Editor: Somebody told us that the campaign we've been participating in about Cardinal Schönborn would never catch on. Well, at least Mundabor caught the ++Schönborn bug.
Actually, we very seldom have to explain to people we meet who are Catholic about the Danube Prelate. Even Jimmy Akin's ten gallon hat probably knows by now. Hey, beating up on Father Corapi takes a lot of energy. You can only cover "important" events, dontcha know.
You'd thought you'd heard everything. Now it's a Restaurant Mass. At least there's no polka band. The Heurigen where this took is a place where you can drink wine made on the premises. It's got good food, but they serve a tough wine to drink and a bit on the bitter side, rather like gall. We've been to this Heurigen in a suburb of Vienna, near a Church where Franz Schubert played one of his beautiful Masses.
As the gloria.tv reports, this was done with Cardinal Schönborn's approval.
Austria. On the Sunday before last Pastor Norbert Ritt von Grinzing in the Archdiocese of Vienna celebrated a new Mass in a restaurant. This was according to the neo-Conservative videosite, 'gloria.tv'. The divine service was part of a series under the title, Heuerigenmesse [Heurigen Mass]. Every fourth Sunday in the Summer, Father Ritt celebrates Sunday Mass in the patio of the restaurant. After the Mass, the priest left the consecrated Hosts in ciboria on the dinner table. After a long while, a woman took the Hosts -- along with other utensils like the Mass book, baskets, the loud speaker -- in a plastic crate. The crate was filled with the All Holy and all the other objects were piled in on top of It or next to It and it was dumped in the passenger seat of a car.
This new Mass was held at the Restaurant, despite the fact that there was a beautiful church conveniently two or three blocks away.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Liberal Irish Archbishop Continues His Quest for Church "Reform"
And the patently false:
But, he noted, "you cannot identify homosexuality with paedophilia". He said that paedophilia is "not the result of homosexuality, nor is it a result of celibacy"[2][Source]
On Civil Unions:
" He also said that while the Catholic Church favoured marriage, "it is not against other forms of intimacy" [Source]".
He is basically in the same boat as Cardinal Schönborn, "helping" with the priest shortage by promoting lay involvement, soft-peddling homosexuality if not pedaling for it.
But we warned two years ago that this Archbishop's crocodile tears were about another agenda. Actually, we're pretty certain it has to do with an eventual Schism of the Irish Church, abetted by Enda Kenny and an assault on the Altar.
We won't deny that there's a cabal in the Vatican and other parts of the Church as he suggests, but it is more than obvious that Archbishop Kenny has more interest in forming a more independent, lay run, state sponsored establishment than he has in representing the truths of the Catholic Faith itself. He'll continue to pretend to be the good guy, and the anti-Catholic press will continue to support him.
Sunday September 04 2011
The Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has admitted that "a cabal" protecting clerical sex abusers may be operating at the highest levels in the Catholic Church.
Dr Martin said: "There may be a cabal in Cloyne. They may have friends in other parts of the Irish Church. They may have friends in Irish society. There may be friends in the Vatican."
Asked yesterday who was preventing the protection of children, he said: "The numbers that are involved in this are few. The damage that these people cause is horrendous. It's for all of us to see where they are, but in the long term I have to take the responsibility that in Dublin there are not cabals who reject our child protection
Link to article, here...
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Cologne Liturgical Congress: Following Rubrics a Sign of Love
The bread baking materials for first communion instruction demonstrate how the approving Bishops think about the Eucharistic Celebration.
(kreuz.net, Herzogenrath) The catechetical materials for first Communion preparation are not suitable.
Pastor Guido Rodheudt of St. Gertrud in Herzogenrath described this during his lecture on the 14th Cologne 'Liturgical Congress' at the end of August from the article in the Catholic paper 'Tagespost'.
Baking Class Instead of First Communion Preparation
Fr. Rodeheudt complained that First Communion preparation should be more important than how bread is made.
Even worse, the children are hardly instructed that the consecrated Host is the true Body of the Lord. The participants in the congress discussed those responsible for this misunderstanding.
This led them to consider "theologians" and Ordinaries.
The Cathedrals Were Built for the Mass
When the Motu Proprio 'Summorum Pontificum' was published, said Fr. Rodheudt, the Old Mass has supposedly been let out of the "doghhouse'.
The Liturgy of All Times should not be limited to "reservations" for Traditionalists. They should be "on free hunting grounds", in the great Cathedrals and simply parish churches.
New Mass Hostile to Thought
The Augsburg theologian, Fr. Hofman explained that the New Eucharistic Celebration's vestments are often neglected. Fr. Bernward Denekie of the Society of St. Peter criticized the "strip mining in the visible area".
It has led many individuals to lose their faith in the Eucharist.
The Australian, Alcuin Reid of the French Diocese of Frejus-Toulon complained of a diversity -- it would probably be systematic -- of abuses of the rubrics in the New Mass. Truth to the rubrics is "nothing else than an act of love and loyalty to God himself."
Is Matussek Going to Abandon Communion in the Hand?
The Catholic journalist Matthias Matussek read from his book "The Catholic adventure" where he discusses Communion in the hand. Matussek commented on this passage at Herzogenrath: "Perhaps I will come over to Communion on the Tongue after this Congress."
Austrian Parish Liturgically Restored
The Graz Pastor Paul Scheichenberger reported that he has restored the Old Rite to days during the week. It is working like a gradual change of diet long and lasting. It states openly in the 'Tagespost' article what plots the Old Liberal Bishop Egon Kapellari of Graz-Seckau is planning to accomplish.
Link to kreu.net original...
Highlights to Aachen's Cathedral on the 14th Liturgical Congress.
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| Photo From Facebook of Cologne's 14th Liturgical Congress |
(kreuz.net, Herzogenrath) The catechetical materials for first Communion preparation are not suitable.
