-election campaign rallies of leftist Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who is highlighting his Christianity in his bid for re-election.

The image put forth by Ortega's Sandinista Party has dismayed Roman Catholic Church officials, who say the leader's spirituality is a ploy to deceive Nicaraguans who will elect a president in November.

"It's legal, legal, legal," Ortega said at a recent rally when addressing criticism that he is running a campaign tinged with religion. "No one can ban us from using the word Christian. No one. The Vatican hasn't said a word about it."

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Bomb Defused at Traditional Catholic Church in Colombia

Edit: Wow, the Communist FARC's bombing everything else in Colombia and killing innocent civilians, why not bomb people at Holy Mass too? This ongoing conflict has received significant support from Chavez's Venezuela whose imperialist activities are depriving his country's hungry people of bread.

Bomb experts were dispatched to a Catholic Church there where a device weighing slightly less than one kilo was located under the floor and disarmed just before First Saturday Mass on the 6th of August according to unnamed source. It is suspected that the FARC was behind this attack. They were accused of another attack six days later where a car bomb was detonated, wounding at least nine people.

They also blew up a bus on July 9th last month. The FARC has been perpetrating killings on southern Columbia´s religious centers, especially in Nariño and Cauca provinces

Despite the Catholic Church's calls for mediation, it wouldn't be the first time the FARC has targeted Catholic events and individuals.

These Reds certainly have an interest in making people feel unsafe in their homes and even in their churches.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A car bomb exploded outside a major radio station and banks in Colombia’s capital on Thursday, shattering windows and injuring at least nine people, police said. No deaths were reported.

The blast occurred at 5:30 a.m. (6:30 a.m. EDT) outside the building of Caracol Radio in northern Bogota. The national police operations director, Gen. Orlando Paez, said the car was packed with at least 110 pounds of explosives.

Gen. Cesar Pinzon, the city’s police chief, suggested that leftist rebels could have set off the blast, but he said authorities were not sure whether the bomb was aimed at the station or at several nearby bank headquarters.

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In Orissa, India, Catholics Still Live in Fear

Edit: while small but highly influential groups of decadent, aging dissidents fight to destroy the remnants of the Catholic Patrimony in the West, Catholics in the East are being slaughtered by Hindu Militants.

St. Francis Xavier, pray for us.


Bhubaneshwar (AsiaNews) - Three years ago in the district of Kandhamal, Orissa, Christians were victims of unprecedented violence by Hindu radicals. The situation is far from being normal, as explained by Msgr. Raphael Cheenath, then archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar. And as you can see as much from the episode in a villiage in Betticola, from which Christians were forced to flee. The Betticola parish and the Catholic church were destroyed. The Christians, after being moved to five refugee camps received permission from the radical Hindu Sangh Parivar to return to Betticola, but as Hindus, that is converted. And the state administration, which should have rebuilt the church and parish, claims to have given the refugees everything they asked for.

"Religious freedom is still lacking in Kandhamal, the reign of terror, although limited, continues", says the Archbishop Emeritus of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, Orissa Rapahel Cheenath, three years after the bloody pogroms against Christians unjustly accused of the murder of a radical Hindu leader. On August 23, 2008 about 30 armed men entered the Ashram Jalespta, in Kandhamal, and shot dead swami Laxamanananda Saraswati and four of his followers. The funeral procession of Swami Laksamandanda took place in two days, over 250 miles, stopping at churches and Christian homes. The Hindu violence led to the destruction of 300 churches, the burning of more than 5600 homes and the flight of over 56 thousand Christians. A nun and two other women were raped and many molested. This despite the fact that the perpetrators of the crime were not Christians, but the Maoists. "(11/05/2011 24:51 Orissa pogroms: police clear Christians from the death of Hindu religious leader).

Raphael Cheenath is no longer the archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, but the situation in his eyes is still very serious. "Religious freedom is still lacking in Kandhamal, the reign of terror continues, even if limited, refunds are greatly inadequate, or negligible, and our people do not have justice. There are numerous attempts to criminalize the victims and unfortunately there are fears of a return to violence. Our people have experienced the inability of the Administration to protect those under threat of destruction. Fear and intimidation continue, and justice is still a distant reality. "

Link to Asianews...

Voris on Lies in Formerly Catholic Spain

Edit: The Communists have been accusing WYD of costing Spain too much money. However, Voris says that 140,000,000 Euros are being brought to the Spanish Economy by World Youth Day.

