Daily Archives: May 19, 2012

Martyrology-May 21st Roman Martyrology-May 21st- on this date in various years- St. Valens, bishop, who was put to death along with three children. At Alexandria, the commemoration of the holy martyrs Secundus, a priest, and others, whom the Arian bishop George ordered to be barbarously slain during the holy days of Pentecost, under Emperor Constantius. In Morocco, the birthday of the holy martyrs Timothy, Polius, and Eutychius, deacons, who merited to be crowned together for spreading Read more [...]

David Kerr Rome, Italy, May 18, 2012 / 06:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A leading American rabbi and Holocaust refugee says people should trust Pope Benedict’s judgment when it comes to the Church possibly readmitting the Society of St. Pius X, which has a bishop who denied the scale of the Holocaust. “Let me tell you this, I think that Pope Benedict XVI in many ways really understood the Holocaust because he was in the German Army. He deserted (the army), his family was anti-Nazi, I mean he Read more [...]

Number CCLIII (253) 19 May 2012 Because of the need to break a long argument into several pieces, readers may have lost the thread of the several EC’s on “Benedict’s Ecumenism”. Let us sum up the argument so far:– EC 241 established a few basics: the Catholic Church is an organic whole, amongst the beliefs of which if anyone picks and chooses, he is a “chooser”, or heretic. Moreover, if he takes with him a Catholic belief outside the Church, it will not remain the same, just as Read more [...]

Mary Richardson Kennedy funeral: Divided families bid RFK Jr.’s wife  fairwell three days after her suicide By Henrick Karoliszyn, Joanna Molloy AND Larry Mcshane NEW YORK DAILY NEWS May 19, 2012 Link to original Didn’t feel like posting the article (wasn’t very interesting), but for those who don’t know, the woman – a mother of 4 minor children - committed suicide. Seems like the same ol’ deal with the Kennedys and northeastern episcopate. The great ancient Catholic liturgical chant Read more [...]

The White House’s Contraceptive Kulturkampf May 17, 2012 Leroy Huizenga www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2012/05/the-white-housersquos-contraceptive-kulturkampf Franciscan University of Steubenville just dropped health insurance for its undergraduates, thus becoming one of the most prominent early victims of the Department of Health and Human Services mandate requiring all health plans to cover contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs. Today the Catholic Church has Read more [...]

“For the Salvation of Souls”: A Farewell to Georgetown May 18, 2012 Patrick J. Deneen www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2012/05/ldquofor-the-salvation-of-soulsrdquo In yesterday’s Washington Post, in anticipation of today’s address by Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Georgetown University as part of its graduation exercises, the editorial staff pronounced that “Georgetown Gets it Right.” Like many defenders of the invitation to Secretary Sebelius, the editorial Read more [...]

Georgetown, Sebelius, and the LA Times: who’s stifling debate now? By Phil Lawler | May 18, 2012 www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=302 Are the editors of the Los Angeles Times misinforming their readers intentionally? Or are they really too stupid to make simple distinctions? In an editorial with the grossly misleading title “Silencing Kathleen Sebelius,” the Times criticizes the Washington archdiocese for finding fault with the school’s decision Read more [...]

HHS Secretary Sebelius at Georgetown U: Could Scandal be the Seed of Reform? By Deacon Keith Fournier 5/19/2012 www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=46286&page=2 Sadly, there are too many politicians who are professed Catholics and stand publicly for political and policy positions which are directly at odds with the teaching of the Church The commencement address given by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may actually help to bring about the necessary corrective of this Catholic Read more [...]

Satan’s Commencement Address Published Tuesday, May 15, 2012 A.D. | By Donald R. McClarey the-american-catholic.com/2012/05/15/satans-commencement-address/ There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan. CS Lewis As faithful readers of this blog know, Satan had been invited by Saint Sincerus, the 84th largest Catholic university Read more [...]

News analysis: “Has the SSPX leadership changed sides?” Posted by New Catholic at 5/18/2012 rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/05/news-analysis-has-sspx-leadership.html What we may be seeing this moment, from some quarters, is an example of a voluntary desire to just look away from what was always there. Let us go back to April 2006. At that time, as a comment to an article by the Superior of the French District of the Society of Saint Pius X (FSSPX / SSPX), Father Régis de Cacqueray Read more [...]

[Hat-tip to Cindy:] Rome-SSPX: SSPX Canada Superior – To accept or to reject a “canonical solution”? “Let us trust in the leadership” Posted by New Catholic at 5/18/2012 rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/05/sspx-canada-superior-to-accept-ot-to.html The Superior of the Canadian District of the Society of Saint Pius X (FSSPX / SSPX), Father Jürgen Wegner, has issued an extensive letter dealing exclusively with the current situation between the Holy See and the SSPX. Dear friends Read more [...]

New France president’s first deeds: get ready for more secularism and gay ‘marriage’ by Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-france-presidents-first-deeds-get-ready-for-more-secularism-and-gay-mar PARIS, France, May 18, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dismantling of the family, attacks against parental rights and times of trouble for faith-based, mainly Catholic schools are looming large in French politics since France’s new socialist president, François Read more [...]

Supportive Ursuline nuns receiving millions in donations from contraceptive campaigner Melinda Gates by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman www.lifesitenews.com/news/supportive-ursuline-nuns-receiving-millions-in-donations-from-contraceptive May 18, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Dallas Catholic school administered by Ursuline nuns who have reportedly expressed their support for billionaire Melinda French Gates’ campaign to inject millions of women with contraceptive drugs has received at least Read more [...]

Cardinal Mindszenty, a Victim of Communism, Fully Rehabilitated in Hungary Created on April 19, 2012 Written by Marcelo Dufaur www.tfp.org/tfp-home/catholic-perspective/cardinal-mindszenty-a-victim-of-communism-fully-rehabilitated-in-hungary.html The glorious Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, Archbishop-Prince of Esztergom and Primate-Regent of Hungary, has been fully rehabilitated from the legal, moral and political standpoints by legislation passed by the Parliament in Budapest and by Read more [...]