Pastor Guido Rodheudt of St. Gertrud in Herzogenrath described this during his lecture on the 14th Cologne 'Liturgical Congress' at the end of August from the article in the Catholic paper 'Tagespost'.
Baking Class Instead of First Communion Preparation
Fr. Rodeheudt complained that First Communion preparation should be more important than how bread is made.
Even worse, the children are hardly instructed that the consecrated Host is the true Body of the Lord. The participants in the congress discussed those responsible for this misunderstanding.
This led them to consider "theologians" and Ordinaries.
The Cathedrals Were Built for the Mass
When the Motu Proprio 'Summorum Pontificum' was published, said Fr. Rodheudt, the Old Mass has supposedly been let out of the "doghhouse'.
The Liturgy of All Times should not be limited to "reservations" for Traditionalists. They should be "on free hunting grounds", in the great Cathedrals and simply parish churches.
New Mass Hostile to Thought
The Augsburg theologian, Fr. Hofman explained that the New Eucharistic Celebration's vestments are often neglected. Fr. Bernward Denekie of the Society of St. Peter criticized the "strip mining in the visible area".
It has led many individuals to lose their faith in the Eucharist.
The Australian, Alcuin Reid of the French Diocese of Frejus-Toulon complained of a diversity -- it would probably be systematic -- of abuses of the rubrics in the New Mass. Truth to the rubrics is "nothing else than an act of love and loyalty to God himself."
Is Matussek Going to Abandon Communion in the Hand?
The Catholic journalist Matthias Matussek read from his book "The Catholic adventure" where he discusses Communion in the hand. Matussek commented on this passage at Herzogenrath: "Perhaps I will come over to Communion on the Tongue after this Congress."
Austrian Parish Liturgically Restored
The Graz Pastor Paul Scheichenberger reported that he has restored the Old Rite to days during the week. It is working like a gradual change of diet long and lasting. It states openly in the 'Tagespost' article what plots the Old Liberal Bishop Egon Kapellari of Graz-Seckau is planning to accomplish.
Link to kreu.net original...
Highlights to Aachen's Cathedral on the 14th Liturgical Congress.
Marxist Priest Faces Excommunication
[La Stampa] Father Roy Bourgeois is a senior cleric belonging to the Maryknoll Missionaries, founded in 1911 in the United States for missionary activities. He spent twenty years of his life in Latin America and returned with a conviction: to put an end to U.S. support of Latin American military torturers trained in Georgia at the "School of the Americas" military center. That was in the nineties. Now that there is democracy in Latin America, Father Roy is fighting to get the U.S. government to admit its past responsibility, release the lists of military personnel trained there, and close the center permanently.
Around his "School of the Americas Watch" (SOA-Watch), a humanitarian organization for human rights, a broad consensus has solidified, and the protest march which takes place every November in Fort Bennings, Georgia at the gates of the former military school sees hundreds of demonstrators from across the United States, including monks and nuns from many different congregations. Every now and then he speaks out on more than just humanitarian issues, and so his latest position in favor of women priests has earned him a formal complaint and the start of the process for expulsion from his missionary congregation and excommunication. Measures a bit drastic for a "crime of opinion" - as one would say if there was a court case - motivated by the wide popularity of the individual and the resonance of his statements.
On the figure of Father Bourgeois, in addition to the many articles that have been written, there are also a few books, of which I will indicate just one. The SOA-Watch center has its headquarters in Washington and certainly will survive the eventual ecclesiastical sanction against its founder.
Editorial from La Stampa....
USCCB News Organ Celebrates Pro-Abort Labor Secretary
Edit: can it really be that the USCCB is not only completely useless and expensive but evil as well? This catholic flavored public official "sometimes attends Mass" and even has some religious iconography in her office. The Catholic Faith motivates her. Did it motivate her to get a 100% approval rating from NARAL when she was a congressperson? Here's the blurb from Catholic World Report:
A
news brief on Catholic Culture highlights a recent article by
Mark Zimmerman for Catholic News Service, the editorially and financially
independent news media division of the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops. The article in question – which will be running in diocesan newspapers
all over the country in time for Labor Day – is a puff piece on US Labor Secretary
Hilda Solis that focuses on her parents’ inspiring faith and tireless work
ethic, as well as how Solis’ Catholic faith “motivates” her.
Read further, link....
Puff piece on labor secretary omits mention of pro-abortion stances
September 02, 2011 04:55 EST
US Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis (CNS)
We get a description of the crucifix and statue of Mary
Solis keeps in her office, and are told that she “sometimes attends Masses at
the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in downtown Washington.” There is also
a detailed account of Solis’ many efforts on behalf of the poor, especially
migrant workers, during her tenure as a congresswoman from California and then
as labor secretary. Solis was the first woman to receive the prestigious John
F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, “for her work on environmental justice
issues,” the article states.
However, this
glowing account of a Catholic public servant fails to mention a couple facts
about her time in office, including her 100% pro-choice rating from NARAL
Pro-Choice America (and a corresponding 0% rating from the National Right to
Life Committee).
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Phillipine Bishop Disparages World Youth Day
Taken from Tradition in Action's coverage of WYD:
What happens, on the other hand, when the authority figure is a Bishop?
Instead, at the Taking of Christ from the Cross, the youth were told that Christ shares the fate of the victims of AIDS who need sympathy and help. Not a single word of censure of homosexuality, the main cause of AIDS. Not a mention that AIDS is a punishment for this sin that cries to Heaven for God’s vengeance.Edit: You know what to expect when WYD comes around and you flip over to the Darth Vader of the Internet, Tradition in Action. Tradition in Action is the Frank Burns of Catholicism, isn't it? They're like the self-righteous guy who needs to be taught a lesson in fun before the end of a movie, like Captain von Trapp, the Mayor of the town in the Gnostic faux-arte film Chocolat or the Principal in Ferris Buller's Day Off.
