New Bishop for Görlitz, Former East Germany

Samstag, 18. Juni 2011 12:04.

Kreuz: The new Bishop of of Görlitz looks like the kind of man will allow the church to die in peace.

(Kreuz.net) today at 12:00 the Diocesan Administrator of Görlitz, Cathedral Rector Hubertus Zomack published the name of the new Bishop.

The present occupant of the office, Bishop Conrad Zdarsa - was named as Bishop of Augsburg.

AN ERFURT PRIEST

The new Görlitz Bishop will be Msgr Wolfgang Ipolt (57). He was born on 17 March, 1954 in the 46,000 population city of Gotha in Thuringia. The city belongs to the Diocese of Erfurt.

He studied theology in Erfurt and finished his studies with a licentiate. On 30 June, 1979, he was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Erfurt.

THE CHOICE ENDORSED BY THE POPE

From 1979 to 1983 he was active as Vicar of the 5000 population town of Wobis -- 110 km north of Erfurt.

From 1983 to 1985 he worked at the parish of Corpus Christi in East Berlin and from 1985 to 1992 in the Parish of Saint Lorenz in Erfurt.

In 1989 he was made the Subregent of Erfurt's Seminary.
From 1992 to 2004 he was pastor in the 44,000 population city of Nordhausen -- 75 km north of Erfurt. In 2001 he was named as the Erfurt Cathedral Regent and the Rector of the Seminary. A few weeks ago the Görlitzer Dicoesan chapter elected him as Bishop.

This choice has been confirmed by the Pope.

A MINI-DIOCESE

Görlitz is the smallest German Diocese. With an area of around 9,700 square kilometers in East Brandenburg and Saxony, ther are about 36,000 Catholics. That is less than four percent of the population.

At the founding of the Diocese iin 1994. There were 55,000 Catholics. The faithful belong to 47 parishes and pastoral centers. The Diocese of Görlitz is located in the area of the former Archdiocese of Breslau in Lower Silesia. This church territory was administrated after the Polish occupation of Lower Silesia in 1945 consequently "Archepiscopal Office of Görlitz"

In 1972 the Vatican erected the apostolic administrator of Görlitz.

It was raised to the Diocese of Görlitz in 1994.

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Centenial of Decline

Editor: if you compare then vs. now, now loses every single time. Over the past century, a lot has changed. Women are forced to wear tight and revealing clothing, while men, left to their own devices...

[The chronicle on line] Over the past century, both churches have seen a number of changes. Gone are the days of Mass being given in Latin, women being required to wear head coverings and the disappearance of the traditional Habit.

St. Frederic has also been home to several firsts including the first Lay ministers of Communion and Liturgy in 1970 and the opening of the first parochial school in Columbia County in 1928.

And in 1960, John F. Kennedy – the first Catholic president – visited during his presidential campaign. To mark these changes and to recognize the role of the church in the lives of its parishioners, St. Wenceslaus asked members to complete a family story questionnaire.  From these a Parish Memory Book will be created and shared with the community.

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Holy Father Promotes Sacred Heart Devotions

VATICAN CITY, 15 JUN 2011 (VIS) - At the end of his catechesis this morning, Benedict XVI addressed greetings to various groups present at the general audience. Speaking English he expressed his best wishes to "members of the Catholic-Pentecostal International Dialogue ... for the next phase of their work". He also welcomed "the Fiftieth Conference of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration, now meeting in Rome.  "I also send my most cordial greetings to Polish pilgrims", he added. "June is a month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This devotion is celebrated in many churches and communities, and I encourage you to keep this beautiful tradition alive". 

Finally the Holy Father welcomed representatives from the Catholic Bible Federation, expressing the hope that "their efforts may bring important fruits, particularly for the pastoral life of the local Churches."

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Maestro Advocates Return to Rigour and Gregorian Chant

Interview with the director of the choir of the Roman Philharmonic, Msgr Pablo Colino. By Orazio la Rocca/ La Republica, Rome.

(kath.net/as) "Dramatic, despairing, meaningless". Maestro Don Pablo Colino isn't reading from a script when he describes the health of today's repetoir of ecclesiastical music - – even if he can be pressed to specify that "there is still a possiblity, to exponentiate a return from this dangerous tendency from below, in which one departs with Gregorian Chant, the study of musica sacra, and liturgical music." Msgr. Colino is known world wide as a musician and orchestra Director. With years of service in the Vatican he is directing the choir of the Roman Philharmonic at the present. He has an authority then about what religious music entails, which he has worked for years to "clean" of the film, which according to his lights, has endangered it.

