Daily Archives: June 18, 2012

SOROS-FUNDED GROUP SET TO NAIL BISHOPS June 18, 2012 www.catholicleague.org/soros-funded-group-set-to-nail-bishops/ Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: June 21 marks the beginning of the “Fortnight for Freedom” events, the campaign for religious liberty being conducted by the nation’s bishops. Fair-minded persons may disagree with this effort, but there is something unseemly going on when those who work for a George Soros-funded group are quietly providing Read more [...]

Duquesne: An Identity Crisis? blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/18/duquesne-an-identity-crisis/ It’s a moment that so perfectly highlights the Catholic nature of so many universities today. On Friday, Duquesne University, a Congregation of the Holy Spirit institution in Pittsburgh, sought a religious exemption from the National Labor Relations Board in an attempt to prevent a vote by some adjunct faculty members to unionize, according to news reports. They argue that as a Read more [...]

[I have added remarks in brackets after some of the names, questioning the greatness of some of "their public action(s that) should have been guided by a Catholic conscience." I invite others to do the same in the comments section.] Top Ten U.S. Catholic Politicians as Nominated in Catholic College Poll blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/18/top-ten-u-s-catholic-politicians-as-nominated-in-catholic-college-poll/ In an effort to promote political “vocations,” a faithful Catholic Read more [...]

The following e-mail was sent by the editor of Catholic Truth, Patricia McKeever, to the anonymous organizers [N.B. on this, see update of 06/21/12 below] of the “Open Letter to Bishop Fellay” which has been circulated online by UK-based critics of the SSPX Superior General. The e-mail serves to demonstrate the dishonesty of those behind the “Open Letter”, and the lengths to which they are willing to go in attacking the leadership of the Society of St Pius X. — For the attention of the Read more [...]

Magazine Attacks Tax Exempt Status for Religious Organizations blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/18/magazine-attacks-tax-exempt-status-for-religious-organizations/ While Free Inquiry magazine is hardly a mass market publication, Catholic institutions of higher learning would do well to take seriously its call to end tax exempt status for religious institutions. Free Inquiry is published by the Council for Secular Humanists, an organization representing “nontheists.” The Read more [...]

Vatican blames the media and the Devil for Catholic Church’s recent troubles Philip Pullella, Reuters // Jun 18, 2012 – 1:47 PM ET life.nationalpost.com/2012/06/18/vatican-blames-the-media-and-the-devil-for-catholic-churchs-recent-troubles/ VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s number 2 accused the media on Monday of trying “to imitate Dan Brown” in their coverage of the VatiLeaks scandal and said the Roman Catholic Church’s latest travails were part of the Devil’s attempt Read more [...]

[2012 Dublin Eucharistic Congress]: A lot done — but the church is at a crossroads Garry O’Sullivan The Irish Independent 6/18/12 www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/garry-osullivan-a-lot-done-but-the-church-is-at-a-crossroads-3140707.html THE Pope’s address was not the highlight of the Eucharistic Congress — and he was right to keep it that way. The congress was always going to be understated. This allowed a realistic check on the state of the church in Ireland. An old priest Read more [...]

[Hat-tip to the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation] Mindszenty cleared posthumously Worldwide condemnation of 1949 show trial 30 March 2012 Attila Leitner www.budapesttimes.hu/2012/03/30/mindszenty-cleared-posthumously/ Cardinal József Mindszenty at his communist show trial in 1949. The late cardinal and Esztergom archbishop József Mindszenty has received a full legal, moral and political rehabilitation after a request by Cardinal Péter Erdõ was accepted by the Chief Prosecutor’s Read more [...]

[America Magazine: LCWR Good, SSPX Bad] The Good Sisters and Schism Posted at: Monday, June 18, 2012 Author: Nicholas P. Cafardi www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=5194 In our church, it pays more to rebel than to faithfully question. The Vatican, under Benedict XVI, is doing somersaults to get the excommunicated, anti-semitic Lefebvrists back into the church’s tent. First the Vatican said that the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) had to agree to accept the teachings Read more [...]

