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Draft of a Letter to Professor John Crown RATIONABILE OBSEQUIUM - May 19, 2013 ... Catholic Priest in order to take issue with a number of the points you make in your article in today's Sunday Independent. I find myself astonished that a respected parliamentarian could have penned an article that so profoundly misunderstands the nature of justice and democracy and that seems to be aimed at discrediting the participation of ordinary Catholics in the democratic process by branding their contribution as being at the service of a foreign power. I'll trust you ...http://rationabileobsequium.blogspot.com/2013/05/draft-of-letter-to-professor-john-crown.html
Church Lecture on Morality? What a Joke (Opinion) CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 16, 2013 ... of course). But the excommunication tactic involves a darkly hilarious proposition – that good standing with the Vatican is synonymous with morality. Anyone convinced by this quaint notion should break the habit of a lifetime and open their eyes. On any given Sunday, many of the country's most twisted crooks can be found in churches of various kinds. Sometimes, the worst offender is the degenerate priest on the altar; sometimes, it's the corrupt TD in ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/church-lecture-on-morality-what-joke.html
Evening Roundup - Sunday After the Ascension - Dominica Post Ascensionem - Missa 'Exaudi Domine' - May 12th, 2013 TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS IN MARYLAND - May 12, 2013 ... J. McDonald) > ;> ; A PRIEST FOR 40 HOURS AND FOREVER! Te igitur > ;> ; Domus Aurea Te igitur > ;> ; Krakow Nuns - The Best The Catholic Thing > ;> ; Carl Schmitt and the Vision of Beauty (Fr. C. John McCloskey) The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) > ;> ; Sometimes They Don't Read What They Done Wrote The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) > ;> ; Where is Global Warming When You Really Need It? Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) > ;> ; Take my yoke upon you Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) > ;> ; The ...http://tlm-md.blogspot.com/2013/05/evening-roundup-sunday-after-ascension.html
"Ascension Sunday" - The Banal Fabrication We Call the New Mass THE NEW THEOLOGICAL MOVEMENT - May 12, 2013 ... Sunday of Easter, or "Ascension Sunday" In the years since the Second Vatican Council, in an effort to make the liturgy more readily acceptable and agreeable to the people (with the obvious hope that they would grow in devotion and love for God), there have been a number of changes to the liturgical calendar. Furthermore, it has also happened that certain adaptations may be employed either by the local bishops' conference or by a local bishop ...http://newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com/2013/05/ascension-sunday-banal-fabrication-we.html
Fr. Z's Annual Rant About Ascension Thursday Sunday FR. Z'S BLOG (OLIM: WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY?) - May 9, 2013 ... this liturgical caper "Ascension Thursday Sunday". Those who are participating at Holy Mass with the 1962 MR avoid all this. Ascension Thursday is, logically, on Thursday. Since we should, when examining issues, pay attention to cult, code and creed , and since we have looked at the theological point of the liturgical observance of the Ascension (creed and cult) let's look also at some law (code). In the 1983 Code of Canon Law, can. 1246, ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wdtprs/DhFa/~3/ibwvjh2cQNY/
Ascension Thursday Sunday? ABOUT.COM CATHOLICISM - May 7, 2013 ... 12.) Since Catholics are already obligated to attend Mass on Sunday , most people don't realize that Ascension is a Holy Day of Obligation --they think they're in church just for Sunday Mass. The reader continues: I know it is up to the diocese but WHY would it be a choice at all? I have many friends from other states, and I am the only one who is obligated to attend Mass on Thursday. Now, we're getting to the heart of the matter. The reader is not quite ...http://catholicism.about.com/b/2013/05/07/ascension-thursday-sunday.htm