He just trashed same-sex marriage too. It is to be imagined that there will be shrieking and wailing over that.

The Prince of Liechtenstein Will Block Proposed Abortion Law

Prince Alois von Liechstenstein will reject the law for abortion in the first trimester himself, in case it is adopted by popular vote.

Vaduz (kath.net) Prince Alois von Liechtenstein will reject the law for abortion in the first trimester himself, in case it is adopted by popular vote. The Prince made this clear as part of his role as Liechtenstein's head of state in a speech at for the national holiday. The present bill under proposal will not come into effect. The proposed law foresees an allowance for early abortion in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy, and abortion may be allowed up to the moment of birth in cases where a fetus is handicapped. At present abortion is illegal in the Principality of Liechtenstein where about fifty female citizens of Liechtenstein have abortions abroad every year illegally.

The Liechtenstein National Assembly had defeated the controversial proposal at the end of June, while the plebiscite will follow in September. One of the grounds for the rejection of the bill is that it must be presented to the Prince first who has reservations which are in his words that "it is problematic that the proposal aims to abort children with disabilities". The Prince said: "Till now we were very proud to support children with disabilities in our country."

Link to kath.net original..

Voris is Making the Right Kinds of Enemies

Classic Villains Abound

Edit:  It looks like someone at the USCCB found some dirt on  Micheal Voris's organization.  It's not like they don't have their own internal issues, is it? It just so happens that Micheal Voris draws attention to many of these kinds of problems. Indeed, the USCCB still hasn't apologized for its own strange bedfellows with respect to New Ways Ministry. Earlier, Voris was banned from World Youth Day festivities by the Bishops, but you'd think they had bigger fish to fry considering the usual goings on there.  On one level it's administrative relating to his tax-exempt status, and on the other it's the online activities of one of his staff members.  You'd think Catholic Answers has similar problems, and I have it on good authority they do.  At least Voris doesn't act as an apologist for Cardinal Bernardin or post homo-erotic art on his blog.  These celebrities are kind of challenging. It's best not to put your trust in them.


Expect the usual suspects to come crawling out on this one, including those who are "gay friendly".  The site linked features an article about Gay Pride.  There are no surprises there.

Denver, Colo., Aug 17, 2011 / 06:12 pm (CNA).- Michael Voris, the founder and host of RealCatholicTV, says he was completely unaware of recently discovered troubles within his organization, involving a staff apologist's sexually explicit writings, and his nonprofit corporation's loss of legal status two years ago.

“I don't know what the issue is on any of this stuff,” said Voris, who is currently in Spain promoting his unofficial “No Bull in Madrid” meetings during World Youth Day.

Voris told CNA on August 16 that he had “no idea” his nonprofit corporation St. Micheal's Media had been automatically dissolved in 2009 after failing to file records with the state for two years. An official at the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs confirmed on August 10 that Voris' nonprofit was “no longer registered and in good standing with the State of Michigan.”

Update: even Deacon's Bench and the Anchoress are defending Voris and noting the timing of the news, coinciding with WYD in Spain.  But will Mark Shea be as sympathetic and understanding? [He's said he's addressing the issue on his blog, today.] There was also an apology posted at Deacon's Bench by Voris' Staff Apologist, Simon Rafe, on his Blog:

I regret writing the things in question and I have sought forgiveness in the sacrament of reconciliation. I humbly ask forgiveness from anyone who might have read the materials and been led to sin and those who are or were scandalized by reading them or hearing that I wrote them.

Although it is clearly the case writing material which is a near occasion of sin is wrong for any person, the matter of scandal is a serious one and I realize this. I apologize for having scandalized the faithful in any regard.

I do not, under any circumstances, seek to justify what I did or avoid responsibility. I did things which were wrong. I have done all in my power to rectify them (seeking forgiveness in confession, removing the material in question so it is not available for people to read and be tempted by). I did something which was wrong, and I am solely responsible for it.

H/t: Tom at AQ

Viennese Dogmatic Theologian: The Pastor's Initiative May Have Schismatic Consequences

Edit: Schism is still brewing in the German speaking countries, like this parish in Freiburg.  Cardinal Schönborn has already asked the participants in the "Pastor's Initiative" to reflect on whether they are Catholic or not and seems determined to carry on without the three hundred signators of the declaration.

Viennese Professor of Dogmatic Theology: This could "have schismatic consequences: in the worst case it could lead to a sectarian counter-church."  A Bishop can't be indifferent to this, "he must intervene immediately."

