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Crackdown on Freemason Priest 'At Rome's Request' THAT THE BONES YOU HAVE CRUSHED MAY THRILL - May 25, 2013 Courtesy of BBC 'A Roman Catholic parish priest at an elite French ski resort has been stripped of his Church functions for refusing to renounce Freemasonry. Father Pascal Vesin was ordered by his bishop to cease his work in the Alpine resort of Megeve, the parish said. Bishop Yves Boivineau had warned Fr Vesin about his "active membership" of the Grand Orient de France lodge. Freemasonry has been condemned as anti-Christian and anti-clerical by various popes through ...http://thatthebonesyouhavecrushedmaythrill.blogspot.com/2013/05/crackdown-on-freemasonry-in-church-at.html
Stuck With Me DEVIL, DOES YOUR DOG BITE? - May 24, 2013 ... one's birthday. But I have to thank her on my ordination anniversary, too. About fifteen years ago, after my second year in the seminary, I had it in my mind to join the Trappists and spend the rest of my days making caskets in the monastery in Peosta, Iowa . But my mom knew me better than I knew myself. She talked me out of it. To paraphrase: 'You may be an obtuse goofball, but you nonetheless have the makings of a halfway decent shepherd of souls. You owe it to the good Lord ...http://frmarkdwhite.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/stuck-with-me/
Quick Takes Volume 70 KAREN'S ADVENTURES IN MOMMYLAND - May 24, 2013 ~1~ Remember the foot problem I had over a year ago? Well, I stupidly plopped down on my foot with my leg bent under me about two weeks ago. A few days later I started having problems with my hip and my foot. I came to the conclusion that my hip, which has been bothering me since I was pregnant with Katie was the culprit. So now I'm seeing a chiropractor for my hip. I was convinced last time around that my hip had nothing to do with my foot pain but now I think ...http://kareninmommyland.blogspot.com/2013/05/quick-takes-volume-70.html
New Catholic Short Film Complete CATHOLICMOM.COM - May 23, 2013 Editor's note: I'm very excited to share the following "sneak peek" at the trailer for a short film "Letter to a Priest", created by Clayton Richard Long. Learn more about this film below and check out the film's Facebook Page for the latest news. LMH Watch this video on YouTube . Vancouver, BC, May.1, 2013 — MV Studios and Airace Productions are pleased to announce, after 7 months of production the short film "Letter to a Priest" . Motivated by ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Catholicmomcom/~3/qS1x9I4h-HA/
Anger As Gay Porn Incident Cleric Is Made Parish Priest CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 23, 2013 A CLERIC who accidentally showed gay porn to parents of schoolchildren in the North has been appointed parish priest of Clogherhead. The appointment, which was made without any warning to parishioners, has brought complaints from angry parents in the Co Louth village. It is nearly a year since Fr Martin McVeigh decided to take a sabbatical after the images flashed up on a screen as he made a presentation to the parents of children preparing for confession ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/anger-as-gay-porn-incident-cleric-is.html
Historic Celebration: Limerick Place of Worship for 1,600 Years Marked CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 23, 2013 ... early decades of the country is taught to every child in ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/historic-celebration-limerick-place-of.html
QUAERITUR: Can Father Require All Servers to Stand to Receive Communion? FR. Z'S BLOG (OLIM: WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY?) - May 22, 2013 From a reader: My 10-year-old son, who daily receives Holy Communion on his tongue while kneeling (and in fact has never received standing) just completed altar server instruction. He was told that when he serves, he must receive standing!!! (for the sake of uniformity!) I realize that serving is a privilege and not a right, but does exercising this privilege allow for his right to receive kneeling to be restricted? He has been looking forward to serving for so long now ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wdtprs/DhFa/~3/LfWIGLs27Ng/
New Mission GOOD JESUIT, BAD JESUIT - May 22, 2013 ... Rodriguez Carballo , who was named in April as secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Religious. Archbishop Carballo had been president of USIG for only a year; previously Father Pascual Chavez Villanueva , a Salesian priest, had served two terms as president. International Union of Superiors General Link (here) to Catholic ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ZlcTj/~3/RSjT5T8L11c/new-mission.html
The Season of Ordinations ABOUT.COM CATHOLICISM - May 22, 2013 ... weeks after Pentecost Sunday are traditionally the period in which the Catholic Church ordains men to the priesthood. While the end of the academic year plays a role in this schedule, a more important consideration is the connection between the Sacrament of Holy Orders and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles at Pentecost. (In fact, the Pentecost Ember Days --the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after Pentecost--were reserved for ordinations in the Traditional Latin ...http://catholicism.about.com/b/2013/05/22/the-season-of-ordinations.htm
Furnace of Humiliation LIFE'S CROSSES - May 22, 2013 As I am approaching the 10th year of my sacerdotal anniversary (29 June), I was ' nicely ' reminded of the implication of my priesthood, as in, what had transpired thus far and what to look out for ahead. That was by way of the 1st reading of Tuesday of 7th Week in Ordinary times (yesterday). By all accounts, the reading was engaging enough and can be a reminder to all the faithful believers on the proper understanding of what working for or serving the Lord is about. " ... ...http://alongcorner.blogspot.com/2013/05/furnace-of-humiliation.html
