Daily Archives: June 14, 2012

Martyrology-June 16th Roman Martyrology-June 16th- on this date in various years- At Mainz, the passion of the Saints Aureus and Justina, his sister, and other martyrs who were massacred by the Huns, at that time devastating Germany, while they were in church at Mass. At Besançon in France, the holy martyrs Ferreol, a priest, and Ferruntion, a deacon, who were sent by the blessed bishop Irenæus to preach the word of God, and after being exposed to various torments under Judge Claudius, Read more [...]

On Wednesday, June 13, 2012, Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X, accompanied by the First Assistant General, Father Niklaus Pfluger, was received by Cardinal William Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who delivered to him his dicastery’s evaluation of the Doctrinal Declaration sent in by the Society on April 15, 2012, in response to the Doctrinal Preamble submitted on September 14, 2011, by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Read more [...]

[Jesuit America Magazine Praises Homosexual Collegeville] Benedictine Monk and Former [St. John's U.] Campus Ministry Director [Who] Opposes [Minnesota] Marriage Amendment blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/14/benedictine-monk-former-campus-ministry-director-opposes-marriage-amendment/ A former director of campus ministry at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, Father Robert Pierson, O.S.B., has given a rousing talk in which he says it is acceptable for Catholics Read more [...]

Bishops criticize USCCB committee’s reaction to Ryan budget CWN – June 14, 2012 By a 171-26 vote at their meeting on June 13, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) approved a proposal by Bishop Stephen Blaire, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, to begin drafting a message on the US economy. The draft of “Catholic Reflections on Work, Poverty and a Broken Economy” will be brought to the body of bishops at the conference’s Read more [...]

Another very predictable ‘surprise’ By Phil Lawler | June 14, 2012 www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=327 From Dublin comes the news that the crowds at the International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) are greatly exceeding expectations. For some oversubscribed events, organizer have been forced to put up giant TV screens, to relay the speeches to the people unable to squeeze into the assigned sites. For weeks leading up to this event, Irish commentators have been Read more [...]

New [elderly] priests’ group hopes to preserve vision of Vatican II ANDY JONES Tampa Bay Online 6/14/12 www2.tbo.com/lifestyles/life/2012/jun/14/new-priests-group-hopes-to-preserve-vision-of-vati-ar-415742/ [Preserving the vision of Vatican II?] The Rev. Dave Cooper conducts [concelebrates?] Mass [with other priests in a conference room] at the meeting of the National Association of U.S. Priests at Saint Leo University. TAMPA — The Rev. Peter Ruggere began his seminary training Read more [...]

Sisters of Mercy doctors [order (i.e., order of doctors)] say LCWR is injecting politics into dialogue By Kevin J. Jones www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/sisters-of-mercy-doctors-say-lcwr-defenders-use-political-approach-to-faith/ Alma, Mich., Jun 14, 2012 / (CNA).- Physicians who are also Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma are criticizing the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and its defenders for using an impoverished “language of politics” instead of “the language of Read more [...]

Thursday, June 14, 2012 BISHOP FELLAY VISITS THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH visnews-en.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/bishop-fellay-visits-congregation-for.html Vatican City, 14 June 2012 (VIS) – “On the afternoon of Wednesday 13 June, Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and president of the Pontifical Commission ‘Ecclesia Dei’, met with Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the Society of St. Pius X who was accompanied by an Read more [...]

[A neo-Catholic view of Vatican II as a council of reform not rupture and whose true spirit has yet to emerge] Ecumenism and Other Novel Interpretations by Paul Kokoski 6/14/12 www.crisismagazine.com/2012/46562 Since Vatican II, the Catholic Church has been turned upside down in the name of an ecumenical council whose true interpretation continues to be debated more than half a century after it closed. One point of contention is the Council’s teaching on religious liberty. Read more [...]

Let us not forget dear friends our strength amidst the storm is found in the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ – ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII ON DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART MAY 15, 1956 Venerable Brethren: Health and Apostolic Benediction. 1. “You shall draw waters with joy out of the Savior’s fountain.”[1] These words by which the prophet Isaias, using highly significant imagery, foretold the manifold and abundant gifts of God which the Christian era was to bring forth, come naturally Read more [...]