Vienna (kath.net) In some points in the Pastor's Initiative there is "room for discussion", perhaps in the question of those separated and divorced to permit them to receive Communion, or in the assessment of homosexual partnerships, which are of long duration.  This is what Jan-Heiner Tück, Vienna Dogmatic Theology Professor, and author of the "International Catholic Journal Communio",  said in an interview with the "Standard".

The "dissatisfaction with the lack of reforms" is "great in certain parts of the clergy",  explains the pressure, says the professor, which demands priestly ordination for women and lay ministers, he goes on further to explain.  But "a public outcry for disobedience is a provocative act", explained Tück, " which stands in direct contradiction to the promises, that were signed by a priest when he became ordained.  Otherwise the Initiative has a few points against proposals of Church regulations, he named some such as the "Call to Disobedience" demanding the arbitrary allowance of remarried, divorced, non-Catholics and lapsed to receive the Eucharist, according to the "Standard".

A Danger for the Church in reference to the Pastor's Intiative lies in that "which the criticism goes so far, as not merely proposing , rather also at the same time -- without the agreement of the Bishop -- will be applied".  This may "have schismatic consequences: it will lead in the worst case to form a sectarian counter-church."  A Bishop can not be indifferent to this, "he must intervene immediately."  In any case it would be more sensible, says the Professor, from this point forward to "have discussions behind the scenes".

As a solution Tück proposes that both sides come around "and make no denunciations".  What is clear is that: "Should all of the proposals" of the Pastor's Initiative "be adopted with a single blow, then the Church would have a different face than anything that has been seen for centuries."

The so-called "Pastor's Initiative" is an Internet campaign which has about 300 members and in future insists that there is no allowance for a "Roman intervention":  homemade liturgies of the word on Sunday like observing "priestless Eucharistic celebrations" and to rely on "guest lecturers",  "to discuss proposals for Church reform" in every Liturgy while ignoring the rule against lay preachers, and to openly utilize lay preachers and married or female priests at every opportunity and similar such things.

The Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn had already been cited  at kath.net in an exhaustive discussion, where he "can not tolerate such a call to disobedience".

Link to original..kath.net...

Vatican releases dossier, rejects accusations in Oregon abuse lawsuit

In a highly unusual move, the Vatican has issued a public response to an Oregon lawsuit that alleges the Holy See bears responsibility for sexual abuse by a Servite priest.

In the case of Doe v. Holy See, the plaintiff's lawyer claims that the Vatican arranged quiet transfers for Andrew Ronan, a Servite priest who had compiled a long history of sexual abuse. "Those would of course be very serious accusations--if true," the Vatican acknowledged. However, the Vatican statement continues, Vatican officials were not aware of Ronan's misbehavior until after the fact.

To support its argument, the Vatican has released its entire dossier of documents on the Ronan case, showing that the Holy See was informed about the priest's abuse only in 1966, when he applied for--and was promptly granted--laicization. The plaintiff in the Oregon case was abused in 1965, before the Vatican was made aware of the Ronan's case.

Link to Catholic Culture...

Link to Vatican website...

Link to pdf file, here...

New Nuns and Priests Seen Opting for Tradition

Edit: who would want to belong to an organization that looks like a storefront for a massive institution which has only the most facile connection to the Catholic Church?  Most ardent young people with a lot of energy and creativity don't want to belong to an institutional dinosaur, they want to belong to a profound mission, an adventure and a vocation.  They want to know that someone has called them to do what they are doing.

You'll never get that working for a massive pile of capital which attempts to benefit a vague abstraction like humanity, progress or some other vague cause.

Anyhow, even the Old Yorke Times and Pinch Sulzberger are picking up on this story, even if they are putting it in the context of the mostly useless Apostolic Visitation.

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

Published: August 10, 2009

A new study of Roman Catholic nuns and priests in the United States shows that an aging, predominantly white generation is being succeeded by a smaller group of more racially and ethnically diverse recruits who are attracted to the religious orders that practice traditional prayer rituals and wear habits.

The study found that the graying of American nuns and priests was even more pronounced than many Catholics had realized. Ninety-one percent of nuns and 75 percent of priests are 60 or older, and most of the rest are at least 50.