Evening Roundup - Ember Wednesday of Pentecost - Feria Quarta Quattuor Temporum Pentecostes - Missa 'Deus Dum Egredereri TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS IN MARYLAND - May 22, 2013 http://tlm-md.blogspot.com/2013/05/evening-roundup-ember-wednesday-of.html
Troubled Missouri Diocese to Pay $600,000 Abuse Settlement CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 21, 2013 The Catholic diocese in Missouri led by Bishop Robert Finn, who was convicted last year of failing to report a priest who was taking pornographic pictures of children, will pay a $600,000 settlement to the family of one of the priest's victims. The family filed the civil suit in federal court in 2011 against Finn, the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., and Fr. Shawn Ratigan, who pleaded guilty last year to charges ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/troubled-missouri-diocese-to-pay-600000.html
59 Percent of Priests Don't Like New Mass Translation - 70 Percent of Catholics Overall Do OPINIONATED CATHOLIC - May 21, 2013 ... that I suspect will be closely examined. 59% Priests do not like the new English Mass translations . This is compared to a survey last year that 70% of Catholics LIKE THE NEW TRANSLATIONS . I am not totally shocked by this I and I suspect we are going to get a lot more closer to 50/50 as some Priests have more time to get "used to it ". The Priest study from my quick glimpse of it does not talk about the age of the Priests and their answers. From my pure ...http://opinionatedcatholic.blogspot.com/2013/05/59-percent-of-priesst-dont-like-new.html
1 of the 497 SHAMELESS POPERY - May 21, 2013 ... school year comes ordination season, and here I am, one of the 497 to be ordained priests in the U.S. this year , waiting for the tsunami of graces and emotions that is scheduled to arrive this Saturday. How did this come to be? Growing up I never imagined that I would be a priest (I was certain I was going to be an astronaut), and surely it was just yesterday that I had made that difficult phone call to the vocation's director to tell him ...http://catholicdefense.blogspot.com/2013/05/1-of-497.html
An Extraordinary Ordinary ADAM'S ALE - May 21, 2013 I t has been a fabulous spring around St. Sebastian (though we could use a little rain.) The azaleas that we almost lost year to some sort of disease were treated and blossomed this year with a vengeance. The tulips and daffodils grew like dandelions and the lilacs are almost choking in their fragrance. I kicked Sebastian's (my dog) ball into a pine tree and it looked like the tree caught on fire so much pollen rose into the air. But all that is fading and ...http://clevelandpriest.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-extraordinary-ordinary.html
Price of Sodomy 19.6 Million Dollars GOOD JESUIT, BAD JESUIT - May 21, 2013 ... settle a civil lawsuit brought by six men who claim they Donald McGuire , formerly of Oak Lawn, is serving a 25-year prison term after being convicted in Chicago in 2008 of federal charges that he brought a minor across state lines to engage in sex. He also was convicted in 2006 of molesting two boys in Wisconsin during the 1960s. were molested by a former priest and onetime spiritual advisor to Mother Teresa, an attorney for the plaintiffs said Monday. "The ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ZlcTj/~3/j-6tWyhJBcM/price-of-sodomy-196-million-dollars.html
Year of Faith: St. Damien and Hawaiian Chicken Kabobs CATHOLICMOM.COM - May 20, 2013 This month's Year of Faith is listed on the USCCB Saints for the Year of Faith. The month of May is dedicated to Saint Josef Damien De Veuster. St Josef Damien De Veuster was born in Belgium on January 3, 1840. He changed his name to Damien in 1859 when he began his initiative with the congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He prayed every day to be sent on a mission. In 1863 his brother was scheduled to go on a mission to Hawaii, he got sick ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Catholicmomcom/~3/IwjyAxaOmtw/
Coptic Orthodox Priest Beating by Israeli Police CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 20, 2013 The beating of a Coptic Orthodox priest on 4 May only a few metres from the Holy Sepulchre, during Holy Saturday celebrations, has become a major issue after an amateur video surfaced online, later posted on the Jerusalem Post website. The tape shows Fr Arsanios, the 85-year-old head of the Coptic Church in Ramallah, brutally pushed around by Israeli police. On Monday, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the leaders of the Christian Churches in the Holy ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/coptic-orthodox-priest-beating-by.html
Ex-Priest Guilty of Sex Attacks CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 20, 2013 A retired Church of England priest has been found guilty of a catalogue of historic sex attacks on young children at a Barnardo's home for vulnerable youngsters. Canon Gordon Rideout, 74, abused more than a dozen girls and boys at the now-closed home at Ifield Hall in Crawley, West Sussex, over a four-year period. The former Anglican clergyman also indecently assaulted two girls at an Army site in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, said the Crown Prosecution ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/ex-priest-guilty-of-sex-attacks.html
Priest, Born and Raised in South Africa, Set to Become U.S. Citizen CNS BLOG - May 20, 2013 ... excited of being a citizen of America, a beacon of hope," Father Wayne recently told Catholic News Service. "As an immigrant you recognize the opportunities that America affords," Father Wayne said. "What America offers one is that sense of the potential of no matter who you are, you are accepted and you are able to do things." He will take the citizenship oath with dozens of others near San Jose, Calif. After the oath Father Wayne will join his twin brother, Redemptorist Father Ivan Dawson, ...http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/priest-born-and-raised-in-south-africa-set-to-become-u-s-citizen/
