tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65708093483149138842024-02-21T01:50:21.554-05:00Summorum PontificumThe Home for information regarding the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, the Gregorian Rite, and other liturgical minutae.Patrick Archboldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230114519933936165noreply@blogger.comBlogger427125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-37460766942359593952014-10-07T11:31:00.002-04:002014-10-07T12:57:28.199-04:00Pope Francis: "It gives me pleasure to have debates with conservative bishops"This recent article in The Tablet pretty much confirms, if there were still any doubt, that Pope Francis does not consider himself a "conservative" within the Church. See area in bold:<br />
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by <a href="http://www.thetablet.co.uk/author/93/hannah-roberts-in-rome">Hannah Roberts in Rome</a></i></div>
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Pope Francis has stated that the Church “must not withdraw into dogma” and should recognise that “the world has changed”.</blockquote>
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As the bishops prepared to begin discussions on issues relating to
with the family, Francis indicated that he wanted clergy to be less
judgmental and more understanding of those living outside Catholic
norms.</blockquote>
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He told an Argentinian newspaper: “The world has changed and the
Church can not withdraw into supposed interpretations of dogma. We have
to approach these social difficulties, both new and old, by extending a
hand to give comfort, not by stigmatising and criticising people.” </blockquote>
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His comments were published yesterday, the same day he celebrated a
Mass to open the two-week Synod of Bishops which has as its theme
“pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelisation”.</blockquote>
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Francis told <i>La Nacion</i> that while there had been “a lot of
emphasis” in the run-up to the Synod on the issue of the ban on
Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, other concerns deserved
attention as well, such as young people viewing cohabitation as
preferable to marriage. </blockquote>
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He said: “It is an issue that undoubtedly will be debated. But, for
me, an equally important problem is the new habits of young people.
Young people are not getting married. It is the culture of the time.” </blockquote>
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He added: “What should the Church do? Expel them from their breast?
Or approach them and try to bring them close and teach them the word of
God? I am in favour of the latter position.” </blockquote>
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Despite the conflicting opinions, bishops should speak freely at the synod he said, he said. </blockquote>
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Francis said at the Synod of Bishops that took place in 2001 there
was a cardinal who told them what you could say and what you couldn’t.
He added: “That won’t happen this time.” </blockquote>
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It was for that reason that he has given bishops the power to elect the presidents of their own conferences, he said. </blockquote>
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Francis claimed he had no objection the publication of a book by five
cardinals, including Cardinal Raymond Burke, head of the Apostolic
Signatura, setting out their position against revising the prohibition
on divorced and remarried Catholics receiving Communion. </blockquote>
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He said: “Everyone has something to contribute. <b>It gives me pleasure
to have <u>debates with conservative bishops</u> when the arguments are
intellectually well-formed</b>.” </blockquote>
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But he warned Catholics not to count on changes being announced at
the end of this month’s meetings, which will be followed by a second
synod next October. He said: “Don't expect a decision next week … This
is only the initial push.”</blockquote>
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One gets the real impression that some Synod members are asking us, in the name of <i>mercy and compassion</i>, to give a pass to this mass apostasy on matters of sexuality and marriage. Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-30992482379423625352014-08-08T00:01:00.001-04:002014-08-08T00:04:11.273-04:00In 2000, Cardinal Ratzinger admitted Russia has not been consecrated<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Despite all the claims to the contrary, Russia
has not been consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as requested at Fatima. <b>Cardinal Ratzinger himself admitted this </b>at the press
conference in the year 2000 at the Vatican when the "Third Secret" was
"revealed."<br />
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Here's the video in which Chris Ferrara reads Cardinal Ratzinger's own words regarding
the consecration, from the transcript of
that news conference, beginning at 48:50 but especially right at 50:00
minutes into the video:<br />
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Regarding a question about Fr. Gruner, Cardinal Ratzinger answers the reporter:<br />
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"I think that he should conform himself to the magisterium of the Church, recognizing that <b>the Consecration of Russia is done according to the will of the Madonna, and that he should <span style="text-decoration: underline;">leave it to the Magisterium of the Church to find the right moment</span></b>."<br />
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He was saying in the year 2000 that the Magisterium had not yet
found the right moment, that the Consecration of Russia has not yet been
done.<br />
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Cardinal Ratzinger goes on (in the transcript):<br />
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"He could make this proposal [i.e., the Consecration of Russia] but he
should also be capable of being sufficiently generous to accept that <b>the Magisterium has her reasons to not do it immediately, but to wait a little</b>, and above all for the maturation of the process [of canonization] of the three shepherds."<br />
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Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-34349484859295343922013-03-19T23:49:00.001-04:002013-03-19T23:49:25.964-04:00Despite abortion views, Biden, Pelosi receive communion in Vatican MassThis is very troubling:<br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/mar/19/despite-abortion-views-biden-pelosi-receive-commun/print/">Despite abortion views, Biden, Pelosi receive communion in Vatican Mass</a><br />
By Dave Boyer<br />The Washington Times <br /> March 19, 2013 <br />
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden and House Democratic leader Nancy
Pelosi both received communion during the Mass to celebrate the
installation of Pope Francis in spite of their pro-choice position on
abortion.<br />
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The vice president’s office confirmed Tuesday night that both he
and Mrs. Pelosi took communion during the Mass at St. Peter’s Square in
Rome.<br />
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Some Catholics argue that politicians whose positions on
abortion and contraception conflict with church teachings should not
receive communion.<br />
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“Vice President Biden and Nancy Pelosi should certainly not
receive Communion, either at the papal installation or anywhere else,”
said the Rev. Frank Pavone, founder of Priests for Life, a U.S.-based
Catholic anti-abortion organization.<br />
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He predicted a “public uproar” if they took communion.</blockquote>
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Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-69167918598460055202013-03-18T14:16:00.000-04:002013-03-18T14:16:52.149-04:00Pope Francis and his close relationship with the Jewish communityMany commentators have noted Pope Francis' close "ecumenical" relationship with the Jewish community in Argentina, some with praise and others with concern. Regardless, it should be noted that this relationship grew out of the deadly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing">AMIA bombing </a>in 1994:<br />
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The <b>AMIA bombing</b> was an attack on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociaci%C3%B3n_Mutual_Israelita_Argentina" title="Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina">Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina</a> (AMIA; Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) building. It occurred in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a> on July 18, 1994, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wj_3-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing#cite_note-wj-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup> It was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>'s deadliest bombing ever. Argentina is home to a Jewish community of 200,000, among the largest in Latin America <i>(see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Argentina" title="Demographics of Argentina">Demographics of Argentina</a>)</i>.</blockquote>
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Argentina's Jewish population is the largest in Latin America, and the
third-largest in the Americas (after that of the United States and
Canada). It is the seventh-largest in the world </blockquote>
Given this reality, that the AMIA bombing was the deadliest in Argentina's history and specifically targeted Buenos Aires large Jewish community, it was only natural that Cardinal Bergoglio would reach out to the Jewish community in Christian compassion.<br />
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In 2005, Cardinal <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Mario_Bergoglio" title="Jorge Mario Bergoglio">Jorge Mario Bergoglio</a>, who would later become <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a>,
was the first public personality to sign a petition for justice in the
AMIA bombing case. He was one of the signatories on a document called
“85 victims, 85 signatures” as part of the bombing’s 11th anniversary.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing#cite_note-6"><span></span></a></blockquote>
Given the close ties that developed following this tragedy between Cardinal Bergoglio and the Jewish leadership of Buenos Aires, the ecumenical gestures that have been recorded and prominently featured on a number of Catholic blogs should not be surprising. <br />
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New pope is an old friend of the Jewish community</h1>
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by Mordechai Levin, JTA</div>
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Pope Francis I passes a Swiss Guard
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Before immigrating to the United States from Argentina, I was invited
several times on national public holidays to the Metropolitan Cathedral
in Buenos Aires for Catholic Mass celebrated by Cardinal Jorge
Bergoglio, now Pope Francis. As a gesture of inclusiveness, the group of
approximately 25 clergy from various faiths was invited to sit close to
the altar.<br />
In listening to the cardinal's sermons, I appreciated the many times
when he spoke out against injustice, corruption, social inequality,
human trafficking and his commitment to building a better society. As a
rabbi who is very involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue, I followed his
words with great interest.<br />
Argentinians hold varying opinions about the new pope regarding some
controversial issues, but many would agree that during his tenure as
head of the Argentina Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Archdiocese
of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Bergoglio always promoted interfaith
dialogue. He enjoys a good relationship with the Jewish community in
Argentina and has been the guest of several synagogues, as well as other
Jewish organizations.<br />
The election of a new pope is an important event for the Roman Catholic
Church. As the largest Christian denomination in the world with an
estimated 1.2 billion members, it is relevant for others, too --
particularly for the Jewish people.<br />
After the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis, the Catholic and
Protestant churches realized that something was wrong with their
teachings about Jews and Judaism because the Holocaust did not happen in
Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu countries; it happened in Christian
countries. Consequently, the churches began to re-evaluate their
historically negative position toward Jews and Judaism.<br />
In 1965, during the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI promulgated
the historic Declaration On The Relations of the Church To Non-Christian
Religions Nostra Aetate. The document laid the foundation on which
important declarations, documents and actions were built.<br />
But with the election of a new pope, the question arises in many minds:
Will Pope Francis follow in the steps of his predecessors, John Paul II
and Benedict XVI? I am hopeful he will.<br />
In 2010, Cardinal Bergoglio visited the AMIA, an organization in Buenos
Aires dedicated to fostering the well-being and development of Jewish
life, helping the poor and unemployed, and supporting Jewish education.
The AMIA experienced a devastating terrorist attack in 1994 in which 85
people were killed and hundreds were injured.<br />
During his visit, the cardinal said a prayer in the courtyard in front
of a memorial with the names of the 85 fatalities, then placed a wreath
at the foot of the memorial. Invited to sign the book of illustrious
guests, he wrote -- paraphrasing God's words to Abraham after the test
of the binding of Isaac (Genesis 22:17) -- "As the sands on the seashore
will be your descendants, I thank the Lord that on this day I am
allowed to share part of the way with our older brothers."<br />
Bergoglio also said that AMIA is "an example to imitate of work for the
common good, a house of solidarity, and a place that evokes in us a
history of blood and pain, another link of pain that God's chosen people
has been to throughout history."<br />
The cardinal is well known as a humble man who uses public
transportation in the city and cooks his own meals. He displayed his
modest nature at the end of the visit to the AMIA, when the center's
secretary offered to accompany him to his car. When Cardinal Bergoglio
replied that he did not have a car, he was told that a cab would be
called for him. The cardinal's response was,"No thanks, I will take the
subway."<br />
For several years, B'nai B'rith and the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires
organized a Jewish-Christian commemoration of Kristallnach, "the Night
of Broken Glass" -- the Nazis' state-sanctioned riots against the Jewish
community of Germany in November 1938. The commemorations took place at
various Catholic churches, including twice at the Metropolitan
Cathedral of Buenos Aires, the last time in November 2012.<br />
The commemoration began with the reading of "From Death to Hope:
Liturgical Reflections on the Holocaust,” co-edited by the late Rabbi
Leon Klenicki, a native Argentinian who was director of interfaith
affairs of the Anti-Defamation League, and Eugene Fisher, associate
director and secretary for ecumenical and interreligious affairs for the
National Conference of Catholic Bishops.<br />
In his speech at the commemoration, the cardinal noted that during
World War II, many pretended not to notice what was happening to the
Jews. Not only did individuals ignore people in the extermination camps,
he said, but entire countries ignored them even though they had the
means to help.<br />
As an example, he cited countries that were capable of accessing the
extermination camps but did not dare to bomb them. He added, "I
apologize for this sin of ignoring our own flesh, which is that of our
brothers."<br />
Pope Francis is particularly close to Rabbi Abraham Skorka, rector of
the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary (the rabbinical seminary of the
Conservative movement) and senior rabbi of the Benei Tikva synagogue in
Buenos Aires. Together they published a book, "On Heaven and Earth,"
which chronicles hundreds of hours of their conversations about God,
fundamentalism, death, women, abortion, education, globalization, the
Holocaust and the Arab-Israeli conflict, among other topics.<br />
The book, as well as others written by Bergoglio, will likely become
best-sellers now. And as a bonus, those who read "On Heaven and Earth"
will be introduced to Jewish perspectives and thus will have the
opportunity to learn about Judaism.<br />
In the book's introduction, Bergoglio offered his point of view regarding interfaith relationships.<br />
"Dialogue is born of an attitude of respect for another person, and a
conviction that the other has something good to say; it assumes to make
room in our hearts for his point of view, for his opinions and his
suggestions," he wrote. "Dialogue involves a warm welcome, not
condemnation. To dialogue, one must lower defenses, open doors and
provide human warmth."<br />
Bergoglio described his friendship with the rabbi and their joint
preparation of the book, saying, "With Skorka I didn't ever have to
compromise my Catholic identity, just as he did not with his Jewish
identity. This was not only because of the respect we have for each
other, but also because this is what we consider interreligious
dialogue."<br />
He added, "I consider Skorka a brother and a friend.”<br />
The two clergy also host a television program for a local Catholic
channel in which they discuss topics from the perspectives of each
religion. Recently, Argentina Catholic University in Buenos Aires
awarded Rabbi Skorka an honorary doctorate, and the cardinal presented
it to him.<br />
Those of us who know Pope Francis are confident that in his new
position, he will continue in the steps of his two predecessors, and the
dialogue and friendship between Catholics and Jews will continue.<br />
<em>Mordechai Levin is the senior rabbi at Beth El Synagogue in Omaha, Neb.</em></td></tr>
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Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-39150273963952700662013-03-18T11:13:00.004-04:002013-03-18T11:13:58.743-04:00Pope Francis' official Coat of Arms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From <a href="http://attualita.vatican.va/sala-stampa/bollettino/2013/03/18/news/30649.html">the Vatican website announcement </a>(via Google translate, bold added):<br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="LO SCUDO"></span><span title="Nei tratti, essenziali, il Papa Francesco ha deciso di conservare il suo stemma anteriore, scelto fin dalla sua consacrazione episcopale e caratterizzato da una lineare semplicità.">...Pope Francis has decided to keep his coat
front, chosen from his episcopal consecration and characterized by a
linear simplicity.<br /></span><span title="Lo scudo blu è sormontato dai simboli della dignità pontificia, uguali a quelli voluti dal predecessore Benedetto XVI (mitra collocata tra chiavi decussate d'oro e d'argento, rilegate da un cordone rosso) .">The
blue shield is surmounted by symbols of papal dignity, the same as
those taken by his predecessor Benedict XVI (miter placed between
crossed keys of gold and silver, bound by a red cord). </span><span title="In alto, campeggia l'emblema dell'ordine di provenienza del Papa, la Compagnia di Gesù: un sole raggiante e fiammeggiante caricato dalle lettere, in rosso, IHS, monogramma di Cristo.">At
the top, stands the emblem of the order of origin of the Pope, the
Society of Jesus, a radiant sun and flamboyant loaded from the letters
in red IHS monogram of Christ. </span><span title="La lettera H è sormontata da una croce; in punta, i tre chiodi in nero.">The letter H is surmounted by a cross, at the tip, the three nails in black.<br /></span><span title="In basso, si trovano la stella e il fiore di nardo.">Below, are the star and the flower of nard. </span><span title="La stella, secondo l'antica tradizione araldica, simboleggia la Vergine Maria, madre di Cristo e della Chiesa; mentre il fiore di nardo indica San Giuseppe, patrono della Chiesa universale.">The
star, according to the ancient heraldic tradition, symbolizes the
Virgin Mary, Mother of Christ and of the Church, while the flower of
nard shows St. Joseph, patron of the universal Church. </span><span title="Nella tradizione iconografica ispanica, infatti, San Giuseppe è raffigurato con un ramo di nardo in mano.">In the iconographic tradition Hispanic, in fact, St. Joseph is depicted holding a branch of spikenard. </span><span title="Ponendo nel suo scudo tali immagini, il Papa ha inteso esprimere la propria particolare devozione verso la Vergine Santissima e San Giuseppe."><b>By placing these images in his shield, the Pope wanted to express his particular devotion to the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph.</b></span></span></blockquote>
Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-88643410938220074472013-03-17T18:27:00.000-04:002013-03-17T18:28:27.691-04:00Fatima Shrine recalls Pope Francis' sponsorship of the Pilgrim Image of the Virgin of Fatima<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="From: Sala de Imprensa | Santuário de Fátima <listmaster@fatima.pt">For the record, here is a Google translation of yesterday's email (in Portuguese) of the Fatima Shrine's announcement regarding Cardinal Bergoglio's 1998 sponsorship of the Pilgrim Image of the Virgin of Fatima: </span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="From: Sala de Imprensa | Santuário de Fátima <listmaster@fatima.pt">From: Press Room | Fatima Shrine <listmaster br="" fatima.pt=""></listmaster></span><span title="Date: March 16, 2013, 10:42:06 AM PDT"> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Date: March 16, 2013, 10:42:06 AM PDT">Date: March 16, 2013 10:42:06 AM PDT</span><span title="To:"> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="To:">To:</span><span title="Subject: Buenos Aires, 1998: Santuário de Fátima recorda o acolhimento do Papa Francisco à Imagem da Virgem Peregrina de Fátima"> </span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Subject: Buenos Aires, 1998: Santuário de Fátima recorda o acolhimento do Papa Francisco à Imagem da Virgem Peregrina de Fátima">Subject: Buenos Aires, 1998: Fatima Shrine recalls the reception of Pope Francisco to Image Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima<br /><br /><br /> </span><span title="26/2013, de 16 de março de 2013 - 17:30">26/2013, of March 16, 2013 - 17:30<br /> </span><span title="Buenos Aires, 1998 – “Benvinda a casa, Mãe!”">Buenos Aires, 1998 - "Benvinda the house, Mother!"<br /><br /> </span><span title="Santuário de Fátima recorda o acolhimento do Papa Francisco à Imagem da Virgem Peregrina de Fátima">Fatima Shrine recalls the reception of Pope Francisco to Image Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima<br /><br /> </span><span title="O Santuário de Fátima recorda com alegria o acolhimento feito, a 19 de Abril de 1998, por D.">The Shrine of Fatima recalls with joy the host made on 19 April 1998 by D. </span><span title="Jorge Mario Bergoglio, atual Papa Francisco, à imagem da Virgem Peregrina de Fátima, isto no âmbito da peregrinação da imagem à Argentina.">Jorge
Mario Bergoglio, current pope Francisco, the image of the Pilgrim
Virgin of Fatima, this pilgrimage within the image to Argentina.<br /><br /> </span><span title="Nos arquivos do Serviço de Estudos e Difusão (SESDI) do Santuário de Fátima, é referido que, pelas 16:00 do dia 19 de abril de 1998, D.">In the archives of the Department of Studies and Dissemination (SESDI) Fatima Shrine is said that at 16:00 on 19 April 1998, D. </span><span title="Jorge Mario Bergoglio, na qualidade de arcebispo de Buenos Aires, acolheu a imagem da Virgem Peregrina de Fátima, oriunda do Santuário de Fátima em Portugal.">Jorge
Mario Bergoglio, as archbishop of Buenos Aires, welcomed the image of
the Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima, coming from the Shrine of Fatima in
Portugal.<br /><br /> </span><span title="Naquele dia 19 de abril, a imagem, vinda da província argentina de S.">At April 19, the image coming from the Argentine province of S. </span><span title="Luís com destino à capital federal da Argentina, era esperada “no cruzamento das avenidas”, em Buenos Aires, pelo atual Papa Francisco, a quem cabia receber “a Branca Peregrina”.">Louis
bound for the federal capital of Argentina, was expected "at the
intersection of the avenues", in Buenos Aires, the current Pope
Francisco, who deserved to receive the "White Pilgrim."<br /><br /> </span><span title="Junto com D.">Along with D. </span><span title="Jorge Mario Bergoglio, além de outros membros do clero da arquidiocese de Buenos Aires, da diocese de Avellaneda e de “uma numerosa quantidade de fiéis de distintas idades”, estava o bispo de Avellaneda, fundador da “Família Missionária de Fátima” e promotor da">Jorge
Mario Bergoglio, and other members of the clergy of the Archdiocese of
Buenos Aires, the Diocese of Avellaneda and "a large quantity of
followers of different ages," was the Bishop of Avellaneda, founder of
"Missionary Family of Fatima" and promoter </span><span title="peregrinação da Imagem de Fátima, D.">Image of Fatima pilgrimage, D. </span><span title="Ruben H.">Ruben H. </span><span title="di Monte.">di Monte.<br /><br /> </span><span title="Após o acolhimento, a imagem da Virgem Peregrina de Fátima percorreu algumas ruas de Buenos Aires em procissão, com orações e cânticos, até ao Colégio de Nossa Senhora de Fátima, onde foi celebrada a Eucaristia, presidida pelo atual Papa.">After
the reception, the image of the Pilgrim Virgin of Fatima went through
some streets of Buenos Aires in procession with prayers and songs, to
the College of Our Lady of Fatima, where the Eucharist was celebrated,
presided over by the current Pope.<br /><br /> </span><span title="A homilia de D.">The homily of D. </span><span title="Jorge Mario Bergoglio, descrita na documentação entregue ao Santuário de Fátima, como “curta, significativa e emotiva”, centrou-se nas palavras de acolhimento “Benvinda a casa, Mãe!”.">Jorge
Mario Bergoglio, described in the documentation submitted to the Shrine
of Fatima, as "short, meaningful and emotional," focused on the words
of welcome "Benvinda home, Mother."<br /><br /> </span><span title="Na referida homilia, que na parte final é sobretudo uma prece dirigida a Nossa Senhora, D.">In that homily, which at the end is particularly addressed a prayer to Our Lady, D. </span><span title="Jorge Bergoglio refletiu sobre a figura de Maria como a mãe que acolhe e conforta todos os seus filhos e lhes conhece as súplicas, os anseios e as alegrias.">Jorge
Bergoglio reflected on the figure of Mary as the mother who welcomes
and comforts all her children and they know the prayers, wishes and
joys.<br /><br /> </span><span title="“Por isso lhe abrimos (à Mãe, Maria) a porta do nosso coração e da nossa casa.">"So we opened it (Mother Mary) the door of our hearts and our home. </span><span title="Abrimos-lhe a porta da nossa cidade.">We opened the door for him in our city. </span><span title="Ela sabe onde tem de ir.">She knows where it has to go. </span><span title="Ela sabe onde tem de tocar, que carícia tem de dar; que ferida pode curar.">She must know where to touch, caress it has to give, that wound can heal. </span><span title="Ela conhece a oração mais guardada no nosso coração, aquilo que desejamos, às vezes sem nos atrevermos a dizê-lo”, disse.">She knows the prayer more guarded in our hearts, what we want, sometimes we dare not say it, "he said.<br /><br /> </span><span title="“Querida Mãe: Benvinda a casa!">"Dear Mother: Benvinda the house! </span><span title="Ensina-nos que Jesus está vivo, que o sintamos vivo no meio de nós.">It teaches us that Jesus is alive, that feel alive among us. </span><span title="Ensina-nos a linguagem da ternura.">It teaches us the language of tenderness. </span><span title="Benvinda a casa, Mãe!">Welcome home, Mother! </span><span title="Olha para a minha família, sabeis do que necessita.">Look for my family, you know what you need. </span><span title="Olha pelo nosso bairro, sabeis bem onde tens de ir.">Look through our neighborhood, you know right where to go. </span><span title="Olha para o meu coração, conhece-lo melhor do que eu.">Look into my heart, you know better than me. </span><span title="Benvinda a casa!">Welcome home! </span><span title="Ensina-me que Jesus está vivo, para que nunca pense que está morto para mim.">Teach me that Jesus is alive, that they think he's dead to me. </span><span title="Dá-me forças, Mãe. Dá-me ternura para ajudar os demais.">Give me strength, Mom Give me tenderly to help others. </span><span title="Dá-me a paz do coração.">Give me peace of heart. </span><span title="Benvinda a casa!”, rezou.">Welcome home! "He prayed.<br /><br /> </span><span title="Terminada a celebração a imagem foi levada, ao anoitecer, para a igreja do primeiro santuário dedicado a Nossa Senhora de Fátima na Argentina, onde esteve de 19 de abril a 23 de maio.">After
the celebration the picture was taken at dusk, the church's first
sanctuary dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima in Argentina, where he was
from April 19 to May 23.<br /><br /> </span><span title="Este Santuário de Fátima em Buenos Aires, de acordo com a documentação do SESDI, foi construído numa zona muito pobre, chamada originalmente “Bajo Flores”, actualmente “Villa Soldati”, onde vivia “gente trabalhadora e carenciada até ao extremo”.">The
Shrine of Fatima in Buenos Aires, according to documentation SESDI, was
built in a very poor, originally called "Bajo Flores" currently "Villa
Soldati," where he lived "working people and needy to the end".<br /><br /> </span><span title="Em 1950, um grupo de habitantes deste bairro da capital Buenos Aires adquire uma imagem de Nossa Senhora de Fátima a quem reza para que as suas casas sejam poupadas num processo de expropriação, o que viria a acontecer.">In
1950, a group of residents of this neighborhood in the capital Buenos
Aires acquires an image of Our Lady of Fatima who prays that their homes
are spared in the process of expropriation, what would happen. </span><span title="Nesse mesmo ano, o Cardeal de Buenos Aires entrega os cuidados pastorais desta zona aos Missionários do Sagrado Coração de Jesus.">That
same year, the Cardinal of Buenos Aires delivers the pastoral care of
this zone to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. </span><span title="O primeiro encarregado da paróquia é o padre Celso Mejido Díaz.">The first is the charge of the parish priest Mejido Celso Díaz.<br /><br /> </span><span title="O Cardeal dispôs depois que na nova paróquia fosse venerada a imagem de Nossa Senhora de Fátima levada de Portugal e benzida pelo Cardeal Cerejeira.">The
Cardinal had available after the new parish was venerated image of Our
Lady of Fatima in Portugal and brought blessed by Cardinal Cherry. </span><span title="O decreto de ereção da paróquia data de 25 de julho de 1950.">The decree of erection of the parish date of July 25, 1950.<br /><br /> </span><span title="O templo atual foi inaugurado a 12 de outubro de 1957; o altar foi consagrado um ano depois e, em 1992, o então cardeal arcebispo de Buenos Aires, D.">The
current temple was inaugurated on October 12, 1957, the altar was
consecrated a year later and, in 1992, the then Cardinal Archbishop of
Buenos Aires, D. </span><span title="Antonio Quarracino, declara a paróquia como santuário arquidiocesano.">Antonio Quarracino, declares as sanctuary archdiocesan parish.<br /><br /> </span><span title="Esta peregrinação em que a imagem foi recebida pelo atual Papa Francisco – em que peregrinou a Primeira Imagem da Virgem Peregrina (n.º 1), que atualmente está entronizada na Basílica de Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Fátima, em Fátima/Portugal – realizou-">This
pilgrimage where the image was received by the current Pope Francisco -
who sojourned in the First Image of the Virgin Peregrina (No. 1), which
is currently enshrined in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of
Fatima in Fatima / Portugal - held </span><span title="se entre 1998 e 2000, com visita à Argentina e ao Uruguai.">between 1998 and 2000, with visits to Argentina and Uruguay.<br /><br /> </span><span title="LeopolDina Simões, Sala de Imprensa do Santuário de Fátima">Leopoldina Simões, Press Room Fatima Shrine<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> </span><span title="Reitoria — Centro de Comunicação Social * Apartado 31 * 2496-908 Fátima (PORTUGAL)">Rectory - Media Centre Apartado * 31 * 2496-908 Fátima (PORTUGAL)<br /> </span><span title="telefone: 249 539 600 / fax: 249 539 605">telephone: 249 539 600 / Fax: 249 539 605<br /> </span><span title="email: ccs@fatima.pt">email: ccs@fatima.pt<br /> </span><span title="www.fatima.pt — www.fatima2017.org">www.fatima.pt - www.fatima2017.org<br /> </span><span title="siga-nos no facebook - www.facebook.com/SantuarioFatima">follow us on facebook - www.facebook.com / SantuarioFatima</span></span></blockquote>
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A discreet and unexpected presence on the eve of the Papal
election, Fr. Georg has been constantly by Francis’ side during his
first public appearances: from his visit to Saint Mary Major to pray, to
the meeting with journalists in the Paul VI Audience Hall. The role of
Archbishop Gänswein at the beginning of this Pontificate goes beyond
that of Prefect of the Pontifical Household; indeed, his sentimental
involvement is evident and says a lot about his personality. It also
brings to mind the words which, a few months ago, he had said regarding
his work with Benedict XVI saying that he wanted to be transparent like
glass so as not to obscure the Pope in any way.
