Daily Archives: June 5, 2012

Does compassion require truth? Sister Margaret Farley By Dr. Jeff Mirus | June 05, 2012 www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=973 In 2006, Sr. Margaret Farley, now professor emerita at Yale Divinity School, published a book which contradicts, confuses or undermines Catholic teaching on, among other things, “masturbation, homosexual acts, homosexual unions, the indissolubility of marriage and the problem of divorce and remarriage.” This is the judgment issued by the Congregation Read more [...]

LCWR Reform Just So Pre-Vatican II in Eyes of Fordham Professor blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/05/lcwr-reform-just-so-pre-vatican-ii-in-eyes-of-fordham-professor/ A Fordham University professor of Christian ethics decries the Vatican’s current effort to reform the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) as just so pre-Vatican II. Still, Professor Christine Firer Hinze, who is also director of the university’s Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Read more [...]

Father Barron Corrects Maureen Dowd’s “Fundamental Misunderstandings” of Catholicism blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/05/father-barron-corrects-maureen-dowds-fundamental-misunderstandings-of-catholicism/ Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd gets a much-needed tutorial on some of the basics of Catholicism in a column by Father Robert Barron [ www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2012/06/01/the_sebelius_and_dowd_heresy.html ]. Father Barron, Read more [...]

What’s Going on With the LCWR? COMMENTARY BY DONNA F. BETHELL Posted 6/4/12 www.ncregister.com/daily-news/whats-going-on-with-the-lcwr/ WASHINGTON — In the 1950s, the Vatican established the Conference of Major Superiors of Women in the United States to provide a forum for women religious to develop educational, spiritual and apostolic resources and discuss their common interests. Its name was changed in 1971 to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). The LCWR would Read more [...]

Irish survey finds decline in Catholic practice, belief CWN – June 05, 2012 A new survey of Irish Catholics has found that only 31% attend Mass each Sunday, and most do not believe in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. The Irish Times/ Ipsos MRBI poll found that 62% of Catholics see the Eucharist as symbolizing the Body and Blood of Christ, while only 26% embrace the Catholic teaching that the bread and wine are transubstantiated. The survey found that 39% of Catholics rarely Read more [...]

Cardinal Bertone breaks his silence on ‘Vatileaks’ scandal CWN – June 05, 2012 In his first public statement on the leaks of confidential Vatican documents, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone told an Italian television interviewer that Pope Benedict XVI is not overly worried by the scandal. “He doesn’t allow himself to be frightened by attacks, of any sort, nor by the hard accumulation of prejudices,” the Vatican Secretary of State told RAI television. However, Cardinal Bertone said that the Read more [...]

Benedict gives direction to US bishops on hot-button issues Jun. 05, 2012 By Alessandro Speciale Religion News Service VATICAN CITY — Over the course of the last six months, Pope Benedict XVI delivered five major speeches to small groups of American bishops who were in Rome for their “ad limina” visits, which are required once every five years. The “ad limina” visits are the way the pope and and Vatican departments keep tabs on bishops from around the world. They are also an occasion Read more [...]

Modesty and God By Luiz Solimeo November 16, 2010 www.tfpstudentaction.org/politically-incorrect/restoring-our-culture/modesty-and-god.html “I love vulgarity. Good taste is death, vulgarity is life.”1 These words by English fashion designer Mary Quant, who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants2, reveal one of the most important, though rarely pointed out, aspects of the “fashion revolution” that started in the sixties: vulgarity. Indeed, fashions have Read more [...]

St. Thomas Professor of the Year Often at Odds with Church Teaching blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/05/st-thomas-professor-of-the-year-often-at-odds-with-church-teaching/ The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, has honored as 2012 Professor of the Year Corrine Carvalho, a theology professor and former women’s center director whose views have often put her at odds with Church teaching. Michael Blissenbach, who describes himself as a recent graduate of St. Thomas, Read more [...]

From Marx to Maciel: What An Ex-Communist Can Teach Us About False Catholics by R.J. Stove 6/5/12 www.crisismagazine.com/2012/from-marx-to-maciel-what-an-ex-communist-can-teach-us-about-false-catholics Four years after Marcial Maciel went to his judgment, his dark legacy continues to erupt in scandal leaving one to seriously question how anyone could remain in or be associated with the Legion of Christ (L.C.). At a time when even the dimmest male Legionary might have thought it advisable Read more [...]

The History Behind ‘For Greater Glory’ During Cristero Rebellion, Mexico was ‘a kind of collective Christ,’ says the war’s principal historian. by MATTHEW CULLINAN HOFFMAN 06/04/2012 www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-history-behind-for-greater-glory When a young French graduate student named Jean Meyer arrived in Mexico in 1965 to write his doctoral thesis on the religious war known as the Cristiada, the topic was virtually unknown to historians. A conflict between Catholics Read more [...]

Melkite priest rips Western media, says rebels have destroyed churches CWN – June 05, 2012 A Melkite Greek Catholic archimandrite [equivalent to a monsignor] has denounced Western media coverage of the Syrian conflict. “The reality on the ground is far from the picture that imposes disinformation in Western media,” said Msgr. Philippe Tournyol Clos. “Opposition forces have occupied two areas, Diwan Al Bustan and Hamidieh, where there are all the churches and bishoprics. “The Read more [...]

Bosnia-Herzegovina: prelate laments ‘well-formulated strategy’ to eliminate Catholic presence CWN – June 05, 2012 The president of the bishops’ conference of Bosnia-Herzegovina has told Aid to the Church in Need that there is a “well-formulated strategy” to eliminate the Catholic presence in the Balkan nation and that some politicians are saying that Catholics have “no business being in Bosnia.” The Catholic population of the largely Muslim and Eastern Orthodox nation has Read more [...]

Sisters of Mercy president defends Farley, criticizes CDF CWN – June 05, 2012 Sister Pat McDermott The president of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas has issued a statement defending Sister Margaret Farley and her book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. In a notification published June 4, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith stated that the 2006 book is “in direct contradiction with Catholic teaching in the field of sexual morality … Among the many Read more [...]

Dean of Qur’anic Studies at Islamic University of Gaza misunderstands Islam, says Muslims hope to conquer Spain and the Vatican Posted by Robert on June 4, 2012 www.jihadwatch.org/2012/06/dean-of-quranic-studies-at-islamic-university-of-gaza-misunderstands-islam-says-muslims-hope-to-conq.html Behold the glorious complexity of Islam, the most difficult religion on earth to understand and practice properly: even those who have devoted their lives to studying the Qur’an and who teach it Read more [...]

Michael Reagan Townhall.com May 30, 2012 Link to Original President Obama and his wife, the health nanny in chief, obviously don’t know when they’ve gone too far in their crusade to socialize and Obamatize America. They couldn’t stop pushing for the Obamacare mandate that would force religious organizations to pay for coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization for their employees regardless of the institution’s moral or religious objections. Now the Read more [...]