Daily Archives: May 18, 2012

Anti Catholic movement threatens the Pope Posted by Richard Collins at Saturday, May 19, 2012 linenonthehedgerow.blogspot.com/2012/05/anti-catholic-movement-threaten-pope.html A vague but sinister threat to “halt the normal operation of the Roman Catholic Church around the world” has been made by a coalition group comprising the Anti Catholic Church Activists Worldwide (ACCAW), the Magdalene Laundry Survivors and the International Tribunal into Crimes of the Church and State (ITCCS). They Read more [...]

Hans Küng won’t celebrate 50th of Vatican II, prefers “funeral service” Posted on 18 May 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf wdtprs.com/blog/2012/05/hans-kung-wont-celebrate-50th-of-vatican-ii-prefers-funeral-service/ From “The Bitter Pill” [i.e., The Tablet @ www.thetablet.co.uk/latest-news/4128 with Fr. Z's comments in brackets]: Küng misses Vatican II celebration 17 May 2012 Theologian Hans Küng [but not a Catholic theologian... heh...] has turned down an invitation Read more [...]

Martyrology-May 20th Roman Martyrology-May 20th- on this date in various years- At Aquila in Abruzzi, St. Bernardin of Siena, priest of the Order of Friars Minor, who added to the glory of Italy by his preaching and his example. At Rome, St. Plautilla, wife of a consul, sister of the consul Flavius Clemens, and mother of the holy virgin Flavia Domitilla, both martyrs. She was baptized by the apostle St. Peter, and after giving an example of all the virtues, she rested in peace. Also Read more [...]

VIDEO: teen recounts pro-gay teacher fuming at him for Catholic stance by Kathleen Gilbert www.lifesitenews.com/news/video-teen-recounts-pro-gay-teacher-fuming-at-him-for-catholic-stance youtu.be/VBzvtRbIhuQ HOWELL, Michigan, May 18, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The testimony of a Catholic teen and his mother has shed light on the story of how one high school teacher managed to spark a national media blitz that led to their branding as “maliciously anti-gay Catholic bigots” Read more [...]

U. K. Herald: Can Georgetown Be Saved? blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/05/18/u-k-herald-can-georgetown-be-saved/ Here we go again: another supposedly ‘Catholic’ U.S. university honours a prominent anti-Catholic. But why are we all so surprised? That’s the headline on an article in the U.K. Catholic Herald and—yes—it refers to Georgetown University’s invitation to “pro-choice” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, architect of the HHS contraception mandate opposed Read more [...]

www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/religion-not-factor-in-nun-murder-case 18 May 2012 Defense: religious references excluded in trial Katie Kim ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Reehahlio Carroll, 20, will stand trial next month in the 2009 murder of Sister Marguerite Bartz on the Navajo nation, but there is one thing his defense doesn’t want jurors to know about the alleged victim – her faith. Defense attorney Robert Gorence filed a motion in federal court, requesting that any references or objects Read more [...]

["Pro-life"] Mitt Romney holds fundraiser with manufacturer of the Morning After Pill; [Neo-Catholic prez of CatholicVote.org doesn't seem to mind] by Ben Johnson www.lifesitenews.com/news/mitt-romney-holds-fundraiser-with-manufacturer-of-the-morning-after-pill MIAMI, FLORIDA, May 17, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney scheduled a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser at the home of Phil Frost, the executive of the company that makes the Morning After Pill, Read more [...]

Catholic College to Honor Population Control Advocate blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/05/18/catholic-college-to-honor-population-control-advocate/ Saint Peter’s College in New Jersey announced recently that a population control advocate who supported efforts to reduce population in China and India, supports the distribution of contraceptives, and even opposed the Holy See on conscience clauses to protect healthcare workers from being forced to perform or take part in abortions Read more [...]

Rorate Caeli 05/18/2012 In the course of the usual Friday afternoon meeting between the Holy Father and the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Cardinal Levada delivered officially today to the Pope the report of the Congregation’s Wednesday meeting on the aftermath of the doctrinal discussions between the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) and the Holy See. Swiss religious news agency APIC confirms the official delivery by Cardinal Levada (in French/ in German), but Read more [...]

Pelosi: No to Provision Protecting Chaplains From Being Ordered to Act Against Faith: ‘It’s A Fraud’ By Elizabeth Harrington May 17, 2012 (CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she stands with the White House in opposing a provision in the House defense authorization bill that would prohibit anyone in the military from ordering a chaplain to act against his or her “conscience, moral principles, or religious beliefs” or against the religious beliefs of the Read more [...]