"Pope Benedict XVI is the first who asked us about and believed in this task," he said. "Many times, the Pope encourged me to continue there the universal heritage of the musica sacra rooted in the truest liturgical tradition.

Maestro Colino, why is the musica sacra and the liturgy in a crisis?

Msgr. Colino: everything has been backwards since the 2nd Vatican Council, connected to a superficial flood of pseudo-renewals, which in almost all of our churches has done so much damage. It is enough at some liturgical celebrations to hear fearful guitar picking, deafening electrical organs, and uninspiring choirs. And the whole thing led by unqualified music directors. Even when there is an absence of encouraging exceptions, which - can be nurtured - there is a shimmer of hope for the future forming.

Would you name a couple of examples?

Msgr. Colino: recently in Terni, an interesting event in sacred music took place, and there are a lot of young choirs and many artistic groups specializing in liturgical music. It was beautiful and interesting to hear them.

Is there a "prescription" to restore the musica sacra?

Msgr. Colino: it is necessary to return to take a serious, difficult and painful study of the "scholae cantorum", in conservatories and also in the schools. The Musica Sacra is a universal heritage, one of the highest and everlasting art forms. And Italy is full of that which is the legacy of the greatest composers of liturgical music.

And how should the programs of schools of this type look?

Msgr. Colino: It is of foundational importance to return to the direct aqcueintance of the Gregorian Choral and also the education of musicians as well as refining orchestras and choir directors. Nothing happens without didactic rigour and without the knowledge of Gregorian, mother of sacra musica, yes I would even dare to say: of all music, even of the contemporary.© La Repubblica vom 16. Juni 2011   

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Police Recover 780 Relic of St. Anthony, Hammer of Heretics

[LA Times] A 780-year-old religious relic stolen from a Long Beach church has been recovered and a suspect has been arrested in the case, police said Thursday evening.

The theft of relic to honor St. Anthony was reported Monday morning at St. Anthony Church, near 6th Street and Olive Avenue, according to the Long Beach Police Department.


A Long Beach woman was arrested in connection with the theft, police said. Police declined to release additional details, saying that a news conference was scheduled for Thursday night.

Link to LA Times...

Archbishop Promotes Socialist Wealth-Confiscation Schemes

The Canonization of Marx and Coercive Virtue

Editor: It's a Bella Dodd alert.  Some commentators think it's cute when Archbishops use their moral authority to promote Socialist wealth confiscation schemes and the mistaken idea that people being coerced to support government programs allegedly for poor relief, constitute charity.  Perhaps Archbishop Nienstedt should consult St. Thomas on this issue rather than Karl Marx?  Aquinas says:

It is not always through the perfect goodness of virtue that one obeys the law, but sometimes it is through fear of punishment, and sometimes from the mere dictate of reason, which is a kind of beginning of virtue.⁽⁸⁾

Check out the Dick and Jane help out with the Community Organizing over on the Mark Shay blog by positing imaginary distinctions between different social justices as if painting the name "Catholic" on something changes its substance.  Yet once again, the neo-Conservative Archbishop puts himself behind wealth redistribution and the expansion of the welfare state.

In any event, the Archbishop is lending a red hand  on behalf of those nefarious political interests continuing to degrade the moral tenor of the nation. 

Articulate and just criticisms are forthcoming from Senator David Hahn as they appear here at NPR.

Mark Sashay...

Eucharistic Adoration is a Vatican Emphasis: Catholic News Consults Father McBrien

Editor: Vatican News Service has termites working in it. Asking Father McBrien about the Eucharist is like asking Ronald McDonald what he thinks of the healthfood. Catholic journalists who site him should be put under interdict, handed over to the secular arm, whipped and thrown into the dungeon.


Why can't Father McBrien find a  real job doing something else rather than the destructive and unhelpful job he's doing now as a "theologian".

