Thousands of emails cancel irreverent photo exhibit :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
Some 18,000 emails led to the cancellation of a photo exhibit that was to take place at the Contemporary Culture Center at the University of Granada, Spain. The display was to include photos of Christ as a homosexual, the Virgin Mary as a prostitute, St. Joseph as a camel and the Nativity Scene as a brothel
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Interfaith divorce: War over child’s religion - Catholic Father vs.Jewish Mother
Interfaith divorce: War over child’s religion - chicagotribune.com
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Of course this reminds us of the Mortara Case when a child was taken away from his Jewish family because he'd been baptized a Catholic. The boy was successively raised a Catholic and became a priest.
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Rebecca Reyes opened an e-mail from her estranged husband in November to learn to her shock that he had their 3-year-old daughter baptized in the Catholic Church even though she said the couple, in happier times, had agreed to raise her in the Jewish faith.
What happened over the next few months brought the couple's private battles into the open and raises questions about how far the court system can — or should — go in dictating what faith separated parents teach their children.
After the unannounced baptism, a Cook County Circuit Court judge took the unusual step of temporarily barring Reyes' husband, Joseph, from exposing their child to any religion other than Judaism. But Joseph Reyes then allegedly defied the order by taking his daughter to Mass at Holy Name Cathedral — with a television news crew in tow.
Of course this reminds us of the Mortara Case when a child was taken away from his Jewish family because he'd been baptized a Catholic. The boy was successively raised a Catholic and became a priest.
German Bishop Blames Abandonment of Moral Theology for Sex Abuse Crisis
This is one of the finest and most aggressive explanations of this difficult discussion we've ever seen and finally makes clear what we're up against: Liberals are responsible, not the Church. This is just absolutely stellar thinking on the part of the Augsburg prelate. It's in recognizing in him a true shepherd that we realize our unworthiness as the penitential season begins.
The current imbroglio of homosexual abuses became possible on a large scale only after the break with Church moral teachings at the end of the 60s -- explained the Bishop of Augsburg.
[Augsburg kreuz.net] "sexual abuse of persons under age is unfortunately a common social evil, which arises in various manifestations from the family to the school or to the sports club."
Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg in the interview with the regional newspaper 'Augsburg General Zeitung".
The Monsignor also carefully identified the causes of homosexual abuses: "The so-called sexual revolution, in whose process by particularly progressive moral critics as well as its legalization is not innocent of the charge that it demanded sexual contacts between adults and persons under age."
In the last decades the media would have advanced an increasing sexualization of the public, promote "the previously limited abnormal sexual inclinations".
Holy Church Full of Sinnners
Homosexual abuse by a clergyman is something the bishop describes as a "particularly horrible crime."
The authors sin against themselves and the souls of their victims, and they also sin against the Church.
The Bishop points out that Catholics have already injured laws and rules established since the beginning of the church and abused them in their own atrocities.
Monsignor Mixa did not exclude that therefore "in the church some responsible person was too naive in the past in relation to sexual crimes with children and young people and moved someone in the vain hope that the culprits would improve themselves in a different position in a wholly unauthorized way:
"Responsible parties in the Church are possibly also influenced by the Zeitgeist, which itself in the area of Criminal Law employed "Resocialization" in the place of punishment."
The "Spiegel" -- Lie has flown
Bishop Mixa criticized also the anti-Catholic periodical "Spiegel", without naming it:
"In some media there is an unspoken rule, to characterize child abuse automatically as a Church problem."
Since 1995 there have been in Germany around 210,000 criminally registered cases of child abuse.
The number of cases applicable to Church institutions occupy an infinitesimally small number of individuals per thousand.
That in no way diminish the damage, but should really put the facts and relationships in their proper light"
Has nothing to do with Celibacy
Monsignor responded on celibacy and he said that it has to do with the homosexual abuses of young people but "nothing at all to do with celibacy".
"One of the prominent experts for abuse in Germany, Hans Ludwig Kröber, does not see any note that for example that celibate teachers are more frequent paedophiles than other teachers."
Bishop Mixa got straight that the completely majority part of the homosexual abuses are committed "by married men, often closely related to the victims."