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Ratzinger's closest collaborator was unable to hold the tears back
that afternoon on 28 February when together (like father and son) they
left the apartment of the third Loggia. When the seals were finally
taken off on Thursday afternoon the experience must have been just as an
emotional for him: returning there with Francis, who needed his help to
push the door which would not open. Once inside, the memories must have
come flooding back to him and Fr. Georg was so rapt that at one point
the Regent of the Pontifical Household, Fr.Leonardo Sapienza, had to
bring him back to reality by telling him to turn the light on.
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This said, Gänswein really likes this Pontiff, who is so different
from "his", and yesterday, when Francis said that the Holy Spirit
inspired Benedict XVI's decision for the good of the Church, Fr. Georg
was truly moved. While under the spotlight, Mgr. Georg always
accompanies the new Pope in ceremonies and hearings, and then, behind
the scenes, he put the knowledge he had accumulated during his 8 years
of service to Ratzinger, at his disposal.
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Even on issues left pending: the Vatileaks scandal, the return of
the Lefebvrists to communion with Rome, the reform of the Curia, the
sacred finances. He is the "ferryman" between two pontificates. An
entirely new figure in ecclesiastical history, Fr. Georg is the point of
contact between the reigning Pope and the Emeritus one. He preserves
his function as Ratzinger's Secretary and continues to live with him at
Castel Gandolfo, but at the same time he runs the Pontificalis Domus of
his successor Bergoglio. Beyond any protocol, he substantially acts as a
transmission belt in the difficult starting phase of the pontificate.
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"He is performing a very delicate task," explains a head of a
dicastery, "Fr. Georg is with Francis not so much because of his current
tasks in the Apostolic Palace, but because he is helping in the
handover of delicate topics, on Ratzinger's behalf." In short, the
presence (and advice) of Mgr. Gaenswein is how Benedict XVI is helping
Bergoglio through the meanders of the Roman Curia and is "protecting"
him through the slippery transition phase. "It is Fr. Georg who has the
Vatileaks dossier to be delivered to Francis", explains the cardinal,
referring to the report by the three investigating cardinals Herranz,
Tomko, and De Giorgi on the theft of documents from the papal apartment.
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Tuesday, Gänswein was Ratzinger's eyes at the moment of the extra
omnes; he was one of the last ones to leave the Sistine Chapel when the
Conclave got underway. Already on Thursday he was with the newly elected
Pope in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome and then he was at the
mass pro Ecclesia co-celebrated in the chapel frescoed by Michelangelo
with the 114 cardinal electors. Friday, in the Clementine Hall, he
participated in the cardinals' greeting ceremony, where many of the
cardinals delivered letters and gifts for the new Pontiff. Francis
entrusted them to Gänswein, who, on his right, acted as the imaginary
bridge to the Pope Emeritus repeatedly mentioned by Francis. Fr. Georg
was also the protagonist of a curious unscheduled episode: the Polish
Nycz, after the act of homage to Bergoglio, did not return directly to
his place, but stopped to ask Fr. Georg to bring his greetings to
Ratzinger (while Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, Wojtyla's successor in
Krakow and Georg's predecessor in his Vatican tasks, had not done this).
As Prefect of the Pontifical Household, Fr. Georg manages the Pontiff’s
agenda of commitments, but he also continues to be the right-hand man
of his predecessor.
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Meanwhile, Fr. Georg is giving Francis good tips on how to move
within the Curia environment and on which figures could be considered
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Some traditionalist bloggers seem to want to <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/03/leonardo-boff-pope-francis-is-much-more.html">suggest that Pope Francis' closest friends</a> <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/03/popes-greatest-friend-and-most.html">and confidantes</a> <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/03/someone-is-very-happy.html">are of the progressive persuasion</a>, but his right hand man at present is <i><b>allegedly</b></i> a <a href="http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/vatican-les-clefs-d-une-crise_740209.html?xtmc=georg_ganswein&xtcr=6">former SSPX seminarian</a> <a href="http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/657/1288/34141/3/4">according to several media reports</a>:<br />
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Georg Gänswein, despite his athletic and youthful appearance, is
extremely conservative. But he has been careful to tone down his
“traditionalist” side. Shortly after the election of Benedict XVI in
2005, all references to the papal secretary’s life prior to his
new-found fame disappeared from the internet. Only later did any
personal information about him gradually find its way back into the
public forum. One reason for this, it appears, is that <b>he initially
began his seminary training at the international seminary in Ecône
(Switzerland) run by the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), or Lefebvrists</b>.
This was finally reported in 2009 by French magazine L’Express and
repeated on numerous, mostly Vatican-friendly internet sites. No one at
the Vatican has ever officially denied it. </blockquote>
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Archbishop Gänswein has been credibly reported to offer the TLM daily, and is personally tasked with schooling Pope Francis on the Vatileaks dossier.<br />
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I've received correspondence from NewCatholic at Rorate Caeli to the effect that the claim that
Archbishop Gänswein attended the SSPX Econe seminary is a media fabrication. <br />
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Archbishop Gänswein’s attendance at the SSPX Seminary in Econe was reported in the media at these links, first in 2009 then in 2012:
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<a href="http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/657/1288/34141/3/4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Power Behind the Papal Throne">Power Behind the Papal Throne</a><br />
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Neither of these reports were contradicted by the Vatican or by the SSPX. The claim is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_G%C3%A4nswein#Life">repeated in the Wikipedia file for Archbishop Gänswein </a>and has not been amended. <br />
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If anyone can verify or refute this claim, I will gladly amend this post as needed.<br />
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An SSPX priest, Fr. Robert Jackson of Syracuse NY, has kindly weighed in:<br />
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<b>This post has been amended as per his request.</b>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-62353825939216442062013-03-17T16:04:00.001-04:002013-03-17T16:04:05.140-04:00Pope Francis' first Sunday liturgy maintains Benedictine altar arrangement, communion kneeling and on tongue Contrary to many fears expressed on traditional blogs and websites, in Pope Francis' initial Sunday mass, the Benedictine altar arrangement first noted under Pope Benedict XVI has been maintained, and communion was solely distributed to those kneeling, and on the tongue. For more details, see<a href="http://southernorderspage.blogspot.com/2013/03/bombshell-holy-father-gives-holy.html"> this post at the Southern Orders blog</a>.<br />
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Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Sunday in the parish church of
Vatican City, dedicated to St. Anne, the mother of Our Lady. The choir
intoned the Attende, Domine! at the entrance, and the readings were
those of the fifth Sunday of Lent: from the prophet, Isaiah; Psalm 126 –
the Lord has done great things for us; the Letter of St Paul the
Apostle to the Philippians; and a reading from the Gospel according to
St John, in which the woman caught in adultery and subject under law to
death by stoning, is presented to Jesus for judgment, and he says, “Let
the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast his stone.”
“He has come for us,” said Pope Francis in his homily, “when we
recognize that we are sinners.” Mercy, in fact, was the key lesson and
the Good News proclaimed this Sunday. “Mercy,” said Pope Francis, “is
the Lord’s most powerful message.” <b>Listen</b>: <u><a href="http://media01.radiovaticana.va/audio/ra/00362669.RM"><img alt="RealAudio" border="0" src="http://en.radiovaticana.va/global_images/ra_icon.gif" /></a><a href="http://media01.radiovaticana.va/audiomp3/00362669.MP3"><img alt="MP3" border="0" src="http://en.radiovaticana.va/global_images/mp3_icon.gif" /></a> </u> <br /><br />Speaking
without a prepared text, Pope Francis said, “If we are like the
Pharisee before the altar, [who said], ‘Thank you, Lord, for not making
me like all the other men, and especially not like that fellow at the
door, like that publican…,’ well, then we do not know the heart of the
Lord, and we shall not ever have the joy of feeling this mercy.” Pope
Francis went on to say, “It is not easy to entrust oneself to the mercy
of God, because [His mercy] is an unfathomable abyss – but we must do
it!” Pope Francis continued, “He has the ability to forget, [which is]
special: He forgets [our sins], He kisses you, He embraces you, and He
says to you, ‘Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now, on, sin no
more.’ Only that counsel does He give you.” Pope Francis concluded,
saying, “We ask for the grace of never tiring of asking pardon, for He
never tires of pardoning.” <br /><br />At the end of Mass, after receiving
the greetings of the pastor of the parish, Fr. Bruno Silvestrini, OSA,
and the Archpriest of St Peter’s Basilica and vicar-general for Vatican
City, Cardinal Angelo Comastri, Pope Francis thanked the whole parish
community, as well as those who had travelled from afar to be in Rome
during these days. He made especial mention of Fr. Gonzalo Aemilius, the
director of the Liceo Jubilar Juan Pablo II in Uruguay, which educates
poor and at-risk children and young people. “I don’t know how he came to
be here today,” said Pope Francis. “Pray for him,” he said. Following
the Mass, just like a local parish priest, Pope Francis greeted
parishioners at the church door, before going briefly to the crowd
gathered outside the St Anne’s Gate. <br /><br />After returning into the
church to take off his liturgical vestments, Pope Francis again greeted
the faithful outside, before making his way to his study and the window
overlooking St Peter’s Square, below which was gathered a crowd 300
thousand-strong, more than rivalling the throng of people who braved
cold, rain and dark to meet the Pope on Wednesday – the night of his
election - and receive his blessing for the first time. Dozens of
national flags were visible in the packed Square, and a deafening cheer
went up when, at last, Pope Francis appeared. Mercy was once again the
cornerstone of his reflections ahead of the traditional prayer of Marian
devotion. <br /><br /><br />He told a story, of an elderly widow he
encountered during a Mass for the sick celebrated in connection with a
visit of the image of Our Lady of Fatima. “I went to confession during
the Mass,” he said, “and near the end – I had to go to do confirmations
afterward, and an elderly lady approached me – humble [she was] so very
humble, more than eighty years old. I looked at her, and said,
‘Grandmother,’ – where I come from, we call elderly people grandmother
and grandfather – ‘would you like to make your confession?’ ‘Yes,’ she
said – and I said, ‘but, if you have not sinned…’ and she said, ‘we all
have sinned.’ [I replied], ‘if perhaps He should not forgive [you]?’
and, sure, she replied, ‘The Lord forgives everything.’ I asked, ‘How do
you know this for sure, madam?’ and she replied, ‘If the Lord hadn’t
forgiven all, then the world wouldn’t [still] be here.’ And, I wanted to
ask her, ‘Madam, did you study at the Gregorian (the Pontifical
Gregorian University, founded in 1551 by St Ignatius Loyola, the oldest
Jesuit university in the world)?’ – because that is wisdom, which the
Holy Spirit gives – interior wisdom regarding the mercy of God. Let us
not forget this word: God never tires of forgiving us,” he repeated,
“but we sometimes tire of asking Him to forgive us.” Pope Francis went
on to say, “Let us never tire of asking God’s forgiveness.” </span>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-27700327562970074832013-03-15T00:08:00.003-04:002013-03-15T13:02:50.578-04:00Pope Francis and the Traditional Liturgy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://themoynihanletters.com/from-the-desk-of/letter-47-to-mary"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><i><b>March 14, 2013, Thursday </b></i><b>-- To Mary</b></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">I
have received many letters and emails, and even some phone calls, from
people who read a sentence in yesterday's email which they found
worrisome.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">I would like to encourage everyone to stay calm, and give the new Pope a chance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Here is the sentence that I wrote last night:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">"Cardinal
Bergoglio is hostile toward the Traditional Mass, but he wrote a
beautiful letter sent to the Carmelites of his diocese regarding the
grave matter of the legal redefinition of marriage."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Many
wrote that they found the sentence itself strange, because the two
clauses or concepts don't appear to be linked in any way. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">I
was simply trying to address two issues which I had come across in my
reading, both issues of concern to Catholics: the new Pope's views on
the liturgy, and his views on marriage and the family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">In
my reading, I had come across reports that suggested that he has not
promoted, or favored, or been particularly supportive of, the
traditional liturgy, in his diocese in the city of Buenos Aires. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Some of
these reports even stated that he has been "hostile" to the old
liturgy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Without
knowing the exact details of the situation myself, personally, I
nevertheless took these reports seriously, and as reliable enough to
report them.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">At
the same time, I reported the very strong and eloquent content of his
letter in defense of the traditional family and marriage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Here
below is one of several sources for my statement regarding Cardinal
Bergoglio's attitude toward the old Mass. It says, in Spanish, that the
new Pope was a "sworn enemy" of the traditional Mass and that he took
action against priests who expressed interest in <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>.
I deduced from this that Cardinal Bergoglio has been "hostile" to the
old Mass, and wrote that. Here is the quote in Spanish, and the link to
the source:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">"<i>Enemigo
jurado de la misa tradicional, no ha permitido sino parodias en manos
de enemigos declarados de la liturgia antigua. Ha perseguido a todo
sacerdote que se empeñó en usar sotana, predicar con solidez o que se
haya interesado en la </i>Summorum Pontificum<i>."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Link: <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=38545617&msgid=688610&act=F5D0&c=305005&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fpanoramacatolico.info%2Farticulo%2Fel-horror" style="color: #0000FF!important;">http://panoramacatolico.info/articulo/el-horror</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">However,
I have since received a large number of other emails containing very
different information. Here is one from a respected Catholic philosopher
and writer whom I trust a great deal:</span></span> </div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Dear Robert,</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">I
read with passionate interest all the reports you sent us since
Benedict XVI (to my deep regret) stepped down. I thank you for them;
they were remarkably well done, informative and expressing your love for
the Church.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">But
I was deeply grieved today in reading that you write that Francis I is
hostile to the Tridentine Mass. This must be a terrible misinformation
likely to do a lot of harm to many of your readers. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Archbishop
Bergoglio, upon receiving the information that Benedictine XVI (at my
repeated requests) had granted a universal indult, designated the Church
Michel Angelo as the one place where the traditional Mass would be
said. Its pastor, Padre Ricardo Dotro (I might get the name wrong) a
well-trained liturgist, was going to say it to those who wished it. It
was well-attended; hundred of people with their old missals, even some
younger people, ladies wearing Mantillas, and modestly dressed, six
candles on the altar, Mass </span></span></i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">ad orientem</span></span><i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">, kneeling for communion on the tongue.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">I
fear you were misinformed. Because the Mass had not been said for 40
years, all the younger priests could not say it. This was
well-calculated; if no one can say that mass, that it certain to bury
it. But it survived.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">I
wish you would correct this. Many of your devoted readers will be, like
me, deeply grieved, unless you do. In the joy of Habemus papam and
thanking you for your great work, I am, dear Robert, yours </span></span></i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">in caritate Christi</span></span><i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">So,
at this point, I will step back from the entire question to give a
judgment regardless of anything that happened in the past, and it is
this: in my view, we should have no concerns whatsoever about the
continued celebration of the traditional Latin Mass under our new Pope,
Francis. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">And,
even more, I agree with<a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-summorum-pontificum-was-blocked-and.html?showComment=1363290594603#c7790296246420452919"> what one reader writes</a>:</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><b>"Unlike Pope Benedict, I
would not be at all surprised to see Pope Francis publicly offer a
traditional Latin Mass some day.</b></span></span><b><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">
He has a deep devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, is said to practice the
Five First Saturday Devotions, and prays 15 decades of the Rosary each
day. I believe that, after he meets with Pope Emeritus Benedict, reads
the 300-page dossier on the Vatileaks scandal, and reads the rest of the
Third Secret of Fatima, he will be a different man than he was as
archbishop, then cardinal, in Argentina."<br /><br />
Pope Francis strikes me as a man who, once he learns something is the Lord’s will, will simply make it his own. </span></span></b></div>
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adhering to the doctrine of the Church, Catholics must follow specific
moral teaching relative to the life issues (i.e. abortion, euthanasia,
capital punishment, etc.), and Catholic social teachings which include
the person, society and the role of government etc. (i.e. economic
injustice, health care). When moral teachings are distorted, one arrives
at false and erroneous conclusions. One such distortion is the
Seamless Garment argument which holds that all life issues have equal
weight. The argument, while trying to unify a life ethic fails to
recognize the preeminence of certain life issues (abortion and
euthanasia) over others. The Church teaches that abortion and euthanasia
are intrinsically evil act and never justifiable. Abortion and
euthanasia are the preeminent life issues. Capital punishment in
contrast,
although an important life issue is not intrinsically morally evil as is
abortion and euthanasia. Some, including many Catholics, have used
this distorted argument to justify voting for a pro-abortion candidate
(because the candidate is against capital punishment or another
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true culture of life recognizes the above distinction and values the
inviolability of human life, from conception to natural death. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">In the same way, when social teachings are distorted, one could conclude that the Catholic Church obliges governments to provide
national health care for its citizens. What the Church </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12pt;">has </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">taught is that governments have a duty to ensure their citizens have access to
basic healthcare. Their role is to facilitate an environment where </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12pt;">access </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">to care is available; quite different than a government-run system.
</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">This </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">point was emphasized in a pastoral letter from Kansas City Bishops Most Reverend Joseph F. Naumann - Archbishop of Kansas City
in Kansas and Most Reverend Robert W. Finn - Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph as they quote recent Popes. (August 22, 2009) </span><br />
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of every individual to access health care does not necessarily suppose
an obligation on the part of the government to provide it. Yet in our
American culture, Catholic
</span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">teaching about the “right” to healthcare is sometimes confused with the structures of “entitlement.” </span><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1334872350647682" style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">The
teaching of the Universal Church has never been to suggest a government
socialization of medical services. Rather, the Church has asserted the
rights of every individual to have access to those things most necessary
for sustaining and caring for human
life, while at the same time insisting on the </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">personal responsibility of each individual to care properly for his or her own health.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: x-large;">Misguided Compassion </span></div>
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">Many
Catholics have a misguided compassion relative to government give away
programs. They equate government provisions with
charity, and as a means to achieve social justice. Often unseen however
is the danger in socialistic programs and welfare states which -
although providing for people - have </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">a </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">negative and sometimes unintended consequence of creating dependency and diminishing
motivation and enterprise. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">The Kansas City Bishops, referencing Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict in this matter noted:
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 11pt;">Pope John Paul II wrote:</span><br />
<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">“By intervening directly </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">and
depriving society of its responsibility, the Social Assistance State
leads to a loss of human energies and an inordinate increase of public
agencies,
which are dominated more by bureaucratic ways of thinking than by
concern for serving their clients, and which are accompanied </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">by an enormous increase in spending.” (Pope
</span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">John Paul II, </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 11pt;">Centesimus Annus </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">#48) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 11pt;">And Pope Benedict writes:</span><br />
<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">“The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">become
a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the
suffering person—every person—needs: namely, loving personal concern. We
do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a
State which, in accordance with
the principle of </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 11pt;">subsidiarity, </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">generously
acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social
forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need...
In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of
charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">the
mistaken notion that man can live ‘by bread
alone’ (Mt 4:4; cf. Dt 8:3)—a conviction that demeans man and ultimately
disregards all that is specifically human.” (Pope Benedict XVI, </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 11pt;">Deus Caritas Est </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt;">#28) </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: x-large;">The Limits of Government </span></div>
<br />
<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">The
Church has provided safeguards and guidance in this area of Social
teaching, especially as it relates to the function of government. They
point to
basic principles such as </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,BoldItalic'; font-size: 11pt;">the obligation to the common good, Solidarity with our fellowmen and a key principle of Subsidiarity. </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">The Kansas City Bishops
emphasize that the Principle of Subsidiarity is fundamental to the work of health care reform, stating:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">“This
notion that health care ought to be determined at the lowest level rather than
at the higher strata of society, has been promoted by the Church as
“subsidiarity.” Subsidiarity is that principle by which we respect the inherent
dignity and freedom of the individual by never doing for others what they can
do for themselves and thus enabling individuals to have the most possible
discretion in the affairs of their lives (See: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church</i>, ## 185ff.; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Catechism of the Catholic Church,</i> #
1883). The writings of recent Popes have warned that the neglect of
subsidiarity can lead to an excessive centralization of human services, which
in turn leads to excessive costs, and loss of personal responsibility and
quality of care.” </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: x-large;">Case in Point </span></div>
<br />
<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">The Obama Administration’s recent Health and Human Services Mandate is a precise example of what the Church warned about. The </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">mandate, only </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">a
</span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">small
part of “Obamacare” requires religious health care providers to defy
their conscience by offering contraceptives, sterilizations and
abortion-
</span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">inducing drugs. This is an egregious over-reach of the federal government and ignores the aforementioned principles. </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">It’s overly secularized </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">and
bureaucratized
system which ignores the conscience of individuals and organizations.
The mandate drew the ire of the U.S. Catholic Bishops, and
many Protestant leaders who have spoken out vehemently against it. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">Put
simply, Obamacare mandate erodes our First amendment right to freely
exercise our religion. This is no surprise to those aware of President
</span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">Obama’s anti-life </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">record. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: x-large;">The President’s Record on Life and Liberty </span></div>
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">President Obama has demonstrated hostility toward life and religious freedom throughout his political career including:
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">As
State Senator, Obama opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act,
which would have provided care and protection for infants born alive
after
an abortion.
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">As a candidate, he made derogatory statements such as that of people “clinging to their guns and religion.”
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">Changing the first amendment language by referring “freedom of religion” as “freedom of worship,” knowing full well how social </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">engineering is
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">preceded by verbal engineering.
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">Under
the Obama administration the Army restricted the Catholic Bishop’s
letter from being read by chaplains to their men and women... </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">yet
</span><br />
<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">another first amendment infringement!
</span><br />
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">Denying
Catholic Charities funding for their treatment program of victims of
human trafficking because they refused to refer victims for abortions.
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Symbol'; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">Most recently, </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">the U.S. Department of Education quietly changed eligibility requirements for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness
</span><br />
<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">Program to specifically EXCLUDE people who do any kind of public service work for a religious organization or institution.
</span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">The list goes on and </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">on... To read more on the President’s record </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">see </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2010/11/07/obamaabortionrecord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.lifenews.com/2010/11/07/obamaabortionrecord</a></span><span style="color: #2d2f92; font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 19pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: x-large;">Battling Back: The Legislature and Courts
</span></div>
<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">Last month, an Amendment was introduced in the Senate to give religious employers a conscience exception. Unfortunately, it was
defeated 51-48 with nearly every Democrat voting against it!
</span><br />
<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">Many are calling for another amendment, perhaps from the House of Representatives, but nothing yet has emerged.
There are numerous lawsuits challenging the mandate, including seven on behalf of various states. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 12pt;">The
U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in late March which challenge
Obamacare as unconstitutional. Experts believe the vote could
go either way given the recent liberal appointees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: x-large;">The Inevitable Result </span></div>
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<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">If amendments, lawsuits and Court challenges fail, this will have a grave effect on all institutions.
</span><br />
<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">In his Sunday column in </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,BoldItalic'; font-size: 11pt;">Catholic New World, </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">Catholic Cardinal George wrote that only three options will exist for Catholic institutions to avoid shutting
down under the </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">Obama administration’s mandate: 1) </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">secularize itself, breaking its connection to the church, her moral and social teachings and the
oversight of its ministry by the local bishop, 2) to pay exorbitant annual fees to avoid paying for birth control-inclusive </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">insurance policies or 3) to “sell
</span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">the institution to a non-Catholic group or to a local government.” </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">“The state is making itself into a church,” the Cardinal wrote ... </span><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 9pt;">(March 6th 2012 Huff Post
Chicago, The internet Newspaper: News blogs video Community)
</span><br />
<span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Helvetica,Bold'; font-size: 11pt;">The
Cardinal added that if the President does not rescind this HHS mandate
there will be not Catholic hospitals or services in the next two years!!