[VNS] At the same time, however, some theologians object to adoration as outdated and unnecessary, and warn that it can lead to misunderstandings and undo decades of progress in educating lay Catholics on the meaning of the sacrament.
Monsignor Kevin W. Irwin, dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, said Eucharistic adoration by the laity originated in the 13th century as a substitute for receiving Communion at Mass.
At the same time, he said, the church often encouraged a believer's sense of "personal unworthiness" to receive the sacrament -- which Catholics believe to be the body of Christ -- so many resorted to so-called "ocular communion" instead.
Eucharistic adoration was also used as a teaching tool to reaffirm the doctrine of the "real presence" of Christ in the Eucharist, said the Rev. Richard P. McBrien, a noted theologian at the University of Notre Dame.
For instance, McBrien said, devotion grew during the 16th- and 17th-century Counter-Reformation, in response to the arguments of some Protestant Reformers that the Eucharist was merely a symbol, not the actual body of Christ.
In the days when priests celebrated Mass in Latin with minimal participation by the congregation, the hymns and prayers associated with adoration gave lay Catholics an opportunity for public worship, Irwin said.
Liturgical reforms after Vatican II greatly increased the laity's participation at Mass, which Irwin said satisfied the "felt need for participation in public prayer." Irwin called that an "underlying reason" for the practice's decline.


Vatican tries to revive Eucharistic adoration | The Christian Century

Pontifical Commission Reports on Ancient Frescoes in Rome

June 16, 2011. (Romereprots.com) The Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology is the Vatican body responsible for the care of ancient cemeteries and other artifacts from the early Christian centuries. They recently unveiled this 3rd century hypogeum, or underground burial chamber, that belonged to the Aurelia family of Rome.


Raffaella Giuliani
Archeologist, Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology
“The paintings represent the lives of the Aureli, as we can see from the paintings they were a wealthy family that owned many houses, in the painting we can see the construction of these villas and gardens from imperial Rome. These scenes are inspired by the Homeric poems, in particular by the story of Odysseus.”
For the past 10 years, a team of archeologists has been restoring this hypogeum that dates back to the third century but was only discovered in 1919.
The Vatican and the team of archeologists say the restoration of this underground chamber has given some insights to the Aurelia family and the transition of paganism to Christianity.

Corapi Announcement Forthcoming this Weekend.

Bon Appetit

Editor: Of course it's going to confirm what we've been saying all along. Still, we're not going to demur from pointing out that there were people who weren't willing to innocent till proven guilty on Father Corapi and give more credibility to the accusations than they deserved. Yes, a vindictive woman, imagine that, wanted to ruin Father Corapi's career and after that there was quite an outpouring of dreck assaulting his character from some of the less virile, less orthodox areas of the blogospear, and media complex, insinuations from certain quarters we're not going to forget: the network gone wrong, deacon's stench, the cankerous and crabby roads.

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Saint Paul's Cathedral Restoration Complete

Editor: One feature of this article is the fact that this will be a restoration and not a revolution [renovation]. There won't be an altar table and we trust that the chancel screen will remain in place.

The steel frames have lined the building since renovation work started in 1996.

But with the £40million project finally complete, the public will today get an unobstructed view of Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece.

Restoration work has ‘transformed’ the interior, cathedral officials say, while more than 150,000 blocks of the white Portland stone have been cleaned on the west exterior wall.

Other work has included redesigning and landscaping the south gardens, restoration of the grand organ and cleaning the American Memorial Chapel, which was built in the 1950s to commemorate US forces who died in World War II.

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/866466-st-pauls-cathedral-scaffolding-finally-removed-after-15-years#ixzz1PRwiEYCN

Chinese Communist Party Celebrates Decades of Murder and Banditry

Editor: despite the government's longstanding official persecution of the Catholic Church and the recent excommunications of Patriotic Association Bishops who are stooges for the government, but wait, the government is showing a lot of propaganda designed to make you feel good about how International Collectivists robbed your grandparents of your legacy and that of your children. What Chinese need to ask is, "where is the Emperor?"

[USA Today] At a movie theater inside a central Beijing shopping mall, artist Jin Rui says he enjoyed the film and hoped it draws many Chinese, especially the younger generation. "Today, too many people care only about making money, but as Chinese, we all need some belief, not just materialism," he says.

"I've lived through many revolutions," says Jin, 58, whose father, a party member, was punished as a "rightist" in the late 1950s. "I don't care which party rules as long as they deliver a good social environment. The Communist Party is doing better and better these days," says Jin, who has never joined the party.