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© picture: Bischöfliche Pressestelle diocese Augsburg
The Abbé de Nantes is Dead, RIP
The Abbé de Nantes is a Catholic priest and theologian who believes that the new "orientations" of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), upheld and further developed by Popes Paul VI and John Paul II, have been an unmitigated disaster for the Church. For him the Council and its upholders have demonstrably taught, or at least insinuated, novel and unCatholic beliefs, which have never before been officially maintained in the Church. In fact, such beliefs had been forcefully condemned by previous Popes, right up to Pope Pius XII who died in 1958.
Despite the Abbé's detailed and well-substantiated criticisms over these last thirty-five years, the authorities in the Church have consistently refused to use their powers to deal objectively with his accusations. Instead of taking up his arguments in their own right (argumentum ad rem), they have preferred to attack his person (argumentum ad hominem). Hence, they have directed their wrath against his alleged subjective attitude, his "tone", his "contentious spirit", etc. This was particularly apparent in 1968 when the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith examined his complaints against Vatican II and Pope Paul VI. Instead of condemning his alleged "errors", the Congregation contented itself with stating that he had been disqualified... rather as if he had been a professional sportsman who was not abiding by the rules of the game!
Today the Abbé de Nantes is well-known and even feared in Rome. His three Books of Accusation against Pope Paul VI (1973), against Pope John Paul II (1983), and against the author of the so-called Catechism of the Catholic Church (1993) have proved to be impossible to answer. His accusations are of the most devastating kind imaginable in the Church, involving open charges of heresy, schism, and scandal against the Vicar of Christ on earth. But despite this, he has never been condemned for any kind of error against the Catholic faith and for thirty-five years his doctrinal criticisms have remained without a formal reply from Rome.
http://www.crc-internet.org/abbe.htm
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Founder of Lifeteen Laicized
Vatican dismisses Fushek from clerical state following investigation
There's a confluence between one thing and the other, a direct causal link between modernism and what's been going on with Fr. Dale Fushek and Lifeteen. We're glad to see he's finally on his way out and hopefully people won't be talking in the future about how exiting it would be to found a Lifeteen at the local parish.
Hopefully no one will be so bold as to continue defending what goes on in the following video. Unfortunately, Father Fushek still has a few hundred followers who meet in a shopping mall to hear his message.
Anglicans Swim the Tiber but it's full of Sharks!
The Anglican exodus begins…
Also, here, at Telegraph also from Damian Thompson, someone leaked an e-mail between Ebbsfleet Anglican Bishop, Burnham and Bishop Peter Elliot of Melbourne, Australia. Apparently, there are blue meanies in the liberal hierarchy who want to throw up some roadblocks and generate some enmity.
You might remember that Bishop Ebbsfleet made the extraordinary announcement a few years ago that he'd leave the Anglican Communion if Women Bishops were ordained, and renewed that promise in 2008, here, (it's a terrible photo of him btw).
… in Australia, where, as my colleagues Bonnie Malkin and Martin Beckford report, Forward in Faith Australia has voted to join the Ordinariate.
We’re not talking about a large group, not everyone is going, and it’s led by a retired bishop. But the psychological impact of official Anglicans bearing the Forward in Faith logo voting to convert to Rome under the new corporate scheme will be significant. I wonder if it explains the malicious leak of an email from Bishop Andrew Burnham to the Australian Bishop Peter Elliot: did someone want to distract us from this development?
Incidentally, I like the quote from the FiF bishop, the Rt Rev David Robarts: “I love my Anglican heritage, but I’m not going to lose it by taking this step.”
Also, here, at Telegraph also from Damian Thompson, someone leaked an e-mail between Ebbsfleet Anglican Bishop, Burnham and Bishop Peter Elliot of Melbourne, Australia. Apparently, there are blue meanies in the liberal hierarchy who want to throw up some roadblocks and generate some enmity.
You might remember that Bishop Ebbsfleet made the extraordinary announcement a few years ago that he'd leave the Anglican Communion if Women Bishops were ordained, and renewed that promise in 2008, here, (it's a terrible photo of him btw).
Polish priests are having a devil of a time as demand for exorcists rises
The Scotsman
By Matthew Day in Warsaw
THE number of priests in Poland willing to do battle with Satan and rid people of evil spirits has soared as a result of growing public demand for exorcisms, say Catholic Church figures.
As Polish exorcists gathered yesterday for their annual conference, few failed to notice the swollen ranks of clergy.
In the early 1990s, there were just three exorcists for the whole country. Now there are more than 100, and each year the number
ADVERTISEMENTgets higher. In Europe, Poland now trails only Italy in the number of its registered exorcists.
