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News and Such IN SPIRITU ET VERITATE - May 14, 2013 ... health of Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI. Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne visited Benedict at Castel Gandolfo on March 18. He said that he was taken aback by the retired Pontiff's loss of strength and energy, as well as a dramatic loss of weight in the few weeks since his resignation took effect. l __________ Quote of the Day: "We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours. How arrogant — how very far from humility — would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a ...http://inspirituetveritate.blogspot.com/2013/05/news-and-such.html
LCWR Head to Global Sisters: 'Serious Misunderstandings' With Vatican CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 8, 2013 "Serious misunderstandings" exist between Vatican officials and Catholic sisters, the head of the U.S. sisters' group that was ordered to place itself under the review of bishops told some 800 of her global peers Saturday. Franciscan Sr. Florence Deacon, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), addressed the sisters during the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General, a group of nearly 2,000 leaders of ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/lcwr-head-to-global-sisters-serious.html
Collegiality's Dark Underbelly FR. Z'S BLOG (OLIM: WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY?) - May 2, 2013 ... in 1909 (cf Sapienti consilio ) when the Pope was no longer monarch of the Papal States. Think about what would happen with the abolition of the Curia. The Curia is the extension of the Roman Pontiff. The offices of the Curia do, in various spheres of the Church's life, what the Pope can't do by himself. Were the Curia to be decentralized, the Pope would be reduced to a Roman tourist attraction who kisses babies and blesses things once in a ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wdtprs/DhFa/~3/TPhmkn5A5nM/
American Archbishop Advocates New Power-Sharing Structures in the Catholic Church CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 1, 2013 John R. Quinn advocates the expansion of the patriarchal structure in the Catholic Church and the attribution of decision making power to the synod of bishops, to remedy excessive centralization and strengthen communion... After serving as archbishop of San Francisco for 18 years (1977-95) and before that as archbishop of Oklahoma, John Raphael Quinn, who was ordained bishop at the age of 38, decided that the time had come for him to resign in 1995. Since then he has ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/american-archbishop-advocates-new-power.html
Archives Reveal LA Cardinal's Attempts to Head Off John Jay Investigation CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 27, 2013 In 2003, with the country newly focused on the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church, a senior U.S. church leader attempted behind the scenes to head off the investigation of the crisis by researchers at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, disparaging the institution and its researchers as inadequate. Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, in a strongly worded letter to then-Bishop Wilton Gregory, at the time president of the U.S. Conference of ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/archives-reveal-la-cardinals-attempts.html
THE SPIRIT OF ORTHODOXY by H.R.H. Princess Ileana of Romania MONKS AND MERMAIDS (A BENEDICTINE BLOG) - April 14, 2013 ... in 1991. The Spirit of Orthodoxy HAVING been baptized into and brought up in the Eastern Orthodox Church, I have taken it for granted all my life. It is only lately that I was confronted with the question: "What is Orthodoxy? What do the Orthodox believe?" I have found myself being looked at and questioned with the misgiving and curiosity shown some exotic creature, not quite the same as other people. I have not been offended by this curiosity; instead I have become equally curious to find out ...http://fatherdavidbirdosb.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-spirit-of-orthodoxy-by-hrh-princess.html
In France, Foreign Aid in the Form of Priests CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 11, 2013 ... ask people to shake hands, they say no." In this quiet town in Burgundy, he preaches to a more somber audience of about 40 gray-haired retirees in an unadorned 19th-century church that can accommodate up to 600 people. "In my country, we applaud, we acclaim, we shout," said Father Folly, a Roman Catholic priest who spoke in the living room of his modern, modest house. "Here, even when I ask people to shake hands, they say no." Father Folly, 45, has settled in ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/in-france-foreign-aid-in-form-of-priests.html
Hand-Wringing Over the Foot-Washing AND SOMETIMES TEA - April 1, 2013 ... on this day goes back at least to the latter half of the twelfth century, when "the pope washed the feet of twelve sub-deacons after his Mass and of thirteen poor men after his dinner." [3] From 1570 to 1955, the Roman Missal printed, after the text of the Holy Thursday Mass , a rite of washing of feet unconnected with the Mass. The 1955 revision by Pope Pius XII inserted it into the Mass. Since then, the rite is celebrated after the homily that follows the reading of the ...http://redcardigan.blogspot.com/2013/04/hand-wringing-over-foot-washing.html