A Little Something Extra... Sixth Sunday of Easter THE CATHOLIC SCHOLAR - May 5, 2013 ... had to be done to sort out this dilemma, to circumcise or not to circumcise, so the apostles and presbyters met in council to discuss the problem and come to a decision under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. They debated for a long time. What was the role of the Law in this new era of grace? How much of it should be enforced and with whom? Was circumcision necessary for Gentiles? How about Jewish dietary laws? How was Christianity different from Judaism? How would the Church ...http://thecatholicscholar.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-little-something-extra-sixth-sunday.html
New Jersey Catholics Have Anger, Disgust for Abuser Priest in Ministry CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 5, 2013 About 70 advocates for victims of childhood sexual abuse gathered Sunday on the lawn of St. Joseph Church in Mendham, N.J., for the rededication of a monument to sex abuse victims that was vandalized twice in the last 17 months. Almost as powerful as the sledgehammer that first destroyed the millstone monument in November 2011 was an article in the day's Newark Star-Ledger disclosing that a New Jersey priest -- Fr. Michael Fugee of the Newark archdiocese -- who admitted in ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-jersey-catholics-have-anger-disgust.html
Archbishop Tartaglia Vs Cardinal O'Brien CATHOLIC TRUTH - May 4, 2013 CARDINAL Keith O'Brien has been told by the Vatican to leave the UK amid concerns of wreaking further damage on the Catholic Church in Scotland … Continuing source of tension in Scottish Catholic Church. Friends of the cleric have said he has been told by Rome to shelve his plans to retire to a church-owned cottage in East Lothian and instead leave the country. The Herald understands Cardinal O'Brien was given the news yesterday afternoon, three days after ...http://www.catholictruthscotland.com/blog/2013/05/archbishop-tartaglia-vs-cardinal-obrien/
Catholic Bishop Richard Lennon to Meet With Representatives of Breakaway Congregation CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 4, 2013 ... renovated space in an old warehouse on Euclid Avenue at East 71st Street where they have been celebrating Masses each Sunday since August 2010. The split created a standoff between Marrone and Lennon as the two exchanged icy letters and held their respective ground. In March, Lennon declared Marrone excommunicated, saying "Father Marrone's recent actions have been in direct defiance of the church's teachings and authority." "It is with sadness," Lennon continued, "that in ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/catholic-bishop-richard-lennon-to-meet.html
Archdiocese of Newark: One Resignation Submitted, One Still Needed SUNLIT UPLANDS - May 3, 2013 ... Michael Fugee. But as with another arrogant, corrupt American churchman, Cardinal Law, Myers is going to find it impossible to appear in public or say Mass in his own cathedral. He's also going to find that Catholic school enrollments will drop and Sunday collections will dry up. If he has any shred of decency, he will submit the resignation that the overwhelming number of Catholics in New Jersey and throughout the United States are demanding. You've wreaked ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SunlitUplands/~3/b64PbtvccuM/archdiocese-of-newark-one-resignation.html
Argentine Ex-Bishop's Widow Wants Pope Francis to Make Priestly Celibacy Optional CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 27, 2013 ... leading cardinal. As Egypt's political and economic crisis grows, Egyptians pin their hopes for recovery on old saviors. Luro's convinced that he will eventually lead the global church to end mandatory priestly celibacy, a requirement she says "the world no longer understands." She believes this could resolve a global shortage of priests, and persuade many Catholics who are no longer practicing to recommit themselves to the church. "I think that in time priestly celibacy will become optional," ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/argentine-ex-bishops-widow-wants-pope.html
"You Are Pastors, Not Functionaries" – At Priestly Ordination, Francis Fisks the Rite WHISPERS IN THE LOGGIA - April 22, 2013 In his first turn at the Vatican's observance of this "Good Shepherd Sunday" – for the 50th time, the church's annual World Day of Prayer for Vocations – this morning Pope Francis ordained ten new priests, sending them forth with some pointed words of his own amid the ritual's script. Of the group, eight of the men were ordained for the 2.4 million-member diocese of Rome – four full-time, the other four formed by and available as needed ...http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2013/04/you-are-pastors-not-functionaries-at.html
