Does Your Parish Waste $$$ on Disposable Missalettes Every Year

It's not too hard to see the relationship between anti-Catholic causes and the ubiquitous and cheaply manufactured missal which parishes often purchase at the expense of thousands of dollars a year, but take a look at the people who also publish from these houses, and it's almost as offensive as the crummy artwork.



Some parish priests are literally shoveling money into a sewer when they give money to gay-friendly organizations like Oregon Catholic Press, or Liturgical Press. The publications feature weird illustrations and musical arrangements. Imagine how much money could be saved if you just cancelled those worthless subscriptions and used the money to purchase beautiful veils for your tabernacle, or perhaps even a new gold ciborium for the Eucharistic Lord?

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Dutch Bishop Refuses Communion to Homosexuals

What the article by BBC doesn't tell you is that the Bishop Antoon Hurkmans of Den Bosch is backing up the priest who refused these people communion. It is confirmed by kathnet.

Hun[BBC]dreds of Dutch activists have walked out of a Mass in protest at a Roman Catholic policy of denying communion to practising homosexuals.

On this occasion, the church, in 's-Hertogenbosch, had already decided not to serve communion, so the protesters left, shouting and singing.

The dispute began earlier this month when a priest in a nearby town refused communion to an openly gay man.

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Guns at Starbucks? Pushing the right to bear arms in public

Guns at Starbucks? Pushing the right to bear arms in public

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Egyptian Court Acquits Muslims in Murder of Copt

CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Monday acquitted four Muslims accused of killing an elderly Christian, saying that testimony from witnesses had not established they were the murderers, a judicial source said.

The men were arrested in October after the elderly Copt was killed at his home in the southern village of Dairut.

They allegedly planned to attack the Copt's son, who was dating a Muslim girl and was rumoured to have circulated a CD with explicit pictures of her.

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The Case of Baoding and the Pope's Letter

The true story of Bishop Francis An Shuxin: imprisoned and tortured by the Communists, betrayed by Catholic authorities and sold out by Paul VI, this great Bishop kept his faith in the near absolute moral darkness of the 20th Century.


by Gianni Valente

[© Associated Press/LaPresse]

Baoding is not difficult to reach, by road or rail. It is less than 150 kilometers south of Beijing. The polluting industries were dismantled some time ago there, and they started making wind turbines and whatever was needed to derive energy from sun, wind and biomass. That is why reports in government newspapers extolled it as the capital of renewable energy, the Chinese model on the road to sustainable development. But for those who know even a little of the recent history of Catholics in China, Baoding is a place like no others. And for quite different reasons.

The name of the city in Hebei province, where currently less than one million people live, comes up often in the chronicles of Chinese Catholicism in recent decades as the epicenter of sensitive and controversial issues. It was in Baoding that in 1981 Bishop Joseph Fan Xueyan began to ordain bishops in clandestine fashion, outside the interference and control of the “patriotic” bodies imposed on the Church by the religious policies of the regime. An initiative approved after the fact by Pope John Paul II, and fraught with consequences. From there developed like lightning the network of “clandestine” bishops, those not recognized as such by the government, who set themselves at the head of that part of the Catholic Chinese – priests, religious, communities – which was unwilling to subject their ecclesial life to the control of the Party.

Thirty years later, Baoding again became the center of a controversy reminiscent in some ways of the way chosen at the time by Joseph Fan. Everything revolves around the case of a clandestine bishop who decided to come out into the open and to exercise his pastoral mandate by accepting procedures imposed by the civil authorities. His decision has triggered a storm of poisonous controversy that for months has been rending the Catholic communities of the region, and even involving the Vatican. The story is confused, and so far some partial and tendentious reconstructions put on the net by agencies and self-styled experts have encouraged misleading interpretations. But two documents, still ignored by the attacks of the western news agencies, throw full light on the concrete dynamics of the happenings and the reasons of the people involved. Showing up against the light the implications and the real contours of the larger issue that has opened around the case.

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Germany's Green Party Wants Sex With Children

The authors of the paper want to know the implemented principle of non-punishable violence-free sexuality, even of sexuality between minors as well as adults.

The 'Greens' of the German Republic Nordrhein-Westfalen have made a resolution with the theme, "Sex With Children".