"There are so many of us because the problem (of possession] is growing," Father Andrzej Grefkowicz told a press conference that shed a rare light on a practice which remains a mystery to many.
"This isn't funny," he added. "Anybody who has come into contact with somebody who is possessed, or enslaved, knows that this is not a joke."
Despite the spread of secular thought in Poland, according to the Polish Catholic Church, each year the number of people in "torment or enslaved by an evil spirit" increases.
"In Poland, there is a growing human awareness that different types of depression and anxiety can have a spiritual cause. There wouldn't be so many of us, if this wasn't the case," said Fr Grefkowicz by way of explanation.
Another reason cited by priests for the rise in exorcists is increasing public awareness of their role, and more people looking for explanations and cures to behaviour that conventional science struggles to deliver.
But despite the age-old struggle between faith and science, trained exorcists refer people to psychologists if they feel the person suffers from a clinical, rather than spiritual problem.
"So how do we recognise if someone is possessed?" said Fr Grefkowicz. "A person may hear voices, and it may be a medical problem, but experience allows us to conclude it is a possession. Exorcists are looking for reasons."
Other ways of discovering if somebody has an evil spirit in them appear more direct.
"In Italy, there is a good way," said Fr Antony Zielinski. "You have three white envelopes, two of which contain cards, while the third has a holy image. A person possessed will behave abnormally in contact with the envelope holding the holy picture."
Aware that talk of cards and evil spirits may invoke a negative reaction from the cynical, and that many people's knowledge of exorcism is based on Hollywood horror films, Poland's exorcists are cautiously trying to demystify their work.
"We really need to shed light on the whole subject," said Dr Alexander Posacki, a Jesuit theologian and exorcism expert.
"There are a lot of unnecessary myths surrounding it, but exorcism is based on the cast-iron rules of the Church," he added. "Everything is consistent with its tradition and its teachings."
In an effort to undermine the dramatic movie image of priests locked in tumultuous battles with evil spirits, Fr Grefkowicz said most exorcisms are more sedate affairs, rather than dramatic scenarios.
"Our work is based mainly on prayers and psalms, and that is how I cast out an evil spirit," he said.
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By Matthew Day in Warsaw
THE number of priests in Poland willing to do battle with Satan and rid people of evil spirits has soared as a result of growing public demand for exorcisms, say Catholic Church figures.
As Polish exorcists gathered yesterday for their annual conference, few failed to notice the swollen ranks of clergy.
In the early 1990s, there were just three exorcists for the whole country. Now there are more than 100, and each year the number
ADVERTISEMENTgets higher. In Europe, Poland now trails only Italy in the number of its registered exorcists.
"There are so many of us because the problem (of possession] is growing," Father Andrzej Grefkowicz told a press conference that shed a rare light on a practice which remains a mystery to many.
"This isn't funny," he added. "Anybody who has come into contact with somebody who is possessed, or enslaved, knows that this is not a joke."
Despite the spread of secular thought in Poland, according to the Polish Catholic Church, each year the number of people in "torment or enslaved by an evil spirit" increases.
"In Poland, there is a growing human awareness that different types of depression and anxiety can have a spiritual cause. There wouldn't be so many of us, if this wasn't the case," said Fr Grefkowicz by way of explanation.
Another reason cited by priests for the rise in exorcists is increasing public awareness of their role, and more people looking for explanations and cures to behaviour that conventional science struggles to deliver.
But despite the age-old struggle between faith and science, trained exorcists refer people to psychologists if they feel the person suffers from a clinical, rather than spiritual problem.
"So how do we recognise if someone is possessed?" said Fr Grefkowicz. "A person may hear voices, and it may be a medical problem, but experience allows us to conclude it is a possession. Exorcists are looking for reasons."
Other ways of discovering if somebody has an evil spirit in them appear more direct.
"In Italy, there is a good way," said Fr Antony Zielinski. "You have three white envelopes, two of which contain cards, while the third has a holy image. A person possessed will behave abnormally in contact with the envelope holding the holy picture."
Aware that talk of cards and evil spirits may invoke a negative reaction from the cynical, and that many people's knowledge of exorcism is based on Hollywood horror films, Poland's exorcists are cautiously trying to demystify their work.
"We really need to shed light on the whole subject," said Dr Alexander Posacki, a Jesuit theologian and exorcism expert.
