Photo from Shah D.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The Miracle on the Vistula 1920
Photo from Shah D.
18 Young Novices Are Vested in the Franciscans of the Immaculata
Edit: this really speaks for itself in many ways.
(Avellino) On the 1st of August a investiture of the new novices took place for the Franciscans of the Immaculata. 18 young women were given the habit in the tradition bound cloister in the presence of the General Superior of the Franciscans of the Immaculata, Father Stefano Maria Manelli, at the Pilgrimage site of the Madonna del Buon Consiglio of Frigento in Avellino, Italy. For the occasion, Father Gabriele Pellettieri said Holy Mass in the Immemorial Rite.
The sight of such a large number of young women, receiving the veil of a religious order, has become a rarity in Europe. Before the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, allowed by Pope Benedict XVI, the women's branch of this young, tradition bound Franciscan order has had about 10 entrants to its Italian novitiate yearly. Since then their population has almost doubled, as the blog Cordialiter noted.
"The classical form of the Roman Rite is a true treasure for the Church, it increases priestly and religious vocations. Should the trend hold, in 50 years the majority will be of the new, tradition bound orders or old orders, who have been restored to tradition", says Cordialiter.
The Franciscans of the Immaculata were founded in 1982 as a women's branch of the Franciscan Order of the Immaculata founded in 1970 by two friars. In the beginning of the 80s a group of young women decided to lead a Franciscan and Marian life a severity. The first convent was formed from the Philippines and received recognition by the Diocese through the Archbishop of Manila. In 1988 three sisters founded the first convent in Italy, which was recognized by the Archabbot of Monte Cassino. In 1998, Papal recognition as Society of Apostolic Life was given.
At the present there are more than 300 sisters worldwide in 47 houses, of which 15 are found in Europe.
Text: Cordialiter/Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Cordialiter
Link to katholisches....
(Avellino) On the 1st of August a investiture of the new novices took place for the Franciscans of the Immaculata. 18 young women were given the habit in the tradition bound cloister in the presence of the General Superior of the Franciscans of the Immaculata, Father Stefano Maria Manelli, at the Pilgrimage site of the Madonna del Buon Consiglio of Frigento in Avellino, Italy. For the occasion, Father Gabriele Pellettieri said Holy Mass in the Immemorial Rite.
The sight of such a large number of young women, receiving the veil of a religious order, has become a rarity in Europe. Before the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, allowed by Pope Benedict XVI, the women's branch of this young, tradition bound Franciscan order has had about 10 entrants to its Italian novitiate yearly. Since then their population has almost doubled, as the blog Cordialiter noted.
"The classical form of the Roman Rite is a true treasure for the Church, it increases priestly and religious vocations. Should the trend hold, in 50 years the majority will be of the new, tradition bound orders or old orders, who have been restored to tradition", says Cordialiter.
The Franciscans of the Immaculata were founded in 1982 as a women's branch of the Franciscan Order of the Immaculata founded in 1970 by two friars. In the beginning of the 80s a group of young women decided to lead a Franciscan and Marian life a severity. The first convent was formed from the Philippines and received recognition by the Diocese through the Archbishop of Manila. In 1988 three sisters founded the first convent in Italy, which was recognized by the Archabbot of Monte Cassino. In 1998, Papal recognition as Society of Apostolic Life was given.
At the present there are more than 300 sisters worldwide in 47 houses, of which 15 are found in Europe.
Text: Cordialiter/Giuseppe Nardi
Bild: Cordialiter
Link to katholisches....
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
A Traditionalist Jew in a Soutane
Edit: This is awesome.
He converted to the Conciliar Church -- and lead his apostolate, despite resistance which he's experienced from their side.
(kreuz.net) Fr. Oliver Horovitz was ordained for the Archdiocese in 2007.
The bi-monthly newspaper 'L'Homme nouveau' mentioned him in an article of the 30th of June.
He began with the Jewish religion
The clergyman comes from a non-practicing Jewish family.
As an intelligent person he began to consider the meaning of his life. But he didn't get an answer from philosophy.
He asked God, to show Himself in his life. That happened. So, he began to practice the Jewish religion, which his parents had given up.
Called to be a Priest
Accidentally he found the Gospel and read it. Then he knew that he had to become a priest. He still didn't know the Church.
