We moderns reject aristocracy, insisting that our rulers reflect our ignorant selves, whereas 19th-century workmen dressed elegantly even while digging ditches. The more casual our elites appear, the more we like them, which frees them further from doing anything uncomfortable.
-Charles Coulombe for Takimag
Promoting Holy Scripture for youth: A Polish priest takes an unusual route
Poland (kath.net) A polish chaplain is making an appeal for bible reading in an unusual way. [While wearing a cassock or in regular street clothes, the chaplain cuts a rather secular figure.] With a rap song which has already received a hundred thousand hits, the priest is attempting to bring youth in the the church. Jakub Bartczak is the chaplain in the Lower Saxon city of Breslau and sings a song for the bible. "Read Holy Scripture, man." The news broadcaster TVN 24 explained about Bartczak, that he had already been performing music before he entered seminary. In the mean time his own Diocese has also put the video on their homepage.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
France: Screening of Film About Archbishop Lefebvre
On Saturday the 29th of September, the film Marcel Lefebvre, Archbishop in stormy times will be shown in public for the first time. This film retraces the life of the founder of the Society of St. Pius X based on the unpublished testimonials of those who knew him, including numerous documents from the archives. This screening will be in Paris, in the presence of Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, at the Grand Rex at exactly 4 p.m.
The March-April 2012 issue of Nouvelles de Chrétienté took its readers behind the scenes of the filming of this exceptional documentary. Jacques-Régis du Cray, author of the script inspired by the biography of Abp. Marcel Lefebvre written by Bp. Bernard Tissier de Mallerais (published in French by Clovis, in English by Angelus Press), described the purpose of the film: “To make known to the multitude, and not just to the faithful of the Society of St. Pius X, a personage through whom we comprehend the crisis in the Church.
As we do not wish to limit our audience to French-speaking people only, the film will be available in English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish.” After the public showing on September 29 in Paris, the film “will be sold in DVD format and will be distributed by several vendors, including Clovis.”
Grand Rex Cinema, 1 Boulevard Poissonnier, 75002 Paris –Metro: Bonne Nouvelle –Saturday, September 29 at exactly 4 p.m. Admission: 12 Euros, reduced price: 8 Euros, free for priests and religious. –Tickets can be reserved online at http://www.monseigneurlefebvre.org/site.php
Nouvelles de Chrétienté #134, “Behind the scenes of the movie about Abp. Lefebvre”: 3.50 Euros.—Can be ordered at CIVIROMA 33, rue Galande, F-75005 Paris (Source: monseigneurlefebvre.org—DICI #260 dated September 14, 2012)
Traditionalist to Replace +Bruskewitz and Discipline in L.A.
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Some more details about Bp. Conley: He was college roommates with Fr. James Jackson, F.S.S.P., and has com to our parish several times to say the TLM and administer Confirmation. He also celebrated the first Pontifical Solemn Mass in over 40 years at Denver's Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart. I believe he's also done Ordinations for the Fraternity.
Edit: It's not Fabian Socialism, it's His Lordship, Bishop Bruskewitz. There are a couple of new appointments and Episcopal acts which are encouraging. The first one is the appointment of the new Bishop of Lincoln Nebraska, who is probably a Traditionalist. We are told that he spent a period of discernment at Fontgambault and was a student of Dr. John Senior who was close to Monsignor Lefebvre.
The news was reported by VIS.
Additionally, in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Archbishop Gomez has stepped up and taken care of some dissidents.
LOS ANGELES, September 14, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A priest who helped found a gay ‘marriage’ advocacy group for Catholics has been suspended from distributing the sacraments or representing himself publicly as a cleric by his bishop.
The National Catholic Register reported Monday that Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles had spoken to Rev. Joseph Palacios, co-founder of “Catholics for Equality” (CFE), a small group created two years ago with strong connections to the Human Rights Campaign.
Palacios described the purpose of his outreach at Princeton University in February 2011, where he called the Church’s faithful the key target for effecting cultural shift in favor of homosexuality.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Growing Mariawald Trappist Monastery Gets New Altar
A new altar in the Trappist abbeys Mariawald
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| Webseite der Abtei Mariawald mit dem Bild des neuen Altares © Screenshot |
(Kreuz.net) Since the 6th of September there has been a new altar in the church of the Trappist Abbey of Mariawald. The Abbey is located in the vicinity of the 4400-population town of Heimbach - fifty kilometers southeast of Aachen.