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MANILA, Philippines—The World Youth Day pilgrimage should not be turned into a graduation tour [Spring Break, we think] and shopping spree, a Catholic bishop is advising future participants.Hollywood pederast photo courtesy, here...
Legazpi Bishop Joel Baylon said that while many delegates to the recent 26th WYD in Madrid participated in the event’s religious exercises, others spent their time sightseeing and shopping in the Spanish capital.He urged future participants to focus more on their spiritual needs—a seemingly apt advice as the next WYD will be held in that hedonists’ paradise, Brazil.
“In general, a good number of our delegates have participated in the WYD wholeheartedly and endured the hectic schedule of the pilgrimage. But admittedly, there are some who chose to be comfortable rather than to sacrifice,” Baylon told CBCPNews, the news agency of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.
Austrian Priests Call for Obedience to the Hierarchy
The Disobedience Faction has met its match: An Austrian Initiative is making its solidarity not with fallen Priests, who have betrayed their office, but with those Clergy, who serve truly in the vinyard.
(kreuz.net) A few days ago the reform project "Call to Obedience" made its way into the public.
The project includes both clerics and laity.
It is aimed at real Church reform which corresponds to the prerogatives of the Church and not the demands of the Church hostile media bosses.
The call understands itself as an answer to the Old Liberal "Call to Disobedience".
Its goal is to oppose the further leveling of the Church by Old Liberals.
That's part of the reason why the "Call to Disobedience" is being defended by hook and crook by the Church hostile media bosses. [They want to undermine the hierarchy and its authority]
The Initiator
The intiator of the "Call to Obedience" is Father Markus Doppelbauer (31) hailing from Austria.
He is a priest of the Archdiocese of Vaduz and a collaborator with the Catholic video-website 'gloria.tv'.
His "Call to Holiness" consists, in that it is similar to the Disobedience Pamphlet, in an introduction and seven announcements.
Old Liberal Resistance to the Reforms
In the introduction is the good-willed explanation, that the Pope and the Roman Curia has expended great effort to renew ecclesiastical life in the decadent nations of the West.
Actually: "They meet with much resistance to those proposals for reform."
The "Call to Obedience" asks for the support of the Pope and his collaborators for that very reason.
Freedom of Speech to Lie?
The "Call to Obedience" understands itself as the direct antithesis to the rebellion of the Austrian secular priests.
In their rebel document, for example, is the first point: "We will speak about a petition for Church reform in the future in every divine service. We take the Bible seriously: Ask and you will receive. Freedom of speech means something before God."
The "Call to Obedience" offers: "We will speak of offering in future divine services and in personal prayer, a request for authentic reform of the Church."
This reform should work against the present lassitude and renew the fire of the Holy Ghost and the devotion of the Church:
"We take the Scriptures seriously: Ask, and you will receive."
Before God, the "freedom of speech, which speaks the truth" is valued.
Holy Communion For Every Tom, Dick and Harry
The disobedient plead for the distribution of Holy Communion to every Tom, Dick and Harry. "Call to Obedience" is completely against this:
"We will endeavor that the Faithful of good will are carefully prepared for the reception of Holy Communion."
Without the reception of Communion being only an exterior and empty gesture: "Nothing good can be expected of one who is not prepared to receive Holy Communion."
Open to Neighbors
Against the "priestless Eucharistic celebrations" proposed by the disobedent ones, the "Call to Obedience" is offering flexible parishes which are open to their neighborhoods:
"That is a visible expression, therefore, that the Church is greater than my small community."
The Old Liberal demand for qualifications and training for lay ministers is counteracted by the "Call to Obedience" with the expression:
"We will show great appreciation for office of the Priest, the work of catechists and theologically educated Laity."
But: "The word of God can only be credibly preached, when the laity work together with the priest, and not against them."
"We don't Need any More Carreerists"
The "Call to Obedience" rejects the Old Liberal call for new ecclesiastical offices:
"We are going to firmly insist that no new hierarchical levels and presiders will be introduced with their own titles and conceits into the Parish."
Because: "We don't need any more careerists, rather pious collaboration which serves the Gospel and not self-gratification.
The "Call to Obedience" will not be diverted from the Church's mission by discussions of ecclesiastical politics and career dreams.
Solidarity with the Truth
The Old Liberal "Call to Disobedience" ends with a homage of the fallen priests, who have betrayed their office and their Church.
One the other hand, the "Call to Obedience" declared:
We see ourselves as being in solidarity with priests who are trying to remain true to their office and who work against contrary winds in their work.
As of present counting the Call has 1632 signatures, of which there are about 150 priests, deacons and religious.
Link to kreuz.net...
(kreuz.net) A few days ago the reform project "Call to Obedience" made its way into the public.
The project includes both clerics and laity.
It is aimed at real Church reform which corresponds to the prerogatives of the Church and not the demands of the Church hostile media bosses.
The call understands itself as an answer to the Old Liberal "Call to Disobedience".
Its goal is to oppose the further leveling of the Church by Old Liberals.
That's part of the reason why the "Call to Disobedience" is being defended by hook and crook by the Church hostile media bosses. [They want to undermine the hierarchy and its authority]
The Initiator
The intiator of the "Call to Obedience" is Father Markus Doppelbauer (31) hailing from Austria.
He is a priest of the Archdiocese of Vaduz and a collaborator with the Catholic video-website 'gloria.tv'.
His "Call to Holiness" consists, in that it is similar to the Disobedience Pamphlet, in an introduction and seven announcements.
Old Liberal Resistance to the Reforms
In the introduction is the good-willed explanation, that the Pope and the Roman Curia has expended great effort to renew ecclesiastical life in the decadent nations of the West.
Actually: "They meet with much resistance to those proposals for reform."
The "Call to Obedience" asks for the support of the Pope and his collaborators for that very reason.
Freedom of Speech to Lie?
The "Call to Obedience" understands itself as the direct antithesis to the rebellion of the Austrian secular priests.