He knocked on the door of the nearest Catholic church. Two years later he was baptized and entered a seminary, which was directed by the Oblates of St. Vincent de Paul:
"There I found -- which today seems a little strange -- a master, to whom I thank and to whom I owe an immense debt."
Priest in the Archdiocese of Paris
On the 23rd of June 2007 Fr. Horovitz was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Paris.
Since his priestly ordination he always wore a soutane. From the beginning he celebrated as well the New Mass as well as the Holy Mass of the Roman Rite.
At the Parisian Parish of St. George the young priest founded a Catholic recreation area. Actually, he had to give it up because of Old Liberal resistance.
Retirement to Fréjus-Toulon
In 2008 he had to retire to the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon. The reform Bishop Dominique Rey (59) was glad to have him
Since then he's directed a parish, a school and a Catholic youth club -- near Toulon -- in the 11,500 population community of Le Pradet.
From the beginning he radically broke with the Old Liberal pastoral tone of his predecessors.
In his first sermon he spoke of the last things: "There are faithful, who have begun to cry against the Church from anger."
Fr. Horovitz received shortly after arrival four anonymous letters with the photo of a revolver and three bullets.
Play and Prayer
He runs with Fr. Blin and some of the parish members a youth outreach and began a new society "Brother and Sisters of the Mission".
His youth effort began with six boys --- in the meantime there are about forty children every week. The group is segregated by age and sex.
Many would ask what sense there is to play ball with children.
Fr. Horovitz answerd that: "A child, who plays well as a child, prays well."
The greatest enemy is boredom
Fr. Horovitz is a pragmatist: "The greatest enemy of the Catechism instruction is boredom" -- he explained.
The instructor has to be concise: "When he finishes, the children should say: >>Really?<<".
Link to kreuz.net...
He converted to the Conciliar Church -- and lead his apostolate, despite resistance which he's experienced from their side.
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| Hw. Oliver Horovitz auf der Webseite der Pfarrei Le Pradet © Screenshot |
(kreuz.net) Fr. Oliver Horovitz was ordained for the Archdiocese in 2007.
The bi-monthly newspaper 'L'Homme nouveau' mentioned him in an article of the 30th of June.
He began with the Jewish religion
The clergyman comes from a non-practicing Jewish family.
As an intelligent person he began to consider the meaning of his life. But he didn't get an answer from philosophy.
He asked God, to show Himself in his life. That happened. So, he began to practice the Jewish religion, which his parents had given up.
Called to be a Priest
Accidentally he found the Gospel and read it. Then he knew that he had to become a priest. He still didn't know the Church.
He knocked on the door of the nearest Catholic church. Two years later he was baptized and entered a seminary, which was directed by the Oblates of St. Vincent de Paul:
"There I found -- which today seems a little strange -- a master, to whom I thank and to whom I owe an immense debt."
Priest in the Archdiocese of Paris
On the 23rd of June 2007 Fr. Horovitz was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Paris.
Since his priestly ordination he always wore a soutane. From the beginning he celebrated as well the New Mass as well as the Holy Mass of the Roman Rite.
At the Parisian Parish of St. George the young priest founded a Catholic recreation area. Actually, he had to give it up because of Old Liberal resistance.
Retirement to Fréjus-Toulon
In 2008 he had to retire to the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon. The reform Bishop Dominique Rey (59) was glad to have him
Since then he's directed a parish, a school and a Catholic youth club -- near Toulon -- in the 11,500 population community of Le Pradet.
From the beginning he radically broke with the Old Liberal pastoral tone of his predecessors.
In his first sermon he spoke of the last things: "There are faithful, who have begun to cry against the Church from anger."
Fr. Horovitz received shortly after arrival four anonymous letters with the photo of a revolver and three bullets.
Play and Prayer
He runs with Fr. Blin and some of the parish members a youth outreach and began a new society "Brother and Sisters of the Mission".
His youth effort began with six boys --- in the meantime there are about forty children every week. The group is segregated by age and sex.
Many would ask what sense there is to play ball with children.
Fr. Horovitz answerd that: "A child, who plays well as a child, prays well."
The greatest enemy is boredom
Fr. Horovitz is a pragmatist: "The greatest enemy of the Catechism instruction is boredom" -- he explained.