A block of stone as a symbol of the pastoral council
The church was blown up in World War II. During a renovation in the years of 1963/64, a grinding table in the form of a rudely hewn stone block was installed.
In the neo-Gothic space of the church, it looked like chalk and cheese.
A gift from heaven has now been given to the Abbey, a neo-Gothic wooden altar with matching six chandeliers. It harmonizes perfectly with the church.
With its modest beauty it is appropriate in a special way to the celebration of the traditional rite.
Even then thought of as reform
The altar, according to the website of the monastery, is probably from a French-speaking region. Its exact age is unclear. It follows in the tradition of the Nazarene movement. This effort in the 19th Century was to reform the religious art.
The donor of the altar does not wish to be known.
Diocese of Helsinki: No TLM for A Whole Year
How Innocent is the Pope
The Pope says some beautiful words about the reform of the reform. Then he goes back and names Bishops who do the opposite. by Sari Hiltunen
(kreuz.net) In the Diocese of Helsinki there hasn't been an Old Mass celebrated for over a year.
It's too expensive a Mass?
For the past few years, the Diocese was regularly visited by priests from the Society of St. Peter from abroad.
Then the Diocesan administration explained that the Catholic laity ought to finance these visits.
Actually, among the Traditionalists are mostly young families with many children. They don't have the financial means.
The Old Mass as a Magnet
For the spiritual formation this situation is a catastrophe.
Till now the Traditionalist of the Diocese have even produced vocations.
Many converts have found their way to the Church through the Old Mass.
The unbeneficial influence of Opus Dei
Bishop Teemu Sippo (65) rules the Diocese of Helsinki.
He runs a hard Old Liberal course.
It is no contradiction that his General Vicar is a priest of the Personal Prelature of Opus Dei.
He is the Spanish born Fr. Ramon Goyarrola (43).
Opus Dei has no potential for reform
Priests of Opus Dei are also active in the Diocesan administration.
It is a publicly stated goal of Opus Dei to succeed Bishop Sippo's Diocese.
With the introduction of the Personal Prelature into the Diocese things haven't improved in the least.
English Instead of Latin
The most recent step: The Diocesan administration want to cancel the only Novus Ordo Eucharistic Celebration in the Latin Language, which has been held every Sunday in the Cathedral since the end of the Pastoral Council.
The service is well attended. It takes place at 9:45.
In its place there will be an English Eucharistic Celebration, although there is already an English Mass on Sundays in Helsinki.
Everything upside down
Since the appointment of the Bishop and General Vicar, female ministers have been introduced.
The interior of a parish church in Helsinki was destroyed under the pretext of restoration.
New order children -- and youth -- were sent on a summer camp with the homosexual friendly Lutherans.
Even the Diocesan festival took place this year -- even on the Feast of the Assumption -- in a protestantic "church" building.
The Problem is in Rome
The Diocese of Helsinki finds itself in a difficult financial situation. It doesn't receive the privilege of state taxes like the German church does.
Otherwise, it is stuck on the course with the Old Liberals, who are not know to engage themselves for the Church.
Because of the financial need Msgr Sippo has to have his residence moved to the former retreat house "Stella Maris" outside of Helsinki.
From there he can indulge himself in his interest in a mindless ecumenism.
The current Pope has clearly authorized it.
Because he has named countless Bishops in the mean time, who think and operate similarly.
Link to kreuz.net...
The Pope says some beautiful words about the reform of the reform. Then he goes back and names Bishops who do the opposite. by Sari Hiltunen
(kreuz.net) In the Diocese of Helsinki there hasn't been an Old Mass celebrated for over a year.It's too expensive a Mass?
For the past few years, the Diocese was regularly visited by priests from the Society of St. Peter from abroad.
Then the Diocesan administration explained that the Catholic laity ought to finance these visits.
Actually, among the Traditionalists are mostly young families with many children. They don't have the financial means.