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: x-large;">Do what is Necessary!
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of what may happen in the legislature and courts, people of conscience
should give this thoughtful prayer and become politically ACTIVE! Let
your
representative know you want him or her to take a stand to protect our
liberties. Those who voted for Obama, in particular Catholics, must
examine his record, inform
their conscience and vote accordingly. </span></div>
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</div>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-79365706594934223042012-04-17T20:39:00.001-04:002013-04-23T00:08:49.042-04:00The greatest threat facing mankind is...The greatest threat facing mankind is NOT anthropogenic "climate change."<br />
<br />
Nor is it anthropogenic environmental damage.<br />
<br />
It most certainly is not "overpopulation." Neither is it "peak oil." Nor is it food shortages.<br />
<br />
The greatest threat facing mankind is, however, "anthropogenic."<br />
<br />
<br />
Because the greatest threat facing mankind is the general failure of mankind to reproduce:<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Expect-When-Ones-Expecting/dp/1594036411"><img src="http://www.crisismagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Vast-cov_.jpg" /></a><br />
Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded?<br />
<br />
For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else.<br />
<br />
It’s all bunk. The “population bomb” never exploded. Instead, statistics from around the world make clear that since the 1970s, we’ve been facing exactly the opposite problem: people are having too few babies. Population growth has been slowing for two generations. The world’s population will peak, and then begin shrinking, within the next fifty years. In some countries, it’s already started. Japan, for instance, will be half its current size by the end of the century. In Italy, there are already more deaths than births every year. China’s One-Child Policy has left that country without enough women to marry its men, not enough young people to support the country’s elderly, and an impending population contraction that has the ruling class terrified.<br />
<br />
And all of this is coming to America, too. In fact, it’s already here. Middle-class Americans have their own, informal one-child policy these days. And an alarming number of upscale professionals don’t even go that far—they have dogs, not kids. In fact, if it weren’t for the wave of immigration we experienced over the last thirty years, the United States would be on the verge of shrinking, too.<br />
<br />
What happened? Everything about modern life—from Bugaboo strollers to insane college tuition to government regulations—has pushed Americans in a single direction, making it harder to have children. And making the people who do still want to have children feel like second-class citizens.<br />
<br />
<i>What to Expect When No One’s Expecting</i> explains why the population implosion happened and how it is remaking culture, the economy, and politics both at home and around the world.<br />
<br />
Because if America wants to continue to lead the world, we need to have more babies.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fewer-Demography-Depopulation-Shape-Future/dp/1566636736/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326507875&sr=1-1"><img src="http://i43.tower.com/images/mm101954644/fewer-how-new-demography-depopulation-will-shape-our-ben-j-wattenberg-paperback-cover-art.jpg" /></a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>
Fewer
tells a monumental human story, largely ignored, but which promises to
starkly change the human condition in the years to come. Never before
have birth and fertility rates fallen so far, so fast, so low, for so
long, in so many places, so surprisingly. In Fewer, Ben Wattenberg shows
how and why this has occurred, and explains what it means for the
future. The demographic plunge, he notes, is starkly apparent in the
developed nations of Europe and Japan, which will lose about 150 million
people in the next half century. Starting from higher levels, but
moving with geometric speed, the demographic decline is also apparent in
the less developed nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Only the
United States (so far) has been exempt from the birth dearth, leaving
America as more than "the sole super-power." Perhaps it should be called
the global "omni-power." These stark demographic changes will affect
commerce, the environment, public financing, and geo-politics. Here
Wattenberg lists likely winners and losers. In Wattenberg's world of
"The New Demography" readers get a look at a topic often chattered
about, but rarely understood.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Civilizations-Die-Islam-Dying/dp/159698273X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326507787&sr=1-1"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QBdvbQglL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" /></a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>
You’ve
heard about the Death of the West. But the Muslim world is on the brink
of an even greater collapse. WILL WE GO DOWN IN THE IMPLOSION? Thanks
to collapsing birthrates, much of Europe is on a path of willed
self-extinction. The untold story is that birthrates in Muslim nations
are declining faster than anywhere else—at a rate never before
documented. Europe, even in its decline, may have the resources to
support an aging population, if at a terrible economic and cultural
cost. But in the impoverished Islamic world, an aging population means a
civilization on the brink of total collapse— something Islamic
terrorists know and fear. Muslim decline poses new threats to America,
challenges we cannot even understand, much less face effectively,
without a wholly new kind of political analysis that explains how
desperate peoples and nations behave. In How Civilizations Die, David P.
Goldman—author of the celebrated “Spengler” column read by intelligence
organizations worldwide—reveals how, almost unnoticed, massive shifts
in global power are remaking our future.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Population-Decline-Remaking-Great-Politics/dp/1597975508/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326507667&sr=1-1"><img src="http://180.210.203.191/images/getimage.aspx?ean=9781597975506&isbn=1597975508&size=BIG" /></a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>
Remarkably,
most conventional wisdom about the shifting balance of world power
virtually ignores one of the most fundamental components of power:
population. The studies that do consider international security and
demographic trends almost unanimously focus on population growth as a
liability. In contrast, the distinguished contributors to this
volume—security experts from the Naval War College, the American
Enterprise Institute, and other think tanks—contend that demographic
decline in key world powers now poses a profound challenge to global
stability. The countries at greatest risk are in the developed world,
where birthrates are falling and populations are aging. Many have
already lost significant human capital, capital that would have helped
them innovate and fuel their economy, man their armed forces, and secure
a place at the table of world power. By examining the effects of
diverging population trends between the United States and Europe and the
effects of rapid population aging in Japan, India, and China, this book
uncovers increasing tensions within the transatlantic alliance and
destabilizing trends in Asian security. Thus, it argues, relative
demographic decline may well make the world less, and not more, secure.</blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/EMPTY-CRADLE-Birthrates-Threaten-Prosperity/dp/B000BPG2CY/ref=sr_1_cc_3?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1326507582&sr=1-3-catcorr"><img src="http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/101980000/101986132.jpg" /></a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>
Overpopulation
has long been a global concern. But between modern medicine and reduced
fertility, world population may in fact be shrinking--and is almost
certain to do so by the time today's children retire. The troubling
implications for our economy and culture include:* The possibility of a
fundamentalist revival due to the decline of secular fertility* The
threat to the free market as the supply of workers and consumers
declines* The eventual collapse of the American health care system as
inordinate expenses are incurred by an aging populationPhillip Longman's
uncompromisingly sensible solutions fly in the face of traditional
ideas. State intervention is necessary, he argues, to combat the effects
of an aging population. We must provide incentives for young families,
and we cannot close our eyes and hope for the best as an entire
generation approaches retirement age.The Empty Cradle changes the terms
of one of the most important environmental, economic, and social debates
of our day.</blockquote>
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The
world's population is still growing, thanks to rising longevity. But
fertility rates - the average number of children born per woman - are
falling nearly everywhere. More and more adults are deciding to have
fewer and fewer children. Worldwide, reports the UN, there are 6 million
fewer babies and young children today than there were in 1990. By 2015,
according to one calculation, there will be 83 million fewer. By 2025,
127 million fewer. By 2050, the world's supply of the youngest children
may have plunged by a quarter of a billion, and will amount to less than
5 percent of the human family. The reasons for this birth dearth are
many. Among them: As the number of women in the workforce has soared,
many have delayed marriage and childbearing, or decided against them
altogether. The Sexual Revolution, by making sex readily available
without marriage, removed what for many men had been a powerful motive
to marry. Skyrocketing rates of divorce have made women less likely to
have as many children as in generations past. Years of indoctrination
about the perils of "overpopulation" have led many couples to embrace
childlessness as a virtue. Result: a dramatic and inexorable aging of
society. In the years ahead, the ranks of the elderly are going to swell
to unprecedented levels, while the number of young people continues to
dwindle. The working-age population will shrink, first in relation to
the population of retirees, then in absolute terms. A world without
children will be a poorer world - grayer, lonelier, less creative, less
confident. Children are a great blessing, but it may take their
disappearance for the world to remember why. </blockquote>
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Product Overview</h2>
One of the most ominous events of modern history is quietly
unfolding. Social scientists and economists agree - we are headed toward
a demographic winter which threatens to have catastrophic social and
economic consequences. The effects will be severe and long lasting and
are already becoming manifest in much of Europe.<br />
<br />
A groundbreaking film, Demographic Winter: Decline of the Human
Family, reveals in chilling soberness how societies with diminished
family influence are now grimly seen as being in social and economic
jeopardy.<br />
<br />
Demographic Winter draws upon experts from all around the world -
demographers, economists, sociologists, psychologists, civic and
religious leaders, parliamentarians and diplomats. Together, they reveal
the dangers facing society and the world’s economies, dangers far more
imminent than global warming and at least as severe. These experts will
discuss how:<br />
<br />
The “population bomb” not only did not have the predicted
consequences, but almost all of the developed countries of the world are
now experiencing fertility rates far below replacement levels.
Birthrates have fallen so low that even immigration cannot replace
declining populations, and this migration is sapping strength from
developing countries, the fertility rates for many of which are now
falling at a faster pace than did those of the developed countries.<br />
<br />
The economies of the world will continue to contract as the
“human capital” spoken of by Nobel Prize winning economist Gary Becker,
diminishes. The engines of commerce will be strained as the workers of
today fail to replace themselves and are burdened by the responsibility
to support an aging population.<br />
<br />
Government programs will slow-bleed by the decrease in tax
dollars received from an ever shrinking work force. The skyrocketing
ratio of the old retirees to the young workers will render current-day
social security systems completely unable to support the aging
population.<br />
<br />
Our attempts to modernize through social engineering policies and
programs have left children growing up in broken homes, with absentee
parents and little exposure to extended family, disconnected from the
generations, and these children are experiencing severe psychological,
sociological and economic consequences. The intact family’s immeasurable
role in the development and prosperity of human societies is crumbling.
<br />
<br />
The influence of social and economic problems on ever shrinking,
increasingly disconnected generations will compound and accelerate the
deterioration. Our children and our children’s children will bear the
economic and social burden of regenerating the “human capital” that
accounts for 80% of wealth in the economy, and they will be ill-equipped
to do so. <br />
<br />
Is there a “tipping point”, after which the accelerating
consequences will make recovery impossible without complete social and
economic collapse? Even the experts can’t tell us how far we can go down
this road, oblivious to the outcomes, until we reach a point where
sliding into the void becomes unpreventable.<br />
<br />
Only if the political incorrectness of talking about the natural
family within policy circles is overcome will solutions begin to be
found. These solutions will necessarily result in policy changes,
changes that will support and promote the natural, intact family. <br />
<br />
Just as it took the cumulative involvement of activist
organizations, policy makers, the business world and the media to create
the unintended consequences we are beginning to experience, so it will
take the holistic contribution of all of these entities, together with
civic and religious organizations, to change the hearts and minds of all
of society to bring about a reversal. <br />
<br />
It may be too late to avoid some very severe consequences, but
with effort we may be able to preclude calamity. Demographic Winter lays
out a forthright province of discussion. The warning voices in this
film need to be heard before a silent, portentous fall turns into a
long, hard winter.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Population-Crash-Surprising-ebook/dp/B003DZ1116/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_t_1"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0807085839.jpg" /></a></blockquote>
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Demography
is destiny. But not always in the way we imagine, begins Pearce (When
the Rivers Run Dry) in his fascinating analysis of how global population
trends have shaped, and been shaped by, political and cultural shifts.
He starts with Robert Malthus, whose concept of
overpopulation—explicitly of the uneducated and poor classes—and
depleted resources influenced two centuries of population and
environmental theory, from early eugenicists (including Margaret Sanger)
to the British colonial administrators presiding over India and
Ireland. Pearce examines the roots of the incipient crash in global
population in decades of mass sterilizations and such government
interventions as Mao's one child program. Many nations are breeding at
less then replacement numbers (including not only the well-publicized
crises in Western Europe and Japan, but also Iran, Australia, South
Africa, and possibly soon China and India). Highly readable and marked
by first-class reportage, Pearce's book also highlights those at the
helm of these vastly influential decisions—the families themselves, from
working-class English families of the industrial revolution to the
young women currently working in the factories of Bangladesh.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
What
is the impact of demographics on the prospective production of military
power and the causes of war? This monograph analyzes this issue by
projecting working-age populations through 2050; assessing the influence
of demographics on manpower, national income and expenditures, and
human capital; and examining how changes in these factors may affect the
ability of states to carry out military missions. It also looks at some
implications of these changes for other aspects of international
security. The authors find that the United States, alone of all the
large affluent nations, will continue to see (modest) increases in its
working-age population thanks to replacement-level fertility rates and a
likely return to vigorous levels of immigration. Meanwhile, the
working-age populations of Europe and Japan are slated to fall by as
much as 10 to 15 percent by 2030 and as much as 30 to 40 percent by
2050. The United States will thus account for a larger percentage of the
population of its Atlantic and Pacific alliances; in other words, the
capacity of traditional alliances to multiply U.S. demographic power is
likely to decline, perhaps sharply, through 2050. India's working-age
population is likely to overtake China's by 2030. The United States,
which has 4.7 percent of the world's working-age population, will still
have 4.3 percent by 2050, and the current share of global gross domestic
product accounted for by the U.S. economy is likely to stay quite high.</blockquote>
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And the primary means by which mankind has stopped reproducing are abortifacient hormonal contraceptives and abortion itself.<br />
<br />
Martin Luther called the "<a href="http://www.rtforum.org/lt/lt67.html">Sin of Onan</a>" <i><b>marital</b></i> sodomy. In the Judeo-Christian and Natural Law tradition, any sex act made deliberately infecund is no better than sodomy. <br />
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So in considering the greatest threats facing mankind, one must also consider this:<br />
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The Bible mentions only four sins which cry out to God for
vengeance. Considering the source and the emphasis, we have little
choice but to examine our consciences on these points. A cursory
examination will not do; we must cast off our cultural preconceptions to
see beyond the obvious. </blockquote>
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<b>Homicide</b> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.” (Gn 4:10)</i>
It is hardly suprising that Cain’s murder of Abel provides the first
instance of one of these sins that cries out for Divine vengeance. While
all sins disrupt the natural order in some way, those enumerated as
crying out to God appear to be chosen because they strike at nature’s
root. </blockquote>
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It is easy to see how murder fits into this category. The unjust
termination of the life of another is a profound violation of “how
things should be” precisely because our very nature compels us to regard
our own lives as precious. To take a person's life is to terminate in
another what we instinctively regard as our own highest good. </blockquote>
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Sadly, the ease with which we understand the foulness of murder may be
conditioned more by our culture than by Divine Revelation. We must take
care that we do not find it abhorrent only insofar as we are creatures
of society, rather than creatures of God. </blockquote>
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Abortion is a case in point. </blockquote>
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<b>Sodomy</b></blockquote>
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<br />
<i>Then the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah
is great and their sin is very grave, I will go down to see whether they
have done altogether according to the outcry which has come to me.” (Gn
18:20-21)</i> The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah were guilty of
homosexual activity. So far gone were they in this vice that the men of
the town would not even accept heterosexual license with Lot’s
daughters, both virgins, as a means of sating their lust (see 19:8-9).
</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Here we have another case in point for cultural conditioning. It is far
more difficult for our contraceptive culture to see how contrary to
nature homosexuality is. Those of us who instinctively feel its deep
unnaturalness rightly react to homosexual activity with disgust, but
logical arguments are unlikely to produce the same reaction in those
whose instincts are damaged, blunted or rationalized away. </blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
It is precisely in such situations that Divine Revelation is so very
useful, for we cannot trust our feelings when they run counter to
reality. We require a better guide. Sodomy strikes at the root of human
nature because of its perversion of the procreative impulse, without
which the race must die. But in case we don’t see it, God does. </blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Oppression of Widows and Orphans</b> </blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>“You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. If you do afflict them,
and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry.” (Ex 21-23)</i>
There is a deep truth in this passage about the relationships of
husbands to wives, and of parents to children, and about how vulnerable
wives and children become when their natural protection is removed. </blockquote>
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Very probably all of us can see that it would be gravely sinful to take
advantage of the weakness and vulnerability of either a widow or an
orphan, and we can readily imagine the financial burdens and
solicitation of “favors” with which either can be afflicted. It is much
easier in every way to abuse a boy or girl who has no father and to
intimidate a woman who has no husband. </blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Once again, however, we must remove our social blinders to see the great
evil in our culture which turns so many into widows and orphans in the
first place. The grave sin of divorce, by which natural protection is
ripped away from women and children, surely tops the list of horrors
under this heading. </blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Cheating Laborers of Their Due</b> </blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy,
whether he is one of your brethren or one of the sojourners who are in
your land within your towns; you shall give him his hire on the day he
earns it, before the sun goes down (for he is poor, and sets his heart
upon it); lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be a sin in you.”
(Dt 24:14-15)</i> Here we come to a principle of sound social order:
those in positions of authority and wealth have serious obligations to
those who depend on their decisions for their well-being. Fortunately,
we live in a very wealthy society. </blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
But does our very wealth cause this sin to appear irrelevant? Free
enterprise is an excellent system, but too often it carries the
completely unnecessary baggage of a callous attitude toward employees,
regarding them as commodities. The social teachings of the Church have
attempted to address this concern (without pointing at all toward
socialism) for over a century. </blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Yet the latest trend, at least in the United States, is constant mergers
and buyouts which throw hundreds of thousands out of work while
enriching an elite few. Even temporary unemployment is both a
bank-breaker and a heart-breaker. Working under an abusive or negligent
boss can be a living nightmare. And most of us are well-shielded from
adults who must work for a minimal wage. The Israelites were urged to
remember their days in Egypt, and treat others accordingly. </blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Together and In Order</b> </blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
All of these sins cry out to God, but the four are not equal. The
sequence in the text suggests a hierarchy of value, and it is a tightly
linked hierarchy. One sin leads to another, from the gravest to the
least, as we make objects out of persons and treat them accordingly,
subverting all our natural relationships. For this reason, we cannot
assuage our consciences by attending to the fourth sin while ignoring
the first, or by claiming virtue on the third and closing our eyes to
the second. If these sins cry out to God for vengeance and we still
commit them or do nothing to restrict them in others, we mock God to His
face. Of course, when we’re wearing our usual cultural blinders, it
often appears to us that we can mock God with impunity. But isn’t this
something else we know from Revelation—in case we cannot see it for
ourselves? </blockquote>
<br />
The Obama administration would do well to recall these foundational
principles before trying to force the only Church in the world still
fighting for the future of humanity, and against this greatest threat to
it, to cave in and pay for contraception and abortifacients:<br />
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Forcing contraception insurance coverage goes too far </h2>
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Archbishop Timothy Dolan has lambasted the Obama administration for putting health policy ahead of moral teachings.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Barack+Obama" title="Barack Obama">President Obama</a>’s
health chief decreed Friday that the Catholic Church must provide its
employees with health insurance coverage for contraception, its moral
stance against birth control be damned.<br />
Wrong, wrong, high-handedly, obtusely wrong.<br />
<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Kathleen+Sebelius" title="Kathleen Sebelius">Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius</a>
took Obamacare’s philosophy of equal insurance for all to a level of
zealotry that reduced a deeply held matter of conscience to a bothersome
trifle.<br />
Presumably, the President was fully briefed on a decision of this
magnitude. If so, he made a fundamental error that will only add to a
sense among many faith-based communities that the White House has a
thing against religion.<br />
It was less than two weeks ago that the Supreme Court unanimously and
thunderingly scolded the administration for trying to tell churches and
church-based organization that the government knew best as to who they
could hire and fire.<br />
Because of the church’s size and reach, Sebelius’ ruling will apply
most broadly to Catholic organizations, but they apply to affiliates of
other religions that bar contraception and sterilization.</blockquote>
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Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-79968944929893678372012-04-12T15:17:00.000-04:002012-07-16T09:31:59.803-04:00Bishops warned: Obama will seize assets, only proper response is "Courageous Defiance"<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cardinal O'Connor's response to Clinton admin abortion mandate:</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> "<b>Jail me!</b>"</td></tr>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In a recent Sunday column in Catholic New World, Cardinal </span><span style="font-size: small;">Francis </span><span style="font-size: small;">George wrote that only three options will exist for Catholic institutions to avoid shutting down under the Obama administration’s HHS mandate: 1) secularize itself, breaking its connection to the church, her moral and social teachings and the oversight of its ministry by the local bishop, 2) pay exorbitant annual fees to avoid paying for birth control-inclusive insurance policies or 3) “sell the institution to a non-Catholic group or to a local government.” </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">“The state is making itself into a church,” the Cardinal wrote. (March 6th 2012 Huff Post Chicago, The internet Newspaper: News blogs video Community)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Speaking at the STAND UP FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RALLY in Goshen, NY on March 23, 2012, Tim Chichester, founder of the Catholic Family Association of America, pointed out that a fourth option, the most important and appropriate one, has not been mentioned. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And he had a dire warning for the USCCB. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In his talk, Chichester laid out the real threat to our Catholic institutions in stark terms:</span><br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif; font-size: small;">"The strategy behind
the abortion / sterilization mandate is to make those institutions
indistinguishable from their secular counterparts while loosening the
grip of the Constitution. But, you say, what of the threats to close
down the hospitals and other vital services? After all, Catholic
hospitals make up 13 percent of hospitals and 16 percent of all
admissions in the U.S. - won't closure work?</span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif; font-size: small;">The answer is a
<b>strong maybe not</b>. It worked for Cardinal O'Connor in 1994,
why not now? The answer is simple. We are dealing with a president
who <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">acts
like a hard core Marxist ideologue, one</span></span> for whom lying
and deceit are resume enhancers. This is a man who has been recorded
advocating for infanticide. A man whose advisers <span style="color: black;">hold
that </span><i>the state owns the rights to body parts of people who
are dead or in certain hopeless conditions.</i></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif; font-size: small;">He
and his fellow travelers lied through their teeth to the Bart Stupaks
as well as to the American public. What makes him trustworthy now?</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ... "</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;">"...<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Let's
walk through a possible scenario. Obama strings along the phony
negotiations through the election cycle, the purpose being to provide
the delusion of possible compromise for those too weak-minded to
accept the reality of what he is. He wins the election. The phony
'negotiations' fail. The bishops fall back to the worst case
scenario of “I will go to jail and shut down the hospitals”
Obama calls their bluff. A slew of hospitals and many of the </span></span>400
other health centers and 1,500 specialized homes that the Catholic
Church operates, start to close.</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The crisis grows, the
wailing begins, and, in a few weeks, Obama steps into the breach with
previously prepared <b>eminent domain filings</b>, <b>based upon the
infamous Kelo decision</b>, and transfers the assets representing
over 200 years of Christian ministry to various private and
commercial, as well as federal state and local political entities.</span></span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To Obama and all
Marxists this is right and just. Let me illustrate why. In 1965 a
thirty something year old woman in Odessa, in the USSR, gave help to
a WW II widow who was all but starving on her miniscule war widows
pension. The young lady was reported and brought to the militia
station, the local police, and warned not to help the old woman. She
protested. They said “We don't care – just don't help her.” A
short time later she was hauled into the station house and warned
again. The third time she was arrested and charged with a felony
crime – slander against the state – and sentenced to 18 months of
what was euphemistically called “strict regime”, the hardest of
the hard labor camps.</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The connection I am
making here is two-fold. One is that most people have never
understood the reasoning behind the Obama's effort to do away with
tax deductions for charitable giving. The ideological component is
the same as that used against the woman. <b>The State is the father
of us all – how dare you presume so much</b>. The tax change is
part of a web of rules and actions designed to make religious charity
impossible, and thereby weaken the only real ideological opposition
to Marxism.</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The other connection
is the recognition of the rabid anti-religious nature of these
people. Simply put, you cannot negotiate with them because they
simply cannot be trusted. Again, keep the name Stupak in your head</span>...."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">And then, Chichester revealed the only possible response of the leaders of the Church Militant in the face of this unconstitutional attack on our consciences and religious freedoms: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><b>"Defiance</b></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How
can we act to make the most of this situation. A glance at the city
of Nowa Huta, </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Poland
provides</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> insight.
</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nowa
Huta</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> was described by
Brian Whitmore of THE BOSTON GLOBE, as the place </span><i>“...where
George Orwell's dark vision of a perfect industrial metropolis was
executed with stunning precision. Until, that is, the workers rose up
and overthrew Big Brother"</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In
this grimy steel town the workers wanted a church. The communists
said no. The Archbishop of </span>Kraków<span style="font-style: normal;">,
Karol Wojtyla, persisted and defiantly held Mass on the site for
years. Workers replaced every cross removed or destroyed by the
State. Eventually the State caved. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What
is needed now is for our bishops and other religious administrators
to publicly defy the mandate </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>and
keep the institutions open without compliance</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">.
We must not give these Marxists the opportunity to seize the assets
of religious and charitable institutions.</span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Our
duty, yours and mine, is to assist them, to encourage them by letters
and prayers. But our duty extends far beyond this rally in effort
and time. We must make ourselves loud enough to be heard. We must
be vigorous and persistent in creating prayerful and lively sit-ins
in our politicians offices. We need to wheedle , encourage, beg ,
plead - </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>what-ever it takes</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">
- to get our bishops, rabbis, ministers and priests to get motivated
to the point of action. We must help them understand that a single
pastoral letter to the flock is worthless without the personal
courage to lead from the front. </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We
long ago passed from the diplomatic maneuverings of 1938 to the
brutal fighting of Stalingrad. </span></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What
is needed is direct, forceful, definitive and ongoing actions </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>by
courageous and defiant religious and lay leaders</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We
need to tell them we will be standing next to them, </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>saying“I
will go to jail with you!”</b></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif; font-size: small;">And
above all <b>we must pray daily, unceasingly, for the conversion and
confounding of those whose word and deed threaten us and our nation
with such malice. We have a right and duty to pray for our
deliverance from evil.</b>"</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;">The following is the text of Chichester's entire presentation.You can also view his presentation on YouTube at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9pktpXKB-U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9pktpXKB-U</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Courageous
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<b><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Timothy
A. Chichester</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">STAND
UP FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RALLY</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delivered
23 March, 2012, Goshen, NY </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some 3400 years ago a man stood before a
king and said the most astonishing of things. He
said that the king's authority was limited by
God, not the mere will of the king. In Moses we
see that courageous defiance to illegitimate
authority that grows within the Jewish tradition.