How the Vatican's Finances Work CLERICAL WHISPERS - March 24, 2013 ... Chase, the largest U.S. bank, has about $2 trillion in assets.) Details of the account holders are private, though the Vatican says most of the accounts belong to members of the clergy. Because its assets are not the property of the Holy See, it isn't overseen by the Vatican; instead it's considered a charitable foundation affiliated with the Vatican. What's the controversy about the Vatican Bank? Where do we begin? It's been controversial for decades, accused of money-laundering and ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-vaticans-finances-work.html
Pelosi and Obama Ushering in the Persecution of Catholics UNAM ECCLESIAM - March 9, 2013 Like corrupt governments of old and banana republics of today, the Obama administration is starting to push around religion. And surprisingly, Roman Catholics are the ones both behind it and backing it. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, a Roman Catholic, announced the provision as part of Obamacare. Then, N ancy Pelosi, the self-acclaimed queen of Catholic political culture, decided to join the ...http://unam-ecclesiam.blogspot.com/2012/02/pelosi-and-obama-ushering-in.html
The Ratzinger Legacy VOICE FROM THE DESERT - March 3, 2013 ... faced a rebellion from Latin Mass traditionalists, even as progressive theologians confidently planned for a third Vatican Council . Along with institutional instability there was moral laxity, and worse: revelations of sex abuse and cover-up were years away, but the rate of abuse was at its peak. Beneath these trends was a pervasive sense that Catholic identity was entirely up for grabs — that having dispensed with Latin Mass and meatless Fridays, the church might be ...http://reform-network.net/?p=20069
Benedict's Men: U.S. Vocations Strengthen During His Eight-Year Papacy BENEDICT NOTES AND MY WORLD TODAY - February 27, 2013 ... faith and the New Evangelization captured the imagination of Andrew Buonopane, 24, now a second-year seminarian for the Washington Archdiocese. "The Year of Faith and the call to the New Evangelization are right up my alley, personally," Buonopane said. "It addresses the concerns of skeptics and non-believers in ways that make sense to them." Buonopane knows this from personal experience. Encountering the Pope during his historic April 2008 visit to Washington played a key part of Buonopane's ...http://thebenedictnotes.blogspot.com/2013/02/benedicts-men-us-vocations-strengthen.html
Pope Sean Patrick I? A FRIAR'S LIFE - February 19, 2013 NOTE:Below is the latest buzz from Rome by National Catholic Reporter correspondent John Allen as Papal speculation begins to get into full swing. Some of that speculation, although unlikely, has turned to our own beloved Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley. This is some very interesting speculation and I think it is worth some consideration (of course the real question is always weather or not those Cardinals who will cast votes within the Conclave feel the same). There is ...http://afriarslife.blogspot.com/2013/02/pope-sean-patrick-i.html
Next Pope & Only Some Cardinals Are Immune for Abuse Crimes VOICE FROM THE DESERT - February 19, 2013 ... thank author Jerry Slevin for this link. * * * Christian Catholicism Views of Jerry Slevin, a retired Catholic and Harvard "schooled" international lawyer _______If you benefited here, please share/forward this now to others to read______ Next Pope & Only Some Cardinals Are Immune For Abuse Crimes Tens of thousands of survivors of priest rape worldwide, and many millions of other people, surely think it outrageous that either the Pope or any Cardinal is immune from ...http://reform-network.net/?p=19672
Card. Gracias: Golden Treasures of Vatican II for Church in Asia NEWS.VA - February 4, 2013 ... "prepared the Church for the passage from the second millennium to the third millennium after the birth of Christ". 70 of the 78 Indian Bishops attended the first session of the Council. On 23 November 1962, Pope John XXIII met the Indian Bishops. Being aware and concerned about the social and economic conditions of India, the Pope expressed the hope that in the course of time, India would overcome some of its problems. The Church as a whole, and particularly in India, has seen positive ...http://www.news.va/en/news/card-gracias-golden-treasures-of-vatican-ii-for-ch
What's the Message on the Runway for Baroque Fashions? (Opinion) CLERICAL WHISPERS - January 30, 2013 ... boy, more than 50 years ago, ecclesiastical clothes were impressive. They were unusual and colorful, antique and sacral; they were distinctively Roman Catholic. The colored watered silk, the jeweled gloves, the red slippers (buskins) pointed to an individual caught up in a church office. This transcendent figure, a representative of the divine, appeared among the ordinary suits and dresses of working-class Catholics at rare moments. Nonetheless, even as a ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/01/whats-message-on-runway-for-baroque.html