They are the generation defined by the Second Vatican Council, of the 1960s, which modernized the church and many of its religious orders. Many nuns gave up their habits, moved out of convents, earned higher educational degrees and went to work in the professions and in community service. The study confirms what has long been suspected: that these more modern religious orders are attracting the fewest new members.
The study was already well under way when the Vatican announced this year that it was conducting two investigations of American nuns. One, taking up many of the same questions as the new report, is an “apostolic visitation” of all women’s religious orders in the United States. The other is a doctrinal investigation of the umbrella group that represents a majority of American nuns, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Exorcism and Immemorial Mass in Phillipines Against Blasphemous Art

[Catholic Conference of Phillipines Website] MANILA, August 14, 2011— An exorcist has led a ritual outside the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Sunday to ask for God’s forgiveness for those who “dishonored the image of Christ.”
Fr. Michelle Joe Zerrudo of the Diocese of Cubao said the prayer was being offered to compensate for whatever has been done to God by those behind the controversial art exhibit at the CCP.
“This is an act of love for God to make up for the lack of love. This is not a political rally but simply a religions event,” Zerrudo said.

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Italian Liturgist Extols the Immemorial Mass of All Ages: Defends the SSPX

The Old Mass Fills the Youth With Joy

The Old Liberals talk all the day long about ecumenism, dialog and Shangri la.  At the same time they swing a mallet against Catholics.

Msgr Nicola Bux

(kreuz.net) The Old Mass is experiencing a crescendo.

This is what the Italian Liturgist, Prelate Nicola Bux, said in an interview on 3. August for the website 'papalepapale.com'.

The Motu Proprio 'Summorum Pontificum' has opened a breach.

The Celebration Facing the People Stems From the Last Century


Prelate Bux defends the celebration facing liturgical east, ad orientem.

The idea that the Priest faced the people in the first centuries is "completely false".

The Old Mass is visited throughout the world, especially by the young, remarked the Prelate.

The youth have found in the Old Mass the Mystery of Faith.

Prelate Bux says the return to the Old Rite is "in no way second rank" for the faithful.

The Mass of All Ages promotes an encounter with God.

The Society of Pius X has already Experienced it: These Bishops Won't Obey

The Prelate said that the Bishops were encouraged to accomodate the faithful in their requests for the Old Mass with the instruction of 'Universae Ecclesiae'.

It is no secret that "some" -- in reality it is many -- Bishops do not value the Motu Prorio and oppose it "with all means".

These Bishops conduct themselves "like rebels against the Pope".

Top shepherds, who refuse to obey the Pope, should not expect it from their priests and faithful either.

The Ecumenists Cut Catholics Out

The withdrawal of the Excommunications of the four Society of Pius X Bishops in January of 2009 is hailed by Prelate Bux as a "gesture of great love".

The Church promotes dialog even with Jews and Heathens.

All the more must we strive to unite ourselves with those who share the Catholic Faith.

Prelate Bux sees a drama in the Church especially with the intransigence [and lack of nuance, we might suppose] especially as regards the Ecumenists.

Link to original...kreuz.net

Communion in the Hand Destroys Piety: Bishop Athansius Schneider

Edit: Continued from a previous article that not even Luther would have given Communion in the Hand.

A Calvinist Invention

Every priest can see that parts of the Host will remain on the hands of the faithful, and parts will fall to the ground to be trampled.

(kreuz.net) Communion on the tongue is a fruit of piety and grown naturally.

Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider (50) said this for the radio station, 'Radio Maria Südtirol' on the 19th of July.

The current form of Communion in thee hand comes, on the contrary, to a dishonoring of the Sacrament of the Altar.

It was introduced with the sweep of a hand and has damaged piety.

How the Deviltry Began

Auxiliary Bishop Schneider explains how Communion in the Hand was introduced in a spirit of disobedience during the 60s of the last century.

In the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern Germany it was insisted suddenly that hand communion came down from the time of the Church Fathers:

"Unfortunately this is something the Bishops at the time had invented."

After the Second Vatican council Paul VI († 1978) expressly forbid Communion in the Hand.

But the Bishops in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria and Germany put pressure on the Pope.

They insisted that it was no longer possible to prescribe the wild practice.

Whereupon in 1968 the Pope addressed all Bishops regarding Communion in the Hand.

Almost two thirds of the world Episcopate opposed the sacrilege.

The majority of the Bishops warned that the particles of the consecrated Hosts would fall on the floor and that sacrality would by destroyed by this practiced.

But the propagandists of Hand Communion were not appeased.

Thereupon Paul VI allowed in May of 1969 in the document 'Memoriale Domini' to allow Hand Communion where it had already been illegally practiced.

The Communion on the Tongue was designated as the "Rule".