The instructor has to be concise: "When he finishes, the children should say: >>Really?<<".
Link to kreuz.net...
Conciliar Church in the Grave
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| Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker wears a white collar shirt. © pdp Pressefoto Erzbistum Paderborn. |
(kreuz.net) In a Catholic church community in the Archdiocese of Paderborn there isn't just a sexton who is untrue to her man.
Actually that doesn't appear to have disturbed the parish federation director.
She was active in the community, emulating a priest for a short while.
Everything's fine
In the community there were various women who lived in adultery.
The adulteresses were recruited for the foot washing on Holy Thursday.
An adulteresses were employed as a catechist. She had previously informed the parish federation director about her slovenly life.
Even once the opposite
It is strange that the pastoral league director had no problems dismissing a parish administrator previously.
The reason: She lived with a member of the parish community in public sin.
On the other hand the adulteress catechist was neither divorced, nor was she in education.
At the same time there is a different moral for paid employees than with unpaid adulteress catechists or nymphomaniacal sextons.
Monday, August 13, 2012
LCWR Nuns Ride Luxury Bus to Defend Poor!
Edit: Perhaps it's all about self-interest that the nuns are now campaigning more than ever on behalf of the Democratic Party. Catholic Charities receive substantial subsidies from the Federal and State governments, so understandably, they're concerned about it. But this government support comes at the price of Orthodoxy.
But never mind the Orthodoxy, these nuns are worried about their position. In a bid to ride the crest of the wave they feel they've surmounted with the current Rome investigation taking place where they are under the gun for their Feminism, Marxism and anti-Catholicism, these intrepid warriors are trying to stay in the limelight. These LCWR nuns took the fight to the people last month at the end of June to the 2nd of July, as they mixed their religion with politics and got aboard an enormous luxury bus tour to Washington D.C. over 2,700 miles (at 7 miles to the gallon) where they aired their support for the Democratic Party, which they felt was violated by Representative Ryan's budget proposals, as it was reported in the Washington Post.The nuns complained:
Ryan’s budget “rejects church teaching about solidarity, inequality, the choice for the poor, and the common good. That’s wrong,” said Campbell, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby.
This new found love for the authority of Church teachings is matched only by the exuberance of the group led by Sister Simone Campbell, and the price tag, as they climbed aboard their mega-bus which must have cost at least $100,000 for a used model of this vintage, but often go for much higher, as much as $1,000,000, complete with graphics on the side which run into the high end about $20,000. Sure, when you think of such a counter-cultural effort, you think of hippies, or Paul Wellstone's groovy bus, for example.
But what you're getting is something much more luxurious and spacious. The nuns deserve it after all, since they're campaigning for the poor. You know, they might not care about being Orthodox, but they go forth into the market with a luxury bus, laying in on the the horn when they give alms. This bus must have a large cooler where the nuns can store their falafel sandwiches, their organic cheese and tofu pronto pups. You can't be an activist on an empty stomach after all. But the bus actually looks like this.
While the bus doesn't get very good gas mileage, surely the poor appreciate all of the campaigning on their behalf by the dissident nuns, who it is claimed by the Post, are being "greeted as rock stars wherever they go." Surely, such a large carbon footprint will yield some good political points for the Democratic party, whose policies are openly antagonistic to Catholics. Surely the damage to the environment, and the luxurious bus with its high-end graphics could have been better spent on the poor?
The nuns traveled over 9 days and 2,700 miles, to speak out about their message of keeping taxes high to take care of poor families who they insist need their help, but did anyone ask these LCWR nuns if the price of the bus or what the cost to the Catholic Church's credibility would be?
DW Story on Oldest Christian Monastery in Turkey
From the youtube account:
It's one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world: the Syriac Orthodox Mor Gabriel Monastery in south-eastern Turkey. But the order lives in conflict with the surrounding Kurdish villages.Several lawsuits have been brought accusing the monastery of having illegally appropriated the land surrounding it. And the national forest authority is one of the plaintiffs. The monastery's abbot considers this to be a sign of religious discrimination. In the past few years, members of the Syriac Orthodox church have been returning in increasing numbers to make a fresh start in their homes around the holy mountain Tur Abdin. More than 300,000 Christians left the country in previous decades to escape persecution and oppression.