The Old Mass as a Magnet
For the spiritual formation this situation is a catastrophe.
Till now the Traditionalist of the Diocese have even produced vocations.
Many converts have found their way to the Church through the Old Mass.
The unbeneficial influence of Opus Dei
Bishop Teemu Sippo (65) rules the Diocese of Helsinki.
He runs a hard Old Liberal course.
It is no contradiction that his General Vicar is a priest of the Personal Prelature of Opus Dei.
He is the Spanish born Fr. Ramon Goyarrola (43).
Opus Dei has no potential for reform
Priests of Opus Dei are also active in the Diocesan administration.
It is a publicly stated goal of Opus Dei to succeed Bishop Sippo's Diocese.
With the introduction of the Personal Prelature into the Diocese things haven't improved in the least.
English Instead of Latin
The most recent step: The Diocesan administration want to cancel the only Novus Ordo Eucharistic Celebration in the Latin Language, which has been held every Sunday in the Cathedral since the end of the Pastoral Council.
The service is well attended. It takes place at 9:45.
In its place there will be an English Eucharistic Celebration, although there is already an English Mass on Sundays in Helsinki.
Everything upside down
Since the appointment of the Bishop and General Vicar, female ministers have been introduced.
The interior of a parish church in Helsinki was destroyed under the pretext of restoration.
New order children -- and youth -- were sent on a summer camp with the homosexual friendly Lutherans.
Even the Diocesan festival took place this year -- even on the Feast of the Assumption -- in a protestantic "church" building.
The Problem is in Rome
The Diocese of Helsinki finds itself in a difficult financial situation. It doesn't receive the privilege of state taxes like the German church does.
Otherwise, it is stuck on the course with the Old Liberals, who are not know to engage themselves for the Church.
Because of the financial need Msgr Sippo has to have his residence moved to the former retreat house "Stella Maris" outside of Helsinki.
From there he can indulge himself in his interest in a mindless ecumenism.
The current Pope has clearly authorized it.
Because he has named countless Bishops in the mean time, who think and operate similarly.
Link to kreuz.net...
Monsignor Angelo Amodeo, Canon of Milan Cathedral is No More, RIP
We have just been informed by telephone that recently fell asleep in the Lord at the age of 80 years, after a period of illness, Monsignor Angelo Amodeo, minor canon of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Milan, was a great lover of Tradition Ambrosian Liturgy and Roman.
He was ordained in 1957 by Cardinal Montini of Milan, and was priest of great humility. He always wanted to come to the aid generously to all those who needed him, in different parts of Italy (Rome to Imperia, from Venice to Meda) to celebrate Mass in the ancient rite of the Church or to play the role of assistant priest. always remember with immense gratitude that Monsignor Amodeo its September 14, 2007, the day he came into force the long-awaited Motu Proprio " Summorum Pontificum "of the reigning Pope, took a long journey to Loreto to play the role of assistant priest at the Pontifical celebrated by Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos in the Basilica (bottom) of the Holy House.
Hurry, expiate his human faults, his soul will be received into heaven to sing with the angels for divine liturgies.Link to Messa in Latino...
Today is the Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum and The Feast of the Holy Cross
Edit: Those of us who are Traditionalists wish to thank the Holy Father for the generous Motu Proprio related to the Immemorial Mass of All Ages. Today is not only the great feast of the Holy Cross, but it's also the anniversary of Summorum Pontificum:
Quaecumque vero a Nobis hisce Litteris Apostolicis Motu proprio datis decreta sunt, ea omnia firma ac rata esse et a die decima quarta Septembris huius anni, in festo Exaltationis Sanctae Crucis, servari iubemus, contrariis quibuslibet rebus non obstantibus
We order that everything We have established with these Apostolic Letters issued as Motu Proprio be considered as "established and decreed", and to be observed from 14 September of this year, Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, whatever there may be to the contrary.A h/t goes to the Messa in Latino blog for the information... It clarifies that this legislation is superior to all others related to the Liturgy surrounding the Novus Ordo and would forbid such Calvinistic practices as Communion in the hand.
The Mass of All Ages:
Announcing "Friends of the International Federation Una Voce"
Edit: we thought this might be of interest.