The film's 100-plus stars, including Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau, proved the key attraction for several moviegoers. "I wanted to spot all the stars," admits Boris Zou, a Beijing film company employee.

To ensure his son, 14, and daughter, 6, know where power lies in China, construction company manager Han Jingming brought them to a "Red song" concert that rocked the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium in Beijing on Sunday night. "The Communist Party will continue to lead China, so I want my kids to understand its history and our revolution," explains Han, 40.

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In Liturgy It's Only the Right of the Powerful

How can it be that in the Church where "Tolerance" has long been the Superdogma, such intolerance exists? Answer: Because tolerance is only valid for the devil.

(kreuz.net) The German Bishops invite to dialog. They are, however, "not immediately dialog-ready" about the Old Mass.

Pastor Hendrick Jolie from the Diocese of Mainz said in the middle of this May on his website.

This is how he sees the Bishops' Offer of Dialog

There interest in the Old Mass is small -- cited Fr. Jolie the Bishops. That has a diverse number of causes said Father Jolie.

He says there's a "steadily growing indifference of many Christians for Faith and Liturgy".

Fr. Jolie sees a second cause in the "open secret that in many Seminaries, the interest in the Old Mass alone can be dangerous."

The clergyman knows seminarians who are hesitant to participate in the Old Rite, because they fear the consequences.

He cites a Seminarist with the words: "I just want to get ordained."

That cause Fr. Jolie to comment: "Is this how the Bishops see dialog?"

In the Diocese of Mainz there are priests who are open to the Old Liturgy, but are under pressure.

On that point he recalled the word of then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger from the year 2000:

"Whoever today is inclined to this Liturgy or participates in it, will be dealt with as an outsider; here all tolerance comes to an end."

Fr. Jolie put the question: "How can it be that in our Church where "Tolerance" has long been spoken of as the Superdogma, can such intolerance rule?"

Only the Right of the Strong

The clergyman is appealing to the consciences of the Old Liberal Bishops:

"Experience teaches that unresolved injustice in the Church can have fatal consequences."

Because: "Through silence, ignorance and the "right of the strong" solves no problems in the Kingdom of God."

Fr. Jolie recalled then that the Pope in 2007 had described the de facto prohibition against the Old Mass a "profound injustice".

Then he asked the question:

"Is it not indisputable, that on the one hand in our Church ecumenism is written of highly, while at the same time even Catholics, who are, very directly addressed and given permission from the Pope, are still punished with marginalization?"

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German Philosohper Weighs in About the Truth

The Old Liberal Offense about Offense

In Germany there is the notion that the saving flesh-and-blood Christendom can be reduced and reinterpreted to a contourless watered down Ideology.

(kreuz.net) "I think the Episcopal recommendation for a new round of discussion in the Church is a catastrophically wrong decision."

This is what Frankfurt philosopher Walter Hoeres (83) said today in an editorial for the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung' in the regional portion of "Rhein-Main'.

Hoeres recalled that in Germany since the Council and the Synod of Wurzburg, there has been an uninterrupted attempt to make the faith "understandable" to our times:

"Since then, everything is debated in the subject area of the Church, which in fact has come to indicate that everything can be put to question" -- the philosopher broke it down.

Thereupon it has to be the case that even in questions of faith, as with all expressions, "there must be an absolute correspondence of form and content".

The philosopher explained this expression: "That means that one has the task, to explain those things which have been found by all times to be offensive and foolishness, really to express this as the Church has always done".

Hoeres gives an example:

"How should you explain the truth that Jesus is true God and Man or that at the Sacrifice of the Mass according to Catholic conviction that the bread and wine is transformed into the body and blood of Christ, without bringing a non-believer to offense?"

SPLC Demands that Minnesota School District Address Anti-Gay Harassment, Drop Gag Policy | Southern Poverty Law Center

Editor: this is precisely why no one with any sense should send their children to support the public education monopoly. Relentless pressure from crypto-Marxist organizations like the SPLC will invariably intervene to ensure that their propaganda values are met at the expense of education.


SPLC Demands that Minnesota School District Address Anti-Gay Harassment, Drop Gag Policy | Southern Poverty Law Center

David Berger's Book Promoted by Fulda Diocese

The Demon in the Fulda Book Store by the Cathedral

The homosexually disturbed David Berger is officially cursing the official Church like one possessed.  Actually he's tucked with her under cover.  by Bonifaz Voigt.