[Mitt Romney, take note] I’m a Mormon, Not a Christian By DAVID V. MASON Published: June 12, 2012 www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/opinion/im-a-mormon-not-a-christian.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=general THANKS to Mitt Romney, a Broadway hit and a relentless marketing campaign by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormons seem to be everywhere. This is the so-called Mormon Moment: a strange convergence of developments offering Mormons hope that the Christian nation that persecuted, Read more [...]

Georgetown Prof Tells Bishops Religious Liberty [for Christians] Is in a “Global Crisis.” blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/18/georgetown-prof-tells-bishops-religious-liberty-is-in-a-global-crisis/ Religious liberty for Christians is being threatened in the Middle East, Europe, and even the United States. That dire warning was delivered to the U.S. bishops by a Georgetown University professor during their spring national meeting in Atlanta, Ga., according to The National Catholic Read more [...]

Former President of Catholic College Supports Women’s Ordination, Predicts Death of “Institutional” Church blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/06/18/former-president-of-catholic-college-supports-womens-ordination-predicts-death-of-institutional-church/ The former president of St. Mary’s University in Minnesota has written a new book in which he calls for the ordination of women and predicts the death of the “institutional” Church. We should all be grateful to Fr. James Read more [...]

Part III of the Angelus Press interview with Fr Rostand reviews the personal prelature, the Rosary Crusade, this year’s General Chapter of the SSPX, as well as appeals to the faithful. For Part I, click HERE. For Part II, click HERE. Read more [...]

June 17, 2012 The Rottweiler’s Rottweiler By BILL KELLER www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/opinion/keller-the-rottweilers-rottweiler.html I CAN’T believe I’m saying this, but Bill Donohue is right. Donohue, the chronically peeved president of the Catholic League, and I rarely see eye to eye, but he is right about one very big thing: how to resolve the crisis in Catholicism. My endorsement may horrify him as much as it surprises me. Donohue, for those of you without cable TV, is Read more [...]

From Anne Baldwin’s Catherine of Siena: A Biography Huntington, IN: OSV Publishing, 1987, pp.95-6 books.google.co.uk/books?id=hdLRriNu7mkC Catherine set high standards – for herself, for her friends, for priests and prelates, and especially for the Holy Father. Again and again she urged the popes, first Gregory XI and later Urban VI, to act like Christ: manly, forgiving, honest, loving. Even if a pope did not act like “sweet Christ on earth,” Catherine believed that the faithful should Read more [...]

‘Liberty, the God That Failed’ By Matt C. Abbott RenewAmerica 6/17/12 Attorney-author Christopher A. Ferrara, president and chief counsel of the American Catholic Lawyers Association, Inc., and contributor to traditionalist publications such as The Remnant and Catholic Family News, has a new book out titled Liberty, the God That Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to Obama. Below is the publisher’s note as well as substantial excerpts Read more [...]

Whose newspaper is this? Oakland diocese paper sympathizes with dissident nuns. 6/18/12 www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=ab9caa76-36f4-4b93-9718-e4676323a10c The following comes from a June 11 story in the Oakland diocese paper, the Catholic Voice. Nowhere in the story was there an explanation of the Vatican position. They carried handmade posters with names and, sometime, faces, on them. They included the famous — Sisters Dorothy Kazel, Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Read more [...]

Nuns to Protest Republican Proposals Posted: 6/18/12 | Author: Nicole Fulmer www.iowacityowl.com/posts/402-Nuns-to-Protest-Republican-Proposals It is not every day that nuns of the Roman Catholic church are seen in the political world, but that is exactly what has happened recently due to the fact that they disagree with recent GOP proposals. A group of nuns from Iowa has decided to go on a 9-state tour in order to protest recent proposals that have come from the Republican party Read more [...]

Introducing a new papal candidate [Fernando Cardinal Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples] by John L Allen Jr on Jun. 18, 2012 ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/introducing-new-papal-candidate ROME — As a journalist, I pride myself on trying to see things based on the facts as they stand, not as I or someone else might like them to be. Thus whenever I get the “next pope” question, I try to stay tethered to reality, not floating long-shots that Read more [...]