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<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some1200 years later a man rode into
battle under shields and banners marked with the
Greek letters Chi and Rho, the monogram for
Christ. And with this came the long, painful
change in the way men saw each other. With the
freedom of religion granted by Constantine, the
idea that man derived his dignity from his
Creator, an idea carried to us from the bosom of
Abraham, is unleashed upon a brutal pagan world,
a world mired in the unjust economics of
slavery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Through the centuries
the hope of The Prince of Peace flowed over
the debauched Roman empire and raised a new
civilization, a civilization that saw, with
increasing clarity, that it was true, that the
dignity of each man was not granted by the State,
but was a boon, a boon bestowed without price, a
boon innate, a boon granted by an unspeakably
loving God. The slow progress of Christian
humanism,sometimes even glacial, often beset by
the selfish nature of fallen man, <b>ran arrow
true</b>, and resulted in the rise of what we
know to be, Christianity, currently called
Western Civilization, the most creative,
peaceful, prosperous and free civilization
<b>ever</b>.</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That arrow passed
through the blood of many courageous men who
suffered and died to </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">shape a future that
ensured that the State reflect the God-given
dignity of man. That arrow passed through a room
236 years ago, through the hearts of men steeped
in Christian culture and humanism. Then
that arrow sped outward with it a flaming banner
emblazoned with words that reflect natural law
and the true, innate, dignity of man as bestowed
by Almighty God: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><i>"</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable
Rights."</i></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...Rights guaranteed
by a miraculous political document that
<b>began</b> with the words
</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.53in;">
"<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>We the
People"</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and<b> closed</b> with
the words </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.52in; margin-right: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"...in the Year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and Eighty
seven"</i></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was a constitution
that former slave Fredrick Douglass described
as<i> "a glorious liberty document</i>." We
were blessed with a Declaration of Independence
that acknowledged the spiritual natur eand rights
of man and a Constitution to enshroud and enable
them. Not unlike the melding of a body and
soul.</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Following the initial
signing of the US Constitution, France 's
</span></span></span><i><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Declaration of the Rights of
Man and of Citizens,
emerged </span></span></span></i><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">with generalities enabling
an atheistic view quite opposed to Christian
culture.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> In what I believe to
be the most calamitous moment in the history
of man, a nation declared that God did not exist.
The pagans got it right. Even the murderous
Aztec's, demonic in their human
sacrifice,understood the reality of a
transcendent deity. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>No one
had ever thought so small as these enlightened
ones</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> who were the proto-marxists.
France descended into a bloodbath
that preshadowed the atheistic socialist regimes
to come. The war on religion itself had become
overt.</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Within two generations the spiritual
sewerage spawned from that atheistic ideology was
recognizable enough as such a profound danger
to civilization that the Vatican condemned
Communism by name in 1846,two years before Karl
Marx and Friedric Engles were commissioned by the
German Communist League to write The Communist
Manifesto. </span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In1891, twenty-seven
years before the Bolshevik revolution, the
war between the Church and the socialists for the
heart of the workingman resulted in the detailed
analysis and condemnation of socialism in the
encyclical on capital and labor titled Rerum
Novarum (which means New Things). In 1917 the
war again turned bloody. Lenin asked who would
be the communists Saint-Just, referring to the
Frenchman behind the Reign of Terror, and found
him in </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Felix Dzerzhinsky</span><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, and the Terror
began.</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
history of the20<sup>th</sup> century is that of
torrents of blood shed by the various stripes of
Marxists, shed always with the harmonics of miasmic
rage about man and his opiate, his religion.
</span></span><br />
<h1 class="western">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Present</span></span></h1>
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have
sketched the history that has led us to this
time. To a time when a self-avowed Marxist with
a sworn animosity toward our Constitution, has
become so emboldened as to dismiss the First
Amendment and crush the Orthodox Jews and
Christians who now are almost the only ones left
<b>who understand the peril</b>, and have the
spiritual resources to resist. The British,
those sorry lab rats for a new world order,
having voluntarily reached a level of pragmatic
atheism exceeding that of the old Soviet Union,
no longer have the power to resist
the totalitarian State now descending upon
them.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Others have talked and
will talk about the Health Care Mandate and the
need to overturnit. I am now going to talk to
you about the duty we have to
actively resist.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since
Marxist Socialist ideology holds that "Truth is
what serves the State today," and that man is
simply an economic unit, any behavior was,and is
justified. This is a <b>very, very,
important</b> distinction between Judeo-Christian
morality and that of the Marxist Socialist. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
goes to the heart of why so many Jews and
Christians alike have been seduced wholesale away
from the foundations that held them fast for
centuries. It goes to the heart of why the
Catholic bishops,charged with transmitting the
Deposit of Faith from generation to generation,
were '<b>surprised'</b> by a White House lecture
on how they needed to listen to the enlightened
ones, the pragmatic Catholic apostates like
Pelosi and Durbin, who are so willing to serve
our pragmatic atheist and Marxist, Barak Hussein
Obama.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The issue is
much greater than the apparent First Amendment
abuse. It is about
making <b>irrelevant</b> those Christian
institutions that constitute the main line of
resistance to Marxist dominance over the US
political sphere. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
strategy behind the abortion / sterilization
mandate is to make those
institutions indistinguishable from their secular
counterparts while loosening the grip of the
Constitution. But, you say, what of the threats
to close down the hospitals and other vital
services? After all, Catholic hospitals make up
13 percent of hospitals and 16 percent of
all admissions in the U.S. - won't closure
work?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The answer is
a<b> strong maybe not</b>. It worked for
Cardinal O'Connor in 1994,why not now? The
answer is simple. We are dealing with a
president who <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">acts like a hard core Marxist ideologue,
one</span></span> for whom lying and deceit are
resume enhancers. This is a man who has been
recorded advocating for infanticide. A man whose
advisers <span style="color: black;">hold that
</span><i>the state owns the rights to body parts
of people who are dead or in certain hopeless
conditions.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He and his fellow travelers lied through
their teeth to the Bart Stupaks as well as to the
American public. What makes him trustworthy now?
</span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<center><b>The Kelo
Scenario Eminent Domain
Seizure</b></center><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Let's walk through a possible scenario.
Obama strings along the phony negotiations
through the election cycle, the purpose being to
provide the delusion of possible compromise for
those too weak-minded to accept the reality of
what he is. He wins the election. The
phony 'negotiations' fail. The bishops fall back
to the worst case scenario of "I will go to
jail and shut down the hospitals." Obama calls
their bluff. A slew of hospitals and many of the
</span></span>400 other health centers and 1,500
specialized homes that the Catholic Church
operates, start to
close.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The crisis
grows, the wailing begins, and, in a few weeks,
Obama steps into the breach with previously
prepared <b>eminent domain filings</b>, <b>based
upon the infamous Kelo decision</b>, and
transfers the assets representing over 200 years
of Christian ministry to various private
and commercial, as well as federal state and
local political
entities.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To Obama and all Marxists
this is right and just. Let me illustrate why.
In 1965 a thirty something year old woman in
Odessa, in the USSR, gave help t oa WW II widow
who was all but starving on her miniscule war
widows pension. The young lady was reported and
brought to the militia station, the local police,
and warned not to help the old woman.
Sheprotested. They said "We don't care . Just don't help her." A short time later she
was hauled into the station house and
warned again. The third time she was arrested
and charged with a felony crime "slander
against the state" and sentenced to 18 months
of what was euphemistically called "strict
regime," the hardest of the hard labor
camp</span></span><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">s.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
connection I am making here is two-fold. One
is that most people have never understood the
reasoning behind the Obama's effort to do away
with tax deductions for charitable giving. The
ideological component is the same as that used
against the woman. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The State is the father
of us all - how dare you presume so much</b>.
The tax change is part of a web of rules and
actions designed to make religious charity
impossible, and thereby weaken the only real
ideological opposition to
Marxism.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The other
connection is the recognition of the rabid
anti-religious nature of these people. Simply
put, you cannot negotiate with them because
they simply cannot be trusted. Again, keep the
name Stupak in your
head.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Defiance</b></span></span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How can we act to
make the most of this situation. A glance at the
city of Nowa Huta, </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Poland provides</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> insight.
</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nowa Huta</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> was described
by Brian Whitmore of THE BOSTON GLOBE, as the
place </span><i>"...where George Orwell's dark
vision of a perfect industrial metropolis
was executed with stunning precision. Until, that
is, the workers rose up and overthrew Big
Brother."</i></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In this grimy steel
town the workers wanted a church. The
communists said no. The Archbishop of
</span>Krakow<span style="font-style: normal;">, Karol Wojtyla, persisted and defiantly
held Mass on the site for years. Workers
replaced every cross removed or destroyed by
the State. Eventually the State caved.
</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What is
needed now is for our bishops and other religious
administrators to publicly defy the mandate
</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>and keep the institutions open without
compliance</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">. We must not give these Marxists the
opportunity to seize the assets of religious and
charitable
institutions.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Our duty,
yours and mine, is to assist them, to encourage
them by letters and prayers. But our duty
extends far beyond this rally in effort and time.
We must make ourselves loud enough to be heard.
We must be vigorous and persistent in creating
prayerful and lively sit-ins in our politicians
offices. We need to wheedle , encourage, beg
,plead - </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>what-ever it takes</b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">- to get our
bishops, rabbis, ministers and priests to get
motivated to the point of action. We must help
them understand that a single pastoral letter to
the flock is worthless without the
personal courage to lead from the front.
</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We long ago passed
from the diplomatic maneuverings of 1938 to
the brutal fighting of Stalingrad.
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<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What is needed is
direct, forceful, definitive and ongoing actions
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>by courageous and
defiant religious and lay
leaders</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We need
to tell them we will be standing next to them,
</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>saying "I will go to jail with
you!"</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And above all we must pray daily,
unceasingly, for the conversion and confounding
of those whose word and deed threaten us and our
nation with such malice. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We have a right and duty to pray for our
deliverance from
evil.</span></span></div>
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Introductory Remarks
by <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>STANDUP FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
RALLY</b></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"> Coordinator</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">March,23, 2012, Goshen, NY
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tim is an entrepreneur whose
background in Fortune 500 engineering,planning,
financial analysis, , and econometric modeling
led to the successful launch a company providing
Computer Assisted Design and Engineering systems.
He is now retired from the family
owned business.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Well versed in economics and
history, Tim has used this broad life experience
in the Culture Wars to advance Christian morality
in the public square through conservative
activism. In 2001 he started the</span><span style="color: black;"><b> Catholic Family Association
of America</b></span><span style="color: black;">
</span><span style="color: black;">in order to fight in
the anti-Christian bigotry in the public arena.
As president of CFAA and a religious leader, he
is a proud signer of the</span><span style="color: black;"><b> Manhattan Declaration: A Call
of Christian Conscience </b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">as well as the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><b>Mount
Vernon Statement</b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.Tim has always been guided by a love of
what has been bequeathed to us, by the Grace of
God, through our Founding Fathers. This led
him to belatedly enter the US Senate race against
Gillibrand in the spring of 2010.
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times Roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tim will be addressing
what the duty of all freemen is in the face
of religious
oppression.</span></span></span></div>
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</div>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-63459590093934400552011-12-19T01:17:00.002-05:002012-07-16T09:32:19.714-04:00The apocalyptic prophecies of Hildegard of Bingen, the next Doctor of the ChurchEarlier this fall, Pope Benedict XVI beatified <a href="http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2011/09/blessed-elena-aiello-mystic-stigmatic.html">Venerable Elena Aiello</a>, bringing to light her little known prophecies, which have strong parallels to those of both Our Lady of Akita as well as statements Pope JPII and Cardinal Ratzinger made in the past regarding the Third Secret of Fatima. (See this earlier blog post for a summary of the parallels: <a href="http://www.summorumpontificum.net/2011/09/for-fourth-anniversary-of-summorum.html">For fourth anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, Pope draws attention to little known prophecies of Venerable Elena Aiello)</a><br />
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Now, Pope Benedict XVI is <a href="http://www.romereports.com/palio/pope-to-canonize-and-name-hildegard-of-bingen-as-doctor-of-the-church-english-5666.html">drawing attention to St. Hildegard of Bingen, by declaring her a Doctor of the Church.</a><br />
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In addition to her many accomplishments, St. Hildegard is also known for a number of <a href="http://www.unitypublishing.com/prophecy/HildigardSaint.htm">apocalyptic prophecies</a>: <br />
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"The time is coming when princes and peoples will reject the authority of the Pope. Some countries will prefer their own Church rulers to the Pope. The German Empire will be divided. Church property will be secularised. Priests will be persecuted. After the birth of Antichrist heretics will preach their false doctrines undisturbed, resulting in Christians having doubts about their holy Catholic faith."<br />
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At that period when antichrist shall be born, there will be many wars and right order shall be destroyed on earth. Heresy will be rampant and the heretics will preach their errors openly without restraint. Even among Christians doubt and scepticism will be entertained concerning the beliefs of Catholicism<br />
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"Toward the end of the world, mankind will be purified through sufferings. This will be true especially of the clergy, who will be robbed of all property. When the clergy has adopted a simple manner of living, conditions will improve.<br />
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At this time as a punishment for their sins Christians especially will attempt armed resistance to those who at that time are persecuting them, sensing no concern for the death of their bodies.<br />
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"A powerful wind will rise in the North carrying heavy fog and the densest dust by divine command and it will fill their throats and eyes so they will cease their savagery and be stricken with great fear.<br />
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Then within the Christian people the Holy Godhead will accomplish signs and wonders as if accomplished them at the time of Moses with the pillar of cloud and as Michael the archangel did when he fought the heathen for the sake of the Christians. Because of Michael's help Gods faithful children will march under his protection. They will decimate their foes and achieve victory through Gods power As a result of this a large number of heathens will join Christians in true faith and they will say The God of the Christians is true God because such wondrous works have been accomplished among the Christians .<br />
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After that there will be so few men left that seven women will fight for one man, that they will say to the man: "Marry me to take the disgrace from me." For in those days it will be a disgrace for a woman to be without child, as it was by the Jews in the Old Testament.<br />
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"Before the Comet comes, many nations, the good excepted, will be scoured with want and famine. The great nation in the ocean that is inhabited by people of different tribes and descent by an earthquake, storm and tidal waves will be devastated. It will be divided, and in great part submerged. That nation will also have many misfortunes at sea, and lose its colonies in the east through a Tiger and a Lion.<br />
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The Comet by its tremendous pressure, will force much out of the ocean and flood many countries, causing much want and many plagues. [After the] great Comet, the great nation will be devastated by earthquakes, storms, and great waves of water, causing much want and plagues. The ocean will also flood many other countries, so that all coastal cities will live in fear, with many destroyed. All sea coast cities will be fearful and many of them will be destroyed by tidal waves, and most living creatures will be killed and even those who escape will die from a horrible disease.<br />
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For in none of these cities does a person live according to the laws of God. "Peace will return to Europe when the white flower again takes possession of the throne of France.<br />
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(See http://www.unitypublishing.com/aug24_98.html for the White Flower) <br />
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During this time of peace the people will be forbidden to carry weapons and iron will be used solely for making agricultural implements and tools. Also during this period the soil will be very productive and many Jews, heathens and heretics will join the Church.<br />
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"Peace will return when the Lily ascends the Throne again. The land will be very productive . During this time weapons will be forbidden. Iron will only be used for agricultural tools. In this period the land will be very productive. Jews, heathen and heretics will join the church.<br />
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The throne of the last catholic Empire will crumble and the sceptre will fall out of the hand of him who sits on the throne. The Great Monarch by this time will be a very old man. All justice will cease and will be trodden under foot. The latter times will be more evil and corrupt in the eyes of God. Children of God will be persecuted by the most hateful means in the eyes of God. Almost immediately after the death of the Monarch comes antichrist <br />
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When the great ruler (the Great Monarch who is to rule Europe after the collapse of Communism) exterminates the Turks almost entirely, one of the remaining Mohammadans will be converted, become a priest bishop and cardinal, and when the new pope is elected (immediately before Antichrist) this cardinal will kill the pope before he is crowned, through jealousy, wishing to be pope himself; then when the other cardinals elect the next pope, <br />
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this cardinal will proclaim himself Anti-pope, and two-thirds of the Christians will go with him. He, as well as Anti-christ, are descendants of the tribe of Dan.<br />
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An unchaste woman will conceive an unchaste son. The wicked serpent who deceived Adam will influence this child in such as way that nothing good or virtuous will enter him; nor under the circumstances will it even be possible for any good to be in him<br />
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The mark (of Antichrist) will be a hellish symbol of Baptism, because thereby a person will be stamped as an adherent of Antichrist and also of the Devil in that he thereby gives himself over to the influence of Satan. Whoever will not have this mark of Antichrist can neither buy nor sell anything and will be beheaded.<br />
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He will win over to himself the rulers, the mighty and the wealthy, will bring about the destruction of those who do not accept his faith and, finally, will subjugate the entire earth.<br />
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The streets of Jerusalem, will then shine in the brightest gold with the blood of Christians which will flow like water. Simultaneously Antichrist will try to increase his wonders. His executioners will work such miracles when they torment the Christians that the people will think Antichrist is the true God. The executioners will not permit the Christians to win the martyrs' crown easily for they will endeavour to prolong their pain until they renounce their faith. Yet some will receive a special grace from God to die during the torments.<br />
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Antichrist will make the earth move, level mountains, dry up rivers, produce thunder and lightning and hail, remove the leaves from the trees and return them again to the trees, make men sick and cure them, exorcise devils, raise the dead to life. He will appear to be crucified and rise from the dead. All in all, Christians will be astounded and in grievous doubts while the followers of Antichrist will be confirmed in their false faith.<br />
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Finally, when he shall have converted all his plans into action, he will gather his worshippers about him and tell them that he will presently ascend toward Heaven. However, at the moment of the ascension a bolt of lightning will overwhelm and annihilate him. The planned ascent into heaven will have been prepared by the artful employment of ingenious devices, and the moment at which the event was to have taken place, leading to his destruction, will produce a cloud that will spread an unbearable odour. Through this many people will again come to their senses and to understanding.<br />
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Then the people should prepare for the last judgment, the day of which is indeed veiled in secrecy and obscurity, but not far distant."<br />
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Henoch and Elias are being instructed by God in a mysterious manner in paradise. <br />
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God shows them the works of men as though they could see these with natural eyes. The two men are therefore, much wiser than all wise men put together. The same force which removed Henoch and Elias from the earth will bring them back in a storm wind at the time when the Antichrist will spread his false doctrine. As long as they will dwell amongst men they will always be refreshed after 40 days. They have the mission from God to resist the Antichrist and lead the erring back to the road of salvation. Both men, distinguished by age and stature, will speak to men: `This accursed one is sent by the devil in order to lead men into error. We have been preserved by God at a secreted place, where we did not experience the suffering of men. We are now sent by God in order to oppose. the heresy of this destroyer. Look, if we resemble you in stature and age.' And because the testimony of both shall agree they will be believed. All will follow these two aged men and renounce heresy. They will visit all cities and towns where previously the Antichrist had sown his heresy, and through the power of the Holy Ghost will work genuine miracles. All the people will be greatly astonished at them. Henoch and Elias will. confuse the followers of Satan with thunder strokes, and destroy. them and fortify the Christians in faith. Therefore, the. Christians will hurry to martyrdom, which the son of evil will. prepare for them like to a banquet, so that the murderers will. grow tired of counting the dead on account of their great. numbers; for their blood will run like rivers. Henoch and Elias have been taught much wisdom and knowledge. in Paradise while awaiting their return to earth. God will. instruct them every forty days while they are on earth. They. will receive exceptional graces and powers from God to use. against Antichrist. / Enoch and Elias will be instructed by God in a most secret manner in paradise. God reveals to them the actions and condition of men that they may regard them with the eyes of compassion. Because of this special preparation, these two holy men are more wise than all the wise men on the earth taken together. God will give them the task of opposing antichrist and of bringing back those who have strayed from the way of salvation. Both of these men will say to people: This accursed one has been sent by the devil to lead men astray and into error; we have been preserved by God in a hidden place where we did not experience the sorrows of men but God has now sent us to combat the heresy of this son of perdition. They will go into all cities and villages where previously antichrist had broadcasted his heresies and by the power of the Holy Spirit will perform wonderful miracles so that all nations will greatly marvel at them. This as to a wedding feast, Christians will hasten to death by martyrdom which the son of perdition will have prepared for them in such numbers that those murderers will be unable even to count the slain, then the blood of these martyrs will fill the rivers<br />
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When the fear of God has been disregarded everywhere, violent and furious wars will take place. A multitude of people will be slaughtered and many cities will be transformed into heaps of rubbish.<br />
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The Son of Corruption and Ruin will appear and reign for. only a short time, towards the end of the days of the world's duration; the period which corresponds to the moment when the sun has disappeared beyond the horizon; that is to say he shall come at the last days of the world. He will not be Satan himself, but a human being equalling and resembling him in atrocious hideousness. His mother, a depraved woman possessed by the. devil, will live as a prostitute in the desert. She will declare that she is ignorant as to the identity of his father, and will. maintain that her son was presented to her by God in a. supernatural manner, as was the Child of the Blessed Virgin. She will then be venerated as a saint by deceived people.<br />
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Antichrist will come from a land that lies between two seas, and will practise his tyranny in the East. After his birth false teachers and doctrines will appear, followed by wars, famines, and pestilence. His mother will seldom let any one see him, and yet by magic. art, she will manage to gain the love of the people for him. <br />
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He will be raised at different secret places and will be kept in seclusion until full grown. When he has grown to full manhood he will publicly announce a hostile doctrine on religion. He will lure and attract the people to himself by granting them complete exemption from the observance of all divine and ecclesiastical. commandments, by forgiving them their sins and requiring of them only their belief in his divinity. He will spurn and reject baptism and the gospel. He will open his mouth to preach contradiction. He will say, `Jesus of Nazareth is not the son of. God, only a deceiver who gave himself out as God; and the Church instituted by him is only superstition'. The true Christ has come in his person. He will say, `I am the Saviour of the. world'. Especially will he try to convince the Jews that he is the Messiah sent by God, and the Jews will accept him as such. His doctrine of faith will be taken from the Jewish religion and seemingly will not differ much from the fundamental doctrine of Christianity for he will teach that there is one God who created the world, who is omniscient and knows the thoughts of man and is just, who rewards the obeyers of his commands and the trespassers he chastises, who raises all from the dead in due time. This God has spoken through Moses and the Prophets, therefore the precepts of the Mosaic laws are to be kept, especially circumcision and keeping the Sabbath, yet by his moral laws he will try to reverse all order on earth. Therefore he is called in Holy Writ the `Lawless One'. He will think that he can change time and laws. He will discard all laws, morals and religious principles, to draw the world to himself. He will grant entire freedom from the commandments of God and the Church and permit everyone to live as his passions dictate. By doing so he hopes to be acknowledged by the people as deliverer from the yoke, and as the cause of prosperity in the world. Religion he will endeavour to make convenient. He will say that you need not fast and embitter your life by renunciation, as the people of former times did when they had no sense of God's goodness. It will suffice to love God. He. will let the people feast to their heart's content so that they will pity the unfortunate people of former centuries. He will preach free love and tear asunder family ties. He will scorn everything holy, and he will ridicule all graces of the Church with devilish mockery. He will condemn humility and foster proud and gruesome dogmas. He will tear down that which God has taught in the Old and New Testament and maintain sin and vice are not sin and vice. Briefly he will declare the road to Hell is the way to Heaven.<br />
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"After having passed a licentious youth among very perverted men and in a desert, she being conducted by a demon disguised as an angel of light, the mother of the son of perdition will conceive and give birth without knowing the father. In another land, she will make men believe that her birth was some miraculous thing, seeing that she had not appointed a spouse, and she will ignore that, she will say, how the infant she had brought into the world had been formed in her womb, and the people will regard it as a saint and qualified to the title.<br />
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"The son of perdition is this very wicked beast who will put to death those who refuse to believe in him; who will associate with kings, priests, the great and the rich; who will mistake the humility and will esteem pride; who will finally subjugate the entire universe by his diabolic means.<br />
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"He will show them treasures and riches, and he will permit them to riot in all sorts of festivities, as they please. He will oblige them to practice circumcision and other Judaic observances, and he will tell them: "Those who believe in me will receive pardon of their sins and will live with me eternally."<br />
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"He will reject baptism and evangelism, and he will reject in derision all the precepts the Spirit has given to men of my part.<br />
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"Then he will say to his partisans, "Strike me with a sword, and place my corpse in a proper shroud until the day of my resurrection." They will believe him to have really given over to death, and from his mortal wound he will make a striking semblance of resuscitation.<br />
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"After which, he will compose himself a certain cipher, which he will say is to be a pledge of salute; he will give it to all his servitors like the sign of our faith in heaven, and he will command them to adore it. Concerning those who, for the love of my name, will refuse to render this sacrilegious adoration to the son of perdition, he will put them to death amidst the cruellest torments.<br />
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"But I will defend my two Witnesses, Enoch and Elias, whom I have reserved for those times. Their mission will be to combat the man of evil and reprimand him in the sight of the faithful whom he has seduced. They will have the virtue of operating the most brilliant miracles, in all the places where the son of perdition has spread his evil doctrines. In the meanwhile, I will permit this evildoer to put them to death; but I will give them in heaven the recompense of their travails.<br />
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"Later, however, after the coming of Enoch and Elias, the Antichrist will be destroyed, and the Church will sing forth with unprecedented glory, and the victims of the great error will throng to return to the fold."<br />
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"The Man of Sin will be born of an ungodly woman who, from her infancy, will have been initiated into occult sciences and the wiles of the demon. She will live in the desert with perverse men, and abandon herself to crime with so much the greater ardor, as she will think she is authorized thereby to by the revelations of an angel. And thus, in the fire of burning concupiscence she will conceive the Son of Perdition, without knowing by what father. Then she will teach that fornication is permitted, declaring herself holy and honoured as a saint.<br />
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"But Lucifer, the old and cunning serpent, will find the fruit of her womb with his infernal spirit and entirely possess the fruit of sin.<br />
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"Now when he shall have attained the age of manhood, he will set himself up as a new master and teach perverse doctrine. Soon he will revolt against the saints; and he will acquire such great power that in the madness of his pride he would raise himself above the clouds; and as in the beginning Satan said: "I will be like unto the most high", and fell; so in those days, he will fall when he will say in the person of his son, "I am the Saviour of the World!"<br />
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"He will ally himself with the kings, the princes and the powerful ones of the earth; he will condemn humility and will extol all the doctrines of pride. His magic art will feign the most astonishing prodigies; he will disturb the atmosphere, command thunder and tempest, produce hail and horrible lightning. He will move mountains, dry up streams, reanimate the withered verdure of forests. His arts will be practiced upon the elements, but chiefly upon man will he exhaust his infernal power. He will seem to take away health and restore it. How so? By sending some possessed soul into a dead body, to move it for a time. But these resurrections will be of short duration.<br />
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"At the sight of these things, many will be terrified and will believe in him; and some, preserving their primitive faith, will nevertheless court the favour of the Man of Sin or fear his displeasure. And so many will be led astray among those who, shutting the interior eye of their soul, will live habitually in exterior things...<br />
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"After the Antichrist has ascended a high mountain and been destroyed by Christ, many erring souls will return to truth, and men will make rapid progress in the ways of holiness."<br />
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"Nothing good will enter into him nor be able to be in him. For he will be nourished in diverse and secret places, lest he should be known by men, and he will be imbued with all diabolical arts, and he will be hidden until he is of full age, nor will he show the perversities which will be in him, until he knows himself to be full and superabundant in all iniquities.<br />
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"He will appear to agitate the air, to make fire descend from heaven, to produce rainbows, lightning, thunder and hail, to tumble mountains, dry up streams, to strip the verdure of trees, of forests, and to restore them again. He will also appear to be able to make men sick or well at will, to chase out demons, and at times even to resuscitate the dead, making a cadaver move like it was alive. But this kind of resurrection will never endure beyond a little time, for the glory of God will not suffer it.<br />
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"Ostensibly he will be murdered, spill his blood and die. With bewilderment and consternation, mankind will learn that he is not dead, but has awakened from his death-sleep.<br />
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"From the beginning of his course many battles and many things contrary to the lawful dispensation will arise, and charity will be extinguished in men. In them also will arise bitterness and harshness and there will be so many heresies that heretics will preach their errors openly and certainly; and there shall be so much doubt and incertitude in the Catholic faith of Christians that men shall be in doubt of what God they invoke, and many signs shall appear in the sun and moon, and in the stars and in the waters, and in other elements and creatures, so that, as it were in a picture, future events shall be foretold in their portents.<br />
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"Then so much sadness shall occupy men at that time, that they shall be led to die as if for nothing. But those who are perfect in the Catholic faith will await in great contrition what God wills to ordain. And these great tribulations shall proceed in this way, while the Son of Perdition shall open his mouth in the words of falsehood and his deceptions, heaven and earth shall tremble together. But after the fall of the Antichrist the glory of the Son of God shall be increased.<br />
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"As soon as he is born, he will have teeth and pronounce blasphemies; in short, he will be a born devil. He will emit fearful cries, work miracles, and wallow in luxury and vice. He will have brothers who are also demons incarnate, and at the age of twelve, they will distinguish themselves in brilliant achievements. They will command an armed force, which will be supported by the infernal legions.<br />
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"After the Son of Perdition has accomplished all of his evil designs, he will call together all of his believers and tell them that he wishes to ascend into heaven.<br />
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"At the moment of his ascension, a thunderbolt will strike him to the ground, and he will die.<br />
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"The mountain where he was established for the operation of his ascension, in an instant will be covered with a thick cloud which emits an unbearable odor of truly infernal corruption... At the sight of his body, the eyes of great number of persons will open and they will be made to see their miserable error.<br />
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"After the sorrowful defeat of the Son of Perdition, the spouse of my Son, who is the Church, will shine with a glory without equal, and the victims of the error will be impressed to re-enter the sheepfold.<br />
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"As to the day, after the fall of Antichrist, when the world will end, man must not seek to know, for he can never learn it. That secret the Father has reserved for Himself."<br />
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After Enoch and Elias suffer physical death the spirit of life will reawaken them raise them up into the clouds and the rejoicing of that man s followers (antichrist) will change into fear, sorrow and dismay. Then the son of corruption will gather together a large group of people in order that his glory can be openly shown forth. He will attempt to walk through the heavens so that any remnant of the catholic faith that might remain throughout the world might completely disappear. In the sight of crowds standing around and listening he will order the high strata of the sky to lift him up during his ascension into heaven and the words of my loyal servant Paul will be fulfilled and these are the words which Paul who is full of the spirit of truth says and the lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and will destroy him with his glorious appearance at his coming when the son of corruption ascends on high through diabolical trickery he will be thrust down again by divine power. The fumes of sulphur and pitch will consume him such that the crowds standing nearby will flee into the mountains for protection. Such abject fear will seize all who see and hear these things that they will reject the devil and his spiritual son antichrist and be converted to the true faith by baptism.<br />
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The son of perdition will come when the day declines and the sun sinks, that is when the time arrives and the world loses its stability." </blockquote>
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St. Hildegard's prophecies play a central role in <a href="http://catholicknight.blogspot.com/p/catholic-prophecy.html"> the attachment of a certain segment of traditionalist Catholics to the idea of a return of Monarchy. </a><br />
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It is certainly possible to read too much into our Holy Father's recent actions, but one can't help but wonder if he's trying to tell us something.<br />
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It is worth comparing part of St. Hildegard's prophecy,<br />
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The Comet by its tremendous pressure, will force much out of the ocean and flood many countries, causing much want and many plagues. [After the] great Comet, the great nation will be devastated by earthquakes, storms, and great waves of water, causing much want and plagues. The ocean will also flood many other countries, so that all coastal cities will live in fear, with many destroyed. All sea coast cities will be fearful and many of them will be destroyed by tidal waves</blockquote>
With the words of Pope John Paul II regarding Fatima (from<a href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/scriptur/flfire.txt"> a file at EWTN</a>):<br />
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<pre>When people at Fulda,
Germany asked John Paul II in 1980 if the Third Secret of Fatima contained
a threat from God, the Pope responded:
"If there is a message in which it is said that the oceans will
flood entire sections of the earth; that, from one moment to the
other, millions of people will perish . . . there is no longer
any point in really wanting to publish this secret message.
