Daily Archives: June 12, 2012

UK homosexuals largely uninterested in gay ‘marriage’: poll Calvin Freiburger; co-authored with John Jalsevac www.lifesitenews.com/news/uk-homosexuals-largely-uninterested-in-gay-marriage-poll UNITED KINGDOM, June 12, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite homosexual activists’ efforts to frame same-sex “marriage” as a pressing “gay rights” cause, a new poll finds that redefining marriage is a low priority for many homosexuals in the United Kingdom. The poll, conducted by Read more [...]

Top networks ignore massive religious freedom rallies across U.S. Matthew Balan www.lifesitenews.com/news/top-networks-ignore-massive-religious-freedom-rallies-across-country June 12, 2012 (Newsbusters.org) – ABC, CBS, and NBC stayed true to their liberal slant and ignored the 164 rallies across the United States on Friday against the federal government’s abortifacient/birth control mandate under ObamaCare. Religious leaders and conservative politicians, like former GOP presidential Read more [...]

Martyrology-June 14th Roman Martyrology-June 14th- on this date in various years- St. Basil, surnamed the Great, confessor and doctor of the Church. He died on the 1st of January, but his feast is celebrated today, for it was on this day that he was consecrated bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. At Samaria in Palestine, the holy prophet Eliseus, whose grave, says St. Jerome, makes the demons tremble. With him also rests the prophet Abdias. At Syracuse in Sicily, St. Marcian, bishop, Read more [...]

Martyrology-June 13th Roman Martyrology-June 13th- on this date in various years- At Padua, St. Anthony, a native of Portugal, priest of the Order of Friars Minor and confessor, illustrious for the sanctity of his life, his miracles, and his preaching. Pope Gregory IX placed him on the canon of the saints within a year after his death. At Rome, on the Ardeatine Way, the birthday of St. Felicula, virgin and martyr, who was delivered to the judge for refusing to marry Flaccus and Read more [...]

Notre Dame Professor Suggests Contraception Ban Is Just Chopped Liver blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/12/notre-dame-professor-suggests-contraception-ban-is-just-chopped-liver/ Cathleen Kaveny, the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Law School, suggests at Commonweal that the Church’s teaching on contraception may be just “an identity marker.” Oddly enough, Kaveny’s taking off point for putting forward Read more [...]

When Theologians Attack!!! blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/12/when-theologians-attack/ When you think of conventions, you might think of people relaxing, socializing, and enjoying themselves away from all the pressures of the office and home. But fresh from their convention, many of the theologians who attended the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) convention just seem… angry. Some of the theologians spoke to the media, and, as you might imagine, many of their Read more [...]

QueriteDominum.blogspot.com June 12, 2012 The much anticipated Pentecostal reconciliation announcement whereby the Pope rolls out the red carpet for the SSPX has obviously been delayed. Most pundits anticipated it. I even had a (non-monetary) bet riding on it happening before the end of May. But May came and went and no announcement was forthcoming from the Vatican. Why? Well the Pope hasn’t consulted your humble servant on the matter but I would bet that these things played a part: Read more [...]

The Legislating Church ‘Vatileaks’ and Other Iceberg Tips Christopher A. Ferrara POSTED: 6/11/12 REMNANT COLUMNIST, New Jersey www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2012-0615-ferrara-vatileaks.htm “My authority ends at that door…”-Pope Benedict XVI- In his historic Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum of July 7, 2007, Pope Benedict declared with the full authority of his office what traditionalists had always known: that the typical edition of the Roman Missal promulgated Read more [...]

WaPo [with the help of a Catholic U. prof]: Should the Church Lose Its Tax Exemption for Fighting for Religious Liberty? blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/12/wapo-should-the-church-lose-its-tax-exemption-for-fighting-for-religious-liberty/ Building on a Catholic University of America professor’s argument that the U.S. bishops’ fight for religious liberty is partisan in nature, a Washington Post columnist is now suggesting that the Catholic Church should lose its tax exempt Read more [...]

[What happened to the Eucharist?] International Eucharistic Congress focuses on Christian unity, New Evangelization CWN – June 12, 2012 “Exploring and Celebrating Our Communion through Baptism” was the theme of the second day of the International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin. Following Mass, which took place in the RDS Arena [where the Congress Choir, Discovery Gospel Choir, soloist David MaGuire, and singer Owen Lynch and Choir provided music and song] and at 34 host parishes, events Read more [...]

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STATEMENT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE CONCERNING THE MEETING AT THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH ABOUT THE DOCTRINAL ASSESSMENT OF THE LCWR rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/06/holy-see-press-office-lcwr-under.html Today the Superiors of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith met with the President and Executive Director of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in the United States of America. Most Rev. Peter J. Sartain, Archbishop of Seattle Read more [...]