In their rebel document, for example, is the first point: "We will speak about a petition for Church reform in the future in every divine service. We take the Bible seriously: Ask and you will receive. Freedom of speech means something before God."
The "Call to Obedience" offers: "We will speak of offering in future divine services and in personal prayer, a request for authentic reform of the Church."
This reform should work against the present lassitude and renew the fire of the Holy Ghost and the devotion of the Church:
"We take the Scriptures seriously: Ask, and you will receive."
Before God, the "freedom of speech, which speaks the truth" is valued.
Holy Communion For Every Tom, Dick and Harry
The disobedient plead for the distribution of Holy Communion to every Tom, Dick and Harry. "Call to Obedience" is completely against this:
"We will endeavor that the Faithful of good will are carefully prepared for the reception of Holy Communion."
Without the reception of Communion being only an exterior and empty gesture: "Nothing good can be expected of one who is not prepared to receive Holy Communion."
Open to Neighbors
Against the "priestless Eucharistic celebrations" proposed by the disobedent ones, the "Call to Obedience" is offering flexible parishes which are open to their neighborhoods:
"That is a visible expression, therefore, that the Church is greater than my small community."
The Old Liberal demand for qualifications and training for lay ministers is counteracted by the "Call to Obedience" with the expression:
"We will show great appreciation for office of the Priest, the work of catechists and theologically educated Laity."
But: "The word of God can only be credibly preached, when the laity work together with the priest, and not against them."
"We don't Need any More Carreerists"
The "Call to Obedience" rejects the Old Liberal call for new ecclesiastical offices:
"We are going to firmly insist that no new hierarchical levels and presiders will be introduced with their own titles and conceits into the Parish."
Because: "We don't need any more careerists, rather pious collaboration which serves the Gospel and not self-gratification.
The "Call to Obedience" will not be diverted from the Church's mission by discussions of ecclesiastical politics and career dreams.
Solidarity with the Truth
The Old Liberal "Call to Disobedience" ends with a homage of the fallen priests, who have betrayed their office and their Church.
One the other hand, the "Call to Obedience" declared:
We see ourselves as being in solidarity with priests who are trying to remain true to their office and who work against contrary winds in their work.
As of present counting the Call has 1632 signatures, of which there are about 150 priests, deacons and religious.
Link to kreuz.net...
Friday, September 2, 2011
SSPX Locked Out in Amiens: Orthodox Embraced
Why Doesn't the Society Get Special Treatment?
He is a former seminarian and a fallen Catholic. But he will be allowed to celebrate in the Bishop's Church anyway.
(kreuz.net) On the 7th of July in the Cathedral of Amiens, an Orthodox Liturgy took place.
This was reported by the website of the Orthodox Community in France.
Amiens is a Diocesan City with 136,000 inhabitants. It is located 130km north of Paris.
A Liturgy like the one the Old Liberals have Forbidden
The Liturgy took place on the Orthodox Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptists.
You will find the head of the Saint in the Cathedral of Amiens.
As it was reported, the women appeared with veiled heads.
The Liturgy was also, as is expected, facing in the direction of the Lord.
The Super Table [Cramner Table] was rejected by the Orthodox.
The main celebrant was the 36 year old Orthodox Bishop Nestor [Sirotenko] of Chersonèse.
He is responsible for the communities of the Moscow Patriarchate in France, Switzerland and in Portugal.
The Bishop was assisted by the White Russian, Parisian Archbishop Gabriel [de Wilder] of Comane and by Bishop Theodose [Ivachtchenko] of Seattle.
The Orthodox Archbishop Gabriel de Wilder comes from the Netherlands.
He is a fallent Catholic and former almnus of a Catholic Seminary.
The Society of St. Pius can Wait Outside
Bishop Jean-Luc Bouilleret (57) of Amiens is more inclined to Orthodox than to Catholics.
For the community of the Society of Pius X in Amiens has been on the street for over three years since the loss of their chapel.
The request of the Traditionalists for a church service location has been rejected.
The Bishop gladly describes himself as open to the world.
In the past he has greeted Muslims in the vestibule of his Cathedral on many occasions.
The Society of Pius X, on the other hand, have to celebrate Mass in a converted shed, although the city has numerous churches standing empty.
Link to kreuz.net...
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He is a former seminarian and a fallen Catholic. But he will be allowed to celebrate in the Bishop's Church anyway.
(kreuz.net) On the 7th of July in the Cathedral of Amiens, an Orthodox Liturgy took place.
This was reported by the website of the Orthodox Community in France.
Amiens is a Diocesan City with 136,000 inhabitants. It is located 130km north of Paris.
A Liturgy like the one the Old Liberals have Forbidden
The Liturgy took place on the Orthodox Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptists.
You will find the head of the Saint in the Cathedral of Amiens.
As it was reported, the women appeared with veiled heads.
The Liturgy was also, as is expected, facing in the direction of the Lord.
The Super Table [Cramner Table] was rejected by the Orthodox.
The main celebrant was the 36 year old Orthodox Bishop Nestor [Sirotenko] of Chersonèse.
He is responsible for the communities of the Moscow Patriarchate in France, Switzerland and in Portugal.
The Bishop was assisted by the White Russian, Parisian Archbishop Gabriel [de Wilder] of Comane and by Bishop Theodose [Ivachtchenko] of Seattle.
The Orthodox Archbishop Gabriel de Wilder comes from the Netherlands.
He is a fallent Catholic and former almnus of a Catholic Seminary.
The Society of St. Pius can Wait Outside
Bishop Jean-Luc Bouilleret (57) of Amiens is more inclined to Orthodox than to Catholics.
For the community of the Society of Pius X in Amiens has been on the street for over three years since the loss of their chapel.
The request of the Traditionalists for a church service location has been rejected.
The Bishop gladly describes himself as open to the world.
In the past he has greeted Muslims in the vestibule of his Cathedral on many occasions.