Many want to know merely out of curiosity, or because of their
taste for sensationalism, but they forget that "to know" implies
for them a responsibility. It is dangerous to want to satisfy
one's curiosity only, if one is convinced that we can do nothing
against a catastrophe that has been predicted....
(At this point the Holy Father took hold of his Rosary and
said:) Here is the remedy against all evil! Pray, pray and ask
for nothing else. Put everything in the hands of the Mother of
God!"[9]
John Paul II's reply seemed to imply that a threat of flood is part
of the Third Secret of Fatima.
Later, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger admitted in an interview with
journalist, Vittorio Messori, that he had read the Third Secret of Fatima.
Messori then tells how he questioned the Cardinal about the "secret":
"Undenied versions are circulating in the world, I continue,
which describe the contents of that "secret" as disquieting,
apocalyptic, as warning of terrible sufferings. John Paul II
himself, in his personal visit to Germany, seemed to confirm
(albeit with prudent circumlocutions, privately, to a select
group) the undeniably disconcerting contents of that text.
Before him, Paul VI, during his pilgrimage to Fatima, also seems
to have alluded to the "apocalyptic" themes of the "secret." Why
was it never decided to make it public, if only to counter rash
speculations?"[10]
Cardinal Ratzinger's response, that revealing the Third Secret would
add nothing necessary for the Christian to know and that it "would mean
exposing the Church to the danger of sensationalism, exploitation of the
content," also seemed to "confirm (albeit with prudent circumlocutions)"
that the contents of the Third Secret of Fatima did contain those
"disconcerting" messages.[11]
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</blockquote>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-84498087758767062302011-10-12T15:26:00.000-04:002011-10-12T15:26:06.005-04:00Orthodox leaders appreciate Summorum Pontificum; Putting it into practice "a complete nightmare"From <a href="http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/news/detail/articolo/summorum-pontificum-8948/">Vatican Insider</a>, confirmation of the<a href="http://www.summorumpontificum.net/2009/09/summorum-pontificum-and-reunion-with.html"> positive response of the Orthodox to Summorum Pontificum,</a> as well as thoughts from Cardinal Hoyos on the nightmare surrounding its implementation: <br />
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<blockquote><div class="testatina"> <div class="titolo"><span class="tit1">10/12/2011 </span></div></div><span class="tit2"></span><h1><span style="font-size: large;">Putting "Summorum Pontificum" into practice was a complete nightmare, Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos recalls during a book presentation</span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="autore-girata">marco tosatti</span> <span class="luogo-girata">rome</span></span> </h1><br />
<span lang="EN-GB">The essay “<i>L’opposizione al Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum</i>” (The opposition to the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, <i>Fede e Cultura</i>, Verona 2010) by journalist Alberto Carosa was presented by Don Nicola Bux, renowned theologian and consultor to the Vatican as well as a prolific and acclaimed writer, during a conference at <i>Centro Russia Ecumenica</i> (CRE, Russia Ecumenical Center) in Borgo Pio, a stone's throw from St. Peter, last Friday, October 7<sup>th</sup>, 2011.</span> <br />
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After the introduction of the CRE director Don Sergio Mercanzin, who brought to the attention of the audience <i><b>how appreciative were orthodox religious leaders of the Pope’s decision to reinstate the traditional liturgy contrary to what one might have been led to believe</b></i>, the floor was taken by the President of <i>Centro Culturale Lepanto</i> (CCL), Fabio Bernabei. In fact, the essay was published under the series "Lepanto", whose editorial director Bernabei is. </span><br />
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This initiative should be seen within the wider framework of the CCL activities, an association of lay Catholics active since its inception in 1982 in the propagation of the Church’s social teaching and liturgical tradition, in support of the Pope and the Papacy. </span><br />
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The President noted that the auspicious coincidence of this presentation with the 440<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, which was a little archetypical example of a coalition of Catholic forces under the direction and in defense of the Papacy. An example somehow all the more relevant today, in that Catholics are called to come together and close ranks around and under the Pope, to defend him and support him in his action for the good of the Church and the souls under such difficult circumstances. </span><br />
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The Motu Proprio by the Holy Father was exactly aimed at this good, Don Bux pointed out in his intervention, but regrettably there are those who are still bent on impeding its application, as clearly </span>documented in the essay. However, he went on, while his impression was that this opposition was tapering off, he was struck by a phenomenon he noticed for the first time in France, namely that the ancient Roman or “extraordinary” rite was being overwhelmingly attended and promoted by lay and young people. <br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Among those who graced the event with their presence were two senior cardinals, the prefect emeritus of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” and the Congregation for the Clergy, </span>Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, and the Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives and Librarian of the Vatican Library, Cardinal Raffaele Farina. <br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">“It was a real nightmare putting the </span><span lang="EN-GB">Summorum Pontificum</span><span lang="EN-GB">into into practice”, Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos painfully recalled to the audience in his address. All the more so if one considers that opposition to the Motu Proprio is rooted in ignorance, he claimed, ignorance of what we have lost and theologically should be viewed in light of the Holy Ghost’s action through the successor of Peter. And the Holy Father wanted to give back to the world such great treasure, the enormous spiritual richness of the ancient liturgy, “a powerful tool of sanctification”. </span> <br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">For Cardinal Raffaele Farina it was also a matter of practical management, which ultimately proved somewhat ineffective, regarding the organised and widespread circulation of all the Magisterium documents to seminaries, parishes, convents, institutes etc., for the young generations to be informed by these documents and thus receive also “intellectual bread”. </span> <br />
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</blockquote><blockquote><span lang="EN-GB">Both prelates shared don Bux’s assumption that lay and young people are fulfilling a frontline role in terms of interest in and promotion of the “extraordinary rite”, and voiced appreciation and encouragement for them. After all, it was against this background that also the essay being presented that Friday evening was taking place.</span></blockquote><br />
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<h1> </h1>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-57840017961720727812011-09-19T00:13:00.005-04:002012-07-16T09:32:24.117-04:00Hermeneutic of Fatima: Let the tail (the SSPX) wag the dog (CDF)From a <a href="http://www.summorumpontificum.net/2009/09/summorum-pontificum-and-reunion-with.html">September 23, 2009 post</a>:<br />
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The developments in Vatican relations with both the SSPX and the Eastern Orthodox may best be understood neither through a "Hermeneutic of Continuity" nor a "Hermeneutic of Rupture," but through a <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Hermeneutic of Fatima</span></span>:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">If you were the pope, in the twilight of your career, a true son of VII, yet you could see the severe problems that have wracked the Church since VII, what would you do? If you had a deep seated fear that the Church would continue its moral decline if nothing is done, what would you do? If you truly believed the actions of the Vatican regarding Fatima were, at the time, honest and forthright, but now you had a real doubt that all was not as it seemed then, what would you do?<br />
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You would look at the most important aspects of the Message of Fatima that may not have been addressed, and you would systematically work to undo the damage.<br />
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1) Restore the TLM.<br />
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2) Lift the SSPX excommunications, and task them with addressing the problems of VII. Put them directly in contact with the CDF. Let the tail (the SSPX) wag the dog (CDF.) Then let the CDF wag the Church.<br />
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3) Make <a href="http://www.summorumpontificum.net/2009/09/summorum-pontificum-and-reunion-with.html">real moves towards reuniting Eastern Orthodoxy</a>, and use the Grace of that unity to fight the errors of post-Christian western decay.</span></blockquote>
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This may be the interpretive key to truly understanding the "Marshall Plan" of Pope Benedict XVI. </blockquote>
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This "Hermeneutic of Fatima" continues apace, it seems.<br />
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In May, 2010, the Pope "<a href="http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2010-05150-ferrara-fatima.htm">reopened the file on the Third Secret of Fatima</a>," declaring:<br />
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<span style="color: #830000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> Beyond this great vision of the suffering of the Pope, which we can in substance refer to John Paul II, are indicated <b> <i>future realities of the Church which are little by little developing and revealing themselves</i></b>. Thus it is true that beyond the moment indicated in the vision, one speaks, one sees, the necessity of a passion of the Church that naturally is reflected in the person of the Pope; but the Pope is <b><i>in</i></b> the Church, and therefore <b><i>the sufferings of the Church are announced</i></b>…. As for the novelty that we can discover today in this message, it is that attacks on the Pope and the Church <b><i>do not come only from outside, but the sufferings of the Church come precisely from within the Church</i></b>, from sins that exist in the Church. This has always been known, <b><i>but today we see it in a really terrifying way</i></b>: that the greatest persecution of the Church <b><i>does not come from enemies outside, but arises from sin in the Church</i></b>.</span></blockquote>
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Now, see the post at Rorate-Caeli, <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/09/tectonic-shifts-for-roman-curia-end-of.html">Tectonic Shifts: For the Roman Curia, the end of the "super-Council"</a> as well as the Missa in Latino post, <a href="http://blog.messainlatino.it/2011/09/il-contenuto-del-preambolo-dottrinale.html">Il contenuto del 'preambolo dottrinale' presentato alla FSSPX,</a> Google Translation:<a href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3DMessa%2Bin%2Blatino%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6xp%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=it&u=http://blog.messainlatino.it/2011/09/il-contenuto-del-preambolo-dottrinale.html&usg=ALkJrhgbPVAOZgN09n1DV9PncePaAEzqCw"> The contents of the 'doctrinal Preamble' presented to the SSPX</a><br />
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And what about the more "apocalyptic" parts of Fatima that were either forgotten or never fully revealed? See our last post,<a href="http://www.summorumpontificum.net/2011/09/for-fourth-anniversary-of-summorum.html"> For fourth anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, Pope draws attention to little known prophecies of Venerable Elena Aiello</a><br />
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<a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/09/messa-in-latino-on-preamble.html#more">Rorate-Caeli now has an entry with translation of the Missa in Latino post on the contents of the doctrinal Preamble</a>:</div>
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We do not assume responsibility for the content below, which has just been <a href="http://blog.messainlatino.it/2011/09/il-contenuto-del-preambolo-dottrinale.html">published by Messa in latino</a>, and the most relevant part of which we <b>merely </b>translate for the English-speaking world. Though wordy, it does not seem to add any <b>substantial </b>information to the <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/09/tectonic-shifts-for-roman-curia-end-of.html">analysis written for us by Côme Prévigny</a>, or even, if one considers it carefully, <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/09/communique-of-holy-see-meeting-between.html">to the official communiqué itself</a> - other than the indirect claim of the Italian author of actually knowing the content of the Preamble. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">The content of the Preamble, which at the end of the day is a somewhat synthetic document, can be essentially summed up in two points. We begin with the second one because it is a simple thing: to say it in broad terms, the FSSPX must modify its tone and express whatever it wishes to say in a respectful and filial way, as well as collaborate loyally with all the other structures of the Mystical Body. In clerical-theological level, that is defined as 'sentire cum ecclesia'.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">The first point of the preamble, instead, the most important one, is the re-proposition of the content of canon 750 of the CIC [Code of Canon Law], that is, the need for a Catholic to accept the magisterial teaching according to the degrees of assent sanctioned by that canon and by the Apostolic Letter <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/motu_proprio/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_30061998_ad-tuendam-fidem_en.html">Ad tuendam fidem, of John Paul II</a>. To sum it up, there are diverse degrees of binding of magisterial teaching: as <a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_1998_professio-fidei_en.html">an Explanatory note of then-Cardinal Ratzinger, as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith</a>, clarified, there are truths that the Church proclaims as divinely revealed, and that are thus unchanging, and to be received with "theological faith". Whoever does not believe in it is not a Catholic. Such are, for instance, the dogmas of faith, regarding which, in any event, the SSPX has no problem (Bishop Fellay exemplified it with the dogma of the Trinity). An equal assent of firm faith (and equally non-problematic for the FSSPX) concerns those doctrines on faith and morals not directly founded on Scripture, but taught by the Church infallibly, either because proclaimed thus or because always repeated by the Magisterium. Examples of the latter (read in the explanatory note itself) include the impossibility of female ordination, the prohibition of euthanasia, the canonization of saints.</span></div>
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The body of prophecy attributed to Venerable Elena Aiello correlates well with both conjecture about the part of the Third Secret of Fatima that may not yet have been revealed, as well as the known messages of Our Lady of Akita. Note the parallel between warnings of global fire in these prophecies and that of <a href="http://olrl.org/prophecy/akita.shtml">Our Lady of Akita</a>, which stated<br />
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<blockquote><b>"As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day, recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests.</b> The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, and bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their Confreres. The Church and altars will be vandalized. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>"The demon will rage especially against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will no longer be pardon for them."</blockquote>Given the correspondence of these two prophecies, one must wonder if this declaration of Blessed by Pope Benedict XVI on September 14, 2011 may be a way of once again bringing attention back to the Third Secret of Fatima.<br />
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Howard Dee, former Philippine ambassador to the Vatican, said in a 1998 interview with Inside the Vatican magazine: <br />
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<blockquote>“Bishop Ito [the local bishop, now deceased] was certain Akita was an extension of Fatima, and <b>Cardinal Ratzinger personally confirmed to me that these two messages, of Fatima and Akita, are essentially the same.” </b></blockquote>Also recall the concerns of Msgr. Eugene Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, about changing the liturgy:<br />
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<blockquote>"I am worried by the Blessed Virgin's messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a divine warning against<b> the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soul.</b> … I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>"A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, 'Where have they taken Him?'" - Roche, Pie XII Devant L'Historie, p. 52-53 </blockquote>There is also a correlation between the prophecies of Our Lady of Akita and Ven. Elena Aiello with the recently approved <a href="http://www.catholic.org/hf/faith/story.php?id=39511">Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help</a> in Wisconsin. In <a href="http://catholicknight.blogspot.com/2010/12/first-approved-marian-shrine-in-usa.html">her messages there</a>, Our Lady of Good Help stated to Adele Brise:<br />
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<blockquote><i><b>‘I am the Queen of Heaven, who prays for the conversion of sinners, and I wish you to do the same. You received Holy Communion this morning, and that is well. But you must do more. Make a general confession, and offer Communion for the conversion of sinners. If they do not convert and do penance, my Son will be obliged to punish them’</b></i> </blockquote> Twelve years later,<br />
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<blockquote>When the Peshtigo Fire spread across Green Bay on Oct. 8, 1871, area residents walked around the [Our Lady of Good Help] chapel grounds all night praying the rosary and carrying a statue of Mary. Everything outside that five-acre area was burned.</blockquote>Our Lady of Good Help had predicted in 1859 that if men did not repent and convert, they would suffer:<br />
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<blockquote>On the evening of October 8, 1871 <b>the worst recorded forest fire in North American history raged through Northeastern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan,</b> destroying millions of dollars worth of property and timberland, and taking between 1,200 and 2,400 lives. </blockquote><br />
<blockquote>The great Midwestern city of Chicago also happened to endure a terrible fire <b>that same fateful night</b>, and for whatever reasons -- an irresistibly charming legend about a cow and a lantern among them -- the Chicago Fire became part of the national consciousness while the Peshtigo tragedy gradually slipped into obscurity, eventually remembered primarily by scholars, local "old-timers" and Wisconsin school children (who are required to study their state's history in the 4th grade).</blockquote>Most people don't realize that the Great Chicago Fire and The Great Peshtigo Fire both occurred at the same time, burning not only Chicago but also Northeastern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, killing thousands. There is a credible theory that<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=comet+biela+Chicago+Fire+Peshtigo+Fire"> both the Great Chicago Fire and The Great Peshtigo Fire were ignited by debris from a disintegrating comet</a>. And that is eerily similar to the prophecies of fire from the sky of both Our Lady of Akita and Ven. Elena Aiello.<br />
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According to the <a href="http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2011/09/blessed-elena-aiello-mystic-stigmatic.html">Mystics of the Church blog entry </a>from which these prophecies are excerpted:<br />
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<blockquote><i>(Venerable Elena <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Aiello</span> will be declared Blessed on September 14, 2011 -Feast of the Triumph of the Holy Cross. Because there is currently not much information in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">english</span> on the Internet about her extraordinary holy life and prophecies, the webmaster was very happy when Elizabeth, a friend in Jesus, offered to write this excellent Biography. I am therefore very grateful to her for providing these edifying details of her life. May God bless and reward her for her efforts. -Editor)</i></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span">The information contained in this abbreviated biography was taken from the book <b><i>"The Incredible Life Story of Sister Elena <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Aiello</span>, The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Calabrian</span> Holy Nun (1895-1961)"</i></b>. It was written by Monsignor Francesco <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Spadafora</span> in Italian and was translated into English by Monsignor Angelo R. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Cioffi</span>. Fr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Spadafora</span> was a renowned biblical scholar from the Pontifical University of the Lateran in Rome. He opposed modernism and while writing this book he was also battling the modernist approach to scripture that started to gain ground at the biblical institute.</span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">THE PROPHECIES OF SISTER ELENA AIELLO</span><br />
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</div><div>GOOD FRIDAY (APRIL 16) 1954</div><br />
“Upon initiating the usual sufferings, about the hour of 1:00 p.m., Jesus appeared to me, covered with wounds and bleeding, saying to me:<br />
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‘Behold my child, see to what ends the sins of man have reduced me. The world has lowered itself in overflowing corruption. The governments of the peop1e have risen like demons incarnated, and, while they speak of peace they prepare for war with the most devastating implements to destroy peoples and nations. Men have become ungrateful to My Sacred Heart, and abusing My Mercy, have transformed the earth into a scene of crime’. <br />
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<div>‘Numerous scandals are bringing souls to ruin particularly through the corruption of youth. Stirred up, and unrestrained in the enjoyment of the pleasures of the world, they have degraded their spirit in corruption and sin. The bad example of parents trains the family in scandal and infidelity, instead of virtue and prayer, which is almost dead on the lips of many. Stained and withered is the fountain of faith and sanctity the home’.</div><div><br />
</div><div>‘The wills of men do not change. They live in their obstinacy of sin. More severe are the scourges and plagues to recall them to the way of God; but men still become furious, like wounded beasts (and harden their hearts against the Grace of God). The world is no longer worthy of pardon, but only of fire, destruction and death’.</div><br />
‘There must be more prayers and penances from the souls faithful to Me, in order to appease the just wrath of God, and to temperate the just sentence of punishment, SUSPENDED on earth by the intercession of My Beloved Mother, who is also the Mother of all men’.<br />
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<div>‘Oh! how sad is My Heart to see that men do not convert (or respond) to so many calls of love and grief, manifested by My Beloved Mother to errant men. Roaming in darkness, they continue to live in sin, and further away from God! But the scourge of fire is near, to purify the earth of the iniquities of the wicked. The justice of God requires reparation for the many offenses and misdeeds that cover the earth, and which can no longer be compromised. Men are obstinate in their guilt, and do not return to God’.</div><br />
‘The Church is opposed, and the priests are despised because of the bad ones who give scandal. Help Me, by suffering, to repair for so many offenses, and thus save AT LEAST IN PART, humanity precipitated in a slough of corruption and death’.<br />
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<div>‘Make it known to all men that, repentant, they must return to God, and, in doing so, may hope for pardon, and be saved from the just vengeance of a scorned God’.</div><br />
“In so saying Our Lord God disappeared. Then the Madonna appeared to me. She was dressed in black, with seven swords piercing Her Immaculate Heart. Coming closer, with an expression of profound sorrow, and with tears on her cheeks, she spoke to me, saying: ‘Listen attentively, and reveal to all:<br />
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<div>‘My Heart is sad for so many sufferings in an impending world in ruin. The justice of Our Father is most offended. Men live in their obstinacy of sin. The wrath of God is near. Soon the world will be afflicted with great calamities, bloody revolutions, frightful hurricanes, and the overflowing of streams and the seas’.</div><br />
‘Cry out until the priests of God lend their ears to my voice, to advise men that the time is near at hand, and if men do not return to God with prayers and penances, the world will be overturned in a new and more terrible war. Arms most deadly will destroy peoples and nations! The dictators of the earth, specimens infernal, will demolish the churches and desecrate the Holy Eucharist, and will destroy things most dear. In this impious war, much will be destroyed of that which has been built by the hands of man’.<br />
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‘CLOUDS WITH LIGHTNING FLASHES OF FIRE IN THE SKY AND A TEMPEST OF FIRE SHALL FALL UPON THE WORLD. THIS TERRIBLE SCOURGE, NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY, WILL LAST SEVENTY HOURS. GODLESS PERSONS WILL BE CRUSHED AND WIPED OUT. MANY WILL BE LOST BECAUSE THEY REMAIN IN THEIR OBSTINACY OF SIN. THEN SHALL BE SEEN THE POWER OF LIGHT OVER THE POWER OF DARKNESS’.<br />
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‘Be not silent, my daughter, because the hours of darkness, of abandonment, are near. ‘I am bending over the world, holding in suspension the justice of God. OTHERWISE THESE THINGS WOULD ALREADY HAVE NOW COME TO PASS. Prayers and penances are necessary because men MUST RETURN TO GOD and to My Immaculate Heart—the Mediatrix of men to God, and thus THE WORLD WILL BE AT LEAST IN PART SAVED’.<br />
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<div>‘Cry out these things to all, like the very echo of my voice. Let this be known to all, because it will help save many souls, and prevent much destruction in the Church and in the world’.</div><br />
<b>MESSAGE OF GOOD FRIDAY (APRIL 8) 1955</b><br />
“The Blessed Mother, lovely and majestic, but with tears on her cheeks, spoke: ‘My daughter, it is thy Mother speaking to thee, Listen attentively, and make known all that I tell thee, because men, in spite of repeated warnings, are not returning to God. They refuse grace, and are not listening to my voice. You must have no doubt about what I am making known to you, because my words are very clear, and you must transmit them to all.’<br />
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<div>‘DARK AND FRIGHTFUL DAYS ARE APPROACHING! Mankind is obscured by a thick fog, as a</div><div>result of the many grievous sins, which are well nigh covering the whole earth. Today, more than ever, men are, resisting the calls from Heaven, and are blaspheming God, while wallowing in the mire of sin’.</div><div><br />
</div><div>‘My daughter, look upon my Heart pierced by the thorns of so many sins; my face, disfigured by sorrow; my eyes, filled with tears. The cause of such great sadness is the sight of so many souls going to Hell, and because the Church is wounded – inwardly and outwardly’.</div><div><br />
</div><div>‘The rulers of nations make so much ado and speak of peace. But instead, the whole world will soon be at war, and all mankind will he plunged into sorrow, be cause the justice of God will not be delayed in fulfilling its course, and these events are near. Tremendous will be the upheaval of the whole world, because men — as at the time of the Deluge — have lost God’s way, and are ruled by the spirit of Satan’.</div><div><br />
</div><div>‘Priests must unite by prayers and penance. They must hasten to spread the devotion to the Two Hearts. The hour of my triumph is close at hand. The victory will be accomplished through the love and mercy of the Heart of My Son, and of My Immaculate Heart the Mediatrix between men and God, By accepting this invitation, and by uniting their tears to those of My Sorrowful Heart, priests and religious will obtain great graces for the salvation of poor sinners’.</div><br />
‘LAUNCH FORTH INTO THE WORLD A MESSAGE TO MAKE KNOWN TO ALL THAT THE<br />
SCOURGE IS NEAR AT HAND, The justice of God is weighing upon the world. Mankind, defiled in the mire, soon will be washed in its own blood, by disease; by famine; by earthquakes; by cloudbursts, tornadoes, floods, and terrible storms; and by war. But men ignore all these warnings, and are unwilling to be convinced that my tears (Weeping Madonna of Sicily?), are plain signs to serve notice that tragic events are hanging over the world, and that the hours of great trials are at hand’.<br />
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‘If men do not amend their ways, a terrifying scourge of fire will come down from Heaven upon all the nations of the world, and men will be punished according to the debts contracted with Divine justice. There will be frightful moments for all, because Heaven will be joined with the earth, and all the un-Godly people will be destroyed, SOME NATIONS WILL BE PURIFIED, WHILE OTHERS WILL DISAPPEAR ENTIRELY’.<br />
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You are to transmit these warnings to all, in order that the new generation will know that men had been warned in time to turn to God by doing penance, and thus could have avoided these punishments’.<br />
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But when will all this come about?’ I asked Our Lady.” ‘My daughter,’ answered the Blessed Mother, ‘the time is not far off. When men least expect it, the course of Divine Justice will be accomplished’.<br />