It's one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world: the Syriac Orthodox Mor Gabriel Monastery in south-eastern Turkey. But the order lives in conflict with the surrounding Kurdish villages.Several lawsuits have been brought accusing the monastery of having illegally appropriated the land surrounding it. And the national forest authority is one of the plaintiffs. The monastery's abbot considers this to be a sign of religious discrimination. In the past few years, members of the Syriac Orthodox church have been returning in increasing numbers to make a fresh start in their homes around the holy mountain Tur Abdin. More than 300,000 Christians left the country in previous decades to escape persecution and oppression.
Wurzburg: Will This Diocese Have to Sign the Doctrinal Preamble Too?
Denial of the Council: The church paper of the Diocese of Wurzburg has distorted the secure secret of the Assumption into its opposite.
(Kreuz.net) The 'Catholic Würzburg Sunday News' is the church paper of the Diocese of Würzburg. Your editor is the old liberal Wolfgang Bullin.
What is the Assumption?
The actual number published a rabidly heretical interpretation of the Solemnity of the Assumption.
The doctrine was declared at first November 1950 by Pope Pius XII. in the Apostolic Constitution "Munificentissimus Deus".
The body of the church newspaper even quotes from it: "The spotless, perpetual Virgin Mary Mother of God, after she had finished their earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory."
Now it twists
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This statement is turned into its very opposite, for example, the church newspaper maintains that the phrase is "problematic for many". But the problems are only the twisting of the diocesan sheet. This works with a little known distinction between soul and body: "Actually, a body does not mean corpus." [The distinction between Leib and Korper in German is something like the distinction between figure and person.]
That's right front is not rear
Then, they lied without batting an eyelid. When it means, "that Mary's body and soul went to God, so this is nothing other than what the Christian faith for all hoped for: that we human beings as a whole person, as an unmistakable I is taken after death to God."
From front to back, that's wrong.
The Mother of God is a special case
The souls awaiting the saints in heaven - with the exception of the Mother of God - await the resurrection the flesh and union with her, who are still in the ground with their dormant corpses or bodies.
This is something that the incompetent leaders of the 'Würzburg Catholic Sunday Journal" would have been able to read in every child's Catechism.
Rejection of Vatican II
The article provides an open rejection of the Second Vatican Council.
It can be found in the Church Constitution Lumen Gentium 68:
". In the interim just as the Mother of Jesus, glorified in body and soul in heaven, is the image and beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected is the world to come, so too does she shine forth on earth, until the day of the Lord shall come,(304) as a sign of sure hope and solace to the people of God during its sojourn on earth. "
In other words, what is applicable to the Mother of God, is not even for everyone else.
Completely fallen from the faith
Pius XII. speaks in "Deus Munificentissimus" about the heretical authors such as the bishopric of Würzburg spreading such heresies, with the following judgment:
"Therefore, if God forbid anyone deny this truth, which has been defined by us, consciously, or dares to question it, let him know that he has dropped completely from the divine and Catholic faith. "
This scandal in the diocese of Würzburg can not easily be ignored.
Link to kreuz.net...
Hermitage for Heresy in Collegeville
Edit: How is this not religious indifferentism? An alleged monk from Collegeville is going on a hermitage to look for new ways to violate the Catholic religion. This is from their website at St. John's Abbey.
The Nada Hermitages of the Spiritual Life Institute (the name of the Carmelite complex) thus became my base of operations as I visited most of the twenty-two religious and spiritual organizations and networks that are now part of the "Refuge for World Truths" in this area outside Crestone. Several lineages of Tibetan Buddhists, two Zen Buddhist centers, a Hindu ashram, a Neo-Shinto international Japanese organization, in addition to the Carmelite hermitages, are a few of the representative groups now in place. Nada was one of the religious organizations that had been offered land to build a retreat center here. A visionary couple who bought up an old Spanish land grant in the region decided, on the basis of prophetic inspiration, to offer free tracts of land to diverse religious and spiritual groups to settle in this restricted geographical area. Their hope was that this collection of spiritual diversity would promote the notion, so sorely needed in our day and age, that peoples with very different systems of belief and practice could live and thrive in harmony together.