"There are a lot of unnecessary myths surrounding it, but exorcism is based on the cast-iron rules of the Church," he added. "Everything is consistent with its tradition and its teachings."
In an effort to undermine the dramatic movie image of priests locked in tumultuous battles with evil spirits, Fr Grefkowicz said most exorcisms are more sedate affairs, rather than dramatic scenarios.
"Our work is based mainly on prayers and psalms, and that is how I cast out an evil spirit," he said.
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Let the Mindless Knee-Jerk Reactions begin! Vicar says women should "obey husbands."
Guardian
It's suffragette city after all and many women and their sycophantic male allies will be calling for further amendations of the already heavily amendated King James version of the Bible.
You'd think people would be familiar with (I Cor. 14:34) and (Eph. 5:22) and (1 Cor 11:2-16) for that matter, and they're fairly clear, but so many modern women have a very hard time abiding by these Pauline admonitions.
The most clear way of attack, and one of the more common if disignuous is a resort to the argument by way of historicist readings of the texts.
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It's suffragette city after all and many women and their sycophantic male allies will be calling for further amendations of the already heavily amendated King James version of the Bible.
You'd think people would be familiar with (I Cor. 14:34) and (Eph. 5:22) and (1 Cor 11:2-16) for that matter, and they're fairly clear, but so many modern women have a very hard time abiding by these Pauline admonitions.
The most clear way of attack, and one of the more common if disignuous is a resort to the argument by way of historicist readings of the texts.
A vicar has caused outrage among his congregation after urging women to "be silent" and "submit" to their husbands.
Angus MacLeay, rector of St Nicholas Church in Sevenoaks, Kent, made the comments, which some parishioners thought were more in keeping with a sermon from the dark ages than the modern Church of England, in a leaflet entitled "The Role of Women in the Local Church".
In it, he said women should "not speak" if asked a question that could be answered by their husbands and should "submit to their husbands in everything".
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US Catholic is styling its USCCB Seamless Garment
US Catholic writer Bryan Cones is angry about Deal Hudson's attacks on the USCCB for its relentless pandering on behalf of liberal social and political agendas.
One thing Mr. Cones doesn't seem to understand is the idea that we may not participate in a moral evil that good may come of it, as we do in the case of working with Planned Parenthood, and the Catholic idea of subsidiarity, which gets completely lost in the USCCB's breathless and sycophantic support of the neo-Marxist ideas promoted by the Democratic Party.
This is a pretty good example of the seamless garment argument created by one of the most heterodox champions of modernism in the American Church. It basically entails the mistaken idea that you can work with one anti-Catholic agenda and ignore another anti-Catholic agenda (Abortion rights movement, or Pro-homosexual movement), while the former is deceptively camouflaged as a Catholic position: in this case, the idea that the Catholic Church should support wealth confiscation (theft and envy)and present it, deceptively, as Charity.
Of course, the ecclesiastical hissy fit usually flows from this erroneous position in the typical manly response that goes like this:
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One thing Mr. Cones doesn't seem to understand is the idea that we may not participate in a moral evil that good may come of it, as we do in the case of working with Planned Parenthood, and the Catholic idea of subsidiarity, which gets completely lost in the USCCB's breathless and sycophantic support of the neo-Marxist ideas promoted by the Democratic Party.
This is a pretty good example of the seamless garment argument created by one of the most heterodox champions of modernism in the American Church. It basically entails the mistaken idea that you can work with one anti-Catholic agenda and ignore another anti-Catholic agenda (Abortion rights movement, or Pro-homosexual movement), while the former is deceptively camouflaged as a Catholic position: in this case, the idea that the Catholic Church should support wealth confiscation (theft and envy)and present it, deceptively, as Charity.
Of course, the ecclesiastical hissy fit usually flows from this erroneous position in the typical manly response that goes like this:
Can we just be honest here? Deal Hudson is a Republican. He thinks everyone should be a Republican, and he thinks if you're a Catholic, you should be a Republican because the only issues you should ever cast a vote on are abortion and gay marriage (as if the GOP is really pure in practice on either of those issues). Abortion and gay marriage are, after all, why Jesus came to earth. And Catholics aren't allowed to take political action on any other pressing social issues that cause human beings to suffer and die until (1) abortion is illegal and (2) gay people aren't permitted any recognition in civil law for their relationships or families. Catholics should just vote for the GOP candidate and write a check to Catholic Charities in the meantime to help care for all those people that are left behind while we work on abortion and gay marriage.