The FIUV has recently approved the creation of ‘Friends of the International Federation Una Voce’. We hope that individuals of good will across the world will take the opportunity to support the work of FIUV and to keep themselves informed about its activities. We are inviting them to send us a few contact details: name, e-mail address, Country of residence, and to make an annual donation through the FIUV website. In return, we will put them on a circulation list for FIUV publications and regular news bulletins and Mass will be offered for them each month, whether living or dead.
It would be extremely kind if you could let the readers of your excellent blog know about this initiative. This text might be a useful summary:
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Become a ‘Friend of the International Federation Una Voce’. It’s an easy way to support the work of the Federation for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and to keep yourself informed about its activities.
You can become a Friend by e-mailing your details to friends@fiuv.org and making an annual donation using the PayPal button on www.fiuv.org Please give your name, e-mail address and Country of residence.
You will be included on the mailing list for publications and regular bulletins but your details will not be shared with others.
Two Masses will be offered in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite each month, one for living and one for deceased 'Friends of the International Federation Una Voce’.
You can become a Friend by e-mailing your details to friends@fiuv.org and making an annual donation using the PayPal button on www.fiuv.org Please give your name, e-mail address and Country of residence.
You will be included on the mailing list for publications and regular bulletins but your details will not be shared with others.
Two Masses will be offered in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite each month, one for living and one for deceased 'Friends of the International Federation Una Voce’.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
15 Sisters of the Community of St. John Took Perpetual Vows -- New Monastery in Cordoba
(Madrid) 15 Sisters of the Community of St. John have made their last vows on the last 29th June in the parish of La Rambla in Cordoba. The solemn profession was on the occasion of the 100th Birthday of Father Marie Dominique Philippe who died in 2006, whom the sisters consider their founder. The sisters are from Austria, England, France and Spain, where many family members were on hand to celebrate and witness the festive occasion of life surrender and consecration to the Lord.
The Mass was celebrated by the Bishop of Cordoba, Demetrio Fernandez. Bishop celebrated in the presence of the Vicar General and the Rector of the Seminary of the Diocese. The sisters have settled recently in the Diocese of Cordoba. 25 sisters of the Community live in the monastery near Cordoba and worldwide there are now 150 sisters who lead a contemplative life, but without examination. The female branch of the St. John's community was founded on 8 December of 1982 and has been recognized since 1994 as a diocesan congregation.
Unlike other religious communities St. John's puts both the same emphasis of importance the habits of both their female and the male branches.
The male branch, which now has some 600 brethren, arose from a merger of theology students to the Dominican priest and professor at the University of Freiburg in Uechtland, Marie Dominique Philippe, which was formed in 1975 and is recognized canon law since 1987. The mother house is in Rimont in France. He now has offices throughout Asia, Africa, America and Europe. In Austria, the Priory Queen Mary in Marchegg and in Switzerland, the Priory of Saint Jean in Geneva. In the Netherlands and Belgium, there are both brothers and sister communities of the Congregation.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Community of St. John
Image: Community of St. John
Blair Witch Monastery in Collegeville
“We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile.”
— Hilaire Belloc, This That and the Other (1912)
Edit: The whole thing has an air of the Gnostic, legends of porcine craftsmen constructing dwellings, and of the lairs of fallen men who serve ancient and malevolent powers they fear but don't understand. It's a tendency in public art to avoid representing anything, no battle, no spiritual triumph or even a mere scientific one, just a couple of disconnected inanimate objects whose purpose is to confuse you at best, at worst, lower your spiritual aspirations down to a purely material plane.
What do these rather amorphous and primitive structures have to do with Benedictine worship? Perhaps a word from Catholic World Report's John Buescher can throw some light on these bizarre constructions, which reveal to our mind the gnostic associations of puritanism:
Edit: The whole thing has an air of the Gnostic, legends of porcine craftsmen constructing dwellings, and of the lairs of fallen men who serve ancient and malevolent powers they fear but don't understand. It's a tendency in public art to avoid representing anything, no battle, no spiritual triumph or even a mere scientific one, just a couple of disconnected inanimate objects whose purpose is to confuse you at best, at worst, lower your spiritual aspirations down to a purely material plane.