This was reported in the German magazine, 'Spiegel' on March 25th, 1985.

A 20 headed 'green' work group with the name "Sexuality and Mastery" is promoting the paper as part of the federal party conference in Luedenscheid on 9 March Manifesto resolution.

Alliance of Child Abusers and Homosexuals

The 'green' Child abuse group names its homo-perverse and child abuser membership, playfully, "SchuP" (The German slang for sodomite is "schwul")

As expected the 'green' Delegates subscribed to the content of the papers according to an almost three hour discussion with 76 to 53 voices - in any case, because of a still clarification hungry point of dissenssion only as a "Working Document".

The Main Points follow:

- Consensual Sexuality is a form of communication between humans of various ages, sexes, religions or races and free from every constraint.

- From that it is not acceptable to use sexuality, where 'violence and independence' are in play.

- Violence free sexuality may never be the object of criminal prosecution. There then all criminal statutes be eliminated, which threaten violence free sexual expression with punishment.

-The entire German sexual crimes law should be struck and rewritten and constituted under the aspect of the use of violence.

The 'Greens' Federal Committee will not Annul the Tenet.

The authors of the Paper want to know the implemented principle of non-punishable violence free, even sexuality between minors as well as adults.

Members of the child-abusing Nurenberg "Indiancommune" had already used a Green Party Congress in the year 1980 to recruit for "soft Sex" with children.

The national main committee suspended the Sex Resolution with forty to four voices because of "heavy doubts" only after 7 days.

The resolution was not waived, however.

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Green Politician-Priest Promotes Homosexual Nuptials

In the past week, there was some rumpus when Father Germain Dufour, a Capuchin priest in Belgium conducted a sacrilegious and invalid matrimony service on Valentine's Eve. Some people still think that Cardinal Daneels is still running Belgium and were he, we'd be sure that nothing would be done and nothing would be said.

A few weeks after his appointment on 25 January, true to his name, +Leonard, the new Primate of Belgium, has spoken out against the outrage of homosexuality and invited once again the ire of the leftist press and, no doubt, many of his own priests, comparing the condition to the dietary-psychological disorder anorexia.

There's nothing as of yet of any disciplinary action against the Green Party activist and pro-homosexual priest, Fr. Dufour, but we expect it to come soon.

Fr. Amorth: Pope battles Satanists in the Vatican

Father Amorth has long been a most credible voice on Italian occultism and the battle against evil which is something which many bishops and priests have relegated to a dungeon of superstion. Thanks to the Blueblog for getting translations of the original Italian interview. Father Amorth has also commented on the "smoke of satan" quote by Paul VI.

We'd like to think that this exhonerates Fr. Malachi Martin who's done so much to combat this evil and make it known.

It shouldn't be surprising to many Catholics that this is the case, but some people would be shocked and find such things hard to believe, of course, we must pray.

- The Pope is informed of this?

"Of course, he was informed" But he does what he can. It is something terrifying. Keep in mind also that Benedict XVI is a German pope, he comes from a nation resolutely closed to these things. In Germany, in fact, there are almost no exorcists, and yet the Pope believes [in them]: I had the opportunity to speak with him three times before, when He was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He believes, and how! And he spoke explicitly in public several times [about this]. He welcomed our association of exorcists (in October 2005, BEM); [at the time] he also delivered a fine speech, encouraging us and praising our apostolate. And let us not forget that the devil and exorcism, John Paul II also spoke a lot about it. "

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McNulty on Protestant Whiskey

Every once in a while we get these salient reminders that those of the Celtic race have made a decision at some point in their lives, however tacit, to join themselves to the proper Religion.

Cardinal Pell gives Tacit Approval to Sacrilege

You can't serve two masters.

ON FRIDAY nights, gay Catholics from across Sydney attend St Joseph's in Newtown. Like all Catholics, they take Communion during mass and tea after it.

They have done so for years, with the quiet support of the deeply conservative Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell.

But this week St Joseph's gay ministry was threatened by a Catholic group set up on Facebook who vowed to stop its ''sacrilegious gay masses''.

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Cardinal: Catholics, Mormons must defend religious freedom together

By Catholic News Service

PROVO, Utah (CNS) -- Catholics and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must continue to stand together as a "vital bulwark" against those in American society who want to "reduce religion to a purely private reality," the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told a historic gathering at Brigham Young University in Provo.

Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago spoke Feb. 23 on "Catholics and Latter-day Saints: Partners in the Defense of Religious Freedom" as part of the Mormon school's forum series. He was the first cardinal to speak at the university.

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Defender of Waterboarding Hears From Critics

By MARK OPPENHEIMER

[New York Times] There’s nothing unusual about partisans of the Bush administration defending waterboarding as a useful form of “enhanced interrogation.” Others will go even further, calling the technique “torture,” but saying it may be a necessary evil. What is a bit unusual is the case being made by Marc A. Thiessen, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

In “Courting Disaster: How the C.I.A. Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack,” Mr. Thiessen, a practicing Roman Catholic, says that waterboarding suspected terrorists was not only useful and desirable, but permitted by the teachings of the Catholic Church.

This does not square, to put it mildly, with the common understanding of Catholic teaching. In the past month, Catholic bloggers and writers from across the political spectrum have united to attack his views, and to defend their own: that waterboarding is torture, and that Roman Catholics are not supposed to do it.

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Dutch Priest Stands Up Against the Zeitgeist

This is amazing, and it's not something you'd expect from Holland which was once the showcase of the Church.

Protests against priest who refused communion to gay “prince”

The Dutch Catholic priest who withheld Communion last week from his town's openly homosexual Carnival “prince” was faced at Mass this Sunday with a protest from homosexual activists. Saying that he feared “sins” and “sacrilege,” the priest chose not to distribute Communion at all, reports Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews.com.

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Beauty Queen Accused of Wishing Death to Homosexuals

By Kathleen Gilbert

BEVERLY HILLS, California, February 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a flashback to last year's Miss California controversy, another California beauty queen has sparked protests for quoting a Biblical injunction against homosexuality to explain her view against gay "marriage."

The furor erupted when Lauren Ashley - the "Miss Beverly Hills" contestant seeking the title of Miss California USA - told the FOXnews.com blog Pop Tarts this week that she based her stance against same-sex "marriage" in the words of the Bible.

"The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman," said Ashley. "In Leviticus it says, 'If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.' The Bible is pretty black and white."

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Croatia's Champion: Schussnig

Complete Biography at Mad Monarchist.

The Jew, Jesus, Who Changed the Life of the Chief Rabbi of Rome

Chiesa

He changed it so much that he had himself baptized in the Catholic Church. His book "Il Nazareno" has been reprinted and reviewed in "L'Osservatore Romano" by a Jewish scholar. And meanwhile, the second volume of the pope's "Jesus of Nazareth" is going to the printer

by Sandro Magister

ROME, February 24, 2010 – The first person he told that he had finished writing his book about Jesus was a Jewish rabbi, on the day after his visit to the synagogue of Rome, last January 18.

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Irish Priest Promises 15 Minute Mass During Lent

Irish Independent

By Tom Gilmore and Brian McDonald


Thursday February 25 2010

A PRIEST'S congregation has increased tenfold in a week -- thanks to a quickie Mass.

Despite the controversies which have rocked the church in recent years and the resulting fall-off in attendances at church services, Fr Michael Kenny has been packing them in at his Kilconly parish in Co Galway.

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Fr. Z says Fr. McBrien is a Liar and Promoting Disobedience

[This is simply mendacious. McBrien doesn’t choose to give reasonable consideration to those who think that the translations are good: such as the conferences of bishops who approved them.]

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Buddhism Comes to Catholic Monastery in South America

South American Monstery hosts relics of false religion, giving tacit approval to that religion and active promotion of the evils of freemasonry (religious indifferentism) or the idea that one religion is as good as any other.


Fatima Blog

Warning to Catholics

1. See – The facts

A world tour of Buddhist propaganda has now come to Peru. The news would have no greater significance if it were not, as was widely reported, the fact that the “tour” will include a visit to Cusco from February 26 to 28, during which relics of Buddha and some of his main followers will be exhibited in a certainly unexpected place: the Convent of Santo Domingo!

http://fratres.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/fatima-blog-buddhist-relics-in-catholic-monastery/

Florida Catholic | Pope Expresses Sorrow Over Murder Of Christians In Iraq

Florida Catholic | Pope Expresses Sorrow Over Murder Of Christians In Iraq

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