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No, it's a Liger. Pope Celebrates Chinese New Year
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI welcomed the lunar new year and praised the spiritual and moral values of the Asian people who celebrate it.
The new lunar Year of the Tiger began Feb. 14 with festivities including fireworks displays, colorful processions, traditional dances and holiday food in many countries across the world.
"In various parts of Asia -- I think of China and Vietnam, for example -- and in many communities throughout the world, the lunar new year is celebrated today," he said.
"These are festive days, celebrated by these populations as a privileged opportunity to strengthen family and generational bonds," the pope said at his noon blessing.
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Vatican official says religious orders are in modern 'crisis'
You might say that it's an obvious thing to say, but the important thing in this case isn't what's being said so much as who's saying it. We can rest assured that a response will be forthcoming similar to the responses to other problems we've been seeing in the recent past.
Of course, not only is the Vatican looking at the failures, but it will be looking at the successes. Places like Collegeville, St. Meinrad's, the entire Jesuit Order, many Mendicant houses will be judged as failures, no incoming vocations, little or no definitive Catholic witness, frequent liturgical abuses and problems with sex abuse and homosexuality. These will be contrasted by the success stories at the FSSP, Spanish Carmelites, SSPX, Solesme Congregation of Benedictines and what underlies that, just the exact opposite of what you'll find with the liberal houses.
People don't want a flabby, do-nothing Catholicism that is securely and hypocritically aligned alongside the Goliaths of modern politics and Education. They want an ever youthful, manly and vibrant Catholicism that aligns itself alongside the Davids of the fullness of Catholic Educational tradition, the unapologetic proclamation of the Truths of the Catholic Faith and a politics that doesn't play the lapdog to Big Government liberals.
By John Thavis
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A top Vatican official said religious orders today are in a "crisis" caused in part by the adoption of a secularist mentality and the abandonment of traditional practices.
Cardinal Franc Rode, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, said the problems go deeper than the drastic drop in the numbers of religious men and women.
"The crisis experienced by certain religious communities, especially in Western Europe and North America, reflects the more profound crisis of European and American society. All this has dried up the sources that for centuries have nourished consecrated and missionary life in the church," Cardinal Rode said in a talk delivered Feb. 3 in Naples, Italy.
"The secularized culture has penetrated into the minds and hearts of some consecrated persons and some communities, where it is seen as an opening to modernity and a way of approaching the contemporary world," he said.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Vatican confirms freedom of priests to celebrate Extraordinary Form whenever they like – no need for 'stable group'
Vatican confirms freedom of priests to celebrate Extraordinary Form whenever they like – no need for 'stable group'
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
Good news from Rome: the Vatican has further underlined the freedom of priests to celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form whenever they choose. Two important points have been clarified by Ecclesia Dei, which will make it more difficult for the English, Welsh and above all Scottish bishops to stall the implementation of Summorum Pontificum:
1. A priest does NOT have to be approached by a “stable group” of the faithful in order to schedule a PUBLIC celebration of the Extraordinary Form – he may choose to do so, for example, in order to introduce his parishioners to this ancient form of the Roman Rite. Or because it’s his aunt’s birthday. Any reason, really.
2. A Mass in the Extraordinary Form may replace a regularly scheduled Mass in the Ordinary Form.
You can find more details of the Ecclesia Dei ruling here, on the excellent New Liturgical Movement blog. I do hope that priests will be encouraged by this document to exercise their full rights under Summorum Pontificum. I know of several instances in which British bishops are trying to undermine the Pope’s wishes, though I’m not going to go public where it would make the situation worse. But it is common knowledge that the situation is particularly serious is Scotland, where EF Masses are extremely rare and official claims that there is no demand for them need to be scrutinised very carefully, shall we say. More on that later.
Meanwhile, traditionalist priests and seminarians should take heart. Your hour is coming.
French Traditionalist Catholics Deal with "Kiss-in" at Notre Dame in Paris
French homosexuals planned a "kiss-in" on the steps of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and this is what happened to them.
The police asked the homosexual demonstrators to kiss someplace else, considering the large and menacing crowds opposed to them, but some insisted on carrying through with their plan. This provocation was dealt with accordingly and a few of the Catholic youth went to jail but were released by evening.