What do these rather amorphous and primitive structures have to do with Benedictine worship? Perhaps a word from Catholic World Report's John Buescher can throw some light on these bizarre constructions, which reveal to our mind the gnostic associations of puritanism:
Nevertheless, there is a harder-edged answer to the question of the puppets’ purpose: If it is “Puritan,” why this explosion of celebratory paraphernalia in the puppets and costumes? It derives from the “apophatic” meaning of the puppets: as instruments in deconstructing traditional forms that stand between the individual and God. “Forms,” like “dogmas,” are, to the modern mind, idols, and must be taken down. The traditional form of the liturgy, thus, is the enemy of faith, and the puppets invade its sanctum, as agents of iconoclasm. In short, the puppets are intended as mockeries, speaking (mutely) truth to power (Silence = Death!), meant to pull down the temple in the name of the people, acting in the liberty of the free spirit. They are meant to unmask hypocrisy—regarded as the ancient tradition in its entirety.Here's the article where it appeared from the above photo at 1240AM Radio:
COLLEGEVILLE – An unusual structure is going up this week at the entrance to St. John’s University. Artist Patrick Dougherty is leading a project to build a series of five chapels made out of sticks, inspired by the campus.
He says he wants his artwork to be accessible to everyone.
Dougherty is spending a three week residency at the St. John’s Arboretum. He says there are 10-15 people working on the sculpture each day.
Once it’s done, it will stand for about two years.
Dougherty works on about 10 of these types of projects each year all around the world
Surely, they're nuts at AM1240...
Surely, they're nuts at AM1240...
TFP Defends Marriage in Minnesota
Edit: The Society for Tradition, Family and Private Property has been campaigning fervently for the truth in Minnesota and has found a lot of support in various places, whether at the State Capital, the Suburbs or in one of the more troubled neighborhoods of St. Paul. They are surely doing good for the Archdiocese and helping the Archbishop get this timely and vital message to the public.
Way to go guys. Here's a video showing their work which is clearly not without its dangers. Be sure you go to their website and offer some support.
Polish Church Launches Magazine on Exorcism
(Warsaw) In Poland, the world's first magazine was published on exorcism, which is at news stands. The monthly magazine titled Egzorcysta (Exorcist), whose first edition was printed in an edition of 15,000 copies, has 62 pages.
Some Polish Catholic priests were brought together by a publisher to launch the magazine project, according reports by the Agence France Presse. The magazine costs 10 zloty, which works out at approximately 2, 3 Euros. The headlines of the first edition are "Satan, a Reality" and "New Age, the Spiritual Vacuum". Poland currently has 120 priests who are officially appointed as exorcists, as the priest Aleksander Posacki, professor of philosophy and theology, a demonologist and exorcist, explained on Monday at a press conference, in which the magazine was presented.
15 years ago there were only four official exorcists in Poland, says Posacki. This large increase was put in context by the priest that has tried in one of the most Catholic countries in Europe to expel Godless Communism with turbo-capitalism after 1989. Capitalism creates a market of opportunities and with it the opportunity to make the occult shops.
Aleksander Posacki is a member of an international Exorcist Commission of the Catholic Church. At the press conference he pointed out the inability of the various schools of psychology and psychiatry to deal with the phenomenon of possession and Umsessenheit because conventional treatments do not help.
Another Exorcist and staff of the new journal, the priest Andryej Grefkowicz, said that there were so many requests that the waiting time in Warsaw amounts to three months. The priests work with psychiatrists to first rule out the possibility of a mental illness. "I always consult a psychiatrist, if I have doubts then we often come together to the conclusion that it is a mental illness and not a form of obsession," said Grefkowicz.
In contrast to swindlers or providers of occult practices who may even be the cause of an obsession, who are paid substantial amounts by gullible or desperate persons, there is the offer of help from the Church through prayer, confession, forgiveness, or by exorcism, which is completely free, say the two priests.
Link to Katholisches....
French Bishop Criticizes Government's Policy Attacking the Family
The plans of French Government for the introduction of gomorrist marriage were an attack on one of the pillars of society. It is wrong to promote a relationship that is sterile by nature in the same way as marriage.