The Fulda Cathedral Bookshoppe sells Berger's  Homo-book

(kreuz.net) What the controversial ecclesiastical 'Weltbildverlag' isn't doing -- Bishop Heinz Josef Algermissen of Fulda completes.

In the Catholic book store in the shadows of the high Dome in Fulda there's the book by homo-swindler, David Berger, is on offer and overflowing on the showroom floor.

Berger is a homosexually disturbed person, who had taken his neo-Conservative friends for a year long ride as he led a double life.

He has betrayed his companions and patrons in this portrayal now under the title of his book "The Holy Glow".

That the Fulda Cathedral Book store promotes his homosexual propaganda is not a cause for concern.

Because last year Rotarian Bishop Algermissen announced that he would allow opposition to Church regulations and consecrate homosexually disturbed individuals to the priesthood.

In the meantime, the Cathedral in Fulda has taken place again with the blessing of four seminarians -- despite significant protests.

For that reason it is understandable and logical that the infamous Berger book is prized in the official bookstore of the Cathedral.

Kreuz.net....

Moscow Patriarchate Grateful to Government for Stopping Homo-Parade

Moscow, May 30, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church is grateful to the Moscow city authorities and law enforcers for preventing a gay parade attempted in the city last Saturday.

Responding to questions from Interfax-Religion on Monday, head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said the authorities "quite politely prevented an instance of propaganda of homosexuality which could have been witnessed by children and teenagers who crowded the two venues of the action."

He expressed hope that in the future the authorities of Russia and Moscow in similar cases "will listen to the voice of their own people, the majority of whom do not accept the propaganda of homosexuality, instead of foreign pressure that was exerted before the action and continues now."

http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=dujour&div=49

Vatican Excommunicates Patriotic Chinese Bishops

(Vatikan/Peking) At the request of numerous Chinese Faithful, and above all the Catholic underground Church, the Holy See has published a clarification that the unauthorized newly consecrated, regime-friendly Bishops of the People's Republic of China, as well as the Bishops who consecrated them, are excommunicated with all of the consequences that follow from that.

The explanation comes from the Papal Adviser for Legislative Texts.
The Holy See is pleading with the stricken Bishops:

-to make a public gesture of penitence

-that they do not celebrate Holy Mass or receive Holy Communion

-that they neither receive nor distribute the Sacraments

-that they give up the direction of their Dicoese.

These requirements are the "necessary medicine for healing", to make possible the resettling of the Catholic Church. After the receiving many uncustomary outcries, the Holy See has taken steps with this warning to clarify the confusing situation in the People's Republic of China. The Papal Adviser for Legislative Texts explained the reason for the proceedings as the illegal consecration by the Communist regime's Bishops without a Papal Mandate. Even though the punishment is affecting the relevant parties, there is still the possibility for the ecclesiastical punishments to be withdrawn and return to reconciliation with the Church.

The unauthorized consecrations occurred on 20. November 2010 in Chengde. The explanation was also urgent because of an announcement by the Communist Regime's willingness to conduct more unauthorized Episcopal Consecrations. The complete wording of the explanation was published in Osservatore Romano on the 11th of June 2011 some days before, after which the Chinese Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Msgr Xaver Hon had taken an adverse position to the Holy See and Peking intermixing authority in the Episcopal Consecrations. He encouraged Chinese Bishops to have no fear, that the government proposals will receive a firm rebuttal.

The Papal Adviser clearly explained that the unauthorized Consecration of Bishops, that is to say without the approval of the Pope, represents a profound violation of the Church's Law. It is a "punishable act against Catholic teaching". The Adviser cited as well the Second Vatican Council as well as other Documents, in which he recalled that also concern the question of the Eastern Churches.

The Declaration is in any case very clear that the punishable act will be directed against the consecrated Bishops as well as those who offered the consecration. All those named are fall under the condemnation latae sententiae. This doesn't impose an expressed condemnation at the end of a canonical procedure. The excommunication itself will have happened automatically according to itself.

It is expressly mentioned in the declaration that Church Law (Canon 1324, Paragraph 3) "ameliorates" the circumstances if known (excepting for compulsion, ignorance …). Should such be given, the excommunication will not be automatic. This part of the declaration falls above all upon the Bishops standing in unity with Rome, who have participated in the unauthorized consecrations. Accordingly there were reports surrounding the event, that at least some of them were ordered by the State Police or abducted to force their participation. For that reason the Holy See is allowing some room to allow those participating to make the "necessary penance" and take steps, to deport this outrage from the world.

