Daily Archives: June 15, 2012

Martyrology-June 17th Roman Martyrology-June 17th- on this date in various years- At Rome, during the persecution of Diocletian, the birthday of two hundred and sixty-two martyrs, who were put to death for the faith of Christ, and buried on the old Salarian Way, at the foot of Cucumer Hill. At Besançon in France, St. Antidius, bishop and martyr, who was slain by the Vandals for the faith of Christ. At Apollonia in Macedonia, the holy martyrs Isaurus, a deacon, Innocent, Felix, Jeremias, Read more [...]

[British Columbia] Supreme Court strikes down Canada’s ban on assisted suicide by Patrick B. Craine www.lifesitenews.com/news/b.c.-supreme-court-strikes-down-ban-on-assisted-suicide VICTORIA, B.C., June 15, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that Canada’s ban on assisted suicide is unconstitutional. Justice Lynn Smith issued a 395-page ruling in the Carter v. Canada case Friday morning, determining that the ban discriminates against the disabled. The Read more [...]

Cardinal Burke: “with the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI and Bp. Fellay this reconciliation can take place” Posted by New Catholic at 6/15/2012 rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/06/cardinal-burke-with-leadership-of-pope.html Speaking to the Catholic News Service of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (CNS) in an interview recorded a few hours ago, Cardinal Burke has remarkable words on the ongoing process: It is to be hoped that Cardinal Burke will personally intervene Read more [...]

[Catholic Health Association breaks with Obama over HHS mandate: They] say Obama compromise on birth control for women employees is unworkable. By Associated Press Friday, June 15, 2012 WASHINGTON — The nation’s Catholic hospitals are rejecting President Barack Obama’s compromise for providing birth control coverage to their women employees. In a letter Friday to the government, the Catholic Health Association says the administration’s proposal to have insurers bear the cost would Read more [...]

Notre Dame Scandal Paved Way to HHS Mandate, Suggests University President blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/15/notre-dame-scandal-paved-way-to-hhs-mandate-suggests-university-president/ Sister Margaret Carney, OSF, president of St. Bonaventure University, reportedly told a meeting of Franciscan Friars that the 2009 controversy over the University of Notre Dame’s honors to President Barack Obama may have encouraged him to pursue the HHS contraceptive mandate. But rather than Read more [...]

Cardinal Levada “Won’t Go So Far” as to Say that LCWR Is Moving on Substantive Issues blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/15/cardinal-levada-wont-go-so-far-as-to-say-that-lcwr-is-moving-on-substantive-issues/ Although Cardinal William Levada, prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, goes out of his way to be cordial towards the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in an interview with John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter, one idea seems Read more [...]

Yale Catholic Chaplain: Sister Farley’s “Teaching” Could Be Official Church “Position” in a Century blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/15/yale-catholic-chaplain-sister-farleys-teaching-could-be-official-church-position-in-a-century/ Father Robert L. Beloin, the Catholic chaplain of Yale University, used the occasion of his Corpus Christi sermon to put forth a defense of Sister Margaret Farley, an emerita Yale professor, who recently was notified by Rome that her book Just Read more [...]

Friday, June 15, 2012 QueriteDominum.blogspot.com Here is what gives me hope that a final disposition between the Vatican and the SSPX will be an arrangement that a majority of the SSPX priests and seminarians will accept. 1) The Holy Ghost has need of the SSPX working the vineyards which consists of the structure of the “Visible Church”. That is, working to reform the Cardinals, Bishops, priests, and laity affected by modernism. If you believe that the Visible Church consists of the Pope, Read more [...]

Accused [Self-Styled] Priest Allowed to Leave the State [of Illinois] 6/14/12 www.wgil.com/localnews.php?xnewsaction=fullnews&newsarch=062012&newsid=149 A self-proclaimed priest accused of fraudulently obtaining funds to keep his former Galesburg church afloat is now allowed to leave the state. Judge Paul Mangieri altered 59-year-old Ryan Saint Anne Scott’s terms of bond in Knox County Circuit Court Thursday. Assistant State’s Attorney Erik Gibson says his motion to reinstate and Read more [...]

In this section of the interview, Fr Rostand addresses attempts to paint Bp Fellay as a supporter of religious liberty, the “doctrine first” objection to a regularization, the extent to which things have changed since 1988, and more… For Part I, click HERE. Read more [...]

Anti-Christ Word Games [Review of John Rao's Black Legends and the Light of the World] Posted By Robert Boehm On June 14, 2012 John Rao Black Legends and the Light of the World [1] (Forest Lake, MN, Remnant Press, 2011) ISBN: 1-890740-17-9 Dr. John C. Rao, D. Phil., Oxford, is Associate Professor of History at St. John’s University and director of the Roman Forum. Black Legends is the product of years of research on Church history, and includes reflections from lectures he has given Read more [...]

SNAP’s anti-Catholicism is showing… By Phil Lawler | June 14, 2012 www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=328 Out of compassion for young people who were sexually abused, maybe you were initially sympathetic toward SNAP [Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests]. As the weeks and months and years wore on, and SNAP continued to churn out denunciations of the Church, maybe your sympathy was tested. Eventually you began to wonder whether SNAP was no longer working Read more [...]

Rome Notebook: Lefebvrites… ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/rome-notebook-lefebvrites-vatican-bank-and-hierarchy-abusive by John L Allen Jr on Jun. 14, 2012 ROME — If I had a nickel for every time reunion between Rome and the breakaway traditionalist Society of St. Pius X was rumored to be imminent over the last 25 years, I wouldn’t have to worry about a 401(k) plan for my golden years. As a result, I tend to be naturally skeptical every time a new rumor crops up. That said, today’s Read more [...]