The Abuse is the Rule

Msgr Schndeider has noticed that things have been turned upside down.

Communion on the Tongue is the exception and Communion in the Hand is the rule.

The Auxiliary Bishop excoriates that the giving of Communion will always involve particles remaining on the fingers.

Additionally, there is at least the danger that the Host could be stolen.

Hand Communion may only be suppressed from on high

Msgr Schneider encourages Bishops and Priests to promote Communion on the Tongue.

That the Holy Father himself only gives Communion kneeling on the tongue, serves as an example for us.

The Bishops must draw their own conclusions from this:

"If the Pope does it, it is also a sign for me as a Bishop to act in the same way"

Auxiliary Bishop Schneider believes that the faithful, who love the Church and the Mass, would readily embrace Communion on the Tongue.


Communion Rails Must be Present

The Auxiliary Bishop recommends setting up Communion rails again.

That is especially helpful for older persons, who would be supported when they knelt.

They would otherwise be at a disadvantage, when there is a possibility to receive kneeling.

The faithful could --says the Auxiliary Bishop -- even stay at the Communion rail. Then no one can be discriminated against.

The introduction of Communion rails are "logical and just".

The Bishop believes that with time, the majority will sink to their knees for the overpowering moment of Communion.

You take Communion Yourself and Stick it in the Mouth


Finally, he stresses that Communion in the Hand can be worthily received.

But it recalls the daily grind, where "I can take it myself and put it in my own mouth."

That diminishes sacrality.

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Photo: © thatliz, Flickr, CC

The Archdiocese of Freiburg Links to Germany's Planned Parenthood

Edit: Cologne's doing it too.

The organization has a Nazi back ground.  It doesn't just abuse children, but kills them as well.  It's not a problem for the spineless church of decadence.

(kreuz.net, Freiburg) The Archbishopric of Freiburg links to the German Child Butcher Company, 'pro familia'.

The scandalous link is located on the website of the alleged 'Marriage, Family and Life Counseling of the Archdiocese of Freiburg'.

They put their perversion under the domain name 'ehe-familie-lebensberatung.de'.

The Church Advisory Society is according to its own description, "the psychological and spiritual counseling service of the Archdiocese of Freiburg'.

In the top "links" there it is without any commentary, simple and fatal:

"Pro Familia Counseling Office in Freiburg"

Even the Umbrella Organization Collaborates with the Enemy

The ecclesiastical Marriage Counselor in Freiburg is a member of the Organization 'Catholic National Conference for Marriage, Families and Life Counseling" -- the nationwide umbrella organization of the German Bishops Conference.

This umbrella cooperates in any case with the child murdering 'prof familia' namely though its membership in the organization of "German Work Circle for Marriage, Youth and Family Counseling'.

The general managemnt of the work circle is handled by the National .Association of 'pro familia'

That is the Intimate Enemy of the Church and of Life

The association 'pro familia' is the founding member of the International Abortion Concern 'International Planned Parenthood Federation'.

The first president and founder of 'pro familia' was the former National Socialist Populist and Racist Hans Harmsen († 1989).

'Pro familia' maintains the "fundamental right" of the mother to murder her own child.

The formation is part of a world wide agitating string pulling organization of the international abortion industry.

In Germany 'pro familia' operates countless child slaughter houses among others in Rüsselsheim, Bremen, Saarbrücken, Mainz, Kassel and Berlin.

The society of 'pro familia' is also a leading propagandist for depravity and immorality in Germany.

Link ...

Irish Government Set to Nationalize Irish Church: Money Grab

 The Real Face of Republicanism

 Edit:  Elitism and narcissism, you say?  How about greed, envy and falsehood?  Ignoring its own role in child abuse, the Irish government is making a run for what it was after on its quest to destroy the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.
If you want to see an analogous movement, you only have to look to similar situations in China, Elizabethan England, Gallican France and the Kingdom of Prussia till it became the Empire of Germany.



[Bloomberg] Ireland is squeezing the Roman Catholic Church to hand over cash and real estate toward a 1.4 billion-euro ($2 billion) child-abuse bill amid the bitterest stand-off yet seen between the Vatican and the government.

In the sharpest language an Irish leader has ever used against the church, Prime Minister Enda Kenny said last month the Vatican’s handling of the scandals has been dominated by “elitism and narcissism.”

“The relationship between the state and the Vatican has never been worse,” David Quinn, a religious commentator who is also director of the Dublin-based Iona Institute, which promotes religion in society, said in an interview. “I struggle to think of a stronger attack by a Western European leader on the church than Enda Kenny’s.”