MENZINGEN, Switzerland (CNS) 16 May 2012 by Francis X. Rocca Of all the controversies associated with the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, no topic provokes stronger reactions inside or outside the church than the question of the society’s attitude toward Jews. In 2009, after Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of all four of the society’s bishops, there was widespread outrage at revelations that one of the four, Bishop Richard Williamson, had denied the gassing of Jews Read more [...]

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012 The Vatican’s “ecumenical minister”, Cardinal Kurt Koch complains about anti-Semitic tendencies in the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X. He also pointed out that Christians belonged to the accomplices of the perfection of industrial mass murder of European Jews and for the most part to the passive spectators. From the examination of the role of Christians in the Holocaust, the document “Nostra Aetate” of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) emerged by which the Catholic Read more [...]

The Times, same-sex unions, and dissident priests, continued By Phil Lawler | May 18, 2012 www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=301 Earlier this week I wrote about a remarkable report in the New York Times, which asserted that some Catholic priests bless same-sex unions. The Times report was remarkable, I argued, precisely because the paper treated it as unremarkable—as if “everyone knows” some priests give such public gestures of approval for homosexual alliances. Read more [...]

How Catholic Is Your Child’s School? Catholic Education Foundation develops tool to help administrators, pastors and parents determine the ‘Catholic’ identity of their school. by CHARLOTTE HAYS National Catholic Register 05/18/2012 How Catholic is your child’s school? There’s a new tool available to help parents answer that question. The Catholic Identity Assessment program has been developed by the Rochester, N.Y.-based Catholic Education Foundation. Father Peter Stravinskas, Read more [...]

Kathleen Sebelius To Georgetown Grads: ‘Follow Your Own Moral Compass’ Benjy Sarlin-May 18, 2012 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/kathleen-sebelius-talks-church-vs-state-in-georgetown-address.php Addressing Georgetown University graduates amid complaints from Catholic leaders over the White House’s position on contraception coverage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius alluded to the controversy by citing John F. Kennedy’s famed 1960 speech on religious freedom. Read more [...]

[Catholic high school gushes over homosexuality] Students mark anti-homophobia day By Staff Metroland News Service 5/18/12 metronews.ca/news/kitchener/230082/students-mark-anti-homophobia-day/ As Matt Waltz spoke to his peers in a packed hall at St. Mary’s High School Thursday morning, he knew it was probably the first time some of his friends and classmates would learn he is gay. The Grade 11 student acknowledged that for some there may be shock. “People tell me I don’t Read more [...]

Mass. church upsets gay marriage movement Steven Guillotte, director of pastoral services at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Acushnet, Massachusetts, put up the message “Two Men are Friends Not Spouses.” ACUSHNET, Mass., May 17 (UPI) — An official at a Catholic church in Massachusetts says he didn’t expect the heated response he got with an anti-gay marriage sign that went viral on Facebook. Steven Guillotte, director of pastoral services at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Acushnet, said Read more [...]

May 17, 2012: The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has announced it will hold separate talks with the superior general of the breakaway traditionalist Society of St. Pius X and each of its three other bishops to try and acheive reconciliation. “The text of the response of Bishop Bernard Fellay, received on 17 April, 2012, was examined and some observations, which will be considered in further discussions between the Holy See and the Society of St. Pius X, were formulated,” Read more [...]

Vatican Diary That sin of Sodom which cries out to heaven Chiesa News VATICAN CITY, May 18, 2102 EXCERPTS [The CDF has] given a mandate to Libreria Editrice Vaticana to reprint those volumes of its series “Documenti e studi” which had sold out and were therefore unavailable in stores. [Among the booklets] a booklet has again been published that is of particular relevance. It is the one dedicated to the pastoral care of homosexual persons (no. 11 of the series), published for the Read more [...]

‘Exorcist’ Author, Georgetown Alumni Preparing Canon Lawsuit blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/05/18/exorcist-author-georgetown-alumni-preparing-canon-lawsuit/ Georgetown University alumni, students and others are preparing a canon law suit to be filed with the Archdiocese of Washington and the Vatican, seeking remedies “up to and including the possible removal or suspension of top-ranked Georgetown’s right to call itself Catholic or Jesuit in its fundraising and representations Read more [...]

Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch: “Foreign elements have entered the country and have even started beating the Christians” Posted by Robert on May 17, 2012 www.jihadwatch.org/2012/05/melkite-greek-catholic-patriarch-foreign-elements-have-entered-the-country-and-have-even-started-bea.html The Melkite Greek Patriarch Gregory III denounces the silence of the Western press on the escalating persecution of Christians in Syria. “Christians are under pressure in Syria, the patriarch of the Read more [...]