He's actually attempting to justify his "hermitage" by essentially vitiating and contradicting one of the principles of the Catholic religion. It's certainly uppermost in the life of a Monk. Rather than converting the heathen, he's attempting to "discover ways to live in harmony" with the heathen.
Isn't that sort of pointless? When was the last time there was any kind of tension between Catholics and Buddhists? Except when the Buddhists murdered Jesuits in Tibet, I can't think of any, at least not recently. Catholic Encyclopedia defines indifferentism like this:
The term given, in general, to all those theories, which, for one reason or another, deny that it is the duty of man to worship God by believing and practicing the one true religion. This religious Indifferentism is to be distinguished from political indifferentism, which is applied to the policy of a state that treats all the religions within its borders as being on an equal footing before the law of the country. Indifferentism is not to be confounded with religious indifference. The former is primarily a theory disparaging the value of religion; the latter term designates the conduct of those who, whether they do or do not believe in the necessity and utility of religion, do in fact neglect to fulfil its duties.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
LCWR Consults Alleged Sexual Predator
Edit: Dan Ward was associated with Collegeville for many years and has four credible accusations against him.
It's pathetic and more than a little evil that they can attack the Vatican for what they allege is its complicity in child abuse, and they can't be bothered to do a back ground check on one of their top consultants.
Read further at Pine Curtain....
It's pathetic and more than a little evil that they can attack the Vatican for what they allege is its complicity in child abuse, and they can't be bothered to do a back ground check on one of their top consultants.
[Pine Curtain] According to the LCWR’s April 2012 newsletter, there has been a “precipitous decline in the number of religious.”
One solution, in an effort to restore the credibility of religious communities, must be to remove from positions of authority those who remain in those positions despite 1) credible allegations of sexual misconduct and/or 2) their role in the cover up of credible allegations sexual misconduct by others.
The number of religious who left because they were targeted sexually — or refused to cooperate with a deceptive leadership — makes up a large percentage of this self-inflicted “decline” in the number of religious.
According to the LCWR’s April newsletter:
“… Janice Bader, CPPS, executive director of the National Religious Retirement Office (NRRO), and Dan Ward, OSB, executive director of RCRI, attended the joint meeting and shared current data on religious institutes in the United States. The data show a precipitous decline in the number of religious in compensated ministry, an increase in the average age of those serving in leadership, the number of institutes that will run out of funds within the next five to 10 years, and the growing complexity of the decisions that institutes are now facing. Both NRRO and RCRI are looking at options for what US religious life may need to do in order to have a viable future and are exploring how religious may help define what the next chapter of religious life may look like.”
Rev Dan Ward, OSB is executive director of the Resource Center for Religious Institutes (“RCRI”). He should have no involvement in “defining what the next chapter of religious life may look like.”
RCRI shares a building on Cameron Street in Silver Spring, Maryland, with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM) and the Religious Formation Conference (“RFC”).
Read further at Pine Curtain....
Modernist Monks Strong-arming the Elderly?
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Edit: the Collegeville saga develops as reality closes in and the truth comes out. Many of the monks lead very comfortable lives. Even the ones who've been credibly accused of preying on children get to take vacations to Europe.
In an effort that reeks of desperation, the Modernists at Collegeville are trying to strong arm elderly donors in what appear to be immoral ways.
This is what comes of frittering away spiritual capital that you not only did nothing to build up, but have done everything to tear down. These men are surely like the ravening wolves of the Gospel, or the man who ought to have a millstone tied around his neck.
Sure, the law might not be too worried about the students who attended a private school in the 80s and 90s, but they're not going to be happy about taking advantage of the elderly.
If you look below, some of those men accused of preying on the elderly are also credibly accused sex offenders.
From the Pine Curtain:
If you look below, some of those men accused of preying on the elderly are also credibly accused sex offenders.
From the Pine Curtain:
Saint John’s is party to legal battles in both the California and Minnesota court systems.
It has been alleged that employees of the Order of Saint Benedict (including St. John’s University and Saint John’s Abbey) engaged in “financial elder abuse” and “predatory fundraising”.