Further at Bloomberg...

Czech President: Homosexuals Don't Have The Right to be Admired

President Vaclav Klaus

Edit: Now he's done it.  They're going to be so mad.

Instead of being concerned with their own dramatic inner political problems, the EU and the USA are disseminating homosexual propaganda.


(kreuz.net) The ambassadors of some EU-STates and the USA are publicly supporting the homosexual horror of "Prague Pride".

According to the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", they have driven President Vaclav Klaus and the Foreign Minister Karl zu Schwarzenberg to irritation.

The homosexual ambassadors are promoting "Solidarity" with the Czech Gomorrhists.


Counterproductive and Unnecessary

Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg cooled the homosexual ambassador's enthusiasm:

"No one is hindering the corresponding groups from seizing upon their rights" -- he said dryly.

It is, however, "counterproductive and unnecessary", to invoke rights which no one denies or has suppressed.

The letter of the homosexual ambassador has "awakened the impression of meddling in internal affairs."

Expression of a Perverted Value System

Schawrzenberg also insists that a statement by Petr Hajek, of a serving Bureau Chief of the Czech President had been allegedly "unfortunate".

Hajek had criticized the homosexual horror show as the political expression of a perverted value system.

Finally Vaclav Klaus explained that the event is not about "homosexuality", rather it's about "Homosexualism".

As a minority, homosexuals have the right to be protected, but they don't have the right to be admired.

Klaus described the homosexual ambassador's brief as being "without precedence".


He could not imagine that a Czech ambassador would mix in the internal affairs of any democratic country in the world like this.

An Eldorado for Homosexual Sex Offenders

Prague has developed into an Eldorado for sex offenders drawn by the homosexual prostitution there -- in part with minors.

This situation is helped along by the lower ages of consent in the Czech Republic.

Countless empirical studies have shown that the border between pedophile and mature homosexually disordered is fluid.


Link to kreuz.net...

Head of Austrian Church Dissidents Doesn't Fear Suspension or Dismissal

Edit: IF he believes God exists, this brings forth the inevitable question as to whether or not he believes in eternal torments for the disobedient?

He is the Cardinal's Creature After All

Cardinal Schönborn has recently made statements, again, asking the dissidents what would happen if the players disobeyed a Soccer Coach. Mundabor says nothing's being done.  He's also defended priestly celibacy.  Apparently he plans on doing something about this in September when he will meet with the head of the opposition. He seems intransigent in his heresy.

When Father Helmut counts off on his "one hand" what can happen to him, did it ever occur to him that there's such a thing as Hell, and temporal punishment for sins? At the very least it should spell the loss of his credibility. Here's kreuz.net below:

Fr. Helmut would have to be mad to withdraw his theses hostile to the Church. Finally he had all of the all powerful media bosses covering for him. They will turn any which way they have to in order to protect their dear protege.

(kreuz.net) "I won't take anything back and am see things, as they may come, right in the eye."

So said the head man of the Church hostile, "Pastor's Initiative', Fr. Helmut Schüller, for the anti-Church regional paper 'Oberösterreichische Nachrichten'.

They don't broker any answers critical of the expectations of the Zeitgeist.

Fr.  Schüller was the General Vicar of Christoph Kardinal von Schönborn. from 1995 till February of 1999.


 The Cardinal Will Bow

The former General Vicar is dancing his powerless Cardinal, leading him curiously by the nose.

He joked saying that he could count all the possibilities for sanction "on his finger" --  either suspension or dismissal from his office.

The board of the "Pastor Initiative' has been informed  they have until September and to make their position clear.

At the beginning of September the Cardinal will meet with the enemies of the Church again.

And What's the View of the Church?

The questions put to the "Pastor Initiative" by Cardinal Schönborn regarding obedience to the Church are "severe" as far as Fr. Schüller is concerned.

At the same time, it is for him as a priest who is active in pastoral work, "strange".

From the "perspective of the Cardinal" there are certain views which are not compatible with Church membership.

Conservative Joke Turn

The secular priest maintains that anything that turns away from his desired Church structure as a Zeitgeist defined sect is "clearly backward".

This has to do with a "conservative turn" in the Church.

In the same breath he defends the title -- "Call to Disobedience" -- which is his Church hostile Manifesto.

Because: "If you resign yourself to the pure formulations, then you have to say that it's -- the majority of the pastors and communities -- disobedience."

We're not even still talking about the "conservative turn" are we?