The Growing Power of the Orthodox
MOSCOW, Russia — Priests serving with military units, religious classes in public schools, even blessings at national hockey games — this is the face of the new Russian Orthodox Church.
Following years of steady post-communism revival, the church saw an explosive growth in its activities and state role last year. Now critics warn that the growth is coming at the expense of religious freedom in the country, with many faiths under attack.
In an annual report on religious freedom released in late January, the Moscow-based Liberty of Conscience Institute said the relationship between the church and the state had become “symbiotic,” violating the constitution and leading to widespread discrimination against religious minorities.
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Second Theological Meeting being Held in Rome with the SSPX: Dici
The second theological meeting between Rome’s theologians and those of the SSPX was held on January 18 at the Vatican in the offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The two parties, one of the participants told I. Media News, “have begun studying in depth the themes on the agenda for the doctrinal discussions.” No press release was issued on the occasion of the latest working session, as there had been for the preceding session, which was held on October 26, 2009. The next meeting will take place during the second half of the month of March, I. Media was also told.
During the sermon he gave during the priestly ordinations at the Seminary of La Reja in Argentina last 19 December, Msgr. Alfonso de Galarreta, who heads the Society of St. Pius X’s delegation, listed the subjects to be discussed in the forthcoming meetings: “all the themes we have been critiquing for forty years, especially religious liberty, the modern liberties, freedom of conscience, the dignity of the human person–as they say–the rights of man, personalism, ecumenism, interreligious dialogue, inculturation, collegiality–the egalitarianism, democratism, and destruction of authority that have been introduced into the Church; as well as all the notions of ecclesiology which have totally changed what the Church is: the question of the “self-consciousness” of the Church, the Church as communion, the Church as sacrament, the Church as the People of God; and all these new ideas about the relation between the Church and the world. Then there is the question of the Mass, the new Mass, the new missal, the liturgical reform…, and still other themes.” (See DICI No. 208, Jan. 23, 2010, pp. 10-11) [LINK]
While receiving in audience the members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith last January 15, Benedict XVI justified the gesture made towards the Society of St. Pius X, and expressed his desire to see “the remaining doctrinal problems overcome” thanks to the work of the Congregation.
(DICI No. 209, Feb. 6, 2010.—sources: I.Media/Apic/private sources)
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During the sermon he gave during the priestly ordinations at the Seminary of La Reja in Argentina last 19 December, Msgr. Alfonso de Galarreta, who heads the Society of St. Pius X’s delegation, listed the subjects to be discussed in the forthcoming meetings: “all the themes we have been critiquing for forty years, especially religious liberty, the modern liberties, freedom of conscience, the dignity of the human person–as they say–the rights of man, personalism, ecumenism, interreligious dialogue, inculturation, collegiality–the egalitarianism, democratism, and destruction of authority that have been introduced into the Church; as well as all the notions of ecclesiology which have totally changed what the Church is: the question of the “self-consciousness” of the Church, the Church as communion, the Church as sacrament, the Church as the People of God; and all these new ideas about the relation between the Church and the world. Then there is the question of the Mass, the new Mass, the new missal, the liturgical reform…, and still other themes.” (See DICI No. 208, Jan. 23, 2010, pp. 10-11) [LINK]
While receiving in audience the members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith last January 15, Benedict XVI justified the gesture made towards the Society of St. Pius X, and expressed his desire to see “the remaining doctrinal problems overcome” thanks to the work of the Congregation.
(DICI No. 209, Feb. 6, 2010.—sources: I.Media/Apic/private sources)
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Pax Christi Plans Peace "Mass" in London
The annual liturgy of Repentance and Resistance to nuclear war preparations will take place in London at 3pm on Ash Wednesday, 17 February.
The gathering will meet in Embankment Gardens and process to the Ministry of Defence, in Horseguards Avenue where a liturgy with prayers, songs and symbolic actions will take place, calling on the government to give up nuclear weapons.
In is address to the Diplomatic Corps last Thursday, Pope Benedict said: "One of the most serious challenges is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources are being consumed for these purposes, when they could be spent on the development of peoples, especially those who are poorest. For this reason I firmly hope that, during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held this May in New York, concrete decisions will be made towards progressive disarmament, with a view to freeing our planet from nuclear arms."
The day is supported by Catholic Peace Action, Christian CND and Pax Christi.
For more information contact Pax Christi: 0208 203 4884 or see: www.paxchristi.org.uk
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