According to legal documents, Saint John’s is accused of:
1. Liability of Gratuitous Tranferee of Trust Property
2. Liability of Gratuitous Tranferee of Personal Property
3. Constructive Fraud
4. Participation in Breach of Trust
5. Breach of Fiduciary Duty
6. Financial Elder Abuse
Among the alleged participants:
Mr. Jim Dwyer
Fr. Benedict Leuthner
Br. Dietrich Reinhardt
Mr. Dan Whalen
Fr. Eric Hollas
Fr. Robert Koopmann
Ms. Denise Holstad Photo Mr. Rob Culligan
Mr. John Young
Mr. Gary Stoos
Mr. Mark Brown
Developing…
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Cardinal Meisner: People Are Afraid of Offending Muslims, Not Christians
Cardinal Meisner: "It is significant that Christians are often the targets of satire and blasphemy. With Muslims, one goes much more carefully, because one fears that there will be anger".
Cologne (kath.net/KNA) Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner criticized the treatment of Christians in Germany. It is "significant" that Christians are often the targets of satire and blasphemy., said the Bishop to the «Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger» on Saturday. "With Muslims one has to be more careful, because one fears that they will become angry." Such public outrage is merely "the false reaction" and is denied to Christians. It is "unfair, for them to distinguish themselves when it doesn't cost them anything".
Cardinal Meisner defended the Pope's legal action against the satirical magazine "Titanic". "It looked to me as though they wanted to whipe their dirty boots on the Pope's white cassock," said the Cardinal. Under the headline "The Leak is Found" thePope was shown in a white cassock with a yellow patch on the front and a brown one on the back. The Hamburg regional court has prohibited the further spread of the title picture through an injunction.
Meisner confides that he himself has never seen the picture, because he "doesn't want to pollute his eyes with it". Some things "you should not come into close proximity to."
Link kath.net....
Cologne (kath.net/KNA) Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner criticized the treatment of Christians in Germany. It is "significant" that Christians are often the targets of satire and blasphemy., said the Bishop to the «Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger» on Saturday. "With Muslims one has to be more careful, because one fears that they will become angry." Such public outrage is merely "the false reaction" and is denied to Christians. It is "unfair, for them to distinguish themselves when it doesn't cost them anything".
Cardinal Meisner defended the Pope's legal action against the satirical magazine "Titanic". "It looked to me as though they wanted to whipe their dirty boots on the Pope's white cassock," said the Cardinal. Under the headline "The Leak is Found" thePope was shown in a white cassock with a yellow patch on the front and a brown one on the back. The Hamburg regional court has prohibited the further spread of the title picture through an injunction.
Meisner confides that he himself has never seen the picture, because he "doesn't want to pollute his eyes with it". Some things "you should not come into close proximity to."
Link kath.net....
Bologna Has no Latin Mass
The picture shows how the false prophet Mohammed is exposed on a rock and tortured by a devil. by Konstantin von Hemptin(kreuz.net) In Bologna -- the burial place of St. Dominick -- there is not one single public Holy Mass in the Latin language.
The 380,000 population city of Bologna is 220 kilometers south east of Milan.
Bologna is the city where St. Thomas of Aquinas (+1274) had studied and taught.
In the triduum of the Dominican feast there was no liturgy provided for in Latin . That is, as it was made clear to me by friendly guardians of the church, has not been in use since the Second Vatican Council.
There was nothing
In the seven-fold church of St. Stephen of the Benedictines of the Mount of Olives there was no Latin Mass.
In God's house there is a reproduction of the grave of Areal, as well as the grave of St. Petronius Bishop.
The critically acclaimed participatio actuosa
Even in St. Petronius, the greatest parish church in the world, in the Piazza Maggiore there is no Latin.
In the midst of an area formerly enclosed by communion rails, a modern Eucharist took place in Italian.
The critically acclaimed participatio was taken all too seriously by a nun.
She sang the ordinary alone in the highest notes. The rest struggled to keep up.
A memorable painting
Here and there wandered astonished tourists in the fourth chapel left of the most recent court of the master of Modena.
The painting shows, how the false prophet Mohammed is in an exposed position on a rock and tortured by a devil.
This was previously described by the Italian prince of poets, Dante Aligheri (+1321) in his Divine Comedy.
\Link to kreuz.net...
Oldest Christian Church in Iraq Discovered
Edit: post edited to reflect proper dating criteria, Anno Domini, instead of the Godless C.E..