The Society of Pius X, on the other hand, have to celebrate Mass in a converted shed, although the city has numerous churches standing empty.
Link to kreuz.net...
Indian Catholic Bishops Conference Want Larger Families
Edit: In light of the persecutions, it's certainly warranted. India is the last frontier and Western Catholics might consider reallocating resources to India rather than blowing them on bad investments at local parishes with the Modernism, the Liturgical Abuses, the Feminism and so forth.
Link to original..
[The Pioneer] Worried over the steady fall in the growth of Christian population in the State, parishes in Kerala have started giving incentives for Catholics to have larger families even when the Central and State governments do not want parents to beget more than two children.
St Vincent De Paul Forane Church, a parish church in Wayanad district, is offering fixed rate deposits of Rs 10,000 in the name of the fifth child born to a Catholic family. A Catholic News Agency report said the parish church had issued deposits to two families, according to church vicar Fr Jose Kallarackal. Part of the Sunday collection is set aside for such deposits, it says.
The programme, launched in mid-August, is being executed with assistance from Sion Prolife Movement. Its regional coordinator Salu Mecheril is quoted as saying that the campaign’s popularity is increasing and that a second parish is preparing to adopt the same plan. He said efforts were on to spread the campaign to all parishes in the Wayanad’s Mananthavady diocese.
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German Nuncio Contradicts Liberal President of Bishops' Council
The President of the German Bishops Conference expects that there will be a change with respect to the manner remarried divorced people are dealt with -- Nuncio Périsset: There's no such consideration.
Berlin (kath.net/KAP) The Apostolic Nuncio in Germany, Jean-Claude Périsset, has warned against overly high expectations about reforms in the Catholic Church. As is the case with the question of remarried people who are divorced "the teaching of the Church is clear" and "there is no such consideration", aid the representative of the Holy Father in Berlin on Friday to questions from the German Catholic News Agency KNA. The reason was a well attended interview with Archbishop Robert Zollitsch with the Hamburg "Zeit".
There the President of the German Bishops Conference said he expected reforms with respet to divorced people who remarry. According to current Catholic teaching people who are married, who remarry after divorcing, are not permitted to receive Holy Communion. If there could have been an exception, it would have been extolled for years. +Zollitsch tried to explain that it has to do with a "question of mercy" and that he expects a change in his lifetime. +Périsset weighed against this, insisting that not participating in Communion does not mean being shut out of the Church. "The mercy of God knows a diversity of ways", explained the Nuncio. It is a question of inner fidelity, after the breaking of marriage promises and even with bearing the pain. There are in some cases the possibility to evaluate the validity of marriage.
Link to kath.net...
There the President of the German Bishops Conference said he expected reforms with respet to divorced people who remarry. According to current Catholic teaching people who are married, who remarry after divorcing, are not permitted to receive Holy Communion. If there could have been an exception, it would have been extolled for years. +Zollitsch tried to explain that it has to do with a "question of mercy" and that he expects a change in his lifetime. +Périsset weighed against this, insisting that not participating in Communion does not mean being shut out of the Church. "The mercy of God knows a diversity of ways", explained the Nuncio. It is a question of inner fidelity, after the breaking of marriage promises and even with bearing the pain. There are in some cases the possibility to evaluate the validity of marriage.
Link to kath.net...
Serious Death Threat Against Cardinal Bertone
Editor: the author of the letter is angry about +Bertone's appointments...
Letter writer is clearly well informted about the Roman Curia
Rome (kath.net/KAP) Cardinal Secretary Tarcicio Bertone may have received an anonymous murder threat. In the past days a letter received by the Secretary of State, which began with an advertisement for burial, was reported by the weekly in its most recent edition (Thursday).
The Cardinal Secretary has sent the letter in the meantime to the Vatican Police, which has begun to direct a manhunt.
The threat is, in the report by "Panorama" clothed in a citation from Don Bosco, the founder of the Salesian Order, to which ++Bertone belongs. The sender is clearly very well informed about the goings on in the Roman Curia, writes the newspaper. The author reproaches ++Bertone for his personnel decisions which apparently are the result of personal sympathies.
The letter sender is especially incensed about the promotion of Arcbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the outgoing director of the Governorate of the Vatican State. He alludes especially to the appointment of +Vignano as Apostolic Nuncio to Washington.
Link to kath.net...
Bishop of Linz: Obedience and Faith are Inseparable
Editor :This is one of the worst Diocese in Austria. It was the one where the conservative Father Wagner was heckled and harassed by Liberals not to receive his Mitre.
Ludwig Schwarz in the Linz Church Times: We also have to think on that old saying of the Church: 'Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia' -- if there are those who expect to be priests, they should expect to be obedient.
Linz (kath.net/KAP) The Linz Diocesan Bishop Ludwig Schwarz has underlined for the "Call to Disobedience" of the Pastors' Initiative that there is a connection between Faith and obedience.
"If we look at Holy Scripture, we see from Abraham to the Mother of God, how inseparably Faith is bound to to obedience.
In addition it is also valid that the unbelief is founded in disobedience, as also is always announced," wrote the Bishop in a commentary on the current edition of the "Linz Church Times". Horizontal conflicts in the Church are "often the beginning of separations and in the consequence of countless estrangements from jealousies and straining after validation", continued Schwarz. "We are also called to think on that old saying of the Church: 'Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia' (Wherever Peter is, there is the Church)", recalled the Bishop of Linz on the function of the Pope's service to unity.
+Schwarz cited additionally from a sermon of Pope Benedict XVI, at World Youth Day in Madrid. At a Mass with a thousand seminarians Benedict XVI said that only those who set forth on the path to the priesthood, when the candidate is secure in his conviction and is prepared to be obedient. "Those may cross on the way to the priesthood, who are convinced that God has called them to be His servant, and that they are going to act with complete conviction and obedience to the wisdom of the Church."