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‘My Heart is so big for poor sinners, and I make use of every possible means that they may be saved. Look at this mantle, how big it is. If I were not bent over the earth to cover all with my maternal love, the tempest of fire would at-, ready have broken upon the nations of the world!’<br />
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“Then I exclaimed, ‘My lovely Mother, never before have 1 seen thee with such a large mantle.’ The Blessed Virgin, holding her arms wide, answered:”<br />
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‘This is the mantle of mercy for all those who, having repented, come back to My Immaculate Heart. See? The right hand holds the mantle to cover and to save poor sinners, while with the left hand I hold back the Divine Justice, so that the time of Mercy may still be prolonged.’<br />
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‘To help me in this, I ask that the prayer, MATERNAL REFUGE, be spread as a most useful means to obtain graces and salvation for poor sinners, Say often with your arms crossed:<br />
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<div>“QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE, MEDIATRIX OF MEN TO GOD, REFUGE OF ALL OUR HOPES, HAVE MERCY ON US,”</div><br />
<b>GOOD FRIDAY (APRIL 7) 1950</b><br />
Sister Elena Aiello asked Our Blessed Mother: “What will become of Italy? Will Rome be saved?”<br />
“The Madonna answered:” ‘In part, by the Pope! The Church will be in travail, but the forces of Hell cannot prevail! You must suffer for the Pope and Christ, and thus Christ will be safe on earth; and the Pope, with his redemptive word, will, in part, save the world.’<br />
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<div>“The Madonna then came closer, and with a sad expression, showed me the flames of Hell. She said:” ‘Satan reigns and triumphs on earth! See how the souls are falling into Hell. See how high the flames are, and the souls who fall into them like flakes of snow look like transparent embers! How many sparks! How many cries of hate, and of despair! How much pain!’</div><div><br />
</div><div>‘See how many priestly souls! Look at the sign of their consecration in their transparent hands! (In the palms of their hands the sign of the cross, in more vivid fire, could clearly be seen!) What torture, my daughter, in my maternal Heart! Great is my sorrow to see that men do not change! The justice of the Father requires reparation — otherwise many will be lost!’</div><br />
“See how Russia will burn!” Before my eyes there extended an immense field covered with flames and smoke, in which souls were submerged as if in a sea of fire!<br />
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“And all this fire,” concluded the Madonna, “is not that which will fall from the hands of men, but will be hurled directly from the Angels (at the time of the great chastisement or “housecleaning” that will come upon the earth). Therefore I ask prayers, penance and sacrifice, so I may act as Mediatrix for my Son in order to save souls.”<br />
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<div><b>GOOD FRIDAY (March 23) 1961</b></div><div>The Madonna speaks: “My daughter, the scourge is near. Much is spoken of peace, but all the world will soon be at war, and the streets will be stained with blood! No gleam of light is seen in the world, because men live in the darkness of error, and the enormous weight of sin angers the justice of God.”</div><br />
“All nations will be punished, because sin has spread all over the world! Tremendous will be the<br />
punishments, because man has arrived at an insupportable contest with his God and Father, and has exasperated His infinite Goodness!”<br />
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</div><div>“My heart bleeds for Italy also, which will be safe only in part for the Pope! Oh!, what grief to see the representative of Christ on earth hated, persecuted, outraged!”<br />
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<div>“He, who is the Spiritual Father of the people, the defender of the Faith and of truth, whose face, radiant with light, shines upon the world, is greatly hated.”</div><br />
“He, who personifies Christ on earth, doing good for all, becomes thus outraged with impunity!”<br />
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<div>“Many iniquitous and wicked leaders of the people, who live and drag along with them their people outside the laws of God, showing themselves in sheep’s’ clothing, while being rapacious wolves, have ruined society, stirring it up against God and His Church.”</div><br />
“How can the world be saved, from the disaster that is about to crash down upon the misleading nations, if man does not repent of his errors and failings? The only salvation is a complete repentance and return to God, and a true devotion to my Immaculate Heart, particularly in the daily recitation of my Rosary.”<br />
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“Once there was the chastisement by water, but if there is not a returning to God, there will come the chastisement by fire, which will cover the streets of the world with blood.”<br />
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"My daughter, cry out loudly, and let it be known to all, that, if they do not return to God, Italy too, will only in part be safe for the Pope.”<br />
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“My heart of Mother, and Mediatrix of men, close to the mercy of God, invites, with many manifestations and many signs, the people to penance and to pardon. But they respond with a storm of hate, blasphemies and sacrilegious profanations, as if blinded by an infernal rage. I wish prayers and penance, in order that I may again obtain mercy and salvation for many souls — otherwise they will be lost.”<br />
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<b>FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION -DEC 8, 1956</b><br />
Our Blessed Mother speaks: “The world today is honoring me, but my Motherly Heart is bleeding, because the enemy is at our doors! Men are offending God too much! If I were to show you the number of sins committed in a single day, you would die of horror and sorrow! The sins that distress God the most, are those of the souls who should perfume the air with the fragrance of their virtues. Instead, they contaminate (by their sinful lives) those who come near them.”<br />
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“The times are grievous. The whole world is in turmoil, because IT HAS BECOME WORSE THAN AT THE TIME OF THE DELUGE!”<br />
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</div><div>“Everything is in suspense, like a thread; when this thread breaks, the justice of God will fall like a thunderbolt and will complete its terrible course of purification.”<br />
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<div>Sister Elena asked, “What will become of Italy?”</div><br />
The Virgin Mary answered: “Italy, my daughter, will be humiliated, purified in blood, and must suffer much, because many are the sins of this beloved country, seat of the Vicar of Christ. You cannot imagine what will happen! In those sad days there will be much anguish and weeping. There will be a great revolution, and streets will be red with blood.”<br />
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“The Pope will suffer much, and all this suffering will be like an agony, which will shorten his earthly pilgrimage. His successor will guide the boat in the tempest.”<br />
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“However the punishment of the impious will not be delayed. That day will be most fearful in the world! The earth will tremble, all humanity will be shaken! The wicked and the obstinate will perish in the tremendous severity of the justice of the Lord.”<br />
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<div>“Launch at once a message into the world, to advise men to return to God by prayers and penances, and to come with confidence to my Immaculate Heart. My power must be shown, because I am the Mother of God, of the just, and of sinners. Through prayer and penance, my mercy will be able to hold back the hand of God’s justice.”</div><br />
<b>PROPHESIES OF 1959</b><br />
Jesus, dripping with blood and with painful and suffering look, said: “Do you wish to unite with Me in My agony? See how much I suffer! The sins of men have reduced me to this! What bitterness is poured into this Heart, pierced by many souls, who instead of loving me with sacrifices, and in flight from sinful vanities of the corrupt world, commit much iniquity!”<br />
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“Help me to suffer by consoling my grieved Heart, and make reparation for the many sins! Oh my beloved bride, if you knew the pain that my Heart suffers from the loss of so many souls! Satan travels victorious over all the sinful earth! I need generous souls to appease the outraged justice of the Father, because the world is headed for imminent ruin! The hours of darkness are near!”<br />
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<div>“Then, the Madonna appeared to me, sad and shedding tears. She said”: ‘This great mantle which you see, is the expression of my mercy for covering sinners and for saving them. Men, instead, cover themselves with even more filth, and do not want to confess their real faults. Therefore, the justice of God will pass over the sinful world to purify humanity for so many sins, openly committed and hidden, especially those which corrupt youth!’</div><div><br />
</div><div>‘In order to save souls, I wish that there be propagated in the world the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mediatrix of men, devoted to the Mercy of God, and to the Queen of the Universe.’</div><br />
‘The world will be once more afflicted with great calamity; with bloody revolutions; with great earthquakes; with famines; with epidemics; with fearful hurricanes; and with floods from rivers and seas. But if men do not return to God, purifying fire will fall from the Heavens, like snowstorms, on all peoples, and a great part of humanity will be destroyed!’<br />
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‘No longer do men speak according to the true spirit of the Gospel. The immorality of the times has ‘reached a peak! But men do not listen to my motherly warnings, so the world must soon be purified.’<br />
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<div>‘RUSSIA WILL MARCH UPON ALL THE NATIONS OF EUROPE, PARTICULARLY ITALY, AND WILL RAISE HER FLAG OVER THE DOME OF ST. PETER’S. Italy will be severely tried by a great revolution, and Rome will be purified in blood for its many sins, especially those of impurity! The flock is about to be dispersed and the Pope must suffer greatly!’</div><div><br />
</div><div>‘The only valid means for placating Divine Justice is to pray and do penance, returning to God with sincere sorrow for the faults committed, and then the chastisement of Divine Justice will be mitigated by mercy. Humanity will never find peace, if it does not return to my Immaculate Heart as Mother of Mercy, and Mediatrix of men; and to the Heart of my Son Jesus!’</div><div><br />
</div><div><b>GOOD FRIDAY — 1960</b></div><div>The Madonna speaks: “How youth lives in perdition! How many innocent souls find themselves enwrapped in a chain of scandals! The world has become as a flooded valley, overflowing with filth and mud! Some of the most difficult trials of Divine Justice are yet to come, before the deluge of fire.”</div><br />
“I, for a long time, have advised men in many ways, but they do not listen to my maternal appeals, and they continue to walk the paths of perdition. But soon terrifying manifestations will be seen, which will make even the most obdurate sinners tremble!”<br />
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“Great calamities will come upon the world, which will bring confusion, tears, struggles and pain. Great earthquakes will swallow up entire cities and countries, and will bring epidemics, famine, and terrible destruction ESPECIALLY WHERE THE SONS OF DARKNESS ARE, (pagan or anti-God nations).”<br />
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"In these tragic hours, the world has need of prayers and penance, because the Pope, the priests, and the Church are in danger. If we do not pray, Russia will march upon all of Europe, and particularly upon Italy, bringing much more ruin and havoc! Hence the priests must be in the front line of defense of the Church, by example and sanctity in life, for materialism is breaking forth in all nations and evil prevails over good.”<br />
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“The rulers of the people do not understand this, because they do not have the Christian spirit; in their blindness, do not see the truth.”<br />
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<div>“In Italy, some leaders like rapacious wolves in sheep’s’ clothing, while calling themselves Christians — open the door to materialism, and, fostering dishonest actions, will bring Italy to ruin; but many of them, too, will fall in confusion!”</div><br />
“Propagate the devotions to my Immaculate Heart, of Mother of Mercy, Mediatrix of men, who believe in the mercy of God, and of the Queen of the Universe.”<br />
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<div>“I will manifest my partiality for Italy, which will be preserved from the fire, but the skies will be covered with dense darkness, and the earth will be shaken by fearful earthquakes which will open deep abysses. Provinces and cities will be destroyed, and all will cry out that the end of the world has come! Even Rome will be punished according to justice for its many and serious sins, because here sin has reached its peak.”</div><br />
“Pray, and lose no time, lest it be too late; since dense darkness surrounds the earth and the enemy is at the doors!”<br />
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<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaMI-A1X5K-LdGRrsHQmNd-9Ai84Ne6cYFF7KhValTY9Nc2zpt1E3TOAtk-voXAybaNLqzVMZgSJyn_sqVix1eftM0pqLMonHZOPUMzUU3pp7Dn00bZEJ4_LC8aBuC4sjYHbvKoi-QO0/s1600/Sister-Elena-Aiello.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650402851595488834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaMI-A1X5K-LdGRrsHQmNd-9Ai84Ne6cYFF7KhValTY9Nc2zpt1E3TOAtk-voXAybaNLqzVMZgSJyn_sqVix1eftM0pqLMonHZOPUMzUU3pp7Dn00bZEJ4_LC8aBuC4sjYHbvKoi-QO0/s400/Sister-Elena-Aiello.jpg" /></a></div><div><b>FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE HEART - August 22, 1960</b></div><div>The Madonna speaks: “The hour of the justice of God is close, and will be terrible!”</div><br />
“Tremendous scourges are impending over the world, and various nations are struck by epidemics, famines, great earthquakes, terrific hurricanes, with overflowing rivers and seas, which bring ruin and death.”<br />
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<div>“If the people do not recognize in these scourges (of nature) the warnings of Divine Mercy, and do not return to God with truly Christian living, ANOTHER TERRIBLE WAR WILL COME FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST. RUSSIA WITH HER SECRET ARMIES WILL BATTLE AMERICA; WILL OVERRUN EUROPE.</div><div><br />
</div><div>The river Rhine will be overflowing with corpses and blood. Italy, also, will be harassed by a great revolution, and the Pope will suffer terribly.”</div><br />
“Spread the devotion to my Immaculate Heart, in order that many souls maybe conquered by my love and that many sinners may return to my Maternal Heart. Do not fear, for I will accompany with my maternal protection my faithful ones, and all those who accept my urgent warnings, and they — especially by the recitations of my Rosary — will be saved.”<br />
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“Satan goes furiously through this disordered world, and soon will show all his might. But, because of my Immaculate Heart, the triumph of Light will not delay in its triumph over the power of darkness, and the world, finally, will have tranquility and peace.”<br />
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<b>GOOD FRIDAY — 1961</b><br />
The Sorrowful Madonna speaks: “People pay no attention to my motherly warnings, and thus the world is falling headlong evermore into an abyss of iniquity. Nations shall be convulsed by terrible disasters, causing destruction and death.<br />
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“Russia, spurred on by Satan, will seek to dominate the whole world and, by bloody revolutions, will propagate her false teachings throughout all the nations, especially in Italy. The Church will be persecuted and the Pope and the priests shall suffer much.”<br />
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Sister Elena Aiello speaks: “Oh, what a horrible vision I see! A great revolution is going on in Rome! They are entering the Vatican. The Pope is all alone; he s praying. They are holding the Pope. They take him by force. They knock him down to the floor. They are tying him. Oh, God! Oh God! They are kicking him. What a horrible scene! How dreadful!”<br />
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“Our Blessed Mother is drawing near. Like corpses those evil men fall down to the floor. Our Lady helps the Pope to his feet and, taking him by the arm, she covers him with her mantle saying: ‘Fear not!’<br />
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“Flagstaffs (flying the Red flag over St. Peter’s dome and elsewhere) collapse, and power is gone out of the clubs of those evil brutes. These atheists are ever shouting: ‘We don’t want God to rule over us; we want Satan to be our master!’<br />
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Our Blessed Mother speaks again: “My daughter, Rome will not be saved, because the Italian rulers have forsaken the Divine Light and because only a few people really love the Church. But the day is not far off when all the wicked shall perish, under the tremendous blows of Divine Justice.”<br />
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In April 2011, Pope Benedict XVI approved the petition allowing for the Beatification of Venerable Elena Aiello. She will be declared Blessed on September 14, 2011 (Feast of the Triumph of the Holy Cross) at 17.30 in Piazza dei Bruzi in Cosenza, Italy. The proclamation of the Blessed will be made by Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, along with Archbishop of Cosenza/Bisignano, His Excellency Salvatore Nunnari.<br />
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For those interested, the Italian website of the <a href="http://www.suoreminime-cosenza.it/">Minim Sisters of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ can be found here.</a><br />
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<u><b>Addendum: "What Pope Benedict Fears"</b></u><br />
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Dr. Robert Moynihan, editor and founder of Inside the Vatican, reported the following in an email update earlier this summer entitled "<a href="http://community.icontact.com/p/insidethevatican/newsletters/christmas/posts/letter-23-what-the-pope-fears">What Pope Benedict Fears"</a><br />
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<blockquote>In an article published on the internet in three parts beginning on May 21 and concluding on June 22, the writer Antonio Margheriti Mastino presents what he says are the words and thoughts of Spanish Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, currently the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship in the Vatican.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>Among the many interesting statements made in this report, one stands out: the statement that Pope Benedict, who is known to regard Canizares with favor, told Canizares personally meeting that he (Benedict) has three great fears: </blockquote><br />
<blockquote>(1) The secularization within the Church;<br />
(2) The peaceful invasion of Europe by Islam;<br />
(3) <b>The ever-greater control</b> -- and the next words are within quotation marks, meaning Margheriti Mastino is presenting these words as an exact quotation of what Cardinal Canizares said to him -- <b>"of <u>freemasonry</u> on the cultural level and of the centers of power of the European Union."</b></blockquote>Though the perils of Freemasonry are often forgotten, our Holy Father knows them. So did Our Lady of Fatima, and many other popes, not least of all Pope Leo XIII:<br />
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<blockquote>Now, from the disturbing errors which We have described the greatest dangers to States are to be feared. For, the fear of God and reverence for divine laws being taken away, the authority of rulers despised, sedition permitted and approved, and the popular passions urged on to lawlessness, with no restraint save that of punishment, a change and overthrow of all things will necessarily follow. <b>Yea, this change and overthrow is deliberately planned and put forward by many <u>associations of Communists and Socialists; and to their undertakings the sect of Freemasons is not hostile</u>, but greatly favors their designs, and holds in common with them their chief opinions. </b>And if these men do not at once and everywhere endeavor to carry out their extreme views, it is not to be attributed to their teaching and their will, but to the virtue of that divine religion which cannot be destroyed; and also because the sounder part of men, refusing to be enslaved to secret societies, vigorously resist their insane attempts.”-- paragraphs 27, <i>Humanum Genus</i></blockquote></div></div>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-53033237071128050822011-08-17T22:22:00.000-04:002011-08-17T22:22:46.970-04:00INSTRUCTION ON THE APPLICATION OF THE APOSTOLIC LETTER SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #663300;">PONTIFICAL COMMISSION </span> <i><span style="color: #663300;">ECCLESIA DEI</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><b><i> </i> </b> </span> <b> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <div align="center"><span style="color: #663300; font-size: medium;">INSTRUCTION<br />
ON THE APPLICATION OF THE APOSTOLIC LETTER<br />
<i>SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM</i><br />
OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI<br />
GIVEN<i> MOTU PROPRIO</i></span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div></span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">I.<br />
Introduction</div><br />
</span> </b> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> <div align="left"> 1. The Apostolic Letter <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> of the Sovereign Pontiff <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/index.htm">Benedict XVI</a> given <i>Motu Proprio </i>on 7 July 2007, which came into effect on 14 September 2007, has made the richness of the Roman Liturgy more accessible to the Universal Church.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">2. With this Motu Proprio, the Holy Father Pope <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/index.htm">Benedict XVI</a> promulgated a universal law for the Church, intended to establish new regulations for the use of the Roman Liturgy in effect in 1962.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">3. The Holy Father, having recalled the concern of the Sovereign Pontiffs in caring for the Sacred Liturgy and in their recognition of liturgical books, reaffirms the traditional principle, recognised from time immemorial and necessary to be maintained into the future, that “<i>each particular Church must be in accord with the universal Church not only regarding the doctrine of the faith and sacramental signs, but also as to the usages universally handed down by apostolic and unbroken tradition. These are to be maintained not only so that errors may be avoided, but also so that the faith may be passed on in its integrity, since the Church's rule of prayer </i>(lex orandi)<i> corresponds to her rule of belief </i>(lex credendi).”<a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a></div><div align="left">4. The Holy Father recalls also those Roman Pontiffs who, in a particular way, were notable in this task, specifically Saint Gregory the Great and Saint Pius V. The Holy Father stresses moreover that, among the sacred liturgical books, the <i>Missale Romanum</i> has enjoyed a particular prominence in history, and was kept up to date throughout the centuries until the time of <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_xxiii/index.htm">Blessed Pope John XXIII</a>. Subsequently in 1970, following the liturgical reform after the <a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/index.htm">Second Vatican Council</a>, Pope Paul VI approved for the Church of the Latin rite a new Missal, which was then translated into various languages. In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II promulgated the third edition of this Missal.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">5. Many of the faithful, formed in the spirit of the liturgical forms prior to the <a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/index.htm">Second Vatican Council</a>, expressed a lively desire to maintain the ancient tradition. For this reason, <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/index.htm">Pope John Paul II</a> with a special Indult <i>Quattuor abhinc annos</i> issued in 1984 by the Congregation for Divine Worship, granted the faculty under certain conditions to restore the use of the Missal promulgated by <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_xxiii/index.htm">Blessed Pope John XXIII</a>. Subsequently, Pope John Paul II, with the Motu Proprio <i> <a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/hf_jp-ii_motu-proprio_02071988_ecclesia-dei_en.html">Ecclesia Dei</a></i> of 1988, exhorted the Bishops to be generous in granting such a faculty for all the faithful who requested it. Pope Benedict continues this policy with the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> regarding certain essential criteria for the <i>Usus Antiquior</i> of the Roman Rite, which are recalled here.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">6. The Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI and the last edition prepared under <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_xxiii/index.htm">Pope John XXIII</a>, are two forms of the Roman Liturgy, defined respectively as <i>ordinaria</i> and <i>extraordinaria</i>: they are two usages of the one Roman Rite, one alongside the other. Both are the expression of the same <i>lex orandi</i> of the Church. On account of its venerable and ancient use, the <i> forma extraordinaria</i> is to be maintained with appropriate honor.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">7. The Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> was accompanied by a letter from the Holy Father to Bishops, with the same date as the Motu Proprio (7 July 2007). This letter gave further explanations regarding the appropriateness and the need for the Motu Proprio; it was a matter of overcoming a lacuna by providing new norms for the use of the Roman Liturgy of 1962. Such norms were needed particularly on account of the fact that, when the new Missal had been introduced under Pope Paul VI, it had not seemed necessary to issue guidelines regulating the use of the 1962 Liturgy. By reason of the increase in the number of those asking to be able to use the <i>forma extraordinaria,</i> it has become necessary to provide certain norms in this area.</div><div align="left">Among the statements of the Holy Father was the following: “<i>There is no contradiction between the two editions of the Roman Missal. In the history of the Liturgy growth and progress are found, but not a rupture. What was sacred for prior generations, remains sacred and great for us as well, and cannot be suddenly prohibited altogether or even judged harmful.”</i><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a></div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">8. The Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum </i>constitutes an important expression of the Magisterium of the Roman Pontiff and of his <i>munus</i> of regulating and ordering the Church’s Sacred Liturgy.<a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title="">[3]</a> The Motu Proprio manifests his solicitude as Vicar of Christ and Supreme Pastor of the Universal Church,<a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title="">[4]</a> and has the aim of:</div><blockquote> <div align="left">a. offering to all the faithful the Roman Liturgy in the <i>Usus Antiquior, </i>considered as a precious treasure to be preserved;</div><div align="left">b. effectively guaranteeing and ensuring the use of the <i>forma extraordinaria</i> for all who ask for it, given that the use of the 1962 Roman Liturgy is a faculty generously granted for the good of the faithful and therefore is to be interpreted in a sense favourable to the faithful who are its principal addressees;</div><div align="left">c. promoting reconciliation at the heart of the Church.</div></blockquote><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="center"><b>II.<br />
The Responsibilities <br />
of the Pontifical Commission <i>Ecclesia Dei</i></b></div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">9. The Sovereign Pontiff has conferred upon the Pontifical Commission <i> Ecclesia Dei</i> ordinary vicarious power for the matters within its competence, in a particular way for monitoring the observance and application of the provisions of the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> (cf. art. 12).</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">10. § 1. The Pontifical Commission exercises this power, beyond the faculties previously granted by <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/index.htm">Pope John Paul II</a> and confirmed by <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/index.htm">Pope Benedict XVI</a> (cf. Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>, artt. 11-12), also by means of the power to decide upon recourses legitimately sent to it, as hierarchical Superior, against any possible singular administrative provision of an Ordinary which appears to be contrary to the Motu Proprio.</div><div align="left"> § 2. The decrees by which the Pontifical Commission decides recourses may be challenged <i>ad normam iuris</i> before the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">11. After having received the approval from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the Pontifical Commission <i>Ecclesia Dei </i>will have the task of looking after future editions of liturgical texts pertaining to the <i>forma extraordinaria</i> of the Roman Rite. </div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="center"><b>III.<br />