Methodist Minister Under Fire by Denomination for Approving Same-Sex Unions

Edit: This man has plenty of allies in the local Catholic Church. It's surprising that no Catholic priests that are known took part in the planned media event.

Forces within the Methodist Church which are challenging this pastor's right to do this don't have much of a leg to stand on unfortunately since their church was founded on a radical departure from yet another radical departure from moral and hierarchical objectivity.

John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, dissented from the Anglican Church and the Anglican Church was founded upon the adultery of Henry VIII. Life goes on, you can keep going and keep your Catholic faith whole, but leaving Her and remaining outside in the pursuit of a fleeting and material goal is a substantial part of the tragedy. Henry VIII did not successfully father a healthy male heir, and the Tudor dynasty did not survive his daughter, Elizabeth I.

United Methodist leaders have filed a complaint against a Minneapolis pastor, calling for an investigation into whether he conducted ceremonies to bless same-sex unions during Gay Pride Week last month.

On Monday, Bishop Sally Dyck announced the complaint against the Rev. Greg Renstrom, pastor of New Harmony United Methodist Church. The five-member cabinet of the Minnesota Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church formally lodged the complaint June 29.

Renstrom said he "participated in services of blessings" on June 25, five in Minneapolis' Loring Park and one in Blaine. All the services were held in public parks, and none took place in Methodist churches or properties, he said

Ecumenical Effort Seeks to Undermine Public Order and Violate the Law

Edit:  This particular agenda being pursued "ecumenically" by Catholic and Methodist church leaders has nothing to do with charity itself, and everything to do with "social justice" a codeword for cultural Marxism.
A society has a right to protect itself from the things that threaten it and it's widely demonstrable that illegal immigration is a threat to social order.  Why is it that various church leaders are bent on attacking the social order even against the basic tenets of their respective denominations and the best interests of the co-coreligionists who reside here legally?

Here's what the Catechism of the Catholic Church actually says:

2265 Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others. The defense of the common good requires that an unjust aggressor be rendered unable to cause harm. For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility.

2266 The efforts of the state to curb the spread of behavior harmful to people's rights and to the basic rules of civil society correspond to the requirement of safeguarding the common good. Legitimate public authority has the right and duty to inflict punishment proportionate to the gravity of the offense. Punishment has the primary aim of redressing the disorder introduced by the offense. When it is willingly accepted by the guilty party, it assumes the value of expiation. Punishment then, in addition to defending public order and protecting people's safety, has a medicinal purpose: as far as possible, it must contribute to the correction of the guilty party.⁶

Never mind that though, those are just guidelines, after all. These church leaders claim that the law attacks charity, but there's nothing to that theological virtue which allows you to ignore the demonstrably negative impact of illegal immigration to the public good and violate the laws of the land.  To be sure, Catholic Bishops in Russia or Mexico would not likely dare to meddle with the internal security there.  Here is the story:

 CULLMAN, Ala. — On a sofa in the hallway of his office here, Mitchell Williams, the pastor of First United Methodist Church, announced that he was going to break the law. He is not the only church leader making such a declaration these days.

Since June, when Gov. Robert Bentley, a Republican, signed an immigration enforcement law called the toughest in the country by critics and supporters alike, the opposition has been vocal and unceasing, ranging from civil rights groups to the U.S. Justice Department. This month, church groups joined that list.
An Episcopal bishop, a Methodist bishop and a Roman Catholic archbishop, all based in Alabama, sued on the basis that the new statute violated their right to free exercise of religion, arguing that it would “make it a crime to follow God’s command to be Good Samaritans.”

Alabama law criminalizes charity, bishops’ suit says | | The Bulletin

Another Priest in Albany Diocese Accused

Edit: The Old Liberal Bishop of Albany New York is in the news again.   He's had to suspend a priest based on an accusation of an event said to have taken place 20 years ago. Shouldn't Bishop Hubbard suspend himself?  He's had more than one accusation leveled against him, here. The priest in question, Father Carl Urban, rejects the accusations against himself. If this man is innocent of the charges against him and Bishop Hubbard sticks to his guns, it wouldn't be the first time the Bishop of Albany has ridden someone out on a rail. In any event, this isn't the first time Father Urban has been accused.  The alleged victim has not filed a civil suit.

SCHENECTADY, NY (WTEN) -A retired priest is put on administrative leave as the church investigates an .allegation for sexual abuse.

Bishop Howard J. Hubbard announced on Saturday that Rev. Carl Urban will be suspended from the church until furthur notice.