The article says that the site was "Nestorian" Christian, but that doesn't mean that these people held Nestorian views. In any case, even Nestorians are preferable to Protestants.
Noah Wiener • 08/06/2012
A 2007 expansion of an airport in Najaf, Iraq exposed the remains of the earliest known Christian church in Iraq. Originally built some 1,700 years ago, the remains require proper excavation, but the wartime discovery coupled with a lack of funding has hindered scientific study. The ruins point to a thriving Christian community in early first millennium Iraq. Some scholars believe the site to be the Arab Christian center Hira, an important center of Nestorian Christianity for centuries. Christianity was spread by the Arab Christian Lakhmid dynasty, who made Hira their capital in 266 a.D. The discovery of the oldest known Christian site in Iraq is a reflection of Iraq’s rich and diverse cultural heritage in Iraq, and Iraqi archaeologists hope to conduct a proper excavation in the future.
The article says that the site was "Nestorian" Christian, but that doesn't mean that these people held Nestorian views. In any case, even Nestorians are preferable to Protestants.
Noah Wiener • 08/06/2012
A 2007 expansion of an airport in Najaf, Iraq exposed the remains of the earliest known Christian church in Iraq. Originally built some 1,700 years ago, the remains require proper excavation, but the wartime discovery coupled with a lack of funding has hindered scientific study. The ruins point to a thriving Christian community in early first millennium Iraq. Some scholars believe the site to be the Arab Christian center Hira, an important center of Nestorian Christianity for centuries. Christianity was spread by the Arab Christian Lakhmid dynasty, who made Hira their capital in 266 a.D. The discovery of the oldest known Christian site in Iraq is a reflection of Iraq’s rich and diverse cultural heritage in Iraq, and Iraqi archaeologists hope to conduct a proper excavation in the future.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Freemason-Knights of Columbus Pancake Breakfast Cancelled For Now
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Edit: We reported on yet another incident of cooperation between Masons and the Knights of Columbus on July 23rd. The Knights leadership in the state of Minnesota attempted to downplay this by appealing to some shell game action. They claimed that since their halls aren't owned directly by the Knights, that they can be rented to anyone. The explanation given by the State Advocate James Terwedo was also scandalous, unconvincing and pathetic.
"We would allow gay and lesbian use of the KC Hall as long as they were not publicly opposing church teaching."
It's unconfirmed presently, but it looks like the Masonic Breakfast which was scheduled to take place this Sunday, August 12, was to be held at the Marian hall, Knights of Columbus, 1114 American Boulevard West, Bloomington, is being cancelled.
There was quite a lot of pressure brought to bear and we'd like to thank those who prayed and acted on this.
No doubt, this isn't the last time something like this will happen, since the people who allow these things to happen in Knights of Columbus are still drawing salaries.
Homosexuals Surround Peaceful Priest at Chick-fil-a
Edit: I wouldn't be surprised if the elderly woman were a LCWR "nun".
Irish Protestants Criticize Sinn Fein for Not Being Catholic Enough
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| Is Ian Paisley More Catholic than Sinn Fein? |
Edit: Sinn Fein even silences its Pro-Life members. It's well that Irish Protestants should point out a clear hypocrisy, since Sinn Fein relies, as do many leftist organizations, on its Catholic identity for financial and political support.
It's high time these parasites were taken to task.
Republicanism has always been an opponent of the Church, temporary alignments and ceasefires notwithstanding.
From Ballymore Times:
THE Times has received a statement from the Independent Loyal Orange Institution.
A spokesperson said: “The members of the Independent Loyal Orange Institution are surprised and puzzled by the recent statement in the press by Local MLA Daithi McKay with reference to the creationist exhibit at the Causeway Interpretative Centre at Bushmills.
“Surely he who professes to be a democrat and whose party claims to be democratic cannot deny the ILOI, another democratic organisation with strong Christian beliefs, the right to lobby for what they and for that matter the RC church believe to be the truth
Link Ballymore Times...
H/t LOcculta.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
The Madonna of Nagasaki
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| Our Lady of Nagasaki |
The Japanese Trappist Kaemon Noguchi, who returned to Nagasaki after his demobilization, looked through the ruins of the Cathedral to inventory it and account for its property. There on he found a half burned head of the statue of the Immaculata, which had stood above the high altar. The statue was hewn in Italy according to the painting of the Immaculata de Murillo.