Specific Norms</b></div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">12. Following upon the inquiry made among the Bishops of the world, and with the desire to guarantee the proper interpretation and the correct application of the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum, </i>this Pontifical Commission, by virtue of the authority granted to it and the faculties which it enjoys, issues this Instruction according to can. 34 of the <i>Code of Canon Law</i>.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"><u>The Competence of Diocesan Bishops</u></div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">13. Diocesan Bishops, according to Canon Law, are to monitor liturgical matters in order to guarantee the common good and to ensure that everything is proceeding in peace and serenity in their Dioceses<a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title="">[5]</a>, always in agreement with the <i>mens</i> of the Holy Father clearly expressed by the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>.<a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title="">[6]</a> In cases of controversy or well-founded doubt about the celebration in the <i> forma extraordinaria</i>, the Pontifical Commission <i>Ecclesia Dei</i> will adjudicate.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">14. It is the task of the Diocesan Bishop to undertake all necessary measures to ensure respect for the <i>forma extraordinaria</i> of the Roman Rite, according to the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"><u>The <i>coetus fidelium </i></u>(cf. Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum,</i> art. 5 § 1)</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">15. A <i>coetus fidelium</i> (“group of the faithful”) can be said to be <i> stabiliter existens </i>(“existing in a stable manner”), according to the sense of art. 5 § 1 of the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>,<i> </i>when it is constituted by some people of an individual parish who, even after the publication of the Motu Proprio, come together by reason of their veneration for the Liturgy in the <i>Usus Antiquior,</i> and who ask that it might be celebrated in the parish church or in an oratory or chapel; such a <i>coetus</i> (“group”) can also be composed of persons coming from different parishes or dioceses, who gather together in a specific parish church or in an oratory or chapel for this purpose. </div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"> 16. In the case of a priest who presents himself occasionally in a parish church or an oratory with some faithful, and wishes to celebrate in the <i>forma extraordinaria</i>, as foreseen by articles 2 and 4 of the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>, the pastor or rector of the church, or the priest responsible, is to permit such a celebration, while respecting the schedule of liturgical celebrations in that same church.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"> 17. § 1. In deciding individual cases, the pastor or the rector, or the priest responsible for a church, is to be guided by his own prudence, motivated by pastoral zeal and a spirit of generous welcome.</div><div align="left">§ 2. In cases of groups which are quite small, they may approach the Ordinary of the place to identify a church in which these faithful may be able to come together for such celebrations, in order to ensure easier participation and a more worthy celebration of the Holy Mass.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">18. Even in sanctuaries and places of pilgrimage the possibility to celebrate in the <i>forma extraordinaria</i> is to be offered to groups of pilgrims who request it (cf. Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>, art. 5 § 3), if there is a qualified priest.</div><div align="left"> 19. The faithful who ask for the celebration of the <i>forma extraordinaria</i> must not in any way support or belong to groups which show themselves to be against the validity or legitimacy of the Holy Mass or the Sacraments celebrated in the <i>forma ordinaria </i>or against the Roman Pontiff as Supreme Pastor of the Universal Church.</div><b> </b> <div align="left"><i><u>Sacerdos idoneus</u></i><u> (“Qualified Priest”) </u>(cf. Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>, art 5 § 4)</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">20. With respect to the question of the necessary requirements for a priest to be held <i>idoneus</i> (“qualified”) to celebrate in the <i>forma extraordinaria</i>, the following is hereby stated: </div><blockquote> <div align="left">a. Every Catholic priest who is not impeded by Canon Law<a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title="">[7]</a> is to be considered <i>idoneus</i> (“qualified”) for the celebration of the Holy Mass in the <i>forma extraordinaria</i>.</div><div align="left">b. Regarding the use of the Latin language, a basic knowledge is necessary, allowing the priest to pronounce the words correctly and understand their meaning.</div><div align="left">c. Regarding knowledge of the execution of the Rite, priests are presumed to be qualified who present themselves spontaneously to celebrate the <i>forma extraordinaria</i>, and have celebrated it previously.</div></blockquote><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">21. Ordinaries are asked to offer their clergy the possibility of acquiring adequate preparation for celebrations in the <i>forma extraordinaria.</i> This applies also to Seminaries, where future priests should be given proper formation, including study of Latin<a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title="">[8]</a> and, where pastoral needs suggest it, the opportunity to learn the <i>forma extraordinaria</i> of the Roman Rite. </div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">22. In Dioceses without qualified priests, Diocesan Bishops can request assistance from priests of the Institutes erected by the Pontifical Commission <i>Ecclesia Dei,</i> either to the celebrate the <i>forma extraordinaria</i> or to teach others how to celebrate it. </div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">23. The faculty to celebrate <i>sine populo</i> (or with the participation of only one minister) in the <i>forma extraordinaria</i> of the Roman Rite is given by the Motu Proprio to all priests, whether secular or religious (cf. Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>, art. 2). For such celebrations therefore, priests, by provision of the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum,</i> do not require any special permission from their Ordinaries or superiors.</div><div align="left"><u>Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Discipline</u></div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"> 24. The liturgical books of the <i>forma extraordinaria</i> are to be used as they are. All those who wish to celebrate according to the <i>forma extraordinaria</i> of the Roman Rite must know the pertinent rubrics and are obliged to follow them correctly.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"> 25. New saints and certain of the new prefaces can and ought to be inserted into the 1962 Missal<a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title="">[9]</a>, according to provisions which will be indicated subsequently. </div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"> 26. As foreseen by article 6 of the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>, the readings of the Holy Mass of the Missal of 1962 can be proclaimed either solely in the Latin language, or in Latin followed by the vernacular or, in Low Masses, solely in the vernacular.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"> 27. With regard to the disciplinary norms connected to celebration, the ecclesiastical discipline contained in the Code of Canon Law of 1983 applies.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"> 28. Furthermore, by virtue of its character of special law, within its own area, the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> derogates from those provisions of law, connected with the sacred Rites, promulgated from 1962 onwards and incompatible with the rubrics of the liturgical books in effect in 1962.</div><div align="left"><u>Confirmation and Holy Orders</u></div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">29. Permission to use the older formula for the rite of Confirmation was confirmed by the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> (cf. art. 9 § 2). Therefore, in the <i>forma extraordinaria</i>, it is not necessary to use the newer formula of Pope Paul VI as found in the <i>Ordo Confirmationis</i>.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">30. As regards tonsure, minor orders and the subdiaconate, the Motu Proprio <i> Summorum Pontificum</i> does not introduce any change in the discipline of the <i>Code of Canon Law</i> of 1983; consequently, in Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life which are under the Pontifical Commission <i>Ecclesia Dei</i>, one who has made solemn profession or who has been definitively incorporated into a clerical institute of apostolic life, becomes incardinated as a cleric in the institute or society upon ordination to the diaconate, in accordance with canon 266 § 2 of the <i>Code of Canon Law</i>.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"> 31. Only in Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life which are under the Pontifical Commission <i>Ecclesia Dei,</i> and in those which use the liturgical books of the <i>forma extraordinaria</i>,<i> </i>is the use of the <i>Pontificale Romanum</i> of 1962 for the conferral of minor and major orders permitted.</div><b> </b> <div align="left"><i><u>Breviarium Romanum</u></i></div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">32. Art. 9 § 3 of the Motu Proprio <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> gives clerics the faculty to use the <i>Breviarium Romanum</i> in effect in 1962, which is to be prayed entirely and in the Latin language.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"><u>The Sacred Triduum</u></div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"> 33. If there is a qualified priest, a <i>coetus fidelium</i> (“group of faithful”), which follows the older liturgical tradition, can also celebrate the Sacred <i>Triduum</i> in the <i>forma extraordinaria.</i> When there is no church or oratory designated exclusively for such celebrations, the parish priest or Ordinary, in agreement with the qualified priest, should find some arrangement favourable to the good of souls, not excluding the possibility of a repetition of the celebration of the Sacred Triduum in the same church.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"><u>The Rites of Religious Orders</u></div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">34. The use of the liturgical books proper to the Religious Orders which were in effect in 1962 is permitted.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"><i><u>Pontificale Romanum</u></i><u> and the <i>Rituale Romanum</i></u></div><b> <div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left"> 35. The use of the <i>Pontificale Romanum</i>, the <i>Rituale Romanum</i>, as well as the <i>Caeremoniale Episcoporum</i> in effect in 1962, is permitted, in keeping with n. 28 of this Instruction, and always respecting n. 31 of the same Instruction.</div><b> <div align="left"><br />
</div></b> <div align="left"><i>The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, in an audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei on 8 April 2011, approved this present Instruction and ordered its publication.</i></div><b> <div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="left">Given at Rome, at the Offices of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, 30 April, 2011, on the memorial of Pope Saint Pius V.</div><b> <div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="center"><b>William Cardinal LEVADA</b><i><br />
President</i></div><b> <div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"> </div></b> <div align="right"><b>Mons. Guido Pozzo</b><i><br />
Secretary</i></div><div> <br clear="all" /> <hr /> <div id="ftn1"> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title="">[1]</a> BENEDICTUS XVI, <i>Litterae Apostolicae Summorum Pontificum motu proprio datae</i>, I, <i>AAS</i> 99 (2007) 777; cf. <i>Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani</i>, tertia editio 2002, n. 397.</div></div><div id="ftn2"> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title="">[2]</a> BENEDICTUS XVI, <i>Epistola ad Episcopos ad producendas Litteras Apostolicas motu proprio datas, de Usu Liturgiae Romanae Instaurationi anni 1970 praecedentis</i>, <i>AAS</i> 99 (2007) 798.</div></div><div id="ftn3"> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title="">[3]</a> Cf. <i>Code of Canon Law</i>, Canon 838 §1 and §2. </div></div><div id="ftn4"> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title="">[4]</a> Cf. <i>Code of Canon Law,</i> Canon 331.</div></div><div id="ftn5"> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title="">[5]</a> Cf. <i>Code of Canon Law,</i> Canons 223 § 2 or 838 §1 and §4.</div></div><div id="ftn6"> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title="">[6]</a> BENEDICTUS XVI, <i>Epistola ad Episcopos ad producendas Litteras Apostolicas motu proprio datas, de Usu Liturgiae Romanae Instaurationi anni 1970 praecedentis</i>, <i>AAS</i> 99 (2007) 799.</div></div><div id="ftn7"> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title="">[7]</a> Cf. <i>Code of Canon Law,</i> Canon 900 § 2.</div></div><div id="ftn8"> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" title="">[8]</a> Cf. <i>Code of Canon Law,</i> Canon 249; Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Constitution <i>Sacrosanctum Concilium</i>, 36; Declaration <i>Optatum totius</i>, 13.</div></div><div id="ftn9"> <div align="left"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" title="">[9]</a> BENEDICTUS XVI, <i>Epistola ad Episcopos ad producendas Litteras Apostolicas motu proprio datas, de Usu Liturgiae Romanae Instaurationi anni 1970 praecedentis</i>, <i>AAS</i> 99 (2007) 797.</div></div></div></span>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-80306717040618420782011-04-28T16:25:00.001-04:002012-07-16T09:32:32.717-04:00Cardinal Burke to Keynote Conference on Catholic Care of the Disabled and Dying<img src="http://www.christiannewswire.com/images/tlogo.gif" /><br />
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Contact: Megan Morris, <a href="http://www.stgiannaphysicians.org/">St. Gianna Physician's Guild</a>, 888-368-8586, <a href="mailto:info@stgiannaphysiciansguild.org">info@stgiannaphysiciansguild.org</a><br />
SAN DIEGO, April 28, 2011 /<a href="http://www.christiannewswire.com/">Christian Newswire</a>/ -- St. Gianna Physician's Guild announced today, the feast of St. Gianna, that this summer they will be hosting a conference addressing the "Culture of Death" as it relates to end of life. The conference will be held in Kansas City, KS on July 23, 2011 and is entitled: "Being Faithful, Even Unto Death" (cf Revelation 2:10): Catholic wisdom on the treatment of the disabled and dying.<br />
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This prestigious conference will include two very special guests in the lineup of speakers. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and Dr. Gianna Emanuela Molla, the youngest daughter of St. Gianna Molla. It will be her first visit to the United States. Her mother was canonized in 2004 and is widely known for having opted for a risky operation that preserved the life of her child in the womb when she was two months pregnant with Gianna Emanuela. She and her two siblings represent the first time in the history of the Church that a saint was canonized while her children were still living. Other speakers include Dr. Austin Welsh, a Geriatric Specialist; Mr. Peter Breen, Executive Director of the Thomas More Society; and both siblings of Teri Schiavo, Bobby Schindler and Suzanne Vitadamo, founders of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network.<br />
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"This is a very timely conference that we are honored to host in an effort to provide guidance and insight into the issues that affect all of us, namely issues surrounding the suffering and the dying," stated Thomas McKenna, Founder and President of St. Gianna Physician's Guild. "With the help of Cardinal Burke, we have assembled experts in all areas of medicine, law, and the Catholic Church to analyze and explain the proper and obligatory way to provide Catholic care to the most vulnerable and those who are dying," he added. The conference is of special interest to physicians, nurses, hospital directors, hospice care providers, attorneys and others who provide care and counsel for the disabled and dying and their families. Cardinal Burke stated, "This conference promises to provide an insightful and inspiring analysis which will greatly assist Catholics confronting the 'Culture of Death.' I encourage all to attend."<br />
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The day-long conference will take place on Saturday, July 23, 2011 and has the support and participation of both Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Kansas City, Kansas archdiocese and Bishop Robert Finn of the Kansas City - St. Joseph diocese. Cardinal Burke will also be celebrating a special Mass on Sunday in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City, Missouri at 9:00 am followed by a reception at the Catholic Center located a few blocks away. The public is invited.<br />
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<i>St. Gianna Physician's Guild was founded to unite and encourage Catholic physicians, as well as others in the health care profession, to promote and defend Catholic principles in a public way and to inspire sanctification in their lives. </i><br />
For more information or to register go to <a href="http://www.defendingnaturaldeath.org/">www.defendingnaturaldeath.org</a>. Space is limited.<br />
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Note: On Sunday July 24, the diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph will host a special Mass celebrated by His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City, Missouri at 9:00 am. The youngest daughter of St. Gianna Molla will be present and deliver some inspiring words about her mother following Mass. Several relics of St. Gianna will be displayed for public veneration and a special blessing will be given with a first class relic of the saint. A reception will follow at the Catholic Center located a few blocks from the cathedral at 20 West Ninth Street. All are invited.</div>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-42067783784684070992011-03-08T10:41:00.001-05:002011-03-08T21:42:56.820-05:00Latest news about the Instruction on Summorum PontificumFrom Fr. Z. at WDTPRS:<br />
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Instruction on Summorum Pontificum will reinforce Pope's directive: Vatican analyst</a> </blockquote>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-38874927219890866532011-02-22T20:38:00.001-05:002011-02-22T20:43:53.358-05:00Latest News About The Instruction Regarding Summorum PontificumFrom<a href="http://mundabor.wordpress.com/" rel="home" title="Mundabor's Blog"> Mundabor's Blog:</a><br />
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<blockquote><h1 class="entry-title">Latest News About The Instruction Regarding Summorum Pontificum</h1><div class="entry-meta"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="http://mundabor.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/latest-news-about-the-instruction-regarding-summorum-pontificum/" rel="bookmark" title="4:52 pm"><span class="entry-date">February 22, 2011</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://mundabor.wordpress.com/author/mundabor/" title="View all posts by mundabor">mundabor</a></span> </div><br />
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Messa in Latino has another post about the thorny question of the instruction. Once again, this beautiful site shows that it has pretty good feelers concerning Vatican affairs.<br />
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The process of the instruction is described as follows:<br />
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1) There was a first version, ready as soon as February 2008. A good version but with some questions left open. The then secretary of <i>Ecclesia Dei</i>, Mons. Perl, personally vouched with the<i> Messa In Latino</i>‘s blog post writer “Enrico” about this fact.<br />
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2) A second draft was prepared by the new Secretary of Ecclesia Dei and therefore called “<i>Pozzo</i> draft”. This was, we are assured, magnificent, as it was both exhaustive in its dealing with interpretation questions and able to greatly enhance the concrete possibility of use of the Tridentine Mass.What Summorum Pontificum freed in the juridical sense, this Instruction would have freed concerning its practical application.<br />
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3) The <i>Pozzo</i> draft was apparently “too good” and, well, not entirely popular among liberal Bishops. These then started to lobby to have it watered down. <i>Messa in Latino</i> mentions as helpers Cardinals <i>Re, Kaspar, Arinze, Tauran</i>. Together with Cardinal Levada, some (not all, see Kasper) of them are rather conservative chaps but alas, they’re no great friends of the Tridentine.<br />
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An added problem was that the merging of <i>Ecclesia Dei</i> within the CDF in the wake of the “Williamson affair” led to a <i>deminutio</i> of the latter, now merely a branch of the CDF and not in a position to vigorously defend the original document once pressure for change started to come from the CDF (Levada) himself.<br />
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The rest, as we will probably very soon say, is history.<br />
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What would seem to transpire (and at this point it seems to me that the people at <i>Messa In Latino</i> certainly know what they write) is that an original sincere intention to do things better and, most importantly, in an orthodox way goes through a process of internal “improvement” and comes out of the Vatican’s washer-dryer rather discolored in the best of cases, and gravely stained in the worst. One is reminded of Vatican II, really.<br />
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Let us hope that last-minute interventions will avoid great damage and that the bombing of Summorum Pontificum, so it should come, will prove not threatening for the edifice’s structure.<br />
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In the end and as I have written in the past, there is no way the resurgence of the desire for the Latin Mass can be stopped, though it can certainly be slowed down.<br />
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</div><div align="left"><div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>"Second-Class Catholics"?</i></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Will the Vatican soon issue a document calling for some restrictions on the use of the old rite of the Mass?</span></span></div><br />
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The internet, especially in traditional Catholic circles, is abuzz with reports that this may be about to happen. </span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But for the moment, these reports are based only on rumors. </span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Officially, no one yet knows the content of the upcoming Vatican Instruction to give guidelines for the implementation of <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> -- the dramatic and controversial July 7, 2007 papal <i>motu proprio</i> in which Benedict XVI, after long hesitation, granted wider use of the old, pre-Vatican II liturgy, also known as the Tridentine liturgy or the Latin Mass.</span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The upcoming document is indeed being prepared; that much is certain. </span></span></div><br />
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is said to bear the date of February 22 -- just four days from now. </span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But it is not likely to be made public on February 22, but some days or weeks later, as often happens with Roman documents, and the document can even be rewritten during that time, after the date it is signed.</span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So we may be in for a considerable period of uncertainty on this question. And that will naturally allow room for fears based on uncertain or partial information to grow.</span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to unconfirmed "leaks" of portions of the document's contents, the Instruction will, somewhat unexpectedly, contain two clauses which will restrict the celebration of the old rite.</span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I say "somewhat unexpectedly" because the expectation for this document was that it would concretize what Benedict said in 2007 was his desire for a "generous" granting of permission to celebrate the old liturgy "widely." </span></span></div><br />
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It therefore seems strange to many that, if the reports are true, it may contain new restrictions, as if this would be out of keeping with Benedict's own expressed will.</span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">First, according to these reports, the old Mass will not be able to be freely celebrated in places where "non-Roman" Western rites once flourished, especially in Milan, where the Ambrosian rite flourished. (This is of importance because Milan is one of the largest dioceses in the world.)</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In an internet report on the Catholic website Rorate Coeli (<a href="http://community.icontact.com/p/insidethevatican/newsletters/christmas/posts/letter-3-2011-old-mass/link?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Frorate-caeli.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F02%2Finstruction-ii-ghettoization-must-start.html" rel="nofollow" title="rorate coeli link">http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/02/instruction-ii-ghettoization-must-start.html</a>), we read: </span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"In its current draft, the Instruction definitely 'clarifies' that the <i>motu proprio Summorum Pontificum</i> is applied exclusively to the Roman Rite, in the strictest interpretation of the word. Therefore, not to the non-Roman Latin Rites: the clearly minoritarian or even forgotten Mozarabic, Braga, or Sarum rites. But the rule would apply also to the not few religious who have tried to rediscover their Traditional rites or uses: Dominicans and Carmelites, in particular, but also Carthusians, Norbertines... What is surprising is that the extension of the spirit of the <i>motu proprio</i> to other Western rites and uses had always been assumed...<br />
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"This restrictive rule," the web site continues, "would in particular (and would seem thus planned, considering the complications of the Italian Church) exclude the application of the <i>motu proprio</i> to the Traditional Liturgy of the largest diocese in the Old World, and third with most Catholics in the world: Milan. Excluding the enclaves of Roman Rite, the <i>motu proprio</i> would be void in the Archdiocese and in the Ambrosian zones of the Diocese of Lugano, Switzerland.<br />
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"For over five million Catholics in that area, and for religious priests dedicated to their rites or uses, the rules to be applied would not be those of <i>Summorum</i> (the Traditional Liturgy as a right of priests and groups of faithful), but only <i>Ecclesia-Dei</i>-like privileges and concessions, granted by the liturgical authorities of the Archdiocese (in the case of Milan) or the Superiors (in the case of the orders).<br />
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"Why such a restriction? In legal terms, nothing seems to demand it: the text of <i>Summorum</i> is sufficiently ambiguous that it can be interpreted in both ways...<br />
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"This first major point of the instruction has, thus, a clear repressive and punitive intention. Its sense would be extremely dangerous: that the Traditional liturgies of the West, rather than being encouraged (as the letter of the <i>motu proprio</i> makes clear), must be contained, regulated, oppressed. Not a clear declaration of rights, but a bureaucratic web of limited privileges and concessions: this small example seems to set the general new tone regarding the Traditional Liturgy.<br />
</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"This may seem minor," the Rorate Coeli website concludes. "Yet it is quite significant in what it reveals: an interpretation of the rights recognized by <i>Summorum</i> as privileges or 'indults' that can be curtailed."<br />
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Second, and "much, much, more serious and insidious" says Rorate Coeli, is the report that "the Instruction, in its current draft, will explicitly prevent Bishops from using the Traditional Rite of Holy Orders." </span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In other words, bishops will not be able freely to ordain their seminarians using the old rite.</span></span></div><br />
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They will be able to celebrate all of the other sacraments -- baptism, confirmation, etc. -- according to the old rite, but not holy orders, unless they receive ask permission first from Rome.<br />
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There will be two exceptions, according to the leaked information, when bishops may use the old rite in priestly ordination ceremonies.</span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The first involves those institutes (the <i>Ecclesia Dei</i> institutes) and particular Churches dedicated exclusively to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. </span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The other exception is that the Bishop that desires to ordain a certain seminarian in the ancient Rite will have to ask prior permission to Rome (to the Pontifical Commission <i>Ecclesia Dei</i>), which will then evaluate if said permission should be granted or not.<br />
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"What is to be achieved by this odious restrictive interpretation?" Rorate Coeli asks. "Why should bishops be forbidden to choose with which Rite to ordain their own deacons and priests? The intention is, among others, to ghettoize the Traditional Rite of this most pivotal of all Sacraments, Holy Orders; and, further, to identify 'problematic' bishops and future priests, with all consequences that could entail (including for their careers)."</span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The website concludes: "It is an alarming sign that the thrust of the Instruction is once again to make, even in law, all Catholics attached to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite or those who merely appreciate it (and, in this case, even Bishops and poor hopeful seminarians) second-class Catholics."</span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some web bloggers argue that the leaks that have been leaked thus far are disinformation, that there is an effort being made to confuse people just before the Instruction's appearance.<br />
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"These documents go through many drafts, with many changes," one blogger wrote. "My guess is that such info is disinformation, intending to influence the document or – perhaps more importantly – its reception... It might have happened like this: A few powerful German or French bishops communicate with or visit <i>Ecclesia Dei</i>, recommending that certain restrictions be in the Instruction. Then word is put out through sources that such restrictions will be in the Instruction. A similar MO [<i>modus operandi</i>] was used before <i>Humanae Vitae</i> was promulgated."<br />