The allegations, which Father Urban strongly denies, dates back more than 20-years ago.

WTEN site...

Hungary Bans the Anglican Church

Update:  This was an exaggeration, but there is still a strange relationship with the Hungarian State as it tries to cut its funding due to shrinking budgets.

Editor: Who says you can't turn back the clock? It's fairly irrelevant in Hungarian society anyway.  But you recall that Hungary invoked St. Stephen and called for a defense of life in its Constitution.   How much longer before they restore the Monarchy?

Of course, they could skate under the ban by embracing the Anglican Ordinariate.

Church of England Newspaper

Hungary has introduced a new law governing the registration of religious groups that critics charge discriminates against minority faiths, and strips St Margaret's Anglican Church in Budapest of its status as a religious organisation.

On 14 July the Hungarian Parliament adopted "The Right to Freedom of Conscience and Religion and on the Status of Churches, Religions and Religious Communities" Law, by a vote of 254 in favour to 43 opposed.

Introduced on 10 June in Parliament, the proposed legislation would have created three tiers of religious groups, with differing authorities to conduct worship and engage in charitable activities under Hungarian law. Human Rights activists, NGOs and a number of religious leaders objected, arguing, in the words of the Washington think-tank, the Institute on Religion and Public Policy, the bill gave Hungary "a tiered system offering an inferior religious status to minority faiths that violates the right to religious freedom and the right to be free from religious discrimination."

H/t: Virtue On Line

Child Actor Says Pedophiles Are Holywood's Biggest Problem

Editor:  There really needs to be a government program and serious regulation of the Entertainment Industry to protect children from being molested by unscrupulous producers and other morlocks who think they're above the law.  Of course, the demoralizing filth they routinely inflict on a population craving new spectacles carries large cash incentives, so these types can do what they like as long as they maintain a politically correct message approved by our masters, and if public tensions are too high, a cinematic genius can always produce films in Europe and evade American justice that way.  Europe's just so much more enlightened.

The United States should invade France to apprehend Roman Polanski and bring him to justice and Woody Allen should be afraid to show his face at Elaine's without being pursued like a Vampire through the streets of the East Village in a parody of his own cinematic oeuvre, but enough of these modest propositions.

We've been pointing it out for a while this thing with Hollywood predation, but the beauty isn't only skin deep, there's a corrupting level of mendacity to the industry that is rarely discussed.  It's an enormous problem in the entertainment industry, and there's a big coverup, a "big secret", a culture of secrecy.  Feldman, famous for his precocious starring role in his Goonies debut says, "they were like vultures, they were everywhere".   If more people were truly serious about dealing with homosexual pederasts in the Catholic Church, which is relatively rare, they would stop going to see films produced by these reprobates and start reading books, learning to play musical instruments or do some home improvement instead.

And Roman Polanski could be dragged in chains behind a Obama's chariot being pulled by cheetahs and jaguars on a Macy's Day Parade after a brief conquest of France lasting a week.

Hollywood Bigwigs Feasting on Carrion

[Mail Online]Actor Corey Feldman has sensationally claimed that his Lost Boys co-star Corey Haim was the victim of a paedophile who was also a Hollywood mogul.

The Lost Boys actor said he was 'literally surrounded' by paedophiles at the age of 14, but didn't realise 'until I was much older what they were and what they wanted.'

In a special report, 'Underage And Famous' for ABC's Nightline show, Feldman blamed former co-star Corey Haim's death at the age 38 on the abuse he suffered at the hands of a 'Hollywood mogul' he refused to name.

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Dinosaur Catholic Bookstores Are Struggling

Editor: Great article.








Catholic bookstores working hard to compete with online sellers

Sister Joan Paula Arruda looks over new stock at Pauline Books and Media in Old Town Alexandria, Va., Aug. 10. Operated by the Daughters of St. Paul, the store has been a fixture on well-traveled King Street since 1982. It is one of 13 bookstores the order runs in North America. (CNS/Nancy Wiechec)

By Liz O'Connor
Catholic News Service

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (CNS) -- Like most small- and medium-size bookstores, shops specializing in Catholic religious books have been hit by the ubiquity of such online giants as Amazon.

"We rely on hard work and God's grace," said Helen Dorin of Boric Religious Supply in St. John, Ind., which is going into its third generation as a family-operated book and religious articles store.

"It has hurt us," she said about Internet book sales. "Customers will come in and browse our books, and then go and order online."

Link to CNS...