Ajaccio (kath.net / LSN / jg) Olivier de Germay, Bishop of Ajaccio in Corsica, has spoken out against the plans of the French Government on the introduction of gay marriage. This was an attack on one of the pillars of society, he writes in an article on the diocesan website.
With the introduction of same-sex marriage, according to de Germay it is not about equality, but privileges. It makes no sense for any state to grant a partnership that is "sterile by nature" the same benefits as marriage. The permanent connection of a man and a woman with the purpose of having and raising children is not the invention of a particular type of society, but deeply inscribed in human nature. The State has an interest in protecting marriage, because this is the natural shelter for children and contributes in this way to build up society, wrote the bishop. The ideological background for the introduction of gay marriage, which is gender theory, the sex that reduces the identity of the person concerned to the biology. Gender theory contributes to the destruction of the family and would ultimately lead to the dissolution of the person himself, writes Bishop de Germay.
© Photo: Diocese of Ajaccio
Italian Director: Catholic Influence Prevents the Legalization of Euthanasia in Italy
The Italian director Marco Bellocchio is convinced, that the Catholics of Italy were able to dominate the political landscape so that euthanasia could not be legalized.
Rome (kath.net / LSN / jg) The influence of the Catholics of Italy is too strong to enable the legalization of euthanasia.
"When the power of Catholics is so great, as in Italy, it is almost impossible to get a secular law through" that authorizes euthanasia, the Italian director Marco Bellocchio told the AFP news agency. Bellocchio was at this year's Venice Film Festival with the film "Bella Addormentata" (Eng. "The Sleeping Beauty") represented.
The film is based on true events. In 2009, the then 38-year-old Eluana Englaro had died after 17 years in a vegetative state after a court had allowed her father to stop the artificial feeding of his daughter. The case had then engaged the Italian public for weeks. He would take no position in the film, but showed the state of Italian society. He could answer the question of whether he was for or against euthanasia, neither with a clear yes or no, said Bellocchio, who described himself as not religious. "I am in any case for life. But what one must decide one's life for himself," he said, according to a report by the "Wiener Zeitung".
From Kath.net...
Edit: Coupled with more militant films like Spain's "The Sea Inside", there is a film with a similar aim, with a more subtle and ponderous approach to changing hearts and minds. For if you can't fight something head on, it's better to chew on the edges with a film which panders to people's emotions while showing tremendous respect for the deep-seated Catholic sensibilities you face.
Rome (kath.net / LSN / jg) The influence of the Catholics of Italy is too strong to enable the legalization of euthanasia.
"When the power of Catholics is so great, as in Italy, it is almost impossible to get a secular law through" that authorizes euthanasia, the Italian director Marco Bellocchio told the AFP news agency. Bellocchio was at this year's Venice Film Festival with the film "Bella Addormentata" (Eng. "The Sleeping Beauty") represented.
The film is based on true events. In 2009, the then 38-year-old Eluana Englaro had died after 17 years in a vegetative state after a court had allowed her father to stop the artificial feeding of his daughter. The case had then engaged the Italian public for weeks. He would take no position in the film, but showed the state of Italian society. He could answer the question of whether he was for or against euthanasia, neither with a clear yes or no, said Bellocchio, who described himself as not religious. "I am in any case for life. But what one must decide one's life for himself," he said, according to a report by the "Wiener Zeitung".
From Kath.net...
Edit: Coupled with more militant films like Spain's "The Sea Inside", there is a film with a similar aim, with a more subtle and ponderous approach to changing hearts and minds. For if you can't fight something head on, it's better to chew on the edges with a film which panders to people's emotions while showing tremendous respect for the deep-seated Catholic sensibilities you face.
SSPX Situation Update
The Split is a Mistake
Germany. According to 'kreuz.net' on Tuesday evening it was made known that Pius-Bishop Richard Williamson of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X. is to be expelled, more recently, the German 'Catholic News Agency' inquired after the speaker of the German district, Father Andreas Steiner. The priest sees two possible scenarios. A firing or a peaceful separation is possible. He also did not exclude a compromise.
Link to kreuz.net....
Photo Credit
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
San Antonio Priest Endorses Two Pro-Abort Candidates?