Good Shepherd Sunday GERHARD'S BLOG - April 21, 2013 PRIESTLY ORDINATIONS HOMILY OF POPE FRANCIS I Vatican Basilica Fourth Sunday of Easter, 21 April 2013 Beloved brothers and sisters: because these our sons, who are your relatives and friends, are now to be advanced to the Order of priests, consider carefully the nature of the rank in the Church to which they are about to be raised. It is true that God has made his entire holy people a royal priesthood in Christ. Nevertheless, our great Priest himself, ...http://gerhard-hattinghsblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/good-shepherd-sunday.html
Pope Francis: Always Be Merciful Pastors of the People of God DA MIHI ANIMAS - April 21, 2013 The following comes from Vatican Radio: Marking the 50 th World Day of Prayer for Vocations this Sunday, Pope Francis ordained 10 men to the priesthood for the diocese of Rome. The men were drawn from Rome's Major Seminary, the diocesan college Redemptoris Mater and the seminary of the oblates of Divino Amore. The homily delivered by the Holy Father is based on the one that appears in the Pontificale Romanum for the ordination of priests, with one or ...http://salesianity.blogspot.com/2013/04/pope-francis-always-be-merciful-pastors.html
Pope: Be Merciful Pastors, Not Functionaries NEWS.VA - April 21, 2013 (Vatican Radio) On the 50 th World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Francis ordained ten men to the priesthood for the diocese of Rome at Sunday Mass in St Peter's basilica, mandating them to 'build the house of God, which is the Church, in word and example'. Emer McCarthy reports listen: The ten men ranging in age from 26 to 44, were drawn from the Diocesann major seminary, the Neocatechumenal Way seminary for the diocese, Redemptoris Mater and the Oblates ...http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-always-be-merciful-pastors-of-the-people-of-g
Pope Francis: Regina Caeli Message DA MIHI ANIMAS - April 14, 2013 The following comes from the Vatican News site: Pope Francis prayed the Regina caeli with more than 80 thousand people gathered in St Peter's Square this Third Sunday of Easter. Below, please find Vatican Radio's tranlsation of his remarks before the traditional Eastertide prayer of Marian devotion. *** Dear brothers and sisters, a good day to you! I would like to touch briefly on the passage from the Acts of the Apostles, which we read in ...http://salesianity.blogspot.com/2013/04/pope-francis-regina-caeli-message.html
Pope Francis: Regina Caeli (full Text) NEWS.VA - April 14, 2013 Pope Francis prayed the Regina caeli with more than 80 thousand people gathered in St Peter's Square this Third Sunday of Easter. Below, please find Vatican Radio's tranlsation of his remarks before the traditional Eastertide prayer of Marian devotion. *** Dear brothers and sisters, a good day to you! I would like to touch briefly on the passage from the Acts of the Apostles, which we read in the liturgy of this Third Sunday of Easter. ...http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-regina-caeli-full-text
Vatican Advisor: Pro-Equal Marriage Catholics Should Not Take Communion CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 12, 2013 A legal advisor to the Vatican has said Catholics who support same-sex marriage should not approach for Communion, with the Archbishop of Detroit adding that to do so would be like committing "perjury". Edward Peters, a professor of canon law at a seminary in Detroit, became a legal advisor to the Vatican when he was appointed referendary of the Apostolic Sinatura by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. According to the Detroit Free Press, he ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/vatican-advisor-pro-equal-marriage.html
Discussion of Worthy Reception of Holy Communion in Detroit TE DEUM LAUDAMUS! - April 9, 2013 ... just these. While some Catholics may be shocked in a negative way that a Catholic archbishop would instruct the Catholic faithful in Catholic teaching, other Catholics are shocked just to hear and see it done because of it's absence. If a math teacher fails to teach students that 2 x 3 = 6 and every student grows up believing the answer is whatever they make it, it does not change the objective reality that 2 x 3 = 6. Archbishop Vigneron... Here are some snippets from the article : A Detroit ...http://te-deum.blogspot.com/2013/04/discussion-of-worthy-reception-of-holy.html