Link to kath.net... Foto: (c) kath.net
Ludwig Schwarz in the Linz Church Times: We also have to think on that old saying of the Church: 'Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia' -- if there are those who expect to be priests, they should expect to be obedient.
In addition it is also valid that the unbelief is founded in disobedience, as also is always announced," wrote the Bishop in a commentary on the current edition of the "Linz Church Times". Horizontal conflicts in the Church are "often the beginning of separations and in the consequence of countless estrangements from jealousies and straining after validation", continued Schwarz. "We are also called to think on that old saying of the Church: 'Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia' (Wherever Peter is, there is the Church)", recalled the Bishop of Linz on the function of the Pope's service to unity.
+Schwarz cited additionally from a sermon of Pope Benedict XVI, at World Youth Day in Madrid. At a Mass with a thousand seminarians Benedict XVI said that only those who set forth on the path to the priesthood, when the candidate is secure in his conviction and is prepared to be obedient. "Those may cross on the way to the priesthood, who are convinced that God has called them to be His servant, and that they are going to act with complete conviction and obedience to the wisdom of the Church."
Link to kath.net... Foto: (c) kath.net
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Russia to Introduce Religious Instruction
Current Education Minister: Russia Plans the introduction of Religious Education and ethical instruction in all schools. Religious Instruction was abolished by the Communist government after the October Revolution in 1917.
Moscow (kath.net) Russia is planning the introduction of Religious Education and ethical instruction in all schools. This was broadcast by Maxim Dulinow, present Education Minister, yesterday (31.8.), according to "Domradio Cologne". Which was the result of a previous introductory instruction in a quarter of the regions of the country.
It will offer elective subjects in the "Foundations of Religion" and Ethics. In the test run since the year 2009 there were six electives: Russian-Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism or Buddhist religious instruction, ethical instruction or a subject about the foundations of World Religions. The students preferred ethical instruction, Orthodox Religious Instruction and the foundations of World Religion. The students were instructed by previously qualified secular teachers.
Religious instruction in the schools was abolished after the 1917 October Revolution by the Communist regime.
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Short video in English, here...
One Thing He Won't Jettison is His Faith
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| Sardonic but alive |
Gibson and his wife, Robyn settled their divorce in on August 30th. They reunited in August at Malibu where they arrived separately on the eighth for the tenth birthday party for the two Siamese twins from Honduras whom they were able to help and have miraculously survived thanks to the skill of surgeons and God's will. The twins were joined at the head.
Despite his father Hutton Gibson's attempt to separate Gibson's marriage by way of faux annulment in some kind of ad hoc lay tribunal, he is cited from USA Today, where Gibson said the following to People:
"My wife was really far more involved than I was in the past, but we're both still involved."
Still involved? Maybe a slip of the tongue or is it Mel's hard-to-kill Catholic Faith at work on his conscience? Anyway, he's still wearing his Miraculous Medal. And now he's planning on doing an action film with Bruce Willis while he continues to work on his Viking Film. Hopefully that project isn't dead.
He's been promising to do the Battle of Vienna Wood for a number of years. Hopefully, when he's finished satisfying the needs of Hollyweird, perhaps he'll get a tug from that gossamer connection with the Catholic Church he's been nurturing since his media fall and make some Catholic films that drink in deep from the well of Christendom.
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Freemasons Blocked From Church
Italy. From the 21th to the 26th of August the "Grand Lodge of Italy" and the "Grand Orient" have organized an event in the 3,000 population city of San Leo near the Adriatic. On the 20th of August the Bishop Luigi Negri of San Marino-Montefeltro, had published a pastoral letter in his Diocese which was read against the Freemasons. At the same time, the Bishop made clear that the Catholic religion is incompatible with Freemasonry. These live for their antagonism to the Church and desire Its destruction. The pastor of the village, Father Andrea Bosio, ordered that during the event that all houses of God in the city will be closed outside of Mass times. He explained to the Italian media that normally it wouldn't be justified during the day. Bishop Negri has supported Father Bosio's precautions.
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New USA Nuncio Replaced by Someone Close to Cardinal Burke
Edit: We were all over this in July. Move over libs, there should be some better episcopal appointments and faster responses to Liturgical abuses. Oh yeah.
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Editor: his slot in the Governorate of the Vatican will be taken up by someone who's close to Cardinal Burke, Msgr Sciacca, a judge in the Roman Rota. Understanding that this is an earlier release and that some of the other blogs were reticent about Nuncio Sambi's replacement, Katholisches sounded certain about it.
[Washington from July 13] Curial Bishop Carlo Maria Viganò the Secretary of the Governorate Council of Vatican City, will be the new Apostolic Nuncio of the United States of America. The present ambassador to Washington, Archbishop Pietro Sambi will be recalled back to Rome and undertake a new leading role in the Roman Curia.
The Curial Bishop has been leading a restrictive organizational reform for various areas of the Curia over the past two years. That has not made him many friends. In the long run it involved friction with the Secretary of State, so the current personnel changes are intended to bring peace again for all sides. The role of the Papal Ambassador in Washington is as much a step up in rank and is also an important as well as sensitive position.
The successor as number two of the Governatorial Advisor will be canon lawyer, Msgr Giuseppe Sciacca, who is at present judge of the Roman Rota. Of him it is said that he also has earned the trust and praise of both the Holy Father and the Cardinal Secretary [+Burke].
Archbishop Viganò would be the third Apostolic Nuncio in the United States of America and only the fifth representative from the Holy See. It was first under President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II that in 1984 full diplomatic relations were established between the Holy See and the United States. In the same year the USA sent William Wilson as its first ambassador to the Holy See in Rome. Since 2009, Miguel Diaz who was appointed by President Obama has occupied this post.
In the USA there is a longstanding opposition against diplomatic relations. At first in 1893 the first contact at this level was established. The representatives of the Holy See had however only the rank of apostolic delegates.