Each, who falls under Excommunication, "must" refrain from the following things:

1) celebrating Holy Mass or concelebrating or participating in any other liturgical event;

2) giving or receiving the Sacraments and Sacramentals;

3) participating in various functions and tasks of Church direction.

In other words: the bishop who received the unauthorized consecration and the Bishops, who participated in the unauthorized consecration or were present, may neither celebrate Holy Mass, nor dispense Sacraments or receive the same. Additionally the Bishops concerned may not participate in the direction or administration Episcopal office in any way.

Should they do any of the following things, they commit a Sacrilege.

The declaration does not hesitate to make clear that the strictures and punishments are "medicine", part of a healing process of sorrow, penance and return and with that to encourage healing and reconciliation.

Translation from Katholisches...

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Western Mass Sacrilege Three Years Running in Vienna

Editor: Fr. Tony Faber, the one who helped Cardinal Schönborn bury a Communist homosexual in the Cathedral graveyard, is at it again. The up and running "Western Theme Mass" is apparently approved from HQ. He made the point that the Cardinal has approved this "Mass".

German Politician Criticizes Turkey's Treatment of Christian Minority

Religious freedom shouldn't just be on paper.

Konstanz (www.kath.net/ idea) The President of the CDU/CSU Factino in the Bundestag, Volker Kauder, effected a criticism of Turkey's relations with its christian minority. The recognition of the Turkish government, that all religions should have their place, must follow from deeds just as before, said Kauder to Konstanz's "Südkurier". According to his observations Turkey is continued unaltered a "politic of pulling Christian roots". Thus, there is no priestly formation allowed.

A one hundred year old Monastery like Mor Gabriel, the spiritual center of the Syriac-Orthodox Church in the area of Tur (Mountain of the Servant of God)in the Southeastern part of Turkey, is having its land put in dispute. "That doesn't work", says Kauder. Religious freedom shouldn't just be on paper. The politician continued that there are few lands in which Islam allows other religions to freely develop. The reason is that cultures imbued with Islam have no meaningful separation between religious community and the State.

The Power of Religion

As to the question why he is insisting on religious freedom, Kauder answered that a politician, for whom the Christian conception of man's image is a model, must involve the concern for human rights as well. As a Christian, says Kauder, he feels a special duty to stand by his fellow Christian brothers and sisters. He was shocked about reports of persecuted Christians who were put in stifling containers because of their faith.

At the same time he wonders at the courage of these people to sacrifice for their faith. As an example Kauder described the Catholic Bishop in the metropolis of Shanghai, Aloysius Jin. The over ninety year old Priest described his painful suffering during the Cultural Revolution's oppressive surveillance. Despite their power, the Chiense government fears the Pope in distant Rome. "That makes me conscious about what power religion can have", said Kauder.

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Cardinal Cushing Fostered Culture of Modernism

Camelot's Chaplain

Editor: Recently, Phil Lawler came to the fore with his discussion of how Cardinal Cushing originated a proto-exemplar of the seamless garment, which allowed the Kennedies to get votes for being Catholic while yet claiming to support all Americans.  We'd  first heard of this in an article by Dr. Thomas Drolesky, no longer available on Seattle Catholic, which described a radio interview where Cardinal Cushing recommended, when asked if he thought Catholic politians should oppose birth control legalization, that a Catholic politician had a duty to represent his constituency before being true to his Catholic principles.  Of course, this little conceit has been part of the Catholic political scene now for more than fifty years with catastrophic results. Of course, this isn't something that was conjured up out of the blue.  Many others have challenged the blustery Irish Prelate of Boston in the past.  Well, better late than never.  We hope that it begins to rehabilitate Father Leondard Feeney who suffered unjustly at the hands of this incredible chaplain to Camelot, and apologist for birth control.  Lawler's a come lately, but maybe one day he'll arrive to the harvest just in time to get a full day's pay?

The questionable film treatment of Otto Preminger's "The Cardinal" featured a questionable but accurate portrayal of the Civil Rights crusading, Americanist Prelate. 



H/t: Pewsitter.