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| Cathedral Church Before the War |
As Noguchi returned to his cloister in northern Japan, he took the head with him and kept it at him till the middle of the 70s. First thereafter he brought the finds back to Nagasaki, where he redisplayed in the side chapel of the rebuilt cathedral and it is venerated by the Japanese Catholics as a reliquary. Here is further information.
Link to summorumpontificum.de....
Baltimore Archbishop: Catholic Voters Can’t Vote for a Candidate Who Stands for an Intrinsic Evil
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
“This is a big moment for Catholic voters to step back from their party affiliation,” Baltimore archbishop William E. Lori tells me from the Knights of Columbus annual convention in Anaheim, Calif.
For Catholic voters in November, Lori advises, “The question to ask is this: Are any of the candidates of either party, or independents, standing for something that is intrinsically evil, evil no matter what the circumstances? If that’s the case, a Catholic, regardless of his party affiliation, shouldn’t be voting for such a person.”
At the convention this week, the message wasn’t just coming from Lori, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ new committee on religious liberty, but also from a letter conveying greetings from Pope Benedict XVI, commending the Knights and their work, specifically in defense of religious liberty. The Knights have been known to get papal encouragement, but this implicit comment on a contentious political issue is not part of the routine, reflecting what the letter calls the “unprecedented gravity” of the current situation.
Philippine Bishops' Conference Buys Into Global Warming Hysteria
Edit: Despite the Filipino Bioshops' stern stance against abortion, birth control and the increasingly decadent culture around. The Bishops Conference of the Philippine Bishops' Conference is just as pathetic and dominated by the same forces every other national conference is.
It's Another meaningless apology which doesn't address specific sins, nor is it clear if they were that they would actually be sinful, which is tied to the Marxist notion that personal morality is meaningless and that morality is collective:
Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines:From their publication CBCP.....
“We acknowledge our sins against You and the rest of creation.
“We have not been good stewards of Nature.
“We have confused Your command to subdue the earth.
“The environment is made to suffer our wrongdoing, and now we reap the harvest of our abuse and indifference.
“Global warming is upon us. Typhoons, floods, volcanic eruption, and other natural calamities occur in increasing number and intensity.
“We turn to You, our loving Father, and beg forgiveness for our sins.
“We ask that we, our loved ones and our hard earned possessions be spared from the threat of calamities, natural and man-made.
“We beseech You to inspire us all to grow into responsible stewards of Your creation, and generous neighbors to those in need.
“Amen.”
Madonna's First Venue in St. Petersburg to be Purified with Holy Water
Edit: One thing Poles and Russians can agree upon is their contempt for decadent pop stars. Cut from interfax is the following:
St. Petersburg, August 9, Interfax - Activists from the Trade Union of Russian Citizens are planning to continue a series of lone protests against Madonna's concert in St. Petersburg, the public movement told Interfax.
"At first we were planning to hold protests outside the Sports and Concert Complex (where her performance will take place), but we dropped this idea because representatives from the LGBT movement will be protesting there. We have decided to go to Dvortsovaya Square tonight," the source said.
It was here that Madonna gave her first performance in St. Petersburg a few years ago, he said. "The time has come to consecrate this place. We have invited a priest to spray holy water onto Dvortsovaya Square," the source said.
The Trade Union of Russian Citizens believes that Madonna has turned its ideas into political demonstrations, having become "an ideological weapon of the West," the source said. "We are against the genocide of morality and ethics. Foreigners have no right to dictate the rules of life to us," the spokesman said.
Madonna is performing in St. Petersburg on Thursday. The show is due to begin on the stage of the Petersburgsky Sports and Concert Complex at 8 p.m. Moscow time. Madonna will sing songs from her new album M.D.N.A. as part of her world tour.
During her performance in Moscow on August 7, Madonna spoke in support of the arrested members of thePussy Riot punk band. Also, the singer wrote on her Facebook page that during her performance in St. Petersburg she will touch upon the problem of gay rights violations in the city, which banned "propaganda" promoting homosexuality and pedophilia to minors.
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