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Liberal Press Continues to Delight in Austrian Dissidents' Rebellion
Edit: Ho-hum. Most Austrians don't care about this sort of thing. A lot of times, ecclesiastical Liberals lament that people aren't drawn to the Catholic Church because of the conventions and dogmas it's been enslaved to. However, in the half-century or so since Liberals have been at the helm, and had every opportunity to put a different face on religion, some say even alter it so it's unrecognizeable as religion, there has been a catastrophic drain of people and resources from the pews every Sunday and an almost wholesale abandonment of the Church in the West.
It's hard to see how a very small tribe of ecclesiastical Liberals with the same ideas that emptied the Church in the first place, are going to take many people with them into their desacralized world without revelation, without beauty and devoid of love.
People, and that includes Austrians, are a lot smarter than that. Most Austrians could care less, despite the media atention it's gotten and the various Austrian Bishops who've spoken in favor of it -- much to their disgrace -- of this Call to Disobedience.
Here's the Tablet, getting things wrong as it usually does:
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It's hard to see how a very small tribe of ecclesiastical Liberals with the same ideas that emptied the Church in the first place, are going to take many people with them into their desacralized world without revelation, without beauty and devoid of love.
People, and that includes Austrians, are a lot smarter than that. Most Austrians could care less, despite the media atention it's gotten and the various Austrian Bishops who've spoken in favor of it -- much to their disgrace -- of this Call to Disobedience.
Here's the Tablet, getting things wrong as it usually does:
Austrian abbots say Schönborn cannot stop schism
1 September 2011
The highly influential Austrian abbots said this week that talk of schism in the Austrian Church could not be damped down, nor the current conflict resolved, by a meeting between the Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schonbörn and representatives of dissident priests. The Church has been in turmoil since the more than 300 priests of the Austrian Priests' Initiative called for disobedience on matters such as priestly celibacy and communion for remarried divorcees. Abbot Martin Felhofer of Schlägl Abbey said: "This can no longer be solved by the cardinal alone. Everyone - bishops, abbots, Religious and representatives of the Austrian Priests' Initiative - must sit down and the discuss the problems together."
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Wordly Nobel Laureate Praises the Church and the Pope
Now there are Pope Books Which Don't Make one Yawn.
The Church must not effect an internal democracy, in order to qualify as an integral part of a so-called Democracy.
(kreuz.net) The socially liberal Peruvian Nobel Laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa (75) has humanly and morally gone to the dogs.
He lives in concubinage, is Godless, defends the violence of abortion and the murderous abortifacient pill.
He knows about as much about legislating as the whale knows about ice skating.
However, there has been a brief flash of light in the darkness of his soul.
This is according to the Church-hate journalist Paul Ingendaay (50) yesterday in the 'Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung'.
Tight lipped and grumpy
Vargas Llosa had "enjoyed" the Madrid Pope Visit.
He found that so many happy, charming people singing and dancing to celebrate the Pope was beautiful.
The writer commented on the Pope's visit in his regular editorial for the Spanish Church-hate Newspaper, 'El Pais'.
He is to have "this effect on "the tight-lipped, grumpy Spanish clergy" -- said the poisonous Ingendaay with an unqualified hatred which did an injustice to Vargas Llosa.
One should rework Ingendaay's formulation on the tongue:
"He surely didn't have much effect on the tight-lipped, grumpy Spanish Rabbis." How does that sound coming from the mouth of a German?
That's what the Church is there for -- at least for Vargaas Llosa
Vargas Llosa described how hate-demonstrators and woman haters in Madrid threw condoms at some girls praying in public.
The Church has a moral panoply, said Vargas Llosa, which is even for those, who do not follow Her teachings.
She offers an ethical measuring stick in times where lust, shameless egoism and corruption dominates the public sphere.
That is exactly why the Church is there.
Science and Culture have Failed
The Catholic Church must not effect an inner Democracy, in order to qualify as an integral part of the --- so-called --- democracy, wrote the writer.
A democratic Church is in any event only "a dream".
The Church as an authoritarian, not uncongenial institution, strengthens the commonwealth whose worldly epistemic effects like Science or Culture are proven to be worthless without it.
So long as the Church grasps at no political power and the political power does not constrain the Church while maintaining its neutrality, religion is not only allowable in a Democratic society, but it's indispensable.
The Pope has convinced him to have been, "possibly the most educated and intelligent Pope, which the Church has had in a very long time."
Vargas Llosa has read a few of the Pope's books, without yawning.
Link to the kreuz.net...
Photo credit: © Daniele Devoti, Wikipedia, CC
The Church must not effect an internal democracy, in order to qualify as an integral part of a so-called Democracy.
(kreuz.net) The socially liberal Peruvian Nobel Laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa (75) has humanly and morally gone to the dogs.
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| Mario Vargas Llosa |
He lives in concubinage, is Godless, defends the violence of abortion and the murderous abortifacient pill.
He knows about as much about legislating as the whale knows about ice skating.
However, there has been a brief flash of light in the darkness of his soul.
This is according to the Church-hate journalist Paul Ingendaay (50) yesterday in the 'Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung'.
Tight lipped and grumpy
Vargas Llosa had "enjoyed" the Madrid Pope Visit.
He found that so many happy, charming people singing and dancing to celebrate the Pope was beautiful.
The writer commented on the Pope's visit in his regular editorial for the Spanish Church-hate Newspaper, 'El Pais'.
He is to have "this effect on "the tight-lipped, grumpy Spanish clergy" -- said the poisonous Ingendaay with an unqualified hatred which did an injustice to Vargas Llosa.
One should rework Ingendaay's formulation on the tongue:
"He surely didn't have much effect on the tight-lipped, grumpy Spanish Rabbis." How does that sound coming from the mouth of a German?
That's what the Church is there for -- at least for Vargaas Llosa
Vargas Llosa described how hate-demonstrators and woman haters in Madrid threw condoms at some girls praying in public.
The Church has a moral panoply, said Vargas Llosa, which is even for those, who do not follow Her teachings.