Edit: in the mayoral and state congressional race in San Antonio, Texas, Catholic incumbent Mayor Julian Castro and Representative Joaquin Castro are running on a pro-abort Obama-style platform. It's unlikely that these two brothers were chastised about their pro-abort positions.
Enter center stage is what looks and claims to be a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of San Antonio. So far, the sleepy Catholic electorate of the city hasn't paid much attention to an apparent endorsement being given to this man by Zeitgeist-Priest Father Jimmy Drennan. At this point, it also appears as though the local ordinary, Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller tacitly approves of this endorsement.
King Richard III Should be Reinterred According to the Roman Rite
Edit: He was Catholic after all. One correspondent writes about the possible discovery of the remains of King Richard III who fell defending his crown at Bosworth field.
We are also told by a reader that perhaps it could even be said in the Sarum Rite by his Lordship Bishop Conti.
I hope they'd do the decent thing, and let the Catholic church handle the remains. And Richard III I think has been treated unfairly by propagandists. I think the hatred mostly comes from a few powerful men who didn't want him to carry out what he had begun to set as a pattern: a preference for the poor, and growth of trade.Here's the article from the Telegraph:
So Richard III’s body has (possibly) been found, and while he had scoliosis (a curvature of the spine), “the skeleton was not a hunchback". In your face, Tudor propaganda machine!
Well, perhaps it's him, and it's exciting news. The last Plantagenet still rather fascinates the public; the last English king to die in battle, he was one of Shakespeare’s greatest monsters – but there have always been questions about how bad he actually was. On the one hand he was cast by the Tudors as being a usurper, but, worse still, the killer of his two young nephews. (It is striking how, even in eras when violence was widespread, the murder of children still holds a particular horror. In the story of the last days of the Third Reich, as shown in Downfall and The Bunker, the Goebbels’ murders of their six children are still the most shocking scenes.)
But no one has ever successfully identified the bodies of the Princes in the Tower and many believe that Henry VII killed them. Certainly Henry and his son had no qualms about bumping off various relatives, the finale to a century and a half of fratricidal strife, although they tended to be adults. And Henry Tudor certainly gave the impression of believing young Edward and Richard to be dead.Link to Telegraph...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Bishop Williamson Will Be Expelled
The only conceivable result of the Vatican negotiations with the Society of St. Pius X consists in that Rome in the future will have two Societies to confront.
(kreuz.net) Society Bishop Richard Williamson (72) will be shut out of the Society of St. Pius X.
This was learned by kreuz.net and reported recently.
A Hot Potato
The last cause for the exclusion was an unauthorized Confirmation by the Bishop in South America in the past August.
Already for years, the General Superior of the Society, Bishop Benard Fellay, in vain, had put a muzzle on Msgr Williamson.
So also it was expected of him that he would cease his weekly e-mail commentary. But the Bishop continued to publish.
Another Society?
It is yet to be seen that the Bishop will found another Society with other exiled priests.
Then it may be only a question of time, till he will ordain Bishops.
It is still in question, if he has the necessary organizational talent and energy to build a new structure.
Besides it passes as egocentric.
In view of the expected scenario many observers regard the shutting out Bishop Williamson as a fatal mistake.
Link to original...kreuz.net....
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| Bischof Williamson bei der Distriktswallfahrt der Deutschen nach Fulda, 2006 |
(kreuz.net) Society Bishop Richard Williamson (72) will be shut out of the Society of St. Pius X.
This was learned by kreuz.net and reported recently.
A Hot Potato
The last cause for the exclusion was an unauthorized Confirmation by the Bishop in South America in the past August.
Already for years, the General Superior of the Society, Bishop Benard Fellay, in vain, had put a muzzle on Msgr Williamson.
So also it was expected of him that he would cease his weekly e-mail commentary. But the Bishop continued to publish.
Another Society?
It is yet to be seen that the Bishop will found another Society with other exiled priests.
Then it may be only a question of time, till he will ordain Bishops.
It is still in question, if he has the necessary organizational talent and energy to build a new structure.
Besides it passes as egocentric.
In view of the expected scenario many observers regard the shutting out Bishop Williamson as a fatal mistake.
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