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<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Father John Zuhlsdorf, whose popular website "What Does the Prayer Really Say?" (<a href="http://community.icontact.com/p/insidethevatican/newsletters/christmas/posts/letter-3-2011-old-mass/link?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwdtprs.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F10%2Fubicumque-et-semper-new-motu-proprio-and-new-vatican-office%2F" rel="nofollow" title="zuhlsdorf">http://wdtprs.com/blog</a>) has reported on the leaks, has encouraged his readers to pray for the Holy Father.</span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"If you are concerned about what might happen to <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>," he writes, "pray and fast. Don’t whine. Don’t panic. Don’t fret. Don’t behave like a suddenly headless chicken.<br />
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"Do what a committed Catholic warrior would do for a cause that is dear," Zuhldsorf continues. "Go to church and spend time before the Blessed Sacrament every day until this resolves one way or another. Ask Jesus to either stop the Instruction or to make <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> even better. Pray the Rosary for the Holy Father. Ask our Blessed Mother to move the Holy Father to keep <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> strong, to make it even stronger. Pray to the Holy Father’s guardian angels constantly during the day asking them to strengthen him and to weaken his many enemies, some of them very close to him."</span></span></div><br />
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Zuhlsdorf and others desire to "keep <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> strong" because they see the revival of the old liturgy as positive not only for the Church's cultural identity, but also for the holiness of her faith and morals. </span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One blogger, noting that he had just read through the "shocking" Philadelphia Grand Jury report, just published, on the investigation into the priestly abuse of minors in the archdiocese of Philadelphia, expresses a feeling widely shared by traditional Catholics: that the loss of the sense of the sacred which followed the introduction of the new Mass in 1970 -- for whatever reason -- also contributed to a loss of moral discipline, of a moral compass, among many Catholics, especially among the clergy, and that the return to the faith and practice inculcated by the old Mass is the best way to restore the holiness of the life of the Church and end the scandals.</span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But, this blogger notes, after four decades, a return to that faith and practice is bitterly opposed by many in the Church, some of them very powerful and highly placed.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">==============================</span></span></div><br />
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>A Petition on this Matter</b></i></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At the following web address, you can find a petition in several languages which asks the Holy Father to intervene, if necessary, to revise the wording of this draft document: <a href="http://community.icontact.com/p/insidethevatican/newsletters/christmas/posts/letter-3-2011-old-mass/link?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.motuproprioappeal.com%2F" rel="nofollow" title="petition on old mass document">http://www.motuproprioappeal.com/</a></span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is the text of that petition:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Appeal for the Preservation of the Integrity of the <i>Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum</i></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<i>An Appeal to the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, Pertaining to the Instruction/Clarification of the </i>Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b><i><br />
Most Holy Father, we the undersigned:</i></b><br />
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1. Express our profound gratitude to Your Holiness for your personal liturgical example to the Universal Church. You are a true homo liturgicus whose love for the sacred liturgy is an inspiration; it teaches more clearly than words the centrality of the liturgy in the life of the Church.<br />
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2. Thank Your Holiness for your gift to the Church of your 2007 <i>Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum</i>. Since 2007 it has brought forth many fruits, including greater unity in the Church of Christ and a widespread enrichment of the liturgical life of the Church.<br />
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3. Note with sadness the continuing and real opposition to the implementation of <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> in many dioceses and on the part of many members of the hierarchy, the suffering and distress this continues to cause many of Christ’s faithful and the obstacle this opposition is to an effective reconciliation within the Church.<br />
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4. Note with anxiety the apparent signs that a forthcoming Instruction on <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> will, in some way, take away from what you have legally established in that <i>Motu Proprio</i> and from its wide application in the generous spirit so eloquently explained by Your Holiness in the letter accompanying it: “Let us generously open our hearts and make room for everything that the faith itself allows.”<br />
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5. Express our grave concern that any restrictive measures would cause scandal, disunity and suffering in the Church and would frustrate the reconciliation you so earnestly desire, as well as impede further liturgical renewal and development in continuity with Tradition, which is already so great a fruit of your pontificate.<br />
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6. Express our hope, our desire and our urgent appeal that the good Your Holiness personally initiated through <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> not be allowed to be hindered by such restrictions.<br />
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7. Turn to you with filial trust and as obedient sons and daughters, Most Holy Father, and ask that you urgently consider our concerns and intervene if you judge it necessary.<br />
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8. Assure Your Holiness of our continuing prayers, of our deep affection and of our loyalty.</span></span></div><div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you go to the web site, you can add your name to this petition.</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-88242786498046967242011-02-17T01:50:00.001-05:002011-02-17T01:55:49.463-05:00Fears that the clarification document will water down Summorum PontificumHere are two good blog posts summarizing what is known to date regarding the "clarification" document:<br />
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<blockquote>Ars Orandi: <a href="http://arsorandi.blogspot.com/2011/02/fears-that-clarification-document-will.html"> Fears that the clarification document will water down Summorum Pontificum</a><br />
English Catholic: <a href="http://catholicusanglicanus.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/summorum-pontificum-threatened-%E2%80%93-or-is-it/">Summorum Pontificum threatened – or is it?</a></blockquote><br />
And of course, level headed advice from Fr. Zuhlsdorf at WDTPRS:<br />
<blockquote><a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/02/an-initial-comment-concerning-the-instruction-about-summorum-pontificum/">An initial comment concerning the Instruction about Summorum Pontificum</a></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><blockquote><b>... If you are concerned about what might happen to <i>Summorum Pontificum, </i>pray and fast. Don’t whine. Don’t panic. Don’t fret. Don’t behave like a suddenly headless chicken. </b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Do what a committed Catholic warrior would do for a cause that is dear</i></b>.</span><br />
<ul><li>Go to church and spend time before the Blessed Sacrament <i>every day</i> until this resolves one way or another.</li>
<li>Ask Jesus to either stop the Instruction or to make Summorum Pontificum even better.</li>
<li>Pray the Rosary for the Holy Father.</li>
<li>Ask our Blessed Mother to move the Holy Father to keep <i>Summorum Pontificum </i>strong, to make it even stronger.</li>
<li>Pray to the Holy Father’s guardian angels constantly during the day asking them to strengthen him and to weaken his many enemies, some of them very close to him.</li>
<li>Fast and offer your hunger – <i>real</i> hunger, don’t fool around if you are going to do this - for the Holy Father’s well-being and firm resolve.</li>
</ul>Be prudent about fasting, of course, especially if others rely on you and you have health concerns. But if you are young and healthy, fast.</blockquote></blockquote><br />
If Fr. Z. is strongly recommending <i><b>prayer and fasting</b></i>, then one could safely assume there is reason for concern, no?Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-85890060435920828812011-02-16T15:52:00.005-05:002011-02-17T01:20:03.685-05:00Summorum Pontificum 'under threat', say Roman sourcesA month ago Fr. Zuhlsdorf at WDTPRS wrote about the imminent release of <a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/01/the-instruction-concerning-summorum-pontificum/">The Instruction concerning Summorum Pontificum</a>. <br />
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Now the contents of that clarification are in doubt. See <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100076513/summorum-pontificum-under-threat-say-roman-sources/">Damien Thompson's blog entry</a> and the latest updates at <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/02/urgent-action-needed-let-us-defend.html"> Rorate Caeli blog:</a> <br />
<blockquote><div class="storyHead"><h1>Summorum Pontificum 'under threat', say Roman sources </h1></div><span class="byAuthor">By <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/damianthompson/" title="Posts by Damian Thompson">Damian Thompson</a></span> <span class="lastUpdated bylineCategory"><a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/category/religion/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Religion">Religion</a></span> <span class="lastUpdated">Last updated: February 16th, 2011</span><br />
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A priest friend emails me to draw my attention to <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/02/urgent-action-needed-let-us-defend.html">an extraordinary post on the Rorate Caeli blog</a> suggesting that a forthcoming “clarification” to <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> will severely limit freedom to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass. “It seems there is some truth in this awful rumour,” he says.<br />
I do hope not. But here, anyway, is the blog post, written in somewhat melodramatic language (with my emphases):<br />
<blockquote>Strange, violent, and dark forces wish to derail the application of <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>. Lawyers (and those who know lawyers…) and legislators are quite aware how this goes: a lower-ranking interpretive text so modifies the clear letter of the law that renders the latter ineffectual. </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>Reports from different sources suggest that ill-intentioned people within the highest ranks of the Holy See wish to use the clarification document on <i>Summorum Pontificum</i> as a Trojan Horse, <b>emptying the motu proprio of all its content, especially regarding Parish Priests and other members of the diocesan clergy</b> (see e.g. Messa in Latino). This is a dangerous, clear, and credible threat. We must pray, indeed, but all priests and lay faithful must act. All Catholic faithful must send urgent and respectful letters to the Holy Father, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Secretariat of State, the Pontifical Commission ‘Ecclesia Dei’, and other authorities, asking the Holy Father and curial authorities to defend the clear letter of the motu proprio that gave us freedom and thanking once again the Holy Father for the gift that was <i>Summorum Pontificum</i>, including references to the personal improvement brought to one’s Catholic life and family by the wider availability of the Traditional liturgy. </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>This is also a time for open letters to the Pope, from all concerned Catholic intellectuals, in Italy, in France, in Germany, in Britain, in America, and elsewhere. We must make our voices heard BEFORE the storm hits, and it may hit us very soon.</blockquote></blockquote>RorateCaeli is <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/02/urgent-action-needed-let-us-defend.html">standing behind its reports</a>:<br />
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<h3 class="post-title"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: small;"> Let us defend Summorum Pontificum against the Trojan Horse </span></h3><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8pINDs78t-0LiSDW0ge7-fbv0uav1gWbbzYBpq4V6AOz2BxavvgB4z69BLsU5k8RVyuw-MawcnLvpZraLRMrVn05-3sEk68v2RiZvf7654SSrqXxUnwkgcNpvO2ZDhLD69yofDCnAaOib/s1600/TrojanHorse.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8pINDs78t-0LiSDW0ge7-fbv0uav1gWbbzYBpq4V6AOz2BxavvgB4z69BLsU5k8RVyuw-MawcnLvpZraLRMrVn05-3sEk68v2RiZvf7654SSrqXxUnwkgcNpvO2ZDhLD69yofDCnAaOib/s200/TrojanHorse.jpg" width="200" /></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: small;"> <b>[Update: We will keep this up; all signs from different sources are aligning, and unexpected sources have confirmed our fears; the matter is too relevant to be kept in silence.]</b></span><br />
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Contacts (for anyone who wants to write in and plead for the correct implementation of Summorum Pontificum):<br />
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His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI<br />
Palazzo Apostolico<br />
Via del Pellegrino<br />
00120 Città del Vaticano<br />
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His Eminence Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone<br />
Segretetia di Stato<br />
Palazzo Apostolico<br />
00120 Città del Vaticano<br />
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His Eminence Cardinal William J. Levada.<br />
Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede<br />
Piazza del S. Uffizio 11<br />
00l20 Città del Vaticano<br />
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Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei"<br />
Piazza del S. Uffizio 11<br />
00l20 Città del Vaticano<br />
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His Excellency The Most Reverend Pietro Sambi<br />
Apostolic Nuncio to the United States<br />
3339 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.<br />
Washington, D.C. 20008-3687Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-48455844559328555862010-10-01T22:11:00.001-04:002010-10-01T22:56:10.701-04:00Transalpine Redemptorists: ‘When we left, the stones came from behind’<span class="postbody"><a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/2010/10/01/%E2%80%98when-we-left-the-stones-came-from-behind%E2%80%99/" target="_blank" class="postlink"><img src="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/wp-content/woo_uploads/7-masth.gif" border="0" /><br /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/2010/10/01/%E2%80%98when-we-left-the-stones-came-from-behind%E2%80%99/"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="line-height: normal;font-size:18px;" >‘When we left, the stones came from behind’</span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Mark Greaves visits traditionalists in Orkney who are about to enter into full communion with Rome after decades of estrangement</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">By Mark Greaves on Friday, 1 October 2010</span><br /><br /><img src="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/wp-content/themes/cherald/cache/fd1a6883a07cf108ef8049455849ca91.jpg" border="0" /><br /><span style="line-height: normal;font-size:9px;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Transalpine Redemptorists pictured with Bishop Peter Moran of Aberdeen</span></span><br /><br />Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificum, was an attempt to end decades of division over liturgy: to bring the Society of St Pius X (SSPX), and all the groups affiliated with it, back into the Church. The older Latin Mass, the Pope said, had never been outlawed; it was, in fact, the “same rite” as the newer Mass, the Novus Ordo. The Church must make “every effort” to achieve unity, he said, adding: “Let us generously open our hearts and make room for everything that the faith itself allows.”<br /><br />Negotiations with the SSPX have indeed begun, yet so far no traditionalist group has taken up the Pope’s call – except, that is, for one small community based on a tiny, windswept island in Orkney.<br /><br />The community, known as the Transalpine Redemptorists, have paid a heavy price for their decision. Four brothers and two priests have left, and about 1,000 supporters in Britain have broken off contact with them – only one or two families are still in touch.<br /><br />They have not been ecstatically welcomed, either. It is more than two years since they first approached Rome, yet they are still waiting for their bishop, Bishop Peter Moran of Aberdeen, to grant them legal status within the Church.<br /><br />Fr Michael Mary, who founded the community in 1988, is a kind man but no softie. Later, when he gives me a rosary as a present, he says “don’t blub”. He is a New Zealander: he left in 1987 to join Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre at his Econe seminary in Switzerland.<br /><br />When I arrive at their island, Papa Stronsay, the waters are calm. A seal is bobbing its head by the shore. I sit down with Fr Michael Mary in the monastery guestroom – he tells me it was once a herring shed, where women used to gut fresh herring. Next door is the chapel, where office is now sung in Latin for several hours a day.<br /><br />When Summorum Pontificum came out, he says, he was back in New Zealand. He read it first on the Rorate Caeli website – the “BBC of tradition”. Later he printed a copy for another priest, Fr Anthony Mary.<br />They had no thoughts, at that time, of becoming reconciled with Rome. It was only months later, at an SSPX conference, that doubts about their status began to creep in.<br /><br />It started when Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the SSPX, mentioned that he would ask Rome to give the SSPX jurisdiction for marriages. Currently, their marriages could be automatically annulled by the Church if the couple wanted a divorce; that, clearly, was a problem. The remark made Fr Michael Mary wonder, though: if the SSPX has “supplied jurisdiction”, as it has always claimed, why does it need to ask Rome? (Bishop Fellay later claimed that he did not make this remark.)<br /><br />Several weeks later, on New Year’s Eve, 2007, Fr Michael Mary went to bed early. As he was going to sleep, he was struck by a very strong feeling. It was, he says, a “complete turnaround”. He got out of bed and wrote these words on an envelope: “I, Fr Michael Mary, believe tonight that Pope Benedict XVI is the true Pope of the Catholic Church, and that I must now do everything possible to live in union with him.”<br /><br />Fr Michael Mary rustles his rosary beads loudly as he talks. Occasionally, when trying to remember something, he takes off his glasses and holds them in the air, his eyes directed at the ceiling.<br />He says he was eager, then, to resolve the question of jurisdiction. It boils down to whether the SSPX founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, was right to claim “a state of necessity” that meant he could ordain bishops without permission from the Pope.<br /><br />First, he contacted French Dominicans. These, he says, were the experts: they had huge libraries and produced dense periodicals. But when he asked them about jurisdiction, expecting them to have a treatise on it, they said they had nothing of the sort. He mimics their response to his question: a very knowing, drawn out, “Ah, bon…” They told him that to ask that question would be “the revolution” in his community.<br /><br />After that he got in touch with Fr Josef Bisig, founder of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP), who broke from the SSPX in 1988. Fr Bisig said he would email over the FSSP study, and wrote: “Excuse me for saying my personal opinion, but I think you probably are schismatic.”<br /><br />Reading the FSSP document, says Fr Michael Mary, was depressing. “I thought, ‘this is bad news’. We are actually in a difficult situation.”<br /><br />He printed off the study for each member of the community, and suggested they read it three times, letting it filter through. They reached the conclusion that they should seek communion with Rome “at all costs”. In March 2008, they had a vote. Each member put a bead in a voting box: a white bead for “yes”, a black bead for “no”. All the beads were white.<br /><br />Without Summorum Pontificum, says Fr Michael Mary, they “would not have dreamed” of becoming reconciled with Rome. They were struck by the graciousness, and courage, of the Pope, and by his admission that the old Mass had never been outlawed. “Because nearly everybody would tell you it had,” he says.<br /><br />At first they kept their vote a secret. After all, they did not know who to tell. Their contact with the mainstream Catholic Church had, for 20 years, been “zero or negative”.<br /><br />On the advice of Fr Bisig, they arranged a meeting with Fr José Monteiro Guimarães, a Redemptorist official in the Congregation for Clergy (he is now Bishop of Garanhuns in Brazil). They travelled to Rome, staying in a hotel. It was, he says, very daunting. “We had the feeling that we should go back, that we had made a big mistake. We were completely out of our camp.”<br /><br />In the months that followed they met officials at Ecclesia Dei, the body set up to negotiate with the SSPX. They met its prefect, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos. Their priestly suspensions were lifted. Later they wrote a constitution, lifting parts of old Redemptorist constitutions from 1921 and 1936. That has been approved. All that is needed now is for Bishop Moran, their local bishop, to issue a “decree of erection” that will put them in canonical good order. (Last Friday Bishop Moran issued a statement which said he was waiting for guidance from the Congregation for Religious, to whom the matter has now been passed.)<br /><br />The process, though, has not been smooth. Some in the community have family who are in the SSPX. Four Brothers left, two without saying a word to Fr Michael Mary. One priest, based on the next-door island of Stronsay, split off immediately, taking most of the parish with him. Another, Fr Clement, left more recently, for a traditionalist parish in Melbourne. “Nobody expected it to take this long,” says Fr Michael Mary.<br /><br />Subscriptions to their monthly newspaper dropped by half, from 4,000 to fewer than 2,000. They received hate mail from people they thought were friends. They had to withdraw seminarians from an SSPX seminary in Australia after the rector told them they would never be ordained unless they defied Fr Michael Mary and started their own breakaway group. Fr Michael Mary is hurt by all of this. “When you leave the ghetto, the stones don’t come from the front, they come from behind you. If they can get you in the back with a good boulder – that’s how it felt.”<br /><br />Despite all these hardships, the community has a joyful feel to it. At recreation there are roars of laughter. One brother, who wears Doc Martens along with his habit, has an apron that says: “Danger: Men Cooking.”<br /><br />They are also very young – in their 20s and 30s, mainly. Two brothers are about to be ordained as priests; four more are seminarians. In total there are 15 in the community.<br /><br />It is not an easy life here: in winter there are only six hours of sunlight, and the winds are ferocious — sometimes up to 120mph. “If you are small and frail,” says one brother, “you stay inside.”<br /><br />Brother Jean-Marie, 32, and Brother Yousef-Marie, 35, are both from warmer climes. “When you first come here,” says Brother Jean-Marie, from India, “you feel like there’s ice on your face.”<br /><br />Brother Jean-Marie was a student when he felt called to the religious life, but the orders he knew did not really impress him. He then came across a small leaflet about the Transalpine Redemptorists. “People were actually wearing their habits, they were not ashamed of it. I thought, this is something I feel inspired to give my life to.”<br /><br />It attracted him partly because it offered what he describes as a masculine kind of Christianity. “You’re not just sitting on your thumbs. You’re mixing cement, slaughtering cows, handling boats and ropes. In monastic history, monks always did work, they built the monastery themselves. They didn’t have people to do it for them.”<br /><br />Brother Jean-Marie and Brother Yousef-Marie, from Sydney, have an intensity about them. They have both just finished their studies and, once the community is canonically erected, they can be ordained. Right now they are in limbo. “It is not a pleasant feeling,” says Brother Jean-Marie. “But ultimately God is in charge.”</span>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570809348314913884.post-88253382141231534732010-07-06T10:28:00.004-04:002010-07-06T16:33:35.793-04:00Ecclesia Dei: "no provision for the distribution of Holy Communion in the hand in this form of the Holy Mass"<span class="postbody">From <a href="http://www.kreuz.net/article.11473.html" target="_blank" class="postlink">Kreuz.net</a>: </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.kreuz.net/article/article.11473.attachment1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 706px; height: 600px;" src="http://www.kreuz.net/article/article.11473.attachment1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Translation:<br /><br /><span class="postbody"></span><blockquote><span class="postbody">Dear Mr. XXXX<br /><br />In reference to your letter of 15. June, this papal commission would like to point out that the celebration of Holy Mass in the extraordinary form envisages the reception of Holy Communion while kneeling, as the Holy Host is laid directly on the tongue of the communicant. There is no provision for the distribution of Holy Communion on the hand in this form of the Holy Mass.<br /><br />With blessings,<br /><br /><br /></span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE</span>:<br /><a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/07/pont-comm-ecclesia-dei-letter-about-communion-in-the-hand/">WDTPRS</a> has weighed in:<br /><br /><h2></h2><blockquote><h2>6 July 2010</h2> <div class="post"> <h3 class="storytitle" id="post-10597"><a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/07/pont-comm-ecclesia-dei-letter-about-communion-in-the-hand/" rel="bookmark"> Pont. Comm. “Ecclesia Dei” letter about Communion in the hand </a></h3> <div class="meta"> CATEGORY: <a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/category/sessiuncula/" title="View all posts in SESSIUNCULA" rel="category tag">SESSIUNCULA</a> — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 12:43 pm </div> <div class="storycontent"> <p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBSuUD6auaDI2tM_jwBB_ZL1ebOZmjNP-JGv9egG7-d4TXceChm-i2QcuysNPnt2i16nzhHzgDtOHcGZLmNPr6Q0bnGZtgLIp4cxgPty0fpea9jHYLwH3R1Mf-QbIj4QkLp11_oK7dy48/s400/42-17530918.jpg" vspace="20" width="200" align="right" border="0" height="100" hspace="20" />Even yesterday I had a conversation about the thorny issue of just what <em>Summorum Pontificum </em>(the 3rd anniversary of its release is tomorrow, blessed day) might have revived.<br /><br />Take the situation of the distribution of Holy Communion.<br /><br />In the old days before the conciliar reform of the liturgy it was unthinkable – unless you were a heretic or Protestant – that people would receive Communion in the hand. There was no need for specific decrees about such a normal practice as reception of Communion, which was always given on the tongue to people who knelt if they could.<br /><br />Today, however, there is (sadly) legislation which permits Communion in the hand under some circumstances.<br /><br /><em>Summorum Pontificum</em> did not revive the old decrees of the long-gone <em>Sacred Congregation of Rites</em> or automatically resurrect the practices of yore.<br /><br />Or did it?<br /><br />I have always held that priests need to respect the laws in force about Communion today, even in the celebration of Holy Mass in the older form. Of course they can also do all they might to discourage Communion in the hand and promote a more reverent manner of reception. At the same time, it is unlikely that many who go to the older Mass will want to receive Communion in the hand.<br /><br />I received from a friend in England the following very interesting news. This is on <em><a href="http://www.kreuz.net/article.11473.html" target="_blank">kreutz.net</a>.</em><br /><br />The Pontifical Commission "<em>Ecclesia Dei</em>" – remember them? – sent a response to a person making an inquiry about reception of Communion at the older, Extraordinary Form. Translation:<br /><br /></p><blockquote>"Dear Mr. <span class="caps">XXXX </span>In reference to your letter of 15. June, this papal commission would like to point out that the celebration of Holy Mass in the extraordinary form envisages the reception of Holy Communion while kneeling, as the Holy Host is laid directly on the tongue of the communicant. There is no provision for the distribution of Holy Communion on the hand in this form of the Holy Mass. With blessings," <br /></blockquote><img src="http://www.wdtprs.com/images/10_07_06_PCEDLetter.jpg" width="395" border="0" height="336" /><br /><br />I note from the graphic that there was no Protocol.<br /><br />There is a stamp on the letter rather than a signature.<br /><br />This is a form letter.<br /><br />It is therefore more than a curiosity, but it is a great deal less than the final word.<br /><br />We are still left with questions about Communion during the Extraordinary Form.<br /><br />If people insist on receiving in the hand, are they to be denied based on the argument that in 1962 there was no permission to receive in the hand?<br /><br />And on an additional note, keep in mind <a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2009/03/poll-communion-in-the-hand/" target="_blank">this</a> and this.<br /> </div> <div class="feedback" align="right"> <a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/07/pont-comm-ecclesia-dei-letter-about-communion-in-the-hand/#comments" title="Comment on Pont. Comm. “Ecclesia Dei” letter about Communion in the hand">COMMENTS (12)</a> </div> <!-- --> </div> <div class="postend">• • • • • •</div><br /><br /></blockquote>Brian Kopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02575906703463685178noreply@blogger.com0