She offers an ethical measuring stick in times where lust, shameless egoism and corruption dominates the public sphere.
That is exactly why the Church is there.
Science and Culture have Failed
The Catholic Church must not effect an inner Democracy, in order to qualify as an integral part of the --- so-called --- democracy, wrote the writer.
A democratic Church is in any event only "a dream".
The Church as an authoritarian, not uncongenial institution, strengthens the commonwealth whose worldly epistemic effects like Science or Culture are proven to be worthless without it.
So long as the Church grasps at no political power and the political power does not constrain the Church while maintaining its neutrality, religion is not only allowable in a Democratic society, but it's indispensable.
The Pope has convinced him to have been, "possibly the most educated and intelligent Pope, which the Church has had in a very long time."
Vargas Llosa has read a few of the Pope's books, without yawning.
Link to the kreuz.net...
Photo credit: © Daniele Devoti, Wikipedia, CC
American Catholic Unviersities Theologically Unsustainable
Edit: they're good errand boys and girls for "hope and change", but when it comes to presenting the Church's actual teaching, well, you just have to laugh at it, that's all.
Again we say: rather than promoting an agenda to determine how everyone else's resources are allocated, why not do what you were originally commissioned to do in the first place?
SUSTAINABILITY AND CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION:
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Again we say: rather than promoting an agenda to determine how everyone else's resources are allocated, why not do what you were originally commissioned to do in the first place?
SUSTAINABILITY AND CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION:
A TOOLKIT FOR MISSION INTEGRATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 29, 2011)—As Catholic colleges and universities
across the country begin a new school year, eight national Catholic organizations
are publishing and promoting an exciting new resource, Sustainability and
Catholic Higher Education: A Toolkit for Mission Integration. This new
resource will help schools strengthen ongoing commitments to live out Catholic
mission and “cultivate and care for” (Genesis 2:15) God’s good gift of Creation
through mission-based sustainability.
The Toolkit is being co-sponsored by the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change
(www.catholicclimatecovenant.org), the Association of Catholic Colleges and
Universities(www.accunet.org), the Association of Jesuit Colleges and
Universities (www.ajcunet.edu), the Association of Franciscan Colleges and
Universities (www.franciscancollegesuniversities.org), the Lasallian Association
of College and University Presidents (www.ialu.net), Catholic Relief Services
College (www.crscollege.org), the Catholic Campus Ministry Association
(www.ccmanet.org) and the National Catholic Student Coalition
(www.catholicstudent.org).
These organizations hope that Catholic colleges and universities will use the Toolkit to strengthen Catholic mission and publicly commit themselves to
mission-based sustainability by becoming a Catholic Climate Covenant Partner
(http://catholicclimatecovenant.org/about-us/covenant-partners/) as Saint
Michael’s College recently did:
http://www.smcvt.edu/admission/news/news_story.asp?
iNewsID=1566&strBack=%2Fnews%2FDefault.asp
The sponsoring organizations believe that while many Catholic
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Will the Diocese of Aachen be Driven to Use Force?
Many faithful have gathered themselves around these two Carmelites in Zweifall. They won't leave the field without a battle.
(kreuz.net) The sword of Damocles of forced expulsion hangs over the head of the two Carmelites of Zweifall.
This was reported in the German boulevard magazine 'Bild' on Monday.
Since their case has become known, Sister Regina(60) and Sister Katharina (40), have received a great sympathetic demonstration.
The Cloister which the two industrious Alsace Nunus occupy about 4.000 cubic meters has been abolished since six years ago by official Diocesan mandate.
The Diocese of Aachen would like to close the Carmel and sell it.
Actually, the Nuns don't need anyone's help. They earn their keep with their host bakery.
By a petition of the Diocese, the Aachen court has assembled an emergency board for the non-Profit association of the Carmel.
The goal: It should dissolve the association. Then the Cloister and the Land will fall to the Diocese.
The two Nuns will defend themselves with tooth and nail:
"I won't go freely", explained Sister Regina to 'Bild': "The Cops are going to have to drag me out of here."
And: "the men in the village stand behind us, will even fight with us, if it's going to get tough."
It's clear to Sister: "If we have to leave the Cloister, it will be as if Jesus had been put a second time on the Cross."
A speaker of the Diocese of Aachen is confident in the members of the Emergency Board. It has dealt with two other Carmlites from two other Cloisters:
"Both nuns in the Emergency Board will decide now, how it will proceed -- and what will be the fate of the two Nuns in Zweifall."
Link to kreuznet...
(kreuz.net) The sword of Damocles of forced expulsion hangs over the head of the two Carmelites of Zweifall.
This was reported in the German boulevard magazine 'Bild' on Monday.
Since their case has become known, Sister Regina(60) and Sister Katharina (40), have received a great sympathetic demonstration.
The Cloister which the two industrious Alsace Nunus occupy about 4.000 cubic meters has been abolished since six years ago by official Diocesan mandate.
The Diocese of Aachen would like to close the Carmel and sell it.
Actually, the Nuns don't need anyone's help. They earn their keep with their host bakery.
By a petition of the Diocese, the Aachen court has assembled an emergency board for the non-Profit association of the Carmel.
The goal: It should dissolve the association. Then the Cloister and the Land will fall to the Diocese.
The two Nuns will defend themselves with tooth and nail:
"I won't go freely", explained Sister Regina to 'Bild': "The Cops are going to have to drag me out of here."
And: "the men in the village stand behind us, will even fight with us, if it's going to get tough."
It's clear to Sister: "If we have to leave the Cloister, it will be as if Jesus had been put a second time on the Cross."
A speaker of the Diocese of Aachen is confident in the members of the Emergency Board. It has dealt with two other Carmlites from two other Cloisters:
"Both nuns in the Emergency Board will decide now, how it will proceed -- and what will be the fate of the two Nuns in Zweifall."
Link to kreuznet...
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